Socialist Party (India) is organising an event at Haider Canal, near Buddheshwar in Lucknow on the occasion of the birthday of Savitribai Phule, India’s first woman teacher, who along with her husband Mahatma Jotiba Phule started an education programme for girls in Pune in 1848.
The Phule couple also valiantly fought the caste-based discrimination in Indian society and set up a home for abandoned women. The struggle of Savitribai can be gauged from the fact that she had to carry an extra sari to school as people with patriarchal and casteist mindset would throw mud and cow-dung at her and the couple was asked to leave the household of Jotiba’s father because of community pressure.
Date: 3 January, 2021
Time: 1-4 pm
Venue: Haider Canal, near Buddheshwar, Lucknow
Main Speakers:
SR Darapuri, Retired IPS Officer
Anurag Chaudhary, Student of Law at Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University who has recently written a book on Dr BR Ambedkar
Organiser/Host:
Ravindra Kumar, 6394945890, 8953957618
Note: Ravindra Kumar hails from a Dalit landless family in Hardoi district who sells clothes by vending on his motorcycle (until a few years back he was doing this on his cycle) in Lucknow and gets more than hundred students of his locality admitted every year in private schools as part of 25% free seats in private schools under Section 12 (1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, 2009. His own 2 children are also studying in two schools under this act. Ravindra also started two informal education centres for children and one for adult women in his locality during the COVID times.
