• P.K.Malarvizhi

Rural women play vital role in accomplishing the transformational, financial, conservational and social changes required for sustainable growth. Restriction on access to credit, poor health care management and literacy rate are the difficulties they face. Women empowerment is the key not only to the welfare of individual members of the family and rural communities, but also to overall economic growth of the nation. Half of the world’s population is represented by women and until they are given the equal opportunities society cannot attain growth. Government, society and non – governmental organisations (NGOs) around the world come forward and take essential steps to empower women and give them the equal rights in financial and non-financial development. Therefore, this is the ideal time to shift from welfare mode to empowerment mode in governmental policies designed for the progression of women. To empower women, continuous efforts taken by Indian government and National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) through microfinance raised the standard of living of poor women and their kin above poverty line to some extent. Apart from these issues, the challenges involved are discrimination, unsustainable development practices, climate change, and violence against women. Therefore, the initiatives should focus on the above said issues faced by women. In this way, this paper is analysed with self help group’s rural women empowerment and satisfaction through micro credit in Krishnagiri District

SHGs, NABARD, Rural Women Empowerment, Credit System, Economic Growth

"SELF HELP GROUP’S RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SATISFACTION THROUGH MICRO CREDIT IN KRISHNAGIRI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no.106-112, March-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803022.pdf

"SELF HELP GROUP’S RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SATISFACTION THROUGH MICRO CREDIT IN KRISHNAGIRI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no. pp106-112, March-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803022.pdf