The International Women’s Day was celebrated at NMl auditorium organised by CSIR-National Metallurgical laboratory. More than 280 students/ teachers and around 150 scientists, officials from Tata Steel, Jusco and women members attended the programme.
The educational institutes represented were Pranavanand Centenary Girl’s Residential High School, under Bharat Sevashram, Sundernagar, Valley View School, Telco, Jamshedpur Women’s College, The Graduate School College for Women, Co-operative College, and Karim City College.
The programme started with an invocation (Durga Stuti) and followed by a dance on national integrity presented by the students of Pranavanand Centenary Girl’s Residential High School. The scholars of AcSIR NMl presented a theme on Phenomenal Indian women with audio visuals and skit. The people who were involved in the presentation of the Phenomenal Indian women’s program were namely lubna Sheikh, Vinnie Cheeran, Swati Mishra, I Priya, I Geeta, P Ramya, Barnali Bhattacharjee, Megha Sharma and Neelam Goswami.
While welcoming the gathering, Dr S Srikanth, Director, NMl said, “Indian womanhood is at the cross roads of changes, some radical and some transient. The pressures to which it is subject have been astoundingly varied. The melting pot of the female Indian psyche is in a state of perfect liquidity, with multifarious socio-economic and psycho-spiritual ingredients thronging from all sides but in spite of a continuous battle against all odds, of a struggle for survival, of trials & tribulations…emerges a brand new self-image taking on the fascinating hues of freedom, of self-respect, of self-worth and most of all of self confidence”.
Further, Dr Srikanth added, “Equal opportunities must be given to women. Discrimination should not be there in the society. Change will occur when we change our mindset. One should not forget that one is the creator of one’s own destiny. Dr Srikanth also mentioned the statistics on the involvement of women in each and every Indian socio-economic sectors ranging from Education, Business, Industries, Parliament and so on.
Ruchi Narendran said, “There is no denying that women’s problems are many and there are no readymade or instantaneous solutions either. However, the achiever should extend her support in raising a toast to her indomitable spirit that refuses to bend or break in the face of adversities, that wants to break free of it’s shackles and put it’s best foot forward into a better , brighter & uncomplicated India, woman that is present in each one of us. Indeed let us celebrate this day as a festival of the human spirit – of the passion and the power that lies within each one of us.