09/07/2021
Ajay and Yogini Dolke met with Yavatmal collector Amol Yedge, IAS and Vivek Johnson, ITDP Project Officer and SDM, Pandharkawada at SRUJAN campus on 6th of July, 2021.
Topics of discussions were as follows:
1. Addressing u***d mothers issues:
There should not be a separate category of u***d mothers, it stigmatises the girls and the family.
U***d mothers, single women with children, divorced women with children and abandoned women with children should be grouped together.
2. Should be categorised as women in distress: in need of protection and support;
Prioritised for livelihood, health and education support;
3. List of u***d mothers be updated: those married and settled should be scraped from the list;
4. Program to minimise sexual exploitation and violence against adolescent girls: community awareness program to cope up and support adolescent girls against exploitation;
5. S*x education, menstrual hyigene education, good touch - bad touch;
6. Formation and strengthening of village level adolescent girls protection committee to stop sexual exploitation and violence against girls;
7. Psychological counselling for adolescent girls and women: Maan swasth kendra;
Initiation towards preparing claim of Habitat 8. Rights for PVTGs in Yavatmal district;
9. A pilot project of Matharjun barsa of 12 villages for habitat rights to be worked upon and submitted;
10. Conservation and protection of geologically importants sites of spectacular columnar basalts on Pandharkawada - Shibla road near Shibla.
