CMR University, Bangalore in collaboration with Global Compact Network (GCN) India, New Delhi recently conducted a joint meeting on the topic Empowerment of Woman and Principles.
Women Empowerment means to empower women in all aspects of their identity. It is about empowering women to let them take their own decisions. They must be free to be the way they want to be. Empowered women will have better position and better status in the society.
Global Compact Network (GCN) India introduces a set of principles comprise of gender equality, fair treatment to women, health safety & well-being of women, education / training / research on women, enterprise development with women, promoting equality through women participation at all levels and measuring progress of women empowerment interventions.
Shri Pooran C Pandey, Executive Director, GCNI, New Delhi, Chief Guest of this meeting said the University and Higher Educational Institutions in India should focus on adoption of seven principles of Empowerment of Global Compact Network India (GCNI).
Mr. Pandey further highlighted various initiatives of United Nations Global Compact, an initiative started by the then UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Anan in the year 2000. Today the movement boasts of more than 8700 participating organizations from over 130 countries. He mentioned about successful development interventions done in Gujarat, Ethiopia and many countries. Mr. Pandey elaborated with live examples on how contribution of women have built strong economics in Germany, Brazil and Bangladesh to put community and society on growth path, wherein the women are treated in just and fair manner to contribute for improved quality of life. He emphasized that “If you educate a girl child, you will educate the nation”.
CMR University has proved its contribution towards this as the University has maximum number of women employees with more than 50 % women in administration, 53% in academics, 45% as non teaching staff. Nearly 70% of students in the post graduate programmes are girls and 30% of students enrolled in undergraduate programmes are girls as per the norms prescribed by the Human Resources Development Ministry.
Dr Sabitha Ramamurthy, Chancellor, CMRU, urged the students to participate in the social development processes and to observe the neighboring localities. She emphasized on corporate responsibility and sustainability as the essential aspects as the students are future entrepreneurs being the youngest generation of India. It is important for students to look around and observe the life patterns and participate in making changes to the society. She observed the activities of the GCNI have been included in the curriculum to ensure that the students are on par with the contribution to society.
