Women Development Cell
Vision and Mission
VISION:
- A gender equality awareness that facilitates independence, safety, well-being and dignity of women; empowering them with women’s rights, creating equitable opportunities and promoting overall personality development ensuring enrichment of their future.
MISSION:
- Awareness of women’s rights and safety to create equitable opportunities to empower women to attain their full potential, to be self-reliant and economically independent enriching organisation and society.
- Creating Awareness on issues of gender disparity and helping the boys and girls, men and women of the college to work together and acquire knowledge in the most stimulative and socially healthy environment.
- Develop multidisciplinary approach for the overall personality development.
Objectives
- To encourage female students to be self-reliant and economically independent.
- To in-still positive self-esteem and confidence in the female students so that they can take the right decision in and for-their lives.
- Spreading awareness among the students about the social, legal and constitutional rights of women in order to prevent the exploitation based on gender.
- Making females cognizant about different kinds of violence – sexual, physical and mental – to further equip them with the knowledge and strength to fight against them.
- Creating awareness about the need for gender equality.
- To provide and maintain a dignified, congenial working environment for women employees and students, where they can work, study and explore their potential to the fullest.
- To organize seminars, workshops relating to skill development, for overall personality grooming.
- To highlight the importance of health and hygiene.
- To create awareness about the social problems faced by women and to work for uplifting women & to make women realize their equal responsibility in building the society.
Cell Activities :
Yoga is a form of spiritual and meditative based exercise that originated in India many years ago. By following a sequence of postures, whilst applying careful breathing control, you are able to harmonize the body and the mind, achieving health and relaxation. It helps in increasing flexibility, muscle strength and body tone. For the purpose of imparting knowledge of yoga to the faculty members of engineering institute, Women Development Cell, Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar has organized this event.
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Social entrepreneurship encompasses the activities and processes undertaken to discover, define, and exploit opportunities in order to enhance social wealth by creating new ventures or managing existing Organizations in an innovative manner. Traditional entrepreneurship is mostly connected with economic result of activity. Social entrepreneurship is connected with double result – economic and social success and equilibrium creation in the society. Social entrepreneurship helps to solve some social problems of population by starting-up or developing successful enterprises for- profit (or not) as well as minimize those problems.
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Women Development Cell of Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar has organized a webinar on “Women Nutrition and Health” on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at online Platform MS-Team as a celebration part of Women’s Day.the program was basically on the healthy eating and cooking for women.
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The International Women’s Day was celebrated with the aim of imparting knowledge of yoga to the faculty as well as students of engineering institutes, Women Development Cell has organized a webinar on “YOGA-The Process of Self Discovery” under the guidance of Dr. Sweta P. Dave(Principal, GEC-Gandhinagar) on Google Meet. In which women faculty members and students participated. In this yoga based webinar, Dr. Nehal Joshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, SVBIT has delivered the session. She gave a noble understanding of how to do various yoga and the benefits of those yoga. Yoga is a special type of method by which a person's emotional, physical, cognitive or social life develops.
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For the purpose of imparting knowledge of dance therapy to the faculty and girls students of institute, Women Development Cell, Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar has organized a webinar on “Dance Therapy” on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at Zoom Platform during 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. This webinar organized as a part of celebration of International Women’s Day. Mrs Sharddha Shah Raj (Zee TV Fame DID Super MOM and Choreographer) was a speaker for this session.
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Women Development Cell, Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar has organized a webinar on “Financial Planning Tools” on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at online platform: Google Meet during 04:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Mr. Jayank Jain, Branch Manager from Stock Holding Corporation of India, Gandhinagar was a speaker for this session.
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To analyze the factors influencing the 21st Century women, a webinar on “SWOT Analysis of 21st Century Women” was organized by Women Cell, Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar on Thursday, October 22,2020 at online platform during 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm during a Navaratri, which is a celebration of woman power, a festival of women, for women and by women. Dr. Parul Popat, Associate Professor from S. P. University, Vallabh vidhyanagar was a speaker for this session.
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Then an open mike program was organized so that new faces get an opportunity to show their talents in front of everyone so that confidence can be built in the students as well as to remove stage fear in many hearts. And at the end of the program they tried to spread awareness regarding such acts that dishonor a girl must be stopped.
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With this objectives in mind, Women Development Cell and RUSA (under Component-9), Government Engineering College, Sector-28, Gandhinagar has organized a guest lecture on “Women Safety and Law” on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at C. V. Raman Hall during 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Dr. Dimpal Raval from Raksha Shakti University, Gandhinagar was a speaker for this session.
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Cell Coordinators
| Sr. No. | Name | Department | Designation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prof. Shalini Rankawat | Instrumentation & Control Engineering | Coordinator | shalinirankawat@gecg28.ac.in |
| 2 | Prof. Dr Daksha M Diwan | General Department | Member | dm_diwan@gecg28.ac.in |
| 3 | Prof. Bijal Gadhia | Computer Engineering | Member | bijal.gadhia@gecg28.ac.in |
| 4 | Prof. Nisha K. Prajapati | Electronics & Communication Engineering | Member | nisha@gecg28.ac.in |
| 5 | Prof. Rutu Nayak | Biomedical Engineering | Member | nayak.rutu@gecg28.ac.in |
| 6 | Prof. Minal Dani | Metallurgy Engineering | Member | minal@gecg28.ac.in |