Activities of SHGs and Occupational Pattern of their Members in Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra

To study the activities of SHGs and occupational pattern of their members, twelve villages from Kankawli and Malvan tahsils of Sindhudurg districts were selected purposively. One SHG from each village was selected randomly. Thus, total 110 members from 12 SHGs were included in the sample. Based on the performance of SHGs, they were classified into three groups i.e. good performance (mean score of more than 0.67), average performance (mean score in the range of 0.34 to 0.66) and poor performance ( mean score of less than 0.33). SHGs started the income generating activities such as vegetable growing , lift irrigation, fish processing and selling, selling stationary materials, grocery shop, food stuff making, building and sanitary material supplying, bangle business, bamboo weaving, retail selling, papaya plantation, groundnut cultivation, providing tractor or power tiller on hire and pickle making. Occupation of selected members was mainly agriculture (51.82 %) and wage earning (30.91 %). Nearly 49 per cent of members had no any subsidy occupation.