• Umesh Balu Gadekar

In India poverty is classified in to two types’ viz. absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty treated by the Government by providing various welfare schemes and programmes to uplift the poor from below poverty line. The poor’s those are slightly economically active and are in search of financial assistance to improve their livelihood are treated by developmental schemes of public organization. The financial needs to start new livelihood activity and to expand the existing livelihood activity are fulfilled by the various ways. The National Banks, Cooperative Banks, SHG and private microfinance institutions are these sources. The poor those are unbanked and unreached by the government financial sources are focussed by the private microfinance institutions. The poor women from various socioeconomic category approaches to the private microfinance institutions. The paper is based on the primary data collected for the doctoral study. The primary data has been collected from 340 women from Pandharpur taluka of Solapur district those are clients of the private microfinance institutions. The present research paper is arguing that women from socially and economically backward are approaching to the private microfinance institutions instead of government financial sources.

Poverty, Private Microfinance institutions, Micro-credit

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF RURAL POOR AND SOURCE OF FINANCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE CLIENTS OF PRIVATE MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no.738-742, August-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008094.pdf

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF RURAL POOR AND SOURCE OF FINANCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE CLIENTS OF PRIVATE MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no. pp738-742, August-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008094.pdf