ABSTRACT

In 2010, the Government of India approved the restructuring of its SGSY program into the National Rural Livelihoods Mission.Mysuru district is considered to be an intensive implementation district to implement NRLM Sanjeevini program to reach the unreached women to bring them into the main stream of development through self help group activities.Further putting up their institutions from village to district level to get sustained livelihood support from GOI and other stakeholder agency. Out of 5 intensive blocks of Mysuru district, one block namely T.Narasipura block was selected for the study. The Sanjeevini program is being implemented since 2012 in the block.This study reveal the empowerment process of vulnerable women tohave an access to the department schemes and their participation and how the process has led to their social development.Further the study has revealed that the vulnerable women who have joined are from lowest strata of the society, who are poorest of the poor.Most of them have taken loans individually. Rural poor and vulnerable women are visible in both agricultural and non agricultural sectors.

KEY WORDS :   Vulnerable, Social Development, Self Help Groups( SHG),