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for Best Reporting on Women and Panchayati RajThe 10th Sarojini Naidu Prize

Past Winners

2009 | Ronald Anil Fernandes, Amarpal Singh Verma, G. Meenakshi, Vijay Chormare (Special Jury Citation)

2008 | Mr Radheshyam Jhadav, Mr Vibhash Kumar Jha, Mr Pon. Dhanasekaran, Mr. Akhand (Special Jury Citation)

2007 | Ms Teresa Rehman, Mr Bhanwar Meghwanshi Mr VR Jyothish Kumar

2006 | Mr Syed Zarir Hussain, Dr Kavindra Narain Srivastava Mr Hemanta Barman, Mr Shuriah Niazi (Special Jury Citation)

2005 | Mr. Bharat Dogra, Ms Geetha Ilangovan, Ms Vimal Gupta Mr. Tashi Morup (Special Jury Citation)

2004 | Dr. Roopa Manglani, Ms Sushmita Malviya, Mr Arun Ram

2003 | Ms Maitreyi Pushpa, Mr Joaquim Fernandes Mr Dileep Chandan

2002 | Ms Mamta Jaitly, Mr Deepeak Tiwari

2001 | Mr. Rajendra Bandhu, Ms Vasavi, Mr Yogesh Vajpeyi Mr KPM Basheer, Ms KR Mangala, Mr Soumen Dutta

Celebrating 10 years of the sarojini naidu prize 4

Message from Mary Ellen McNish 6

Message from Rita Sarin 7

The Jury 8

The Winners 10

english: Preethi Nagaraj 12

From Homeless Tribal to GP Chief 13

hindi: Rumni Ghosh 15

Beware, here lives Amaso Bai

hindi – in the original 16

english translation 18

other regional languages: Bornali Boruah 20

Panchayati Raj brings change amidst two leaves and a bud

assamese – in the original 21

english translation 25

Contents

Celebrating 10 years of the Sarojini Naidu Prize

T his year Sarojini Naidu Prize turns ten. The Prize instituted by The Hunger Project India in 2000, was first awarded in 2001 to mark the beginning of a partnership with the print media.

Given annually ‘For Best Reporting on Women and Panchayati Raj’, it was launched to promote and encourage sustained reporting in the media on the issue of women’s political participation in Panchayats and foster an environment of positive opinion that supports their leadership.

A decade has passed since the launch of the Prize. History bears testimony to the critical role women representatives in Gram Panchayats have played in the development of their villages. And at every step the media has shown its support by archiving the achievements of the elected women representatives in the Indian Press, breaking myths, providing information, and encouraging the elected women on their chosen path. Media’s solidarity has helped to change the cynical and patriarchal mindset of the Indian public with regard to women’s representation in Panchayati Raj Institutions.

There is much to celebrate. Today, Sarojini Naidu Prize is recognized as a prestigious award by journalists in the print media. The only award of its kind in India and South Asia, Sarojini Naidu Prize has grown from strength to strength. Each year has been more successful than the previous with regard to the quality of the articles, the issues they have raised, the sensitization of the journalists, the awakening and involvement of the policy makers and the government, the solidarity shown by the civil society and the country wide publicity of women’s achievements. Articles are received from states which are not under THP’s operational area, suggesting wide spread prominence the Prize has brought to the issue of Women’s leadership in Panchayati Raj.

Let us also celebrate the progress that has been made in women’s participation in political decision making. In the last ten years, women’s role in Panchayati Raj has moved beyond reservation to participation and leadership. The 2010 Gram Panchayat election in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan is witness to their energy,

charisma, knowledge and leadership. Active in all political processes, elected women are keen to lay the foundation of a clean, transparent, accountable, democratic, inclusive and violence free institution of local self governance. Theirs will be a legacy that will be emulated by the youth of the next decade and transform India in the years to come.

