https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1542 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:05:58 GMT 2026-04-26T16:05:58Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1551 Title: Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment: A Study Using Survey Data Authors: Bhattacharya (Bose), Pali Abstract: Microfinance Programmes for women are promoted not only as a strategy for poverty alleviation but also for women’s empowerment as well. Self Help Groups (SHGs) is largest Microfinance Programme which has grown dramatically over the past decade. In this study the researcher has tried to find out the effect of SHG-Bank linkage on empowerment of women because a large number of women are associated with the programme in recent time. In this study the difference in the levels of empowerment of women members of SHG belonging to different castes and religions are analysed. It is found from the study that there has been significant improvement in the empowerment level of the women in the rural areas who have become the member of the SHGs over their pre-SHG empowerment level. But this gain is remained confined to the general caste women members of the SHGs. The women belonging to OBC, SC, ST and Muslim community have not be as empowered as the general caste women SHG members. Findings of the study clearly show that SHG movement has been an important instrument for empowering, and practically it has brought about a significant social change in the rural areas, though in different degrees to different groups of people classified on the basis of class, caste and religion. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1551 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1550 Title: Dependence of Households on the Micro-credit Programme and the Women’s Financial Contribution: An Evaluation with Application of the Propensity Score Matching Method Authors: Bera, Sujata Abstract: This paper examines the dependence of the household on the micro-credit movement (SGSY) for accessing the credit and generating income. Households’ dependence on the SGSY movement have been analyzed through the household’s dependence on other sources of credit, size of SHG loan, contribution of SHG loan to total loan, size of SHG income, contribution of SHG income to total income. The study also explores the effects of the participation in the micro-credit programme on women’s financial contribution to their family by using the propensity sore matching methods. The data used in this study have been collected through a field survey in the Midnapore district of West Bengal. One of the important conclusions from this part of our study is that the households dependence on the non institutional sources of credit is higher among the households of the members of the control group as compared to that of the treatment group and the micro-credit programme participants financially contribute more to their family support than the non-participants. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1550 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1549 Title: Educational Advancement of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal (1947-2011) Authors: Guha, Nikhiles; Das, Prabir Abstract: The present paper focuses on the educational advancement of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal. The Government has taken up various welfare schemes for the educational advancement of Scheduled Tribes. Literacy rate of STs of West Bengal significantly increased from 6.55 per cent in 1961 to 57.93 per cent in 2011.The literacy rate of ST females is substantially lower than that of ST males. The fact is that even in 2011 more than fifty per cent of tribal women were illiterate. Only 0.6 percent of tribal females in rural West Bengal obtained graduation level education in 2011-12. In rural West Bengal the attendance rate of STs increased from 32.6 per cent in 2004-05 to 47.4 per cent in 2011-12. But the attendance rate of STs has not progressed much. The attendance rate of tribal females was also lower than that of the tribal males. The school drop out rate of ST students was alarmingly high. Specifically, for Classes I-X the drop out rate was more than 80 per cent upto 2010. On the whole, the educational advancement of STs in West Bengal is not satisfactory. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1549 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1548 Title: Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Under-nutrition in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey-III Authors: Sarkar, Debaprasad Abstract: Using household data of National Family Health Survey-III, the present study has explored the important socioeconomic and demographic factors causing under-nutrition among under-five children in India. Descriptive statistics of Z-Score (below -2 SD) indicate that 48.0%, 20.89% and 42.5% of the sample children are found to be stunted, underweight and wasted respectively. The ordered logit analysis shows that the probability of severe under-nourishment is significantly influenced by the age of child, second and higher order birth, mother’s education, mother’s underweight, wealth of the households, household size, and the presence of toilet in the households. The findings of the present study are assumed to have some important policy relevance in the context of future effective human capital formation by way of combating under-nutrition in India. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1548 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z