Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in India G2C CASE STUDY 45 SHGs are formed and supported by government agencies or NGOs and benefit their members economically and socially. The SHG movement is credit linked; it is primar- ily aimed at addressing the needs for capacity building of rural women by organizing them into homogenous support groups that pool their resources to engage in July 2011 / www.egovonline.net / egov