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Empowering women is crucial to the advancement of society. Socioeconomic factors like money, poverty, education, and skills that lead to better health and work prospects are major determinants of women's status. The ideas of status and power are likewise closely related to these indexes. Women must simultaneously have access to the possibilities and rights granted by the government and society at large, as well as participate in decision-making inside the family and in public life. Status of women's refers to the position of women in society in relation to men. In fact, Inequality actually exists when it comes to women's access to opportunities in the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres as well as to healthcare, education, and financial and material resources. In every part of the world, women are viewed as less valuable than men. Women's inferior status is evident in developing nations not only in the poor pay and lack of recognition for their labour, but also in their restricted access to resources for production and social services like health and education. Therefore, SHG is a creative government notion and scheme that emerges women's growth through improving women's position in developing countries' societies. SHG is an innovative idea and scheme of the govt. through which development of women is emerged. Women who participate in SHGs and other group activities can raise their standard of living. This paper is an attempt to discuss how SHG empowered the rural women in their socio-economic condition.