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Social Empowerment:
Social Recognition Empowerment of women, demands recognition of their rightful place in the decision making process.
Motivation to Exercise control Women should have greater control over the circumstances that influence their lives and free them from shackles imposed by prevailing customs, beliefs and practices.
Participatory Involvement: They should become active members in development process rather than mere beneficiaries of programmes and services.
Integration of Activities: Planners, social welfare agencies and women’s development organisation should provide a networking of support services so that women are freed from some of their gender imposed roles.
Organisation of Women: Women mostly work in group. There is need to organise women’s societies for various activities involving group engagement. A strong and effective women’s cooperative movement is desirable to boost economic upliftment process of rural women and families.
Knowledge Empowerment:
Technology dissemination :- Essential to empowerment is acquisition of knowledge and skills in modern technologies. Compilation and documentation of relevant technologies and a network for technology dissemination is essential.
Drudgery Reduction:- Technologies which are labour saving, drudgery reducing, income generating and productivity increasing should be given wide publicity and their use encouraged through pragmatic extension. The NARS, ICAR and SAUs have developed several agro-technologies. Use of technologies directed at reducing drudgery of farm women must be ensured by dissemination of information.
Skill Training:- Suitable training methods should be evolved and materials developed, keeping in mind the needs of women farmers and their level of education and awareness. Training rural women should form a mandatory component for all agencies and organisations engaged in rural development.
Agribusiness:- Since a majority of women are involved in agriculture as major source of income, they may be tuned towards agribusiness management knowledge and skill to ensure efficient, production and marketing to met the global demands.
Economic Empowerment:-
Poverty Eradication:- Women comprise the majority of the population below the poverty line and are also the primary victims of poverty. Hence the poverty eradication should be given priority by designing suitable programmes, strengthening the existing programmes and convergence of supporting services.
Micro Credit:- Women should have access to financial resources of the family. They should assume larger role in making decisions related to setting up of small cottage and agri-based enterprises.
Collaboration of institutions:- Women should be made direct recipients of technology to provide access to sources of income. To achieve this, collaboration between research institutes and banking sector for implementation of the technologies along with ease in procedure for granting bank loand to rural women, should be facilitated.
Creation of Employment Opportunities:- Entrepreneurship Development Centres should be created to integrate entrepreneurial skill development of women, particularly for building self-confidence and self-awareness in them through income generation.
Infrastructure facilities:- Infrastructural facilities like road, electricity, cool chain, etc. Must be developed in rural areas for increasing entrepreneurial opportunities.
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