Recent Study on Rural Women Empowerment Through Self Help Groups in Jaunpur

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With the objective to reduce gender inequality by economic empowerment of women the Self-Help Group (SHG) movement is well-known and important among the several initiatives taken up and measures adopted in the third world countries. With the objective to help poor escape from poverty Muhammad Yunus provided loans on terms suitable to them and taught them a few sound financial principles so that they could help themselves. Muhammad Yunus a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Thereafter the importance of SHG movement was then internationally recognized. SHG is now universally accepted as a great tool which empowers women to become self-sufficient, self-reliant and to actively participate in taking decision themselves in their day-to-day life. The objective of this research is to collect latest data and informations to analyze impacts and developments of SHGs in district Jaunpur of Utttar Pradesh, India.

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