 |
The women of West Bengal’s Purulia district have been striding towards change for the last few years now, transforming the livelihood status and economic condition of hundreds of families. Aided by Pradan, a non-profit working on creating sustainable livelihood in the region, it’s a women-powered Self-Help Group (SHG) revolution that has acted as the catalyst. Today, for instance, women [...]
Uma Chakravarti, historian, author and social activist, taught history at Miranda House, University of Delhi, for four decades. She is now an independent researcher and a women’s rights and democratic rights activist, based in Delhi. A life-long engagement with history has led her to write several important books and to make her first film, ‘A Quiet Little Entry’. In this [...]
There is a small, nondescript village in Bihar that has found a great way to tackle declining sex ratios, global warming and climate change, all in one go. Theirs is a solution that incorporates tradition as well as knowledge of farming and it has been in practice for decades now. Generally, the flood-ravaged districts of easternBiharpresent a scenario of abject [...]
It’s that time of the year when everyone in northIndiais gearing up for the severe summer. For some, it’s the season to stay indoors and gorge on mangoes, but for others, particularly Bundelkhand’s Sahariya tribal women like Sunita and Dhiru, it signifies only one thing: Long days and sleepless nights chasing after precious water. Being Sahariya women, poverty and discrimination [...]
Pamela Philipose has been both an observer of, and a participant in, the women’s movement from the head days of the late Seventies, when outrage over the Mathura rape case coalesced into social activism. Writing on women – as a media professional and as a woman – has been a life-altering experience for her; in many senses the story came [...]
Twenty years after the UN conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which recognised that the world needs to manage its water resources in a sustainable manner, and 10 years after the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights iterated that “the disproportionate burden women bear in the collection of water should be alleviated”, [...]
There are some young, budding filmmakers in Uttar Pradesh who are capturing poignant personal stories and social realities on film. No, they are not students of some fancy film school; they are teenaged girls, who, until a few months back, had never held a camera in their hands; whose world revolved around their modest home and school; and who, as [...]
The district of Dindori is perched almost on the border that Madhya Pradesh shares with Chhattisgarh and is remote by any standards. It is largely tribal and also extremely poor. So when a group of women located in Dindori names their federation after the famous local woman icon, Rani Durgavati, who is said to have courageously defended herkingdomofGadha– one of [...]
In post-colonialSri Lankawomen have reached the top in the popular professions of medicine, engineering, banking and in the private sector. While this encouraging trend has spread to family-owned business houses and even small-scale enterprises in the rural areas, the one profession where women have yet to enjoy that kind of equality and success is the media. The numbers of women [...]
It was ironical that Purulia district often found itself on the West Bengal government’s ‘drought-hit’ list when the average rainfall here is 1100mm-1500mm. The failure to conserve water as well as poor agricultural practices meant that despite back-breaking labour in the fields, farmers could only achieve six months’ food sufficiency. Today, however, all that is changing thanks to a water [...]
It’s still dark when Akhtari Begum, 45, leaves her shanty in rural Kalipara Samsan area of Budge Budge in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. She wakes up at 3 am every day, freshens up and then walks to the auto stand 15 minutes away carrying a heavy load of 30-40 coconuts. After an auto ride of another 15-20 [...]
Each day poses new threats and new questions for Jahan Ara, 33: Whether to eat food cooked besides the rolling sewage near her home or stay hungry and avoid disease? Whether to save money for a proper toilet or feed her children or send them to school? Her daily routine begins by gingerly walking over a narrow bamboo bridge to [...]
Vasanth Kannabiran has been an active member of the women’s movement in India for the last three decades. She has worked on issues of communal harmony and peace, and moved on to work in the area of gender and development. Originally a teacher of English, her involvement in development concerns arose as a result of her feminist praxis… A founding [...]
Think Kerala, think green landscapes and pristine backwaters; think a society living in communal harmony, with over 90 per cent literacy, an above-average health care system, reduced fertility rate, lowest rate of infant mortality and the longest life span. Blessed with nature’s bounty and the best social development indices in India, Kerala truly seems to be God’s Own Country. In [...]
These women just cannot take injustice and discrimination lying down; they are ever ready to reach out to the poor, the powerless, those who are unable to stand up for themselves. They are gutsy and can clearly see through the divisive politics at work in society today. Meet the seven women, who have stood tall alongside the numerous voiceless women [...]
Farida (name changed) remembers feeling very scared to go to school, but was not sure why. Since she was five, she had a speech therapist at school who used to work to “improve” her speech. Years later, Farida remembers that it was the way he used to touch her throat – an integral part of speech therapy – that would [...]
On March 22, 2012, a Resolution was tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) urging Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee (LLRC) and asking its government to provide a viable plan towards this end. The LLRC recommendations have covered many issues, including the need for further investigations into violations committed during [...]
Several schemes have been launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development for empowerment of women. The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG), or Sabla, is a centrally sponsored scheme aimed at all-round development of adolescent girls of 11-18 years. The focus is all out-of-school adolescent girls. It aims at making them ‘self-reliant’ by improving their health and nutrition [...]
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has initiated a training programme for participation of women in higher education institutions under the scheme of “Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education”. Training of Trainers workshops and Sensitization/Awareness/Motivation workshops under this scheme have been organized by the various universities & colleges during XIth Plan to ensure gender equality and to enhance the [...]
The Finance Minister Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, in the Economic Survey 2011-12, tabled in the Lok Sabha today has outlined some major advancement in the empowerment of women over the years. They are outlined below: Women & Education: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has had positive outcomes for girl child education leading to an increase in the gender parity index( GPI) [...]
|
|||
 |
|||
  
|
|||
|
|
2012 | India Current Affairs. A Leading Source of Online Information on India. Disclaimer: We have taken every care to see that copyrighted material (content or images) is not included in this website. Still if there is any such inclusion of copyrighted material by accident or by mistake, the concerned authorized copyright holders may intimate at knhyderabad@gmail.com. On receipt of which we assure that we would remove that material if it is proved to be breach of copyright. |
Government
