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ABSTRACT: Men and women both are integral part of a society. We cannot think about development of a society without improvement of the societal status of women. For the improving societal status of women, it needs economic empowerment. The economic empowerment of women ensure- provision of better training, employment and income generation activities with the ultimate objective of making all women economically independent and self reliant, which depends on proper education. This is not only true that education is an entry point of various opportunities but also educational achievement of women helps her being self-confident in all spheres of activities of a society, including full participation on the basis of equality in the decision-making process to access power of social and economic aspects of society. Thus, a proper educational achievement makes a woman economically empowered woman with full potential. After independence of India, several legislations are in force for empowering women with better education. In spite of those legislations, educational status of women has challenged for many reasons. Gender inequalities are still prevailing in education, nutrition etc. These challenges prevent socio-economic empowerment of women in India. This paper is an attempt to study the present societal status of women in the study area and find out key factors which will be focused to bring out economically empowered women and their solutions.