CCl observed International Women's Day, with the theme ‘Time is Now: Rural and Urban activities transforming women’s lives’ here on Thursday. The Chief Guest of the function was wife of Chairman Coal India limited Pramila Singh, while Guests of Honour cum Key Speaker(s) were Major Gurpreet Kaur Sachdeva and Malvika Sharma, Advocate & Social Activist. To grace the programme, wife of Director (Finance) CCl Rimi Ghosh, wife of Director (Personnel) Sunita Mahapatra, wife of DT(P&P) Poonam Mishra, wife of CVO CCl Nidhi Verma, female employees of CCl Areas, HQ and Gandhinagar Hospital were also present.
On the occasion, Key Speaker of the session Major G K Sachdeva said the only a Day is not enough to celebrate womanhood and to empower women. Major Sachdeva shared her experiences and journey of her life, which encouraged everyone. She urged everyone to follow the path of our inner voice with a positive thinking in life.
Guest of honour of the program, Advocate & Social Activist, Malvika Sharma, talked about the ‘Butterfly Project’ and asked every women to follow three very important acts in life – To support each other, To ‘change our language’ as a society, To learn to be proud of our daughters as a ‘family’. She asked to make a positive difference in life of each female we come across.
Another Special Guest of the occasion, Sr Advocate Jharkhand High Court, M M Paul talked about the various legal rights of women in the society and stressed on the right to equality in all spheres of the society.
In the post lunch session, Mangesh Jha, a Social Activist had a discussion on his voluntary Social Work done named Rasbera at Ranchi. He gave a detailed description of the various social welfare initiatives, which includes ‘Ratri Pathshala’, Solar light Campaign and Menstrual Hygiene Campaign and encouraged the audience to participate in the same.