Empowering Women for Sustainable Beel Fisheries in Assam

Abstract

For evaluating sustainable development in today's scenario, empowerment of target community is imperative just to take their own decision and to know the pattern of equitable distribution of benefit derived from any development programme like fisheries or aquaculture in order to achieve a quality life. The findings of the study revealed that woman empowerment was positively and significantly associated with the knowledge level of beel users at 1% level of probability. So it can be said that empowerment helps one to improve his or her living standard. Hence empowering the women to take decision on different fisheries and aquaculture activities is regarded as one of the most important inputs for sustainable development of beel fisheries.