After working for over a decade in multinational corporations in Delhi, Malvika Mudgal, an MBA graduate and Public Coverage skilled, left her effectively paying job and splendid metropolis life to work for the individuals in rural Rajasthan. For 34 yr outdated Malvika, it was difficult to construct a brand new life in one of the backward assemblies of the state, Rajakhera. When she misplaced her father, Ashok Sharma final yr, her world fell aside.
“I made a decision to hold ahead my father’s dream of empowering the individuals of Rajakhera. As a daughter, he at all times supported me in every part. Impressed by his imaginative and prescient, I’m now utilizing the energy of my schooling and world expertise to bridge the developmental gaps in Rajakhera,” shared Malvika. Sharma was an influential politician within the area for Congress earlier than shifting to the BJP. For over three many years, he labored for the empowerment of the locals throughout the Dholpur district. In 2018, he contested from the BJP in Rajakhera and misplaced the elections by 14,000 votes to Rohit Bohra of Congress. After his sudden demise, Malvika and her brother Dushyant Ashok Sharma took up the reins of honouring their father’s legacy. Dushyant labored within the company sector for over 6 years earlier than he returned to Rajakhera to assist his father within the constituency.
Malvika is leveraging her public coverage and improvement sector expertise in uplifting the village. She alongside along with her brother, Dushyant is on a mission to rework Rajakhera which is listed below NITI Aayog’s Aspirational District Programme. In her new innings as a politician, she has taken important steps independently to alter the face of Rajakhera inside one yr. “After I got here to Rajakhera, it felt just like the nation had progressed forward whereas the individuals right here had been caught many years behind. What Rajakhera wants is disruptive change, leaders with imaginative and prescient and impeccable implementation of presidency insurance policies. My brother and I realise that now we have an uphill job forward of us, however our mixed energy can maybe change the face of Rajakhera in 5 years,” stated Malvika.
This village regardless of being solely an hour drive away from the capital metropolis of Agra is minimize off from fundamental services in some ways. By way of her in depth group outreach, she creates consciousness on points associated to fundamental infrastructure, water, well being, schooling, monetary inclusion & talent improvement and agriculture. “One of the best a part of my conferences are the youth and ladies. They deal with me as their household and share their issues with me. Primary infrastructure is so poor that there are life threatening incidents occurring that are additional resulting in harmful illnesses within the village. Not solely this, there are not any medical services and persons are being handled below the bushes which requires an emergency intervention. Collectively, we attempt to advocate for related points and discover options,” knowledgeable Malvika.
Malvika is a Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) aspirant for the meeting elections which are due later this yr. Thus far, she has coated 30 panchayats and pushed her ghar-gharjansamparkkaryakram out of 46 panchayats and 32 wards of Rajakhera. As one of many main ladies candidates from Rajakhera meeting, Malvika additionally undertook an in depth analysis examine to determine improvement challenges associated to fundamental improvement wants within the metropolis.
“It’s a distinctive examine which paperwork experiences of locals who’ve been made conscious of their fundamental rights and launched to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social welfare schemes,” she claimed. In mild of the “Transformation of Aspirational Districts” program launched by the Prime Minister which goals to rapidly and successfully remodel a number of the most underdeveloped districts of the nation, Dholpur is one among the many 5 recognized districts of Rajasthan.
