‘A SPECIAL GRAM SABHA ON WOMEN ISSUES ON ANY DAY OF OCTOBER 2012”

[vinod pandey]

Dear all,

 

Ministry of Panchayati Raj has issued an important notification in public (mainly for the Gram Panchayat and the concerned community) to conduct ‘A SPECIAL GRAM SABHA ON WOMEN ISSUES ON ANY DAY OF OCTOBER 2012” and it is mandatory for all the panchayat.  The purpose of this special gram sabha is  mailnly to address concerns of girls and women in relation with:

 

• Public and domestic harashment
• Early motherhood
• Inadequate provision of food and medical care
• Female foeticide
• Aanganwadi  center monitoring committee
• Sex discrimination

 

What we can do?

Through the CBOs formed under various projects initiative for such actions can be taken in the project villages and gram panchayat. It  would be  avalue addition in terms of strengthening gender prospective amongst the community and the PRI system.

 

Please find detailed notice froim minitstry of Panchayati Raj. In Gumla ( Jharkhand) such initiative has already announced (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-29/ranchi/34162997_1_gram-sabha-pradhans-revenue-villages) 

 

For more on this you can log on to www.haritprayas.blogspot.com  or www.panchayat.nic.in

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s take a step to bring women issues through gram sabha!

Let’s bring out the change!         

 

Regards

Vinod Pandey 

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[shipra gupta]

Dear Vinod ,

It is good initiative by the government to promote the concerns of women and it would also motivate women to participate in gramsabha procedures. Role of NGOs could not only be limited up to promotion of such initiatives only through CBOs, NGOs could also generate awareness camp , rallies and meetings with the community to to be the part of such special gramsabha, an interface of community and PRI member could also be supportive in this regard.

I am confident that we all from development sector would able to facilitate this initiative in more broader form.

Shipra

WWF-India

 

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[kumar Ratan]

Hi,

Its indeed a very good measure taken by GoI in order to make PRIs more sensitive towards women issues in rural India. The meeting of Gram Sabha must take place and the concerned people must ensure that the Gram Sabha do discuss the theme.

What I have observed that there is lacunae in the provision of PRIs' Gram Sabha meeting. There is provision of 'quorum', fixed for GS (gram sabha) meeting. If the quorum is not fulfilled, the Head of panchayat will fix another date for GS meeting, in which minimum quorum is not required. So general malpractice is to get 1st GS scheduled meeting cancelled and 2nd time, when quorum is not compulsory, few handful people conduct/participate in the GS meeting for the sake of maintaining documents.

So, the stakeholders involved in ensuring the GS meeting on women issues should take care of this.

regards,

kumar ratan.   

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