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Empowering women, particularly impoverished women from backward communities living in backward regions, is seen as a critical component of any emerging economy's economic progress. It is obvious that involvement in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) is higher among economically disadvantaged women. Backward areas in India's rural West Bengal might be an essential instrument for improving their socioeconomic position. This technique will undoubtedly equip children to make sound socioeconomic decisions both within and outside of the home. Women's empowerment is a frequently debated concept around the world. Women can be empowered through economic independence, improved well-being, and social and political progress, according to the literature. This can be accomplished by providing them with access to savings and credit, which encourages them to play a larger economic role in decision-making, improves household welfare, and strengthens women's skills, mobility, knowledge, and support networks. "Self Help Groups" emerged as an empowerment and financial model geared specifically at mobilizing women in rural regions to address the problem of poverty and enable the community to enhance its quality of life. The paper's major goal is to shed light on self-help groups operating in Purbasthali One, Purbasthali Two, Kalna Block I, Kalna Block II, Ausgram One, Ausgram Two, Memari One, Memari Two, Katwa One, Katwa Two, Purba Bardhamman District, West Bengal's rural setting. Its goal is to determine whether these organizations empower women in this district or whether skill development, human resource development and marketing development have an impact on self-help groups.