DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
JAMMU, Feb 9
The Shrimati Shanti Gupta Centre for Women’s Studies at MIER College of Education organised a session on sharing best practices for promoting gender equality in higher education institutions. Through a hybrid format, seven colleges from four states actively participated. This initiative is geared towards nurturing inclusivity, diversity, and equal opportunities for all genders within academic settings. The session was chaired by Dr.Renu Gupta, Chairperson of MIER.
The session opened with a warm welcome of the resource persons and principals of different colleges by Dr. Bharti Tandon, Associate Professor and Convener SSGCWS. The best practices were shared by Mrs. Rupa Gupta, Jt. Director MIER and Director SSGCWS from MIER College of Education (Autonomous), Jammu,Dr. Sunil Rajpurkar, Associate Professor from Smt. KapilaKhandvala College of Education (Autonomous), Mumbai,Dr. Seema Malpotra, Associate Professor and Convener CWS and Dr.Isha Sharma, Assistant Professor from Govt. College for Women, Parade Ground, Jammu,Dr. Manu Chadha, IQAC Coordinator and Convener CWS, from Guru Hargobind Khalsa College of Education, Ludhiana,Dr.IrvinderKour, Officiating Principal from Govt. College for Women Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, Mrs. J.Jasmine, Assistant Professor, St. Christopher’s College of Education, Chennai, and Dr.Shalni Rana IQAC Coordinatorfrom Govt. College of Education, Jammu.
In her special remarks, Dr.Renu Gupta, Chairperson,MIER, praised the efforts of all participating colleges nationwide. All the best practises had great takeaways from the perspectives of women empowerment through gender sensitive and friendly policies introduced in different colleges across pan India. Some of these were ‘gender champions club’, ‘hosting open at clubs’, featuring ‘regional women writers’, running ‘gender studies courses’ thereby building a community of learners to raise awareness nationally and globally.
Dr. Adit Gupta, Principal of MIER College of Education, appreciated the Centre’s efforts, describing it as a commendable collaborative endeavourconverging on a single platform to exchangebest practices and gather insights from one another.
