Huge B heaps reward on granddaughter Navya’s menstrual well being work in villages
MUMBAI: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has lauded the social work achieved by his granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda, for the menstruating ladies of the agricultural areas, and opened up on how the mindset of the folks within the villages ought to change.
Within the episode 21 of the quiz based mostly actuality present ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ season 15, host Amitabh Bachchan welcomed Neeru Yadav, popularly often called Hockey Sarpanch, from Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu, and Chhavi Rajawat former Sarpanch of Soda, a village which is 60 kilometers from Jaipur, Rajasthan, to the new seat.
Speaking about her journey, Neeru mentioned: “Once I acquired married and got here to this village I noticed quite a lot of variations. Girls needed to wrestle for his or her fundamental wants. In Rajasthan, ladies put on the veil. Girls could not say what they need. They’re carrying pots stuffed with water on their head.”
“So, I assumed, since l am residing within the village, I ought to do one thing good for my village. I contested to be the Sarpanch with this motive,” she shared.
The ‘Sholay’ actor mentioned: “I wish to inform our viewers and viewers that Chhavi is the primary Sarpanch with an MBA. You gained schooling in famend academic establishments. What made you come to your village?”
Chhavi shared: “Sir, it was not my concept. I give the credit score to the 73rd and 74th Amendments Acts. Due to that, a lady acquired an opportunity to contest an election for this publish. And, the villagers made this resolution. So, I assumed that if I do not assist being the daughter of my village then how can I count on others to assist us?”
“Round 65 per cent of the inhabitants of India lives within the rural space. So, if you wish to see the nation change, our villages must progress. And that is what impressed me,” she mentioned.
The 80-year-old actor mentioned: “You might be proper! The villages are backward! Quite a lot of amenities should not supplied to them.”
Sharing an anecdote of his go to to a village, Huge B mentioned: “I had been to a village as soon as. It lacked fundamental amenities. There was a small raised platform within the center. There have been flowers, vegetation, incense sticks and lamps on it. I requested them what they worship right here. ‘They mentioned, lookup. That is what we worship’. I seemed up. There was a lightweight bulb. The villager mentioned that when it lights up at evening, we sit underneath it and research.”
The actor shared: “The work each of you do within the villages. is commendable. Congratulations to you! Okay! I wished to know whether or not the quantity you win as we speak will probably be donated to a trigger? Neeru ji, may you inform us who you’ll donate it to?”
To this Neeru replied: “It will likely be donated to the Aditri Basis. This basis works in direction of ladies’s schooling, and the setting.”
Huge B: “What about your trigger, Chhavi ji?”
Chhavi mentioned: “Sir, it’s New Eminent Worldwide Faculty Shiksha Samiti. They run a ladies’s faculty. It’s positioned in our village. And after we began this there have been barely 60 feminine college students. Now, there are greater than 550 feminine college students who come right here for instructor coaching.”
Speaking additional about how the mindset of the agricultural folks must be developed, the ‘Mard’ fame actor mentioned: “I imagine the mindset wants to vary. It’s with a heavy coronary heart I say this about our ladies. A girl is named impure when she will get her interval each month. She is requested to depart the home. And the girl has to remain within the forest till the time her Menstrual interval ends.”
Sharing how his granddaughter Navya is working for the reason for the agricultural ladies, Amitabh mentioned: “There are a lot of younger women now who research in faculties and have determined that they’ll go to such villages and make a hut for these ladies outfitted with all of the requirements. Throughout these days each month, they’ll keep in these huts. I will not shrink back from saying that my granddaughter is doing this. She goes to villages. Her identify is Navya. She runs an organisation.”
“She visits villages to get an concept of the situations there. It was her concept that huts be made for these ladies. I hope that your statements will change the mindset of the folks within the villages,” he added.
For the unversed, Navya is a ladies’s rights advocate, and is the founding father of ‘Challenge Naveli’, a non-profit initiative which helps gender equality in India. It focuses within the fields of schooling, healthcare and monetary independence.
‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 15’ airs on Sony.
