[sustran] Re: Bicycles and girls education

[krishna gopal]

Dear Ashok

Please, read the following link also in conjunction with the article you
have sent

http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/18/stories/2010101856090200.htm

Yes, the trickle effect it will have on the human development particularly
in the other part of the India for moving the people towards achieving this
goals of education and other( self respect and the esteem it gives when a
person can look after his own mobility)

I do recall, when I had walked atleast a minimum of 5 kilometers a day to my
elementary school and cycle was a luxury still I completed my secondary
education.

Great, It is mobility for the other India, definitely a Bicycle can do a lot
in this regard

Regards

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Ashok Sreenivas
<ashok.sreenivas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Excerpt from an article (
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-mandate-for-nitish-hope-kumar/714282/0
> )
> totally unrelated to transport (it is about the results of the Bihar
> elections expected on Wednesday):
>
> "So, come on a drive with me to Bihar and I will show you a sight to
> cherish, one to light up your eyes, cheer your saddest, darkest hour, put a
> bounce in your step and, most of all, convince you once again that there is
> hope even for the worst governed, the most neglected parts of our country.
> It is the young girls, dozens and dozens and scores and scores of them,
> often in school uniforms, riding bicycles on the state’s new roads. Don’t
> miss the link between the roads, bicycles, uniforms, and the result this
> coming Wednesday. Nitish decided to attack the problem of low enrolment and
> large dropout rates for his state’s girls by offering a free bicycle to any
> girl moving to class nine. Four lakh bicycles have been distributed so far,
> and you already see a revolution of sorts on the wheels. Meanwhile, his
> high
> school enrolment for women has trebled."
>
> Ashok
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