✦ What is Jagratha Samithi?
Jagratha Samithi is a community-level protection forum for women and children that operates continuously with high vigilance at the local level. Its core objective is to ensure the rights, physical safety, and mental well-being of women and children while preventing violence, rights violations, and social exclusion against them.
To provide an effective protection mechanism, the committee intervenes immediately in urgent local matters. It also works to extend legal protection and administrative support to vulnerable areas that lack proper oversight committees or where women and children are neglected.
★ Aims and Objectives
1 To protect the rights of women and children and to ensure strong interventions and redressal mechanisms against any form of violence, discrimination, exploitation, injustice, or denial of rights.
2 To accept all complaints involving women and children as parties and resolve them through timely interventions or support systems.
3 To escalate complex grievances that cannot be resolved at the local level to the District Jagratha Samithi, Women's Commission, other government departments, or legal aid agencies, ensuring follow-up until justice is delivered at the grassroots level.
4 To coordinate government agencies and schemes meant for safeguarding the rights of women and girls, seamlessly integrating the operations of related external welfare agencies with the Jagratha Samithi.
5 To plan and execute community initiatives aimed at building a safe social ecosystem entirely free from threats or hostile environments for women and children.
6 To foster community partnerships, self-help groups, and public networks to effectively achieve the institutional goals of the forum.
7 To offer robust community monitoring, guidance, and backing to ensure local child and women development programs do not face institutional misuse or exploitation.
⊞ Committee Structure
Grama Panchayat Jagratha Samithi – Composition
The Panchayat-level executive committee consists of eleven core official members.
1Chairperson – Grama Panchayat President
2Vice Chairperson – Grama Panchayat Vice President
3抜群 Convener – ICDS Supervisor, Women and Child Development Department
4Co-Convener – Panchayat Secretary
Committee Members
1Chairperson, Welfare Standing Committee
2Lady Advocate / Legal Expert
3Inspector / Sub-Inspector of the local Police Station
4Female Panchayat Ward Member or Social Worker from SC/ST Category
5Medical Officer of the Primary Health Centre (PHC)
6Kudumbashree CDS Chairperson
7An elected representative selected from the Ward-level Jagratha Samithi Conveners
8Community Woman Facilitator (CWF)
Ex-Officio Invitees
▸Representative from District Child Protection Unit (DCPU)
▸Assistant Educational Officer (AEO) / School Level Administrative Executive
👥 Edavaka Grama Panchayat Jagratha Samithi Directory
| Sl. No. | Designation / Role | Name | Contact Number |
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| 1 | Chairperson – Grama Panchayat President | Panchayat President | 9000000001 |
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| 2 | Vice Chairperson – Vice President | | |
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| 3 | Convener – ICDS Supervisor | | |
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| 4 | Co-Convener – Panchayat Secretary | | |
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| 5 | Welfare Standing Committee Chairperson | | |
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| 6 | Lady Advocate | | |
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| 7 | Police Station Inspector / Sub-Inspector | | |
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| 8 | SC/ST Female Member / Social Worker | | |
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| 9 | Medical Officer (PHC) | | |
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| 10 | CDS Chairperson | | |
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| 11 | Selected Ward-level Convener Representative | - | - |
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| 12 | Community Woman Facilitator | | |
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⊡ Ward / Division Level Jagratha Samithi
The Ward or Division Jagratha Samithi functions as the foundational lower wing of the institutional protection network. The general body meeting of the ward-level committee can be easily conducted alongside regular Ward Sabhas (Gramasabhas) or convened as a special assembly depending on community convenience.
Ward / Division Level Structure
1Chairperson: Ward Member / Councilor
2Vice Chairperson: Kudumbashree ADS President / Selected Woman Representative
3Convener: Anganwadi Worker (or the Anganwadi Helper in her absence, or any other Local Community Development Worker such as ASHA, SC/ST Promoter, or Prerak)
4Joint Convener: Nominated Field Representative
Ward Members
1One independent local professional (e.g., Doctor, Advocate, or Retired Officer)
2One voluntary organization representative (from local libraries, arts and sports clubs, or socio-cultural forums)
3Two representatives from major local political parties (at least one must be a woman)
4One designated representative from Kudumbashree ADS / CDS
Ex-Officio Invitees
▸Public Health Field Worker serving the Ward (JHI/ANM)
▸Ward Sanitation Committee Representative
▸Anganwadi Teacher / Local Institutional Counselor
▸Ward Development Committee Convener
▸Balasabha President / Child Representative
