National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Perception is an activity through which an individual becomes aware of objects around oneself and of events taking place. The perception of the SHG members regarding the economic, social, psychological and political influence of SHGs’ activities had been analyzed with the help of a developed scaling technique. The study was conducted in three talukas of Junagadh district of Saurashtra region on the basis of maximum number of active SHGs in Junagadh district. A multistage purposive and random sampling technique was followed for the study. Ten SHG members from each selected village were selected for the study and thus, total 90 respondents were selected for study. Performance level of SHG was measured against 15 performance indicators. The result of the finding indicated that majority of the members (60.00 per cent) opined that monthly meeting is held in their SHG, while 50 to 75 per cent attendance was maintained by 51.11 per cent of the members, about three fourth of the members (74.45 per cent) conducted meeting by NGO/ Mission Mangalam staff. Whereas, more than two third of members (67.78 per cent) contributed the fund as and when possible; and majority of the SHG members (54.45 per cent) were written records by one of the member. Among the all SHG members records were moderately (not so neatly written) maintained (48.89 per cent), saving book amount matched with the passbook (63.33 per cent), members of their respective group had not transacting with the bank (52.22 per cent), participated in the extension programme conducted inside their village (56.67 per cent), participated in extension programme organized outside the village (53.33 per cent), group had availed revolving fund Rs.25, 000 to Rs. 50,000 (64.45 per cent), regular in repayment of bank loan (56.67 per cent), repayment of internal loan (64.45 per cent), democratic type of decision making patterns (78.89 per cent) and conflicts rarely arise in their group (77.78 per cent).
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