This post has been long overdue for various reasons including my health, work and a busy schedule of extra career activities :P
I attended the Zilla Samakya meeting of Warangal district last monday. For the uninitiated Zilla Samakya is a federal body made of the indirect representatives of Self Help Groups, the vehicles through which SERP strive to achieve poverty alleviation in the state of Andhra Pradesh. A Zilla Samakya is registered under Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act. It will be having a general body made up of leaders of all the member Mandal Samakyas, an executive committee and OB made of elected leaders along with many subcommittees.
My previous experiences with ZS are limited to three viz. Anantapur, Nalgonda and Mahbubnagar. Of this Anantapur hangs in my mind as an impressive example of community resolve probably because of the high decibel discussions and the strong control of its leaders. The two ladies had hardly completed their inter and were communicating to me in English albeit with some effort. However the Nalgonda and Mahboobnagar ZS turned out to be starkly different. It was full blown cacophony in both the meetings, the discussions were not moving ahead and whatever they discussed followed the ....'s law- The less important the issue, the more is the discussion.
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