This book elaborates the active participation of a large number of women literacy workers through national literacy mission in collaboration with several prominent NGOs throughout the country for taking up the task of teaching the illiterate masses leading the success of literacy campaign. It also presents briefly the status of women in India, crime against women, concept of women empowerment, socio-economic information about women literacy workers, relationship between literacy work and the process of empowerment, long term impact of literacy work upon the lives of women literacy workers as well as other women participants of national literacy campaign besides attempting to offer some suggestions for upscaling the involvement of women voluntary workers for the benefit of all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jaimon Varghese
Jaimon Varghese, a social work practitioner and a guest faculty in Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi has been a keen researcher on the issue of women empowerment for the past five years. He had his Masters in Social Work from Pune University and MA in Psychology from Annamalai University. He has also earned PG Diploma in Labour Welfare and PG Diploma in Office Management from Pune University. He had been an active social worker in the field of Women and Child Development. He had been the project officer for three research projects undertaken by Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies (SNCWS), Jamia Millia Islamia, sponsored by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Human Resource Development. Presently he is the project officer for the research project on the study on Women Construction Labour, undertaken by SNCWS sponsored by National Human Rights Commission. He is also pursuing his doctoral studies on the topic of Empowerment of Women Literacy Workers. He has several articles published in various journals and books.
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