• Dr. R. Sankarakumar

Abstract: Women empowerment is one of most significant aspect for socio-economic, political and cultural development in any country. Many ways are available to achieve this empowerment, and it’s one of the way is through Self-Help Groups. This group is called as Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarjohar Yojana (SGSY). It was functioned from 1999. It is a credit-cum-subsidy programme. It deals with all characteristic of self-employment, such as organise the deprived into SHGs, training, credit technology, basic facilities and marketing. Main purpose of this scheme is (a) to generate income and employment opportunities for the rural poor; (b) to establish the micro enterprises and it recommended that this enterprise must utilise the locally available materials (c) to envisage that every family assisted under SGSY will be eradicate below poverty line within three years of period. This study is based on the following objectives (a) to understand the ways to support from SHGs. For this study, totally 75 women respondents in Aruppukottai block in Virudhunagar district are selected to collect the data. These respondents are chosen on the basis of simple random samples.

Self-Help Groups, Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarjohar Yojana

"ROLE OF SELF – HELP GROUPS (SHGs) IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TAMILNADU ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.545-547, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809874.pdf

"ROLE OF SELF – HELP GROUPS (SHGs) IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TAMILNADU ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp545-547, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809874.pdf