There have been quite a few woman sarpanches — elected heads villages — in India. But, arguably there have been few like Chhavi Rajawat, the current sarpanch of Soda village in Rajasthan, who left a corporate job to help her ancestral village develop. Ms. Rajawat, who has a management degree, quit her post at Airtel, one of the country’s biggest telecom providers, to bring safe water, power, toilets and education to the village in the western Indian state where she spent part of her childhood.
For this week’s “Women at Work” series, India Real Time caught up with Ms. Rajawat, who is in her early thirties, to talk about switching from the corporate world to village politics, and the challenges that female heads of villages face in their job to bring social and economic change.
We invite you to read the full article published September 17, 2013
There have been quite a few woman sarpanches — elected heads villages — in India. But, arguably there have been few like Chhavi Rajawat, the current sarpanch of Soda village in Rajasthan, who left a corporate job to help her ancestral village develop. Ms. Rajawat, who has a management degree, quit her post at Airtel, one of the country’s biggest telecom providers, to bring safe water, power, toilets and education to the village in the western Indian state where she spent part of her childhood.
For this week’s “Women at Work” series, India Real Time caught up with Ms. Rajawat, who is in her early thirties, to talk about switching from the corporate world to village politics, and the challenges that female heads of villages face in their job to bring social and economic change.
We invite you to read the full article published September 17, 2013
