A STUDY ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES PROVIDED AT A GLANCE (SHG) VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE AT MYSURU

Abstract

The term ‘Empowerment’ aims at encouraging, enabling and liberating an individual from being dependent on another. Various government and private agencies are working towards empowering those who are deprived and create self-confidence in them. Hitherto, women are considered the weaker sex and several instances show that they are dependent on their respective families for their needs. Self Help Groups or SHG’s as they are more popularly called, aims at empowering women so as to make them confident to face life with more positivity. One of their focus is on imparting training modules for women at various centers and provide the necessary support for these women to be independent, either as an entrepreneur or to seek employment and be financially stable. This study has reviewed a scheme under the Group for Urban and Rural Development (GROUP), which is a sub-scheme of the Priyadarshini Scheme, at a center, providing vocational training for women, run by an SHG at Jyothi Nagar area in Mysuru City. The study tries to assess the effectiveness of vocational training programs in ensuring women's empowerment.