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Sarpanch Proxies (‘Panchayat/Sarpanch Pati’)
Punjab Government bans sarpanch proxies: ‘Male kin of women can’t attend meetings’. Let’s Discuss!
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- Sarpanch pati is an elected member’s relative (mostly husband) of elected women who run the office in place of them.
Issues with ‘Sarpanch Pati’:
- Most of the women’s sarpanches do not attend meetings that take place at the district/block/village.
- Defeats the purpose of reservation for women in Panchayat
- Study says, more than 80 per cent of women sarpanches are proxy sarpanches even today.
- Punjab had implemented a 50 per cent reservation for women in Panchayati Raj institutions.