Self-Help Group is a small voluntary association of poor people preferably from the same socioeconomic back drop. The micro-credit given to them makes them enterprising; it can be all women group, all men group or even a mixed group. However, it has been the experience that women's groups perform better in all the important activities of SHGs. Self-Help groups have been getting more importance for work with people and community, for common purpose and solving the problems which are related

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... l-economical, and to self-reliance, selfesteem, self-production, joint responsibility, self-determination by mobilizing internal indigenous resources of the person the group. The present paper highlights socioeconomic empowerment of women in kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh.