• BASHEER. M

Micro-finance and its capacity to provide livelihood to the poor, has been accepted all over the world. Kudumbashree, the poverty eradication mission of the government of Kerala, has been widely accepted as a programme for women empowerment. Through the various programmes such as promotion of community based organisations, thrift and credit activities, linkage banking, microenterprise development, housing programmes, health awareness programmes, programs for rehabilitation of destitute, innovative programmes for capacity building of micro enterprises, Kudumbashree act as an ideal programme for economic, political and social empowerment of women, especially rural women.But much remains to be done as large portion of the women still continues out of the purview of the programme. However, Experimentations, studies and advocacies made the Mission to improve continuously. This paper is an attempt to studythe various livelihood development and innovative programmes of Kudumbashree

Kudumbashree, Community based Organisation, Linkage banking, Microenterprise development, Capacity building,

"A STUDY ON ‘KUDUMBASHREE’: THE MICROFINANCE ANDLIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.179-183, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006030.pdf

"A STUDY ON ‘KUDUMBASHREE’: THE MICROFINANCE ANDLIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp179-183, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006030.pdf