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Awareness Regarding Women Empowerment Programmes in Rural Households of Ludhiana .
The government of India declared year 2001 as women empowerment year and launched many useful programmes for awakening women. The present study was an attempt to know utilization of these programmes by rural home-makers. The study was conducted in 60 rural households of two villages selected from tw...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Journal of Krishi Vigyan
2015
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004650.pdf |
| Summary: | The government of India declared year 2001 as women empowerment year and launched
many useful programmes for awakening women. The present study was an attempt to know
utilization of these programmes by rural home-makers. The study was conducted in 60 rural
households of two villages selected from two blocks of Ludhiana district. The results revealed
that few respondents (18.3 %) were aware of the year of women empowerment as well as
various empowerment programmes. Only 11.7 and 16.7 per cent were found having an
awareness of
Kishori Shakti Yojna
and
Sampooran Shiksha
programmes, respectively. However,
30 per cent women started using women friendly technologies in their households for drudgery
reduction and hence improving their quality of life. Further, none of the respondents was making
use of credit facilities for starting their own enterprise to supplement family income as they
were completely ignorant about various sc
hemes. Schemes like Widow Pension Scheme,
Maternity Benefits and Girl Child Benefits were fully utilized as these provide direct economic
gains. Respondents strongly agreed that these programmes will make women aware of their
rights but disagreed that these programmes will help to develop ability to make better decisions.
They had no particular opinion whether these programmes will enable women to act as self
sufficient. The suggestions from the respondents for the effective utilization of various schemes
included expert guidance for starting any enterprise (96.7%) followed by training programme
for elderly for changing their attitude towards women workforce participation (93.3%),
programme for skill development (83.3%) and awareness generation programmes for credit
facilities by government and non government organizations (86.7%) |
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| Item Description: | Special Issue on Women Empowerment |