Abstract
India’s Self-Help Group (SHG) movement has emerged as the world‘s largest and most successful network of women owned community-based microfinance institution. Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme (SHG-BLP) is a landmark model initiated by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in 1992 to deliver affordable door-step banking services and has largely achieved the stated goals of financial inclusion; it is a homegrown self-help movement with an objective of creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor. Started as a bank outreach programme, SHG-BLP transcended itself into a holistic programme for building financial, social, economic, and of late, technological capital in rural India.
Key words: Microfinance, Women, Bank, Social, Economic, Poverty
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