Dr. Ambedkar centre organised one day national seminar on the theme
‘Women Empowerment in Bharat Through Ages’ on April 20, 2019. The
inaugral session was attended by Smt Anarben Patel Ji , Director ,
Gramshree -Women Empowerment, Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Prof (Dr.) Raj Kumar ,
Vice Chancellor; Sh Rajesh Bagha,Former chairman SC Commission
Punjab; Didi Alka Gauri, State Organiser Panjab and Haryana
Vivekananda Kendra; Ms Heena Kumari Sukhna (IRS ) and many researchers ,
faculty members and sttudents from many states across north India. Prof
Devinder Singh, cordinator of the centre, introduced the theme and
thanked Vice Chancellor for providing assets and financial grant to the
centre and assures that the centre will soon start a course and
fellowships to the needy students to dissemtate the noble ideals of Dr
Ambedkar for creation of a just and equity le society. He further share
his research experience of 20 years of University that even in such most
advanced and educated University society, women has not get her
required place of parity.
He further urged the academicians, professor
and research scholars for constructive and positive Reseach in
consonance with Government policies rather than mere focusing on mere
critical angle, to further the noble goal of empowerment of women.
Prof Rajkumar (Hon’ble VC) welcomes the dignitaries and stressed that
the real women empowerment can be achieved only through deeply
ingraining the idea of equality in mind, as negative prejudices and
stereotypes against women are the biggest cause of affliction. The same
can be done by bringing up our daughters with all intellectual and
physical capabilities ranging from education to equality at home. He
stressed that no nation or society can achieved real progress without
bringing half of its population at equal footing. He remarked that Dr
Ambedkar also wanted special attention to be given to the women of India
and he worked hard to achieve the same in his life through various
legal reforms. prof Rajkumar also thanked His Excellency Sh. Satyadeo
Narain Ji, Hon’ble Governor of Haryana, for his able guidance to the
university. Ms Heena Kumari as Guest of Honour delivered her talk on
defining the meaning of Empowerment of Women and how women had
significant role to play throughout history giving various examples from
Indian past. While highlighting some features of matriachial society,
she hoped that the same can be adopted to some extent in Indian culture
giving hopes to indian women who have otherwise dispalyed their worth in
competative world. Mr. Rajesh Bagga highlighted the vision of Dr.
Ambedkar specially for women and shared his experience in the ground and
discussed how he had to convince the husbands to first treat their
wives at home equally before expecting equality in social life. He gave
the message that followers of Dr. Ambedkar have the responsibility to
replicate the ideals of Babasahib who dreamt of strong country minus any
distinction on the basis of caste,creed and religion. He reitrated that
breakers of law can not be real Ambedkarites as Babsahib respected
the education, law and descipline. Alka Gauri reminded audience if
indian philosophy believed in soul which undergoes through many circles
of birth, then soul is genderless and men and women are equal creation
of nature with same conciouness. Thus men and women and must respect
each other both as equal and compatible and the same has been enumerated
by all sages of Indian civilization. Keynote Speaker Smt. Anarben Patel
provided inputs from her own life and ground experiences and shared her
experience how she moved into the downtrodden sections and address to
their needs and grievance. She gave example of her mother who stood by
her ideals and stopped a child marriage even when it meant bycott from
their own community. She encouraged women to find the answer to the
question, ‘Who Am I?’ The answers needs to be found both in spiritual
and physical world. She reiterates her committment to all women to help
them find their potential and identify themselves as themselves minus
any family, caste, comminity and other social identities. She beseeched
men to work in the ground and mentally accept the equal status of women
and not act as hindrance to women empowerment. She acts the sterotypical
segragation of men and women in various social groups and denial of
political participations at the ground level. She concluded the talk
with a message that women must move in society and work hard to achieve
their potentail without getting entagling in social barriers. She hoped
the society must move towards finding the answer to the question ‘what
is right?’ from ‘who is right?’ to achieve real harmony in the society.
Dr. Aditi Sharma conducted the session and Dr. Anil Thakur offered the
vote of thanks.