Bihar scholar asks for sanitary napkins, IAS oficer retorts, ‘subsequent you will ask condoms’
Express News Service
PATNA: A lady IAS officer of Bihar gave a surprising reply to a woman scholar when the latter requested for any authorities provision for sanitary napkins for varsity ladies within the state.
“Can the government give sanitary napkins that cost only Rs 20-30?” the lady scholar requested, to which IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra stated, “Tomorrow you will say the government can give us jeans too. And why not some beautiful shoes after that.”
The IAS officer did not cease there and stated, “You will eventually expect the government to give you family planning methods, condoms, too”
The lady IAS officer’s controversial comment got here at a workshop on ‘Sashakt Beti, Samridh Bihar’ held in Patna on Tuesday. The perform was held below aegis of Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation. Incidentally, Bhamra heads the company, which organised the perform with Unicef and different organisations.
When the lady scholar reminded the IAS officer of individuals’ votes for the federal government, the principal secretary of state’s girls and youngster growth company, stated, “This is now height of stupidity. Then don’t vote. Become Pakistan. Do you vote for money and services?”
The lady scholar, who hails from the casual settlement locality of the state capital, shot again and stated, “But (Madam)I am an Indian.”
The IAS officer meant to make clear that they need to not rely on the federal government for all essential issues.
The authorities supplies quite a lot of issues freed from price. “But it doesn’t imply that you simply rely on authorities for all issues that you simply require for survival, the IAS officer added.
She, nonetheless, asserted that individuals’s pondering have to be modified.
PATNA: A lady IAS officer of Bihar gave a surprising reply to a woman scholar when the latter requested for any authorities provision for sanitary napkins for varsity ladies within the state.
“Can the government give sanitary napkins that cost only Rs 20-30?” the lady scholar requested, to which IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra stated, “Tomorrow you will say the government can give us jeans too. And why not some beautiful shoes after that.”
The IAS officer did not cease there and stated, “You will eventually expect the government to give you family planning methods, condoms, too”
The lady IAS officer’s controversial comment got here at a workshop on ‘Sashakt Beti, Samridh Bihar’ held in Patna on Tuesday. The perform was held below aegis of Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation. Incidentally, Bhamra heads the company, which organised the perform with Unicef and different organisations.
When the lady scholar reminded the IAS officer of individuals’ votes for the federal government, the principal secretary of state’s girls and youngster growth company, stated, “This is now height of stupidity. Then don’t vote. Become Pakistan. Do you vote for money and services?”
The lady scholar, who hails from the casual settlement locality of the state capital, shot again and stated, “But (Madam)I am an Indian.”
The IAS officer meant to make clear that they need to not rely on the federal government for all essential issues.
The authorities supplies quite a lot of issues freed from price. “But it doesn’t imply that you simply rely on authorities for all issues that you simply require for survival, the IAS officer added.
She, nonetheless, asserted that individuals’s pondering have to be modified.
