By Our Correspondent in Bhubaneswar, February 20, 2015 :

Experts here on Friday batted for enumeration the disadvantaged lone female folks and istitutionalisation of their entitlements.

Participating in the two-day workshop organised by ActionAid on ensuring rights of single women that ended on Friday, the experts and senior government officials threw lights on difficulties faced by the single women in the society. The panelists were unanimous that every single woman should own at least some lands as part of social security.

Case studies presented in the workshop revealed that many single women were not treated properly in their families and society as well. They struggled to avail their due entitlements, including a share in the paternal property.

In case of landless families, the condition of the single women was more terrible. They found themselves less protected and vulnerable.

Many single women who attended the workshop said, because of the intervention made by ActionAid in cooperation with the state government, they have now lands in their respective villages.

“After we got record of rights or patta of the lands given to us by the state government, we feel more secured now,” Sajani Prusty and Bhagyalata Sahoo, two single women, said.

ActionAid progamme manager Ghasiram Panda, while sharing the status of single women of 11 tehsils of Ganjam district, said 2179 beneficiaries in seven tehsils of Ganjam district were given physical possessions of the land.