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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Kiran Bala × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Impact assessment of cutting and tailoring trainings organizing by KVK for scheduled caste women
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Kiran Bala; Varma, Shashi Kanta
    The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state purposively. Hisar , Hansi and Adampur blocks were selected purposively for the present study. Hisar from Hisar block, Hansi from Hansi block and Sadaplur from Adampur block were selected for imparting training to SC women by KVK Sadalpur. Therefore, thirty respondents from each village were selected for the cutting and tailoring training. Thus comprising of total sample of 90 trainees. Various socio- personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constituted the independent variables, knowledge, attitude, skill acquisition, and symbolic adoption the dependent variables. Data were collected with the help of pre- tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentage, paired„t‟ test mean score, TEI and chi-square test. The study revealed that Most of the respondents (73.33%) were of younger age group, educated upto secondary/ser.sec. (38.89%) were married (64.44%) having low family education status (43.33%), small sized nuclear families (47.78%). Majority of the respondents (74.44%) had agricultural labourer as their main family occupation and monthly income upto Rs. 5,000 (55.56%) h ad pucca house (43.33%). Majority of them (93.33%) had negligible social participation and landless (91.12%). Majority of respondents (58.89%) were falling in high category of change proneness, medium risk orientation (58.89%) and medium entrepreneurial motivation (66.67%). Less than half of the respondents (47.78%) took entrepreneurial decisions jointly. Most of the respondents (94.44%) were having low mass media exposure, medium localite sources of information utilization (58.89%). Sufficient gain in knowledge after exposing to cutting and tailoring training was recorded for subcomponents viz, designing, cutting, stitching, surface enrichment, machine care and operation, entrepreneurial education and precautions. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at postexposure in all the training and acquiring high level skill on all the aspects of cutting and tailoring. Impact was of moderate level with medium level of symbolic adoption. The overall impact of cutting and tailoring was of medium level. Economic and marketing constraints were perceived as the major constraints in adoption of cutting and tailoring as an enterprise. Training components had significant association with knowledge, overall impact, attitude and effectiveness of training. It can concluded that women were ready to adopt cutting and tailoring as an enterprise after exposing them to training. .