Today women are in the process of enriching themselves through Self-Help Group. Tuticorin District having 19 town panchayats formed 1230 SHGs, and their achievement is 259%. The overall objective of the present study is to analysis the economic empowerment of women though SHGs in five coastal...

Microfinance sector has covered a long journey from micro savings to micro credit and then to micro enterprises and now entered the field of micro insurance, micro remittance, micro pension and micro livelihood. This gradual and evolutionary growth process has given a great boost to the rural...

Microfinance is only successful model reaching the poor to uplift them by providing easy loan to build their business and other practices of self sufficiency, where regular financial services couldn't reach. The success of SHGs as a development tool depends on the availability of Micro Finance....

Self Help Groups are small homogenous groups consisting of 12-20 women from BPL families voluntarily organized to promote savings. This study aims at savings & rural credit of SHGs in five coastal villages of Tuticorin District viz Thaalamuthunagar, Vellapatti, Therespuram, Arockiapuram & Inigo...