PRACTICES OF SELF HELP GROUPS AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: A CASE OF BARAK VALLEY OF ASSAM Sanjay Kanti Das Head‚ Department of Commerce‚ Lumding College‚ Lumding‚ Nagaon‚ Assam - 782447‚ India. E-mail:- sanjay19711123@rediffmail.com ABSTRACT Self help groups (SHGs) have emerged as popular method of working with people in recent years. Since SHG based micro finance programmes cover a large number of women‚ it is expected that such programmes will have an important bearing on women‟s empowerment. Self-Help Groups
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1961-70 | 1971-80 | 1981-90 | US | | | | | From India | 2‚120 | 31‚214 | 1‚72‚080 | 2‚61‚841 | From all countries | 25‚15‚000 | 33‚22‚000 | 44‚93‚000 | 73‚38‚000 | India’s Share(%) | (0.1) | (0.9) | (3.8) | (3.6) | Canada | | | | | From India | 2‚802 | 25‚722 | 72‚903 | 79‚304 | From all countries | 15‚74‚841 | 14‚09‚677 | 14‚40‚338 | 13‚36‚767 | India’s Share(%) | (0.2) | (1.8) | (5.1) | (5.9) | UK | | | | | From India | n.a | 1‚25‚600 | 83‚040 | 51‚480 | From all countries
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Reaction Paper 1: Mother India Mother India is a 1957 Bollywood film‚ written and directed by Mehmoob Khan. The movie was made 10 years after India obtained its independence from the British. The movie had major significance in terms of the patriotism and the changing situation in the nation at the time‚ and how the country was functioning without British authority. The term "Mother India" has been defined as "a common icon for the emergent Indian nation in the early 20th century in both colonialist
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McDonald’s in India In America‚ we consider McDonald’s to be a beef serving‚ sometimes fatty fast food restaurant‚ but after a 6 year business plan to sway the Indian population‚ McDonald’s has transformed. If they can continue this growth in India‚ and all over the world‚ globalization will start to love McDonald’s even more. They seemed to have hit the right points‚ from playing it safe‚ investing their time doing marketing research‚ to find the best places to put a restaurant and finding out
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On the 18‚ July 1947 India declared it’s independence from the British Empire after almost 200 years of being rule over the country. But independence was short lived after a day; the country was split up into 2 different countries which became Pakistan. Later the Pakistani province of East Pakistan will declare it’s independence from Pakistan which became the country Bangladesh. India was split up on the bases of religion which has created bitter relations between the populations of these three countries
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Indian Tribes : Among the 68 million citizens of India who are members of tribal groups‚ the Indian tribal religious concepts‚ terminologies‚ and practices are as varied as the hundreds of tribes‚ but members of these groups have one thing in common: they are under constant pressure from the major organized religions. Some of this pressure is intentional‚ as outside missionaries work among tribal groups to gain converts. Most of the pressure‚ however‚ comes from the process of integration within
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INCREDIBLE INDIA Everyday I go to school and speak the pledge "India is my country and I love my country".One day a question instantly popped up in my head‚"Do I really mean it? The pledge that I have spoken since the first day of school.The answer came as soon as the question‚"Yes‚I love my country! Agreed that there is corruption‚poverty and dirt everywhere. Today‚even after 67 years of independence‚we find men‚women with their children begging on the streets‚people spitting and throwing
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The hijras of India are unlike any you might see in any other part of the world. You might have occasionally come across men dressed as women‚ wearing garishly bright makeup. They immediately attract attention to themselves for all the wrong reasons and most often win ridicule. We are really not sure if eunuch‚ transvestite‚ gay or transgender is actually the right term for a hijra as their social mores are very unique and are almost above classification by western terms. One can attempt to
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Psych 540 Ms. McManus & Ms. Smith 9/28/2010 Women vs. Women: Bullying Broads A recent article on a website hosted by the ABC news show‚ Good Morning America‚ has brought a new workplace problem to light (Wild & Brady‚ 2009). This is the problem of women bosses bullying other women. Though this is probably not actually a new problem for our society‚ it is just recently being brought to attention because of one woman’s struggle with her female boss. The woman in the article attempted to sue
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Independence of India ¤ Sailing of San Gabriel To India When the San Gabriel sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to finally dock at Calicut‚ a prosperous port and an independent principality on the Malabar Coast in May‚ 1498‚ half a century of the Portuguese tentative to find a sea route to India was finally crowned with success. The man behind the quest was Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) – a devout Roman Catholic whose nightlong vigil in a Lisbon chapel before commending himself to the unsure
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