Kali raiger

      Kali raiger – victim of molestation in work place-2007, village Mandal

Kali raiger belongs to a lower caster poor family. She wanted to earn money to support her family. She started to work for a night school where girls are encouraged to get education and learn. The principal of that school one night started blaming her that she stole the 100 rupees bill that he has kept there. She tried hard to tell him that she did not take it but it was all in his plan and bad intentions .. he kept touching her all over her body in the name of checking for his 100Rs. Kali complained about this incident to the supervisor but there was no action taken.

Now Kalli contacted Taraji and she took Kali and got this incident reported to the district collector.  Soon that man was suspended because of the collector’s pressure. After this incident many women who were facing eve teasing , foul comments and violations got the confidence to come out and speak about their problems.

Kali got interested in studying law after this. She collected money to support her education with the help of her friends and well wishers and fulfilled her dream to study LLB in 2 years. She wanted to prepare for district magistrate exams but sure to poor financial status of her house and seeing her parents work as labourers she decided to take a teaching job instead. Today she is happy to teach and support her family. She is the first girl from her community to study that much and work. She is awarded this honor since unlike other women who shy away from telling their stories of office exploitation and try to sweep it under the carpet to protect their and their family’s name, Kali decided to fight the oppression , violation and  exploitation at her workplace without fear and hence sets up a great brave example.