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Women's participation in Self Help Groups has made a tremendous impact on the lifestyle of rural women. They are empowered not only as individuals but also at various levels such as family members, community members, economic status and the society as a whole. They meet with the aim of solving their common problems through self-help and mutual aid. It improves general knowledge, awareness and bargaining power of rural women. It is one of the best technologies to eradicate poverty and improve women entrepreneurship and financial empowerment in India as a whole. The present paper is confined to the economic empowerment of rural women through self-help groups in Kolipara mandal of Guntur district. In the present study simple statistical tools have been adopted based on the analysis of economic empowerment of rural women through self-help groups in selected models of Guntur district, the main findings of this study are that economic empowerment has a positive impact on rural women in Kolipara Mandal of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.