ASSAM-Another Deal in the Offing

state-run programmes like the WDP, Mahila Samalehya and the ICDS is the first step, with the provision and protection of basic rights. It becomes the responsibility of autonomous women's groups to assist in and catalyse the building of an organised power at the ground level. A power in which ASSAM Bhawari is an active participant in its creation and in wielding it. As long as Bhawari is reduced to a passive link-agent of the state, an individual women wronged, justice coming her way will not only be delayed, but ultimately denied.