3 Rs To Empower Women

With the passage of time, functional literacy will enable women to step out of their houses, make their own choices and contribute to the socio economic development of their society.

- S.Ajay Kumar

Women literacy is a topic that is spoken about in corporate boardrooms, socialite Wevents, and, on occasions a phrase of vanity between cocktails in high octane parties. Though, several corporate houses bring the initiative into effect, and make educating the girl child in rural backdrops a mission, only a handful actually set forth educating women who are located in Jhuggi Jhopdi (JJ) clusters in their vicinity to ensure that these women are empowered with the 3 Rs (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic), thus making them self-reliant. Human Capital interacted with Praveer Sinha, CEO and MD, TPDDL, who said that the Women Literacy Programme is not merely targeting the literacy of women, but compositely focuses on overall empowerment of women, family and society as a whole. The programme has enabled TPDDL to get a place in the hearts of thousands of families residing in North & North West Delhi.

Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TDPPL) has 220 listed JJ clusters and resettlement colonies fall in company's area of operation i.e. North and North West of Delhi. Like every migratory community, the individuals residing in these clusters are the poorest of poor and lack basic amenities of health, hygiene, education, employment and infrastructure. The women residing here are illiterate, and never had an opportunity to enroll for formal education. The lack of basic education had put severe roadblocks in the intellectual and economic development of these women. TPDDL identified this concern as one of the areas of intervention and ventured into Women Literacy Programme for women since 2006-07.