NEWS Paper Clipping: International Day of the Girl Child: 2024

Paper Name:- Prajavani

Date of Programme:-15-10-2024

Publication Date:-16-10-2024

Page No.: 4B

International Day of the Girl Child: 2024

Women Empowerment Cell and Women Sexual Harassment Prevention Cell in collaboration with IQAC and Department of Women and Child Welfare, Channarayapatna organized an International Day of the Girl Child: 2024 Girls’ Vision for the Future on Tuesday October 15^th 2024 at 201 Seminar hall at 11.30 AM.. The chief guest, Senior Civil Judge A. Aruna Kumari, stated that girls should have better education in order to influence their future. Women have the right to equality under the law. Participate in curricular and extracurricular activities and achieve higher in life. She said that the girl child should be treated with respect and the exploitation she is facing should be avoided.

The resource person, N. Kumar, District Narrator of Women and Child Development Department, said that along with the protection, safety and empowerment of girls, the objective of the International Day of the Girl Child should be to eliminate female feticide, child marriage, exploitation, gender discrimination and sexual violence. Field Education Officer H.N. Deepa said that if girls want to achieve their goals, they should have patience and sincere efforts. Indra, A.S., CDPO, Channarayapatna, Dr. M.K. Manjunath, Principal and President of the Programme, Conveners’ of the Programme Dr. Nirupama M. and Mrs. Kavitha J.N. were present in the Programme.

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.

Aware that the embryo should not be removed

The Sexual and Women's Prevention Cell raised awareness among the villagers about the non-abortion of embryos in the villages of Jamburu, Nuggehalli (H), Channarayapatna (T), Hassan (D)-573131. 

With the assistance of ASHA employees Mrs. Mani J.M., the Sexual and Women Prevention Cell of our college held a programme at Jamburu Village Kindergarten on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. 

Nuruse  J.D. Ratna said that after removing the fetus, she informed the villagers about the health condition of the mother and told them about the challenges she would face when she wants to become a mother again.

In her speech to the villagers, Dr. Nirupama M., an Assistant Professor and head of the Department in the Zoology, clarified that killing a foetus is morally wrong and that doing so has an impact on the mother's health.

Mrs. Kavitha J.N. Convener, Sexual and Women's Prevention Cell, stated that it is improper to remove a female child and that neither male nor female should be removed, and that foetus removing is illegal.