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CAMPAIGNS

Public Hearing and Newly Elected Representatives Welcome Ceremony Campaign: (March 2015)

Post election it was decided to organize a follow-up campaign to make strategies for future related to following issues- Food security, Land rights, Free drug distribution Scheme, Education, B.P.L., Pasture land, Pension, MGNREGA, PDS System, ICDS etc. So for this purpose a One day dialogue with people organization’s representatives was organized. In this dialogue follow-up strategies formulated with the suggestions of different stakeholders. After that campaign was organized during 20-30 March, 2015. This campaign covered 196 villages of 55 Gram Panchayats in all over the state. This campaign was run successfully by 16 partner organizations of Rajmeru and Rajasthan Vikas Manch.

Public Hearing and newly elected representatives Welcoming campaign – 2015: People themselves organized meetings for issue identification at Panchayat level, ward level and village level. In that mainly after issues identification these were discussed with ward panch/ Sarpanch at Panchayat level, Panchayat Samiti members Panchayat samiti level, and Zilla Parishad members at Zilla Parishad level.

Panchayati Raj Election Awareness and Voters Education Campaign January--February - 2015

In Rajasthan the PRI (Panchayati Raj Institution) election was held in January - February, 2015. So in this perspective RVM/RAJMERU organized Rajasthan PRI Election 2015 Awareness and people manifesto Campaign in all over the Rajasthan with the help of People’s Organizations.  The main motive of this campaign was to create awareness among the people about their rights and to organize clean and fair elections as well as to motivate people to discuss about the problems of their village and Gram Panchayats and to get people’s manifesto from the candidates who were participating in election. For this purpose RVM/RAJMERU basically focused on two main activities which are as following.

·     PRI Election Awareness Campaign- With people manifesto an awareness campaign also organized about the voting rights for fair and clean election. The campaign was organized mainly to create awareness through Pamphlets, Banners, Posters, public meetings. The campaign was mainly focused to educate people so that no unethical activity could take place. People were making aware about their rights that how to become an active member in the development of their village by choosing the right person by using their voting rights.

·     PRI Election People’s Manifasto-2015- People’s manifesto got signed from all the sarpachs and the ward panchs candidates at Gram Panchayat level, from all the panchayat samiti members’ candidates at Panchayat samiti level and from all the Jila parisads candidates at district level. Copies of these manifesto was given to all the candidates of all level and one copy was given to the representatives of peoples organizations. This campaign covered 196 villages of 65 Gram Panchayats, approximately 20000 voters.

Status of Gramsabha, MGNREGA Monitoring and Strengthening campaign in context of MGNREGA and Land Rights (August 2014 to January 2015)

Around 15 people’s organizations conducted successful Gramsabha monitoring campaign with the help of various representatives in their respective one or two gram panchayat area. In which Rajmeru & Rajasthan Vikas Manch guided them. The primary reason to organize this campaign was to remove irregularities in Gramsabha and to prevent people from their deprivation of rights and it was successfully organized by Gramsabha empowerment so it that Gramsabha could be created as a strong base where a common man can put and discuss his issues and could make sure his participate in the development works in the village. During the Gramsabha monitoring an understanding of people regarding Gramsabha was built up in the meetings. In these meetings people were told that in 73th Amendment there is Panchayti Raj not Sarpanch Raj. So Srpanch and Ward panch should implement Economic development and social welfare plans by collective actions with community, by community and for the community.

These plans should be made in the Gramsabha with the participation of people because Gramsabha is main pillar of self governance which has been given the legal recognition in constitutions. The presence of 10% of total members is compulsory in Gramsabha then quorum considered as per provision. The participation of SC, ST and OBC with women is compulsory in the quorum of Gram Sabha because people of village can do the development of their own village.

Total 15 people organizations run the monitoring campaign in their respective areas in different region of Rajasthan.

Objective:

The main objective of Gramsabha monitoring was to create awareness among the people about their rights and to know the status of Gramsabha in present scenario.  Objectives of the Campaign-

1.  To address the current situation of Gramsabha in the state
2.  To encourage people to participate in the Gram Sabha
3.  To know the status of MGNREGA
4.  Motivated people to put their issues and problems in Gramsabha like: PDS, ICDS, Water, Land etc.
5.  Prepared Future strategies related to people development
6.  Role of public in decision process
7.  Quorum of Gramsabha
8.  Types of proposals passed in Gramsabha and follow up