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@article{177486,
        author = {Gopal Singh Bohra and Sansar Singh Janjua},
        title = {Effectiveness of Women Sarpanch in Rural Development : A study of Bathinda District},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {949-955},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=177486},
        abstract = {The vision of rural development and women empowerment was the first and foremost priority of our visionary government since independence. Without the participation of women, in grass root level governance, the rural development was a distant dream. Realizing importance of women participation and their empowerment, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment has mandated the women representation in PRI. This was a revolutionary step. Initially there was some constraint and limitation of women to take part in local governance through PRI. Their reluctance to represent themselves, has led the establishment of dominance of their spouse or kin as a proxy. But awareness through education, social media platforms, television, mobile phones has played a strong role to educate and motivate women to work in the mainstream.
Though the development work in rural areas by women sarpanches are slow unlike the male sarpanches but there are few examples where the women Sarpanches are in commanding position and doing commendable work better than their male counter parts. Therefore, there is a need to provide rural women a proper platform, recognition, acknowledgement and empowerment so that more women should join hands in the rural development.},
        keywords = {Panchatati Raj Institutions (PRI), Development, Empowerment, Rural, Sarpanch, Panch.},
        month = {May},
        }