Empowering Women does not need Laws in needs Understanding: Manju

Patna.105^th International Women's Day was celebrated at St. Xavier's College of Education, Patna for the M.Ed. and B.Ed. group trainees on Tuesday. The seminar opened with Inter-religious prayer service. Chief Guest Ms. Manju Dung Dung, Member, Ekta Parishad. The College Principal Fr. Thomas Perumalil S.J., welcomed the Chief Guest and gave an introduction on women’s day and presented a brief history of the women’s day celebration in the world. He also added, “Be a change you want to see, make a difference think globally and act locally”.

The Chief Guest Ms. Manju Dung Dung, Member, Ekta Parishad, Bihar. The Chief Guest said, “Women are empowered but in the male dominated society they need to raise their voice against domestic violence, rape, injustice, child marriage, dowry etc.  a society is built with a men and women but we see that man has moved very rapidly and the women are left behind specially the marginalized group. A society cannot develop until both moves together. She said there is no need to have laws to bring changes in the society but today we need to change the mindset of the people. She said the situation of women is not different in South America, Bangladesh or Pakistan was all she has visited for various programme and has faced the same problem.” Her input followed with an interactive session in which trainees raised questions regarding women and their concern which were answered by the chief guest Ms. Manju Dung Dung.

Four different Houses of the college presented skits on women empowerment. Zakir House presented “Ek Stri ki Atmkhata", Tagore House presented “Afsar Beti ”, Gandhi House presented “Beti Bachaw Beti Padhao”, Aurobindo House presented “Udhan: Ek Nai Soch”. Coordinators were Nitish Kumar and Priyanka Kumar, Master of Ceremony were Varoona V. Anthony, Shweta Kumari and Vickrant Prakash. Teacher Moderators were Dr. Nimisha Srivastava, Ms. Sapna Suman and Ms. Vijay shree.

Manjali and Nishi of the B.Ed. group administered the oath towards building a better, just, honest society free with corruption, dowry, infanticide, violence against women. A song “Hum Honge Kamyab Eak Din" was sung by B.Ed. and M.Ed. group also the college faculty members joined the song. College faculty members Dr. Madhu Singh, Fr. Anthony Raj, Deep Kumar, Sushil Kumar Singh, Dr. Vikramjit Singh, Dr. Nimisha Srivastava, Sapna Suman and Vijayshree were present for the programme.

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