Please join us in celebrating ten years of partnership with the elected women leaders, mainstream and development newspapers and magazines, and last but not the least - journalists in the print media who have been our friends and supporters in good times and bad. The Hunger Project India is honoured to have partnered with you all.

The Hunger Project India Team October 2010

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Message from Mary Ellen McNishPresident and CEO of The Hunger Project

O n behalf of all my colleagues in The Hunger Project world-wide, it is my honour to congratulate the winners of this year’s Sarojini Naidu Prize and express my appreciation

to the thousands of Indian journalists who have put the spotlight on the remarkable achievements of Elected Women Panchayat Representatives.

For ten years, India’s journalists have risen to the challenge of the Sarojini Naidu Prize, and the result has been a sea change in public attitudes not only in India but around the world. A decade ago the public dismissed the reservation of women’s seats as meaningless – calling women leaders mere rubber stamps of behind-the-scenes patriarchs. Today, the impact of women’s leadership is so undeniable that a 50% reservation is being implemented, and scholars worldwide point to India’s Elected Women Representatives as a model to be emulated.

There is clearly much still to do in India and elsewhere before rural women can fully enjoy their fundamental human rights. On this 10th anniversary of this Prize, we must all recommit ourselves to this quest for dignity. For with each step forward towards gender equality, humanity makes greater progress in human development, economic revitalisation and social justice for everyone.

We look forward to honouring the laureates here in New York and – through them – celebrating all the progress being achieved in India today.

Celebrating 10 years of Recognising the Best Reporting on Women and Panchayati Raj 7

Message from Rita SarinVice President and Country Director-The Hunger Project India

T his is a special year for The Hunger Project in celebrating the Sarojini Naidu Prize as it enters the tenth year of its journey. The Hunger Project’s strategy to influence public

opinion in creating a strong public and political will in partnership with the print media has seen 2122 entries in its 10th year. A record of sorts when I think back to the 166 entries we received in the first year. The increase in the number of entries does signify the growing popularity of the prize. But to me, it signifies a bigger change. To me it is symbolic of the awareness of the phenomenal work being done by the Elected Women Representatives in the Panchayats. It is symbolic of the fact that the cynical view about women leaders is changing, that there is recognition about the path-breaking work they do.

I must thank the Indian Print Media in its partnership with THP to wake the country up to the transformative leadership of over a million Elected Women Representatives to the panchayats in the villages of India. It is the journalists, who have captured their journey from being labelled as mere proxy candidates to becoming accountable political leaders holding public offices. This effort by the print media has helped in shattering myths and stagnating beliefs to make the vision of local democracy with equal participation of women a reality at the grassroots. The last decade has been rewarding in terms of visibility for the elected women leaders. I wish and hope that the next decade will see greater acceptance of women’s leadership.

I would like to congratulate this year’s winners – winners of the tenth edition and I hope that the year marking the decade of the Sarojini Naidu Prize will bring forth many more such crusaders from among the journalists who will continue to partner us in unearthing these true success stories of these women of substance.

Here at The Hunger Project we look forward to many more rewarding years of a partnership with the media to be the voices of the work done by the elected women leaders to village panchayats.

Dr. George MathewDirector, Institute of Social Sciences

Dr. George Mathew, the Founder Director, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi is Chair, Sarojini Naidu Prize. In a career spanning over more than 35 years, Dr. Mathew has written at length on topics related to governance and democracy, people’s voices and gender equality.

Ms. ManimalaDirector, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti

Manimala has more than 25 years of experience in the field of journalism, writing and publishing with Prabhat Khabar, Times of India, Malayala Manorama groups of publications and Books for Change. She has been a social activist for more than 35 years and has been associated with movements like the JP movement in Bihar in 1975, Bodhgaya land struggle, Jungle Bachao Andolan in Jharkhand area, Ganga Bachao Andolan in Bihar, Narmada Aandolan in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh etc.

