Women Development Cell (WDC)

Aims And Objectives of WDC

1. To prevent sexual harassment and to promote general well-being of female students, teaching and non teaching women staff of Thakur College of Science and Commerce.

2. To provide appropriate working conditions in respect of work, leisure, health and hygiene to further ensure that there is no hostile environment towards women at work places and that no women employee has reasonable grounds to believe that she is disadvantaged in connection with her employment.

3. To provide guidelines for the redressal of grievances related to sexual Harassment of female students, teaching and non teaching staff of the university and affiliated colleges/institutions.

4. To create social awareness about the problems of women and in particular regarding gender discrimination.

5. To encourage participation of NGOs working in the area of women’s development in the activities of the Cell.

6. To organize seminars, workshops for creating general awareness and orientation of students, teachers, non-teaching staff for their active and sustained participation in the activities of Cell.

7. To organize various types of training programmes and create awareness about self-employment schemes for the encouragement of self-reliance among women.

8. To establish Committees at college level i.e. College Women Development Cell(CWDC) and seeking the participation of both male and female students taking part in NCC, NSS and other activities , for prevention of sexual harassment of women.

9. To provide assistance to the college level Women Development cell (CWDC) for taking preventive steps in matter of gender discrimination and sexual harassment.

Women Development Cell Composition

2023-2024

#	Name of the member	Contact
	Ex Officio Chairperson Dr. (Mrs.) C. T. Chakraborty (Principal)	9821323251
1	Dr. Neeta Jain (Convener) (Asst. Professor Information Mathematics, Department)	9322811585
2	Mrs. Champaka Shankar Inner wheel Club (Kandivali) NGO Representative	9821005509
3	Mrs. Ruchi Dubey (Asst. Professor, Department ofChemistry)	9892590176
4	Mrs. Sherilyn Kevin (Asst.professor Dept of BSc IT)	9821292771
5	Dr. Vimal Mistry (Asst. Professor, BMS Department)	9892855706
6	Mr. Amit Bhosle (Non teaching staff and OBC category) Male Member	9819040116
#	Co-opted Members :	Contact
7	Ms. Ella Gaglani (Asst Professor Department of Accountancy)	9821952191
8	Mrs. Rituparna Choudhari (Asst.professor Dept of Accountancy)	9224131065
9	Ms. Nidhi Rai (Asst Professor Dept of Accountancy)	8879056442
10	Ms. Reetika Fernandes (Asst. Professor Dept of Accountancy)	7875335696
11	Ms. Kiran M (Asst. Professor Dept of Commerce)	8097736752

Action Plan For 2021-22

Gender Based Activities

The overhauling theme of #BreakThe Bias was observed for all the gender-based activities in the college. The UN theme of 2022 tried to break the stereotype and psychological barriers in horizontal and vertical mobilisation of women for a gender equal world. The activities aimed at promoting inclusive and equitable society through responsible citizens working towards the same.

Objectives are :

Conducting activities under the theme of gender with a target audience in mind.
The guest speaker/judge should be someone working in the field of gender.
The outcome of the activities should be duly identified and achieved.
The organisers should not be repeating the events/activities within a stipulated period of time.

The various range of proposed activities taken by administrative committees and departments commemorated the theme is general under different activities.

Department/Committee	Nature of the activity	Proposed date, time and venue	Objective of the activity
Women Development Cell	Guest Lecture	Online - October	On the theme of cancer awareness
Women Development Cell	Poster making competition	Online - February	Celebrating women achievers
Women Development Cell	Women's day week celebration - a set of activities	Online - around a week prior to women's day	Series of events celebrating Breaking the Bias will be taken
ICC	Guest Lecture	Online - one every semester	On the themes of sensitization of ICC
ICC	Annual debate competition	Online - December	Awareness about issues related to ICC, POSH
ICC	Extempore	Online - February	Awareness about issues related to ICC
Department wise list	Department wise activities	Throughout year	Awareness program

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Statutory Committees links

College Grievance Redressal Cell Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) Anti-Ragging Committee Women Development Cell (WDC) Student Grievance Redressal Cell Student Council Department of Lifelong Learning & Extension (DLLE)