Abstract: The empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century, not only at national level but also the State level. Efforts by the government are on to ensure gender equality but government initiatives alone would not be sufficient to achieve this goal. The KVKs also play vital role enhance the economic independency through the income generating activities. In order to ascertain the status of Self Help Groups formulated in rural area of Madhya Pradesh. , there were 160 women members of the Khargoan district was selected randomly for this study. The study revealed that out of the total women of SHGs members, higher number of them found to medium overall economic empowerment group (40.63%) followed by high overall economic empowerment group (33.75%) and low overall economic empowerment group (25.62%) respectively.
Keywords: KVKs, Women Empowerment, Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
Title: Study of Women Empowerment in Terms of Income Generating Activities in Self Help Groups through Krishi Vigyan Kendra, In Khargone District (M.P.)
Author: Ms. Deepika Chouhan, Dr. Sandhya Choudhary, Dr. Abhay Wankhede, Dr. V.K. Swarnakar
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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