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Title: - A Study on Rural Women Livelihood under the NRLM and its contribution to their Socio-Economic Development with Special Reference to Kaliapani Development Block, Jorhat District.
Start Date - 2020-12-30   End Date - 2020-12-30   Duration - 1 days.
Nature of the Activity: - Research Project
Summary: -
In present time women are starting to participate in economic activities. the modern women keenly desires to enter in to a work career because they wants to work or because of the pressuring economic needs of the family and to achieve higher standard of living the women participate in economic activities. the economic participation of women is also leads to their better position in their family. The study is mainly based on rural women livelihood source as per the NRLM and contribution in socio- economic development of 4 villages under Kaliapani Development Block, Jorhat district of Assam. The socio-economic condition of the villages is very poor. Most of the women of the area are undereducated and unskilled, they are depended on agriculture, weaving, daily wages and livestock business such as piggery, rearing silk worm, duck, goat etc. and they don’t use any modern technology for it. So they could not produce their product in a large quantity. Even if they produce in a large quantity there is no market place to sell the products. So the women are facing different problems for their socio-economic development. So the study is focusing on the various schemes of NRLM in the study area which is supporting women to develop their socio-economic condition. Research Objectives:  To understand the NRLM.  To know the livelihood sources of women.  To find out what are the available resources in the study area.  To find out the issues affecting the economic condition of people. Findings: 1. Most of the SHGs members attained school till primary level and 10% are illiterate and dropped out because of the financial problem and they get engaged in household work and some of them got married. 2. Most of the respondents are engaged in agriculture and daily wage earning. 3. All the respondents grow rice. Agriculture provides both income and food. Apart from rice they produce various types of crops and vegetables such as mustard, pulses, potato and other seasonal vegetables. 4. Now a day’s most of the people prefer to live in nuclear family in villages. 5. Most of the women are skilful in weaving. In the village majority of the women practice traditional weaving method. They weave for their own use and only few women use it for income purpose. 6. In the study area most of the respondents have 5-10 bighas of land. 7. The monthly income of the respondent is 6000-1000 which is not sufficient for their living in the village. 8. Most of the respondent rear livestock for income generation and household uses. They sell their livestock and crops to local vendors but they are not getting the reasonable price. Most of the respondents earn Rs. 3000 to 50000 yearly by selling livestock. 9. The respondents are below poverty line (BPL). Most of the respondents belong to ST and OBC category. 10. The respondents are economically backward because they don’t have any good income source most of the respondents engaged in cultivation. 11. Most of the respondents use manure from livestock on the soil to increase their crop production. 12. In the study area natural resources are river and forest, from where they get fish and water for agriculture and from the forest they collect wood for cooking. 13. Most of the respondents use tractors as a tool for their agriculture and some respondent use both tractor and bullock as agricultural tool. 14. The respondents are not aware about NRLM scheme because of the lack of education . 15. The respondents are very few NRLM schemes, but they are not implemented properly by the concern authority. 16. Due to household work the respondents did not get much time to attend workshop[ of SHGs, which is also a reason for lack of awareness about the scheme. 17. Participation of the government official from the grassroots level is very less. 18. Many SHG members did not get exposure of any market. 19. There are many SHGs who have got Fund from NRLM schemes but they did not utilize the funds for SHG. They divided the funds among the members and became inactive. 20. Many SHGs are not linked with banks.