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Half of the world’s population is still struggling with various problems. Efforts have been made over the years to improve the condition of women, and there has been some success in this. The government is also taking various steps regarding women’s empowerment. Despite all the efforts of the government and private initiatives, the condition of half the population is not improving at the scale that it should.
Social worker Aruna Roy has done many things in her life to improve the condition of the country’s women, poor, and labouring farmers. She is a political and social worker. She has also worked in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
In view of the work done in his various fields, many awards have also been given. She made a special contribution to implementing the right to information. Significantly, she was born on June 26, 1946, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was part of the British Government’s Madras Presidency at the time.
Her father, ED Jayaram, and mother, Hema, belonged to a Tamil Brahmin family. She grew up in a family with several generations of public servants.She rejected the orthodox beliefs of the traditional family. She had been hardworking and brilliant since childhood. After completing his education, she decided to join the administrative service.
In 1968, she passed the IAS exam. After becoming a government officer, she got a chance to visit many villages in the country. Gradually, seeing the plight there, she began to realise that she would not be able to bring about any change by living amidst the corrupt system of the country. So he resigned from his post after 7 years of service.
After leaving the IAS job, he started working at the Social Work and Research Center in Rajasthan. This institution was founded by her husband, Sanjit Bankar. Until her separation from her husband in 1983, she remained associated with this organisation and worked for the poor.
After this, she founded a non-governmental organisation called Mazdoor Kisan Shakti along with her colleagues in a village in Rajasthan itself. In 1992, along with a group of twenty women and human rights organizations, she organised a large demonstration in Jaipur regarding the Bhanwari Devi rape case in Rajasthan.
She used to stay with the villagers and work on their problems and motivate people to ask questions. During a rally, she forced the state government to keep the account of development capital in front of the public. With his initiative, the Right to Information Act was passed in three other states, including Rajasthan.
She made the labourers and farmers aware and conscious. I informed them about the importance of information and gave examples to make them realise that information is their right and is also the key to their improvement. She received the Magsaysay Award for this important work. By keeping that prize money in a trust, its use was also kept safe for democratic struggles. Apart from this, she has also been honoured with many other awards, including Mewar Sevashree.