DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i08.001

Pages: 542-551

Microfinance is an important strategy for addressing the issues of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. The microfinance with SHGs would empower women. The empowerment of women gives benefits to the women concerned as well as her family and the community as a whole. It gives social and economic empowerment of the poor particularly women. The concept of microfinance has encouraged the scholars all over the world to rethink about the term financial inclusion of the marginalized people, especially women in our society. SHGs through microfinance the get access to savings and credits which intern strengthen a series of interlinked and mutually reinforcing 'virtuous spirals' of empowerment. In this paper an initiative has been taken to judge the performance of women development programme in West Bengal through Self Help Groups under SGSY on the basis of chosen indicators.