Women’s Day 2020: Girls from Maharashtra will serve as ‘a day collector ‘

Nagpur: In a novel initiative ahead of Women’s Day, Maharashtra’s Buldhana District Administration is offering bright girls from government schools the opportunity to act as’ collectors for a day’ with a view to boosting their morale and inspiring them to do better.

The projects will also raise awareness among girls about the administration’s working and how it tackles social and other issues, sources told Buldhana Collector Suman Chandra Wednesday.

“As part of the project, bright and meritorious girls from the Zilla Parishad schools get an opportunity to be the collector for a day and sit on the chair to have a first-hand governance experience,” Chandra said.

This would also give the girls a chance to determine what changes they’d like to introduce to society if given such a chance, she said. “The idea is to make the girls feel more confident and motivated towards their target, and to encourage other girls around them to perform better and break the glass ceiling,” said the collector.

It’s simply sowing ideas in their minds, she said, adding that it’s a reflective collectorship in which they get a new perspective to observe the day. “Today Maria, a Class 9 student from Malkapur taluka Zilla Parishad College, came here to join us.

She will be attending a census conference and will understand how the survey is being carried out. She will oversee the census activities training program, “Chandra said. It’s to introduce them to government and administration as “seeing is believing” she said.

“They get an audience for a day, and we also get them to write a diary in which they take note of their experience and their vision of society. During an International Women’s Day program, they will be reading and sharing their experience, “she said.

Poonam Deshmukh, a bright Class 8 student from the school of Padoli Zilla Parishad, served as a collector on the first day of this novel drive and supervised the administrative work. She interacted with reporters, took part in the’ Lokshahi Din’ (Democracy Day), and took stock of the district’s unseasonal rainfall. “She expressed joy over her experience and went home as a girl of greater confidence,” Chandra said.

The district administration also celebrates the present seven days as the’ Pink Week’ with an emphasis on the wellbeing of women. “A woman in her pink health would keep society in good pink,” Chandra said. All of the district’s primary health centers are undertaking the campaign to ensure women have good health.

District administration has arranged a screening for anemia, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and common diseases that can not be conveyed. “All these efforts are being made to concentrate on women’s welfare and eventually, their long-run empowerment,” Chandra said.