International Day of the Girl child: Are we truly empowering the girls and women of the society?

International Day of the Girl child: Are we truly empowering the girls and women of the society?

In 2011, United Nations declared October 11^th as the ‘International Day of the Girl child’, to recognise their rights and gender parity in the society. By celebrating the international day for the girl child, the world focuses attention on the daily challenges girls face and how to empower them. Girls have every right like boys to a safe environment, proper education, and healthy life.  According to United Nations there are 101 crore girls in the world and they face a lot of discrimination, violence and abuse in the society on a daily basis. It further states that, somewhere in the world an adolescent girl dies every 10 minutes due to violence.

Over the last many years, India has made many strides in advancing the cause for girl rights. More girls are now literate than ever. Under Government of India’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, a lot of focus has been given to building toilets for girls in schools. Rural Sanitation has significantly increased to 70 % from 39% helping many women and giving them dignity and respect. Under Pradhan Mantri Narendra Modi’s Mudra Yojana, nearly 1.8 lakh crore has been distributed, 70% all the beneficiaries are women, which will take the women empowerment to a new level.

Modi Government’s initiative to save and educate the girl child under ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ is focusing on awareness among the Indian citizens to save and to educate the girl child so that nation becomes strong by empowering women. This will help in stopping the ever alarmingly declining girl child sex ratio where there are only 918 girls for every 1000 boys as per the 2011 census. Under this Yojana, a saving scheme named Sukanya Samriddhi account for the girl child has been introduced where the family members can save money for the girl child’s education and marriage where they get good interest rates and without any tax deduction.

Another scheme empowering women from poor families in India is PM ‘Ujjwala Yojana’ where by, government of India provides free cooking gas connections to 5 crore families. According to Petroleum and Natural gas minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, this would benefit crores of women from very poor families preventing them from getting exposed to toxic fumes from burning wood and truly empowering them.

These efforts are though and critical though sustaining the momentum is the key to the long term real time empowerment of every girl child and women of the country.

Data from National Family Health survey states that the Infant mortality rate (IMR) has been significantly reduced in Odisha from 65 in 2005 to 40 in 2016. However, comparing to states such as Kerala (IMR is 12) it is still significantly higher. The Maternal Mortality rate (mothers dying per 1 lakh births) although reduced from 303 in 2004 to 222 in 2015, it is still significantly higher than the national average of 174. According to the Economic survey report, the gender disparity in many human development indices in the state are discouraging such as only 62 % of the female population are literate as compared to the 82% in males.

Every second girl and women in Odisha is Anaemic and one in 4 women suffers from low body weight suggestive of poor nutritional status.

Under the state government programme of Mission Shakti nearly 6 lakh women self-help groups are operating providing them with the economic independence and empowering them is surely a step in the right direction.

Protecting and empowering the women is not only the responsibility of the government but that of every citizen of the state. Unless we provide safe and harassment free environment, proper education, and parity with the boys in training, we cannot achieve true progress in the society. The time has truly come for the society to reflect and act now with utmost urgency. 

Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s  Inaugural Speech at 1st  Virat Hindusthan Sangam Meet; Some Highlights

After addressing the distinguish guests and the other speakers, Dr. swamy welcomes every one to the first meet of VHS. He starts his speech and asks the most vital question about VHS, i.e. Why was VHS necessary? He says that he had a discussion with Sangha leaders and VHP leaders; he has a high appreciation of the work that these institutions are doing in order to mobilise the country against anti national elements and they are therefore working on the ground.

He adds that there is a need to tap a section of our society, which is brought up in English education and has been associated with intellectual activities, but unfortunately they have been propagating views that the westerns want us to propagate. His aspect of the educational system is to create a person, who is not only an Indian in color and in looks but also in propagation and idiom. Though some of us are Indian in looks and location but in views, taste, and outlook we are English man. This phenomenon can be termed as Brown Englishman. He blames the curriculum in our studies that has not been modified post independence. We don’t know our real history, as the books we had been reading in school don’t represent our factual history.

VHS will help creating individuals who have the correct information of our history and should be willing to abide by the truth while defending the truth where necessary. These set of warriors can argue in English any where in the world to show who we really are and we are not who you want us to be.

