17 Facts About Shruti Nagvanshi

Shruti Nagvanshi is an Indian women's and child's rights activist and an advocate for marginalized groups in India, including the untouchable caste known as Dalit and rural women.

Shruti Nagvanshi is one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights and a founder of Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Panchayat, a women's forum.

Shruti Nagvanshi has worked with several other projects to empower minorities.

Shruti Nagvanshi founded the People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights in 1996, with her husband Lenin Raghuvanshi, historian Mahendra Pratap, musician Vikash Maharaj, and poet Gyanedra Pati.

Shruti Nagvanshi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to bettering conditions for world peace and for acting as a driving force to prevent the use of masculinity-driven militarist traditions as a weapon of war and conflict.

Shruti Nagvanshi was born on 2 January 1974 in the Dashashwmedh area of the Varanasi district in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Shruti Nagvanshi married Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi on 22 February 1992.

Once Nagvanshi left home to attend college, she realized how lack of opportunity restricts human desire to achieve goals in life.

Shruti Nagvanshi's mother remained an inspiration to her to help others grow.

Shruti Nagvanshi was part of several local social work programmes and later became involved in the Uttar Pradesh chapter of the United Nations Youth Organisation.

Shruti Nagvanshi is involved in building relations between various communities through modelling and teaching awareness of individual rights and the rule of law.

Shruti Nagvanshi believes the very thought that they can fight against injustice is empowering.

Shruti Nagvanshi's work has led to increased accessibility to health, education, livelihood and welfare services.

Shruti Nagvanshi was awarded the Top 100 Women Achievers of India in 2016 by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and Facebook jointly in the category of 'Access to Justice Protecting Women and their rights'.

Shruti Nagvanshi received the Tilaka Manjhi National award with Lenin Raghuvanshi by the Ang Madad Foundation, an NGO based in Bhagalpur, Bihar for her work on Dalit women's rights.

Shruti Nagvanshi has been awarded the following national and international honours since 2021:.

At the G20 Interfaith Summit 2023, Shruti Nagvanshi played a pivotal role alongside Lenin, contributing insights on vulnerability, child protection, interfaith collaboration, and Sustainable Development Goals during parallel sessions 2A and 3A.