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Gender Sensitivity

The Life Skills Committee organized an Online Life Skills Session as a part of 30 Hours Certificate Course for First Year BBA(Financial Services) Students on 26th June 2021 from 11:00 a.m.to 12:30 p.m. using Google Meet Platform. The topic of the session was “Gender Sensitivity”.

The main objectives of the session were:

To create awareness about gender related issues, vulnerability of women and men.
To create awareness about government schemes, acts & rights related to women.
To bring about a positive change for communicating with each other, and creating a better and more informed society.

The Resource Person for the session was Ms. Siddhi M. Parodkar, Practicing Advocate.

At the outset, Assistant Professor Ms. Lizia V. Gomes welcomed the Resource Person followed by the Introduction of the Speaker by Ms. Ismaela Miranda from First Year BBA(FS) – A.

Ms. Siddhi Parodkar started the session with a brief introduction on the topic Gender Sensitivity. She further provided an elaborate explanation on the following topics:

What is Gender Sensitivity
Why gender sensitivity is important
How gender plays a role
Why there is a need for gender sensitization
How important is gender sensitivity in our society
Gender sensitivity issues and challenges.
The sexual harassment of women at workplace:
What is Sexual Harassment?
What kinds of behaviour are considered as sexual harassment?
POSH Act
Guidelines (“Vishaka Guidelines”) for dealing with instances of sexual harassment at the workplace.
Body Shaming:
What is Body Shaming?
Body Shaming manifests in many ways:
Criticizing your own appearance.
Criticizing another’s appearance in front of them.
Criticizing another’s appearance without their knowledge.
What are the effects of body shaming?
How to overcome and deal with body shaming?

The session also laid emphasis on Gender Sensitivity and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) and ways to promote gender equality in daily life.

Ms. Siddhi Parodkar concluded the session by stating that gender sensitivity is a basic requirement to understand the sensitive needs of a particular gender.

25 First Year BBA(FS) Students attended the session, which ended at 12:30 p.m. with a Vote of Thanks delivered by Ms. Mashuka Rodrigues from FY BBA(FS) – A. The session was compered and coordinated by Assistant Professor Ms. Lizia V. Gomes.

Guest Lecture

The Post-Graduate Department organized an Online Guest Lecture in the subject Organizational Behavior for M. Com Part I and Part II students on 30th June 2021 from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm. on Google Meet platform. The Resource Person for the session was Ms. Caroline Stewart Silva, Corporate Trainer and Proprietor – Impact Training Solutions. The faculty incharge Ms. Sheryl da Silva, introduced the theme of the session and welcomed the Speaker. Darshan Amonkar, student of M.Com Part II, introduced the Resource Person.

The Guest Faculty commenced the session by discussing basic concepts of conflict management and stress management. Ms. Silva highlighted the positive and negative results of conflict. Ms. Silva stressed on poor communication as a major factor that leads to conflict and explained various techniques of handling conflict such as Competing, Avoiding, Collaborating, Accommodating and Compromising.

Ms. Silva then discussed the various internal and external factors that lead to stress and what can one do to deal with such stressors. The speaker addressed all the queries raised by the students at the end of the session. Students provided very positive feedback about the Guest Lecture. It was an informative and an interactive session. Ms. Mruga Naik, student of M.Com Part II proposed the Vote of Thanks. 43 students attended the session.

Orientation on emSigner and Fedena

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organized an orientation on ‘emSigner and Fedena’ for Non-Teaching staff of the College on 30th June 2021 from 12:00 noon to 1:30pm. The session was held in Lab 1.

‘emSigner’ is a leading electronic signature based automated document signing and approval workflow solution. Fedena is all-in-one ERP software to manage schools and colleges.

Principal Dr. Prita D. Mallya welcomed the staff members. She informed that, all staff members are familiar with Fedena. emSigner is another initiative taken by the institution towards Office automation and paperless administration.

Ms. Pradnya Nadkarni, Lab Assistant (IT), explained the process of using emSigner. She explained that digitally signing documents using emSigner will reduce the workload of the Office. Currently the practice is to print Notices, certificates, etc. after which the Principal signs them, and they are then scanned. With emSigner, the soft copy of the document is digitally signed and uploaded – there is no printing and scanning needed

Mr. Punarva Prabhudesai, System Administrator, explained some of the modules available in Fedena. He demonstrated how staff can search for students and staff details on Fedena, how to create reports and how to obtain reports.

16 non-teaching staff members attended the orientation session.

Students of Department of Computer Science participated in “Inter-College Techathlon’21”

Two students of the Dept. of Computer Science participated in an Inter-Collegiate event Techathlon’21 held on 25th-26th June 2021, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology, Inderprastha Engineering College, Ghaziabad.

The event comprised of two major events.

Hackathon ’21 was a Two-day-long coding event to provide a platform to budding engineers seeking an opportunity to showcase their coding skills and compete in a battleground to find the best solution for a given real-world problem statement

Innovazia ’21 was an opportunity for students to showcase their talent and innovative ideas with the following events namely SpeciaWar, Infomaze, Capture the Flag and Vividly.

Our Students Mr. Yashodhan Sawardekar and Ms. Mariem Dias participated in “Vividly” competition as part of  Innovazia ’21.