Contribution to female empowerment
Pal has promoted other female musicians through her band Stree Shakti for over 28 years. [14]
She has performed at Sri Agrasen Kanya PG College (Varanasi), [15] Rebel Girls Interactive (Delhi), [16] and Ruia College (Mumbai) to inspire young girls towards self-empowerment and self-esteem.
In March 2018, she wrote the lyrics "Khud ko tu Pehchaan de" and composed the anthem for the Ministry of Women and Child Development's Nari Shakti campaign.
She was the UNICEF Brand Ambassador for female empowerment, education, and inclusion in 2006.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pal, through her Shakti URJA initiative, distributed warm blankets to over 200 women in Kasniyawad village near Udaipur and provided medical relief to poor children and women from the Bhil community. [17] She also provided food rations to over 100 families and to many marginalised, widowed, old, disabled, and destitute women across 12 villages.
On International Day of the Girl Child 2020, Pal instituted the Padmashri M.T. Vyas Stree Shakti award, in memory of her grandfather, educationist Maganlal Tribhuvandas Vyas, to encourage young girls practicing Indian music or dance towards social service. In 2021, she honoured four young girls from Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh for their involvement in social initiatives such as preserving and propagating folk and tribal art forms, entertaining young cancer patients with music and dance, creating awareness about climate change, female foeticide, and sustainable development, and raising funds for poor households during the pandemic. [18]
Anuradha Pal Cultural Foundation (APCF)
Anuradha Pal Cultural Foundation (APCF) is a non-profit company dedicated to preserving traditional Indian culture, empowering women and youth, promoting unity amidst diversity, and advocating for environmental awareness. Pal promotes musical and rhythmic meditation. [19] [20]
In recognition of APCF's contributions to music and society, Pal received the Mumbai Cultural Sustainability award 2024 [21] from Vivekanand Youth Foundation and the WOW Iconic Wellness and Spiritual Award 2023.
Social service
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pal mobilized lakhs of rupees and sent food rations and blankets to aid disadvantaged, old, and disabled women and children, as well as poor musicians and instrument makers [22] in villages across Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. [23]
From July 2020 onward, Pal sent financial help to people from underprivileged communities such as Bhil, Manganiar, Lakha, Jogi, Garo, Kathodi, Koch-Rajbongshi, Dhadi tribes, Meghwal, Charkula, Ponung, Matka Bhawai, Terahtali, Kalbeliya dancers, Manta Drummers, Kathputli artists, Knife jugglers and Bahurupiyas. [24]
In January 2021, she organised the Aatmanirbhar Kala Ke Sangh Music Festival.
On her birthday on 8 May 2021, Pal and her husband donated a wheelchair, walker, and over 1,200 gloves and masks to patients, doctors, and front-line workers in Mumbai's BMC COVID-19 care centre and MLC offices, in the presence of the Mayor of Mumbai, Smt Kishori Pednekar. [25]
