Title: Empowerment of Women in India: A Critical Analysis
Abstract: The present paper primarily deals with "empowerment of women" in India and throws light on particularly" agency approach"to measure women empowerment.Divided into three sections, this paper presents the illustration of modern approach to empowerment in Section-I; an overview of the efforts put in India for empowering women in Section-II and analyses the degree of achievement of empowerment by adopting some of the modern indicators in Section-III.This paper hinges fundamentally on secondary sources of data related to India, published by National Family Health Survey, National Sample Survey Organization and some of the research papers.