Mukti Increases Members in SHG to Spread across Women Empowerment

Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social, political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. SHGs are “membership-based organizations” whose members provide each other with mutual support while attempting to achieve individual objectives through access to savings and loans and linkages to banks as well as collective objectives through community action. Each SHG typically consists of 10–12 poor women from similar socio-economic backgrounds who live near each other, meet regularly, and save small amounts of money in a common account.

 

However, these groups are increasingly being leveraged by Mukti as a platform for reaching communities to strengthen rural livelihoods, improve women’s empowerment and agency, increase demand for – and accountability of – public entitlements, and deliver information on health and nutrition.

Old members of Mukti women SHG –

Gram Panchayat	Block	Number of SHG	Number of Members
Purba Sridharpur	Mathurapur II	215	2150
Raidighi I	Mathurapur II	135	1350
Raidighi II	Mathurapur II	184	1840
Radhakantapur	Mathurapur II	110	1100
Sonatikari	Jaynagar II	112	1120
Kultali	Kultali	156	1560
Herembogopalpur	Patharpratima	135	1350
G-Plot	Patharpratima	47	470
8 GPs	4 Blocks	1094 Groups	10940 Members

New members of Mukti women SHG –

Gram Panchayat	Block	Number of SHG	Number of Members
Sridharnagar	Patharpratima	110	1100
Purnachandrapur	Patharpratima	320	3200
Krishnachandrapur	Mathurapur I	579	5790
3 GPs	2 Blocks	1009 Groups	10090 Members

 

At present Mukti has 2103 SHGs with 21030 team members.

They have started taking loan from banks and are engaged in the Mukti nurseries. In near future Mukti has plan to increase the number of women SHG in Sunderban.