INDIAN RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SHG PROGRAM: COMMUNICATION SKILLS, THE BEST APPROACH
Keywords:
DWCD- Department of Women and Child Development, NABARD -National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, SHGs- Self-Help Groups, MYRADA-Mysore Re-settlement And Development Agency, NGOs-Non-Government OrganizationsAbstract
Women empowerment means “the surest way of making women partners in development”. Communication skills help the women to have their own organization to prove themselves as an equally best partner of development in terms of efficient organizer, manager and developer in business and non-business world.
India is rich in women-power resources. The rural female population is as big as 360 millions but only 31% of them are working population. In recent years, the Governments both Central and state have made their sincere efforts to organize the poor rural women into an informal organization namely ‘Women Self-Help Group’ under the Self-Help Group Programme. The rural women, particularly poor, are not exposed themselves though they have talent because they have dearth of communicating skills. Today’s world is a globalized and technologically progressed world. So the communication skills are today’s need. Imparting of communication skills through training to the members of women self-help groups would help them to have better access to banks, to become successful micro entrepreneurs and self-reliant successful women in all respect. The rural women empowerment could be achieved by imparting them the communication skills. It may make the rural women global competent.
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