Sundarbans girls run marathon in city, make a difference
Romana Basak (name changed) (12), a Class V student had always dreamt of running in a marathon. Fourteen-year-old Basum Molla (name changed), a Class VI student too loves to run.
Romana Basak (name changed) (12), a Class V student had always dreamt of running in a marathon. Fourteen-year-old Basum Molla (name changed), a Class VI student too loves to run.
While Sujan Kaur of Dashmesh Convent Senior Secondary School Sardulgarh secured the first position, Shreya Singla of MSD Senior Secondary Public School Bathinda secured the second position and Navpreet Kaur of BCM Senior Secondary School Jamalpur Colony in Focal point Ludhiana stood third.
The CBSE won’t award first, second and third divisions to its students. Instead it will award merit certificates to the 0.1 per cent of students who have scored the highest marks in subjects.
In high school (class 10) examinations, girls’ pass percentage was 93.34 and that of the boys 86.64. Similarly, in the examinations for XII Boards, the pass percentage for girls was 83 and for boys, 69.34.
The girls have alleged that their college was not letting them enter the college campus wearing burqa and are compelling them to remove it at the entrance gate.
The Prime Minister, who transferred money to Self Help groups, bank sakhis and beneficiaries of Kanya Sumangala Yojana and also laid the foundation stone of 202 take home ration plants, said that these schemes were designed to empower women.
The report details how partners rapidly adjusted programs to address the shadow pandemic of violence against women and girls amid ongoing global challenges.
Four types of maltreatment are generally recognized: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse (psychological abuse), and neglect.
The gender-poverty gap will worsen further still in South Asia, Central and Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ~ “home to 87 per cent of the world’s extreme poor”.
“Trafficking is the most egregious violation of human rights”, declared Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, at the turn of the new millennium, when the global body adopted a convention against transnational organised crime, and three protocols, one for preventing and punishing trafficking in persons, especially women and children, under the guardianship of the UNODC. So far, 177 countries, including India, have ratified it.
