Quality Control Aspects of Self Help Group (SHG) Products

The purpose of this research work is to study the quality control aspects of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the Union Territory of Puducherry region. The research variables were identified from the literature review relating to quality control of SHG and primary data of 251 random sample of SHGs was collected through survey method using well-structured questionnaire. The statistical package of SPSS was utilized to analyze the data using the statistical techniques of descriptive statistics with frequency analysis and simple mean. Majority of the groups consisting of 32.7% have not adopted any machines for testing quality of output. While a good proportion of the groups consisting of 29.1% have about two machines to test quality features, also a good proportion consisting of 21.5% are using one machine to test quality and it can be concluded that the majority have not adopted machines in sufficient number to test for quality.