Appraisal of Women Empowerment through DWCRA - An Empirical Study of Andra Pradesh
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26703/jct.v7i2.298Keywords:
Women Empowerment, DWCRA, Andra Pradesh, IndiaAbstract
Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. Empowering women particularly rural women is a challenge. Women are economically empowered through small scale entrepreneurship programme with the help of Self Help Movement. Economic empowerment of women led to the empowerment of women in several aspects such as socio- economic opportunity, property rights, political representation, social equality, personal rights, family development, and community development and at last the nation development. DWCRA with exclusive focus on economic empowerment of women provides all these inputs by considering women as critical to development.Self Help movement through savings has been taken up as a mass movement by women. There are about 5.79 lakh women Self-Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh covering nearly 74.58 lakh rural poor women. On this backdrop, an attempt is made to analyze the role of DWCRA groups in the empowerment of women in Andhra Pradesh.
Downloads
Metrics
References
2nd OECD conference of Ministers Responsible for Small and Medium-Sized enterprises promotingentrepreneurship and innovative SMEs in a Global Economy (2004) Organisation for Economic cooperationand development, Istabul, Tukey
Bhatia Anju (2000) “Women Development and NGOs”. Rawat Publication, New Delhi.
Case Study,Dindigul District, Tamilnadu, India.
Donald F. Kuratko, Richard M. Hodgetts. (1997) “Entrepreneurship”. Dryden Press Series inEntrepreneurship, Hardcover, USA
DWCRA- A successful experiment to emancipate rural women in Andhra Pradesh- C.S.Ramalakshmi, IFS, A Government Publication.,GOAP.
DWCRA and Women empowerment: A success study of Self-Help Movement in Andhra Pradesh, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1999.
James Manor, “Successful governance reforms in two Indian states: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh”, Institute of development Studies, University of Sussex.
Journal of Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, vol.14, No.1, April-May 1998.
K.E.Vaidyanadhan, 2009,”Social Protection for Children, women and Families: The Indian Experience”
Lalita .N, (2005) “Micro Finance and Rural Development”, Gandhi gram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Dindigal, Tamilnadu.
Lipi (2009) “Women Empowerment: Globalization and Opportunities” in Empowerment of RuralWomen in India Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.
Linda mayoux.,”Microfinance and women’s empowerment: rethinking ‘Best practice’”, Development Bulletin, No.57,pp.76-81, December 2005.
MeenuAgrawal, ShobanaNelasco (2009) “Empowerment of Rural Women in India” KanishkaPublishers, New Delhi
Mishra .S.P. (1996) Report “Factors Affecting Women Entrepreneurship in Small and CottageIndustries in India” International labourOrganisation, Swedish International Development cooperation Agency.
Prabha Singh (2009) “Rural Women and Development of Entrepreneurship with special reference toPunjab” in Empowerment of Rural Women in India Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.
Ram Naresh Thakur (2009). “Rural Women Empowerment in India” in Empowerment of RuralWomen in India Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.
ShobanaNelasco&JunofyAntorozarina (2009) “Rural women empowerment through Self HelpGroups” in Empowerment of Rural Women in India Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.
SusyCheston, UNIFEM, “Empowering women through Micro-Finance”
Various Websites – www.serp.ap.gov.in; www.rd.ap.gov.in; www.rural.nic.in; www.nird.org.in
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2012 Journal of Commerce and Trade
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
