Skill Development Programs:

Being an affiliated institution under the University of Burdwan, subjects like English, History, Philosophy, Sanskrit and Political Science have Papers and texts with gender related issues incorporated into the curriculum like CCXI (Women’s Writing) in ENGH, Paper- I (Women’s Studies in India) in History, SEC 3 (Gender Sensitization) in Political Science etc. The institution has a separate sub- committee named Gender Cell with The Head of the Institution as its Chairman, three teaching and one non- teaching staff as its active Committee member functioning under the guidance of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell in the academic session of 2018- 2023. A CCTV installed campus, a Code of Conduct booklet uploaded in the website are part of the institution’s efforts to maintain gender equity and ragging free campus. Separate arrangements for women include Common Rooms for girl students and female staff members, sanitary napkin vending machine for the maintenance of hygiene and a baby care room for children and mothers.

The Gender Cell has been actively engaged in the promotion of gender equity through the following number of awareness and sensitization programs on various topics in collaboration with the IQAC within the Campus:

• Awareness Programme on ‘Menstrual Health and Hygiene’ organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8/3/2019) in the academic session of 2018- 2019 with Miss Oendri Chattoraj, a faculty member of the English Department as the speaker to enlighten the female participants about the issue.
• Awareness programme on ‘Gender Based Violence’ organised on 3/3/2020 in the academic session of 2019- 2020 with Mr. Debkrishna Saha of the History Department and Mrs. Sanhita Samanta of the Political Science Department as the speakers to impart the concept of how violence can impact both men and women under specific circumstances and the ways to prevent them.
• An Online sensitization and awareness program on ‘Gender roles during the Pandemic’ organized on International Women’s Day (8/3/2021) in the academic session of 2020- 2021 with Dr. Sewli Chatterjee of the Mathematics Department as the speaker to spread the idea of the importance of equality in gender roles during the lockdown.
• Sensitization program on Sexual Harassment (Vishaka Guidelines) organised on 22/1/2022 with Dr. Bratati Chakraborty of the Sanskrit Department as the speaker and an Awareness program on