• Dr. T. TAMILMATHI

The concept of rural development has emerged with new force and is almost at the top of agenda in national policies of developing countries. The objectives of the rural development are providing social goods and services in terms of social and economic infrastructure, increasing the income of rural family, creation of employment opportunities in rural areas, improvement of the living standards of low-income population living in rural areas through transforming the improvement of services of rural masses, and improvement of know-how which infuses in the rural people a sense of pragmatism in the process of development. Creation of employment opportunities and generation of adequate income for the beneficiaries are the theme of all social banking programmes. The endeavour is to lift the weakest among the weaker sections of society above the poverty line on a permanent basis. In developing economies, helping the rural poor and meeting their basic needs have been goals of the government. Micro finance means provision for smaller working capital loans to the self-employed or self employment seeking poor. This paper deals with micro finance, its feature, evolution of micro finance and its familiar models.

Micro finance, rural empowerment, poverty eradication, rural development, self-employment, etc.

"MICRO FINANCE TO EMPOWER RURAL POOR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.569-573, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBP06098.pdf

"MICRO FINANCE TO EMPOWER RURAL POOR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp569-573, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBP06098.pdf