• PRAGATI’s Lobby and Advocacy Initiatives have resulted in the state of Uttarakhand the first in the country to pass the Landmark bill titled “The Uttarakhand Panchayat Law (Amendment) Bill 2008” bringing 50% reservation in Panchayats and double term at the Pradhan level for women. Now this has resulted in the Centre taking a stand for provining 50% rervation for women in all local bodies.
• 50% rervation for women in provided in Panchayats in Uttarakhand. However, women have been elected to grass-root bodies in large numbers i.e. 53% this is attributed to the efforts of PRAGATI.
• PRAGATI made a Presentation before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personal, Public Grievances, Law and Justice (June, 2007) on the issue of sensitizing the members on “Nyaya Panchayat”.The views of PRAGATI were appreciated and are under consideration by the Parliament.
• Open Forum an annual Ritual is organised for 800 Elected Women Functionaries with represenation from other states also. It is a Macro-level intervention aimed at creating a pressure-lobby to influence legislation and public policy in sustaining women’s struggle towards effective decentralization of powers and strengthen the Institution of Local Governance. The Open Forums have been instrumental in bringing major policy review and changes at the Regional and the National level.
• An all women team of RLEK-PRAGATI gave a presentation on the 73rd and 74th Amendments before the Standing Committee of the Parliament on Urban and Rural Development in December 2001. The suggestions of the team were incorporated in the 56^th report of the Committee.