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`Women faring well in SHG movement'

Special Correspondent

`About 76 per cent of SHG members in five districts are women'

MANGALORE: About 76 per cent of the members of self-help groups in five districts of the State are women, State co-operative Apex Bank chairman M.N. Rajendra Kumar has said.

He was presiding over the launch of share capital mobilisation for the newly launched Navodaya Multipurpose Souharda Cooperative Society Limited here on Thursday.

Mr. Kumar said the State had 20,532 Navodaya Self-Help Groups in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Mysore and Dharwad districts. Out of the total membership of 1,83,000, 1,37,000 were women.

As many as 16,594 Navodaya groups were operating in Dakshina Kannada alone. This was an indication that women were progressive and needed help and assistance only to some extent to become economically independent, he said.

The revolution in the cooperative sector, particularly regarding self-help groups, in Dakshina Kannada district had kindled hope among those in the rural and backward areas in other districts, including Mysore, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Shimoga and Uttara Kannada.

Mr. Kumar thanked the "dharmadhikari" of Shrikshetra Dharmasthala for encouraging the cooperatives to take up the cause of self-help groups under the Navodaya scheme.

Editor of Kannada weekly Taranga Sandhya S. Pai, who inaugurated the drive, said that participation of women in many socio-economic movements in the past had made them highly successful. More organisations should come forward to help women's participation in such movements, she added. Swamiji of Odiyur Math Gurudevananda gave the benedictions.

The Government had given the management of Navodaya Souharda Society Limited a target of Rs. 10 lakh. But on the first day itself, it had set a record by garnering a share capital of Rs. 1.1 crore, she said.

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