AICRP home science is now at silvery jubilee stage of development. At this time when the women are empowered and boomed with the technology to ease their life. I can’t forget the phase of plight we faced during the starting point of our situation analysis part of the project. At the start of the project our honor and enthusiast HOD Dr.Revthi Balakrishnan escorted us in making selection of villages. We went to the District head Quarter of City Jind, procured the list of villages. We selected two villages Kharak Ramji and Khunga Kothi. When we started our journey to the villages by bus, we were dropped at the village link road i.e. still the village of our study was 3 miles away. We were provided with a cart by some of the resident of the villages. Any how we reached the village stayed there for a week, collected our data and returned. Research associates working in the project are acting as modern as well as information tools for the rural women in general and rural farm women as particular.
I want to share with you my experiences of rural areas while working for the project. Our worthy dean dr khalkadena exposed us to ms .madhu sarin who advocated solutions to make the smoke free kitchen in the rural areas. Later she enjoyed the support of burocrates to propagate her ideas of smoke less chulahs. She attracted many a great minds to work with her in her new vision and I was privileged to work with her for some time.
I have in mind a small, delicate woman, with a family of small children, which does all her own housework, milks four or five cows, cooks for extra help, carries from a spring all the water. No time to read a paper or a book. Late to bed and early to rise, yet neither he nor she has any idea they could make her burden easier.
happy day!
