Chhavi Rajawat the youngest Sarpanch having an MBA

Chhavi Rajawat the youngest Sarpanch and she is having an MBA degree. She is the sarpanch of  her village Soda, 60 km from Jaipur. Chhavi Rajawat was born in Rajasthan. She is an alumna of Rishi Valley School, Bangalore,Lady Shri Ram College for Women (University of Delhi) and a management graduate from Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune now known as Balaji Institute of Modern Management Pune. She left her corporate job in Airtel and the city life to join politics. Her grandfather Brig Raghubir Singh was the sarpanch of the village, from which she too was elected.

(A sarpanch is a democratically elected head of a village level statutory institution of local self-government called the gram panchayat)

Chhavi Rajawat, the corporate girl-turned-sarpanch from Rajasthan, says she’s used to rural life. “I am used to it. I grew up playing with kids of farmers. Besides, my parental house is in Soda, so I spend time there and don’t miss anything. I am pretty comfortable,” she says. Besides being sarpanch, she also tends to a hotel that the family owns in Jaipur and the numerous horses that are part of her riding school. “It’s a passion,” she explains. As Chhavi heads NREGA meetings in her village dressed in jeans and T-shirt, she is fast emerging as the changing face of rural Rajasthan. “It should change. There is so much one can do,” she says

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