A dedicated
social worker, Shruti has been the District General Secretary of Bachpan Bachao
Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a national movement against child labour from
1996 to 1997. Shruti is the founder of Savitri Bai Phule Women’s Forum, a
social organisation which works for the empowerment of women members to fight
against social evils like caste and gender based discrimination and the Hindu
conservative patriarchal value system. The organisation draws inspiration from Savitri
Ba Phule who was the first Indian woman to become a teacher and founder of the
first shelter home for the battered women victims. When her husband died
Savitri went against the social traditions by accompanying the dead body and
also lighted the pyre. The Forum celebrates 10th March as Indian Women’s Day,
as this is the death anniversary of Savitri Ba Phule.
People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights,
(PVCHR) was formed in 1996 in collaboration with famous Hindi poet Gyanendra
Pati, internationally well known Sarod maestro Vikash Maharaj, Historian Dr.
Mahendra Pratap Singh and Human Rights activist and her husband Dr. Lenin.
During the
past eleven years Shruti with the help of the organisation has taken up around
3500 cases of discrimination against women, children and Dalit community. Efforts
of her organisation have been able to secure interventions by the Government,
Commissions and administration (namely local panchayat administration) on
almost three hundred cases. Out of these some two hundred cases had positive
results. These are the cases taken up personally by her, besides many other
cases taken up on behalf of her organisation.
Shruti has
been the convenor of Voice of People, state wide joint alliance of civil
society organisations working for the promotion of children rights since
October 2013. Shruti has also severed on the District Food and Supply Advisory Committee
of Varanasi as a member appointed by Governor of Uttar Pradesh. In recognition of her contribution, she has
been awarded HT Women Appreciation Certificate by the leading Indian daily
English newspaper, The Hindustan Times. Shruti has also been honoured by Shri
P.L.Punia, Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes for her commendable work for Dalit rights.
Shruti has written
many articles in both Hindi and English languages. Her article about corporal
punishment of Dalit Mushar children in school of Pindara, Varanasi in India
published in sarokar.net and then published on editorial page of National Hindi
daily ‘Jansatta’, which became a suo-motto petition and taken up by the High
Court of Uttar Pradesh. Intervention of High Court brought the justice and hope
for the dalit children.
Shruti
along with Dr. Archana Kaushik of Delhi University wrote an article on plight
of weavers of Varanasi, which is translated into French by Mr. Ben Deboc. http://www.pvchr.net/2011/08/tisseur-de-reve-vie-de-cauchemar.html
Shruti was
born and brought up in a middle class family as the eldest child. Her father
was employed with the Life Insurance Company. She studied up to intermediate
(Pre-University studies) at Basant Kanya Vidyalaya founded by Annie Beasant of
the Theosophical Society of India. Since her childhood days, Shruti nourished
the idea of a just and equitable society and often used to get deeply disturbed
by looking at the existing social inequalities and exploitation and especially
the widening gap between the rich and the poor in her native city of Varanasi where
poor people were often forced to go to bed without food. Despite family
opposition to her ideas, Shruti took up the challenge to work and help the poor
and the deprived.
Born on 2 January 1975 at Varanasi
Married to Lenin Raghuvanshi on 22
February 1992; has a 17 year old son, Kabeer Karunik
1993: District General Secretary of
Bachapan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement), Varanasi.
1996: Founded People's Vigilance
Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) along with Lenin Raghuvanshi, in association
with Dr. Mahendra Pratap (Historian), Vikash Maharaj (Musician), GyanedraPati
(poet) to work on child labour free village.
1999: Founded Jan Mitra Nyas, a public
charitable trust, for carrying out work on crucial issues of governance and
Human Rights in five adopted villages near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
2000: Kabeer Premi Samnwayan Samiti,
New Delhi awarded Jan Mitra Samman in Kabir Mela on3-5 November 2000 with hand
of lyricist and writer of Bollywood Mr. Javed Akhter
2001: Elected to the Executive Council
of Voice of People (VOP, 25000 membership), a state wide people's alliance to
highlight and bring into national focus the child right in Uttar Pradesh.
2002: Campaigned and mobilized at State
and national level for prevention of torture.
2003: Established
Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Panchayat, a women forum
2004: Created Model Village
"people Friendly Village" to enable and amplify the voice of the marginalized
with especial focus on realization on child right in field.
2005: Conceived and convened People's
SAARC at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The objective was to bring the issues faced
by the people of SAARC countries on to a common platform and forge a forum
based on people to people relationship to fight against the evil designs of
caste, communal, ethnic, and fascist forces in the region. The most important
declaration read, "We cherish and uphold the Rule of Law, sovereignty of
the people, a system of governance that ensures devolution of power, People'
right to self-rule and control over resources." The core committee
comprised of PVCHR (India), INSEC (Nepal), People's Forum for Human Rights
(Bhutan), Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, LOKOJ (Bangladesh) and Wiroslokh
Institute (Srilanka).This convention also triggered off a series of similar
conventions across the SAARC countries. Two major outcomes of the convention
were the inclusion of Afghanistan in the SAARC, and the inclusion of civil
society voices in the decision making process adopted in the Dhaka declaration
in SAARC, 2005.
2007: Established Folk School for
Dalits in Belwa region.
2007: Participated in 2007 Gwangju
Human Rights Award of May 18 Foundation of South Korea.
2010: Participated in 2010
International Human Rights Award ceremony at City council of Weimar in Germany.
2011: Received Usmania Award from
Madarsa Usmania, Bazardiha, Varanasi in India for the development and welfare
of education.
2012: Jan Mitra Nyas, a public
charitable trust for PVCHR received ISO 9001: 2008 Certification for quality
management system.
2015: Published book “Margin to Center”
co-authored with Dr. Archana Kaushik in frontpage publication, London
Contact: SA 4/2 A,
Daualtpur, Varanasi-221002, India
Email: shruti@pvchr.asia
Mobile: +91-9935599331/0
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