Women's Cell - PDEU

PDEU Women’s Cell has been established at the behest of Director General, Pandit Deendayal Energy University to ensure and uphold the dignity of Women at work. The University aims to provide safe working and learning campus life for staff and students free from gender discrimination and sexual harassment. It further cultivates the atmosphere where men and women work together towards the growth and prosperity of the institution in a safe and healthy academic environment.

Objectives

• To create awareness amongst students about the problems faced by women of all strata due to gender issues.
• To create awareness amongst students about the problems faced by working women.
• To create an environment of gender justice where men and women work together with a sense of personal security and dignity.
• To create awareness amongst students about the issues related to the youth, girls in particular.
• To disseminate knowledge about rights and laws related to women.
• To create a sense of responsibility in the students and have healthy study and work culture in all Schools of the University.
• To enhance the self-esteem and self-confidence of girl students, women faculty and staff in the University.
• To foster decision-making ability in girl students for making informed choices in areas like education, employment and health.
• To develop critical thinking ability of women students.
• To inculcate team spirit in the students.

Contact Details

Dr. Bhasha H. Vachharajani

Convener, Women’s Cell

Pandit Deendayal Energy University

Raisan, Gandhinagar-382007,

Gujarat, India.

Email - womencell@pdpu.ac.in

Phone - 079 23275226

Members in Women Cell

The Internal Complaint Committee (ICC)

This committee formed by PDEU Women’s Cell shall be responsible for the formal Redressal of complaints of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. It shall receive complaints, conduct inquiries and recommend disciplinary action, if any, in accordance with the provisions of the “Act”.

Any written complaint of sexual harassment by the aggrieved women shall be submitted directly to the Internal Complaint Committee formed by Women’s Cell of PDEU. Any aggrieved woman may make, in writing, a complaint of sexual harassment to the ICC within a period of three months from the date of incident and in case of a series of incidents, within a period of three months from the date of last incident.

The ICC constituted by the PDEU Women’s Cell for the academic year 2020-21 from amongst its members is as under:

International Women's Day Celebration at PDEU

Women's Health Education-Transforming Community

Women’s Cell of PDEU, on 5th March 2020 organized an event to mark the celebration of International Women’s Day. Thus to support women, to make an informed decision about their health and to encourage inclusive approach, Women’s Cell organized an awareness program on “Women’s Health Education - Transforming Community”.

The event was primarily divided into two phases. The first phase took care of the free health check-up of all the stakeholders of the university, especially all women members. The second phase consisted of an interactive session with gynecologists and a physician to address the health concerns faced by women. The health checkup was carried out by a team of doctors which included Dr. Rajhans Pathak, Mr. B. K. Pathan, Mr. Nilesh Labana from Global Hospital, Ahmedabad. The event was also graced by the presence of Dr. S. Sundar Manoharan, Director General of PDEU. PDEU Officials shared their valuable insights for crafting an equal and safe environment with the essence of care. Prof. Tarun Shah, Registrar-PDEU, Shri Ankur Pandya, CHRO-PDEU, Shri Deven Prajapati, CCO-PDEU, Dr. Ritu Sharma, Convener-Women Cell, Dr. Niyati Trivedi and Ms. Divya along with other faculty members and staff members facilitated the program.

We also had two gynaecologists Dr. Nisha Goswami and Dr. Bhavik Modi for the later session. The Q & A round opened up real-life concerns such as malnutrition, mental health, menstrual cycle, cervical cancer, and menopause. The interaction provided a scientific and clear understanding by demystifying a lot of health aspects. All the women employees were gifted with a free medical kit to assist initial health concerns.

The sensitive attempt by Women’s Cell, PDEU to embrace inclusivity in the form of raising health awareness generated satisfactory responses.

Gender Equality and Safety

Women Cell in collaboration with the clubs Jharokha and Rang organized an event on Gender Equality and Safety on October 21, 2019 at the University. The event was divided into different sub themes and the students who participated had to pick one of the themes and had to express the individual perspectives either in words by writing poetry or essay or through pictorial presentation. Some of the students essayed it with words while some of them made a pictorial presentation from the themes given to them. Students were given 45 minutes to complete this task of creative visual illustrations and writings. All the materials regarding drawing was provided by Rang, and with the help of the materials students presented their ideas. After the completion of the time limit, students were asked to present the work done by them. The panel members for judging the presentation included Mrs. Hetal Vasani, Dr. Rohit Srivastav, Dr. Ritu Sharma and Ms. Shiji John. The event was concluded with the awards felicitation and insights by the Women’s Cell PDEU.