Ms. Pamela PhilliposeDirector, Women’s Feature Service

Ms. Pamela Philipose is the Director of Women’s Feature Service, which works with journalists in India and abroad to generate features, profiles and analyses on a wide range of people’s issues and produces articles with a gender perspective. Ms. Philipose has worked with renowned newspapers and magazines such as The Times of India, Eve’s Weekly, Bombay, Down to Earth and The Indian Express.


The Jury

Dr. S.S. MeenakshisundaramExecutive Vice Chairman, MYRADA

Dr. S.S. Meenakshisudaram was the Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department when Karnataka ratified the 73rd Constitutional Amendment. As Joint Secretary in charge of Panchayati Raj in the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, he was also part of the team that drafted the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution.

Ms. Urvashi ButaliaCo-founder, Kali for Women and Director, Zubaan

Urvashi Butalia, Co-founder of Kali for Women (the first feminist publishing house in India) is also the Founder Director of Zubaan books. Urvashi has written for several publications such as The Statesman, The Guardian and The Times of India. She has authored one of the most influential books on the Partition – The Other Side of Silence and is a consultant for Oxfam India at present as well.



The Winners

English

Ms Preethi Nagaraj for her article

From Homeless Tribal to GP ChiefPublished in Deccan Herald, Mysore


Hindi

Ms Rumni Ghosh for her article

Beware, here lives Amaso BaiPublished in Dainik Bhaskar, Indore

Other Indian Language

Ms Bornali Boruah for her article

Panchayati Raj brings change amidst two leaves and a bud

Published in Ajir Asom, Dibrugarh


Working as senior reporter at Deccan Herald’s Mysore edition, Preethi Nagaraj (Mysore, Karnataka) focuses on socio-cultural issues and rights based works related to women, children, people living with HIV/AIDS, minority communities and issues which have found less representation in the media. Her journalism is enriched with the experiences she has gathered during her professional career spanning across 13 years in Bangalore and Mysore, working in areas such as health, social sector, electronic media, films and information technology. An avid theatre person, Preethi has associated herself with women’s theatre, and with documentary films on children’s education.

Preethi NagarajEnglish


From Homeless Tribal to GP ChiefBy Preethi Nagaraj

Deccan Herald July 13, 2010

She is the second time president of Abbalati Gram Panchayat in Periyapatna taluk. Janakamma, who hails from a tribal community called Kaadu Kuruba, can barely write her name.

Reading involves an effort, but she manages with some help. Yet, the never –say die spirit of this 54-years old has taken her on a stupendous journey. From being a homeless, landless and right-less tribal, Janakamma has gone on to fight for the rights of her people and has managed to get a residential school upto class seven for the children of Abbalati. She plans to get a hospital and a high school sanctioned for her village.

“As many as 125 children from 26 haadis study here. A high school will be of great help to ensure that these children get an education. I have been told job prospects are brighter for those who have completed their SSLC,” she says. She has never used the ‘ST’ or ‘woman’ reservation tag to win the seat, either during her tenure as a Sangha member or as a GP member. She contested from the general category on both occasions. That has been a bigger victory for her because she fought against male candidates hailing from communities that have enjoyed greater social acceptance.

A life of penury

Janakamma represents 26 haadis and villages, covering 530 families. Hailing from a community that was displaced from the forests surrounding Periyapatna, Janakamma worked as a labourer earning as little as 25 paise. When Stree Shakti Sangha activities began in her village 20 years ago, Janakamma was among those who initially opposed the ‘outsiders’ and their attempts of trying to get women together. “We were living a life of penury. For days on end, when there was no work, boiled leaves were our staple diet. We didn’t even have money to buy salt,” says the mother of three. Her daughters and son, along with her husband, never understood what Janakamma was up to, when she

She has never used the ‘ST’ or ‘woman’

reservation tag to win the seat, either

during her tenure as a Sangha member or as

a GP member. She contested from

the general category on both occasions.

