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STUDY ON STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

NEHA YADAV

Volume: 1 Issue: 1 2011

Abstract:

After independence, with the introduction of new Panchayati Raj and communitydevelopment schemes, constitutional provisions were made for the upliftment of women. The spread of education, emergence of political parties, increasing urban contacts, fast means of communication and the impact of mass-media have brought in a rapid social change in the rural community which paved the way upto some extent, for the political participation of the rural women. The rural women herself has also started realizing gradually, the importance of participation in the democratic process of the country.

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