International Girl Child Day celebrated

October 12, 2020 11:33 pm | Updated 11:33 pm IST - SALEM

The International Girl Child Day celebrations were held at the Collectorate here on Monday and Collector S.A. Raman inaugurated the awareness programmes held as part of the event.

Workers under the Social Welfare Department held placards with messages on protecting girl children and ensuring their education. Awareness was also created on various schemes available for girl children. Mr. Raman unveiled awareness posters under the ‘Beti bachao and beti padhao’ campaign and distributed them. He also distributed cheques of maturity amount to the tune of ₹14.14 lakh to 37 girl children under the Chief Minister’s girl child protection scheme.

Officials said that as an initiative for protection of girl children, a group called ‘Sakthi’ had been formed in each government school involving officials from police, social welfare and education departments, child protection unit, magalir thitam and school students. Issues relating to students would be brought to the notice of authorities through this group and action would be ensured.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.