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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How Women's Self-Help Groups Are Negotiating For Jobs, Power & Space -Padmini Ramesh

How Women's Self-Help Groups Are Negotiating For Jobs, Power & Space -Padmini Ramesh

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published Published on Mar 16, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 16, 2021

-IndiaSpend.com

MGNREGS is going beyond its conventional role of acting just as a source of rural employment for women to becoming a platform to place demands for village community work, to negotiate for space and power with gram panchayats and for networking.

Jorhat (Assam), Kannur (Kerala) and Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh): What does a job card under the national rural jobs programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), mean for someone?

For Janaki*, a sexagenarian working at an MGNREGS site in Kannur, Kerala, it means the ability to stay connected with her friends and contribute financially to her family, notwithstanding her age. "The MGNREGS worksite acts as a networking space for me and a platform to catch up with my friends. We talk, discuss and vent our personal problems as we work and I am able to contribute financially to my household," she told IndiaSpend, her face lighting up.

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IndiaSpend.com, 16 March, 2021, https://www.indiaspend.com/women/how-womens-self-help-groups-are-negotiating-for-jobs-power-space-735645


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