 Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 26 : Field Publicity Unit of Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in collaboration of NRHM, ICDS today organized a day long awareness programme 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' here at Government Higher Secondary School, Surnisar.
According to press release, the main aim to organize programme to sensitize and mobilize the masses in general and rural populace in particular about female feticide and gender imbalance particularly in case of female gender.
DFP J&K region has started an intensive campaign on the theme Beti Bachao Beti Padhao in five critically identified districts of Jammu and Kashmir where female sex ratio in comparison of male sex ratio is less and alarming.
The function was presided over by N. Gulshan Raina, Filed Publicity Officer/Programme Head DFP J & K while Vinod Kumar Gupta, I/C Principal of the host institution was Guest of Honour.
The programme was attended by a large number of students of various educational institutions of the area, Anganwadi Workers and helpers, adolescent girls; PRI members beside local people of the area.
While welcoming the audience Raina highlighted the importance of such awareness programmes to fulfill the dreams of golden India and urged upon the audience to act as ambassadors to discriminate the awareness and information of such important programmes in each and every nook and corner of the nation for making such awareness campaigns successful and result oriented.
At the end of the programme, a mass rally of school students was also organized which was aimed at to generate more awareness among the masses how could not participate in the awareness programme due to some personal reasons. |
