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 Kiran Bedi
Aruna Roy Medha Patkar Arundhati Roy

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Irom Sharmila Pramila Nesargi Shaheen Mistri Manasi Pradhan

Indian women have always been the epitome
of beauty, strength, and intelligence. Today,
the success of Indian women across various
walks of life has proven that they have
earned this reputation very deservingly. If
you look deeper you will realize that one of
the major contributors to Indian society has 03

been the active participation of some very

focussed and dedicated women. The women
activists have played a significant role in
changing many social evils and have been a
shining beacon of hope
Aruna Roy
• Born 26 June 1946
• Postgraduate degree in English literature from Indraprastha College,
Delhi University
• Roy taught for a year at the same college before entering the civil service 04
in 1968 as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
• She left the IAS in 1974 to join the Social Work and Research Centre, a
rural-development organization in Tilonia in Rajasthan state
• In 1990 she moved to Devdungri, also in Rajasthan, and set up the
Workers and Peasants Strength Union (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan;
MKSS)

Indian social activist

 Contributions
• She has been in the forefront of many sociopolitical struggles of the poor and oppressed.
• She also voices her concerns about the recent increase in intolerance in the country.
• Her leadership and participation in the campaigns for the enactment of laws relating to the
right to information, the right to work (the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment 05
Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA) and the right to food are noteworthy
• As a member of the Pension Parishad, she has been involved with the campaign for a
universal, non-contributory pension for workers of the unorganised sector
• As part of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI),
• she was vocal in her demand for the passage of the Whistle Blowers Protection Act and the
Grievance Redressal Act.
Medha Patkar
• Born 1 December 1954
• She was a Ph.D. scholar at TISS, studying Economics development
and its impact on traditional societies
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• After working up to M.Phil level she left her unfinished Ph.D. when
she became immersed in her work with the tribal and peasant
communities in the Narmada valley spread over three states.
• Medha did not participate as an active politician, but she did so by
creating an atmosphere and environment by organizing a fifteen-day
Maharashtra state-level campaign.
• In January 2014, Medha Patkar joined the Aam Aadmi Party, a
political party led by Arvind Kejriwal.

Indian social activist

Contributions
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan
• National Alliance of People's Movements
• Tata Nano Plant Singur 07
• Nandigram land grab resistance (2007)
• Lavasa
• Golibar Demolition
• Save Sugar-Cooperatives Mission
• Hiranandani land scam
• Kovvada nuclear project

Indian social activist

Kiran Bedi
• Kiran Bedi was born on 9 June 1949)
• An Indian politician, social activist, retired police officer, and tennis
player.
• She is the first Indian female to become an officer in the Indian Police 08
Service
• She started her career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in
the Chanakyapuri
• Bedi became the first Indian and first woman to be appointed as head of
the United Nations Police and Police Advisor in the United Nations
Department of Peace Operations
• She resigned in 2007, to focus on social activism and writing

Indian politician, social activist, retired police officer

and tennis player
Contributions
• Campaign against drugs
• Lawyers' strike
• As Delhi Prisons Inspector-General
• Additional Commissioner (policy and planning). 09
• Special Commissioner (Intelligence) of Delhi Police.
• Director-General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development
• Bedi set up India Vision Foundation (IVF) in 1994
• The Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation founded by Bedi in 2007
• Anti-corruption movement in October 2010
• Bedi took oath as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry on 29 May
2016

Indian politician, social activist, retired police officer

and tennis player
 WOMEN IN POWER
Noteworthy Growth

1968 1972 1985 1997 2000 2013

Aruna Roy Kiran Bedi Medha Patkar Arundhati Roy Irom Sharmila Manasi Pradhan

Efforts to fight fearless woman of many social activist working involvement in Iron Lady of Manipur Rani Lakshmibai Stree
corruption and promote firsts on various crucial environmental and in 2014 she was voted as Shakti Puraskar in 2013
government transparency political and economic human rights the top woman icon of for her work in fighting
issues raised by tribals, India for women rights
dalits, farmers, labourers
and women facing
injustice in India.
 Takeaway:
• Raise our voice to fight the
various social evils and
atrocities committed against
those who are weak.
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• Perseverance, even if it
means social detachment.
• No matter what their age was
the determination was
noteworthy.
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