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Detailed explanation-1: -Ela Bhatt was recipient of both the Padma Shri as well as the Padma Bhushan awards for her contribution in the field of women empowerment and enterpreneurship.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ela Bhatt was particularly involved in The Elders’ work on gender equality, including on the issue of ending child marriage. As part of Elders’ delegations, and as one of India’s foremost women’s rights activists, she travelled around India encouraging state governments and civil society to vigorously tackle the issue.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) was founded in 1972 by Indian lawyer and social activist Ela Bhatt and a small group of other women whose unique needs as indigent female informal textile workers were not being met by conventional labour unions.
Detailed explanation-4: -SEWA was founded in 1972 by labor lawyer and organiser Ela Bhatt. It emerged from the Women’s Wing of the Textile Labour Association (TLA), a labour union founded by Gandhi in 1918. The organisation grew very quickly, with 30, 000 members in 1996, to 318, 527 in 2000, to 1, 919, 676 in 2013., and nearly 2 million in 2023.