Database soon on meritorious slum girls to facilitate education in india

With an aim to educate underprivileged female kids, the health department is preparing a database of 'meritorious girls' living in slum areas. After the database is ready, the department will get people 'adopt and sponsor' the education of such girls at least till their graduation.Adoption would primarily mean bearing the cost of the girl child's education at least till graduation."We are taking help of mahila arogya samitis (MAS) constituted in all slum areas of the city and other parts of the...

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Devyani Khobragade aimed at promoting women education and empowerment

NEW DELHI: Diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was charged in 2013 with visa fraud by US authorities, will later this month undertake a cross-country run in her home state of Maharashtra aimed at promoting women education and empowerment.Khobragade will try to keep pace with legendary ultra-marathon, endurance runner and former Australian MP Pat Farmer, who has undertaken a 4,600 km 'Spirit of India Run' from Kanyakumari to Srinagar to raise funds for girls' education in India, as also to improve bilateral ties between India and Australia.In an exercise...

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