Social security for women in asylum of microfinance: A study of Shivamogga district, Karnataka state

Over the few decades, it's been a great debate that microfinance is actually a prominent part of women life. There are many formal and informal microfinance institutions in India extending help through SHGs linkage programmes. It is striving to provide social security for the women. This paper endeavored to know how microfinance providing social security for the women through SHGs. As a social security factors housing, health, education, employment, financial issue and social issue has been included in the study. To satisfy the above objective the study was relied on structured questionnaire and direct interview. To test the hypothesis T test was employed. The result of the study bear out that there is a significant relationship between microfinance and social security factors. MFIs bequeath with social security factors to the women in the study area.