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Chandigarh January 28, 2023

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NSS Units and Medical Committee of Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV college for Women, Chandigarh under the guidance of Principal, Dr.NishaBhargava  organised Seven Day/Night NSS Special Camp. During this camp, Enactus SSBUICET organised the 7^thworkshop in the “Mytharche” series on Menstrual Health and Hygiene, conveyed Prof. SeemaKapoor. Enactus Faculty Advisor. The workshop was attended by 100 NSS volunteers, 20 Enactus members and 10 members of the Drama Team of Panjab University.

The event commenced with a virtual address by Ms.GeetanjaliBakshi, Coordinator of CSR project Amodini of Versatile Group, Ludhiana. She introduced project Amodini, which was initiated to break the silence around menstrual hygiene for girls around the society and their successful collaboration with the Enactus team. This was followed by an interactive and insightful lecture by Dr.NeelamSodhi (MD, OBS & Gynaecology) on menstrual health and hygiene with the goal of changing society by being open and honest about menstruation and menstrual hygiene. Project Uday of the Enactus Team seeks to gradually eliminate taboos surrounding menstruation. She was received by the crowd with a huge round of applause and everyone was moved by her words. Dr.Sodhi’s talk was followed by Ms.Ravina’s talk from Switzerland, who is doing a project with WHO and spoke on the advantages of using reusable cloth pads.

Time and again various art forms have been used to convey deep messages to society. Keeping this in mind, the drama team of Panjab University headed by Hargovind Singh Randhawa presented a skit to make the event entertaining and interactive. They presented a number of real-world examples that force us to consider our culture and address the silence surrounding a woman’s menstrual cycle. Finally, self- written poetry on menstruation was also performed for the audience’s amusement by an Enactus member.

Dr.NishaBhargava greatly appreciated the efforts made by the Enactus team & Versatile group and highlighted the prominent role played by Enactus in the progress of marginalized communities. She commended the students’ efforts in planning the session to raise awareness regarding the importance of menstruation hygiene and the negative impacts of plastic-based sanitary napkins.

In addition to all of this, a stall was put up to display cloth based sanitary napkins created as part of CSR Project Amodini of Versatile Group and Project Uday of Enactus. Pottery products made under Project Dhra and cloth bags made by Ludhiana based NGO, Ashirwad were also displayed at stall.

The workshop was a great success. Prof. Kapoor acknowledged the support provided by Sh. Amandeep Singh Bhatti, Director Higher Education, Chandigarh for connecting Enactus team with various colleges of Chandigarh for the conduct of workshops on Menstrual Health and Hygiene.

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Chandigarh January 19, 2023

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Panjab University today organized a special academic event to discuss the pertinent issue of implementation of the National Education Policy with special focus on the National Credit Framework. The event was held in a hybrid mode and saw participation from various Departments and Centres of the University besides the affiliated colleges. The event was graced by the presence of Prof. Renu Vig, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh. The programme saw an overwhelming participation with 100 online and 176 physical attendees. 

Prof. Yojna Rawat, Director Research and Promotion Cell, Panjab University welcomed the dignitaries and Prof. Anju Suri, Dean College Development Council formally introduced the resource persons. 

The key resource persons for the event were Dr. N.S. Kalsi, Chairman, National Commission for Vocational Education & Training, GOI. He spoke at length about various facets of the implementation of the National Credit Framework. His presentation delved on how the Framework would help in integrating creditisation of all learnings and would be a meta framework. He apprised the stakeholders of the challenges and structures in the Framework. Dr. Kalsi also interacted with the audience and clarified the queries from teachers. 

Dr. Haneet Gandhi, Professor Department of Education and CUET admission coordinator, Delhi University addressed the audience on ‘Implementation of FYUG Structure and its Curriculum at Delhi University at 12.20 There was a busy question answer session in which the resource persons interacted with with the audience.  

The Interaction was held in Hybrid Mode.  About 176 participants comprising heads of the departments and centres, teachers involved in NEP implementation planning, principals of colleges affiliated to Panjab University attended the event which targeted on enhancement of opportunities for learners.Prof. Latika Sharma, coordinator, NEP Committee for PU said that for the first time informal and non formal learning can be creditised in the formal education system with the proposed National Credit framework. Delhi University which had started  before FYUG guidelines were released by UGC has showed that new system can be adopted by spreading awareness and going in small steps. She summarised the take aways from the two sessions and proposed the vote of thanks. There was active participation by professors and principals about the credits and choices which were patiently answered by the eminent resource persons.

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