Chandraprabha Saikiani
FounderFounder 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
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Tezpur
- Founded
- 1919
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Established by visionary reformists Chandraprabha Saikiani and Kironmoyee Agarwala in Tezpur.” — Tezpur District Mahila Samiti. Source
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