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In a move braced to initiate widow reforms across India, Media-Legal Thinktank DraftCraft International headed by Solicitor Gajanan Khergamker launched a Ground Zero Project on 'Widow Reforms: Mores And Laws' at Herwad Village in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra starting 1 June 2022.

The move is an outcome of resolutions passed unanimously by the Herwad Gram Panchayat, headed by Sarpanch Surgonda Patil and Social Reformer Pramod Zinjade’s organisation Mahatma Phule Samaj Seva Mandal requesting DraftCraft International to intervene and provide media-legal assistance for the issue.

Accordingly, DraftCraft International will generate media to spread awareness on the issue; publicise the same through talks, exhibitions, screenings and interactive events across rural and urban India, and, most importantly, provide legal assistance to entities in Maharashtra, beyond state borders and across India to draft resolutions, notifications and formulate a state-wide legislation on the subject.

Herwad Passes Historic Resolution

The journey towards Widow Emancipation began with Herwad Gram Panchayat in Shirol taluka of Kolhapur passing a historic resolution on 5 May 2022 to ban customs like removing a widow's mangalsutra, toe-rings, wiping off her sindoor, breaking her bangles and barring her from participating in social activities as part of age-old rituals. The campaign was immediately taken up by seven villages and a slew of others in the days to follow, across Maharashtra even in neighbouring Goa.

In a pathbreaking move, for the first time ever, in the death centenary year of Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu (Shahu Maharaj), the Maharashtra government, resolved to tackle the social scourge of widow customs and malpractices, asked Gram Panchayats across the state to ban widow rituals and customs on 17 May 2022.

‘Change Needed At Grassroot Level’

DraftCraft International founder, Editor - The Draft, Gajanan Khergamker says, "Social reforms are possible only when there’s change at the grassroot level. The Maharashtra Government has very rightly initiated the change by asking Chief Executive Officers of Zilla Parishads to carry out Public Awareness against the customs. As for a separate law on the issue, our team of lawyers and researchers will study the existing framework of laws, plug loopholes and examine the need to have a separate law tackling widow customs."

“It is a matter of pride for Maharashtra to tackle the scourge of widow reforms by the horns and it had to be a progressive Herwad to lead the way for the country to follow. Archaic widow customs that are stark violations of human rights, widow rights and, often, the existing law, are prevalent across India,” says Mr Khergamker.

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Applications are open for Lawyers, Law Students, Journalists, Media Students, Researchers, Fresh Graduates and Volunteers to be a part of DraftCraft International's #TheWidowReformsProject. Write to us on [email protected] to apply.

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