Woman Sarpanch suffers due to lack of education

Bhan Sahu is reporting from villager Parsatola in Ambagarh Chowki of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh which has a woman sarpanch Chamarin Bai who is uneducated. Educated secretary of the panchayat took away more than one lakh rupees from the account of the panchayat. When Chamarin Bai came to know about it she complained to authorities and the secretary was jailed for 3 months. Now the secretary is out of jail and have been reappointed in another panchayat but he has not returned the siphoned off money and the uneducated woman sarpanch is running from pillar to post but not getting any help. Bhan says it is good that we have made women sarpanchs but we also need to help them with education

Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

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