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Jagratha Committee

What is a Jagratha committee?

The Jagratha Samiti is a platform for the protection of children and women that works constantly and vigilantly at the local level to ensure the rights of women and children, ensure their physical, mental, and life safety, and prevent violence, rights violations, and social taboos against them.

In order to prepare a protection mechanism, the Jagratha Committees will work urgently on issues that require immediate intervention in the area. The committees can work by utilizing the legal protections and mechanisms available to women and children, citing the absence of various committees, and by addressing cases and issues that have been abandoned.

Intentional goals

  1. Protect the rights of women and children and ensure strong interventions and remedial measures against any violence, discrimination, injustice, exploitation, and denial of rights against them.

  2. Receive any complaint in which women and children are parties and resolve it through emergency interventions or support mechanisms.

  3. Complaints and issues that the Jagratha Committee cannot resolve on its own should be forwarded to the District Jagratha Committee, Women's Commission, other government agencies, and legal aid agencies, and the results should be conveyed to the lower levels through follow-up activities.

  4. Coordinate government-level agencies and projects for the protection of women and girls and various rights. Coordinate the activities of other agencies with the same objective with the Jagratha Committee to make the activities possible.

  5. Implement activities that create a social environment in which there are no problems against women and children in society.

  6. Form various types of associations and utilize popular mechanisms to achieve goals.

  7. Provide community monitoring and support for women and children in situations of abuse.

Jagratha Committee Structure

Gram Panchayat Jagratha Committee – Structure

There are eleven members in the Panchayat level committee.

  1. Chairperson - Gram Panchayat President

  2. Vice Chairperson - Vice President

  3. Convener - ICDS Supervisor, Department of Women and Child Development

  4. Co-Convenor - Panchayat Secretary

Members

  1. Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Welfare Affairs

  2. Lawyer

  3. Local Police Station Inspector/Sub Inspector

  4. SC/ST woman panchayat member/social worker

  5. Medical officer at primary health center

  6. CDS Chairperson

  7. One person selected from among the ward level Jagratha Samiti conveners

Invitees

  1. District Child Protection Committee (DCPC) Representative

  2. Education Executive Officer

Ward/Division Level Jagratha Committee

The Ward/Division Jagratha Samiti is a subordinate body of the Jagratha Samiti formed for women and children at the local government level. The general meeting of the ward-level committee can be organized with the Gram Sabhas or as a separate Gram Sabha for convenience.

Ward/Division Level Jagratha Committee Structure

  1. Chairperson: Ward Member/Councillor

  2. Vice Chairperson: ADS President/Elected Woman

  3. Convener: Anganwadi Worker/Assistant in the absence of the worker, other women community worker (ASHA/SC/ST promoter/motivator)

  4. Joint Convener

Members

  1. A person of public standing (doctor, lawyer, retired officer)

  2. One person representing voluntary organizations (library, clubs, societies)

  3. 2 people representing major political parties (one must be a woman)

  4. ADS/CDS Representative (One)

Ex-officio members (invited)

  • Health worker working in the ward

  • Representative of the sanitation committee working in the ward

  • Anganwadi teacher/counselor working in the ward

  • Ward Development Committee Convener

  • Children's Assembly/Assembly President