The emergence of SHGs has served as a weapon to safeguard the interests of those vulnerable and underprivileged women, which enables them to change their lifestyle, thus mitigating their sufferings to a considerable extent. The researcher undertook the present study with the main objective to study the empowerment of women through SHGs with special reference to Khowang Block of Dibrugarh District, Assam. The present study is based on both primary and secondary sources of data. Multistage random sampling method was used to select the sample respondents. The researcher selected 44 SHGs constituting of 88 respondents as the Sample for the present study. Statistical tools like the F-test were employed to draw the inferences from the hypotheses formulated, and the five-point Likert scaling technique was used to measure the attitude of WSHGs.

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