MICROFINANCE THROUGH SELF HELP GROUPS SHGS AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBAL COMMUNITIES A CASE STUDY OF LAKHIMPUR DISTRICT OF ASSAM

Abstract

Economic development and development of tribal community are newlinecomplementary to each other. It is to be reiterated that a planned sustainable development newlineis not possible until the entire society is free from syndrome of paucity of funds that are newlineallocated for the development of unprivileged group, such as the tribal communities. Thus newlineavailability of finance is necessary to the needy people to break the vicious circle of newlinepoverty so that the tribal people can contribute a lot towards the economic development of a nation. newline