Analysis of Demographic Factors, Skills and Empowerment of SHG Members in Thoothukudi District

Self-help group in its broadest sense refers to an association of people who come together voluntarily in order to improve their current life situation. It is a boon for particularly the poor people and women to build social, economic and cultural capital. The main focus of the SHGs is to empower the people socially, economically, culturally, politically, psychologically, etc. Among all of them, economic empowerment becomes a priority, because of the reason that, if one is economically empowered, other empowerments are considered easy to achieve. The present research is tries to identify the relationship between demographic factor, skill development such as administrative skill, nancial skill, production skill and marketing skill and the economic empowerment that the members achieve through the help of SHGs