Nari Mukti Sangh

The organisation is influenced from "(scientific) Marxism, Leninism and Maoism", and "believes that national problems can be solved through people's struggle and on the basis of independence, democracy, equality, women's liberation and socialism."{{cite book |title=The Indian Political System |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ij_dTJBc2p8C&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |editor1-first=Mahendra Prasad |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Subhendu Ranjan |editor2-last=Raj |publisher=Pearson Education (Dorling Kindersley) |year=2012 |isbn=978-81-31761-24-3}} The NMS describes India as a "semi-feudal" country,{{cite book |title=The Indian Political System |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ij_dTJBc2p8C&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |editor1-first=Mahendra Prasad |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Subhendu Ranjan |editor2-last=Raj |publisher=Pearson Education (Dorling Kindersley) |year=2012 |isbn=978-81-31761-24-3 |quote=In a similar vein, on the eve of International Women's Day on 8 March 1997, the Nari Mukti Sangh, Bihar, argued that India is a semi-feudal nation.}} and avers that "without a radical transformation of the state, women liberation is not possible."{{cite book |title=Dalit Women on the Move: The Bihar Scenario |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GnaAAAAMAAJ&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |author1=Sachchidananda |author2=Niraj Kumar |publisher=Serials |year=2005 |page=109 |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-86771-94-5 |oclc=62733085 |quote=Nari Mukti Sangh recognizes 'State Patriarchy' as the prime contradiction and argues that without a radical transformation of the State, Women Liberation is not possible.}}

The organisation strives to generate "space to women’s voice" and motivates them to partake in "economic, political and social activity and decision making processes." The NMS's volunteers goes from village to village in Bihar and Jharkhand, and with the collaboration of local women, tries to mete out punishment to "perpetrators of sexual violence through people’s courts", and endeavours to "cordially straighten out the quarrels amongst family members." It also organises "kranti ka paathshaala" (school of revolution) to educate women, and so far has enabled thousands of women to read and write.

Shoma Sen writes,

{{quote|"Picketing at health centres where there are no doctors, at schools where teachers are absent, fighting for equitable distribution of food grains, for better wages and better remunerative prices, for equal wages for equal work between men and women, these tribal women’s organizations [Nari Mukti Sangh and Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan] are democratizing the processes of women’s political, social and economic activities, thus making development and democracy more meaningful to them."}}

The NMS has become a cynosure in Jharkhand for their campaign in Pirtand forests of Giridih district to save the trees. They educate villagers about the significance of trees for humans and wildlife, and make them conscious about the possibilities of future natural disasters if the trees would be continuously cut down ignorantly. They have also alarmed to penalise the offenders with a fine of {{INR}} 1,000 or face physical punishment.{{cite news |title=Red women on green rampage |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110831/jsp/jharkhand/story_14445998.jsp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140224135746/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110831/jsp/jharkhand/story_14445998.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 February 2014 |first=Vishvendu |last=Jaipuriar |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=31 August 2011 |access-date=24 February 2014}}

The NMS is believed to be a "front organisation" of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) by the Ministry of Home Affairs,{{cn|date=July 2020}} and is also viewed as an arm of the Maoist Coordination Center.{{cite book |title=New Dimensions of Women Empowerment |chapter=Empowerment of Women in Bihar |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCUzD0UqCgsC&pg=PA444 |first=Prakash |last=Louis |editor-first=Ajit Kumar |editor-last=Sinha |publisher=Deep and Deep |year=2008 |page=444 |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-84500-89-9 |oclc=271833282}}

• Chetna Natya Manch
• Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti
• National Federation of Indian Women

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPIMIB/MIB-27.pdf A few words on my political life-story by Comrade Sheela, President of Nari Mukti Sangh (NMS)] in: Maoist Information Bulletin, No. 27, June 2013. pp. 34-35

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