Rural development is the main pillar of India’s development as more than 70 percent people live in rural areas. But the main problem in rural areas is persistent poverty. Although Government of India launched time to time poverty alleviation programmes like IRDP, TRYSEM, DWCRA etc. but still 27 percent of rural population live in poverty. The programmes like IRDP, DWCRA etc. could not make many dents to eradicate poverty so from 1999 new poverty alleviation self employment programme has been initiated. It is popularly known as SGSY (Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna). SGSY is a holistic programme for promoting self employment in rural areas. The basic approach is to form Self-Help Group (SHG) for carrying out economic activities. In this volume cases of Self Help Group across the country have been analyzed. The groups have been studied in the field itself. So the volume contains both primary and secondary information. This will give an idea about the implementation of SGSY also. For the benefit of readers latest guidelines on SGSY have been incorporated in this volume. This book will be useful to the researchers, academicians and others. It will be helpful to NGOs, Government officials and Panchayat Raj functionaries to get an idea about functioning of SHGs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shankar Chatterjee
Dr. Shankar Chatterjee (1957), is presently working as Senior Assistant Professor in National Institute of rural Development, Hyderabad. He started his career as lecturer in a college in Assam and later on Joined in Government Degree College in Tripura; that time, it was affiliated to Calcutta University. He also worked as Senior Planning Officer, in the Planning & Development Department, Government of Assam. The professors of State of Eritrea, (NE Africa) selected him as Associate Professor in Economics in 2004 where he worked for two years, During his two years stint in Eritrea he published many articles on Eritrea. As result a Department of Eritrea has issued him a certificate by mentioning, “You are asset to our country”. Even Officials of Indian High Commission have appreciated him for his academic works. Presently in his credit there are 6 books (4 individual), apart from publications in reputed journals His publications in National/International journals, edited book and newpaper/ newsletter have exceeded 135. Besides, he has presented 31 research papers in Seminar and conferences and completed 30 research reports and 19book reviews. Except a few (joint work) all are his individual work. He represented Assam State Hockey Team in All India Junior National Hockey.He visited Iran as International resource person at the invitation of Iran Government. He has traveled all the parts of India for research studies and other academic works.
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