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SIDART's Exposure & Learning Visit to Uttar Pradesh
In depth discussion by SIDART team members at Bargarh Panchayat in Chitrakoot district with Elected Women Representatives and other women in the village
SIDART team members and elected women representatives from Sanganer and Jaipur districts of Rajasthan visited various panchayats of Allahabad and Chitrakoot districts in Uttar Pradesh and had discussions with the heads, secretaries, ward members and women of these panchayats to understand their views, differences in the working of the panchayats of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The visit to different panchayats was an awareness program for empowering the women and their increased participation in the village panchayats.
The team met Mr. Santosh Shrivastava, Family Court Judge, Allahabad; Mr. Kamrul Hasan Siddiqui, Additional Advocate General, Allahabad; Mr. A.K. Pandey, S.P. Crime, Allahabad; Mr. Ram Lakhan Yadav, Mr. Prakash Kesarwani and Mr. Jamuna Kesarwani, President of Sarpanch Union; and various other government and non-government officials and had discussions in order to achieve the organization’s objectives of the Learning and Exposure Visit to Other State. Mr. Santosh Shrivastava was impressed by the working of SIDART-HSF in Rajasthan, hence he insisted to start women empowerment programs in Allahabad too.
Question & Answer session between Elected Women Representatives from Rajasthan and EWRs as well as Chairman from Jhusi regarding women participation in decision-making
He was amazed that an organization from Rajasthan came to visit him and discussed some relevant issues while the local organizations had never come up with these subjects like increased participation of women in village panchayats. He is of the view that the awareness level of women in Uttar Pradesh is low as compared to Rajasthan. Mr. Prakash Kesarwani, Head of Bargarh Panchayat, Chitrakoot, ensured active participation of elected women representatives in the panchayat. He shared his experience of a National Conference in Hyderabad in which he and a woman sarpanch (head of panchayat) of Rajasthan presented their work together.
SIDART Team and elected women representatives were invited by Mr. Ram Lakhan Yadav at Jhusi for a meeting. After the meeting, the team members visited households for interaction and observation of hygiene and sanitation practices as well as political participation in panchayats in the area.
The learning visit was an extensive experience sharing opportunity between the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.