Abstract

1R.Sreenivasa Rao, 2G.V.Chalam and 3Ratnajirao Chowdary

Self Help Group (SHG) movement in Andhra Pradesh (Tammi Raju, 2011) should be reoriented towards training women for starting micro-enterprises by providing prompt and needed amount of loans. In this era of globalization, there is a wide scope for encouraging micro-enterprises to manufacture machine tools, components of TV, radio, watches, cosmetics and even microchips of the computers and other electronic goods. Such cottage industries exist and flourish in China, Korea and Singapore. Indian women can create history if they are helped to rise to the occasion for more productive jobs and absorb surplus labour in the rural areas. This is the real women empowerment, which is not impossible.