VIVEKANANDA MAHAVIDYALAYA

Women Cell :

WOMEN CELL

Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya Haripal, Hooghly

The Women Cell at Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Haripal, Hooghly, empowers and orients female students to recognize their true potential and helps them to attain their own stand in a competing world. The goal of this cell is to aware – both the female and male students of the college- the overall development of women in all spheres of life and to make them realise the importance of education for women for the requirement of a true well-being of a family. This Cell of this college creates awareness among students through arrangement of seminars, talks, gender sensitization programmes, cultural programmes and interactive sessions focussing on gender-equality, women empowerment, women rights and cyber- security as well as how to maintain health hygiene and psychological health of the students.

VISION AND MISSION:

• To provide guidelines for the protection of women
• To promote gender equality
• To promote the importance of education for women
• To provide the environment to ensure the basic right and requirement of dignity at work and study place
• To act as a counselling cell to the female students where they could feel free to share their personal problems
• To make the male students aware of the position and importance of their female counterparts amidst the society

OBJECTIVES:

• To make the students realise about the basic difference of ‘gender’ and ‘sex’.
• To prevent gender discrimination and to promote gender-equality.
• To provide a good well-being of mental as well as physical health for all students.
• To make the female students aware of their female health and hygiene.
• To undertake gender sensitization programmes inside the college campus as well as in the two adopted villages.

ACTIVITIES::

• Gender equity and gender sensitization programmes have been organised.
• Cultural programmes are held to aware the students of gender equity.
• Sanitary napkin vending machine and incinerator has been installed in Girls’ Common Room.
• Seminars related to women health and hygiene have been organised.
• International women’s Day has been celebrated.
• Community work performed by the students.
• Self- Defence programme and workshop have been organised for the female students.
• The Students have been involved in several interactive sessions through which they could overcome their gendered related barriers.

On behalf Of Women Cell Sub- Committee
Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Haripal, Hooghly.