Socio-Economic Change Among Beneficiary Women of Self-Help Group

The study was conducted in Parbhani and Purna Talukas of Parbhani district of Maharashtra state. Five villages from each Taluka were selected randomly thus total ten villages were selected. From each village, two SHGs were selected randomly thus total 20 SHGs were selected for the study. Six respondents from each Self Help Groups were selected randomly. Thus, 120 SHGs members were selected for study purpose. The result of the study showed that majority of women were young aged, literate, having medium size of family, belonged to nuclear family with exclusively agriculture as a occupation and were from medium annual income (from Rs.37,001 to 64,000) group, with medium social participation, majority of women were married and having small land holding and belonged from higher category of caste. The independent variables viz., education, annual income, occupation, knowledge had shown positive and significant relationship with the socio-economic change in women member of self-help groups. While age, size of family, type of family, marital status, land holding, social participation did not show any relation with socio-economic change in women member of self-help group.