• Prasad M
• Dr. B. S. Chandrashekar

Women’s empowerment is one of the challenging tasks in the present scenario. Majority of women in India both in rural and urban are employed in order to meet the socio-economic conditions, financial demands for subsistence. Most of them are engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, cattle rearing, poultry rearing, pig rearing, dairy farming, and also fisheries activities and other subsidiary activities. Support to Training and Employment Programmes for Women (STEP) is one of the important programmes of the dairy co-operatives sector in the State, of Karnataka It is provides, improvement of socio-economic activities, reduction of poverty, upliftment of income and employment generation, sustainable livelihood to millions of women’s household in rural-semi urban in India as well as Karnataka. In this direction, present paper is an effort to study the performance of STEP programme for women, and organization and functioning of Women Dairy Co- operative Societies (WDCSs) in Karnataka.

STEP, Women Empowerment, Women Dairy Co-operative Societies.

"Impact of Women Empowerment through STEP programme in Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.277-280, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812034.pdf

"Impact of Women Empowerment through STEP programme in Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp277-280, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812034.pdf