Volume : 9, Issue : 4, April - 2020

A study of Kudumbashree NHGs and Its Impact at the Grass Root Level

Saravana Selvi. C

Abstract :

Empowerment of women is considered as an important responsibility of every Government. In this regards, Government of Kerala introduced the new women empowerment programme known as Kudumbashree. The very motto of Kudumbashree is based on women empowerment. The area selected for the present study is Vattavada Grama Panchayat comes under the Devikulam block in Idukki District. There are 120 NHG units were functioning in Vattavada Panchayat out of them 10 NHGs were randomly selected, from that 10 members from each NHG were selected randomly. Thus the sample size makes 100 to know the functions of Kudumbashree NHGs and its impact of each NHGs in this particular area of study. Interview schedule and empowerment scale was used to collect the information from the respondents. The collected data were coded, analysed and presented in frequency tables by using descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS package v.22. The data were collected from November to December 2018. It could be observed from the study, majority (71 %) of the members attained medium level of empowerment followed by low level empowerment (14 %) and (15 %) high level empowerment.