Workshop on Self Defence jointly organized by Women’s Cell, PDPU and Fire and Security Association of India

Women’s Cell, PDPU in collaboration with Fire Security Association India, organized a workshop on Self Defence, for the girl students, female faculty and staff members of the university on 6th September, 2019. The workshop was conducted by Ms. Veena Gupta, Chairperson of FSAI. Ms. Veena Gupta was accompanied by her fellow colleagues, Mrs. Ami Sheth, Joint Secretary, FSAI – Gujarat Chapter, Mrs. Ashish Dastoor, CWC member, Mrs. Geetanjali Dharkar, CWC Member, Mrs. Jayshree Shah, CWC member, Mrs. Megha Bhatt, CWC member.

The workshop started with a brief introduction of the workshop by Ms. Ami, CWC member, highlighting upon the importance of self-defence for the women. She emphasized upon, the need of self-defence for each and every woman, to help them fight against the unexpected threat or any danger. She also highlighted upon, how women face problem while travelling, at workplace, in public spaces and how one can defend themselves, without anyone’s help, by using self-defence. Ms. Veena Gupta talked about some instances like – being harassed in public places, uncomfortable touch and while traveling. She also mentioned, self – confidence as one of the most important things, a woman must have in order to fight back to any instance. It is necessary to have confidence and faith in oneself, no matter what situation it is and how powerful the opposite person is, the only thing to defend oneself is the confidence within.

After the brief introduction, the practical session started, with warm up on Bollywood music, relaxing the reflexes, stretching up and spot jogging. Later on, few techniques were demonstrated according to the situations. She also exhibited, by the use of any object with us, can be used for defending like, using hand bag, bottles, pen – pencil, nails, sandals and any objects that are near to us while travelling of in a public space. It was demonstrated that, how the correct use of kicks and punches can help one defend themselves. After the demonstration, the participants practiced the actions, with their fellow partners. After the demonstrations, participants held out their queries regarding the actions and situations of the real time. The workshop was informative and helped the participants learn self-defence techniques.

One Day Workshop on “Sort of a FEMINIST”

Women’s Cell, PDPU organized one day workshop on “Sort of a FEMINIST” on November 18, 2019 facilitated by Jayati Doshi – an artist, facilitator, story-curator. Ms. Doshi creates a collaborative collective experience for folks to make sense of things about Feminism and identifying where they stand from being a strong feminist to not being a feminist. This workshop was an interactive and activity-based session, divided in to two parts before lunch and post lunch. The before lunch session was more of with activity which was conducted by Ms. Doshi and participants actively participating in the activities.

The very first activity was about knowing what feminism mattered to each one of them. The students were divided in to three groups, ten in each group and the task given to them was to identify the meaning of feminism and how it mattered to them and what pronoun they would use to define feminism. This was a group activity where all the participants shared their experiences about how they felt feminism and how did it matter in their lives. This activity was about knowing where they have faced feminism irrespective of any gender in the group.

The second activity – “Spectrum” was about knowing their takes on various issues prevailing in the society. Ms. Doshi would give statements and the participants had to decide where they exactly stand on and what is their take i.e. there were two extremes of the statements and they had to speak behalf of the extremes they stood on and those who didn’t have any stand for the extremes would stand in the middle. The statements were like – one extreme: Why women should work? other extreme: Why women should not work?

After this activity, students were asked to write their definition of Feminism on one side and at the back side of it they had to mention about pronouns they would use for themselves for being a feminist and not being a feminist. Those cue cards were later hanged upon the ribbon to have an idea of what feminism is to each and how do they perceive it. The session post lunch was kept open for discussions with participants as what have they understood by feminism and how it had created an impact on others. Later again, participants were given an activity to perform, they had to select any three cards which had different options like Homosexual/ Bisexual, Straight, Gay and selecting the three cards they had to identify themselves as being more powerful and less powerful. Later on, they were divided into four groups and they had to plan a city with the cards they were allotted to and present them as how would a city with Gay or Straight or Bisexual would be and what provisions they would keep on to maintain peace. Later the session was ended with students’ feelings about this whole process of identifying themselves as strong feminist or not a strong feminist. At the end of the session Ms. Jayati Doshi was felicitated by Dr. Ritu Sharma, Convener, Women’s Cell, PDPU and thanked Ms. Arpita Bohra, faculty coordinator for the event, for organizing this event.

