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Annexure III
Activities Drudgery Related Reduction to
Drudgery
nature or
under
involves
Swa-Shakti
acute labour
has been
or excessive
defined
amounts
as any activity,
of time.
which
Most
is
of
repetitive
the daily
in
tasks,
such as
which
fetching
are
water,
repetitive,
collecting
involving
fuelwood,
excessive
fodder,
labour
grinding
and time
grain,
are
cooking,
done by
weeding,
women,
sowing
which lead
or transplanting
to various health
in the
ailments—women
fields etc. These tasks
have
can
to
cause
walk long
drudgery
distances
hazards,
collect fuelwood, fodder, water, inhale smoke in case of cooking and also sit or
to
stand
Thus activities
in a certain
aimed
posture
at reducing
for long
drudgery
hours while
would
working
also in
in
turn
the field
reduce
or
the
in the
incidence
house.
of drudgery
Activities
hazards
aimed
and
at
related
drudgery
health
reduction
problems.
interventions, practice – related interventions and
can
gender
be categorised
interventions.
as support
Support Interventions
and
These
making
could
interventions
be mapping activities
to reduce
throughout
the amount
the
of
woman’s
time or
day
labour
that
involved
involve drudgery
that activity. For example, building a small water storage tank, introducing drudgery
in doing
reducing
pulley at the
equipments
village well
for
to
grinding
reduce
grains,
the amount
weeding,
of force
de-shelling
required
corn,
to pull
etc.,
water
installing
out of
a
the well, introducing improved sickle/axe that requires less force etc.
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