Patna : while rearing honeybees for a livelihood has found a place in a school textbook produced by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
Anita Kushwaha, 17, has encouraged and inspired thousands of women in rural Bihar to be self-reliant.
NCERT has included a new chapter on the success story of Anita - titled \"Anita and the honey bees\" in a Class IV book on environmental studies called \"Looking Around\".
The chapter describes Anita, popularly known as \"queen bee\", as a role model for students and others for her efforts in educating herself and taking to beekeeping to increase the family income.
The chapter is full of amazing but true stories of Anita, born to poverty-stricken parents. Both her parents work as agricultural labourers.
Anita\'s determination to educate herself despite poverty has been termed in the book as a \"great struggle\".
Her determination to take to beekeeping has proved to be a turning point in supplementing her family\'s income and funding her school as well as college education. Later, dozens of women of her village took to beekeeping to earn their livelihoods and educate their children.
Till early 2006, Anita was an unknown face in Pattiayasam, a nondescript village, mainly populated by Dalits, in Muzaffarpur district about 70 km from the state capital here.
Anita refused to marry and convinced her parents to let her continue her studies. She hit the headlines when Unicef picked up her story and selected her as part of their girl stars campaign in 2006.
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Anita Kushwaha, 17, has encouraged and inspired thousands of women in rural Bihar to be self-reliant.
NCERT has included a new chapter on the success story of Anita - titled \"Anita and the honey bees\" in a Class IV book on environmental studies called \"Looking Around\".
The chapter describes Anita, popularly known as \"queen bee\", as a role model for students and others for her efforts in educating herself and taking to beekeeping to increase the family income.
The chapter is full of amazing but true stories of Anita, born to poverty-stricken parents. Both her parents work as agricultural labourers.
Anita\'s determination to educate herself despite poverty has been termed in the book as a \"great struggle\".
Her determination to take to beekeeping has proved to be a turning point in supplementing her family\'s income and funding her school as well as college education. Later, dozens of women of her village took to beekeeping to earn their livelihoods and educate their children.
Till early 2006, Anita was an unknown face in Pattiayasam, a nondescript village, mainly populated by Dalits, in Muzaffarpur district about 70 km from the state capital here.
Anita refused to marry and convinced her parents to let her continue her studies. She hit the headlines when Unicef picked up her story and selected her as part of their girl stars campaign in 2006.
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