One Day Seminar on Legal Provisions for Women’s Empowerment

Women Cell had Organized One Day Seminar on legal Provisions for Women’s Empowerment on October 10, 2018. The speaker’s for the seminar included the following:

• Smt. Veenaben Patel, Additional Collector
• Member Secretary, Gujarat State Commission for Women, Gandhinagar
• Smt. Leelaben Ankolia-Hon. Chairperson, Gujarat State Commission for Women, Gandhinagar-Gujarat.
• Shri Anil Pratham, IPS, A.D.G.P. (Women Cell), Gandhinagar
• Justice Ravi R. Tripathi, Member National Law Commission, Retd. High Court Judge
• Ms. Vaibhavi Nanavati, Advocate

Internal Complaint Committee Training

A Half day workshop on Internal Complaint Committee was organized by Women’s Cell on 27th December, 2018. The members were given clarity on the various definitions, role, functioning of the ICC, the Rules and Regulations to be followed under the policy of sexual harassment act of the University. The attendees were a part of Women’s Cell and Student/ Employee facing employees. The workshop also aimed at sensitizing about Boundaries and Consent while dealing with cases.

Installation of Sanitary Pad Vending Machines and Incinerator

In order to support Women Hygiene, Comfort and Privacy of Female students and employees of the University, Women’s cell initiated the installation of Sanitary Pad Vending Machines and Incinerator across the Campus and the Hostels of the University.

A talk on “BEYOND THE WORLD OF DOERS”

The Women’s Cell of PDPU organized a talk on “Beyond the World of Doers” by Ms. Ruzan Khambatta on 16th April, 2018. Ms. Ruzan is an entrepreneur with four IT companies to her name. She’s a zealous techie, an enthusiast speaker and an ambassador of women empowerment. She is frequently invited to judge various contests on personality development, management skills, to speak on nation TV on subjects pertaining to women power and to provide mentorship regarding start-ups. She is the recipient of many awards like Bhartiya Vikas Ratna, Woman of Excellence, Dynamic Woman and Gaurvanta Gujarat to name a few. Ms. Ruzan explained to the audience about how people can be classified into thinkers, dreamers and doers. With her witty examples, she told about her journey from being recognized as her father’s daughter to building her own image as an entrepreneur. She said that a person does not become the owner of a well-known company by sitting and working from a well air-conditioned office but one has to toil in the workshop with other workers to identify the problems faced by the company and devise the solutions to those problems. According to her, experience limits the problem solving ability of a person while on the hand, an inexperienced person can analyze the problem from a bigger perspective. She is a firm believer of self-dependence. She motivated the audience to take more risks as the biggest risk one can take is not taking any risk. She also explained that challenges are opportunities for growth using various anecdotes from her life. She emphasized that a positive attitude is necessary not only for businesses but also in day-to-day interactions. The lecture was effectively motivating.

Self Defence Workshop

The Workshop was held on 26^th – 28^th March, 2018 at the university. About 20-25 girls from various workshop of Self Defence. The vision of this workshop was to create awareness among girls about various techniques to defend themselves in appropriate situations. The workshop comprised of several phases through which the participants underwent in three days which helped them gain awareness and agility towards their own safety.

Day 1: 26th March (Monday) - The session started with inaugural ceremony and brief orientation by Dr. T P. Singh. The session then commenced towards discussion on safety precautions at road, home, schools, public places and also while using internet. The topic of prevention of child abuse was also discussed in detail so that the students could guide their younger siblings and classmates. The trainers explained various types of criminals around the society. The session also briefed them about how girls and women are subjected to sexual abuse and domestic violence and their role in pre-empting the abuse. They were informed about the Women Helpline and various safety app meant for safety and security for women. The session ended with refreshments.

