EMPOWERMENT OF FISHER-FOLK IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT

ABSTRACT

The main aim of the study is to study the socio-cultural empowerment of fisher-folk and the economic empowerment of fisher-folk in Kanyakumari district. Primary data has been used in this paper. Primary data were collected on the basis of questionnaire prepared on the light of the objectives of the study. The sizes of the samples are 150 fisher-folk. These sample respondents were selected by taking 30 from five villages of the study area. These samples were selected purposively. The questionnaire was designed with two main characteristics viz., open ended and close ended according to the nature of information. Collected data were analyzed through the use of various statistical tools like ANOVA. The data were analyzed in order to make the study more informative and useful to the readers. It is found that the important socio-cultural empowerment among the fisher-folk are in the age group of 20 to 30 years are attending cultural programmes and exercising the voting rights. Among the fisher-folk are in the age group of above 50 years, the important socio-cultural empowerment are extending the support for social causes and participation in the awareness programmes to eradicate anti social activities. Age wise there is a significant difference in the socio-cultural empowerment are identified in the case of participation in social programmes, attending social functions, exercising the voting rights and attending cultural programmes