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Government Events To Start With “Worship Of Daughters” In Madhya Pradesh


Since Shivraj Chouhan assumed workplace, he launched quite a lot of schemes for the welfare of women.

Bhopal:

All authorities programmes in Madhya Pradesh will now start with “worship of daughters” in step with an announcement made by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan 4 months in the past, officers mentioned on Thursday.

Mr Chouhan had introduced on August 15 that each one official programmes within the state will start with “betiyon ki puja” (“worship of daughters”).

As per the announcement by the chief minister, the state authorities has determined to begin all official programmes by performing betiyon ki puja, an order issued by the overall administration departments deputy secretary DK Nagendra mentioned.

Since Mr Chouhan assumed workplace (he’s in his 4th time period), he launched quite a lot of schemes for the welfare of women.

These included Laadli Laxmi Yojna, a scheme later emulated by different states, and “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” (save and educate women).

State BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal mentioned “worship of daughters” is a apply that existed in earlier social gathering governments additionally.

Mainly, it’s an try to lift consciousness concerning the welfare of women for which the state authorities has launched quite a lot of schemes, Agrawal mentioned.

Nonetheless, state Congress media cell vice-chairman Bhupendra Gupta termed it as a drama to divert peoples consideration from actual points like crime towards ladies, human trafficking, inflation, COVID-19 and rising costs of petroleum merchandise, amongst others.

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