Day 2: 27th March - The trainers showed the various techniques to incapacitate the attacker using wrist hand moments, weak weapons and escape positions. The participants took turns and performed various techniques practically to gain practical knowledge. The session needed with some brief visual examples of defending ourselves in adverse situations.

Day 3: 28th March (Wednesday) - The main agenda of this session was to fight from fear and panic. The trainers taught the participants to overcome their fear and also the importance of keeping a stable mind during various situations. A small activity to overcome fear was performed in which participants were asked to blow out fire with their own hands. Extreme care and precautions was taken so that no one was injured during the experiment. The session ended with discussing a few key points on safety and certificate distribution.

Dr Sheela Lavakare visit

Dr. Sheela Lavakare paid a visit to PDEU on 22 July, 2016 and met with Convener PDEU Women’s Cell for understanding the activities of PDEU Womens’ Cell.

She obtained her M.A. degree in Sociology in 1963 and an LL.B degree in Law, in 1965 from the University of Bombay. She was a lecturer at the Elphinston College, the St. Xavier’s College & the Mithibai College in Bombay University during 1963-66. As a Fulbright Scholar during 1967-68, she pursued her post-graduate studies in the University of New Hampshire (USA) and held a Teaching Assistantship during this period. On return from USA, she was a member of the faculty in the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, of the Mumbai University during 1969-74 and later a member of the faculty of the Management Development Institute in Delhi, during 1975-78. In 1978, she joined the corporate world as Manager (Training) in the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI). During this period she participated in the three week programme on “Training the Trainer” sponsored by the World Bank in July 1987 at Washington D.C. During her stint at the IFCI, she served as a Director on the Boards of several companies and provided value addition in terms of business policies, growth plans restructuring, strategic tie-ups, etc. The IFCI subsequently appointed her as the CEO, of the IFCI Venture Capital Fund – a position from which she retired in March 2001. After retirement, she has been an active member of the Soroptomist International Association of Professional Women (NGO), and served as the Program Action Chair, India Chapter; (2011-14). She has also been a member of the University Women’s Association (UWA), Pune Chapter and has been the Editor of the organization’s Newsletter. She was the Secretary of the UWA, during 2013-15 and was associated with various activities involving issues connected with Women’s Studies. Her professional interests are Women Studies on issues relating women empowerment in India, including girl child education.

Women in Business and Entrepreneurship 

The session on "Women in Business and Entrepreneurship" on 9th October, 2015 started with welcoming the esteemed guest Ms. Ruzan Khambatta. Ms. Ruzan is actively involved in Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Youth Empowerment. And also been recognized and awarded with - Women of Excellence; Real Diamond of Gujarat Award; Ahmedabad Management Association; 7th Annual awards for Excellence.

Her talk started off with sharing her own experiences. Initially she mainly focused on "NOT GIVING UP" and "COMMITMENT". Later she made the session more interactive by asking the gatherings about their opinions on success and failure. She gave her own example and enlightened us with the fact that women should be strong and determined in order to become an entrepreneur and thus can survive in any business.

Also she stressed on the fact that people should have a simple living and high thinking in contrast to the youth with complex living and confused thinking by narrating a story.

She ended the session by giving us an idea about lateral thinking and how thinking out of the box is necessary in today's scenario.

Dr. Poonam Savsani (Convener, Women Cell), Dr. Gita Rajan (Professor, Fairfield University), PDEU Faculties and Staff also graced the session by their presence and discussions. The entire talk was facilitated by Ms.Vaishali Sharma.

Session on Clean Energy- Sustainable Supply Chain Management Organized by Indian Women Network (IWN)

Mr. Sanjay Gorakhia, Vice President at Ambuja Cement, Ahmedabad took the session on 11th August, 2015. Supply Chain Management forms an integral part of all business entities. Going beyond, in today's times of environment friendly processes, creating a sustainable supply chain is also equally important. This session was majorly aimed at a speech on these issues. Also supply chain management of Cement Industry and Ambuja particularly was talked about.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is management of logistics, inventory, distribution demand management, pricing etc. In cement industry, SCM starts with procuring raw materials like calcium, iron clay etc.. Then the manufacturing is done and storage of cement is considered before reaching the cement to the dealers.

