With a motive to empower women, a Tri-City All Women Walkathon ‘Chal Kar Pehel’ was organised on Sunday. launched by Star Plus, the campaign championing the cause of women empowerment began in Bhopal. The walkathon was held at TT Nagar. Notably, with ‘Chal, Kar Pehel’, Star Plus urges women to take the first step towards ‘gender equality’. This initiative ‘Tri-City All Women Walkathon’s first leg started off in Bhopal and numerous women came together in support of this initiative.
Interestingly, Star Plus protagonists Anjali, Aakaash and Arjun of Everest serial fame led the Walkathon. Under this event, Star Plus urged the women to follow their dreams, voice their opinions, raise their voice against discrimination and demand equal rights, opportunities, freedom and respect. For this cause, lead actors from Star Plus’ popular series Everest have come forward to support this Walkathon. The Walkathon also comprised of a pledge, which every participant will take showing their support for the cause.
Shamata Anchan, who portrays the character of Anjali Singh Rawat in Everest, said, “If Anjali, someone who has faced the wrath of being discriminated in her own home for being a girl, can spread her wings and summit the highest peak in the world, then any woman can look for the strength within and achieve her own personal Everest. Today, I want every woman to take their first step towards their Everest by taking the ‘Chal, Kar Pehel’ pledge along with me.”
The ‘Chal, Kar Pehel Walkathon,’ is an all- women walkathon in which women from all walks of life came together in support for the cause of ‘gender equality.’ ‘Chal, Kar Pehel’ includes various programmes, namely, school and college contact programme, door to door promotion and associations with various NGOs that all culminate into the Walkathon.