Women and Children

PRESS RELEASE SBI Foundation and Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities (AYJNISHD), Mumbai, brought smiles in the faces of 50 children born with profound hearing loss. SBI Foundation provided the cost of Cochlear Implants and post-operative rehabilitation under their CSR Project SBI-Shravan Shakti to AYJNISHD. During an event organised on May 18, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman of State Bank of India presented an amount of Rs 2.65 crore to Dr A.K. Sinha, Director of AYJNISHD, for providing Cochlear implants to 50 children from West Bengal. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sinha appreciated the SBI for coming forward to enable the children with disability to live a normal life with new rays of hope. The Ministry of Social

PRESS RELEASE After a long struggle, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (prevention, prohibition &redressal) Act,2013 was enacted with an objective to provide secure & conducive work place for Women so as to encourage their greater participation in work thereby achieving goal of social & economic empowerment of women for inclusive growth. This was a constitutional obligation as our Constitution guarantees Equality and prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. In a broader perspective, the underlying object was to make conducive work place and joyful work experience. Thus, it is not merely a statutory mandate but a necessity of present time. The Act is probably one of its kinds, where the state responsibility

The story of Rupa Yadav of Rajasthan who was married when she was only eight and had the freedom to study and choose a career of her choice (medicine), proves that India indeed is changing for good. Child marriage in some areas of rural Rajasthan is an established custom and people find nothing wrong in it. Since decades many civil society groups have been working hard to curb the practice as well as promoting the laws and now are seeing changes in the perception of the people. Rupa Yadav of Jaipur’s Kareri village was married when she was only eight-year-old and her husband Shankar Lal was 12. At the time of the marriage she was in Class III. But unlike

PRESS RELEASE Mumbai, 27 October 2018: Radio City 91.1FM, India’s leading radio network, initiates a week long campaign “StreeDum” in Mumbai, this Diwali to eliminate the objectification of women. The thought behind the campaign is to recognize the widespread and deeply ingrained mentality of the majority in the Indian society that looks at women as objects of sexual gratification alone. The aim of the campaign is to create awareness about this issue and address it on a large scale through Radio City’s Breakfast show RJs Salil & Archana. Radio City’s “StreeDum” is an extension of ‘Kar Mumbaikar’ initiative, which has been successfully utilising the power of radio to influence a positive change in the society. ‘StreeDum’ campaign will run across on

PRESS RELEASE Noida, 22nd December 2018:As Christmas approached closer, iTV Foundation, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) wing of iTV Network, organized pre-Christmas celebrations at Sai Kripa, a Noida based home for orphaned and abandoned children. The special evening was attended by Mrs. Aishwarya Sharma, Chairperson, iTV Foundation. During the event, iTV Foundation arranged several activities like arrival of Santa Claus who spread the Christmas cheer by distributing gifts to all the children, also present to entertain the children were a magician who performed a magic show. The team also distributed snack boxes to all the children. On this occasion, Mrs. Aishwarya Sharma, Chairperson, iTV Foundation said “Christmas is a time of celebration, hope & laughter and iTV Foundation organized this