SILCHAR, Jan. 25 -- A 21-year-old Afsana Khanam Barlaskar, resident of Bahadurpur under Udharbond constituency of Cachar district, is a specially-abled girl. On the occasion of National Girl Child Day, she has stepped up with a special gesture by giving away a tray of vegetables to a malnourished infant from her own village on the occasion of National Girl Child Day on Sunday.
Afsana has given the vegetables which she has cultivated in her cropland to the infant under the Parvarish scheme.
Afsana's father Lutfur Rahman Barlaskar, a farmer, told The Assam Tribune that by birth his daughter can neither hear nor speak. 'My daughter is my pride. After a lot of treatment when doctors said that her condition cannot improve, we decided to bring ...