On the occasion of International Women's Day on Sunday, an annual convention was successfully organised by Mahila Vikas Mandal, Gumla in the presence of representatives of 10,000 women groups at Toto Maidan. Zila Parishad member Kripalata Devi, intellectual Sudhir Saini from Delhi,
Sudha Singh, and journalist Jyotsna from Ranchi were present as the chief guests on the occasion.
In 2006, the Mahila Vikas Mandal was formed under the guidance of 'Pradan'. In this journey, the work of NRLM was done with the three-party contract with the Mahila Vikas Mandal Gumla and Jharkhand State Rural Livelihoods Mission, conferred in 2013.
The main objective of organizing this plenary session was to make women self-reliant in various fields under women's empowerment and to make them aware of their rights and their participation in building a society.
In this session, information was given to women in many important subjects. Information about solar electrification and solar lift irrigation was given by trained women from Ware Foot College. In order to overcome the problems of capital in the livelihood work of women, BLAC Arun Kumar Hotta of Mahila Vikas Mandal informed the group about the loan available at very low interest rate in the form of bank linkage loan.
Explaining the need and purpose of the women's group, cooperation and importance were given in building the society of a group. Every family was asked to join more and more livelihood areas like goat rearing, agriculture, common horticulture, poultry, mushroom production etc. Apart from this, women were made aware through street plays about health, nutrition, family planning and gender discrimination.
In this event, tribal dance was performed by the Didis of village organization of Kulabira from Kulbira Dhautha Toli. The play was presented by Siddha Devi, Reena, Sukanti, Radhika, Surekha, Kusanti etc. Didis to make people aware of the superstitious practices like witchcraft spread in the society. Those who provided guidance on behalf of PRADAN included Devjan, Mukesh, Rahul, Akshay, Dileep, Rajat, Bindeshwar. Ravikant Mishra, Arun Kumar Hota, Pradeep Nag, Abhay and Sunil, Sarat were all present from the Mahila Vikas Mandal.