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Volume : I, Issue : V, June - 2011

Micro credit penetration through Self Help Groups: Clues from growth of SHG -Bank Linkage model in India

Parvathi Venkatesh and

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The purpose of this study is to analyse the phenomenal growth of SHGs in India during the last two decades. The choice of the period is crucial as the “empowerment” dimension of finance has been growingly appreciated at global level in recent years.The estimated CAGR for two decades since 1992 to 2010 shows that there is a great scope for bank linkage with SHGs to expedite the process of financial inclusion in India. When CAGR for the two decades is bifurcated, it indicates an interesting trend to infer that the community based Bank Linkage Model has been overshadowed by Commercial based model led by MFI on-lending since the turn of millennium. The study, in addition to the analysis of quantitative expansion, also evaluates certain qualitative issues; the outreach of Linkage model is examined more specifically in terms of savings linked SHGs and credit linked SHGs. Further by throwing light on loans of SHGS outstanding with Banks and Non Performing Assets of bank loans of SHGs, the scalability of sound FI initiative are examined. The empirical evidence is obtained to show that the overall growth of SHGs over the past two decades has an important dimension of women empowerment as more than 70 percent of these groups are concentrated by women.

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Parvathi Venkatesh and , (2011). Micro credit penetration through Self Help Groups: Clues from growth of SHG -Bank Linkage model in India. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/227.pdf

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  1. M.S.Sriram (2010) : “Microfinance: A fairy tale turns into nightmare” Economic and Political Weekly vol.XLV No 43 pp.10 -14
  2. Haron Habib :Bangladesh :crisis of the Grameen Bank : –opinion leader page articles in The Hindu online edition 5th April 2011
  3. http://www.nabard.org/microfinance/shglinkageprogress.asp: Report on Status of Micro Finance in India 09-10
  4. CRISIL inaugural issue (October 2009) ‘India’s Top 50 Microfinance Institutions :A financial awareness initiative of CRISIL’

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