That has been a bigger victory for her because

she fought against male candidates

hailing from communities that

have enjoyed greater social acceptance.


started attending Sangha meetings and sometimes travelled to ‘big cities’ like Mysore and Bangalore. “I had not even seen Periyapatna, seven kilometers away from Abbalati, let alone other cities,” she says.

Janakamma learnt the ropes pretty fast, with support from Mahila Samakhya, and was GP President-elect from her Gram Panchayat when elections took place in 2000. Needless to say, she swept the polls. “I had to depend on officers to tell me everything. Some helped me, while others misguided me. But, both gave me important lessons,” she says, as her eyes moisten. It was one of those days when the residential school sanctioned to their village was ‘snatched’ by a nearby village. Till then, an anganwadi was being run under the tree in the village.

First struggle

“We then went to Vidhana Soudha and returned with records to say that the school and hostel belonged to us. They had no option but to help us build it,” she says. Eventually, the school started functioning, four teachers and three cooks were recruited and aashraya houses were built too. She preserves a photo with the then prime minister A B Vajpayee and the meeting she attended in Parliament, where a discussion pertaining to the significance of the Panchayat Raj system was held. “It gave me a great sense of conviction. I felt whatever I was doing was indeed important,” she says. During the subsequent elections, Janakamma didn’t contest. Though the candidate she supported won the polls, there was not much change in the village. “This time around, when the elections were announced, people from our haadi called me and said they wanted me to contest because there was a lot of work left to be done,” she adds.

After winning the polls, Janakamma, along with 50 people surveyed a reserve forest in the area. They have now launched a campaign to get small shares of land for people for her community to lead a life with dignity. “We tasted success when we campaigned for ration cards. We waylaid the MLA, MP, ministers and even met the CM to get things done for our village. This time too, we are asking for an acre or two each for families which are dependent on labour for a livelihood,” she says. During her tenure, Janakamma got a lot of work done including laying of roads, installation of street lights and construction of houses worth over Rs. 1.20 crore. Her Sangha members have driven out the arrack vendor who has a roaring business from the village. There are hardly any cases that reach the police station because people respect the Panchayat and its verdict.

“We tasted success when we campaigned for ration cards. We waylaid the MLA, MP, ministers and even met the CM to get things done for our village. This time too, we are asking for an acre or two each for families which are dependent on labour for a livelihood. ”


Rumni Ghosh, from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, is a Special Correspondent with Dainik Bhaskar Hindi Daily. She has over 15 years of experience in journalism, news reporting and covering stories. She has the distinction of receiving the state level Gopi Krishna Gupta Award for best reporting. She has written on political investigations, crime reporting, social issues, war and natural calamities and human rights.

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B eware this is the territory of Amaso Bai! If anybody, even by mistake, consumes alcohol a fine of Rs 1000/- is imposed. If anybody tries to drink, hiding somewhere in the village,

they would definitely get caught since Amaso Bai’s informers are spread throughout the Panchayat. The informers get paid Rs 500/- by Amaso Bai.

This is Madam Sarpanch Amaso Bai. She is a familiar name in Tinsai and its surrounding villages. The village of Tinsai is about 60 km away from Chindwara district in Madhya Pradesh. Women Panchs like Dhyanvati, Bakhtiya and Mulia Bai gave her the name. She won the elections by defeating the wife of the former Sarpanch by merely 5 votes. At the time of filling of the nomination form, Amaso Bai was non literate. Being a non literate Sarpanch was not acceptable to Amaso and hence three days prior to the election, she put all her efforts and learnt to sign her name. She signed the nomination form and won the election.

Amaso Bai says, “Before I became the Sarpanch, I rarely went out of my house. I did not even go to the Gram Sabha. Now, I have been entrusted with many responsibilities and I have to do a lot of work.”

