Sudha Murthy

Sudha Murthy: Sir, when I have to start, I don't know. Shri Rajeev Shukla: No, you start. Sudha Murthy: Respected Vice Chairman. Now starting. This is my first speech.

It may not be maiden. How much time do I have, sir? Shri Rajeev Shukla: Five minutes. Five minutes.

Okay. Five minutes, madam. Sudha Murthy: I am not a politician, and I do not know how to English. For or against none, neither of them.

I have been chosen by the nominated by President of India. I'm really grateful to her and of course, our Prime Minister who announced my name on eighth of March, which is a Women's Day as a Nari Shakti. I always work for poor and I'm always on the field, so my experience is entirely different than both sides of the house.

I have given only five minutes and being a teacher, for me, five minutes is extremely small slot. However, I'll try to do only two things. I'm also an author, so I always like to give analogy from Sudarshana Sloka and describe.

It may not be possible. Maybe sometime later if you give me a maiden speech of fifteen minutes at least, I'll be able to do, sir, my expertise in my field. "Yatra naryastuh pumantervandryah tatra devataah prajavah" That's what our ancestors say, where women are respected, that is a place where gods reside.

And I want to tell you the most important thing for woman, women in general, is her health because she always neglects her health and takes care of the family. And because of that, many women suffer in real life with cervical cancers, and they will come to the hospital only in the fourth stage or third stage.

And being a daughter and a sister of a doctor, I'm aware of this, and I worked in my last thirty years with Infosys Foundation on this particular area, and that I want to give a suggestion. There is a vaccination which is given to girls between the age of nine to fourteen, known as a cervical vaccination, which can, if the girls have take, if the girls take that, it can be avoided.

May I request that to the House that we should incorporate that vaccination for the benefit of our girls because prevention is better than cure. My father, being a doctor, always used to tell me when a woman dies, when a mother dies, in the hospital it's a count plus one. But for the family, a mother is lost forever.

Maybe a man can get another wife, but children will never get another mother. Mother plays an important role, and cervical cancers are more in the later part of life. So I request that our government should look into this matter.

And they have handled a very big vaccination drive during COVID, so this may not be very difficult. If you can vaccinate our girls in the teenage nine to fourteen. This is my first point I want Who has developed the vaccine?