Women Cell

The women cell in the institution is set up recently to create awareness about gender equality, with a focus on women empowerment.  The cell will also look into the matter and related issues of gender discrimination that often proves to be a bane in our social system.  The cell works, in tandem, with committee against sexual harassment.  The cell regularly arranges for counseling of girls students so that issues of concern, both social and individual, may be effectively addressed on a case to case basis.  Separate complaint box, exclusively meant for girls, is placed by the cell so that the aggrieved/affected party may reach out for help at her own convenience.  To complement the system further, Helpline numbers are widely circulated among the girls students by the members of the cell. The members of Women Cell are given following according to session 2019-2020:

FTT	Sujata Bandopadhyay	Convenor
	Ambalika Biswas	Member
	Hasina Sikdar	Member
GAPTT	Dr. Doyel Ganguly	Member
NTS	Smt. Soma Roy	Member

About the Workshop organized by the Women’s Cell:

With a view to initiating such programme based actions, the women cell has already organized a workshop on “21^st Century Women: Search for Root, Identity and Power in the Midst of Crisis” on 08.10.2015 to generate legal awareness among girl students.  The objective of the programme was to make aware of our students (irrespective of gender) about the legal aids/supports that the girl students can get at danger. The Workshop was inaugurated by the head of the institution, Dr. Manas Kumar Jana. Welcome Speech was delivered by Prof. Sujata Bandyopadhyay, Department of History. Mr. AmitdyutiKumar , Working President, Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) was the main speaker of the programme. Dr. Sikha Aditya, Member, West Bengal Commission for Women was another speaker, who from her practical experiences enlightened the students about the innumerable issue the women are facing these days. In addition to the mentioned speaker, Dr. SonaliMajumdar, Convener, Women’s Cell, Tartakeswar Degree College, Smt. RangtaMunshi, Advisor, APDR, West Bwngal were also contributed to the workshop as eminent speakers.Vote of thanks was given by Dr. Papiya Dutta, Convener of Women’s Cell. About 400 girl student of our college participated in the programme. The student got immense interest and enjoyed the programme, they actively participated particularly during the question-answer session. Students put demands of such programmes in near future.

 

               Women Cell Workshop                                    Participants in Women Cell Workshop 

About the Celebration of the International Women’s Day:

The international Women’s Day was celebrated on 08-03-2014. A Seminar was organized by the Committee Against Sexual Harassment. The convenerof the Committee was Prof. Shelly Sinha. The title of the same was ‘Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity’. Due to slack session a very few students attended the programme. The women Faculties of the College participated and presented papers on various issues relating women since history to the present. Speakers were. Prof. Shelly Sinha, Department of Botany, (‘The Unkindness of the Society to the Woman Scientists’),Dr. Papiya Dutta, Department of History(‘The Role of Women during Noakhali Riot in 1946’). The entire programme was conducted by Dr. Pampa Mukherjee, Department of Bengali. 

        Lecture on Women’s Day                       Seminar on Sexual Harassment