He mentioned that few products of Ambuja include Portland Pozzolana cement (PPC), Fly ash, Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) which are offered either in bulk or bagged stock. Also pre cast structures are been offered nowadays the benefits of which were explained to us. It reduces the cost of construction and also increases feasibility.

Talking of Green policies of Ambuja, we were pleased to know that Ambuja has won a national award for Environment Concern. He briefed on few of the practices undertaken by Ambuja are:

• 100% restoration of Mines after Digging
• 100% recycling sewage waste
• saving water by 4 times than usual
• Green procurement Policy
• Safe movement of trucks on premises to avoid accidents

Having started business in a small town in Gujarat, today Ambuja stands to be one of the biggest cement names in India. It was a prime privilege for the students of PDEU to have Mr. Sanjay Gorakhia to share his knowledge.

CII Session on TIME MANAGEMENT

In this fast pacing world, where multitasking and just in time services are aspects that every individual should possess, Time management becomes mandatory. Students with ambitions in their pocket are expected to perform well along with excelling in extracurricular.

Keeping this in mind, Women cell joint hands with CII and arranged a session on TIME MANAGEMENT. PDPU invited Ms. Anita Shah to take this session on 20^th-27^th Feb, 2015. She has a decade long experience in soft skill experience and has undertaken significant training projects for Government of Gujarat and Government of India.

The event started with a short introduction to Ms. Anita Shah and her achievements. Then after, Ms. Shah took over the stage and asked the participants to calculate the hours they keep reserved for their routine chores. It was surprising to know that everyone was left with an average of 4-5 of unoccupied slots, where we could indulge in activities that we liked. She then gave some procrastination analyzing exercises. There were some inquisitive questions asked by curious minds. Ms. Shah answered them tactfully. The session was finally concluded by a vote of thanks.
Ms. Anita Shah was accompanied by Ms. Debleena, from CII. The event was attended by Mrs. Tanushree Banerjee, our faculty mentor and by faculties and students from different schools.

The event aimed at making students aware about the various aspects of time management. To help them manage their day to day hours and keep a count on how they are spent. The event witnessed the inquisitive nature of the participants.

The achievement of the event was clearly depicted by the way participants showed their willingness to learn. The overall session was quite interactive and students gained new insights and more comprehensive understanding about the time management. Participants also a comprehensive understanding of reasons behind procrastination.

Discussion Session on “A GLOBAL APPROACH”

This event was an open discussion session held by the Women’s Cell in collaboration with AIESEC organised on 5th February, 2015. For this discussion session the topic chosen was ‘Cultural Differences and Problems Faced by Women in Various Countries’. The discussion was initiated by the 11 AIESEC interns who were from various countries (Oman, Russia, Indonesia, Mauritius and China). They began with introducing themselves and presenting their view points about the topic decided.

From PDEU, this session was attended by quite a few students, faculties and other staff members. As the discussion proceeded they got to know about the various cultures, systems and thinking of people from varied backgrounds. A lot of varied perceptions related to women, and the problems faced by them in different countries and work cultures, came up. It was interesting to see the interaction between the college students and the interns through their questions and arguments. Overall it was a healthy discussion which helped everyone present, learn about different perceptions.

Workshop on Gender Sensitization

Rampantly changing role of a woman in the society is certainly an indicator of modernization and evolving society. However, there is still a substantial chunk of people, particularly women of the society who are viewed to be weaken compared to their counterparts and are thus exposed to exploitations like sexual harassment, human trafficking, indecent representation before people through various mediums, gender biasness so on and so forth. A women is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a companion, a friend, a colleague, a guide; above all a HUMAN. Newspapers filled with various assaults women go through in different parts of the world do not portray a merry picture of India as a nation; infact it shows a higher deterioration in the minds of the “so-called” civilized people. Such activities should be curbed to greatest possible levels giving due respect to each and every woman because we even address our land with the word ‘Mother’ In this era of modernization and our country reaching new heights, we are still lacking somewhere considering the condition of women of our society.

To bring out issues related to sexual harassment, human trafficking and indecent representation of women in our society, the workshop organised on "Gender Sensitization" on 10th September, 2014. This was conducted by Faculty member and students of LAW School at Nirma University. The student coordinators of Women Cell, PDPU from SPM (Mruganda Shah and Preeti Pal) took the lead along with student volunteers from other schools in organizing this event.

