Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: The CASH Committee of Govt College of Education (GCoE), Jammu organised today an inter-college essay writing competition on the theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”
Prof. Shalini Rana presented a formal welcome address, Dr Jyoti Parihar, convener of the program in the inaugural session highlighted the importance of gender equality and the importance of such programs for gender sensitization.
Chief guest of the program was Prof Aekta Gupta, Principal of the College. She asserted in her speech that gender is a social construct otherwise nature has not discriminated between any gender.
Students from different Colleges of Cluster University participated in the event. The young minds expressed their views through creative writing about the importance of gender equality so that we can have a justifiable, equitable and sustainable world tomorrow.
The essays were examined by Dr Sonia Khajuria of GCW Parade. The first prize was bagged by Nitya Sharma of GCoE Jammu. The second and third prizes were bagged by Ritik Kumar of SPMR College of Commerce and Akshar Goswami of MAM College respectively.
The CASH committee members who participated in the program were Dr Deep Kumar Bangotra, Prof. Ramandeep Kralia, Dr Sushma Bala, Dr Maansi Sharma, Prof Rubina and Prof Vinay Lata.
The student organizers were Anu Bagal, Arushi Sharma, Rashmi Singh and Mehak Khajuria, while the vote of thanks was delivered by Prof Vinay Lata.