Awareness and use of Government programmes by economically weaker group of women in Karnataka State

The present work is an effort to know the awareness and use of Government programmes by economically weaker group of women in Karnataka state. A sample size of 1800 economically weaker group of women was taken for the study. Study population was chosen adopting multistage sampling that combines cluster method with stratified technique. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents. 72% of the women are aware of at least one programme of the Government. As many as 28% of women are unaware of the Government schemes. Human sources like friends, neighbours, family members have a major role. 62.22% of women claimed that they came to know about Government programmes through human sources. Nearly two third of economically weaker women claim that available information on Government programmes is moderately useful for them. Concludes that Government alone cannot undertake such tasks of disseminating information to economically weaker women, public libraries also have a major role to play in this regard.