Chalehar Khan had been the first Chairperson of the Women Cooperative for the handicrafts of Bhabarpara.
She is a fighter-leader and she was elected by the other women, although she did not have a good fame in the village: she came back home after four days of her first marriage and she was sent back home after two weeks of her second one (for dowry matters). Too independent.
She likes her work, she feels the responsibility for the preparation of the orders of handicrafts received, she understands the problem of keeping the delivery dates, she is not diplomatic at all in pointing out what she thinks is wrong.
She never went to a regular school; but she can read and write in her own way and she keeps the accounting of the small group of which she is the representative.
Although her husband works on a daily basis, it is her work that gives economic stability to her family. The shop-keepers give on credit to her family because they know that "she works and she will pay".

But what she likes most is being related to people. She is proud that her carpets are going abrode, she is happy to have the chance to go to a meeting, to discuss matters with other women.
When they do the packing to prepare a shipment, she and everybody are intoxicated by the feeling that something of them is going abrode.
She is about forty. She has a dauther and two boys.
She lives in the village of Bhabarpara, where there is not yet the telephone.
With her work she bought the land where she lives, her house can be valued 7 in a scale of 10, she has a toilet and a tube well. Her hope for the future? When the question comes she answers that she hopes to get always orders enough to have work all through the year.
But I know that she dreams to be able to read and write quickly and properly.
Perhaps she doesn't dare to hope for it because she doesn't want to be disappointed.
Their center had been provided with a computer for store keeping and accounting and it was suggested that some of the women should start working with it.
Chalehar did not dare to propose herself, but only give a hint to her and she would jump at the chance.