The National Daughter’s Day: Dedicated to Indomitable daughters of India

 

Today (26 September 2021) is the National Daughter’s Day and, India is celebrating the day with Great essence and gusto. Doubtlessly, daughters must be celebrated every day, although a particular day dedicated to them gives us a bonus day to make them feel more precious and special altogether . Therefore, this day is observed to pay compliments and let daughters know, how special they are. This day is also about raising awareness for girl child and to encourage equality that girls should get equal rights and opportunities. People happily celebrate having daughters and daughter's day inevitably leads to some form of celebration in families with daughters.

Archies Limited invented National Daughter’s Day. The Company had constituted September 23, 2007, the fourth Sunday of the month as the Daughter's Day. The Company being the leaders in the industry wanted parents to not only feel proud of having daughters but also express their love & celebrate it too. The success of the festival shows how times are changing.

 

Phenomenal Daughters of the Nation

India is the land of inspiring daughters since centuries. We are honoured to be the country of daughters who gained immense popularity and in India and in the entire world as well, success against the all odds. For instances ; Gauri devi, Arati Saha, Justice M.Fathima Beevi, Sarla Thakral, Durga Banerjee,  Gita Gopinath, Hima Das, Mary Kom, Avani Chautrvedi , Dr. Neeru Chadha, Manushi Chillar, Jamida Beevi, P.V.Sindhu, Swapna Barman, Tanya Sanyal,  Kiran Majumdar, Indra Nooyi, Vendana Luthra, Seema Rao, Aruna Reddy, Mithali Raj, Anshu Jamsenpa, Reita Faria Powel are just few names , the list is  interminable .

 

The Bunch of budding floras

The latest example of incredible daughters of India is the result of the Civil Services Examination 2020, which was declared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday On 24th September 2021, has perfect gender balance of 10:10 in top 20 lists. Out of top 20 10 candidates are male and 10 candidates are female. It’s clearly indicates the equal numbers of male and female candidates among top 20 successful candidates. And out of the top 25 candidates comprise 13 male and 12 female.  Among the 761 candidates—including 545 men and 216 women—who have cleared the civil services examination 2020,

 

Shubham Kumar is the topper (an IIT Bombay graduate), he scored the 1st rank in the list, Jagruti Awasthi is the 2nd topper (who is the 1st topper among women) completed (B.Tech electrical engineering) from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal.  Ankita Jain is the 3 topper. She is presently posted in Audit and Account Services - Mumbai.  . In addition, Mamta Yadav , Meera K, Apala Mishra , Karishma Nair, Ria Dabi , Radhika Gupta , P. Srija , Vaishali Jain , Sadaf Choudhary , Maithreyu Naidu,  Divya Mishra are few  names in the top 30  list of Civil Services Exam 2020.

30-year-old Pooja Kadam is the optimum example of indomitable daughters of India. She is from Maharashtra’s Latur district and among the 761 people who cleared the UPSC civil services exam 2020 on Friday. Pooja Kadam, has secured 577th rank in the exams with just 15 per cent eyesight. This was her second attempt. She graduated from Fergusson College in Pune and did her post-graduation in Political Science from Indira Gandhi National Open University.

   We have our inspirational daughters all around us, all we need to give them equal opportunities and they will continue to  make the Nation proud .

 

Dr. Babli Parveen

Historian and Assistant Professor (DU)

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