Role of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Rural Women Empowerment: A Case Study with Special Reference to Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh

Employment or unemployment is very important economic outcome for judging efficiency of Government as it can make or break Government in India. Women in India have played an important part in our social life. Although we have gone through various phases of transition, however majority of Indian Women are considered burden due to economic problems. According to ILO’S world employment social outlook report the employment rate in India has been in the 3.4% to 3.6% range over the UPA Govt. led 2009-14 and NDA Govt. 2014. As world Bank reported that in 2020 India’s female unemployment rate jumped from 5 percent to 5.3 percent. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) unemployment rate of our country is 6.3%. Indian women hit hard more than men. The ratio of new male registrations to new women registrations in The Employee Provident Fund shot down to 3.9 In the lockdown months of April and May 2020, against 4.2 in the first year from September 2017 . The deterioration is very sharp among women of 21 years of age or lesser. So economic Independence is an important agent of development today’s world. Though empowerments includes, economic social and political and so on, however, this study is restricted to the economic empowerment of women only.