Self Help Groups (SHG)

Self-Help Groups are prime platform for social mobilization of women and creating awareness about legal and political rights.  Mahan Seva Sansthan promotes formation and execution of SHGs to incorporate educational and awareness programmes. SHGs help women to know themselves and their children and understand the society as a whole. SHGs enables education and exposure of women on the issues concerning them, it also enables inter-loaning and saving.

SHG members organize and participate in monthly meetings and discuss about health, sanitation and well being of pregnant mothers and child of 0-6 years, livelihood generation through agricultural products and forest products. Innovative process were introduced using posters, songs, cards, books and experience sharing and lecture methods.
Presently 99 Self Help Groups (SHG) are successfully running independently, they maintain their own records and undertake all respective dealings. SHGs have received revolving funds and loans from Banks without any interest, also the subsidies from Government Departments.
Members of SHGs are participating in the development activities of village such as spreading awareness among women about benefits of institutional deliveries, girl’s education, immunization etc. Many groups introduced dairy and goatry as livelihood and some groups got training on Bangles making.