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| Premini Sinha stresses for wide range of community partnership | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu Mar 8
President Association for Social Health in India (ASHI) and the Ist Lady of the State, Premini Sinha has underscored the imperative need of a strong strategy for establishing wide range of partnership with community to maximize and enhance the development outcome by reducing the vulnerability of the people in general and women in particular.
Addressing the annual general body meeting of the association here today, Premini Sinha said that ‘sustainability should be posited as the core element which could be ensured through empowerment of the people and by strengthening their coping abilities’.
Expressing her satisfaction on variegated measures taken by ASHI in the adopted Panchayat for improving quality of life of the people with focus on education, health, skill up gradation, she said that women who are in the margins of development through skill endowment, improved access to service should be made fully partners in the development process.
She said the effort of the ASHI, in collaboration with the state government, for coverage of Jagti panchayat, under Rural Sanitation Programme, shall go a long way in restoring the dignity to the women folk, who have to suffer indignity on account of lack of facilities.
Sushma Choudhary who also spoke on the occasion outlined the spectrum of activities which are planned to maximize the development indices and to ensure out reach of services with focus on provision of equality of opportunities in the target areas. She said the paradigm shift envisaged by ASHI is to induce attitudinal changes and to promote the concept of self reliant communities.
ASHI is a catalyst and a facilitator whereby the community is learning to leverage challenges as opportunities, Prof Kailash Rajput, Secretary of the Association said and referred the major achievements of ASHI during the current fiscal.
She said ASHI caters to 52 women, children in two homes run by it, apart from providing education to young girls, the older women are imparted training in various skills. During the current fiscal the inmates sold products worth Rs.35000 and they actively participate in various events, she said adding that in the identified Panchayat ASHI has spent Rs. 5 lakhs in the last two years to fill up the gaps in the development. Over 1000 fruit trees were planted by the beneficiaries, while 365 students are being provided uniforms at a cost of Rs.35000. In addition, five adult literacy centres have been established and women have been provided skills and given employment opportunities, she said.
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