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Success of Self-Help Groups in Assam
By Assam on May 28, 2008
Assam’s rural economy is witnessing a silent revolution with over 85,000 Self-Help Groups (SHG) playing the role of vital catalysts for the growth. The major areas in which SHGs have been formed are agriculture, pisciculture, handloom, poultry, and dairy.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that these Self-Help Groups have generated considerable level of self-employment and still there are scopes for more such groups.
The primary aim of setting up SHGs was to address the problem of rural employment which had led to disillusionment among the youths who took the path of militancy in Assam. Now, this concept is so popular in rural Assam that, even educated unemployed rural youth and women are equipping themselves to take up income generating activities by organizing themselves into SHGs. In Assam, over 25 per cent of the SHG members earn in the range of Rs 2000 to Rs 3000 per cent while 18 per cent earn an average of Rs 5000 per month and another 18 per cent earn less than RS 2000 per month.
”The spark of a silent revolution has already been ignited by mobilizing a sizeable section of the rural populace and motivating them to march on the road to economic emancipation through capacity-building measures and setting up of SHGs”, Tarun Gogoi said.
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