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The prescription of educational qualifications by the Government of Haryana in the 2016 elections for contesting to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) has been reported to be a game-changer.Although only 33.33 per cent posts of sarpanches have been reserved for women, as many as 41.46 per cent of them were able to become sarpanches in the 2016 Haryana Panchayat elections. Among them the representation of the general castes was 50.79 per cent, of BCs and OBCs 25.80 per cent and that of SCs 23.39 per cent.
This gives an impression that there has been increased empowerment of women in the Gram Panchayats of Haryana because the Panchayati Raj System in the State is sarpach-centric and the panches have little share in it. The hegemony of the sarpanches has been further strengthened by the persistence of the weakness of the institution of Gram Sabha in the State.
Literacy Rate of Women Sarpanch's in Haryana :
The erroneous impression of increased empowerment of women is likely to get further strengthened by the fact that all the women Sarpanch's are educated and all of them have education above the middle class level. Moreover, many of them have education above that level. While only 32.47 per cent of them are educated up to the middle level, 67.53 per cent of them possess higher educational qualifications. Of these 44.63 per cent have passed the matriculation examination and 12.39 per cent qualified for the senior secondary level examination. So much so that 9.55 per cent of them have done graduation or achieved even higher educational qualifications.
But the claim of increased women empower-ment in the Panchayati Raj Institutions by prescribing minimum educational qualifications stands challenged by the ground realities :
But there is an urgent need for taking effective steps for the empowerment of women sarpanches by the State Government :
But far more important than these steps is the role of the civil society. It can make sustained and coordinated efforts for initiating a social reform movement in Haryana’s rural society to challenge its retrograde culture. But unfortunately the civil society remains weak in the State due to historical reasons.But the prescription of minimum educational qualification by the Government of Haryana has undoubtedly to be accepted as a step in the right direction despite the fact that it violates the spirit of the Constitution by denying the uneducated among them their democratic right to contest the Panchayat elections and despite the fact that they are entitled to contest the elections to the State Legislature and House of the People.
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