Harjot Kaur Bhamra, who heads Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation, says she “meant to inspire ladies who are chained with the aid of patriarchy”
Bihar IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra, who instructed a schoolgirl “you would need condoms too” on a question about sanitary pads, has apologised for her comments, even though only after the National Commission for Women (NCW) sent her a be aware and the Chief Minister ordered an inquiry.
This morning, the women commission directed Ms Bhamra, Managing Director of the Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation, to record a reply to its word inside seven days. In the afternoon, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said in response to queries: “I have seen the information reviews and ordered an inquiry. I see the whole thing. If she’s guilty, action may be taken.”
By the nighttime, Ms Bhamra, who had the day before today threatened to sue a newspaper for “misreporting” approximately the Tuesday occasion, issued a assertion of “regret” and claimed her comments were to inspire girls “who’re regularly chained by patriarchy”.
She said, “If you take note of what I stated, I became simplest that means to induce the girls towards atma-nirbharta (self-sufficiency)… If everybody’s feelings were hurt, however, I express regret. I did not intend to harm or degrade every person.”
Videos display how Ms Bhamra had a series of snarky solutions to questions by using ladies on stage and the target market on the occasion in Patna.
At the Tuesday occasion, a girl on level with Ms Bhamra had asked her: “The government already gives uniform and scholarships, so can it give sanitary pads at ₹ 20-30?”
The officer had replied, “Tomorrow you’ll say the authorities can deliver denims too. And why now not a few stunning shoes after that? You will ultimately anticipate the government to provide you circle of relatives making plans strategies, condoms, too.”
The girl — a teenaged scholar from a slum — had even underlined that people’s votes make the authorities, however Ms Bhamra snapped at her: “This is heights of stupidity. Don’t vote, then. Become Pakistan. Do you vote for money and offerings?”
Ironically, this happened at workshop titled ‘Sashakt Beti, Samriddh Bihar’ (Empowered Daughters, Prosperous Bihar), the tagline of which read: ‘Towards enhancing the value of girls’. It become organised by means of the state’s organization that Ms Bhamra heads, with help from UNICEF and different companies.
On the pot, too, Ms Bhamra had sought to paint her feedback as a lesson in self-sufficiency. “You need to determine in which you want to look your self inside the destiny… The government can’t do that for you. Do you need to sit down where you’re, or at the facet I am sitting on?”