Honour women with respect: Dy CM Gaikhangam urges Muslim community

Sobhapati Samom
IMPHAL, August 30: The 9th Foundation Day all Manipur Muslims Girl Students’ Union (AMMGSU) was celebrated today at Lamyanba Shanglen, Konung Mamang, Imphal.
The Students’ Union was established with a vision to empower and uplift the socio-economic and education of the Muslim girls, who were, in the past, religiously bounded to forsake education and go for and early marriage.
The Girl Students Union, today, empowered the Muslims women, particularly the females of the community by organising skill development programmes like handloom and handicrafts, legal awareness, bakery and check school drop- outs among girls.
The Deputy Chief Minister, Gaikhangam, who attended the celebration as chief guest lauded the students for taking the right path for empowering and uplifting their educational status themselves and developing the status of the Muslim women and further urged the elders of the community to honour and treat the women with respect and to give guidance in their educational life and appealed to send girls for education.
The chief guest encouraged the students to discover their inner wisdom and “if one wants to reach high, we should start from the lowest.”
The function was attended by Govindas Konthoujam, Minister, Commerce and Industries as President and Janab Fajur Rahim, MLA and Chairman, WAKF Board, Manipur as guest of honour dignitaries from the other civil organisations were also present in the function.