In MP, male proxies take oath for elected girls

By Express News Service

BHOPAL:  Popular internet collection Panchayat, shot in Mahodiya village of Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, appears to be really taking place in actual life too, in some villages of the state. A collection of episodes expose the actual state of empowerment of elected girls representatives. It reveals how male members of the family of the newly elected girls panchayat members take oath of workplace in lots of districts of the state.

In most instances, male family members of the elected girls panchayat members have been caught on digicam being administered oath of workplace by the involved village panchayat secretaries in Sagar, Damoh and Panna districts of the Bundelkhand area and Dhar district of western MP. An identical incident has been reported from a village panchayat in Rewa district, which borders east Uttar Pradesh.

One of the movies pertains to the Jaisinagar village panchayat of Sagar district, the place out of the 21 newly elected panchayat members (together with the sarpanch), 10 are girls. In the movies of the oath-taking ceremony, solely three girls are seen taking oath, whereas male family members take oath on behalf of the remaining seven reps.

The story doesn’t finish there. When questioned by a journalist, the Jaisinagar village panchayat secretary Asha Ram Sahu (who administered the oath on Thursday) defended the proxy swearing-in. “Only three out of 10 women turned up for the oath. That led to men from their family being administered the oath,” says Sahu, whereas admitting that there isn’t any provision of anybody apart from the precise winner taking oaths 
The males who took oath rather than the ladies reps, included husbands, brothers-in-law and fathers.

In the adjoining Damoh district’s Ghaisabad village panchayat, as an alternative of the newly elected sarpanch (from the SC class) and 11 girls members of the panchayat, their spouses had been administered oath by the village panchayat secretary.

Ajay Kumar Srivastava, the chief government officer (CEO) of Damoh Zila Panchayat, has ordered the Hatta Janpad Panchayat (the village is a part of it) to make sure the elected girls are sworn in. “The Janpad Panchayat CEO has also been directed to initiate action against the village panchayat secretary concerned,” Srivastava mentioned.

In the neighbouring Panna district, a viral video confirmed Hakam Singh (the partner of newly elected village sarpanch Aradhana Singh) taking the oath of sarpanch on behalf of his spouse. The proxy swearing-ins come two months after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced financial incentives of as much as `15 lakh for village panchayats who elected girls solely.

BHOPAL:  Popular internet collection Panchayat, shot in Mahodiya village of Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, appears to be really taking place in actual life too, in some villages of the state. A collection of episodes expose the actual state of empowerment of elected girls representatives. It reveals how male members of the family of the newly elected girls panchayat members take oath of workplace in lots of districts of the state.

In most instances, male family members of the elected girls panchayat members have been caught on digicam being administered oath of workplace by the involved village panchayat secretaries in Sagar, Damoh and Panna districts of the Bundelkhand area and Dhar district of western MP. An identical incident has been reported from a village panchayat in Rewa district, which borders east Uttar Pradesh.

One of the movies pertains to the Jaisinagar village panchayat of Sagar district, the place out of the 21 newly elected panchayat members (together with the sarpanch), 10 are girls. In the movies of the oath-taking ceremony, solely three girls are seen taking oath, whereas male family members take oath on behalf of the remaining seven reps.

The story doesn’t finish there. When questioned by a journalist, the Jaisinagar village panchayat secretary Asha Ram Sahu (who administered the oath on Thursday) defended the proxy swearing-in. “Only three out of 10 women turned up for the oath. That led to men from their family being administered the oath,” says Sahu, whereas admitting that there isn’t any provision of anybody apart from the precise winner taking oaths 
The males who took oath rather than the ladies reps, included husbands, brothers-in-law and fathers.

In the adjoining Damoh district’s Ghaisabad village panchayat, as an alternative of the newly elected sarpanch (from the SC class) and 11 girls members of the panchayat, their spouses had been administered oath by the village panchayat secretary.

Ajay Kumar Srivastava, the chief government officer (CEO) of Damoh Zila Panchayat, has ordered the Hatta Janpad Panchayat (the village is a part of it) to make sure the elected girls are sworn in. “The Janpad Panchayat CEO has also been directed to initiate action against the village panchayat secretary concerned,” Srivastava mentioned.

In the neighbouring Panna district, a viral video confirmed Hakam Singh (the partner of newly elected village sarpanch Aradhana Singh) taking the oath of sarpanch on behalf of his spouse. The proxy swearing-ins come two months after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced financial incentives of as much as `15 lakh for village panchayats who elected girls solely.