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National Girl Child Day celebrations

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In connection with the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, ICAR-IIHR Bengaluru celebrated ‘National Girl Child Day’ on virtual mode through a webinar on ‘Take care of Your Girl Child and She will Take care of the World’, on 24.01.2022 which was attended by about 110 participants. In addition to the institute staff, about 50 high school students from Vivekananda Vidyavardhaka High School and National Public School, Hesaraghatta also attended the event. Dr. K. Gayathri Reddy, Associate Professor and Special Officer, Universal Human Values Cell, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore Campus served as the invited speaker, who elaborately presented on key problems faced by the girl children, various girl child empowerment schemes and programs undertaken by various government and non-government organizations, relevance of value education etc. In his introductory remarks, Dr. B.N.S. Murthy, Director, ICAR-IIHR, reiterated the need and importance of girls’ empowerment. After the presentation, elaborate discussions on the topic were made by the participants and the resource person. Besides the webinar, staffs were requested to send the pictures with their daughters and a collage of the same from 32 staff was also made.