DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i03.009

Pages: 158-161

Empowerment refers to creating capacities in the individuals or groups to participate actively in their own welfare. Empowerment is multi-dimensional in the sense that it occurs within social, economic, political and cultural spheres. Empowerment should be a process that helps people to gain control over their lives through raising awareness, taking action and working in order to exercise greater control. Caste-system in India assigns particular sets of functions and roles even before one’s birth, and also provides specific economic, civil, cultural and educational rights to one without a freedom to change. The present paper highlights that dalit empowerment in terms of granting of power and flexibility to partake and use the water resources available in the rural pockets of India, with a view of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar thoughts.