Economic empowerment of tribal women through self help groups: An empirical study in Nagaland, India

Empowering rural women provides opportunities to the poor and deprived women access to resources, rights and entitlements helping them to achieve quality of life. Self help group across the country brings women from poor socio economic background working to solve common problems freeing them from various social and economic bondage. The study was undertaken in four districts of Nagaland, viz. Wokha, Mon, Phek and Dimapur district of Nagaland. A total of 120 SHGs from the four districts and 360 SHGs members were identified by following multistage purposive random sampling method for detailed study. Economic parameter, viz. expenditure, saving and assets creation were consider to assess the empowerment level of tribal women in Nagaland. The study found out that there is a significant increase in expenditure, saving and assets creation at household level.