{"id":326,"date":"2007-10-07T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=326"},"modified":"2007-10-07T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T12:40:00","slug":"tribal-girls-take-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/10\/tribal-girls-take-to-the-skies.html","title":{"rendered":"Tribal girls take to the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Dahanu<\/span>: From the remotest tribal areas in Maharashtra straight to the skies, 100 youngsters are ready to take off and hit a new high.<br \/>&#8221;My name is Surekha Avtaar. I come from Dahanu. I am doing my Graduation I am pursuing a Diploma in Aviation and Hospitality Management,&#8221; said an aspiring airhostess.<br \/>Surekha is one among the 100 selected under a unique initiative of the Maharashtra government from the remotest tribal areas of the state.<br \/>The girls were transformed after extensive sessions in grooming, etiquettes and lessons in the English language.<br \/>From over 400 applications from scheduled tribes across the state with an annual average income less than Rs one lakh per family, getting here itself was not easy.<br \/>From the Naxal-affected Gadchiroli to the malnutrition hit Nandurbar, these youngsters many of them first generation learners, are putting their best foot forward concealing behind their smiles stories of strife and struggle.<br \/>Theirs is a journey of discovery, while for their families it started from discovering the meaning of the term itself.<br \/>From uneasy first steps to a spring in their step, these youngsters are on a flight of fancy spreading their wings, ready to take off to reach new highs, yet very much grounded in reality.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">07\/10\/07 Ketki Angre\/NDTV.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dahanu: From the remotest tribal areas in Maharashtra straight to the skies, 100 youngsters are ready to take off and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}