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Cover Story Women Power

TEMSUTULA

GAVE NEW LIFE TO THE

VARANASI GHATS

eople often complain about administrative laxity
Pin curbing the dirtiness. But Temsutula Imsong
is setting an example who seeing the filth, took the SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI DROPOUT DOWN
responsibility of cleanliness upon herself. In her noble An amount of more than
pursuit, she received the support of Darsika Shah. `80,509 The Gross
Temsutula, originally from Nagaland, is selflessly Enrollment Ratio of
cleaning the ghats of the Ganges in Varanasi. She crore is deposited in 2.26 girls increased by
got recognition after Prime Minister Narendra Modi crores Sukanya account 33%
mentioned her name in one of his tweets. After till October 2021.
finishing college, Temsutula founded a voluntary More than
organization called Sakar Seva Samiti. In the initial 19,500 SEX RATIO
days, she used to work from Delhi itself, but later For the first time, it
she moved to Varanasi. In the year 2013, the work villages declared becomes1020 women
of cleaning Shool Tankeshwar Ghat located away 'Sampoorna per thousand men.
from Varanasi city was started. After this, she took Sukanya Gram'.
the responsibility of cleaning Prabhu Ghat. On the
first day when she started the clean-up drive, the litter they would threaten her saying- who are you to
condition there was so bad that it became difficult to stop us? But Temsutula and her team did not give up.
stand there for even 2 minutes. Human excreta was Impressed by Temsutula's work, in July 2015, Prime
scattered everywhere. They cleaned up the ghat but Minister Modi also invited her to meet him at the Prime
people again littered. When she asked people to not Minister's Office.

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