A study on role performance of women leaders (Sarpanchs) towards rural development in Chhattisgarh, India

Abstract

The study was carried in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh state in year 215-16. Out of 645 panchayat, 336 were having women sarpanchs. From those 336 panchayat, one-third panchayat i.e. 112(56 tribal and 56 non- tribal) were selected randomly for data collection. In correlation analysis, the finding revealed that out of 15 independent variables, 11 variables i.e. age, education, experience in politics, material possession, annual income, ownership of assets, source of information, cosmopoliteness, participation in extension activities, participation in training and awareness about programmes/activities were found significantly correlated with role performance of tribal and non- tribal women sarpanchs at 0.01 and 0.05 level of probability. In multiple regression, 6 variables i.e. age, ownership of assets, sources of information, participation in extension activities, participation in training and awareness about programmes/activities had significant contribution in the role performance of tribal and non- tribal women sarpanchs. Remaining 9 variables did not show any significant contribution in role performance of the respondents. However, all the 15 variables fitted in the model, showed 49.8 per cent contribution in the role performance of the respondents.