In India women have always retained a very highly regarded position in the society from many years according to past history. In the current socio-economic situation, the concepts of women empowerment and their security always are observed by all the political parties. Without women development, economic development will not take place. For economic empowerment of women, they must have technical knowledge, skill- training and marketing to establishing enterprises for economic stability. Despite making innumerable efforts to the women empowerment, the present socio economic status of women in India is very poor. In this paper we analyze, how economic empowerment of women through SHG programme is achieved and also study the role and performance of SHGs in promoting women empowerment in Raigad District, and Maharashtra.