DJJS under its gender equality program Santulan, renowned for establishing trends to commemorate girl child festivals and celebrate them every year, yet again is in talks for celebrating the pious national festival ‘Navratri with a cause’ across India. After a successful conduct last year too, with more than 45000 beneficiaries, this year, it has emerged with a month long campaign, as a chapter of its ongoing women empowerment drive ‘Tu Hai Shakti’ against sex selective abortions, taking up the biggest irony of the season, female feticide in the land of girl child worship. It is toiling hard to reiterate that kanya poojan on Navratri is not an affair of just 9 days but a value that is being carried forward to consider women as goddess incarnations. Reportedly, the campaign will continue from September 18, 2016 to October 18, 2016 majorly in the areas of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, the areas witnessing disturbed sex ratio, to sensitize as many as possible to this ongoing concern and rife in the society, through various awareness workshops, awareness drives, bike rally, Kanya rally, Durga jhanki etc.
The problem of female feticide, better renamed as ‘Mental illness’ and ‘betrayal towards society’ by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi at the launch of issue based campaign ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, has gone far, opening doors to numerous crimes like trafficking, bride marketing, child marriage, molestation to name a few. Santulan discusses the causes with lakhs on the occasion of Navratri, taking into consideration the facts namely existence of 55 shakti peethas in India, thousands of durga poojas and devi bhagwats conducted during Navratri, Maa Durga still cited as symbol of power and win of good over evil and many more. Yet there exists desolating statistics of violence happening against women all over, sex selective abortions being the worst form amongst all.
The stratagem encompasses varied activities viz; motivating commentary, captivating skit to showcase the alarming situation of prevalent paradox kanya bhroon hatya leading to dwindling number of girls in the land where kanya is worshipped as devi incarnation during Navratri, educative discourses powered by presentations to elucidate the need to harness lives of numerous foetuses who are crushed with the blame of being a girl, counselling, mass distribution of program pamphlets etc.
As communicated, the idea is to introduce comprehensive attitude change by taking concrete measures, to educate that 9 days of religious goddess and kanya poojan are insufficient to make up for the brutal deeds against women for the rest of the year. With the involvement of numerous preachers and volunteers, the month-long campaign this Navratri peculiarly aims at value creation to welcome girl child, establish equilibrium by gifting attendees with the everlasting remedy of spiritual enlightenment and induce righteousness.
DJJS is a socio-spiritual organization, moving ahead under the stewardship of its head and founder Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji and is working globally to recreate the gender equilibrium and gift women their real stature by means of spiritual enlightenment. Furthermore, for the establishment of world peace, it is working through nine-dimensional social reforms and welfare programs, taking up issues related to gender, education, community health, drug abuse eradication, environment conservation, Indian cow breed improvement and conservation, disaster management and empowerment of disabled and prisoners, along with workshops for corporate sector and youth.
