Author: Dr. Bornali Hati Boruah1*
1Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Moran College, Charaideo, Assam, India
*Corresponding author: hatiboruah.bornali@gmail.com
Abstract
Self Help Group (SHG), a micro finance institution, is a group of 10-20 like minded member of either sex belonging the same rank and status having certain common problems and necessities. These groups promote savings among member and use the pooled resources to meet the emergent needs of their members, including consumption and income generation etc, without depending external help. They play a crucial role in rural development by supplementing government efforts as they are close to the minds and hearts of the rural people, making the people environmentally aware and sensitive to take part in the development process. The SHG movement is supposed to build economic self reliance of rural poor, overcome misuse of resource and create confidence predominantly among women. The SHGs play the very important role as the “strength of the poor and the voice of the poor”. This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of SHGs in rural development, Like–disbursing micro credit to the rural people, empowering the rural women, entrepreneurship development, people participation, raising income and standard of living, poverty reduction and employment generation, self-employment, reaching governing schemes, developing leadership ability among poor people etc in case of Charaideo district of Assam.
Keywords
Self Help Group, Entrepreneurship, Micro Credit, Empowering Women, Poverty Reduction