Lucknow: The photographs of Indian women achievers will soon be put on the wall of government primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, sources said on Wednesday. The photographs of Rani Laxmi Bai, Chand Bibi, Savitribai Phule, Sarojini Naidu, Lata Mangeshkar, Mother Teresa, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Amrita Ptirak, Mahadevi Verma, Begum Akhtar, Mary Kom, astronaut Kalpana Chawla and other will adorn the primary school walls.
The state government has ordered that one wall each of all 1.54 lakh schools across 75 districts to be dedicated to this mission under Mission Shakti Phase-4 special campaign. According to a government spokesman, the aim is to motivate students to emulate these personalities. He said, “The officials have been asked to put big and clear pictures of the women personalities and display brief write-ups about them.”
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The focus will be on women achievers from the past and also on contemporary achievers. Instructions have come from the government that the names of local or region-specific women of the district, development block and divisional level women personalities can also be displayed as part of this initiative after due clearance by the officials concerned, official said. Besides, there will be a brief history of those women achievers, he said. It is, however, not know whether the photographs of Kasturba Gandhi and Indira Gandhi will also be there.
