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Banwasi Seva Ashram
6 Women Empowerment
Ashram is actively involved in gender equality, dealing with cases of
promoting participation of women in women atrocities, providing legal &
village development and nurturing social support to single women and
leadership skills among village women ensuring social justice. Ashram is
through Gram-Sakhi (trained involved in ensuring proper
community women leader) initiative. implementation of government schemes
Ashram has helped formation of 124 self- for women. Adolescent education camps
help groups (SHGs), which facilitate are regularly organized to sensitizes girls
women participation in household about health, hygiene, nutrition and
economic decision making. These SHGs promote a gender sensitive society in the
also play a critical role in promoting Ashram work area.
7 Environment
Operation of five super thermal power groups and organisation of meetings and
plants and captive power plants in other conferences on climate change in
large scale industries has resulted in Singrauli area. Gram Paryavaran Samitis
severe air and water pollution in south have been set up to carry out local
Sonbhadra region, which has adversely environmental quality monitoring data
affected public health and agriculture. To collection (health, water, vegetation)
address these problem, Asram has work and suggest possible remedial
undertaken a wide range of activities measures. Environment Prahari team has
over the last two decades, such as been formed for promoting consensus on
representations on local and national conservation of local natural resources,
levels, time to time environment quality waste management, sanitation.
monitoring with support of expert
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