Jagratha Samithi

Jagratha Samithi

What is Jagratha Samithi?

Jagratha Samithi is a protection platform functioning vigilantly at the local level to ensure the rights, physical and mental well-being, and life security of women and children. It aims to prevent violence, rights violations, and social exclusion against them.

Jagratha Samithis function urgently in matters requiring immediate intervention in the locality. The committees can also work by utilizing the legal protection mechanisms and systems available for women and children in cases and issues that were neglected due to the absence of various committees.

Objectives

  1. Protect the rights of women and children and ensure strong interventions and arrangements for remedies against violence, discrimination, injustice, exploitation, and denial faced by them.

  2. Receive complaints involving women and children and provide solutions through immediate interventions or support mechanisms.

  3. Forward complaints and issues that cannot be resolved by the Jagratha Samithi to the District Jagratha Samithi, Women’s Commission, other government systems, and legal aid agencies, and ensure follow-up actions.

  4. Coordinate government agencies and schemes for the protection of women and girls and integrate the activities of similar agencies with the Jagratha Samithi.

  5. Implement activities to create a social environment free from issues against women and children.

  6. Form various collective groups and utilize public systems for achieving the objectives.

  7. Provide social monitoring, support, and supervision for women and child welfare activities in vulnerable situations.

Structure of Jagratha Samithi

Grama Panchayath Jagratha Samithi – Structure

The Panchayath-level committee consists of eleven members.

  1. Chairperson - Grama Panchayath President

  2. Vice Chairperson - Vice President

  3. Convenor - ICDS Supervisor, Women & Child Development Department

  4. Co-Convenor - Panchayath Secretary

Members

  1. Chairperson, Welfare Standing Committee

  2. Advocate

  3. Inspector/Sub Inspector of the Local Police Station

  4. Woman Panchayath Member / Social Worker from SC/ST Category

  5. Medical Officer of Primary Health Centre

  6. CDS Chairperson

  7. One Representative Selected from Ward-level Jagratha Samithi Convenors

Invitees

  1. Representative of District Child Protection Committee (DCPC)

  2. Educational Executive Officer

Ward / Division Level Jagratha Samithi

The Ward/Division Level Jagratha Samithi is a sub-unit of the Jagratha Samithi formed for women and children at the local self-government level. The general meeting of the ward-level committee can be organized along with Grama Sabhas or separately for convenience.

Structure of Ward / Division Level Jagratha Samithi

  1. Chairperson : Ward Member / Councillor

  2. Vice Chairperson : ADS President / Elected Woman Representative

  3. Convenor : Anganwadi Worker / Helper in the absence of the worker, or other women community worker (ASHA / SC-ST Promoter / Prerak)

  4. Joint Convenor

Members

  1. One Respected Public Representative (Doctor, Advocate, Retired Officer)

  2. One Representative from Voluntary Organizations (Library, Clubs, Associations)

  3. Two Representatives from Major Political Parties (One should be a woman)

  4. ADS/CDS Representative (One)

Ex-Officio Members (Invitees)

  • Health Worker functioning in the Ward

  • Representative of the Sanitation Committee functioning in the Ward

  • Anganwadi Teacher / Counsellor functioning in the Ward

  • Ward Development Committee Convenor

  • Bala Sabha / Sabha President