He further said that some people might not like ‘Om’ but even one of the edition of out look reveals that repetition of ‘Om’ enhances in brain development. A comparative study reveals that persons who chant ‘Om’ have faster brain development then those who do not. Similarly, NASA suggests that their astronauts and staffs have observed that they are able to hear a sound coming from sun. A sound that comes from sun what they call as Hindu’s prayer known as ‘Om’. We cannot hear that sound in here in earth as its frequency is less then 20 mega Hertz, but our rishis with their meditation could hear it.

He says that V.H.S will work for the broader ideological framework of the ‘Sangha Parivar’ as we are all parallels organizations. He said that he thinks that B.J.P is the future for this country and V.H.S will work with it for the development of the country. He further says that he sees a lot of motivation in English speaking, educated population (like engineers, management specialists, etc.) towards nation building. But these people do not know how to argue with the English speaking establishments. To argue with these establishments they do need logic and VHS will help them to generate this logic. This is exactly how V.H.S will change the untruthful perception embedded in our society. He praised Mr Rajiv Malhotra for all his efforts in establishing this truth.

Dr. Swamy then talked about Chandra Sekhar Saraswati, of how he developed a liking towards him and encouraged him to enter in politics. Sri Saraswati usually never spoke about politics but for Dr. Swamy he gave long lectures on foreign policies and politics.

Returning back to V.H.S, he said that his organization would create ‘Intellectual- khatriyas’ or fighters; persons who has a response for every situation. V.H.S uses the word ‘Hindusthan’ instead of ‘Hindu’ as he wants to bring other religious group apart from ‘Hindus’. Dr. Swamy says that, Sivaji’s commandant chief was a Muslim, so we don’t have any hustle to other religion but we give privacy to continue civilization of India, which is Hindu civilization. UNESCO has founded 46 ancient civilizations out of which have 45 disappeared and only surviving civilization is Hindu civilization.

Dr. Swamy says that he had students from royal family of Saudi Arabia while he was at Harvard. Out of them one student once said that, they are puzzled by India due to the fact that despite of having so many languages and differences yet 80% population is Hindu.

He said that in the history of the spread and rise of Islam, they found that every country they have conquered were converted to Islam within short period to 100% e.g. Iraq, Iran, Egypt. But India though was ruled 200years by Christians and 800 years by Islam but still have 80% of Hindu the population. It seems that in every part of India kept fighting to preserve their identity.

Dr. Swamy says that our society gave similar importance to losers who fought bravely as the winners e.g. Shivaji was a great hero and so was Rana Pratap though the later might not have won the battle but fought bravely; he even had to eat chapattis made out of grass as he never surrendered on his principles.

We value the Vijaynagaram Empire, which spread from Karnataka to all over India but in history books little is mentioned about it; they write that it existed in south India even if it lasted 300years. Moghul history from Akbar to Aurangzeb lasted 150 years but still has a chapter in our history books. Subhas Chandra bose lost but still today people are crazy to know what happened to him. A former British Prime Minister said that “we did not leave India due to quit India movement, of course we admire and respected Mahatma Gandhi for his non violent commitment but we were scared because if the men in Indian army refuses to take the orders then we have to pack up our bags and leave India. We left India due to Subhas Chandra Bose even if he lost the war”.

Dr. Swamy further said that V.H.S could get you education that you can’t get through university; what is our correct history? What is the truth of Aryan Dravidian theory? Not only knowing it helps but also one should be able to argue for it. Usually people don’t like arguing with him on these subjects, sometimes they tell lies and run away. Some people ban him because they can’t face him in arguments.

Coming back to the point that why he named the ‘H’ in V.H.S as Hindusthan and not Hindu is due to the fact that he believes, we are Hindu people and those who are not have their ancestors as Hindu. The DNA studies prove that we in India have the same DNA. Brahmans and the Sudras have the same DNA.

In Arunachal Pradesh Thai people came and settled in India, they adopted Hinduism founded the Ahom dynasty, which is the only dynasty that never allow the Mughal, set foot in Assam.

