Girls’ Proutist (GP) is the global women’s organization of Proutist Universal that unites women to establish social justice, equality, dignity, and leadership based on the principles of PROUT, while promoting their physical, intellectual, cultural, moral, spiritual, and socio-economic development.
What is Prout – the progressive utilisation theory
The word PROUT stands for Progressive Utilisation Theory was propounded by Shri Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar in year 1959, philosopher, The spiritual teacher and a social reformer.
“Progressive” means we should keep improving the utilisation of resource with time and technology. Like how we moved from bicycles to cars.
Word Utilization teaches us to make the optimum use of all our resources — natural, agricultural, industrial, and human.
For example, if someone is talented but we only use them for basic work, we are underusing them. PROUT doesn’t allow this.
Theory means hypothesis or philosophy or way of thinking.
This is how the word PROUT is defined.
SOCIO – ECONOMIC ELEMENTS OF PROUT
- 1. Economic Development –Prout guarantees that everyone’s minimum needs will be fulfilled — food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and education. And to ensure this, Prout promises 100% employment.
- 2. Social Justice – Earth belongs to all and everyone in society can live with dignity. There has to be no place for Caste discrimination, or no space for minority or majority groups based on language or based on geo-sentiments etc.
- 3. Ethical Leadership – It speaks of morality in leaders whom we are electing to govern. An unbiased leader who can step-in in the shoes of people of his region, have to be kindhearted yet a strong leader, who do not compromise on ethics.
Only when all three go hand in hand, then only the true development in village, block, district, and samaj will take place.
All the lectures given by Sarkar is compiled in the book called Prout in nutshell in 21 volumes.
Girls Proutist
Girls Proutist (GP), was founded by Shrii P R Sarkar on 4th August 1978, is a socio-economic and cultural organization, dedicated to the welfare of women.
PROUT emphasizes balanced development of the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of life. Girls’ Proutist reflects this by promoting:
- Education and intellectual growth.
- Moral and spiritual values.
- Leadership development.
- Cultural enrichment.
- Character building.
Collective Organization
The Constitution provides for various federations and organizations—such as the Students’, Youth, Intellectuals’, Labour, and Farmers’ Federations—to organize women in different sectors of society according to PROUT principles. Besides the five federations, the GP has few more departments like Legal, Anandam (cultural), Co-operatives.
Some of its objectives include:
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- Creating specific PROUT programs that directly benefit women.
1.Education and skill development
GP runs online coaching for students, especially from rural areas, under its department Students federation. It also offers training in Madhubani painting, dance, and other skills to help build confidence and social empowerment.
2. Maternal and child welfare
Maternal and child health is a major concern, especially during pregnancy and childcare. GP collaborates with health departments to organize medical camps and dispensaries, while also conducting regular yoga and Kaoshikii classes. Yogic Chikitsa by Shri P.R. Sarkar serves as a guiding text for holistic health care.
3. Self defense and social security
Technical knowledge & Awareness programme
Self-defence has always been vital for women. Young girls are motivated to learn self defense techniques by GPYF, whereas GPIF conducts awareness programs to promote respect and security for women. The GPIF platform hosts open forums discussion on related issues—recently highlighting women’s safety during wartime.
4. Psychological upliftment
The mind governs our actions. Years of suppression have affected women’s psychological well-being, leading to many physical and mental challenges, which later imbibed in their genes and got transferred to generations. Girls Proutist empowers women through meditation and is actively initiating many into this inner strength-building practice.
5. Special focus on Rural and Tribal area women
Tribal women possess valuable knowledge of herbal medicine but lack business skills, often falling prey to middlemen. Girls Proutist under the department farmer federation has a provision to support them through tailor made cooperatives, helping them become economically independent and empowered.
B. Empowering women against injustice
GP actively fights all forms of oppression and exploitation against women — including sexism, racism, classism, and poverty. Women from poor or marginalized backgrounds often face abuse both in society and within their own families, yet rarely report it or seek legal help. Even educated women in the office face rough weather. GP, through all its departments and the Girls Proutist Legal Division, takes it as a primary duty to support and empower such women.
C. Propagating and Implementing PROUT Among Women
Under the Intellectual Federation, PROUT cadres are formed to spread awareness among women and support them in the initiatives mentioned above.
D. Helping women achieve equal rights and opportunities with men
Physically women are weaker than men and women know this, but as a principal intellectually women are no lesser than men. We see this in board exams where girls perform better than boys. But the problem is that due to subject to suppression by men, family, own parents, women hesitate to accept that they are equal to men, and deserve equal opportubity.
Conceptual Framework
The relationship between PROUT and Girls’ Proutist can be summarized as:
| PROUT Principle | Application in Girls’ Proutist |
| Anti-exploitation | Protect women’s rights and oppose all forms of exploitation |
| Economic democracy | Promote economic independence and self-reliance |
| Social justice | Equal rights, dignity, and opportunities for women |
| Neo-humanism | Universal outlook beyond barriers of caste, race, religion, and nationality |
| Balanced development | Physical, mental, cultural, moral, and spiritual development |
| Service to humanity | Relief, education, welfare, and community service |
| Collective leadership | Democratic organizational structure from village to global level |
Girls’ Proutist is the women’s movement of Proutist Universal. It translates the philosophy of PROUT into practical programmes for women’s empowerment through education, leadership, economic justice, social service, cultural development, and spiritual values, thereby contributing to the establishment of a progressive and exploitation-free society.
Girls Proutist samaj Movements (Mahila Samaj)
The Prout tries to manage the world government thru 9 Sectors which is further divided into samaj.
A Samaj is not merely “society.” It is a self-reliant socio-economic region based on:
- common geography,
- common economic potential,
- common economic problems,
- common culture,
- common language or historical identity.
The purpose of a Samaj is to enable decentralized planning, economic democracy, cultural development, moral leadership, and collective welfare.
In india there are 44 samaj, the future independent socio-economic zone, the governance would be effective thru samaj only. The members of Proutist Sarva Samaj are working in samaj which further has many districts, blocks and villages. In parallel to this arrangement, The Girls’ Proutist Samaj Movement is the women’s dimension of the broader PROUT Samaj Movement. While the Samaj Movement organizes the whole society, Girls’ Proutist ensures that women are not merely beneficiaries but leaders, planners, educators, organizers, and decision-makers in creating a progressive social order.
Few Proutist Mahila samaj(s) are
Angika Mahila Samaj
Haryanvi Mahila samaj
Bengali Mahila Samaj
Sehyadri Mahila Samaj
These samaja are governed thru their own constitution. Hence The term “Girls’ Proutist Samaj Movement” is not a formal title used in the original Girls’ Proutist Constitution or in the major published literature on PROUT. However, it is a concept that naturally emerges when the mission of Girls’ Proutist (GP) is combined with the Samaj Movement envisioned in PROUT.
Constitution of Girls Proutist
Please open below link to read GP constitution