They discuss health and are encouraged to spend on their own health whether it is going to a doctor, buying medicine or eating nutritious food. The child sex ratio (CSR) number of girls to boys at birth has been inching up but was still at a low of 909 in 2013. She began working at Patwai village sub-centre of Read India, also in Rampur.Read India has become an invaluable partner for achieving the SDG goals.We are translating sustainable development goals into action by organising special programmes and making rural communities understand the concept of community development with strong community participation, community management and community ownership of the Read Centres and programmes, says Geeta Malhotra.

However, she wanted to improve her prospects. Read India works largely with rural communities low in social indices like health, literacy, skills and earning capacity and propels them to take control of their lives. Currently it has 29 CLRCs with 12 satellites (small centres) reaching 400,000 rural population through 150 villages around these centres. Married now, she has moved to Ambala but wants to continue her association with Read India by running a Gloves Dotting Machine Factory centre from her home. Based on her excellent performance, AIF and Adobe sponsored her for a six months course in graphic designing. “I enjoyed the teaching work and did basic computer training work. It has special programmes on literacy and education, digital literacy, women empowerment and livelihood, health, life skills and youth empowerment, use of ICTs and special programmes for farmers. Some 24,000 women are getting literate. Aarohan in Jaipur was Read India’s platform for rural women to showcase various products using indigenous skills like cot knitting, dari making, stitching, knitting and intricate zardozi work.

She oversaw a batch of 30 children in a one-year course. She also became a master trainer for staff in Library Science Management and ICT programmes. “I got the opportunity to learn new skills and teach those skills to the children of my village. However, with corporate houses providing resources as well as setting targets to achieve equality in gender development, the road ahead is better defined. Rural Education and Development (Read) India, through its Community Library and Resource Centres (CLRCs) in 107 villages across 12 states, quite clearly leads in the empowerment race. She conducted trainings in stitching and sewing, computers and other need-based requirements of the five villages she was working with. She was able to register 250 women for various courses and, like Farah, takes home `6,000 a month. Despite the ups and downs in India’s march to attain its Sustainable Development Goals for gender equality and women’s empowerment, there are some truly heart-warming stories of the new surge for gender equality coming from rural India. This is a major sign of empowerment because 47 per cent of the girls in India marry before 18, the legal age of marriage

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