Happenings

Women's Day 2009 Celebration

Women's day was celebrated at RRCAT on March 18, 2009 with theme “Togetherness”. The program was conducted in two sessions: pre and post lunch. It started with a welcome address by Mrs. Prabjot Singh. The Chief Guest was Mrs. Annie Pawar, General Manager (Technology), State Bank of Indore. Mrs. Annie Pawar gave a talk on “Changing Role of women”. She emphasized on the importance of self respect with several examples, including some from her own experiences. She mentioned that the role of women is changing from “only an earner” to “a career woman” and women have become confident enough to make such choices for themselves. She wanted women to appreciate what they have achieved and think about how to go further.

An essay competition and a debate competition were organized on March 6th, 2009 as a part of the celebration. The topics of essay competition were “Women’s education and nation’s progress” and “Successful career women can be a good home maker too: agree/disagree”. Total 15 women participated in the competition. Mrs. Anagha Mokhariwale and Mrs. Preetha Jayakumar shared the first prize..

The Topic of debate competition was “Equality before the law and concessions for women: Is it contradictory”. Three participants spoke for yes, it is contradictory and three spoke against. Mrs. Rekha Raikar Kumar and Mrs. Jagriti Khanwilkar were judged best in debate competition for and against the topic respectively.

Dr. Alka Ingale, chairperson, Women Cell RRCAT gave a brief overview of the activities of women cell. She mentioned that the work done over last few years and gathering of women employees for these functions has resulted in increased interaction among themselves and in turn they have shown greater faith in women cell. She said that women cell will continue to work further towards solving their problems and making RRCAT a better working place. Mrs. Rekha Raikar Kumar proposed vote of thanks for pre-lunch session.

Post lunch session comprised presentation by Dr. Chhaya Mishra and cultural programmes by RRCAT employees. Dr. Chhaya Mishra’s presentation was on “Management funda” based on the movie “Sholay”. She discussed many clips of the movie and showed how they teach management funda. Mrs. Anagha Mokhariwale compeered the afternoon session, in which most awaited part was the program presented by RRCAT employees. First, in the lot was a immensely entertaining Liliput show performed by AECS teachers, which involved 6 participants who mimicked 2 liliputs on a film song. Ms. Prachi Chitnis and Ms. Rinky Upadhaya showed the journey of women through life by songs and dance. The songs chosen for each stages of life and their depiction of the same were very much appreciated by all. An excellent “Banana award” function show was put up by Janaki, Shradha, Jagriti and Sonica. It was very entertaining with interesting parody, wherein we could heartily laugh at ourselves. Mrs. Seema Janardanan had shown creativity by reciting a poem woven of women employee’s names. Mrs. Archana Prabhu caught attention of audiences by creating sound of approaching train using ghungrus in a short kathak based performance. The last and most energetic performance was by AECS teachers who performed Rajasthani folk dance. It’s interesting to note that all the performers were above 40 yrs of age. Mrs. Ambika Sharma lightened the mood by telling jokes in her imitable Hindi and English. Mrs. Kirti Barpande proposed vote of thanks for post-lunch session. .

The program was ended with evening tea and enigmatic discussions on the present and future program.

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