The Freethought Party of India (FPI) has urged CM Naveen Patnaik to make marriages dowry free and ensure quality English medium education and health service at every nook and corner in Odisha.
In a memorandum, the party has requested for opening marriage offices for free registration of love birds, health and family planning centres, prayerless quality English medium schools at panchayat level and Municipal ward level so as to fully modernise Odisha.
"This is absolutely necessary to end dowry deaths, eliminate plight of pregnant women, bridging widening gap in the field of education of children of the rich and the poor. Right to Equality” under Art.14 of the Indian Constitution demands that all students to be treated equally while education is being imparted to them," told the FPI.