Women in tribal society are integral part and have equal status with their men. With domestic activities, they perform many other activities contributing towards general well-being of their families. However, due to seclusion from general masses, they remained backward in certain respects. In order to bring them closer to modern world, government framed and implemented many programmes for their development. But due to illiteracy, economic backwardness and lack of communication most of them remained unware of these schemes. Therefore cooperative corporation and SHGs came to the fore to make them literate, provide mobility and communication facilities, access to information, means of health care and alternate means of income generation. These institutions have worked tremendously towards empowerment of tribal women. The present book makes an in-depth research into status and role of tribal women, role of cooperative movement and self-help groups in the development and amelioration of these women, effect and outcomes of activities and help of these organizations and recommendations and suggestions for further improvement. All the facts are supported through data in numerous tables. This book is a must for every student, teacher cooperative society, self-help group and general readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V.M. Rao
V.M. Rao (b. 1954) holds a doctorate in Dairy Economics and is currently working as Professor and HOD, Department of Research and Publications at Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management, Pune. He has earlier worked with National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad (1984-88), Ahmedabad (1988-92). On a British Council’s fellowship, Prof. Rao visited Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom. He has authored/co-authored six books: (a) Dairy Framing Socio-Economic analysis of Milk Production (1991), (b) Castor Economy: A Profile and analysis of India and International Market (1991), (c) International Castor Oil Market: An Econometric Analysis (1994), (d) Developing Agro Enterprises Among Farm Women: A Case of Amul (2000), (e) Empowering Farm Women through Dairy Cooperatives: A Study in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (2003), and (f) Socio-Economic Status of Tribal women in Arunachal Pradesh (2003). Besides these books, he has published over 60 research papers in various professional journals/books. Dr. Rao also participated in a number of national and international seminars/conferences. His areas of interest are (a) animal husbandry economics, (b) agri-business management, and (c) gender related issues. He has completed 19 research studies sponsored by Government of India, ICSSR, and other state governments in the above areas during 1980-02. Currently, he is engaged in (a) integrating tribal women into cooperative: an experience of Girijan cooperative corporation, (b) impact of women dairy project in Orissa, and (c) impact of women dairy project (Phase 4) in Bihar.
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