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 The paper here is concerned with an interrogation of a particular development program from the perspective of gender analysis. At recent stage of history self-help promotion has been initiated and hence human aspects have been emphasized to be more important in comparison to economic or technical aspects. This is an approach in which the yardstick of development is the development of people at the bottom of the society and at this level the stress is much more on women than men. Selfhelp groups through their activities directed straight towards the mass can play a significant role in improving the socio-economic status of rural women through an improvement in their empowerment and provision of better living condition for them and a redistributive policy of such a kind is always expected to do better in terms of promotion of gender justice. My specific research interest is to interrogate the success of a self-help group activity from the standpoint of improvement in capabilities.   5HIHUHQFHV  1. Addabbo, T, Di Tommaso M.L., Facchinetti, G. (2004) “To what extent Fuzzy set theory and Structural equation modelling can measure functionings? An application to child well-being”. 2. Addabbo, T, Lanzi, D, Picchio, A (2004) “On Sustainable Human Development: Gender Auditing in a Capability Approach”. 3rd International Conference on the Capability Approach “From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Freedom”, Pavia, Italy. 3. Brandolini, A, D’Alessio, G (1998) “Measuring Well-Being in the Functioning Space”. Unpublished paper. Rome: Banca d’Italia. 4. Clark D.A.(2005) “The Capability Approach : Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances” GPRG-WPS-032 Global Poverty Research Group.http:/ / gprg.org/ 5. Comim, Flavio (2001) “Operationalizing Sen’s Capability Approach” Paper prepared for the conference Justice and Poverty: examining Sen’s Capability Approach, Cambridge June 2001. 6. Daubon, R.E., Saunders, H.H. (2002) “Operationalizing Social Capital : A Strategy to Enhance Communities’ Capacity to Concert” International Studies Pespectives (2002) 3, 176-191. 



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