WDC Report for Academic Year 2019-20

Women Development Cell (WDC) works for promoting awareness about  laws protecting them from sexual  Harassment and providing amiable environment for Gender equality amongst the students of the College. With the above aim WDC conducted various Activities throughout the year. 

Orientation Program:

The committee conducted an Orientation Program for the girl students to create awareness of the Duties and Requirements of the Women Development Cell which  was organized on 26th August ,2019 for the Learners and Members of WDC. 

Poster  Making Competition:

 A Poster  making Competition was held on the theme  “Women Empowerment & Awareness against Sexual Harassment” on 23rd August 2019 to spread awareness about the social issues. Posters were displayed in the open quadrangle which were appreciated for the creative and artistic skills  of the participants. The Judges evaluated the posters on different criteria like relevance to the theme , accuracy and the clarity of message overall presentation .The Winners  were as follows 

First rank-Ms. Vishita Rodda F.Y.B.M.M-C(9341),Second Rank – Mr. Ganesh Choudhary T.Y.B.Sc-Maths(769) , Third Rank -Ms. Nandita Jain F.Y.B.M.S-A (5849).

 Guest Lecture on “ Career Opportunities for Women in Civil and Defense services” - on 11th September and  24th September:

A Guest Lecture on “ Career Opportunities for Women in Civil and Defense services” was held on 11th September and  24th September , 2019 by Commander  Vijay Pratap Singh(Former Director ,Advance Space Tech  Projects ,Indian Navy) who discussed about various posts in these services and eligibility criteria. The speaker also discussed the pre-Requisite and career growth opportunities available for women in this field 

Guest Lecture on “Health and Hygiene -What you ought to know ” -Dr. Minal Dhabaliya  

A guest Lecture on “Health and Hygiene -What you ought to know ” Dr. Minal Dhabaliya  a gynaecologist with more than 20 years of experience  spoke about general  health Menstrual Cycle. She talked about vaginal infections and how these infections can be treated .Students were engrossed during the entire seminar and paid rapt attention to social dilemmas and discussed various misconception about their Health and Hygiene.

National Conference on “Women Empowerment and Gender Equality -Contemporary Issues ” - On 4th of January 2020

On 4th of January 2020 WDC and IQAC of the college  in Association with University of Mumbai Women Development Cell organized a National Conference on “Women Empowerment and Gender Equality -Contemporary Issues ” .62 Papers were published in UGC-Care Approved and Referred Journal in Vol-68-issuse -1 January -2020 of Our Heritage Journal With ISSN ::0474-9030 Impact Factor 4.912(SJIF)

Self Defense workshop  on “Stand up against Sexual Harassment with Self Defense Techniques” -by Raina Khatari Tandon

A  Self Defense workshop  was conducted on the topic “Stand up against Sexual Harassment with self Defense Techniques” The Trainer and Motivational Speaker was an Advocate Raina Khatari Tandon  is Director for Right2Rise.She spoke about POSH laws and the dos and donts  of working with the other gender. She  showed us different apps available on the mobile . She gave a demonstration of  different techniques for Self  Defense.

Women Empowerment Week

Women Empowerment Week was conducted between 3rd March -11th March to Celebrate the International Women’s Day, according to Directives given by UGC .Various Activity were conducted for all the students in the college 

1) Self Defense Workshop by Ground And Pound MMA Trainer Mr.Guarav Pandey in-charge of the event -Dr. Parul Singhal 

2)Movie Screening and Analysis of the movie “Sand ki Aankh” (Hindi)In-charge of the event -Dr. Rakhi Bhattacharya 

3)An Awareness talk on “Women Health n Menstrual Hygiene” was by Mrs. Dipti Kashalkar and Mr. Saurav Kashalkar from Upasana Charitable Society .They spoke on menstrual health and hygiene and also about personal health and hygiene .They went to different classrooms  and spoke to the students. The in-charge of the event -Ms.Jyotsna Anthal 

4) Online Quiz on Women Empowerment  was conducted during the second lecture where all the students accessed the Quiz Link through mobile  and answered the Multiple Choice Questions  about 500 students attempted the test,This activity was to bring awareness among the students about issues related to Women.

5) Seminar on Opportunities and overcoming Biases for Empowering Women. This event was graced by Mrs. Leena Gupta Transformational Corporate Coach, Ms. Harha Mukhrjee  Entrepreneur and Ms. Swara Kotnis Former Mrs.Vivacious Title Winner, these three  achievers various from field were honoured for the same.

7)Poster Competition was conducted on topics “Celebrating Women hood, Women Achievers, Women Right’s, any other topic related to theme, the winners were – First Rank Ms. Swati  Vishwa karma – S.Y.BSc CS-A(815), Second Rank – Yadav Shubham  Achhalal – S.Y.BSc IT(B)(19316),Third Rank  Yashashree Gawade S.Y.B.F.M (8856). The in-charge of the event Dr. Rashmi Shetty. The college also created social media tagline to #AgarTumNaHoti for students and teacher to write about the women who inspired them and post it on social media.

This Academic year saw the students and teachers participate in the Women Development Cell’s informative, innovative and inspiring events whole heartedly and actively.