A Study on Personal Demographic Traits of Self-help Group Members (SHG) under National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in Lakhimpur Kheri District of Uttar Pradesh, India

The study was conducted in Nighasan and Pasgawan block of Lakhimpur kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, by personal interview with 100 respondents; They were selected through proportionate random sampling technique from two selected gram panchayat and 10 SHGs from each gram panchayat. Total 20 SHGs (each block total fifty respondents) were selected randomly. The results of the study show that the majority of the Self Help Group Members were in their middle age (61.00%), other backward caste (41.00%), literates (90.00%) and those who completed intermediate education (38.00%), small family size (63.00%), marginal farmers (56.00%), engaged in farming (54.00%), married (80.00%), low annual income (63.00%), participants in one organization (60.00%), medium level of risk orientation (53.00%), medium level of scientific orientation (59.00%), with formal sources in bank officials/community resource persons ranked Ist, informal sources in family ranked Ist , and mass media exposer in T.V. ranked Ist.