CWDC

Over the years, women are entering the professional arena in large numbers and with it has arisen various issues regarding women’s security, safety and maintaining women’s dignity and self-respect. In this direction, the Honorable Supreme Court of India has issued a directive to various organisations and institutions to set up commissions to monitor and safeguard the interests of women in the society as well as at their workplace. Gujarat University has also constituted a cell for the above mentioned purpose.

At College level, the Collegiate Women Development Cell (CWDC) began its activities in 2005-06. Dr M M Desai and Prof Jignasa Chauhan were the Founder-Conveners.   Together, they have inspired not only girls-students but also the boys of the college to actively participate. Since then, various efforts are being made to empower girl students by giving them self-defense training and enabling them to become financially independent by way of giving them vocational training. Over these years, we have conducted courses in Garment Designing and Development and Martial Arts and lectures on Peace and Harmony Stress Management, competitions in Essay-writing, Elocution Workshops in Art and Craft, Yogasana and other such programs that go a long way towards the holistic development of our female students.

Activities during 2026-27

The Orientation Programme of the College Women Development Cell (CWDC), Cyber Security Cell, and Innovation Club was organised on 11 August 2026 where over 100 students participated

Co-conveners Prof. Jignasa Chauhan, Dr. Deval Jilariya, and Dr. Navita Sharma addressed the students and briefed them about the activities, initiatives, and opportunities offered by
these committees.

The session encouraged students to actively participate in initiatives related to women’s empowerment, cyber safety, innovation, creativity, and skill development.

CWDC Activities during 2025-26
Activities during 2025-26

• 19th January 2026: Students from a local nursing college gave detailed information on usage of Menstruation Cups and their benefits. The interactive session was started with questionnaire and with help of audio-visual methods complete information on usage of menstruation cup was given to remove apprehensions of female students.
• 12th January to 17th january2026: A Five Day workshop was arranged in collaboration with the NGO, Shakti . The objective of the program was the skill enhancement and creating awareness about self-employment. Fifty –four participants received practical training on mehendi application, waxing techniques, bridal makeup and many other beauty services from expert trainers. All participants were provided certificates at the completion of the workshop.
• Orientation for Freshers
  30th August 2025
  To introduce and induce freshers to the committee, an orientation was held. Volunteers shared their experience and Dr. U. S. Jhaveri addressed the audience.
  Outstanding performances were felicitated.

• Ayurveda for Gen Z
  31st July 2025
  In association with the Library RJTC, we arranged a one-day seminar on awareness towards Ayurveda solutions for students. Dr Vishwa Shah conducted the seminar and generously offered free consultation for students who wanted private advice.
• Garba workshop
  20th &21st July 2025
  A workshop on Garba was conducted by Choreographer Bindiya Sagara and her team. More than hundred participants spent an energetic 2 days learning new and traditional steps of garba.
• Back to school kit distribution8th July,2025
  15 volunteers
  As part of a back-to-school drive, a kit was prepared by the students to distribute amongst underprivileged students. The school principal was approached to identify 50 such kids. From the purchase to the packing of the kits, the entire project was managed by the volunteers A special thanks to EK Koshish, an NGO that sponsored the event

• Heritage walk - 20 June 2025 22 volunteers. To connect students to the rich cultural past of the city a heritage walk was arranged. All volunteers were taken on a two kms walk in the walled city of Ahmedabad by Apdi Dharohar, an NGO for a nominal fee
• World Environment Day: 5 June 2025
  11 volunteers
  To celebrate the World Environment Day volunteers conducted a two- level event.
  An Essay competition was held virtually, and the three best entries were awarded.
  Volunteers approached AMC and arranged to collected saplings. Provided complimentary by the Corporation they were planted in the college campus as well as gifted to the service providers of the society, the Satellite Police Station.

CWDC Activities during 2024-25.pdf

Activities during 2024-25

• Visit to Hiramani Old Age Home
  12 March (Holi celebrations)
  15 volunteers visited the old-age home and interacted with the inmates for around 3 hours. Armed with gifts like snacks, Tulsi, frames of poem and painting, the volunteers prepared a short performance, sang bhajans and ended the evening with garba. A special word of thanks to Dr.Dhruv who sponsored the entire event.

