Ever since Independence a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in our country. Indian Government has taken lot of initiatives to strengthen the institutional rural credit system and development programmes. Viewing it in the welfare programmes of Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and shifting the concept of Development to Empowerment. The Indian Government adopted the approach of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to uplift the rural women. The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual woman and women groups but also the families and community as a whole through collective action for development. This book will be highly useful to students of social studies especially Women Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Economics and also to the students and research scholars specialising in Human Development and NGOs and also other functionaries dealing with women.

La dott.ssa M. RajaRajeswari, M.Com., M.Phil., MCA., MBA., PGDIM., PGDHRM., PhD., NET., NET è una specialista di finanza con oltre 9 anni di esperienza nell'insegnamento, nella formazione e nella ricerca in ambito commerciale, finanziario, contabile e di microfinanza. È stata associata al PSGR Krishnammal College for Women di Coimbatore ed è autrice di diversi lavori di ricerca.