The basic purpose of conducting this study is to trace out the impact of income generating activities on women empowerment and their decision making abilities. This paper attempts to figure out that how and in which manner it works on empowering rural household women. A total of 500 respondents have been surveyed from ten selected villages in National Capital Region. We used random sampling and multi-stage random sampling while selecting the villages and drawing the samples from it. Samples have been drawn on the basis of different income class groups. Various income groups were classified and for that purpose stratified random sampling has also been used. For the purpose of analyzing the data and drawing the conclusions different statistical tools such as Z test and Chi square test have been employed to find out the impact of income generating activities on women empowerment and their decision making abilities. In this paper every possible effort has been made to conclude the relationship between these variables so as to enhancing the reliability and validity of the study. The findings of this paper find that women empowerment has been largely influenced by the income generating activities. 

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Keywords: Income Generating Activities, Women Empowerment, National Capital Region, t-test, z-test.