Special Lecture on Women Empowerment

 On October 22, 2024, at 11:00 AM, the Department of Sociology, in collaboration with the Women Empowerment Cell and the Sexual Harassment Prevention Cell, hosted a special lecture on women's empowerment in Lecture Hall 201. Dr. B.N. Shivaram, M.A. Ph.D., The author, writer, and retired lecturer Channarayapatna, was the resource person. He has authored numerous books, but his most well-known works are "Kantharajapura Darshana," "Swathanthra Devige," "Ranga Vibhava," "rangabhumi," "chaluva Channudi," "Hasana Jilleya Swathantra Horatagarara Kurithu," and he described how women were treated in ancient, mediaeval, and modern India. He also explained how women's status was extremely low during British and kingly rule, and they were not capable of doing things on their own.  Later, he explained that after India gained its independence, women's status was improved and given more importance in order to uplift their status and provide them with equal rights in all areas of society, including education, politics, economics, and social status. The Indian government also gave women many constitutional privileges to empower them, including the Hindu Marriage Act, the Child Marriage Prohibition Act, the Dowry Prohibition Act, the Reproduction Act, the Property Rights Act, the Widow Remarriage Act, and others. Additionally, he described incidents of violence against women that occur both inside and outside of families, such as when a girl child is kidnapped, raped, abused, married off as a child, harassed for dowries, etc., and when a male child is given more importance in the family and a girl child is disregarded.

A second-year B.SC. Student Ganavi invoked Song to begin the program. The Principal, the Resource Person, and the other faculty members watered the plants as the program's first activity following the official welcome address delivered by Dr. Praveen Kumar S., HOD, Department of Sociology. Dr. B.N. Chandrashekhar, the IQAC Coordinator, gave the presidential address on this particular occasion. Dr. Nirupama M., the Women Empowerment cell, gave the formal vote of thanks at the end of the event, and the program's anchor was Mrs. Kavitha J.N., the Convener Sexual Harassment Prevention cell.