Gujarat NGO 'certified' best workplace for women for second year in a row

By A Representative
SEWA Rural, a Gujarat-based NGO, has been certified as the best workplace for women for second year in row by the Great Place to Work, which, says an NGO communique, is a global authority in “creating, sustaining and recognizing high-trust, high-performance culture at workplaces”. The organization partners more than 10,000 oragnizations across 60 countries to help them build a great work culture for their employees.
Claims the NGO, SEWA Rural is “the only NGO in India certified as best workplace for women, is the only NGO in Gujarat to be in listed among top 50 midsize workplaces across the country, and is among top 10 NGOs to work for in India.”

The communique states, the NGO sets “an example for NGOs and corporates, adding it has a “whopping 54% of its workforce as women”, which has been provided with “family centered work environment”, a factor which makes it attractive to women workforce.
A voluntary service organisation operating in the rural tribal area of South Gujarat, especially in and around Jhagadia and Bharuch, the communique says, since, our inception in 1980, it is “involved in health and development activities which caters to around 2000 villages.”
The NGO contends, it provides “flexible sick leave to take care of children or aging parents; 26 weeks’ paid maternity leave, free child birth care in its hospital, and on campus creche”, adding, it has a “fully functional internal complaints committee.”