Rahul Sharma adjudged best speaker at “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao”�debate

Jamshedpur, Sept 16: Lions Club of Jamshedpur Steel City today organized�”Beti Bachao Beti Padhao”�programme in DBMS Lilliput School, the project school having students from families of Below Poverty Line. Almost 200 students from Class VII to IX attended the programme.�

A debate was organized on the same subject in which three students Rahul Sharma, Sweety Pramanik and Arati Sharma from Class VIII and three students Tiya Dey, Neelu Turha and Gayatri Kumari from Class IX spoke for three minutes each and were judged on five parameters ; content, pronunciation, memory, expression and time limit.�

The presentation made by the students were very informative and covered almost all the aspects of why girl and how child should be saved and what positive impact it will have on society and the various government efforts being carried out in this regards.

The declining Child Sex Ratio in the country between 0 – 6 years with an all-time low of 918 in 1000 is a great concern. Preference for sons & discrimination towards daughters has aggravated the problem.�

With the formation of Jharkhand the speaker rightly felt that the Child Sex Ratio has reduced drastically from 965 in 2001 to 943 in 2011. Dhanbad with 916, East Singhbhum with 922, Hazaribagh with 924 and Ramgarh with 926 are the worst districts and needs proper orientation and attention to promote birth of girl child, her survival & protection coupled with proper education.�

Students felt that women and girl child should be given due respect and support as it will help make the society, generation and even nation stronger.�

The programme was inaugurated by Kanchan Singh, District Governor and Rajnish Kumar, First Vice District Governor who were also in the panel of judges and had difficult times in deciding the winner.

Seeing the overall performance Rahul Sharma the only male speaker was adjudged the best closely followed by Arati Sharma, Sweety Pramanik, all from Class VIII. The three girls from Class IX also excelled well and all three of them were appreciated for their efforts. All the six speakers were rewarded suitably.
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Indu Gandhi, Past President of the Lions Club of Jamshedpur Steel City who coordinated with DBMS management along with Meena Bhagat, Past President, Vandana Pandey, President were present along with Narendra Kaur and Dipa Dutta and Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Zone Chairperson.

Lalitha Chandrashekhar, Vice Chairperson, Rajni Shekher, Principal, DBMS, Laxmi Vardarajan, Vidya Narayan, Indu Mohdak, Geeta Natrajan, Radha Srinivasan from DBMS management were also appreciative of the efforts being made by Lions Clubs in taking up this social cause and requested the Lions to collaborate for many other projects so that students