Facts about the Gulabi Gang you must know!
Our Monthly Newsletter Subscription.
- Sampat Pal Devi founded The Gulabi Gang in 2006 to fight against the violence against women.
- A mother of five, Pal, made a mission to stop the domestic abuse and made the ‘Gang’ with other women of her village.
- Dressed in a Gulabi (Pink) colored Sari, the women storm the individual house where they find an incident of domestic abuse.
- They also visit the rude husbands to beat them up with bamboo sticks till they discontinue their habit of abusing their wives.
- The group has also played a major role in stopping child marriages, dowry, and female illiteracy rate by a lot.
- In year 2008, the group stormed an electricity center in Banda district to pressurize officials to turn on the power which was disrupted to extort bribes.
- The Gang is portrayed positively in the Indian media
- The group has around 20,000 members (figures of 2009)
- The Gang also has a chapter in Paris, France!
