மகளிர் மேம்பாட்டுக்கென முத்தமிழறிஞர் கலைஞர் கொண்டுவந்த உன்னதமான மகளிர் சுயஉதவிக்குழுக்கள் திட்டத்தின் பயன் இன்று எவ்வாறு சென்றடைந்துள்ளது; வறுமை...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin commended a comprehensive analytical report published by The Hindu that examined the profound socio-economic transformation achieved through the Women Self-Help Groups scheme across Tamil Nadu. Stalin recalled that the groundbreaking women empowerment program was originally pioneered by former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in 1989 in Dharmapuri district, evolving over three decades into an indispensable grassroots framework for microcredit, financial independence, and rural poverty alleviation.

The Chief Minister highlighted that the investigative feature demonstrated how organizing women into cooperative credit clusters liberated millions of vulnerable rural households from oppressive local usury and debt traps. By providing institutional bank credit, collective savings mechanisms, and entrepreneurship training, the scheme enabled women to launch localized enterprises, invest in children higher education, and participate assertively in village panchayat decision-making.

Stalin described the documented success of self-help federations as an eloquent real-world validation of the Dravidian model of governance. He affirmed that his administration remains dedicated to expanding subsidized microcredit, waiving cooperative loans for economically distressed women groups, and strengthening market linkages for rural self-help products across domestic and national commercial platforms.