Local bodies set up spaces for women to come together

Arts and sports clubs person been a changeless beingness successful Kerala’s towns and villages for decades, but astir of these person remained spaces exclusively for men to hangout. Now, assorted section aforesaid authorities bodies are taking an effort to code the deficiency of specified hangout spaces for women by mounting up these utilizing their ain funds for the purpose.

One of the section bodies to instrumentality the inaugural to acceptable up a dedicated abstraction for women to get unneurotic is the Pullampara grama panchayat successful Thiruvananthapuram, which opened ‘Pennidam’, a gathering located successful a crippled of onshore adjacent to the panchayat bureau successful August this year. The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has besides acceptable up a ‘Vanitha Kendram’ astatine Attukal ward, which is expected to beryllium inaugurated soon.

The Pullampara panchayat’s ‘Pennidam’ has a tiny library, newspapers and periodicals, chess, carrom committee and committee games, arsenic good arsenic assorted grooming programmes to pull much women to the space. According to Aswathy S.R., vice-president of the Pullampara grama panchayat, implicit 30 women from the country person begun often visiting the space, ever since it opened a fewer weeks ago.

“We had initially dispersed connection astir the caller inaugural for women done grama sabhas, Kudumbashree groups and societal media. Later, we started organising events including occupation fairs and taste programmes to get radical to visit. Now, we person grooming programmes connected the weekends for Kerala Nadanam and painting, for which a fewer women person signed up. In a abbreviated time, it has go an progressive abstraction with older arsenic good arsenic younger women frequenting it,” says Ms.Aswathy.

In Iranimuttom located successful the Attukal ward successful Thiruvananthapuram, a 2 storied gathering dispersed implicit 2,680 quadrate feet has been constructed for the ‘Vanitha Kendram’. A ‘She gym’ has besides been acceptable up adjacent to the building.

“The Vanitha Kendram has rooms for women to travel together, work oregon organise events arsenic good arsenic an air-conditioned mini hall, remainder rooms and a tiny room facility. We are hoping to unfastened the doors of the Vanitha Kendram to the nationalist soon. In addition, different ‘She Hub’ volition besides beryllium coming up successful the ward,” says R.Unnikrishnan, councillor of the Attukal ward.