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Women Power

SINDHU TAI

STEPPED IN THE ROLE OF MOTHER

FOR EVERY DESTITUTE CHILD

indhu Tai from Maharashtra has become the Reservation Leadership in
Smother of every child who roams the unclaimed
streets. She has received more than 750 awards In January 2016, the Parliament
including Padma Shri. But this success was not easy. central government For the first time in the
Behind this was a long struggle, which started with her reserved 33 percent general elections of 2019,
posts at constable
birth in Wardha, Maharashtra. Sindhutai was named level in CRPF and a record 78 women have
become MPs, and due to
Chindi after birth. Chindi means a shredded piece of CISF. This is a step the large participation of
cloth, which has no value. The family was very poor, so that is going to women in the Panchayati
change the mindset
there was neither a good upbringing nor education. At towards women in the Raj system, 46 percent
the age of 10, she was married to 30-year-old Shrihari security forces. of women are playing an
important role.
Sapkal. By the age of 20, Chindi had become the mother
of 3 children. She was expecting the fourth time when the food with her and left for the railway tracks with her
her husband threw her out of the house. Chindi's own daughter. When she found a hungry person on the way,
relatives also turned their backs on her. She gave she gave him the remaining food. Since then Sindhutai
birth to a daughter. Giving birth to a child alone was became the mother of every child who would be found
not easy. She had to cut her umbilical cord by hitting lying destitute at or near the station. When the children
it with a stone. After this, Sindhu even begged for her started growing, Sindhutai started giving speeches,
daughter at the railway station. After that, the thought so that donations could be received. When she died
of dying came to her mind. One day, Chindi collected a on January 4 this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
lot of food and started eating it. She did this because himself tweeted and said, "Dr. Sindhutai Sapkal will be
she did not want to die of hunger. She tied the rest of remembered for her noble service to the society."

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