• ANJOO CHAUHAN
• Dr. Gopal Dhaker

Micro finance through Self Help Group (SHG) has been predictable globally as the current device to warfare poverty and for rural improvement. Micro finance and SHGs are effectual in tumbling poverty, empowering women and generating awareness which finally answers in sustainable progress of the nation. This paper formulates a challenge to appraise the efficiency of microfinance on empowerment of women. The main objective of the study is to assess the soico economic impact of microfinance in the empowerment of women. The study is undertaken in Udaipur cluster. Both primary and secondary data’s are used. Primary data is enumerated from a field survey in the study region. Secondary data is collected from NGOs’ reports and other documents. The researcher has used Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, Z-test, ANOVA test for analysis purpose. Population of study is women who are associated with Self Help Groups (SHG’s). The survey was carried on around 200 respondents from different SHGs of Udaipur district, Rajasthan and the investigation was completed to study the empowerment of women through microfinance. The outcomes powerfully express that on an average, there is a significant increase in women empowerment of the Self Help Groups members.

Keywords: Microfinance, women’s empowerment, Non Governmental Organization, Self Help groups.

"ROLE OF SELF HELP GROUP (SHG) THROUGH MICRO FINANCE FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT (An Empirical study in Udaipur cluster)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.283-290, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808190.pdf

"ROLE OF SELF HELP GROUP (SHG) THROUGH MICRO FINANCE FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT (An Empirical study in Udaipur cluster)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp283-290, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808190.pdf