Women empowerment through entrepreneurial activities: a self help group approach in andaman islands

Abstract

Development one of the most widely used term in the contemporary newlineworld means different things to different people In general terms newlinedevelopment means removal of poverty improvement of productivity and newlineconsequently raising the quality of life through better education health and newlinenutritional status backed by adequate purchasing power A society will be newlinedeveloped if it has abolished mass poverty Sherman and Kemal 1977 newlineBroadly speaking development would imply that majority of people have their newlinesurvival needs met food clothing and shelter and they are able to enjoy newlineincreasingly higher levels of living in terms of education health newlinecommunication etc Thus any strategy of economic development policy has newlineto necessarily create and provide opportunities for majority of the people to newlinesatisfy both their material and nonmaterial wants and also bring about a newlinesocioeconomic transformation newline