Women Outnumber Men In Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Polls; 67% Win Unopposed
The Madhya Pradesh Panchayat elections have a total of 144,616 candidates for the posts, 53 per cent of the candidates are women with 76,997 female candidates.
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Panchayat And Other Hindi Films And Shows Which Showed Lives Of Rural Women
If you enjoyed the plot of Panchayat, here are five shows and films set in rural India to watch.
Popcorn Day: 10 OTT Series You Can Sit And Watch Anytime.
The representation of the horrible event of 2012 necessitates bravery, which the filmmakers delivered.
Panchayat On Amazon Prime Is A Bittersweet Ode To Rural India
Panchayat has that simplistic bittersweet tone to it, that the entertainment industry left back in the 90s. It is like watching a Doordarshan show but in HD.
Meet Kasturi Duraisamy, First Woman Panchayat President Of Her Village
In total six women were elected in these local body poll in Tamil Nadu. The state is the 17th state in the country to allocate 50 percent reservation for its women in local panchayats and in urban bodies.
Chhattisgarh: Rape Survivor Fined By Panchayat For Approaching Police
Surprisingly, the woman has been penalised by the Panchayat along with the accused. The Panchayat has found the survivor equally guilty for filing a complaint against the rapists with the Police.
Panchayat Asks Father of Minor Rape Survivor to Host ‘Purification’ Dinner
While the Panchayat had ostracised the family right after the girl was allegedly raped by a lower-caste man, it accepted to take them back but only after the father hosted a non-vegetarian dinner for the entire village.
Woman Clears Blocked Road To Rush Father To Hospital
A 40-year-old woman in Mysuru has proved the adage — where there’s will, there’s a way — true. She was rushing her 75-year-old injured father to a hospital when she saw the road blocked by an uprooted tree. Instead of panicking and trying other roads, KR Kavitha cleared the tree from the spot. The incident occurred […]
Are Four Slaps Enough Punishment For An Attempted Rape?
The village panchayat of Bhopa, Muzaffarnagar handed a punishment of four slaps to a shopkeeper who allegedly attempted to rape a minor. According to a report in The Times Of India, a video of the girl’s mother and villagers slapping the 35-year-old accused went viral on Sunday. It managed to grab the attention of the […]
Women’s Wing of Jat Body Pushes for Quota
Haryana is a state that struggles with women’s issues — from representation to a widely-shared disastrous child sex ratio, to crimes against women, as this paper examines. It comprises of 21 Districts at present out of which 19 districts have sex ratio lower than 880. According to Census 2011 it has the worst sex ratio (877) and lowest […]
