1Associate Professor & Head, Post-graduate Department of Commerce & Tourism, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India
2Associate Professor, Post-graduate Department of Mathematics, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India
Online published on 20 April, 2017.
Kudumbashree is a novel woman based participatory programme launched by the Government of Kerala in 1998 for wiping out absolute poverty from the State through concerted community action under the leadership of Local Self Governments. Kudumbashree is today the largest women-empowering project in India and also mighty women's movements in Asia with a full-time women membership of 3.7 million, engaged in an array of gainful activities covers more than 50% of the households in Kerala. During the late nineties Kudumbashree identified the potentiality of ICT based micro enterprises for empowering poor women flocks because of the significant improvement in the women literacy rate and better human development index of Kerala state. Today Micro ICT enterprises under the Kudumbashree is significantly contributing for empowering poor women flock and there by poverty eradication. This paper focused on the training analysis and job satisfaction of women core group members engaged in ICT microenterprise under Kudumbashree in Kerala.
ICT Enterprises, Kudumbashree, Poverty alleviation, Women Empowerment, Training, Job Satisfaction
