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Introduction:
The Women Empowerment Cell (WEC) in the University was constituted on 26th of August, 2017 to empower and emancipate the female faculty, staff and students and reach the community. The WEC works to promote gender sensitivity by conducting different programmes and works to educate, aware and motivate the stakeholders for a harmonious academic & social environment. It organizes workshops, Seminars, Conferences and other programmers both for staff and students. The eminent psychologists, social workers and other resource persons are invited to enlighten the participants. The cell aims to spread its arms beyond the wall of the University towards the empowering women of the society especially in the Ganderbal region across 1045 SQ KM’s and has a total population of 2,97,446/- with a Female Sex ratio of Ganderbal district is 874 females per 1000 males compared to J&K’s total sex ratio. Average literacy rate in Ganderbal district as per census 2011 is 66.49 % of which males and females are 76.87 % and 54.95 % literates respectively. In actual number 25,796 people are literate in urban region of which males and females are 15,697 and 10,099 respectively. There are 0.07% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 2.16% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Ganderbal. The WEC of the University is keen to explore every possibility to meet the cause by organizing welfare, awareness programmes among women in Ganderbal and spark the inner esteem of the women to work towards contributing to their own societies and the nation at large.
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