Meetings, Women’s Forum

SESSION:2010-2011
President: Mrs Shukla Bhattacharjee
Secretary: Mrs Jilmil Bora
Treasurer: Mrs. Pranita Kakati
Ex Officio- Dr Namita Sharma & Gargi Chakraborty
Executive Members:
1. Aditi Devi Choudhury
2. Dr Dipali Das
3. Dipika Devi
4. Mina Talukdar
5. Ellora Chaudhury


Meeting No. 1: Executive Meeting held on 15th June 2010.
Agenda of the meeting:
1. Taking the chair by the President.
2. Purpose of the Meeting.
3. Discussion on the framing of the Constitution for the D.K. College Women’s Cell.
4. Discussion on the annual plans and programs.
5. Discussion on the opening of the sexual harassment cell in D.K. College.
6. President’s speech.
7. Vote of thanks.
Proceedings: The meeting has discussed and decided to frame a constitution in line with the GU Women’s Cell after collecting the necessary documents for the framing of the constitution from the GU Women’s Cell. Then there was further discussion about the annual plans and programs of the DKC Women’s Cell. Moreover the meeting also discussed the inclusion of Mrs Phulrani Deka in the executive committee.
Resolutions:
1. SAM (first week of January)
2. Personality development program for the DKC girl students (one day workshop to be conducted by the Vivekananda Kendra Guwahati).
3. Awareness on Sexual Harassment (a talk) to be held on 4th September.
4. Opening of Sexual harassment cell.
Action taken : A General Meeting was organized to discuss the above mentioned resolutions.

Meeting No. 2: General Meeting held on 30th June 2010.
Agenda of the meeting:
1. Taking the chair by the President.
2. Purpose of the Meeting.
3. Placing of proposal for the program to be undertaken by the D.K. College Women’s Cell.
4. Inclusion of Phulrani Deka in the executive committee (discussion).
5. Discussion on the Need of the Women's Cell Constitution.
6. President’s speech.
7. Vote of thanks.
Proceedings: The meeting passed the resolutions taken in the executive. 23rd October is fixed for the personality development program for the girl students of DKC. It is also decided that the complaint box for the the sexual harassment cell will be placed in front of the VP’s office. The meeting decided to have a committee for sexual harassment under the title- Sexual Harassment Cell Task Force with the following as the committee members-
1. Principal (Chairman)
2. Vice Principal (Convener)
3. Phanen Thakuria (Member)
4. Indira Saikia (Member)
5. President Women’s Cell (Member)
6. Secretary Women’s Cell (Member)
7. Himadri Bora (Member)
8. Reena Das (Member)
9. Mina Talukdar Medhi (Member)
Resolutions: The meeting decided to held a slogan writing competition on sexual harassment after 4th September.
Action taken : A General Meeting was organized to discuss the above mentioned resolutions.

Meeting No. 3: General Meeting held on 18th September 2010.
Agenda of the meeting:
1. Taking the chair by the President.
2. Purpose of the Meeting.
3. Fixing of the date.
4. Formation of Sub Committees
5. Discussion on SAM workshop.
6. President’s speech.
7. Vote of thanks.
Proceedings: The meeting was conveyed to inform the gathering the reason behind the postponement of the day fixed for the talk on sexual harassment on 4th September 2010 due to DKC Students’ Union body election. The meeting decided to fix the date either on 28 or 29 according to the convenience of the resource person. The time for the talk was fixed at 10:45 a.m/11:00 a.m. The various sub committees for the talk were formed in the following manner-
1. Publicity Committee- Himadri, Bhabani, Dipa, Sunil, Edward, Niva.
2. Reception Committee- Dr Nilufer Islam, Joba, Gargee
3. Dias and room arrangement-
    a. State arrangement- Jonali, Ellora, Namita, Tridip
    b. Room arrangement- NSS, Sajida, Monika, Political Science Department, Education Department, Swarup.
    c. Miscellaneous- Ellora, Mamoni, Plabita, Mina, Barnali, Medhi, Gogoi. Phulrani Deka is the overall incharge of the above committees.
4. Food Committee- NSS, Indira Saikia, Aditi Choudhury, Utpal, A.N. Roy
5. Interaction Committee- Dr Namita, Manas Baruah.
6. Entertainment incharge- Dr Namita
Resolutions: The meeting decided to give an invitation card to all the departments of the college along with the office to participate in the talk. For the SAM workshop a tentative list for the speaker in the two open sessions has been prepared in the meeting. The time for the workshop has been fixed at 9 a.m. Action taken : The forum organised a talk on sexual harassment on 29th September 2010.

Meeting No. 4: Executive Meeting held on 27th November 2010.
Agenda of the meeting:
1. Taking the chair by the President.
2. Purpose of the Meeting.
3. Discussion regarding the open session of SAM workshop.
4. President’s speech.
5. Vote of thanks.
Proceedings: The topics of the agenda we discussed in the meeting and the following resolutions were taken.
Resolutions: The meeting decided not to hold a one day workshop on personality development for girls’ students due to the tight schedule of dates of the college. This program has been postponed for the next session. The meeting decided to call Suniti Sonowal for the first open session to speak on Domestic Violence. For the second open session, the following topic has been selected- “Ceremonies related to the attainment of puberty by girl child” and the resource person will be Dr Sangita Kakati and Anuradha Sharma Pujari.
Action taken: The forum organised a UGC sponsored 5 days Sensitivity /Awareness/Motivation workshop on Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education from 20th December 2010 to 24th December 2010.

Meeting No. 5: Annual Meeting held on 10th February 2011.
Agenda of the meeting:
1. Taking the chair by the President.
2. Purpose of the Meeting.
3. Handover of charge by the old committee.
4. Taking of charges by the new committee.
5. President’s speech.
6. Vote of thanks.
Proceedings: The old committee has resigned a new committee is formed with the following as its member:
President- Dr.Nilufer Islam
Secretary- Ellora Chaudhury
Executive Committee members-
1. Himadri Bora
2. Barnali Bora
3. Indira Saikia
4. Dr Namita Sharma
5. Niva Thakuria
6. Mamoni Das
Ex-officio- Shukla Bhattacharjee, Jilmil Bora
Chief advisor- Dr Ramesh Chandra Kalita (Principal)
Advisor- Hira Neog, Shukla Bhattacharjee, Phulrani Deka
Treasurer- Pranita Kakati