About Smt. Savitri Thakur

Smt. Savitri Thakur is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing the Dhar constituency of Madhya Pradesh, and serves as Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Her public career began in rural local government in her home district and has continued through two terms in the Lok Sabha, separated by a five-year interval outside the House.

The official record describes her profession as agriculturist. She is married to Shri Tukaram Thakur and has two sons.

She was born on 1 June 1978 at Kalikiray in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh. Dhar district lies in the Indore Division of western Madhya Pradesh and has a majority Scheduled Tribe population — 55.94 per cent at the 2011 Census of India. The Lok Sabha seat she represents is itself reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Her recorded educational qualification is higher secondary — set out in the Lok Sabha member record and in candidate affidavits filed with the Election Commission of India as Class 12. Further detail is documented on the Early Life & Education page.

The official record lists her profession as agriculturist. Agriculture is the predominant livelihood across Dhar district, and the seat she represents is largely rural. She also served as National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kisan Morcha — its farmers’ wing — from 2017 to 2020.

Official institutional sources record that she has organised job-oriented training programmes for tribal women and helped create self-help groups, enabling their financial empowerment and contributing to their socio-economic upliftment. That description appears on the pages of the Savitribai Phule National Institute of Women and Child Development and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

No further detail — of individual villages, groups or beneficiaries — is set out in the public record, and none is supplied here. The Social Work page sets out what is documented and identifies the source of each statement.

From 2004 to 2009 she was Chairperson of the Zila Panchayat — the district-level body of India’s three-tier system of rural local self-government established under the 73rd Constitutional Amendment. The office carries responsibility for coordinating district development planning and the implementation of rural programmes across the intermediate and village tiers.

The institutional context of that office, and what it involves, is set out on the Local Governance page.

She was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Dhar in the 2014 general election, serving in the 16th Lok Sabha until 2019. She was returned again from Dhar in the 2024 general election, results for which were declared on 4 June 2024, and is a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.

Committee responsibilities recorded against her name include the Committee on Empowerment of Women, the Committee on Social Security Scheme, the Standing Committee on Industry, and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Railways. The chronology and election results are set out on the Parliamentary Journey page.

She was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development on 11 June 2024, serving alongside the Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Annpurna Devi. The Ministry’s official institutions list her in that office.

The Ministry is the nodal agency of the Government of India for the welfare and development of women and children. Its schemes are organised into three umbrella missions — Mission Saksham Anganwadi & POSHAN 2.0, Mission Shakti and Mission Vatsalya. The distinction between the Ministry’s institutional responsibilities and individually documented activity is set out on the Ministerial Role page.