Attitude of the women members towards self help group (SHGs) & its activities Nidhi1, Kumawat Pushpa1, Bhimawat B. S.2 1Subject Matter Specialist, Programme Assistant at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Athiyasan, Nagaur 2Former Dean and Professor at COA, Mandore, Jodhpur Online published on 19 April, 2024. Abstract According to NABARD- Self Help Group (SHG) is a small, economically homogenous and affinity group of rural poor, voluntarily formed to save and mutually agree to contribute in a common fund to be lent to its members as per group decision for their socio-economic development. In India, many SHGs are 'linked' to banks for the delivery of micro-credit. Microcredit in common parlance refers to small loans that help the poor women to meet their immediate credit needs. The most important functions of a Self-Help Groups are to encourage and motivate its members for saving, to persuade them to make a collective plan for generation of additional income and to act as a conduit for formal banking services to reach them. In order to realize the objective of the study, 180 SHG women members were selected from 18 villages of the 6 talukas of Junagadh and Rajkot districts of Saurashtra region by employing multistage, purposive and random sampling technique. In order to measure the attitude of the SHG members, the attitude scale was developed and it was measured by using scale product method. Final scale consists of 28 statements from total 44 statements. The scale was administrated to the SHG members to measure attitude toward SHG & its activities.The result showed that 27.78 per cent of the respondents had medium level of the attitude towards Self Help Groups and its activities, followed by 26.67 per cent of the respondents had high level and 16.67 per cent of the respondents had very high level of the attitude toward SHG & its activities, respectively. Whereas, 21.66 per cent of the respondents had low level of the attitude toward SHG & its activities. Top Keywords Attitude, Shgs, Women members etc. Top |