Draft:Neeru Yadav

Neeru Yadav is an Indian social worker and sarpanch from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. She is known as Hockey Wali Sarpanch because of her contributions to hockey in her village.

Early life and political career
Neeru Yadav is from a family of teachers from Haryana. She graduated in Mathematics and pursuing her post-graduation in Geography. She married Ashok, an engineer in Jhunjhunu, and was inspired to run for election by his grandfather who had earlier stood for the sarpanch election. In October 2020, she was elected as sarpanch of Lambi Ahir village, Buhana tehsil.

Yadav helped train 10 girls of her village under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), and got them employed in multinational companies.

She established an FPO (Farmer Producers Organisation), Sachhi Saheli Mahila Agro Producer Company Limited with the help of SIIRD (The Society of Indian Institute of Rural Development) in association with NABARD. This FPO is the 15th launched by NABARD. The company has 300 members, and Yadav is the head of the Board of Directors of the company. The FPO sold 80,000 kg of mustard and generated revenue of ₹50 lakh.

She is the women’s convener of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jan Aakrosh Yatra activity for the Surajgarh Assembly constituency.

She was felicitated by the state government's Education Department for developing the government school building and other infrastructure in her village.

In 2023, she was invited as a chief guest at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. She has also reached the hot seat of the Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) of the 15th season as the chief guest.

Hockey
Yadav got the Hockey Wali Sarpanch moniker through her activities in the area of hockey in her village. She organized a batch of girls and facilitated in their training and participation in the first edition of the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympic Games. The Lambi Ahir team won the block level and played at the district level. She had the team train at the grounds of Singhania University at a nearby village earlier and helped develop a playground in her village later.