The NGO, Mahila Samakhya, adopted an innovative method to communicate about the Panchayat Raj system to the women in villages. Identify the same.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Phad
The story of two villages, Sukhipur and Dhukipur, was told on a cloth ‘phad’ or scroll, a traditional folk medium of story telling. Its pictures, accompanied with folk music, carried the message of good governance and participation to unlettered women.
Note: The chapter ‘The Story of Indian Democracy’ of the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023, has been renamed ‘The Constitution and Social Change’ in the NCERT book (2025-26). Its box on Panchayati Raj training for illiterate women, with the story told on the phad, is still there.
NCERT: Social Change and Development in India — Chapter 3: The Constitution and Social Change, Box 3.5 (2025-26)
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