All beneficiary respondents are members of SHGs, but membership of the non-beneficiary respondents in social organizationswas hardly 5-10%. This might be due to motivation by the MPOWER project staff through NGOs to associate with local level organizations so as to get benefits of the on-going development schemes of the Government whether Centre or State sponsored.Agriculture extension functionaries including facilitators from FNGOs and community cadres established perfect linkage with beneficiary respondents compared to non-beneficiary respondents in the blocks that were surveyed.Majority of...