National Child Day observed at Haflong

 

Haflong 30^th December, 2023: Along with the rest of the country, National Girl Child Day was observed at Haflong. The programme was organized by District Hub For Empowerment of Women (DHEW), Department of social Welfare in collaboration with Directorate of Health Services. In this connection a rally was organized by District the Office of the Additional Director Chief Medical & Health Officer, Haflong, Dima Hasao. The rally started from the Office of the Addl. C.M&H.O, Haflong up to the Cultural Institute Hall. The rally was participated by Officials from the line department like Medical and Social Welfare department , students from different schools and others.

After the rally, an awareness programme was held at Cultural Institute Hall which was attended by CMOCD  Dr. Paban Kr. Ganju i/c Jt. DHS Haflong as a Chief Guest along with postmaster Dilip Kumar Barman, Administrator Doctors  and other dignitaries.

Programme began with a welcome speech by District Immunization Officer  Dr. Marina L Changsan who gave a brief description on the importance of a girl child.

Chief guest of the programme Dr. Paban Kr. Ganju spoke about the importance of safeguarding a girl child as equally to a boy child. He highlighted the difficulties of educating a girl child due to bad economic conditions but nowadays it has improved because the government has taken up various programme and steps. He requested every parents/guardians to provide further education to a girl child.

District Child Protection Officer Sushanta Langthasa promoted awareness about the rights of a girl child and addresses issues like child marriage, discrimination and violence against girls.

Postmaster Dilip Kumar Barman raised an awareness of Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana for Social Security of Girl Child. Under this schemes , Minimum deposit Rs. 250/ Maximum deposit Rs. 1.5lakh in a financial year. He stated that an account can be opened in the name of a girl child till she attains the age of 10 years.

As a part of the programme , there were various distributions including the distribution of kits to the girl child , distribution of Selfie  Contest Prize by Social Welfare department and distribution of certificates & gifts to the student.