1. Title:

Gender Sensitization Activities: SavitribaiPhule Study Centre Adiwasi Yuvati Vikas Manch

2. Goal:

To organize gender sensitization activities to make tribal, rural, hilly, and remote area students competent enough to face challenges and seek opportunities in personal and professional development through the study centre like SavitribaiPhule Study Centre,AdiwasiYuvatiVikasManch, and NSS organized activities.

3. Context:

• Being a women’s college, the institute started in the year 2005-06 SavitribaiPhule Study Centre to impart students’ idea and knowledge about SavitribalPhule’s contribution in women’s career development. It is started to inculcate value system among women students of the College by organizing various gender sensitization related issues through AdiwasiYuvatiVikasManch, and NSS planned Gender Sensitization Programmes

4. Practice:

• The commitee organizes lectures on women sensitization issues through AdiwasiYuvatiVikasManch, SavitribaiPhule Study centre, NSS specially planned activities.
• It collects wall-papers and posters on the life and career of the social activists, several women related health, personality development, self-defence, career opportunity issues.
• It organizes Elocution competition, essay writing competition, rallies, campaigns, street plays, poster presentations, save girl child, betibachaobetipadhao ,literacy mission, etc campaigns
• Itregularly organizes guest lectures on health, career, educational, social, and cultural topics to enable the first generation tribal and ruralarea students understand the above issues through and help them get the idea and planning to appear in the main stream of educational and professional life development.    
• Celebrations on Birth and Death Anniversaries ofSavitribai, presentations of videos on women related issues.

5  Evidence of Success:

• The study centre has organized several programmes towards women sensitization       and empowerment. Mostly the guest lectures are organized to develop and inculcate the thoughts on       student mind. The regular organization of meetings and group discussions among students through       AdiwasiYuvatiVikasManch organized meetings, workshops, orientation programmes, karate training courses, etc.
• The activities gained students confidence to participate in several gender sensitization related activities by organizing various rallies, campaigns, competitions, awareness programmes on gender issues such as elocution, essay writing, poster presentation competitions.

6. Problems and Resources Required:

• The study center requires more books, CDs, VCDs on the life and career of Savitribai. Similarly, the centre requires a separate room with adequate infrastructure. The centre needs support to organize conferences on life and career of SavitribaiPhule. The AdiwasiYuvatiVikasManch needs registration, and also some financial support to organize gender sensitization activities more effectively and regularly.