Abstract: The present paper is focused on political participation and the political consciousness of SHG women. Considering the issues of women empowerment is assumed as one of the determinants of Political participation with objective to analyse the socio-economic factors of Political participation. The study embodied a sizeable primary data and using logistic regression analyses. Age, education, family size, caste, working status, saving, income, expenditure and total assets are independent variables while position held or not is considered as dependent variable to examine the political participation in rural, tribal and total sample respondents. The analysis reveals in rural area, age, education, BC and SC castes, income, expenditure and total assets variables have more impact than other variables on political participation. In tribal area, saving, income, expenditure and total assets have more impact than other variables on political participation.
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