• Joy of Giving
  8th January 2025
  25th January 2025
  In a unique two- phased program, RJTCC -CWDC volunteers spearheaded a collection drive for the needy.
  On 8th 25 volunteers visited nearby slums to distribute woollens collected at the college. Greatly appreciated was the thoughtful gift wrapping and careful gifting of age appropriate apparel.
  On the 25th a similar drive saw volunteers distribute Masala Khichdi made with ingredients collected at the college

• Workshop on Garba:
  23rd September 2024
  40 pre-registered students participated in a one-day Garba workshop mentored by Ms Bindiya Vaghela, choreographer who runs Kridha classes.
  The workshop was marked by gaiety and fervour.
• Workshop on Clay modelling
  14th September 2024
  24 students participated in a workshop on the Art of Clay modelling.
  The workshop was mentored by Ms. Saloni Suthar,an alumnus of the college.
• Workshop on Preparing for Exams for Civil Services
  9th August 2024
  In collaboration with the Library -RJTCC,a workshop was conducted on preparing for civil services . All material,print and digital,that the college library offers towards this preparation was displayed in an exhibition.
  Mentored by Mr.Bhavik Rao,the workshop had 40 participants.
• Orientation for freshers
  8th August 2024
  The freshers were introduced, and the core members felicitated in an orientation program where Dr T. U. Dhruv, the chief Guest spoke on the true meaning of Empowerment.
• Reel Rumble
  July 2024
  A competition aiming to aquaint students to the concept of video interviews was conducted.
  15 reels were selected and the best 4 awarded
• 30th July 2024
  The same team of students who conducted the survey extended the activity to holding interactive sessions in schools of Vastrapur area
  They also distributed complimentary sanitary napkins to girl students of the schools
• Survey on Awareness in Mensural Hygiene
  June 2024
  A team of 6 volunteers curated a questionnaire on Awareness of Mensural Hygiene. The survey targeting primary, secondary and college students was conducted over a fortnight
  Seminar on Mensural Hygiene

Activities during 2023-24

• Talent :As a grand finale to the year's activities a talent competition was held on 5th March where students showcased their talent in Music, Dance, Singing, Acting, Poetry Recitation and Speech making. The judges declared Deep(singing), Alphen(mono acting) , Sakshi-Prutha, Nidhi-Pinal(dance) winners. Shilp was awarded the Overall Performer. Congratulations to all winners!
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• Orientation: An orientation for the FY students was held on 23rd February. Volunteers and winners of different competitions held during the last academic year were felicitated. The guest of honor was Prof. Usha Venketesan who addressed the students on empowerment.
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• 4th January 2024: To celebrate the spirit of Giving Team CWDC-RJTCC arranged a drive to collect ingredients for 'khichdi' and it's distribution to underprivileged at various spots in Vastrapur. We thank all those who donated to make the event a success. A special thanks to Dalichand bhai for making the khichdi and Maheshbhai for taking us in his auto rickshaw. We also thank our principal sir for all his support.
• 29th-30th December 2023: CWDC -RJTCC organised a 2day workshop on Self-Defence for girls. Drashti Makwana a Fitness Expert and alum of our college conducted the workshop.

• CWDC and the Library RJTCC jointly hosted a seminar on Handling Competitive Exams on 24th August 2023. Dr Sagar Dave and Principal C. A(Dr.) H. M. Parikh guided the students. An exhibition of books that can help students to prepare better was also arranged.

• An Elocution competition was held for students on 8th July. 15 participants spoke on various topics of interest for the Youth today and the best three were awarded. Dr. T. U. Dhruv and Dr. U. S. Javeri judged the event.

Activities during 2022-23

• 22^nd July 2022: Elocution competition: To celebrate the Booker prize awarded to a Hindi novel RET SAMADHI, in translation Tomb of Sand, by Gitanjali Shri ,an elocution competition was held by the CWDC.  Eight competitors spoke on various works by  Indian women writers. The 3 best speakers were awarded. Congratulations DIVIJ, DHRUJAL and YASH.

• 5th AUGUST 2022: Twenty volunteers celebrated an early rakshabandhan with traffic police personnel tying rakhis onto policemen at Shivranjani crossroads and the Satellite police station traffic police cell. A visibly moved group of policemen appreciated the gesture. Sweets were exchanged in a traditional programme.

 

• 23rd August 2022: The new batch 2022-23 was welcomed in an orientation programme. The guest of honour was Dr. M.M.Desai ,retired professor of the Statistics Department and a well known social worker of the city. She was also the founder member of the cell and she motivated students with her talk. 35 student volunteers were felicitated for their contribution to last year’s activities.

