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Microfinance is emerging as a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation in the new economy. In India, Microfinance scene is dominated be Self-Help Group (SHGs)-Bank Linkage Programme as a cost effective mechanism for providing financial services to the Unreached Poor which hass been successful not only in meeting financial needs of the rural poor women but also strengthen collective self-help capacities of the poor, leading to their empowerment. Rapid progress in SHG formation has now turned into an empowerment movement among women across the country. Economic empowerment results in women's ability to make decisions, increased self confidence, better status in society, role in household etc. Microfinance is necessary to overcome exploitation, create confidence for economic self reliance of the rural poor, particularly among rural women who are mostly invisible in the social structure. About the Author Arpita Sharma is a Doctoral Research Scholar in Department of Agricultural Communication, G.B.P.U.A. & T. Pantnagar, [Uttarakhand], India. She had got Teaching Assistantship during her M.Sc. Programme and UGC-JRF fellowship in Ph.D. She had published Review and Research papers in different Mass Communication Journals. She had presented papers in National and International seminars. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Women Empowerment in India: An Introduction Poverty Alleviation through Self-Help Group Feminism in Agriculture Microfinance: An Avenue for Empowerment of Women Micro-Finance: A Path of Economic Empowerment of Rural Women Institutional Credit Flow for Farm Sector: Share and Pattern of Investment Credit in Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand A Study on Organizational Design of State Bank of India Pantnagar Ensuring Better Access to Credit in Rural India The Incredible Study of Lijjat Papad Women in Fisheries Sector and Entrepreneurship Development Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Development Banking in India