It’s a cold and foggy December morning. But this hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of 35-year-old Nirmala and her 65-year-old mother-in-law, Resham. The two, along with 13 other women, hired a tempo from their village, Chundika, early in the morning and headed to Rangala, a neighbouring village in Tauru block of Nuh district, Haryana. As their tempo splutters to a halt in front of a brightly coloured shamiana, Nirmala tells the women to step out. She asks them to hold the papers they have brought safely in their hands. “Don’t lose them otherwise we will not be able to achieve what we have come for at the legal literacy camp,” she cautions them.
“We are all part of a Self-Help Group (SHG) and know that documents like the Aadhaar card, voter’s card and ration card are important. But we don’t know how these can be used to access government schemes. All of us have come to learn more about that,” explains Nirmala.