Girl from Bokel Tea Estate attends meet on girl child in Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan

Dibrugarh: On the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child, a national conference was organised at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, by the ministry of women and child development in collaboration with Unicef India on Tuesday where Urmila Tanti, a girl from Bokel Tea Estate of Dibrugarh district, participated.
Unicef has selected adolescents from various parts of the country to interact with Smriti Irani, minister for women and child development on imparting of skill on non-traditional livelihood for girls. Urmila represented the girls from Assam who has got skill development training.
Urmila is associated with the Adolescent Girls’ Club of Bokel Tea Estate which was formed under Abita-Unicef project.
Urmila shared her speech in the conference where she said she is interested to use her skills in Assam. She mentioned that skill training development centres are there in Assam but employment opportunities are less comparing to the other states of the country.