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    Awareness among rural women about reservation for women in panchayati raj institutions
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Sunil Kumar; Dahiya, Sushila
    The women must practically involve in changing and transforming human mind to adjust with the values of truth, beauty and goodness. For women reservation in PRIs is a means of helping them to play an active role in the development processes. To make women’s participation effective their awareness plays an important role in social productivity. The study was conducted in Fatehabad district of Haryana state which was selected purposively. Out of 6 blocks in Fatehabad district, two blocks, namely, Fatehabad and Ratia were selected randomly. Two villages, namely, Badopal and Dhanger were selected from Fatehabad block and other two villages, namely Hasanga and Raipur were selected from Ratia block randomly. From each village; fifty respondents were selected randomly. Therefore 200 respondents constituted the sample for the study. The present study was undertaken with the following objectives (i) To ascertain the level of awareness among the rural women regarding the reservation for women in PRIs. (ii) To find out the socio-psychological factors affecting the awareness of rural women about reservation for women in PRIs (iii) To suggest suitable measures to improve the awareness among rural women regarding the women reservation in PRIs. The study revealed that the majority of the respondents were either illiterate or less educated. The majority of the respondents (60%) were from nuclear family and near about half of the respondents (48%) had small family size. Only one-fourth of the respondents had high socioeconomic status. The maximum numbers of the respondents had belonged to farming occupation. The study furnished that more than half of the respondents (54%) had medium political background. The majority of respondents who were having high socio-economic status, higher mass-media exposure, high level of cosmopoliteness nature, high level of social participation and having high level of political background had found high level of awareness about women reservation in PRIs. In concern of overall awareness it is found that 39.0% of the respondents had medium level of awareness while one-third of respondents still had low level of awareness regarding reservation for women in PRIs. The level of awareness and age, education, socio-economic status, occupation, annual income, social participation, mass-media exposure, cosmopoliteness, political background and political interest of the respondents were found highly significantly associated. It is clear from this study that social participation and mass media exposure playing important role in improving awareness among rural women, so various awareness generating programmes such as mock panchayats, puppetry, songs, exhibitions, informal group discussion, canvassing and counseling sessions should be introduced in rural areas through government as well as N.G.Os which would help in improving awareness level among rural women about reservation for women in PRIs.