Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Rishika Negi, Dhriti Solanki, Rajshree Upadhyay and Sakshi Yadav

Abstract:
The Government of India has introduced a number of schemes for the upliftment of women and girls. In this paper a modest attempt has been made to analyze the amount of benefits gained by the rural women from the selected Govt. schemes and problems faced by them to avail those benefits. A sample comprises of 100 respondents was selected randomly from Kalsi block of Dehradun district and interview method was used. Frequency, percentage, mean percent scores and mean weighted scores were used for analysis. Findings reveal that majority of the respondents 69 percent did not gained any benefit from the selected scheme with the overall MPS of 16.05. Regarding the problems faced by the respondents in availing benefits were illiteracy, distance of banks or concerned institutions from village, unavailability of e-mitre in the village, lack of publicity of scheme.