Girl child no longer burden in this Bhagalpur village

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Girl child has been considered to be a burden for few section of society, but for a Bhagalpur village called Dhahra, a girl child is privilege. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch in Bhagalpur, with over 20,000 mango trees in and around the village.

Villager of Dhahra Nirmala Devi says, "There are two benefits of planting trees. One, we sell the fruits of the tree to make money for the girl’s marriage and secondly it help environment."

For generations in India, girl children have been treated as incarnations of Goddess Lakshmi, known as the goddess of wealth. All those mango trees have added to the village’s prosperity.

Villager Vijay singh says, "It's a tradition of planting ten trees at the birth of girl child."