Women Key to Successful Democracy

Panchayats played a major role in the implementation of administration and also justice in ancient India, and our history tells us that Grama Panchayats were the bed-rocks for any development activity. Speaking about Grama Swaraj, Gandhiji said, “our native ancient institution like Grama Panchayat should be revived. Ours is a country of self-ruled institutions”. Huyen– Tsang of China, the famous traveller of 18th century, wrote highly appreciating our Panchayat Raj System and several historians wrote books analysing this ancient system. But, with the coming of Britishers, this system of decentralisation had been rooted out. Women are not to be treated as weaker segment of society or passive beneficiaries. To improve the status of women and for all-round development of society, it is necessary to harness the full potential of the silent half. Women should be involved at all level in planning, decision making, policy framing and in the implementation of all developmental programmes. Reservation for women in government and in parliamentary process is essential to enable them to influence gender sensitive local planning and implementation. Because of the many facilities, provided, new breed of women politicians in India’s small towns is coming up and they become a political force to reckon with in the years to come. They are educated and some favour to be active in public life. Increasing number of these enlightened women, who are articulate and active for making women greater participants in politics. Passage of the Bill is a formality but bringing about awareness is more essential. About The Author:- Varalakshmi Janapathy had a brilliant academic career and studied at the famous Andhra Christian College, Guntur and Law College, Madras. She took a PG-diploma in Politics and Public Administration from Madras University and another diploma in Journalism from BIET, Bombay. She took Visarada in Hindi from DBHP Sabha, Madras. She is a well known writer and was winner of a Gold Medal in inter-collegiate debates. Her interests range from music to gardening and traveling. ,Her research work on “Indian Women Through Ages” was well received by the press and the public as one of the outstanding works. Its English version was released by the Honourable Prime Minister, Man Mohan Singh ji, in 2004. She received the coveted AP Sahitya Academy Award, Grihalakshmi Swarna Kankanam from Kesari Kuteeram Madras and Kalaprapoorna from Andhra University, Durga Bai Deshmukh Award from Abhinandana, Narla Sahiti Puraskaram in addition to several other awards and Life Achievement Award from Vivekananda Institute of the Human Exellence, Hyderabad. She received “Akshara Jyothi” title from Subba Rao Academy of Fine Arts, ‘Mahila Ratna’ from Golden Star and a Gold Medal from Khaumi Ekta for National Integration. Her recent work, the Life Sketch of Indira Gandhi was released by Smt. Sonia Gandhi. She visited countries like Hongkong, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Maritious, Singapore, and England. She is a good debator and participant in several national and international conferences, and has presented papers on women’s development and women’s empowerment. She is head of several organisations. The Title 'Women Key to Successful Democracy written/authored/edited by Varalaxmi Janapathy', published in the year 2009. The ISBN 9788178357362 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 340 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-