Splint International Journal Of Professionals

  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Managing Poverty and Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods through Women Self-help Groups: A Case Analysis of Odisha

  • Author:
  • Parikshit Sahu1, G. Narendra Kumar2
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Published Online: Oct 26, 2021
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 169 to 180

1Faculty State Institute for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (SIRD & PR), Unit–8, Gopabandhunagar, Bhubaneswar-751012, Odisha, India

2Director General (IAS), National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030, Telangana, India

*Corresponding Author email id: drparinomics@gmail.com

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Abstract

Poverty remains one of the big demanding situations for inclusive-growth since the independence of our country to compete with the global situation. Access to formal funding to poor is first order condition for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The important thrust of National Rural Livelihoods Mission is that the poor have inherent potentialities and a sturdy desire to pop out of poverty. The poor and their establishments are provided enough capacities to control the outside surroundings enabled them to get entry to finance and to amplify their talents and belongings and convert them into evocative livelihoods. It necessitates continuous close help to them. The focal point of National Rural Livelihoods Mission is the complete inclusion of the marginalized organizations, prioritizing the poorest of the bad and converted their groups into institutions of the poor that are supported to leverage formal credit and advantages supposed for them and hence to increase revolutionary network led interventions so one can lead to sustainable livelihoods and higher great of existence. Women are greater prone than guys to the extremes of poverty and its results. The promotion of entrepreneurship among girls necessitates a need based totally environment that includes in eliminating the institutional boundaries. On account of various troubles like infrastructural problems, non-supportive attitude of monetary establishments, low quality merchandise, use of obsolete technologies and so forth, rural industries are nonetheless lagging behind and some of men are under risk of intimidation additionally. Unless measures are taken to enhance the capabilities of rural primarily based grassroots agencies controlled via Self Help Groups, it will be very difficult to increase the individual income of rural human beings and hence the national profits as well as the financial improvement of the nation.

Keywords

Self Help Group (SHG), Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI), Gram Panchayat Level Federation (GPLF), Cluster Level Federation (CLF), Swarna Jayanti Sworojgar Yojna (SGSY), Common Facility Centres (CFC), Gram Panchayat Level Federation (GPLF), System of Rice Intensification (SRI)