"Education and Participation of Girl Child"

On the occasion of National Voters Day and National Girl Child Week, (under Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme) National Service Scheme (NSS) Units of the College in collaboration with Electoral Literacy Club and Department of Philosophy of Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, Chandigarh organized a webinar on “Education and Participation of the Girl Child” on 25th January, 2021 at Google Meet platform in which resource persons Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies and Dr. Monika Dara, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration of Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh expressed their ideas. The resource persons informed the participants about the possibilities of achieving gender equality through addressing the existing discriminating practices and gender biases in our society and also dwelled on the concept of electoral democracy, constitutional and electoral rights and stressed that an educated girl child can participate better as informed citizen. Dr Monika Dara, who hails from the state of Haryana and has spent a considerable time conducting studies on women participation in local governance, in her presentation questioned gender inequalities, traditional patriarchal customs and other cultural norms which have neglected women dignity within the household as well as other public spheres. Dr. Sajeev Kumar and Dr. Monika Dara strongly affirmed that education is the only remedy and is inextricably linked to achieving gender equality/parity in the country. On the occasion an Inter College Essay Writing Competition on the topic “Education and Participation of the Girl Child” was also organized in which thirty three students from various colleges of Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana sent their entries. In the Competition Ms Tanvi Chauhan of BA III, PGGCG-11, Chandigarh stood First, Sheereen Khan BA III, PGGCG-11, Chandigarh stood second and Ashima Gupta B.Com II, DAV College Sector 10, Chandigarh stood third. Principal, Professor (Dr.) Anita Kaushal appreciated the participation of students in the essay competition and the resource persons for their significant contribution in strengthening dialogue on gender equality, girl child education and electoral rights. All the faculty members and non-teaching staff also took National Voters’ Day Pledge.

The National Girl Child Day Celebration

The National Girl Child Day was celebrated by the Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 11, Chandigarh, by organizing various academic programmes. Principal Professor Anita Kaushal on the occasion said that education is vital for strengthening future and security of girls in the society. She appreciated and encouraged the students and faculty to organize more educational dialogues on gender and valuing girl child. On the occasion all the faculty members and non teaching staff took an oath in regard to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and promised to support the ideas and objectives of the scheme which are to prevent gender biased sex selective elimination, to ensure survival and protection of the girl child and to ensure education and participation of the girl child. On the occasion the College also prepared a collage of pictures of faculty members with their daughters and the same was uploaded at the College Facebook account. The teaching and non teaching staff also shared their selfies taken with their daughters on their whatapp status and other social media platforms while others uploaded logo of BBBP with message on their social media accounts.. It is important to mention that the College is celebrating National Girl Child Week by organizing webinars, poster making, poem writing, slogan writing and essay writing competitions on topics valuing girl child from 20th January to 25th January, 2022.

"Philosophy in the Times of Digital Education"

Celebrating 75 Years of India’s Independence, the Department of Philosophy of the College in its webinar series “Dialogue” organized a special lecture on the topic “Philosophy in the Times of Digital Education”. The lecture was delivered by the College alumna Prof. Suman Mahajan, Head, Department of Philosophy, MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh. Her Lecture was very thoughtful and opened a good discourse on Socratic dialogue as medium of philosophical enquiry. She appreciated the digital education platforms as significant resource to connect to global academicians and their work. She very warmly remembered the College, her Philosophy teacher Ms Promila Chand and extended special thanks to College principal Prof. (Dr.) Anita Kaushal and Department of Philosophy for connecting her to her alma mater. On the occasion Prof Pradeep Walia of Department of Commerce also shared his insights on the subject. The talk was attended by faculty members of College, Panjab University and twenty seven students of the Department of Philosophy.

Faculty Participation at 127 Faculty Induction Programme (organised by UGC HRDC Panjab University, Chandigarh from 17.12.2021 to 13.01.2022)