Adolescents through the ‘teen clubs’ celebrated the National Girl Child Day here on Monday. The members of the teen clubs organised meetings and rallies at different slums such as Uttaramukhi Street and Jagabandhu Street and other places to mark the event.
Teen club members conveyed the importance and need of girl child to their parents and communities. The speakers in their address said that, girls touch the heights with success in many sectors like science, technology, politics, defence and social work by innovating ideas that change human lives. But the irony is that the society still believes boys are better than girls.
The gender discrimination creates many social problems like child marriage, child trafficking and violence against children and women. On the other hand, girls' education also not that encouraging in the society which is due to the gender differences and poor infrastructure for girls in various institutions (e.g. unavailability of separate toilets for girls in schools), the speakers pointed out.
They particularly highlighted the role of citizen and various committees like slum committees, youth clubs, mother’s committees and self-help groups and citizen committees like Gaon Kalyan Samiti, School Management Committee, Standing Committees of local self-Governments to highlight the issues, monitor public programmes and prioritise the needs and aspirations of the girl children.