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{{Short description|Indian social worker}}
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Reema Nanavaty''', is an Indian social worker, known for her humanitarian services as one of the leaders of [[Self-Employed Women's Association of India]] (SEWA),<ref name="SEWA">{{cite web | url=http://www.sewa.org/padmashri.asp | title=SEWA | publisher=SEWA | date=2014 | access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref> alongside leaders like [[Mirai Chatterjee]] and [[Renana Jhabvala]]. She was honoured by the [[Government of India]], in 2013, by bestowing on her the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the field of social service.<ref name="Padma 2013">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-padma-awardees/article4345496.ece | title=Padma 2013 | newspaper=The Hindu | date=26 January 2013 | access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = right|width=21em|''If the villagers of Gokhantar, in the arid deserts of western Gujarat state have a supply of sweet water today, they have their womenfolk to thank for it'' says Reema Nanavaty.<ref name="Google Book">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJFwK8XYQMkC&q=Reema+Nanavati&pg=PA371 |title=Google Book |date=2014 |access-date=17 October 2014|isbn=9780761934097 |last1=Ray |first1=Bharati }}</ref>}}

Reema Nanavaty was born in [[Ahmedabad]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], on 22 May 1964, and graduated in Science from the [[Gujarat University]].<ref name="DNA India" /> Opting for a career of civil service, she passed the civil services examination ([[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]).<ref name="DNA India">{{cite web |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/report-reema-nanavaty-receives-padma-shri-1825177 |title=DNA India |publisher=DNA India |date=21 April 2013 |access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref> However, her stay there lasted only one year as she quit the service to take up full-time social service.<ref name="SEWA" /><ref name="DNA 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-sewa-s-reema-nanavaty-gets-padma-shri-1792876 |title=DNA 1 |publisher=DNA India |date=26 January 2013 |access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref>

Nanavaty, upon resigning from the [[Indian Administrative Service]], joined, in 1986, the [[Self-Employed Women's Association of India]] (SEWA), an [[NGO]] founded by [[Ela Bhatt]], a [[Gandhian Movement|Gandhian]] and social worker. She became the General Secretary of the organization in 1999 and embarked on a series of public service activities, concentrating on the village poor and extending the reach of SEWA to more districts in Gujarat.<ref name="SEWA" /> It was under her leadership, SEWA started self-help groups and a retail distribution network, ''Rudi'', to take the goods produced by SEWA sisters to 40,000 households.<ref name="SEWA" /><ref name="DNA India" />

In 2001, Reema Nanavaty launched ''Jeevika project'', in association with the [[Government of Gujarat]] and [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]] (IFAD), an initiative to bring relief to the [[2001 Gujarat earthquake]] victims and their families.<ref name="DNA India" /> A year later, she started ''Shanta'', a relief programme to aid the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] victims.<ref name="SEWA" /><ref name="DNA India" /> She has taken SEWA out of Gujarat and the activities of the organization, now, spans across the country from [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] to [[Assam]]. They are also involved in war torn [[Afghanistan]], [[Bhutan]] and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="SEWA" /><ref name="DNA India" /> Her current assignment is to nurture SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre (FTC), a wing which attends to the development of artisans in the villages.<ref name="DNA 1" /><ref name="Como Foundation">{{cite web |url=http://comofoundationambassador.wordpress.com/self-employed-womens-association/ |title=Como Foundation |publisher=Como Foundation |date=2014 |access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/ifc-to-guarantee-sewa-bank-s-loans-from-nationalised-banks/735556/ |title=Indian Express |publisher=Indian Express |date=10 January 2011 |access-date=17 October 2014}}</ref>

In 2013, the Government of India honoured Reema Nanavaty with the fourth highest civilian award, [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma 2013" />

==Controversies==
[[WikiLeaks]] cable 41091 reveals that She told Michael S. Owen (US consul general-CG) that the organisation [[Self-Employed Women's Association of India]] was facing the "wrath" of the State government for "resisting" pressure.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gujarat tried to use SEWA for communal propaganda|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/gujarat-tried-to-use-sewa-for-communal-propaganda/article1591969.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> However, Chief Secretary of Gujarat's audit report alleged massive corruption and misuse of funds by SEWA.<ref>{{cite web|title=Something that could be SEWA's real problem with Modi govt|url=http://deshgujarat.com/2011/04/03/something-on-what-was-sewas-real-trouble-with-modi-government|website=DeshGujarat|date=3 April 2011}}</ref> This led to a bitter relationship between Government of Gujarat and SEWA.

==See also==
{{portal|India}}
* [[Self-Employed Women's Association of India]]
* [[Ela Bhatt]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2011/619/619_reema_nanavatyi.htm | title=Doosri azadi | author=Reema Nanavaty | journal=India Seminar}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.theindianpanorama.com/2013/04/08/president-confers-padma-awards/ | title=Padma Awards List | publisher=Indian Panorama | date=2014 | access-date=12 October 2014}}
* {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJFwK8XYQMkC&q=Reema+Nanavati&pg=PA371 | title=Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods | publisher=Sage | author=Bharati Ray | date=4 October 2005 | pages=371 of 622 pages | isbn=9780761934097}}
* {{cite web | url=http://deshgujarat.com/2013/01/25/two-from-gujarat-win-padma-award/ | title=News report | publisher=Desh Gujarat | date=25 January 2013 | access-date=17 October 2014}}
* {{Cite news | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/one-can-t-have-balanced-growth-without-being-inclusive-114012801182_1.html | title=Seminar Report | journal=Business Standard India | date=17 October 2014 | access-date=17 October 2014| last1=Standard | first1=Business }}
{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Social Work}}

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