Panchayat Raj Institutions and Empowerment of Dalit Women in Rural India

Abstract
Achieving the empowerment of Dalit women is one of the progressive reforms brought on by local authorities in India. However, ongoing heterogeneity focuses on the disproportionate representation of women from diverse cultures and caste classes. While the emancipation of Dalit women (the most marginalized and impoverished segment of Indian society) is an important human rights problem in itself, in the face of a world afflicted by caste politicization, it also facilitates the realization of a multitude of other associated human rights associated with the same caste community.  Dalit women's democratic voice and decision-making capacity in essential facilities, economic growth and social justice are crucial factors in questioning and changing systemic caste class segregation towards their substantive inclusion and allowing them to understand their constitutional rights.
Political involvement in this regard often requires the attention of the state and the increasing role of non-state players in ensuring and respecting equitable political voice and social appreciation for these women. It involves a restructuring in power ties both within the structures of municipal government and within the grassroots social setting. In this regard, the paper argues that India has given ample room for grassroots women's political empowerment by offering a quota concept in the concept of local governance. Yet, to increase, stabilize and grow on an equitable footing, challenging the fractured Indian social framework, it is essential to evaluate and locate the empowerment problem of Dalit women through a het.