• Dr. Rajani Manikonda

The involvement of women in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and their ability to get microcredit have the potential to bring about significant transformations across all dimensions of women’s lives, including economic, physical, socio-cultural, political, and mental aspects. The potential for empowerment arises when non-mental spaces play a crucial role in expanding mental spaces, resulting in the generation of action and voice to enhance the overall quality of life. The present paper has discussed the genesis and anf functioning od SBLP in South India and impact of microfinance on empowerment of South Indian rural SHG women. Estimating women’s empowerment level has been conducted using data derived from a comprehensive five-dimensional viewpoint based on Primary data collecting from nine hundred SHG sample women. The research findings indicate that the Self-Help Group (SHG) initiative has substantially impacted women's empowerment within the designated study region. Andhra Pradesh state exhibits the most significant percentage of empowered women, with Tamil Nadu and Telangana states following suit. SHG programme is contributing higher empowerment level in economic perspective and social perspective, intermediate empowerment level in political aspect and the middling level of empowerment in political aspect. But women have less empowered in educational perspective.

Empowerment, Education, Health, Social, Political and Economic.

"Genesis and Functioning of SHG- Bank Linkage Programme and Impact of Microfinance on the empowerment of South Indian Rural SHG women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.642-656, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810B46.pdf

"Genesis and Functioning of SHG- Bank Linkage Programme and Impact of Microfinance on the empowerment of South Indian Rural SHG women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp642-656, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810B46.pdf