Jamshedpur: The Jamshedpur Women’s College (JWC) will conduct a five-week-long leadership programme for rural women in the state aspiring to contest the panchayat polls. The programme will commence from March 26 and the participants would get free accommodation and food, the JWC said.
Principal Shukla Mahanty said that the idea is to empower candidates with the knowledge about the duties of the elected members and to augment their leadership skills.
Iterating that 50% of the seats in the three-tier panchayati raj system are reserved for women, the principal said panchayat bodies are the basis of the pyramid of the elected democratic bodies of the country with Parliament being the apex institution.