Socio-economic development of women through watershed development programme

Watershed development programme has been aimed at active involvement of the people in all the stages in the implementation process including fund utilization. The study therefore attempted to assess the extent of development of the watershed women. A sample of 192 watershed women involved in the programme were randomly selected from 24 watersheds covering two blocks each in Sundargarh and Keonjhar districts of Odisha. The findings revealed that the respondents were agreed for the developments in farm activities and technological backstopping in comparison to infrastructural, social and economic developments.