Impact assessment of garment construction trainings on scheduled caste women
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Date
2016
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CCSHAU
Abstract
Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. Two hundred
thirty respondents from ten villages of four blocks i.e. (Hisar I, Hisar II, Barwala, Hansi rural) were
imparted trainings on garment construction. Out of these total 120 respondents were selected for the
present study. Various socio- personal, economic, psychological and communication variables
constituted the independent variables for the study and knowledge, attitude, skill acquisition, and
adoption constitute the dependent variables for the study. Data were collected with the help of pretested
structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentage,
mean score, TEI and chi-square test.
The study revealed that most of the respondents (37.50%) were of young age group, educated
up to high school (47.50%), were married (59.16%) having low family education status (46.66%),
having large sized family (48.33%) and belonged to joint family (59.16%). Majority of them had
agricultural labourer as their main family occupation (55%) . Most of them were house wife (47.50%),
had no income (52.50%), were landless (71.66%) and had annual family income more than Rs.50,000
to 70,000. Overall communication profile of respondents was of medium level, Most of the respondents
had high risk orientation (45%) and high entrepreneurial motivation (50.83%). Adoption status of
garment construction as an enterprise was low. Majority of the decisions regarding technical aspect
were mainly taken by respondents but other decisions were male dominated. Knowledge level of
respondents was recorded high for sub-components viz, designing, cutting, stitching, surface
enrichment, machine care and operation, entrepreneurial education and precautions. The respondents
succeeded in acquiring high level skills on all the aspects of garment construction. Most of the
respondents had favourable attitude toward garment construction. The overall impact of garment
construction training was of medium level. Economic and marketing constraints were perceived as the
major constraints in adoption of garment construction as an enterprise. Independent variables had
significant association with knowledge, overall impact, attitude and effectiveness of training.
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Biological phenomena, Training programmes, Manpower, Economics, Harvesting, Productivity, Land resources, Economic systems, Self help, Participation