After becoming the Sarpanch, Amaso Bai needed to go to the Panchayat office every day to get the work done. After all, how long could she be dependent on her husband? One day, Amaso Bai picked up a bicycle and started to ride. Then started her campaign against alcoholism in the panchayat! In the scorching summer afternoons, she would go to each and every household in the village and mobilize the women against alcoholism. Amaso Bai says, “In the beginning, every one resisted the idea. But gradually the women began to realize that half the household income was being spent on alcohol.”

This took almost two to three years but ultimately the day came when a Panchayat meeting was called to collectively make rules regarding alcohol consumption in public. Though a rule was formulated to stop

Beware, here lives Amaso Bai.... By Rumni Ghosh

Dainik Bhaskar, 8 March 2010

If anybody, even by mistake, consumes alcohol a fine of Rs 1000/- is imposed. If anybody tries to drink, hiding somewhere in the village, they would definitely get caught since Amaso Bai’s informers are spread throughout the Panchayat. The informers get paid Rs 500/- by Amaso Bai.


alcoholism, Amaso Bai was convinced that a mere rule would not be sufficient. She decided that she would reward Rs 500/- to those giving information about anyone drinking in public. Amaso says that this has really helped in controlling the habit of drinking in the village of Tinsai. A lot of the information comes from the women themselves. A visitor to Tinsai says that a few days back two men created a scene at a village wedding after consuming alcohol. The women’s front immediately imposed a fine of Rs 1000/- on both. Both the men accepted the punishment and gave their word that they would pay the fine once they returned to the village after earning the money. Both men are at present working as daily wage labourers in some other village. Though Amaso Bai is still unable to read or write her political acumen and her management and planning skills are at par with any CEO. The money collected from fines imposed is deposited in the bank account of the panchayat.

Supporting her in this entire campaign, Sajid a social worker informs that so far nearly five thousand rupees have been collected. Some of this money has been utilized as reward money for informers; the rest has been used for development work in the panchayat.

In order to get her work done quickly, Amaso Bai has learnt to use a mobile phone. This helps her to keep in touch with the District CEO at all times. She says she would like to work on Forest Rights but has not been able to do much work on the issue yet.

Amaso Bai did not contest this Panchayat election. Instead her husband Jaipal contested and won the election. He says, “The real Sarpanch is still Amaso. I will take her work forward.”

“Where there is a will there is a way!” The thousands of women sar-panches of this country could learn from the experience of Amaso Bai that change is possible without resources. All you need is determination to do something.”

“Where there is a will there is a way!”

The thousands of women sarpanches

of this country could learn from the experience of Amaso

Bai that change is possible without

resources. All you need is determination

to do something.”


Bornali Boruah has been working with The Dainik Janambhumi from 2001 and Ajir Dainik Batori from 2005. She has written over 3000 news articles for these two newspapers and has had over 300 articles published in Dainik Janambhumi, Dainik Batori, Dainik Jansadharan, Asomiya Pratidin, Amar Asom, Khobar, Prantik, Pubali & other various magazines. She has been awarded with the Gulap Mishra Memorial Award for the year 2009 for highlighting rural development issues and the All Assam Journalist Union Award as woman journalist in the year 2008 for her work.

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Panchayati Raj brings change amidst two leaves and a budBy Bornali Boruah

Ajir Asom, 16 June, 2010

C hitapati on her forehead, Khansa in her hair, Jumka in her ears, Nath or Nakphool on her nose, Haslior Chandrahar on her Neck, Matar Baju on her forearms, dangling Suri adorning

