Women and Children

PRESS RELEASE Being a socially responsible organization, Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of twowheeler manufacturer, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan; always considers the opportunity to contribute to the overall good of humanity and how to pay back to the common good of society under the aegis of CSR. Suzuki has planned CSR under 3 top heads/initiatives: Health, Environment, and Education. On 11th January 2018, under the leadership and guidance of Managing Director- Mr. Satoshi Uchida, a Basketball court was inaugurated for the children of Govt. Senior Secondary School at Darbaripur. This school caters to the education of children of villages of Darbaripur, Hasanpur, Palra and other nearby villages. The basketball court was inaugurated by SMIPL Director – Yasuhide Kamo

PRESS RELEASE Story Weaver, an initiative of Pratham Books, a not-for-profit publisher, announced the creation of hyperlocal libraries for children to promote and preserve children’s literature in Konkani, Bhoti and Haryanvi, in observance of International Mother Language Day. World over, around half of the seven thousand spoken languages are feared to die by the end of the present century. In India alone, 197 languages are classified as vulnerable or endangered. Cognizant of the threat of extinction looming large on many leading languages, International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, and promote multilingualism.  

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