Palakkad District - 678104
Monday to Saturday
KSWDC Women Cell, Government College Chittur has been organizing various programmes to sensitize its stakeholders on various gender issues. Apart from spreading awareness on women’s rights, Women Cell aims at empowering and orienting women to recognize their true potential and to help them become self reliant. Women Cell ensures the participation of all students in its activities in order to spread maximum awareness about issues related to gender. The targeted group includes all UG, PG students, women from nearby community and primary and secondary level students of nearby schools.
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE CHITTUR
WOMEN CELL 2022-23
CO-ORDINATOR : JAYANTHI.C (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY)
MEMBERS:
1.Dr.KAVITHA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TAMIL)
2.Dr.FATHIMA.S ( ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TAMIL)
3.Dr.MANJU ( ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MALAYALAM)
4.Smt.ASWATHY (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMERCE)
5.Smt.NAZRIN (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY)
6.Smt.SREEKALA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)
7.Smt.DHANYA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC)
8.Dr.RATHI (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TAMIL)
Programme: 1-Gender Sensitization Workshop- 06/11/2021
The one- day workshop was led by Dinu Veyil, Research Scholar and Founder Dhisha. 54 students participated in the workshop. This workshop addressed the basic requirement to understand the sensitive needs of a particular gender. It helps participants to examine their personal attitudes and beliefs and question the ‘realities’ that they thought they know. Recent discourses focus upon the need to sensitize gender issues on campus as many believe that education is the catalyst for change. This workshop successfully instilled positive thoughts on gender issues and encouraged them to stop practising gender discrimination.
Women Cell organized a legal awareness class for students. More than 150 students attended the session led by Adv. Shanmugeshwari. The talk and discussion helped to impart practical knowledge about the basic legal rights and remedies provided under various women related laws, thereby making them fit to face the challenges in real life situations. It also helped to make students aware of the various machineries/organs of the Justice delivery system available for redressal of their problems/grievances, the procedure of approaching and utilizing various channels available for the redressal of grievances i.e. the Police, the Executive and the Judiciary, the role of courts in achieving gender equality, most importantly the concept of public interest litigation, the role of District Legal Service Authority, Free Legal Aid and Lok Adalats.
Besides the session helped to sensitize students about their Rights as provided under the various laws including the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961; the Prevention of Domestic Violence to Women Act, 2005 etc.
Dr. Yakob Thomas, Assistant Professor , KKTM Govermnent College , Pullut spoke on the “ Politics of Dress”. A panel of students from various departments spoke on different aspects of dress and how educational spaces mould students as boys or girls and fix them into acceptable gender models.
Women Cell organized a poster campaign to spread awareness on violence against women. Students made posters and placards on the theme “Violence isn’t just Physical” and exhibited them at Vanajam. Ms. Vidya, Counsellor, Jeevani addressed the students and teachers.
KSWDC Women Cell report 2021-2022