Mahila Panchayat Project Funded by the Delhi Women Commission.

Mahila Panchayat(MP) was launched in the year 2001 by the Delhi Commission for Women. It is an initiative taken up for legal empowerment of women and for distress redressal at the community level. Groups of community women, identified by NGOs, form a panchayat in their area, take up local disputes, counsel the two parties and assist them in reducing violence in their locality. There are two para-legal workers in a panchayat. These women are selected from the community, are trained in the different laws pertaining to women and guided in the process of handling a case and counselling women in distress.

Saraswati Educational society has been running two Mahila Panchayats in Laxmi Nagar and Jagat Puri area with the support of Delhi Commission of Women. Mahila Panchayat has a group of 40 active women who have participated to aware the women in the community about their legal rights and provide them family as well as individual counseling. Our organization has organized so many legal rights workshops by advocates from Delhi Legal Aid Services Authority, camps for minorities, seminars on mental health of women, helping old-aged widow women and happily we have united thousands of families in distress.