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Women in Temple Committees Maskeliya Group Correspondent Mr. S. K. Chandarsegaran, Field Co-ordianting Officer of PREDO at a function held at Campion Tamil Vidyalaya, Bogawantalawa to felicitate the women members of the Temple Committee said that the appointment of women to the Temple Committees on Plantations would create a new era in the efforts of women's development activities and would lead to attitudinal changes among all concerned. Chandrasegaran said that temple committees in the plantations which had been administering the affairs of the temple since the arrival to plantation workers from India had become a power structure, taking all important decisions, not only with regard to the religious affairs of the people but also other social matters, and have retained this position up to date. He said that although women in the plantations make the major financial contribution towards the administration of the temple, they were never appointed to the temple committee nor were they included in decision-making with regard to the affairs of the temple or expenses on the basis of strong-rooted cultural norms and practices. He said that PREDO had been agitating for a long time that women should be appointed to the temple committees enabling them to make direct participation in the administrative affairs of the temple to ensure the proper conduct of the temple festivals and also to create gender sensitivity in society and ensure gender equality for plantation women for whom these opportunities have been totally denied hereto. As a result of the awareness created by the PREDO four women were appointed to the Temple Committee of the Campion Plantation, Bogawantalawa and three women were appointed to Braemor Plantations in Agrapatana. This shows an equality in administrative power with men". |
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