Jagratha Samithi

JAGRATHA SAMITHI
What is Jagratha Samithi?
Jagratha Samithi is a protection forum for women and children that operates with continuous vigilance at the local level to ensure the rights of women and children, guarantee their physical, mental, and life security, and prevent atrocities, rights violations, and social exclusions against them.
To provide a protective framework, the Jagratha Samithis will act immediately on matters requiring instant intervention in the locality. The committees can also take up cases and issues that were abandoned due to the absence of various other committees, utilizing the legal protections and mechanisms available to women and children.
OBJECTIVES
  1. To protect the rights of women and children, and to ensure strong interventions and necessary arrangements for redressal against any atrocity, discrimination, violation of justice, exploitation, and denial of rights they may face.
  2. To accept any complaint in which women and children are parties, and to resolve it through immediate interventions or support mechanisms.
  3. To forward complaints and issues that cannot be resolved by the Jagratha Samithi itself to the District Jagratha Samithi, Women's Commission, other government mechanisms, and legal aid agencies, and to ensure that the outcomes reach the grassroots level through follow-up actions.
  4. To coordinate government-level agencies and schemes meant for protecting the various rights of women and girls. To make activities possible by coordinating the operations of other agencies having similar objectives with the Jagratha Samithi.
  5. To implement activities that create a social environment where no issues or problems arise against women and children in society.
  6. To form various types of groups/collectives and utilize popular public mechanisms to achieve the objectives.
  7. To ensure community support and monitoring for women and child welfare activities in situations vulnerable to misuse/exploitation.
Structure of Jagratha Samithi
Grama Panchayat Jagratha Samithi - Structure
The Panchayath-level committee consists of eleven members.
  1. Chairperson - Grama Panchayath President
  2. Vice Chairperson - Vice President
  3. Convenor - ICDS Supervisor, Women & Child Development Department
  4. Co-Convenor - Panchayath Secretary
Members
  1. Chairperson, Welfare Standing Committee
  2. Advocate
  3. Inspector/Sub Inspector of the Local Police Station
  4. Woman Panchayath Member / Social Worker from SC/ST Category
  5. Medical Officer of Primary Health Centre
  6. CDS Chairperson
  7. One Representative Selected from Ward-level Jagratha Samithi Convenors
Invitees
  1. Representative of District Child Protection Committee (DCPC)
  2. Educational Executive Officer
Kadaplamattom Grama Panchayat Jagratha Samithi Members
SI No.DesignationNamePhone No.
1Chairperson - Grama Panchayath PresidentGeena Cyriac9497324510
2Vice Chairperson - Vice PresidentSajeev Kumar A D9447258512
3Convenor - ICDS SupervisorAnu Augusthy9496801774
4Co-Convenor - Panchayath SecretaryM S Shiny9496044639
5Chairperson, Welfare Standing CommitteeBiju Joseph9745350641
6Advocate  
7Police Station Inspector / Sub Inspector -
8Woman Panchayath Member / Social Worker from SC/ST CategoryAswani (SC Promoter)7012532572
9Medical Officer, Primary Health CentreDr. Vidhu James8281651053
10CDS ChairpersonGreeshma Praveen7012263295
11Representative Selected from Ward-level Jagratha Samithi Convenors--
Ward / Division Level Jagratha Samithi
The Ward/Division Level Jagratha Samithi is a sub-unit of the Jagratha Samithi formed for women and children at the local self-government level. The general meeting of the ward-level committee can be organized along with Grama Sabhas or separately for convenience.
Structure of Ward / Division Level Jagratha Samithi
  1. Chairperson : Ward Member / Councillor
  2. Vice Chairperson : ADS President / Elected Woman Representative
  3. Convenor : Anganwadi Worker / Helper in the absence of the worker, or other women community worker (ASHA / SC-ST Promoter / Prerak)
  4. Joint Convenor
Members
  1. One Respected Public Representative (Doctor, Advocate, Retired Officer)
  2. One Representative from Voluntary Organizations (Library, Clubs, Associations)
  3. Two Representatives from Major Political Parties (One should be a woman)
  4. ADS/CDS Representative (One)
Ex-Officio Members (Invitees)
  • Health Worker functioning in the Ward
  • Representative of the Sanitation Committee functioning in the Ward
  • Anganwadi Teacher / Counsellor functioning in the Ward
  • Ward Development Committee Convenor
  • Bala Sabha / Sabha President