Vol. 5, Issue 8, Part D (2019)

Abstract
To get an idea about the income generation activities of rural women members under JEEViKA, this study was carried out in July 2019 at Morwagadh village, Morwa block and also at Gaupur village of Ujiarpur block, Samastipur district, Bihar. Regarding JEEViKA, it may be mentioned that in 2006, the Bihar government requested the World Bank’s assistance for the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project. The Project aimed to “enhance the social and economic empowerment of the rural poor in Bihar”, by bringing women from poor rural households into self-help groups and increasing their incomes. The Government of Bihar intended to halve its below poverty-line population by 2015. To contribute to this objective, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project— popularly known as JEEViKA—was designed and launched which still is continuing.