Kolkata: Nearly 100 elderly women who are inmates of different old age homes visited Belur Math on Sunday morning in connection with the International Mother's Day celebrations.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted: "Greetings to all on the occasion of Mother's Day. You will be happy to know that Mother and Child Hubs (MCH) have been set up in Bengal. There has been a significant decline in maternal mortality in the State. For providing options for safe delivery to those mothers who stay in areas too far for accessing hospitals, the State Government has constructed fully manned and properly equipped Waiting Huts."
The trip to Belur was hosted by the International Human Rights Organisation. The elderly went to the Math in the morning and were taken around the temples. They had prasad at the newly constructed dinning hall of the Math, that can accommodate 1,000 people at a time. In the evening, they were taken to Kalakunj to watch the Bengal feature film Posto directed by Shibaprasad Mukhopadhyay and Nandita Roy.
"This is for the first time when the inmates of different old age homes have been taken out on International Mother's Day. They were all very happy and spent over two hours at Belur Math," said a spokesman for the NGO.