A Study on Socio-Economic Empowerment of Rural Muslim Women through SHG : A Case Study of Puttur Taluk DK, with Special Reference to S.K.D.R.D.P

Aristotle, the father of Political Science had said that state is a “union of families and villages”. Family is the basic unit of society, which is the foundation of state itself. Happy families create a healthy society and healthy society is a prerequisite of strong political order in democratic societies. A woman is an architect of society. She establishes the institution of family life, builds the home, brings up the children and makes them good citizens. Her strength in totality contributes in the making of an ideal family, ideal society and an ideal state.About half the mankind consists of women but they are treated as second sex all over the world. Women are economically, socially have been born to obey, to carry out orders. As mother, wife and daughter-in fact, in any role she must have man’s protection and without him she is nothing. In India large number of women is steeped in ignorance, superstition, poverty and disease in spite of democracy and independence.The socio-economic advancement of a particular country can be best judged on the basis of the status and position, which it can bestow on its women. So the level of economic equality and independence are the real indicator to measure the status of women. In India, the general economic situation is far from satisfactory, the situation of women being worst than that of men in respect of education, nutrition, freedom, health, life expectation, wage earning and political participation