her hands, Angti on her fingers, Zutia on her toes, kamargaath on her waist and a red Sari in place - the tea garden woman moving jovially around the tea bushes makes up a familiar picture. Though they live in a male–dominated world their earning capabilities make them different from the other women of Assam. During the British rule, tea garden labourers who were brought from famine-affected areas of Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh etc. settled in different tea gardens of Assam. They were landless agricultural workers and migrated illegally to work in tea gardens. The women workers were also employed in the tea plucking, weeding, cleaning and leaf processing jobs at the factory, but their wages were far less than the legal benchmark. According to the data available, it is known that in 1884, at most 78,274 women were employed in such kinds of work. Presently the number is three lakh and sixty thousand. The British planters wanted a permanent labour force to run the tea industry and an expert work force who would engage themselves generation after generation in the same work. After Independence, the picture changed to some extent and equal wages for both genders was granted in 1991 which relieved the aggravating condition, but still the women in the tea gardens were living a life of social and economic misery. They lagged behind in formal as well as informal education.

In conducting household affairs, child health and education and moral guidance, they are neither conscious nor active. Most of their children are seen ruining their growing-up years in useless fun and frolic, they

After Independence, the picture changed to some extent and equal wages for both genders

was granted in 1991 which relieved the

aggravating condition, but still the women in

the tea gardens were living a life of social

and economic misery. They lagged behind in formal as well as informal education.


are usually in rags and suffer from malnutrition for want of required nutritional diet because of poverty. The future citizens of our country are thus, deprived at the beginning of their lives by their own mothers, who forcibly employ them as keepers of their younger sisters or brothers instead of sending them to school. Poverty and non-literacy are the root causes of this social phenomenon.

The socio-economic development of this largest community in Assam is dependent on the wills of the owners since the British period. There are about 835 tea gardens in Assam, including big ones and small, where a population of about seven lakh people dwell. The tea garden labourers benefited as the tea gardens were included under the Panchayats in 1992. They got the opportunity to be a partner in the developmental process and are now able to participate equally in decision making on issues of development, taking part in grass-root governance, and increasing political consciousness to achieve their goal. To get information regarding this we contacted a few elected Panchayat Representatives.

Gangajali Rai is President of Bokahola GP under Titabor Development Block of Jorhat District, elected to the Panchayat for the first time from a reserved seat as a ward member. She was a new comer to this field. Though she was heartily sincere in doing something good for the common people, she had to face a strong challenge as the seat for the President was not reserved for women. Moreover, she had represented the Indian National Congress (INC) earlier. Now several claimants demanded party seat and she had to face a lot of challenges within the party. But due to the goodwill she had built for herself in the party and her self confidence, she was successful not only in getting the party ticket, but also in coming out with flying colours in the elections defeating nine other candidates. There are a total of 9483 tea garden labourers in her area, where 90% of the people are economically, educationally and socially backward. Unhygienic conditions, and an excessive usage of Haria (a kind of country liquor made of rice) in the name of tradition, stand as impediments to the development of the community. To eradicate these problems permanently, she keeps struggling to spread awareness to the people about the ill effects of unhygienic conditions and the excessive use of Haria. She informed us that more than two hundred families had been provided with sanitary latrines in her area. She also actively participates in immunization programmes under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which began in 2005 and with the help of ASHA workers, visits every pregnant woman and monitors their regular check-ups at the Health Centre. On the other hand, she

The tea garden labourers benefited as the tea gardens were included under the Panchayats in 1992. They got the opportunity to be a partner in the developmental process and are now able to participate equally in decision making on issues of development, taking part in grass-root governance, and increasing political consciousness to achieve their goal.


gives importance on getting electricity and water supply to her village and has already set up twenty tube wells and applied for a bigger project to the Public Health Engineering Department.

