Samba 08: Krishi Vigyan Kendra ,Samba, J celebrated “International Women Day” at its head quarter at Samba under aegis of Directorate of Extension, SKUAST-J. The programme was attended by Child Development Project officer, Samba, Mrs Kamla Devi and about 70 women farmers of the different villages of district Samba, officials from CDPO Deptt. Health Deptt. and Anganwari workers from social welfare department.
The programme was initiated by Dr.Vinod Gupta, Scientist & Head of KVK, Samba with warm welcome of the participants. He stressed upon that Women are playing multi-dimensional roles in agriculture. They are contributing in every field of agriculture from sowing to planting. He briefed the Role of women in agriculture in doubling the farm-women income and International Women Day serves as a reminder to strength of women and struggle for equality.
Dr Shalini Khajuria highlighted the theme of the International Women’s Day is “Each for Equal”. I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. She also described the basic objective of this annual event is to intensify awareness about Nutri Garden and Importance of pulses and green leafy vegetables in daily diet under nutrition.
Dr Sanjay Khajuria focused on Malnutrition and emphasized that is not to be viewed merely as an offshoot of poverty having adverse effects on health and development of individuals but as a national problem that results in loss of productivity and economic backwardness. Time has come to create a moment so as to improve nutrition at the individual level. He said that, series of convergent and well coordinated actions in different sectors are required to be undertaken in the mission mode approach to address this big network problem of malnutrition.
Speaking on occasion, Smt. Kamla, CDPO Samba discussed in detail about the various schemes for the welfare of the women. She told them to avail benefit of every scheme so that their health as well as standard of living can be improved. Lecture cum demonstration on low cost nutritious recipes for grassroots level functionaries like, anganwadi workers and helpers, village women and mahila samitis were conducted.
Mini exhibition on nutrition displaying low cost nutritious diets for different age groups will also be organized at grassroots level. At the end of the programe, vote of thanks was extended by Health Nutrition mobilizer, Smt.Sushma Jamwal.
