Attitude of women SHG members towards SHPIs and problems faced by them in running the SHGs

The study was conducted in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya under ‘Intra Mural Research Project’ funded by Central Agricultural University. One of the objectives of the study was to assess the attitude of women entrepreneurs towards Self Help Promoting Institutions and also to find out the problems faced by them in running the Self Help Group. The result has revealed that most of the respondents (80.67 per cent) had favourable attitude towards the SHPIs while 12.66 per cent of them had most favourable attitude followed by 6.67 per cent of respondents with least favourable attitude towards them. The study found that major problems faced by them were group conflict, lack of motivation of members of the group, members are less hardworking and does not owe due responsibility of their duties, in- fighting among group members, competition with other Self Help Groups, etc. The result also showed that the respondents didn't have any problem or resistance from parents, in-laws or husband/spouse.