{"id":344,"date":"2020-11-07T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T10:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2021-01-25T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:18:10","slug":"29-20-women-of-indias-panchayats-50-of-local-government-seats-are-now-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"#29-20 Women of India&#8217;s Panchayats &#8230; 50% of local government seats are now for women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2020, the world lost broadcaster and author Indu Ramesh to the Covid pandemic. Among her achievements were many outstanding programs for WINGS. From 2011, here&#8217;s her coverage of village women in India embracing newly mandated roles in local government. Indu was then 74 years old.&nbsp; Working with her is her daughter, Aparna&nbsp;Devagiri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Host(s):<\/strong>&nbsp;Indu Ramesh and Aparna Devagiri<br><strong>Featured Speakers\/Guests:<\/strong>&nbsp;Elected women representatives of Panchayats in several villages: Nagamma, Rukmini, Sarojamma, Gayatri, Saubhagya, and Renukamma; Padmini, director Sugrama, the federation of elected women representatives in Karnataka state; Sriparna, a spokeswoman for The Hunger Project, which runs trainings for elected women representatives in nine Indian states.<br><br><strong>Credits:<\/strong>&nbsp;Produced by Indu Ramesh and Aparna Devagiri. Recorded and edited by M. Ramamurti. Series producer for WINGS, Frieda Werden. Special thanks to Smita Ramanathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Comments:<\/strong>&nbsp;More about Indu Ramesh, here: http:\/\/iawrtindia.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/indu-ramesh-tribute.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1oDvi7HbMBjQz4Vn9aeBYpxf1lmaR_aWI\/view\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1oDvi7HbMBjQz4Vn9aeBYpxf1lmaR_aWI\/view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2020, the world lost broadcaster and author Indu Ramesh to the Covid pandemic. Among her achievements were many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,17,38,19,27,36,42,60,53,64],"tags":[95,85,94,68],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-archive","category-education","category-elections","category-environment","category-health","category-politics","category-regional","category-society-and-culture","category-south-asia","category-women","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-environment","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}