Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association recognizes and pays homage to great leaders and social reformers who laid the foundation of this Associat.........
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Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association has a long standing reputation for carrying out welfare work among the under privileged women and childre.........
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The concept of starting a Mahila Samity came to the mind of Saroj Nalini Devi when she witnessed the plight of rural women during her travels to different.........
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In the words of Rabindranath Tagore, Saroj Nalini Dutt has been described as “in whom the streams of intellect and emotion emanating from this vast universe are not hindered from mingling in a deep and beautiful harmony. It is this ideal which we find realised in Saroj Nalini’s life. She had realised that to make the country advance, the first and foremost work was the awakening of its women. In spite of the illiteracy of the great majority of purdah women in Bengal, she had an unfaltering faith in their honesty and integrity of character and their capacity for efficient work. She therefore, directed her whole energy to get them to meet and cultivate mutual acquaintance and to progression health, in the economic life of the family and the nation alike. With this object in view, she established Mahila Samitis (Women’s Institutes) wherever she went and made every possible endeavour to rouse up her sex. From her own article in Kamala: A nation can never rise if its women remain ignorant. No amount of political agitation will be of any use so long as one side of us remains palsied. One half of India is stricken with paralysis, under the affliction of such ills as child- marriage and seclusion of women. What hopes can there be so long as these remain uncured? To start with, we may form a Samity in each district town and then gradually in every village. It was at Pabna in the year 1913 that Saroj Nalini established her first Mahila Samity.
The second one founded by her was the Birbhum Mahila Samity in 1916. The leading women of Birbhum raised a beautiful building and named it ‘Saroj Nalini Milan Mandir‘ (meeting hall) in memory of her name and as an expression of their gratitude for what she had done for them. Three weeks after her passing away i,e on 8th February 1925, before a very large and representative gathering of the public of Calcutta, her husband Late Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, announced donation amounting to Rs 5000/- with the object of establishing a central organisation of the nature contemplated by Saroj Nalini Dutt. Thus on the 23rd February 1925, SAROJ NALINI DUTT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION started its journey formally. The leading men and women of Bengal came forward and the Association took up the new work which Saroj Nalini conceived and initiated and the basic principle being the organising of the women themselves into groups for their own social, economic and educational emancipation, the awakening in them of a sense of their own responsibility for the work of uplift instead of depending merely upon men. The journey of hundred years was not an easy one.
Women’s empowerment, child welfare and care for elders have been the guiding principles on which we work and aim our goals. We have several units working under the umbrella of SNDMA (Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association). The second one founded by her was the Birbhum Mahila Samity in 1916. The leading women of Birbhum raised a beautiful building and named it ‘Saroj Nalini Milan Mandir‘ (meeting hall) in memory of her name and as an expression of their gratitude for what she had done for them. Three weeks after her passing away i,e on 8th February 1925, before a very large and representative gathering of the public of Calcutta, her husband Late Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, announced donation amounting to Rs 5000/- with the object of establishing a central organisation of the nature contemplated by Saroj Nalini Dutt. Thus on the 23rd February 1925, SAROJ NALINI DUTT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION started its journey formally. The leading men and women of Bengal came forward and the Association took up the new work which Saroj Nalini conceived and initiated and the basic principle being the organising of the women themselves into groups for their own social, economic and educational emancipation, the awakening in them of a sense of their own responsibility for the work of uplift instead of depending merely upon men. The journey of hundred years was not an easy one. Women’s empowerment, child welfare and care for elders have been the guiding principles on which we work and aim our goals. We have several units working under the umbrella of SNDMA (Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association).
Association still follows the basic objectives laid down by Shri Gurusaday Dutt. Some of these objectives are:---
To educate women from low income groups of society in both urban and rural areas.
To set up facilities for the health care of mothers and children and to teach hygiene,principles of basic health and childcare to rural and urban women.
To teach women about nutrition and family-planning in order to improve the general quality of their lives.
To establish and run vocational training centers for the improvement of the economic condition of women.
To work for the welfare of children with concern to their health, education and other development activities.
To spread general awareness among women about their socio-economic status in society, with special emphasis on women of rural areas.
S.N.D.M.A is managed by the members of its Executive Committee where the Executive Committee is changed every three years during an A.G.M. In addition to the Executive Committee, there are twenty-four Sub-Committees. The respective Secretary of each such section is selected from amongst the Executive Committee members. Besides this, the management of the Old Age Homes - Dinante I & Dinante II is directly under the President of S.N.D.M.A. In fact, S.N.D.M.A is one of the oldest Constituent Founder Members of the organization - Associated Country Women of the World (A.C.W.W). Details of S.N.D.M.A's registration are as follows: Registered under Act XX of 1860 Registration No.
1526 dates 6.7.1926 President's from 1925-2009: The first lady President who took initial responsibility of this institution was Smt Hemlata Thakur. She is popularly known as 'Boroma'. She remained in this position for a long time. Later she shifted to Puri, accepting the charge, of 'Basanta Kumari Devi Bidhava Ashram'.
After Hemlata Thakur, it was Smt Charu Biswas who became the President of this institution. Following her Smt Manisha Roy was installed as the President. In the year 1972, Smt Aroti Dutta took charge and continued in this prestigious position till the year 2003.
After Smt Aroti Dutt, the President's Office was taken over by Smt Meera Chaudhuri. She continued till the year 2006.
In the year 2006, the mantle of President was worn by Smt Sumita Sanyal.
In the year 2020 the mantle of President was worn by Smt Aditi Choudhury.
List of Executive Committee Members 2022 to 2023---
