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The paper here is concerned with an interrogation of a particular development program from the
perspective of gender analysis. At recent stage of history self-help promotion has been initiated and
hence human aspects have been emphasized to be more important in comparison to economic or
technical aspects. This is an approach in which the yardstick of development is the development of
people at the bottom of the society and at this level the stress is much more on women than men. Self-
help groups through their activities directed straight towards the mass can play a significant role in
improving the socio-economic status of rural women through an improvement in their empowerment
and provision of better living condition for them and a redistributive policy of such a kind is always
expected to do better in terms of promotion of gender justice. My specific research interest is to
interrogate the success of a self-help group activity from the standpoint of improvement in capabilities.


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