We should not do things to achieve our goal at the cost of the nation. The west has now acknowledged that Sanskrit as the most computer friendly language. If we say here that Sanskrit is a computer friendly language then people will laugh at us but NASA says that they acknowledge it. Concept of Puspak Vihman was being ridiculed in but if some one sees the Vimana Sastra, they prescribe that mercury can be used as a fuel. Scientist says that mercury has the capacity of being a fuel.

We invented calculus, zero, and decimal system. We were a developed country one thousand years ago. So all these facts must go to the modern world. We should have absolute pride of our past but we should not be the prisoner of the past. In new Hindustan we have to modernize, reform and mentally revolutionize it. V.H.S is to strengthen the RSS and the BJP. Mental Renaissance is the need for the country.

Best efforts are taken to reproduce the speech of Dr. Subramanian Swamy. Apologies for any unintended mistake.

Dr.  Subramanian Swamy's tweets and Netaji Files.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, has been indeed one of the tallest leaders of Indian freedom struggle and even after seven decades of his disappearance, the enigma about him still remains unsolved. Netaji’s so called ‘death’, in Taiwan in 1945, still remains a subject of disagreement for many.

But the recent revelation of the alleged letter of Late Prime minister Mr. Jawahar Lal Nehru to the then British Prime minister Mr. Clement Atlee on social media, had fumed the hard core supporters of Netaji. It had also questioned the belief of others, who were ingrained with the idealism of Nehruvian history. Though there were be a distinct sect of people who consider this letter as a blatant lie.

But the most shocking revelation came from the recently declassified files from the Indian Intelligence Bureau, which claimed that that the kin of Netaji were spied for almost two decades, from 1948 to 1968. Even the followers of Nehruvian history found it difficult to comprehend, the need of reasons, behind snooping of not so politically active family members during that time. The family hardly posed a threat to Mr. Nehru politically; then what had been the reasons behind the snooping still remains a mystery to many?

These revelations and statements have opened the Pandora’s box once again. Did Netaji really die in the plane crash or was he murdered on the behest of Mr. Nehru almost puzzles everyone?

From statements on the social media it apparently seems on the emergence of a paradigm shift from the original notions that he was killed in a plane crash.

The patriotic Indians do not yet forget the Cuttack born magnanimous leader, who rejected the lucrative profession of Indian Civil Service (I.C.S) to serve the country and selflessly sacrificed everything in his capacity to achieve independence of India. But does this mean that enigma behind his death will be revealed, still remains the biggest question?

Some statements of Dr. Subramanian Swamy from Twitter on Netaji:

1.Time has come to mobilise opinion to compel the Govt to decorate Netaji Subash Bose with Bharat Ratna by August 15th this year. 18^th April, 2015

2. Netaji went from Burma Singapore Bangkok to Saigon to catch Jap bomber to Dairen Manchuria. No dispute. He landed in Taipeh- disputed. 18^th April, 2015

3.A well known investigative journalist confirms from Ukraine secret papers what I have been saying: Netaji was kept in Yakursk Siberian Jail. 15^th April, 2015

4. In Netaji matter Congi tread carefully and not blame Patel for snooping. I have a file noting of Nehru directing the IB to follow Amiya Bose. 12^th April, 2015

5. Netaji murder now unravelled must go further to include INA treasure chests, returned to India by Japan, that were stolen by Nehru. 11^th  April, 2015

6. Gandhi and Nehru saw Bose as a threat to their positions,so isolated Netaji. That is character of modern Indians-- self interest is uppermost. 24^th January, 2015

 Reference

1. http://www.firstpost.com/india/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-die-plane-crash-killed-stalin-subramanian-swamy-2042533.html

2. http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/gandhi-nehru-saw-subhas-chandra-bose-as-threat-to-their-positions-swamy_1577326.html

3. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-didn-t-die-in-air-crash-says-subramanian-swamy-2051415

4. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nehru-got-Netaji-executed-Swamy/articleshow/45996574.cms

5.https://twitter.com/swamy39/status/543020121069858819

6.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2925054/Swamy-claims-Netaji-killed-Stalin.html

7. http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/editorial-dnaedit-bose-controversy-2077480

8.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3032682/Nehru-spied-Bose-family-20-years-Declassified-papers-reveal-IB-snooped-family-s-letters-followed-tracked-visitors.html