{"id":7223,"date":"2022-11-03T12:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:27:08","slug":"ela-ramesh-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ela-ramesh-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ela Ramesh Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ela Ramesh Bhatt:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>She was known as the &#8220;Gentle Revolutionary&#8221; who changed the lives of lakhs of women through her organisation, providing them microloans for five decades.<\/li>\n<li>She was the founder of the Self-Employed Women\u2019s Association (SEWA).<\/li>\n<li>SEWA was founded by her in 1972. It is one of the largest cooperatives working for women, with a base of over two million members from around 18 States in the country and in neighbouring nations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She headed the women\u2019s wing of Majoor Mahajan Sangh \u2013 the Textile Labour Association founded by Anasuya Sarabhai and Mahatma Gandhi.<\/li>\n<li>She was the chairperson of the Sabarmati Ashram Memorial and Preservation Trust, also co-founded the Women\u2019s World Banking, a global network of microfinance organisations, of which she was chairperson from 1984 to 1988.<\/li>\n<li>She was also nominated to\u00a0Rajya Sabha, was a member of the Planning Commission, and was advisor to organisations like the World Bank.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, she joined the Elders, a group of world leaders founded by\u00a0Nelson Mandela\u00a0to promote human rights and peace.<\/li>\n<li>She was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, Ramon Magsaysay Award and Indira Gandhi International Prize for Peace among many other awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sewa-founder-ela-bhatt-dies\/article66086421.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was the founder of the Self-Employed Women\u2019s Association (SEWA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}