The Telangana government will celebrate January 3 as “Women Teacher’s Day” starting Friday, commemorating the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, the wife of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.
The Phule couple were the 19th Century reformers who faced all odds in educating the children, especially girls, at a time when the then Indian society was against imparting education to them.
There have been various instances when the Phule couple were attacked by regressive forces, as they were running a school in their village. The couple have fought against the ‘Sati’ system that was prevalent in those days, against superstitions and other social evils.