A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SELF HELP GROUPS (SHGS) IN RAMANAGARA DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2015-07-10
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
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The present study was conducted in Ramanagara district of Karnataka state during
2014-15 by selecting eight women SHGs and the respondents constituted 120 from selected
SHGs. The findings revealed that 50.00 per cent of SHGs had high performance followed by
medium (25.00%) and low (25.00%) levels of performance. Majority of members belonged
to middle age (63.33%), married (89.20%), small family (58.30%), low (79.17%) family
annual income (without SHG income), low social participation (59.16%), nearly half of the
members (41.70%) were illiterates, little more than half (55.80%) of members belonged to
nuclear family, little more than one third (39.18%) of the respondents belonged to medium
level of extension participation, more than one third (39.67%) of the respondents belonged to
low level of mass media exposure, about one third (35.83%) and (35.00%) of members had
high and medium level of cosmopoliteness respectively, more than one third (35.87%), 41.67
per cent, 47.50 per cent and 40.83 per cent of members belonged to medium levels of risk
willingness, achievement motivation, management orientation and deferred gratification
respectively. Independent variables like age, family type, family size, marital status, social
participation, cosmopoliteness and management orientation were associated with
performance of Self Help Groups. The major constraints experienced by the members of
SHGs were opposition from family members and inability to attend training. The major
suggestions provided by the members of SHGs were convincing the family members about
the importance of the SHGs, in addition to change in the time of meeting and place of
training.
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