This small effort hopefully sensitized the students who are future makers of the country and thus help in changing the status of women in our society.

Extraordinary Women Lecture Series

Women’s Cell PDEU is proud to launch a lecture series “Extraordinary Women” on 8th March, 2013 the International Women’s Day in association with CII ,Yi PDEU, Department of Women and Child Development, Govt. of Gujarat and Gender Resource Centre, Ahmedabad. This lecture series comprised of 12 lectures in 1 year addressing students on topics like Women’s in business, women & law, women & leadership, women & education, Public Relations & Networking, Harassment at Workplace, etc.

The idea of introducing this Lecture Series was conceived by convener Ms. Urmi Satyan who considers this launch as one of the biggest event of Women’s Cell during 2012-13.The invited guests were:

- Smt. Vasuben Trivedi- Minister of State for Education, Women & Children’s Welfare, Government of Gujarat 
- Ms. Anju Sharma, IAS , Commissioner, Women & Child Development Department, Government of Gujarat

The special presence of the Directors of PDEU, Prof. N. R. Dave, Education Advisor and Mrs. Asha Pandian added feathers to the success of this launch. The concluding remarks were offered by Prof. N. R. Dave.

Drama Performance - Kaua Chala Hans Ki Chal

On 7th February, 2013 Women Cell PDEU invited City Pulse students to perform a drama “Kaua Chala Hans Ki Chal”, a Rajat Kapoor adaptation of Moliere’s The Bourgeois Gentleman.  It is a humorous drama mocking the hypocrisy embedded in aristocracy. At Women Cell PDEU the initiative was taken by Dr. Rita Banik, Counselor-Women Cell. Convener Women Cell - Ms. Urmi Satyan was the Master of the Ceremony and Cultural Committee Head Ms. Niyati Shah was the organizer of this event. Prof. P. K Banik, Director General-PDEU, Mr. Tarun Shah, Academic Co-ordinator-PDEU, Prof. Pramod Paliwal and other senior professors remained present for this drama. Respected Mrs. Asha Pandian was kind to accept the invitation and joined us for the witness of this drama. The students who performed:

• Parimal Vaghela
• Milan Patel
• Manorath Sinh Gohil
• Madhuja Muniya
• Parth Patel
• Somya Joshi
• Dhruv Patel
• Nirav Parmar
• Prashasya Chaudhary (student, PDEU)
• Jimesh Patel
• Nikunj Chauhan
• Monil Der

This drama was directed by Firoz Zahid Khan, a Post-Graduate in Dramatic Arts from National School of Drama (NSD) and Diploma from Screen Acting from Mountview Theater, London.

Women Cell PDEU thanked Mr. Anwar Jamal, director CPIFT for accepting the invitation and holding the excellent theatrical performance by the students of CPIFT. Dr. Rita Banik offered vote of thanks which was followed by a dinner.

Open Forum Debate on “Is India a Fractured Society?”

Women's Cell PDEU and Let’s Express Debate Club at the University jointly held an Open discussion on Is India a Fractured Society? Thoughts and Reviews. Ms. Urmi Satyan (convener, Women's Cell, PDEU) took an initiative to hold this program with the help of student member Saksham Singh and Vaibhav. This forum took place on 7th January, 2013 from 4:30 to 6:00. The panelists of this Open Forum Debate were:

- Prof. P.K Banik (Director General, PDEU) 
- Prof. N. R Dave (Education Advisor, PDEU)
- Prof. Ranjana Harish (Head of School of Languages, Gujarat University) 
- Prof. Ashish Sarkar (Prof. in Petroleum Technology, PDEU) 
- Prof. Nigam Dave (Director, School of Liberal Studies, PDEU) 
- Dr. Ritu Sharma (Psychology, SLS) 
- Dr. Rita Banik (Counselor, PDEU).

The main focus of the Open Forum was on the changing or in harsh words degrading scenario prevalent in Indian society. The role of a woman in Indian Society is not negligible. This society has always respected women like Lakshmi Bai, Kasturba, Indira Gandhi, Shushma Swaraj, Indra Nooyi and many more. But unfortunately there is another disheartening side where women are deprived of this respect and are treated as commodities.

