International Journal of Social and Economic Research
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 3

Self help group model and credit linkage: A study with reference to state bank of Mysore

1University of Mysore, BIMS, University of Mysore, Mysore,

2University of Mysore, BIMS, University of Mysore,Mansagangotri, Mysore

Abstract

Financial inclusion, empowerment of women are part of a strategy to alleviate poverty and reach the millennium development goals(MDG). Since the 1990‘s the formal financial institutions in India have ventured into microfinance on a large scale by adopting the SHG-Bank linkage program model. The present paper attempts to analyze the SHG model and evaluate the performance of credit linkages of State Bank of Mysore, (now merged into State Bank of India since 2017.

Keywords

Financial inclusion, Microfinance, SHG Model, Credit linkage, State Bank Mysore(SBM)l