Women SHGs Conference 2022- Relevance for UPSC Exam
- GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges- Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.
Women SHGs Conference 2022 in News
- Recently, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi participated in the Self Help Group Sammelan organised at Karahal, Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh.
- On the occasion, the Prime Minister also inaugurated four Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) skilling centres under PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana.
- The Prime Minister also handed over Bank Loan Sanction letters to SHG members and Kits under the Jal Jeevan Mission were also handed over by him.
Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) Sammelan
- About: Women SHGs Sammelan is witness to the attendance of thousands of women Self Help Group (SHG) members/community resource persons that are being promoted under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
- Venue: Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) Sammelan 2022 was organised at Karahal, Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh.
- Participation: About one lakh women who are members of SHGs were present on the occasion and about 43 lakh women were connected from various centres.
Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)
- DAY-NRLM aims to mobilise rural poor households into SHGs in a phased manner and provide them long-term support to diversify their livelihoods and improve their incomes and quality of life.
- The Mission is also working towards empowering the women SHG members through awareness generation and behaviour change communication on issues like domestic violence, women’s education and other gender-related concerns, nutrition, sanitation, health etc.
What are Self Help Groups (SHGs)?
- About: Self Help Groups are informal associations of people who come together to find ways to improve their living conditions. They help to build social capital among the poor, especially women.
- Members: The SHG members generally have similar socio-economic background.
- Key Objectives: Self Help Groups are formed with following key objectives-
- To encourage and motivate its members to save,
- To persuade them to make a collective plan for generation of additional income,
- To act as a conduit for formal banking services to reach them.
- Significance: Such groups work as a collective guarantee system for members who propose to borrow from organised sources.
- Consequently, Self-Help Groups have emerged as the most effective mechanism for delivery of micro-finance services to the poor.
- SHG examples: SEWA in Gujarat, MYRADA in Karnataka, TANWA in Tamil Nadu, Ramkrishna mission in Jharkhand, ADITHI in Bihar.
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