After Japan, Russia does it; India to note, please. It is unbelievable that for the sake of education of girls, even for a single girl, who (the 14-year-old Karina Kozlova) along with her grandmother (a past nursery school teacher Natala Kozlova) live/reside in a remote village that is having population of only 50 residents. Russian train ‘The Saint Petersburg-Murmansk’ has introduced a suitable stop at the cost of loss of heavy expenditure to the exchequer, to pick them in the morning (7.10 hrs) and bring back at evening (5.08) from a school located at remote Poyakonda locality. No other passengers, being a remote place, travel in the train.
The train services have been appreciated by most of world’s nations, though it is loss to the govt, but an education is a must for girls, also. Not only Russia, Japan too meticulously takes due care of education of the nation’s students, especially of the girls, notwithstanding the waste of time and resources of Railways. For the last three years an unique uneconomical Kami-Shirataki (Hokkaido) train has run only for the purpose of picking up a single student girl Kana at a remote defunct railway station to and fro. Not only that, the Japanese Railways (JR) adjusted its own train timings according to the girl’s schedule timings of the school’s opening and closing which is located at remote place at Japans’ north island of Hokkaido. The running of an unique train services for a single unique girl student will be continued till the girl completes her high school education and thereafter the train services will be terminated.
In the world’s population of over 700 crore people, this may be a rare isolated and unprecedented emulative example for the entire nations in the world, especially for those Muslims nations who ban education to women in their country. India too should take a note of this, especially in the state of Maharashtra where government is proposing to close schools having less than 10 students. After all, every nation’s progress mainly depends upon the education and empowerment of women and if women are educated; so is the nation too, is also well educated and respected. Kudos to Japan and Russia and their unique Railways.
