Report of Celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021
Women Developmental Cell, SVKM’s Mithibai College
A Women Development Cell in any institution symbolizes a safety hub for the students. It is also the sign of progression and open thinking. Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, academia has experienced massive reforms globally; nevertheless, it has not diminished involvement of teachers and students in learning the curriculum nor it could stop the youth from showcasing their talent and skills in co-curricular and extra-curricular events organized by Colleges and its committees like ‘Women Development Cell’

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Women Development Cell of SVKM’s Mithibai College planned to celebrate the event by organizing various competitions virtually on the theme of ‘On Campus Harassment’. Much brainstorming was done in committee meetings in February, 2021 and thought upon categories of online competitions inviting students to register for the five categories like Live Recitation of self-written poem, Live Recitation of self-written monologue, Poster making, Slogan writing, Logo Designing for our Women Development Cell. E-invite was made and circulated to
all students of College.

39 Registrations and entries were received in all categories

The online competition flow on MS Teams was as follows:
1. Welcome by Mrs. Bidisha Sarkar (Convenere)
2. Poetry by Maya Angelou- recitation Khevana Desai (Co-convener)
3. Introduction of judges- Khevana Desai
4. Student's participation (announcement by Aurora Vaaz/Vishakha Shingala-members)
5. Judgement/announcement of all the competitions- (Aurora Vaz/ Archana Mainkar)
6. Vote of Thanks- Khushali Adhiya

All the participants were creative and innovative, judging them as winners was really a challenge for the invited judges among our retired faculty like Ms. Usha Subramanian, Ms. Lata Nagarkar, Dr. Alka Kanetkar and Ms. Sonali Chatterjee judged the participants and announced the winners very same day as below:
1) LOGO
Richelle D'Souza - Rank 1
Himanshi Toprani WDC1 - Rank 2

2) POSTER
Richelle D'Souza - Rank1Yutika Damani (second poster DEVI) Rank 2

3) SLOGAN
Harshika Goradia - Rank 1
Sakshi Patil - Rank 2

4) Monologue:
Nidhi Chainani - 1st Prize

5)Poetry
Khadeejah Adam -1st
iya Jain- 2nd

It was indeed a unique and memorable experience for the faculty and students to have enjoyed this online competition in the pandemic