India’s first lady Savita Kovind presented a check of Rs.4 lakh to Shri Lakshmi Das and Shri Shyam Suri of Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya. The purpose of this money is to help girl students from weaker sections of the society studying in this school. This amount will be used for the purchase of books and warm clothes for the maintenance of the hostel and other needs for the girl students.
A group of girl students from Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya, Ishwar Nagar, New Delhi met the First Lady at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Center on the occasion of International Girl Child Day on 11 October. The students also presented cultural programs including singing devotional songs. and cultural dance. Before the program, all the students were also given a guided tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan in which they were given information about the history, architecture etc. of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
There are about 800 girl students in Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya out of which about 150 live in a hostel which is only for Scheduled Caste (SC) girls. The school has classes from KG to 12t and is affiliated to CBSE.
Distinguished guests on the occasion included Laxmi Das, Vice-President of Harijan Sevak Sangh, Shyam Suri, an integral part of the school’s management and Anita Sharma, Vice-Principal of Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya, Ishwar Nagar Vidyalaya. The Harijan Sevak Sangh was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932 and to visualize their values, the Harijan Sevak Sangh established the Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya in 1944.
The school was established by Gandhi’s close followers in 1944, soon after the death of Mahatma Gandhi’s wife Kasturba Gandhi, with the aim of providing quality education to girls from poor families.
Sahyog, an organization founded and run by Swati Kovind, has been working closely with the school for the past few years to provide health care and other essentials to girl students.
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