We also had the chance to talk for a long time with another elected woman representative recently. She resides in Gabharu Parbat Tea Estate, at the foothills of the historic Naga Hills, and lives a very simple life but proves to be very high in thinking. She is none but Renu Bedia, who can actively participate in any kind of intellectual discussions, can explain to Budhua, about the harmful effects of Haria at the market place, and explain to the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi about the hazards of drinking river water in the village of Jorhat District or in Assam. She has won three consecutive elections and now as the President of East Nakachari GP, she knows everything about the Panchayat. Her experience has taught her to apply herself efficiently. When the Assam Tea Corporation managed by the Govt. of Assam went bankrupt and the fate of the workers were at peril, she encouraged all of them not to lose hope. Initially she won uncontested the seat of Ward Member from the Ward no 10; in 2002, she contested against three opponents and won the Ward Member’s seat and in 2007, she got elected as the President of the East Nakachari G.P. She serves as a Staff Nurse at the Gabharu Parbat Tea Estate Hospital and starts her daily journey to her work place at 6 am, every morning. She is very punctual about her daily routine and after returning home at 10 am she completes her household affairs very quickly. She leaves home at 11 am/12 noon to perform her Panchayat duties. As her husband goes out early in the morning for his job, which is at a distant place, she alone has to take care of 26 goats, 60 hens and 8 cows every day. Based on the income generated from these domestic animals her three children are pursuing their education at Jorhat. She believes that because of her service to the public, her children are good at their studies. From an early age she has been inclined towards social service and being a health sector professional, she emphasizes on it the most. With the help of nine ASHA workers in her Panchayat, she succeeded in bringing a revolutionary change in eradicating superstitions and traditional rites and rituals. Ever since she has taken charge, all the babies have been born in Government Hospitals.

As the idea of Panchayat is a new one to the tea garden people, they are very reluctant to co-operate and therefore the Panchayat representatives have to face difficulties on several occasions. Rupali Guwala, the President of Borbam GP, is passionate and works selflessly for the

She resides in Gabharu Parbat Tea

Estate, on the foothills of the historic Naga

Hills, and lives a very simple life but

proves to be very high in thinking. She is

none but Renu Bedia, who can actively

participate in any kind of intellectual

discussions, can explain to Budhua, about the harmful

effects of Haria at the market place, and

explain to the UPA Chairperson Sonia

Gandhi about the hazards of drinking

river water in the village of Jorhat

District or in Assam.


welfare of her fellow tea garden people. When we reached her home she was preparing to attend an awareness campaign on the Hariali Project. Though the meeting was scheduled to be held at 12 noon, she was preparing to reach by 10 am. Because even though the people had been informed about the meeting before, they had to be brought to the meeting from their homes. During the discussion she told us that in her area she had to fight against the use of liquor, unhygienic conditions, lack of family planning, ignorance about healthcare and frequently transmitted diseases of an unknown nature. The increasing participation of people in the state and centrally sponsored schemes of Panchayats have not only brought development to the people, but also made them socially and politically conscious. Due to the lack of clear legal directives, conflicts between the Panchayat and the tea garden owners are a permanent issue. Not a single beneficiary within the tea garden is allowed to build a building under the IAY. In the early years of the tea industry, the company had provided accommodation in the lines of huts to the labourers. Though the population has increased in large numbers, the number of employed labourers remain the same. The rest of the population were partially or seasonally given employment as ‘Faltu’ and most were dependant on tea garden jobs. They were permitted by the owner to build temporary buildings for their shelter, though the ownership of land always remained with the owner of the garden. Therefore, their authority does not permit them to build any permanent house or any sanitary latrines. It also applies in case of roads and paths. Despite all these obstacles, Rupali Guwala had provided Job Cards under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGA) to two hundred unemployed workers to construct two roads within two years of her political career. Negotiating several intense arguments and discussions with the garden authority, she succeeded in facilitating three hundred families with sanitary latrines in two wards. Every single day of the year witnesses her dedicated fight against the illegal sale of liquor as well as her active service in implementing various welfare schemes under Panchayats. She has taken this as her mission in life and has formed nearly thirty SHGs to support this cause.

Negotiating several intense arguments and discussions with the garden authority, she succeeded in facilitating three hundred families with sanitary latrines in two wards. Every single day of the year witnesses her dedicated fight against the illegal sale of liquor as well as her active service in implementing various welfare schemes under Panchayats.

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