• A workshop on gift wrapping and card making was held preceding Diwali vacations in the month of Oct 2022. Students learnt new ideas on sending personally wrapped gifts. We thank Ms Kirti Singh Rajput, an alumnus for her enthusiastic training.

 

 

 

 

• 10th January 2023: Distribution of khichdi by CWDC volunteers. Around 15 kgs of masala khichdi was distributed to homeless and construction site workers from material collected from student body. We thank principal sir for his constant support and put on record special efforts of Daalichand bhai who cooked the khichdi and Shantibhai who was with us for the entire trip.

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Activities during 2021-22

• AUGUST, 2021    : INDIAN WOMEN ACHIEVERS IN 75 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, DURATION: 10 DAYS

As part of the Azadi Ka Amriti Mahotsav to celebrate 75 years of Independence, students of CWDC had made charts about various Indian Women Achievers from different fields like, Sports, Politics, Literature, Films, Science and Industry, etc. since 1947. At first number of women was limited to 75 but then it had to be increased to 112. The project was exhibited as part of the orientation program for First Year students which was conducted on 17th December 2021.

 

• ESSAY COMPETITION THE SENIOR CITIZEN AND THE SOCIETY

CWDC,RJTCC setoff the year’s activities with a tribute to a very important section of the society-its senior citizens. With an intention to explore how the youth perceived their elders an essay competition was held on the umbrella theme of Senior Citizens and the Society and students were given the freedom to explore sub-themes like Governmental policies, Students and Elders, How the experience of seniors can be assimilated for the society and Personal experiences.

Medium of expression were both, English and Gujarati and the competition was judged by Dr. Titiksha Dhruv, HOD, Department of English and Communication Skills

 

• અમદાવાદ શહેરમાં વસ્ત્રાપુર ખાતે આર. જે. તિબ્રેવાલ કોમર્સ કોલેજના CWDC વિભાગ દ્વારા આગામી ગણેશ ચતુર્થીના તહેવારના સંદર્ભમાં તા 08/09/2021ના રોજ એક “ઇકો ફ્રેન્ડલી” ગણેશજીની મૂર્તિ બનાવવા વર્કશોપનું આયોજન કરવામાં આવેલ હતું. જેમાં ૩૦ જેટલા વિદ્યાર્થીઓએ ઉત્સાહ પૂર્વક ભાગ લીધો હતો,  કુમારી સલોની સુથારે આ વર્કશોપનું સંચાલન કર્યું  હતું  અને તૈયાર કરેલ કૃતિઓનું પ્રદર્શન પણ રાખવામાં આવ્યું હતું આ પ્રસંગે સંસ્થાના પ્રિન્સીપાલ શ્રી ડૉ હિતેન પરીખે ટ્રેનરને પુરસ્કાર આપી સન્માન કર્યું હતું અને ભાગ લેનાર વિદ્યાર્થીઓના પ્રયત્નો ને  બિરદાવ્યા હતા .

 

• 1^st OCTOBER,2021 : A DAY WITH THE INDIAN POLICE: CWDC-RJTCC WELCOMES OFFICERS FROM THE MAHILA POLICE STATION (EAST) FOR INTERACTION ON WOMEN -RELATED PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES.

CWDC-RJTCC arranged an interactive session with the officers of the Mahila Police Station Ahmedabad(East), where the officers spoke on various activities the police conducts as part of Women safety . PI Vikram Tank, Crime Branch and PSI J.K.Pandya ,Crime Branch spoke at length on Cybercrime, IUCAW, AHTU,SHE-team and 181.The talks were followed by a question-answer session where students freely put up questions and got detailed replies to their queries. ORIENTATION PROGRAM.

 

• 17th DECEMBER, 2021    :ORIENTATION PROGRAM

An ORIENTATION PROGRAM for first year students. Our Chief guest for the event was Dr. Bharati Pathak, Director, School of Commerce, Gujarat University. Along with the students, all the college professors and the principal of the college had also attended the program. At the end of the program, volunteers who had actively participated in the events conducted by CWDC last year were felicitated with trophies and certificates. The program was a grand success.

• 6^th January 2022 : JOY OF GIVING

As winters got colder this year, the CWDC-RJTCC was moved by the plight of those living in temporary homes all over the city. This initiated a drive the volunteers lovingly named Joy of Giving.

