Self help group: A study of grass-root level success story

Rural poverty is a worldwide problems, it exist in both developing as well as developed countries in the world. As a developing country, the majority of population in India abide with rural areas, as a result, alleviation of poverty is an important objective of the rural development programs launch by the government of India. Due to increase the size of population; growth inequality of income, increasing price level etc; the degree of poverty is increase day by day in our country. Assam a state of northern part of India has also facing the same problems. It becomes a burning problem for the state of Assam. In Assam, There are so many factors, responsible for the increasing of rural poverty but the government initiative stapes are taken a effectible relief for removing poverty. Such type of effectible scheme launch by the government is the ‘Swarnajayanti Gram Swarogar Yojana’ (SGSY) Scheme; introduce in 1st April 1999. Under the SGSY Scheme self help group is an important self-reliance program for the rural poor. It play a vital role in the socio-economic and cultural progress of the rural society in India, including Assam.

Assam a part of North-East region of India, have a numbers of Self Help Groups; In this present paper attempt is made in order to an analytical study of the concept of Self Help Groups in India with focusing some successes story of SHG in different Block of the Tinsukia Dist of Assam, India