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A Patriarch of

The Deprived Lot

By Aleem Faizee

With an exceptional care and kindness that can only be attributed to a mother Dr. Syeda Hameed works for the underprivileged people and with such a compassionate lady around one can hope for at least some betterment for the country in near future.

“We sanction hundred rupees but only one rupee finally goes to the people”, it was this famous Rajive Gandhi quotes that immediately came into my mind when I met Dr. Syeda Hameed in her chamber at the Planning Commission in Delhi.

Speaking exclusively with ummid.com after a meeting with a high-level delegation of Malegaon, she said, “ We at the Planning Commission are making schemes and the government is pumping money for people of the country. But when it comes to the implementation, these schemes are failed.”

In reply to a question she said that a scheme made for a particular section of the society living in a particular region could not suite same section of the society living at some other region. Elaborating further she said, “It is because deprived people living in Bihar or West Bengal, for example, have totally different issues in comparison with the same lot of people living in Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh.”

And to avoid failure, Dr. Hameed suggested, “In finding a feasible, focused, innovative and tailor-made solution, one has to work on ground level and personally assess the situation at various locations.”

It is probably because of this that she visits up and down the country for collecting first hand information. When she visited Malegaon recently she was shocked to see the pathetic conditions under which people of Malegaon were forced to live in and took the challenging task of the development of Malegaon in her hands.

Dr. Syeda Hameed, Founder Member of The Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WIPSA), Muslim Women's Forum, South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) and Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation is the member of the Planning Commission responsible for health but is working for every issue that is concerning the deprived people of the country specially women and children. Former member of the National Commission for Women, she had also rendered her services as Director of Colleges and Universities, Govt. of Alberta, Canada.

Writer of many books, Dr. Syeda Hameed in her recently released book 'They Hang - Twelve Women in My Portrait Gallery' narrated her personal experience of trying to help 12 wronged-women, who were denied justice, with rare courage. Describing the chilling refusal of the system to bring the guilty to book, she solemnly advised, “Women of the world should unite against other women being burned, mutilated and raped.”

With an exceptional care and kindness that can only be attributed to a mother Dr. Syeda Hameed works for the underprivileged people and with such a compassionate lady around one can hope for at least some betterment for the country in near future.

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