Kanya Kiran, a massive awareness programme to stop violence against women and girl child, would be carried out at global level from next year, announced Founder, KIIT and KISS Dr Achyuta Samanta on Sunday. He was speaking at the flag-off ceremony for the programme's coordinators, volunteers and participants here.
Violence against women and girl child has no place in a civilised society, he stated, while eliciting support from general public to insure zero incidence of this social plague. The third edition of Kanya Kiran will start from June 10 to 12.
Olympian Anuradha Biswal said the KIIT and KISS has always been doing something new for the betterment of the society. Today the time has come to give importance to girl child, she said.
Kanya Kiran is also a valuable initiative and concept of Dr Samanta to spread awareness on violence against women and girl child.
KIIT University Registrar Dr Sasmita Samanta said the world is proceeding with the proper coordination with nature, people and technology. "We have to maintain the balance with these three systems, otherwise we will face many problems," she added. https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif
Kanya Kiran was launched by the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in association with UN Women and Kalinga Fellowship in all the 30 districts of Odisha on June 3 last year.
In a mobilization of scale and spread unheard of before, the programme covered all the Panchayats of the State, spreading awareness on social evils of violence against women and girl child among millions of households.
Over 3,000 staffs of KISS and KIIT, particularly women, were actively involved as coordinators and volunteers. They disseminated the message at household level in villages amid overwhelming response.