Orissa woman sarpanch to represent India at US meet

A 28-year-old MBA graduate from Sikkim Manipal University who quit her job as an investment banker at IDBI Bank in Berhampur, Orissa, to become a sarpanch in a backward panchayat of Ganjam district in 2012, will represent India in the International Visitors Leadership Programme on State and Local Governments in the US next month.

Arati Devi became sarpanch of Dhunkapada grampanchayat under Polasara block at 27, becoming the youngest female sarpanch in the country. Her achievements were highlighted by The Indian Express in March 2013.

The IVLP is one of the US government’s prestigious professional exchange programmes for foreign opinion leaders and has so far hosted more than 130,000 participants. Former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have participated in the programme.

“It’s a major achievement for me. I never expected that I would be travelling to US and meeting the President. It would be a huge learning experience for me. In about a year, I have managed to do a lot of welfare work for my panchayat which I would share at the programme,” said Arati.

Home Visit Tour

First Official Field Visit Jagdishpur Agnawadi Center With Rekha Kumari (AWW) and ASHA (Punam Devi) to provide message pregnant lady about last quarter of pregnancy period and 6 month baby for the complementary food 2kautri in a days .

Jagdishpur  Agnawadi Center, Bhagawanpur Block Bihar Visit For Data Collection of TBGI Programme , One Special Child whose hands are underdeveloped after Premature Birth.  She stats writing with chalk using her legs.

Convocation Day:14th April 2013

The Day which remembered me more in my life , because i am the first person my family completed higher studies (PGDM in Development Studies) at EDI India, Ahmedabad. Post Graduation Degree given R.M Malla (Chairmain of IDBI bank) and Rajiv Takru (Union Finance Secretary,India). Stared my education life in the year 1994 to 2013( nearly 20yrs).