Introduction...

SUCHETANA a fully Women's Voluntary organization started its journey from nineteen eighty-five. To introduced themselves as follows:

Way back in late eighties, when the State of West Bengal, after witnessing the civil turmoil lasting a couple of years came to a near normalcy and some amount of stability came in side, political leaders shrugging off their other roles turned to reconstruct the State. Rural development were duly prioritized by the public sector agencies and also the voluntary organization. A group of women those are harassed and exploited and oppressed they used to meet frequently and would discuss the developmental aspects particularly, in respect of the down trodden, deserted or otherwise socially oppressed and financially poor. They also kept a close vigil on the process of development, being followed by different agencies. Accordingly apparently, most of the voluntary organization were engrossed in carrying out the directives of their respective top-level management and most of the projects and programmes were hardly, in line with the real needs of the target people. Unfortunately, the people with the reigns, mostly came from financially, educationally and culturally well-off strata of the society and so, the inevitable took place. A new sort of feudalistic trained started running the show. The group of untouchable women who, were concerned about the process, understood that the true purpose of development was lost. The poor and economically backward class continued to live in the same dungeon of exploitation and deprivation. The positive change in the quality of the lives of the down trodden were more or less static in comparison to that of the past in other terms, the poor fellows were thrown into the fire from the frying pan. An-urge to lead the developmental activities in the correct direction was elicited in the group of these women’s. Through, it took some more time, finally there came a band of rural women who were either politically victimized or socially oppressed, collectively volunteered their resources to coalesce into a society. “SUCHETANA” and thus a vision got a shape. In later days these women’s sprang into action with a certain mission to bring about a positive change in the status of women of the society. It is encouraging to note that in spite of the same tradition, now going on and even though waves of constraints continue to invade but the dauntless spirits of these women’s refuse to succumb to the constrains.