Celebrating national girl child day

Jalandhar: Kanya Maha Vidyalaya celebrated National Girl Child Day. On this occasion, a poster-making competition was organised by the Department of Student Welfare and PG Department of Fine Arts. Students through their posters depicted the importance of girl child in the society and also gave a message of gender equality and women empowerment. More than 50 students participated in this competition with enthusiasm. The prizes for the competition were sponsored by Dr. Sheveta Aggarwal, MD, Gynae, Vinayak Hospital. Principal Prof Atima Sharma Dwivedi on this occasion averred that for any prosper and healthy society, the safety and security of girl child is of utmost importance. She further maintained that until we provide respectable position to the girls in our society, we won’t be able to build a healthy and developed nation.

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Bowry Memorial Trust

To raise awareness about the rights of the girl child, Bowry Memorial Educational and Medical Trust organised a webinar under Disha, an initiative at Innocent Hearts, on the occasion of National Girl Child Day. The resource person for the webinar was Dr. Sheenu Nayyar (Motivational Speaker). The speaker started her session with the need of gender equality for a healthier Indian society. Dr Sheenu shared some tips to raise a girl to be strong, independent and capable women. She enlightened the audience with various the government schemes available to empower the girls like “Beti Bachao Beti Pdhao”, “Sukanya Samriddhi Yojna”, “CBSE Udaan Scheme”, and “Dhanlaxmi scheme” which helps the families of below poverty line to nourish their child properly.

Lyallpur Khalsa College

NSS unit of Lyallpur Khalsa College organised online activities of poster making and girl’s achievement photograph with parents to spread the message that girls are excelling in all fields and should be treated as equal. Principal Dr Gurpinder Singh Samra in his address emphasised that girls are performing well in academics, sports and cultural activities. Dr Samra added that we have to take this message of equality to all the parents and NSS volunteers can play a vital role in this. Chief Programme Officer prof Satpal Singh said in these online activities volunteers made posters with messages of women empowerment and equality.

MGN College of Education

The Women Welfare Committee of MGN College of Education celebrated National Girl Child Day on the theme ’Beti Bachao Desh Badhao’. Sawangeet Kaur with her speech ‘Think a World Without Girls’ gave the horrible picture of declining male-female ratio and reflected on its harmful effects of the society. Tania with her poem ‘Mujhe Jeene Ka Adhikar Do’ sought for the equal right for the women. Rimple Kaur Bhamra with her speech ‘She Can Do Anything’ spoke about the contribution of women in society. Rachita Garg with her poem ‘Beti Ki Pukar’ appealed the society to give the due of women. Amit Aneja through his sppech ‘Beti Bachao Desh Badhao’ reflected on the need to save girl child to make this earth a better place to live.

MLU DAV College, Phagwara

A webinar was organised at MLU DAV College, Phagwara, on National Girl Child Day under the guidance of Dr. Kiranjeet Randhawa. Students gave speeches and recited poems. They said there was a time when girls were discriminated against in society. Dr. Randhawa said the need of the hour is to nurture and empower the girl child by providing her with equitable opportunities to help her grow, explore and harness the potential to fullest extent in social, economic, political, scientific, empirical, and other dynamic aspects of life.

Netaji remembered

The birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was celebrated virtually at Eklavya School. Director Seema Handa said that such kinds of days should be observed among youngsters to make them fully aware. The function began by speech on life of Subhash Chandra Bose presented by Manak. The Chairman of the school J.K Gupta said that it’s very important to teach the children about the contribution of such great personalities. The poster making competition was conducted online for the students of senior school. /OC