Constraints and Suggestions of Self Help Group Women's in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu

Women empowerment in India is a challenging task as we need to acknowledge the fact that gender based discrimination is a deep rooted social malice practiced in India in many forms since thousands of years. To address the malice of gender discrimination and women empowerment a research study was conducted in Madurai district in Tamil Nadu to analyse the Constraints and Suggestion of Self Help Groups women's. A total of 80 Self Help Women from two groups namely Sweed and Mahakshemam were identified as respondent of the study. Ex-post facto research design was used. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents were major constraints like insufficient credit facilities, lack of marketing channel, lack of adequate training facilities and less preference to hand made products. Suggestions give by the respondents in study area were mostly prefer marketing arrangement at local, taluk and district level, increase the loan amount and Arranging periodical exposure visits for value addition for enhancing their livelihood security from SHGs participation.