EU-PARMART Yearly <strong>Progress</strong> <strong>Report</strong>action as when required to assert their water right and demand for their entitlements, servicesand delivery mechanisms.‣ 14 cases of water rights violation was reported to Pani Panchayat, under its leadershipthese cases have been received attention by local government authority for redressmechanism.‣ Pani Panchayt of Ghaholi villagesof Mama Gram Panchayat in Hamirpur district hastaken the responsibility for maintenance of ponds other water bodies.With the collectiveeffort of Pani Panchayt, around 40 villagers have been mobilised to clean up the villageponds on volunteer basis regularly.‣ The Pani Panchayt members regularly attend Gram Sabha meetings and claim theirstakes in the meeting by demanding to include their decision on communitydevelopment and entailments matters.Creation of Jal Sahelis: As per project vision,creation of Jal Sehali was mooted,by identifyingtwo women cadre from each targeted village of 96. So that,with the aim, these women cadrescanbecome watch dogs and address the issue of water resources and other development agendawith Gram Sabha, in Panchayat meetings, and also to highlight the problems with blockdevelopment officials. With this consent… and realising its importance the village women haveidentified 161 Jal Sehelis who have become activemembers andhave engaged themselves byplaying keyinstrumental role in grounding the project aims and specific objectives. Evidently,Women First Right to Water Resources and the issues that are connected to it have been theirpriority concern and learning. It is thus, the Jal Sehalisnetworks have become catalyst of watchdog and have induced to change makers in the villages by liasioning with service providers andrepresentatives of PRIs bodies.Their engagement with issues has facilitated them to mobilize andstimulate collective actionsof pressure building groups in the villages in order to realize‗Women‘sFirst Right to Water Resources‘ 2 .Media Intervention:Creation of Website: Website was constructed with the help of WFS http://bundelkhandwater-rights.org/index.phpon May 31, 2011. Regularly, the web portal has been up loaded witheach and every activity, action, related photographs, and other related news for wider audience.The portal also has become element of knowledge sharing bank to wider audiences and othernetworks those who working on water rights worldwide. On the other hand the portal hascreated visibility to project and programmes among web browsers and mainstream media as well.Publication of Newsletters in Hindi and English: During project period 1000 copies of JalAdhiikar Jeevan Aadhar three issues each has been published in Hindi. 200 copies of, Englishversion, Water Matters, Water Rights three issue has been published. These newsletters havebeen disseminated to wide range of audience including government departments, otheradministrative authorities, and legislative bodies etc.Media Interface Workshop with Local Mainstream media personnel: Media interfaceworkshop was organised on August 11, 2011, at Hotel Sunrise, Orai, and 21 journalists attendedthe workshop. The half day workshop was facilitated by WFS team. The workshop focusedon— issues of water rights, gender dimension and its vulnerability, exclusionof women andDalits in delivery mechanism. The challenges and problems faced by the communities in theBundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. The session drew up by news analysis of two leading local2 Jal Sehali case studyParmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan Page 5