03-28-2011, 03:54 AM
United Nations, March 27
There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.
For, from a distance one could easily mistake Chhavi Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress. But she is the sarpanch of Soda village, 60 km from Jaipur, in backward Rajasthan and the changing face of growing dynamic rural India. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110328/main8.htm
There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.
For, from a distance one could easily mistake Chhavi Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress. But she is the sarpanch of Soda village, 60 km from Jaipur, in backward Rajasthan and the changing face of growing dynamic rural India. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110328/main8.htm