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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Sociology × Author: Sihag, Rijul × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2011 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Impact of self help groups(SHGs) on women empowerment in rural communities of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Sihag, Rijul; Vermani, Savita
    The empowerment of women is crucial for the economic development of a nation and building a base for social change. The year 2001 had been declared by the Government of India as “Women’s Empowerment Year” to focus on a vision where women are equal partners like men. The Government of India has provided SHGs to them so that proper attention should be given to their economic independence through self employment, entrepreneurial development and well being that ultimately leads to their empowerment. SHGs have emerged as a powerful instrument in order to alleviate poverty and for the empowerment of women in the rural economy. Therefore, the comprehensive study was conducted in Haryana with following specific objectives: (I) To examine the type of self help groups working in rural areas. (II) To study the factors affecting the functioning of self-help groups. (III) To assess the impact of self help groups on women empowerment and socio-economic status of family. (IV) To analyze the constraints involved in functioning of self help groups. The sample of 300 respondents was selected from four villages of two districts i.e. Fatehabad and Bhiwani through systematic random sampling techniques. Data were collected through interview schedule and analysed with suitable statistical techniques. Respondents income generating activities (IGAs) in SHGs were dari making (38.7%), mat making (34.0%), tie-dye (33.3%) and wooden beads making (24.3%). On an average respondents were earning Rs. 1,688.0 per month by working in SHGs. Factors like respondent’s education and occupation, respondent’s husband education and occupation, extension contacts were found significantly associated with the income of the respondents from SHGs. Majority of respondents were using money earned from IGAs on household expenses (88.3%), for higher education of children (84.0%). Two-third of the respondents (63.7%) felt fully benefitted from joining SHG. Factors like age, size of family, respondent’s education and occupation, socio-economic status were found significantly associated with level of benefits of joining SHGs by respondents. Regarding the functioning of SHGs, overwhelming majority of respondents (92.0%) expressed proper inter-loaning in groups, regular meetings (89.7%), maintenance of records (67.7%), group consensus (55.3%) etc. Respondents felt high level of empowerment in terms of personal, social, economic than legal and political empowerment. Age of the respondents was found significantly associated with personal empowerment of respondents through SHGs. Factors like age, size of family, mass media exposure were found significantly associated with social empowerment of respondents through SHGs. Likewise, respondent’s education was found significantly associated with economic empowerment of respondents through SHGs. Majority of respondents (83.3%) felt increase in income, purchase of assets (69.3%), more savings (69.0%) after becoming members of SHGs. Respondents were also found facing personal, educational, organizational, marketing, economic and social constraints while working in SHGs.