The success of the forum was based on the logical questions by the students and the intellectual comments and answers by the panel. The active involvement of the audience and the scholarly observations of the panel helped understanding the complexities through which the society passes from. The forum reached to the conclusion that if the society of India is fractured it is just because the individual—the strongest unit of the society—is fractured. If we want the society to be powerful we, as individuals—need to be powerful and strong in our minds, speeches and deeds.

Homage to Nirbhaya on 31st December, 2012

The sad demise of NIRBHAYA – a medical student, had shaken the whole country. Women's Cell, PDEU requested all the members of PDEU to jointly pay  homage to the sadly departed soul by maintaining silence for 2 minutes and lighting candles on 31st December, 2012 at 6 p.m. All the students, faculty and staff members assembled on time and paid their sincere tribute to her.   

All male students, faculty and staff members took a pledge not to remain a silent observer if any incident of eve teasing, molestation or rape takes place in their knowledge. Women’s Cell PDEU is thankful, particularly to the male students and colleagues who have jointly vouched for the pledge.

PLEDGE

Having respect for the dignity of womanhood and my responsibility to honor it at any cost, I solemnly pledge that I shall never indulge in any act of tormenting, molesting, raping or sexually harassing any girl/woman.

I further pledge that in the event of such despicable act being committed in my presence or with my knowledge, I shall stake my life to prevent this and shall assist all legal procedures as required to book and punish the culprit.

The initiative for this condolence was taken by one of the students named Sandeep Bose and was taken further by Dr. Rita Banik (Counselor, PDEU) who addressed the gathering.  She expressed her hope that this last day of 2012 would end all such disgusting incidents and with the starting of 2013, girls of India would be able to move around with “nirbhayata”.  Convener Women’s Cell, Ms. Urmi Satyan, was thankful to all the students (Sandeep, Gurveer, Honey, Prerna, Mansi and others) who organized the event and appreciated support from Education Advisor PDEU Prof. N. R Dave, Director General PDEU Prof. P. K. Banik and the whole University.

Books in SLS Library



• Harvard Business Review on Women in Business / by HBR; Boston : Harvard Business School Press, 2001
• Women and Social Change / by Shirin Mehta; New Delhi : Rawat Publication, 2009
• Women and Kinship / by Leela Dube; New Delhi : Rawat Publication, 2009
• Oxford Handbook of Law, Women and Employment / by Surinder Mediratta; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Engendering Rome : Women in Latin Epic / by A M Keith; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000
• Women Writers and the English Nation in THe 1790s / by Angela Keane; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000
• The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights / ed by Brenda Murphy; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East / by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Modernizing Women : Gender and SOcial Change / by Valentine M Moghadam; New Delhi : Viva Books Private Limited, 2005
• A Various Universe : A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men adn Women in The Indian Subcontinent, 1765-1856 / by Ketaki Kushari Dyson; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia / Ed by Anindita Ghosh; Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007
• Good Women do not Inherit Land: Politics of Land and Gender in India / by Nitya Rao; New Delhi : Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd, 2008
• Dwelling in the Archive : Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonical India / by Antoniette Burton; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2003
• Five Novellas by Women Writers / by Nabaneeta Dev Sen; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Handbook of Law, Women and Employment Policies, Issues,Legislation and Case Law / by Surinder Mediratta; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Quotas for Women in Politics : Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide / by Mona Lena Krook; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Quotas for Women in Politics : Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide / by Mona Lena Krook; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Unequal Citizens : A Study of Muslim Women in India / by Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006
• When Men Speak as Women : Vocal Masquerade in Indo-Muslim Poetry / by Carla Petievich; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2007
• The Women of the Mahabharata: The Question of Truth / by Chaturvedi Badrinath; Hyderabad : Orient Longman Ltd, 2008
• The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India / by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Delhi : Permanent Black, 2003
• Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad / by Tejaswini Niranjana; Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd, 2009
• Women, Politics and Power: A Global Perspective / by Pamela Paxton and Melanie M Hughes; New Delhi : Pine Forge Press, 2007
• The Autobiography of Desire: English Jacobin Women Novelists of the 1790's / by Anjana Sharma; New Delhi : Macmillan India Ltd, 2004
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Gender Champions PDEU 2019-20

Ms. Manali Singh,

School of Petroleum Management

Mr. Vardhan Shah,

School of Technology