ABOUT
About Sutapa Chakraborty
Mrs. Sutapa Chakraborty and Keertika are one and the same.
She has also been instrumental in coordination of government sponsored and NGO-run networking and liaison-building initiatives and other autonomous and constituted bodies/agencies with more than two decades’ interactions with and close handling of project and programme-related matters concerning the following: Department of Social and Family Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal; the Directorate of Correctional Services, Govt. of West Bengal; West Bengal Commission for Women; Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of West Bengal.
Her Areas of Specialization (Women’s Right Endeavors)
- Rights and entitlements of women inmates, including non-criminal lunatics, of correctional homes; victims of domestic violence and other forms of sexual abuse, assault and harassment of women and girl children
- Rights and entitlements of physically challenged persons with a special focus on differently abled women and girls
- Rights and entitlements of persons suffering from and potentially exposed to HIV/AIDS
- Entitlements of exploited and oppressed women’s rights to property
- Entitlements of women’s rights to safe environment and accountable governance (right to information)
- Administration and supervision of a short-stay shelter for women in difficult circumstances under the Swadhar Scheme of the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India
- Administration and supervision of a short-stay shelter for abused and trafficked girl children under a Hope Foundation-funded project.
Areas of Specialization (Civil Society Work-General)
- Planning, supervision and monitoring of NGO-run service delivery projects /programmes.
- Planning, supervision and monitoring of NGO-run capacity-building, awareness-generating and advocacy-oriented projects/programmes.
- Participation in and coordination of government sponsored and NGO-run networking and liaison-building initiatives and other autonomous and constituted bodies/agencies. (More than two decades’ interactions with and close handling of project and programme-related matters concerning the following: Department of Social and Family Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal; the Directorate of Correctional Services, Govt. of West Bengal; West Bengal Commission for Women; Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of West Bengal.
- Orchestration and evaluation of campaigns and advocacy programmes.
- Organization of workshops, seminars, symposia and training programmes.
She has been highly proactive in the past as
- Senior Director, Human Rights Law Network, Kolkata
- Special Officer, Calcutta High Court (In-charge of rehabilitation of non-criminal lunatic inmates of correctional homes in West Bengal)
- In-House Counselor, Family Counseling Centre, Legal Aid Services-West Bengal (LASWEB), Kolkata
- Member, Executive Committee, Maitree, the leading network of more than 50 women’s rights organizations
- Member, South-East Asian Wing, Soroptomist’s International
- Member, State Secretariat, Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL)
SHE HAS KEPT UP HER GOOD WORK AS
- Vice Chairperson, Legal Aid Services-West Bengal (LASWEB), Kolkata
- Judge, Lok Adalats, KMC, State Bank of India & State Legal Services Authority