Chandraprabha Saikiani

Founder

Founder of Tezpur District Mahila Samiti

Chandraprabha Saikiani is the founder of Tezpur District Mahila Samiti (1919)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and rural & agriculture from Tezpur.

Tezpur District Mahila Samiti

Founded in 1919 by Chandraprabha Saikiani and contemporaries during the Indian freedom movement, this Tezpur-based samiti is one of Assam's oldest women's organisations. Today it is a federation of rural and tribal women's groups that works on women's rights, grassroots leadership and livelihood, and maintains an extensive archive of over a century of the Assamese women's movement.

Tezpur District Mahila Samiti reports the following, on its own site:

a vibrant federation of nearly 100 rural and tribal women's groups—uniting over 10,000 members
100+ Years of Legacy (1919-Present) 10,000+ Women Empowered 100+ Rural & Tribal Samitis