Economic Times: National: Saturday,
March 04, 2017.
With
International Women's Day next week, in our second edition, of recognising
upcoming women from the city, Team ET gets Bengaluru's eminent women
personalities from varied professions to nominate who they think are the bright
spots to watch out for, from their respective fields.
Indu Priya,
Independent social worker.
Indu Priya,
31, a former engineer, shifted to social work after her maternity break, and
jumped into on-ground social work in 2014. "Children who are out of school
are the ones that have really serious issues in their life it could be abuse or
suffering families," she believes. Her main work revolves around bringing
children back to school, rehabilitating families, check misdeeds in daycare
centers, and demand footpaths and buses for safe commute. She works largely in the
Jeedimara slum near Bannerghatta Road. The independent social worker recently
registered an NGO for better credibility and ease in making her frequent RTI
applications. "We should also recognize the excellent work many uneducated
women do at the ground-level to solve their local issues," she says.
"Indu
has been working at the grassroots level, quietly. She uses RTI to bring
dropouts back to school. While the Court has issued orders and set up a
protocol to bring children to school, we need people like Indu, who are working
on the field, to ensure this system works."
-Kathyayini
Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, Citizens Volunteer Initiative for the City
(CIVIC), nominatessocialworker Indu Priya
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