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 |