Year: 2014 | Month: March | Volume 3 | Issue 1
Evaluating Self-help Groups: A Village Level Analysis
Abstract:
Self-help groups have become very significant in promoting savings and income generating activities in Indian villages. The rural district of Birbhum has numerous such SHGs working successfully. The paper has focused on some such SHGs and tries to analyse their success and factors behind their success. The paper utilizes village level data to evaluate the self –help groups to bring out the situation in the district of Birbhum. The paper also analyses the scope for social work intervention in the process of formation and functioning of the groups.
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