Mahatma Jyotiba Phule stressed on women education

Guntur: Mahatma Jyotiba Phule's birth anniversary was celebrated on Wednesday under the aegis of Forum for Better Bapatla.His statue near mandal office was garlanded and rich tributes were paid to the great leader.

The forum secretary, PC Sai Babu said that Phule was a visionary much ahead of his times. A pioneer in the field of women’s education, he was the one who opened the first ever girls’ school in India. He was much pained by the atrocities against people in the name of caste. Since he was born in a so-called lower caste family, he had experienced the tortures and injustices rooting out of the caste system first hand.

He realized the importance of education and married at a young age. He began teaching his wife how to read and write. Fortunately, his wife Savitribai was a like-minded soul who supported and helped her husband whole-heartedly in his social endeavors.

Highly distressed by the malpractices prevalent due to the caste system, he formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj with the aim of protecting the so-called lower castes from exploitation and injustices. His unrelenting efforts to eradicate social inequalities earned him the title of Father of Indian Social Revolution, said the speakers.

Intelliegence Inspector T Sambasiva Rao, Bandikalla Babu Rao, Kaki Mohan Rao, Ade Bujji, Prasanna Kumar and others participated.