Aroti Dutt was the world president of the Associated Countrywomen of the World for two terms, from 1965 to 1971, and subsequently their Member of Honour.
19 Facts About Aroti Dutt
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Aroti Dutt was the international vice-president of International Alliance of Women.
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Aroti Dutt had worked in various capacities in that organisation since 1942.
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Aroti Dutt founded various other social welfare organisations in India and was associated with many others.
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Aroti Dutt was a graduate of the University of Calcutta and had a Diploma in Social Welfare from the Institute of Social Studies of The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Aroti Dutt Mitra was born on 23 September 1924 to Satyendra Chandra Mitra and Uma Mitra.
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Aroti Dutt's father was a Freedom fighter and a politician.
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Aroti Dutt married Birendrasaday Dutt, the only son of Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, in 1942.
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Aroti Dutt used to say that she cannot claim any "inner call" that took her into social service and that she had married into it.
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Aroti Dutt's father-in-law had founded Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association in memory of his wife, a women's organisation dedicated to the welfare of women.
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The Dutt family are renowned for their work in the field of social welfare, so Aroti took to it soon after her marriage at the age of 18.
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Aroti Dutt received her Diploma for her paper "Social Welfare Planning for low-income countries" in 1959.
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Aroti Dutt became the area vice-president for Asia of the Associated Countrywomen of the World at their World Conference in Edinburgh in 1959, and was re-elected at the World Conference in Melbourne in 1962.
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Aroti Dutt represented ACWW at the UNESCO Seminar on Adult Education in England, the UNESCO Seminar on Eradication of prejudice in Munich, the International Council of Women's Conferences in Istanbul and in Bangkok, UNESCO's NGO Conference in Paris, and their Board meetings at Addis Ababa, Bangkok, and Manila.
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Aroti Dutt was invited by the director-general of FAO as a consultant for the planning of the Freedom from Hunger.
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Aroti Dutt was elected the World President of the Associated Countrywomen of the World at their World Conference at Dublin in 1965, and was re-elected unopposed in 1968.
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Aroti Dutt was a vice-president of the International Alliance of Women and was connected with World View International.
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Saroj Nalini Dutt was the one who started Mahila Samitis in rural Bengal in 1916.
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Aroti Dutt frequently wrote articles, both in Bengali and in English, for magazines in both India and abroad.