Record Details

Awareness among rural women about reservation for women in panchayati raj institutions

KrishiKosh

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Awareness among rural women about reservation for women in panchayati raj institutions
 
Creator Sunil Kumar
 
Contributor Dahiya, Sushila
 
Subject Awareness, Panchayati raj institutions, Socio-economic status
 
Description The women must practically involve in changing and transforming human mind to adjust
with the values of truth, beauty and goodness. For women reservation in PRIs is a means of helping
them to play an active role in the development processes. To make women’s participation effective
their awareness plays an important role in social productivity. The study was conducted in Fatehabad
district of Haryana state which was selected purposively. Out of 6 blocks in Fatehabad district, two
blocks, namely, Fatehabad and Ratia were selected randomly. Two villages, namely, Badopal and
Dhanger were selected from Fatehabad block and other two villages, namely Hasanga and Raipur
were selected from Ratia block randomly. From each village; fifty respondents were selected
randomly. Therefore 200 respondents constituted the sample for the study. The present study was
undertaken with the following objectives (i) To ascertain the level of awareness among the rural
women regarding the reservation for women in PRIs. (ii) To find out the socio-psychological factors
affecting the awareness of rural women about reservation for women in PRIs (iii) To suggest suitable
measures to improve the awareness among rural women regarding the women reservation in PRIs.
The study revealed that the majority of the respondents were either illiterate or less educated.
The majority of the respondents (60%) were from nuclear family and near about half of the
respondents (48%) had small family size. Only one-fourth of the respondents had high socioeconomic status. The maximum numbers of the respondents had belonged to farming occupation. The
study furnished that more than half of the respondents (54%) had medium political background.
The majority of respondents who were having high socio-economic status, higher mass-media
exposure, high level of cosmopoliteness nature, high level of social participation and having high
level of political background had found high level of awareness about women reservation in PRIs. In
concern of overall awareness it is found that 39.0% of the respondents had medium level of awareness
while one-third of respondents still had low level of awareness regarding reservation for women in
PRIs. The level of awareness and age, education, socio-economic status, occupation, annual income,
social participation, mass-media exposure, cosmopoliteness, political background and political interest
of the respondents were found highly significantly associated.
It is clear from this study that social participation and mass media exposure playing important
role in improving awareness among rural women, so various awareness generating programmes such
as mock panchayats, puppetry, songs, exhibitions, informal group discussion, canvassing and
counseling sessions should be introduced in rural areas through government as well as N.G.Os which
would help in improving awareness level among rural women about reservation for women in PRIs.
 
Date 2016-10-21T13:54:53Z
2016-10-21T13:54:53Z
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/81252
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU