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Women constitute half of the human society. A woman plays several roles like mother, wife, sister, and daughter. Women empowerment means emancipation of women from the brutal grips of social, economic, political, caste and gender-based discrimination. It means granting women the freedom to make life choices. Since independence, in India various initiatives have been undertaken for bringing improvement to the socio-economic condition and status of women. Panchayati Raj Institutions provide the opportunity to the rural masses to involve themselves at grass-root level to achieve national challenges. The73rd Constitution amendment act has made an effort to give some special power to women in all the three tiers of Panchayati Raj. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse women empowerment through Panchayati Raj system in Assam. Moreover attention has also been given on increasing violence against women in our society. So it becomes necessary to find out the problems of our society regarding women and give valuable suggestions to deal with them. Women are empowered through women emancipation movement, education, communication, media, political parties and general awakening. The Panchayati Raj system of empowerment is one of the most important efforts made for women empowerment. But some factors like illiteracy, ignorance etc. create obstacles in the way towards the empowerment of women.

Women, empowerment, Panchayati Raj System,