ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai celebrated “National Girl Child Day” on 24 January 2022

Every year 24 January is celebrated as National Girl Child Day in India. As per the instructions received, the day was celebrated in ICAR-CIRCOT in virtual mode following the Covid protocol.

The program started at 3.45 pm. Dr. Sujata Saxena (Acting) welcomed all the participants present in the online and offline mode and greeted them with best wishes on National Girl Child Day. She said that every family should make no difference in the upbringing of daughter and son. Equal attention should be paid to their health, nutrition and education. It is a duty of every citizen to spread awareness in the society about infanticide, child marriage, girl child’s education and legal rights, health and nutrition. While welcoming Mrs. Snehal Soni, who was invited as a Special Guest to deliver lecture on this occasion, she expressed that yoga can be very useful in this context as its regular practice leads to physical, mental and emotional development. She said that through its Post-harvest Technology development research works, ICAR-CIRCOT continually endeavors in empowerment of girls and women.

Thereafter the Special Guest Mrs. Snehal Soni, Certified Yoga Teacher by Ministry of AYUSH delivered a lecture on “Improving the personality of the girl child through Yoga”. She explained that with the help of yoga, meditation and proper nutrition physical health and concentration ability can be enhanced in the children. Every family should make yoga a part of daily life. She got the attendees to do some yoga asanas and pranayama.

In the vote of thanks, Dr. Ashok Kumar Bharimalla, Senior Scientist, In-Charge, Agribusiness Incubation Centre shared that the Institute through its ABI cell provide continual support to women entrepreneurs to set up business enterprises based on baby food, baby apparel and sanitation products etc.

The program was attended by more than 70 viewers in hybrid mode which included staff members along with their daughters & family members and stakeholders of the Institute.