Ritu Jaiswal is an Indian politician and member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). She became RJD State Speaker in 2021 and State President of RJD (Women’s Wing) in 2023.
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Ritu Jaiswal was born on Tuesday, March 1, 1977 (age 46; as of 2023) in Hajipur, Bihar, India. His zodiac sign is Pisces. He did his schooling from St. Paul’s High School, Hajipur. After that he did his BA in Economics from Vaishali Mahila College, Hajipur. In 1996, she married a bureaucrat named Arun Kumar and started living in Khel Gaon, Delhi.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family and caste
He belongs to the Hindu Rajput community, a minority in Bihar.
parents and siblings
His father, Bhola Prashad Choudhary (deceased), was killed. His mother’s name is Asha Jaiswal. He has two brothers, one younger and one older. One of his brothers name is Raju.
Ritu Jaiswal with her mother Asha Jaiswal
Ritu Jaiswal with her younger brother
husband and children
On December 7, 1996, she married bureaucrat Arun Kumar, a former commissioner of the Chief Vigilance Commission (CVC). Before that, he served as an officer of the Ordnance Factories Service of India. In 2021, following in his wife’s footsteps, Arun won the post of Mukhya of Gram Panchayat Singhwahin.
Ritu Jaiswal with her husband Arun Kumar
They have two children together, son Ritwik Ariyan and daughter Avani. Both studied at a boarding school in Bengaluru.
Ritu Jaiswal with her children
religion
He follows Hinduism.
Ritu Jaiswal prays to Goddess Durga
signature/autograph
Ritu Jaiswal’s signature
A turning point in Jaiswal’s life
In 1996, she married bureaucrat Arun Kumar and started living a luxurious life in Khel Gaon, a posh locality in Delhi. In 2013, sixteen years after her marriage, Ritu visited her ancestral home in Narkatiya village in Sonbarsa block in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district. Before that, he spent his life in the urban slum, unaware of the plight of rural India. To his utter dismay, he discovered that the village lacked basic amenities such as electricity and clean drinking water. In an interview, while describing his experience in the village, he said:
When I had to cross the river to walk through the village with my chaff in hand, my feet covered with human excrement, I could only remember the stories of Prem Chand. It broke my heart to see the people of these villages in extreme poverty, children and pregnant women malnourished. There were no youth in these villages, only old people and women, pregnant women, children and widows.”
Therefore, she decided to work for the upliftment of the village, starting with providing better education to the girls. At that time, a village girl, who had a B.Ed. degree, worked as a school teacher in Bokaro, Jharkhand. Ritu offered that girl with better pay to teach girls in Sitamarhi, starting with a group of 25 girls; 12 of them passed 10th with flying colours. Ritu started visiting the village often. He also brought a projector to spread awareness among the villagers on various topics like open defecation, pesticide-free farming and domestic violence. His inquiries revealed that the village electrification scheme was sanctioned, after which he mobilized the villagers and took them to the electricity office to implement the scheme. He successfully revived the lights and fans in 2015 in the 80s family. Happy with the development he brought to the village, he decided to return to his town in May 2016, but the villagers changed their mind and elected him as the Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat Singhwahin, Sitamarhi, Bihar.
Career
As Mukhia from Gram Panchayat Raj Singhwahin
In 2016, he contested and won the election to the post of Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat Raj Singhwahini, securing 72% of the 6,500-strong electorate and became the ruler of the seven villages that make up Singhwahini Panchayat – Narkatiya, Khutadi, Chohadi, Kaharwahi, Bahahahi, Bahahahahawahi, Jankinagar. The first challenge he faced was open defecation. She formed a group of women to educate men and women about the health and social impacts of open defecation. With the help of DM Rajeev Roshan, 2000 toilets were constructed in the village and the panchayat was declared ODF (No Open Defecation) in October 2016.
Ritu Jaiswal is spreading awareness about using toilets to end open defecation
Other developments he brought to the village during his tenure include installation of hand pumps in 12 panchayat wards, pucca roads and collaboration of the Indian Agricultural Research Team with panchayat farmers for better yields.
Ritu Jaiswal poses on the newly constructed Singhwahin road
To improve the PDS (Public Distribution System), he collected 14,000 village PDS cards from the panchayat, tabulated the details and found that the population required 8,853 units of ration. An investigation into the matter revealed that two of the five dealers in the village were allotted more and three less ration than the units allotted to their shops. Thereafter, a presentation was made before the DM after which the Block Development Officer (BDO) was instructed to distribute the ration. He then observed that some teachers reported late for work in nine schools of the panchayat. Instead of teaching the teachers at the school himself, he decided to go to “Gandigiri” and instructed the guardians of the children to greet the teachers with folded hands and say:
Kiya sir, ham apka doh gante se intezar kar rahein hain” (Sir, we have been waiting for you for two hours.)
Embarrassed teachers soon mended their ways.
Ritu Jaiswal drinking water from a hand pump in Singwahin, which she successfully installed to provide clean drinking water to the village
As a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) politician
In 2020, he joined the Janata Dal (United) ahead of the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, but left the party when he realized that he would be given a ticket from a constituency other than the Parihari Assembly constituency in Sitamarhi district, where he had spent the last four years as a Mukhiya from the Gram Panchayat. After that, he started contesting elections as an independent candidate, but was offered a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) ticket. He contested and lost the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections on a party ticket from RJD from Parihar.
Ritu Jaiswal is campaigning ahead of the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections
He became the State Speaker of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 2021. On 25 April 2023, she became the State President of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (Women’s Wing).
Awards, honors, achievements
- On 18 January 2017, he received the “Uchh Shikshit Adarsh Yuva Sarpanch (Mukhiya) Puraskaar 2016” at the 7th Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad by the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Government, Pune.
- On 26 December 2018, he was conferred with the Champions of Change (Award) 2018 by Honorary Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
Ritu Jaiswal was awarded the Champions of Change (Prize) by Honorary Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 26 December 2018
- On 23 October 2019, the Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Government of India awarded the National Panchayat Award “Deen Dayal Upadhayay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar – 2019” to Miss Gram Panchayat Singhwain in New Delhi.
- On 21 June 2019, the Rural Marketing Association of India presented him with the ‘Flame Leadership Award – 2019’ at Taj Santacruz, Mumbai.
- In 2020, she received the Times Women Extraordinaire Award from the Times of India.
Ritu Jaiswal receives Times Women Extraordinaire Award (2020)
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, she revealed that she was known for her leadership qualities and rebellious attitude during her college days. She revealed that she would distribute her mother’s sarees to poor women without informing her.
- Ritu was among the 5 Mukhiyas selected to represent Bihar in the Sarpanch and Panchayat Secretaries Capacity Building Program by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi.
- An eloquent public speaker, Ritu has spoken at various events including the international conference LPG: Catalyst of Social Change-2 in Ranchi (2018), SEE Talks held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai (2018), TED (conference) in Patna (2018) and Democracy Express when the Indian School was 20919).
- He has a pet dog named Jerry.
Ritu Jaiswal with her dog Jerry
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