Initiated on the 20th of December, the mission was to collect enough stuff to be able to give out gifts in the first week of the new year. The volunteers started spreading word for a collection drive soliciting contribution in form of clothes, woollens, toys, footwear home linen and stationery.  Students segregated the offerings, gift-wrapping and packing them under different categories,to be distributed at predetermined locations in Vastrpur.

• 18^thJanuary,2022 : A visit to the Kautilya Museum of Accounting

A group of 13 students were taken to a visit to the Kautilya Museum of Accounting, a first of its kind of museum. They were introduced to the history of Accountancy and spent a fruitful time interacting with Ph.D students at the P.G. Centre of the School of Commerce ,Gujarat University.

 

• Talent:11th February 2022CWDC-RJTCC organised an in-house competition to showcase the co-curricular talent of the college. In a crisp, well-managed event elocution, stand up, poetry- recitation, dance and music found fair representation. Well -done Shubhangi,Neel, Harsh, Deep and all others for organising a fantastic event.

 

 

 

Activities during 2020-21

• 26 December 2020: UN 75 / VAJRA’O FORCEA Youth-Dialogue on GENDER DIVIDE- BRIDGING THE GAP, as part of the 75^th anniversary celebrations of the United Nation, was organised on Saturday the 26^th of December, 2020 in association with the Vajra ‘O Force Foundation. Presentations were made by students on various subjects like Income Inequality, Impact of Climate Change, Digital Technologies, Conflict and Violence which need to be addressed by the UN towards a better world by 2045, which will be the year of centenary celebrations. The webinar was recorded and sent to UN.

 

3rd March, 2021: Seminar on Listening skillsA seminar was organised on Listening Skills. Ms Jasmi Sugunan, Ms Anandita Patel & Mamtaben of Aadarsh Ahmedabad, were the chief guests for the event. Jasmi Sugunan is an Advocate, a consultant counsellor working with Psychological Development & Mental Health Foundation (PDMHF) and is a volunteer at Aadarsh Ahmedabad. She addressed the importance of better listening for a better interpersonal relationship for harmonious co-existence in the society.

 

Activities during 2019-20

• 6th April:  A felicitation ceremony was held for volunteers who were honoured for services rendered in the last academic year.

 

 

 

 

• 12th  July, 2019: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, a workshop on the Legal Rights & procedures and   ways to address Gender   Bias   was   conducted   by   Ms.   Devyani Verma and Ms. Avni  Bhatia of JOSH. We thank Ms. Verma, Campaign Manager,Josh and Ms. Bhatia for the lucid and conducive manner in which the program was conducted.

 

• 1st August, 2019: Representatives from CWDC- RJTCC participated at the National Symposium on   Women's  issues  titled   Redefining   Womanhood. The   National conference was organized jointly by CWWDC-GLS University and WILPF.

 

• 13th  August, 2019: Rakshabandhan was celebrated with fervour at Gandhinagar where  the volunteers of CWDC-RJTCC, collaborated with the Wajra ‘O’ Foundation to tie rakhis on the wrists of jawans from the CRPF.

 

 

 

• 31st August 2019:  A Tree Plantation drive was conducted by the CWDC-RJTCC at the Muskan Garden, Jivraj Park. This was our contribution to the conservation and  enhancement  of the Green cover for Mother   Earth. The volunteers and conveners were joined by AMWA in planting scores of saplings in the garden.

 

 

• 7 Dec 2019:An Oratorical Competition was held by the Smt Jyotsanaben Dave Memorial, All India Hind Mahila Parishad where Ms Jagruti Parmar represented RJTCC, CWDC and secured the First Prize.

 

 

• 6-8^th January 2020 : A 3-day workshop was held by the Collegiate Women Development Cell where our own student, Ms Kirti Rajput, taught the participants the art of making designer Bangles and Earrings showing them a direction towards self-employment.  Principal C.A. (Dr.) Hiten Parikh felicitated her for her contribution

 

• 10^th January 2020 : Collegiate Women's Development Cell organized, Rangoli, Mehendi and Bridal makeup competitions as part of Unnati 2020. Principal Shaila Qadri of Aparna Trivedi School was guest judge at the competitions.

 

 

• 13^th January 2020 : The Students of CWDC put up a stall and sold Bangles and earrings that they made during the workshop. This helped them learn not only a new art but also the nitty-gritty of costing, pricing and profit making

 

 

CWDC Activities during 2011-12 to 2018-19