| Rural development comes through people's participation and empowerment. The SHG's is considered as a viable organization of the rural poor particularly women for delivering micro credit in order to undertake entrepreneurial activities. Some of the SHG's managed by the rural poor women successfully dominated how to mobilize and manage thrift and saving activities appraise credit needs enforce financial disciplines, maintain credit linkages with banker and effectively undertake income generating activities. The present paper has been prepared with the objectives, is to identify the significance of women empowerment, to study the role of financial institutions, to know the challenges faced by the groups member after formation of the group and also gives some suggest measures in the light of challenges to improve the SHG's.. |