After the amalgamation of the women’s organisations at the national level in 1993 under the Samata banner, it was left to the states to individually work out strategy to build up Samata. Samata has not looked back since then. It was very clear from the beginning to keep the process of developing women’s capacity, women’s leadership at all levels from village to National level. Thereafter, a comprehensive programme was taken to increase the capability and knowledge-base of the women called the Samata Vigyan Utsav. This programme was organised from village to the national level as a nationally coordinated programme.

The objective was to provide a platform for women to disseminate information on various issues with a common perception on women related issues. Through proper planning, organisational skills amongst women could be developed as a collective leadership.

It basically comprises melas held at the village, block, district and state levels. Each of them had many corners which were placed to discuss different issues like education, health, micro enterprises, Continuing Education, Health, Preventing Violence against Women, Panchayati Raj, home-based production, environment, women development, science through the kitchen, kitchen gardening, superstitions etc.

It has to be reiterated that Samata was for the empowerment of women in the true sense of the word in all aspects related to life. Empowerment was possible if BGVS could consolidate these efforts with a few programmes.  That is why this programme was launched and through this a capable leadership team had emerged from block to national level establishing Samata groups in 20,000 villages, thereby creating an institution, which acted as the center of all the programmes. Women technology support centers were set up at least one in each region with 200 production centres ensuring the 100% enrolment of girl children in about 20,000 villages.  In 20,000 villages trained Samata health activist worked on mother, adolescent and child health.

The literacy movement managed to provide spaces for people’s movements but this was due to the socio-economical & political situation of the society. Samata was striving to keep the space alive for women’s collective action so that Samata would play the catalytic role for social change by empowering women with knowledge and skills.