Impact Assessment of Perception of Women after Joining SelfHelp Group (SHG): A Study of Mathura District (UP), India

Abstract

Self-help groups in India represent one of the most important phenomena to surface in decades, given their scale as a platform for
poor people's development. Many organizations in India, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations, and local and national government bodies, now recognize the enormous potential of SHGs. The activity for which the SHG movement is most widely known is the rapid growth of rural bank-SHG linkages to support SHG borrowing. Such government and non-government support to SHGs over the past decade has emphasized progressive outreach to large numbers of poor, rural Self-Help Groups, And, like the development of the microfinance sector globally since the Grameen Bank's pioneering start more than 30 years ago, the movement to support SHGs access to financial services has matured rapidly.This paper has discussed growth of SHGs in India and the SWOT analysis of the SHG operating in the Mathura district set up by NIRPHARD undying effort by its team which have learning attitude and it also shows the how the life of the SHG members had been changed by joining it, which resulted in increased in their financial status which build their self confidence in turn and overall
society