00:00My name is Sheik Aamna Usama. I am in SYBA. Political Science is my major subject.
00:07I come from Bhivandi. And I have seen that in Bhivandi, not all, but some parents are like that
00:14who just don't study their children because they are a girl. They say that they are a girl, what will
00:20they do?
00:21They think that if they study, they will become economically independent.
00:25And they want to keep them economically dependent because they want to enjoy the patriarchy and control over them.
00:32Besides that, my parents are very supportive.
00:36After that, they have sent me a lot of support and sent me to school.
00:40In school, I am a QPSC aspirant.
00:43So, I use my coaching classes to go to public transport.
00:48In public transport, women also feel so unsafe that sometimes it happens that if you sit on the bus
00:56and someone has a seat left, then you have to think that I will sit or not sit.
01:03I will stop that if someone has a seat left, I will sit there.
01:08So, I have to think that after the seat, I have to think that the bus is full.
01:13The second thing is that the bus is full.
01:16There is a rush.
01:18Then you have to think that if someone will go or not,
01:20they will take a seat or they will touch someone.
01:23So, this is a tension.
01:24It is a opposite.
01:25If the bus is empty, then you are scared.
01:28So, what do you do?
01:31You don't have to sit on a bad bus.
01:33You don't have to sit on a bad bus.
01:34You don't have to sit on a bad bus.
01:35You don't have to sit on a bad bus.
01:36I mean, we have made public transport so that girls don't feel safe.
01:40So, I would like to say girls and boys,
01:44that if this girl is feeling unsafe,
01:48then your job is to feel safe.
01:50If someone sees this with someone,
01:53then please raise your voice in the audience.
01:55Please raise your voice and support one another.
01:57Because we don't want to have a lot of opportunity.
02:00But as much as our right is,
02:01we deserve equal opportunity.
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