CM Shri Chouhan paid tribute to Smt. Savitribai Phule on her birth anniversary

Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid homage to the great social reformer Smt. Savitribai Phule on her birth anniversary. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan paid floral tributes by offering garland at her portrait in the auditorium at his residence office.

Smt. Savitribai Phule was born on January 3, 1831. She was the first principal of India’s first girls school and the founder of the first farmers school. Smt. Savitribai lived her life as a mission, whose aim was to get widow remarriage, eradicate untouchability, women’s emancipation and educate Dalit women. Smt. Savitribai Phule, along with her husband, founded the Girls School in Pune on January 3, 1848 with nine girl students of different castes. There were social restrictions on the education of girls at that time. Smt. Savitribai Phule not only studied herself during that period, but she also arranged for the study of other girls. She died of plague disease on March 10, 1897.