The daughters of Uttarakhand would bring positive changes in the society and the State Government is committed to make all possible measures to improve the academic environment for girl students. The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat said this while addressing a ‘girl education encouragement programme’ at his residence on Friday. In the programme computer tablets were distributed to the meritorious girls.
Rawat said that the state government is planning to start some ITI and poly technique colleges exclusively for the girl students in its efforts to make the technical education more girl student oriented. He said that the girls should continuously evolve themselves in this age of competitive excellence. The CM said that the parents should create an environment conducive for studies in their households for the bright future of their wards. He said that the tablets which are presented represent a symbolic gesture of the state government as it wants that the girls should take maximum use of Information technology for a bright future. The CM said that to promote girl child education the state government has taken it in mission mode. He appealed the students to take sanitation awareness programme seriously and appealed the MlAs to contribute 15 lakh each from their MlA funds. He himself volunteered to give Rs 25 lakh for the programme.
Speaking on the occasion the Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said that talented daughters would be encouraged to put in more efforts by the gift of tablets. He appealed the girl students to come forward to remove the menace of drugs and other social evils.
Tablets were distributed to 314 girls who topped the districts and blocks in the class X and class XII in the examination of 2014 and 2015. All the students looked very happy to receive tablets from the Chief Minister.
The programme was attended by Chairperson of State women commission Sarojini Kaintyura, Principal Secretary Radha Raturi and large number of girl students.