Women Development Cell
The Prime Role of Women Development Cell (WDC) of the College is to deal with cases of sexual harassment and moreover, implementation of the Women policy, in general to promote the well being of female student, teaching and non-teaching women staff of the college. The Activities for the academic year 2011-12 began with the formation of Women Development Cell. Various programmes were organized during this year.
1. Guess Lecture on “Cervical and Breast Cancer”
In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide and death by cervical cancer is also increasing. There are lot of questions, confusions and lack of awareness in the mind of girls students. What are the symptoms of cervical cancer? Whether it can be prevented? How to diagnose it? Is there any surgery? To clear all these doubts and to create awareness among the girls students, guess lecture on “Cervical and Breast Cancer” was organized on 24th Aug 2011.
Dr. Navneet Desai, Gynecologist, from Shobhana Hospital, Bhayander was called as a guest speaker who gave valuable guidance and knowledge to our girl students. The idea behind this event was to create awareness among the girls regarding the topic which is barely spoken and discussed.
2. Guidance lecture on “Legal provisions for issues of college girls”.
India is badly affected by ragging, a form of abuse on newcomers to educational institutes. Ragging has reportedly caused atleast 30-31 deaths in the last four years. Ragging involves serious abuses and clear violation of human rights. In 2009, UGC passed UGC regulation on curbing the menace of ragging in higher educational institutions, 2009. In many colleges ragging has been strictly banned, however, this ban has not been very effective as seen by the huge number of ragging cases still reported by the media. Even there are number of cases of sexual harassment.
Even sexual comments about a person’s physical appearance, even sexually offensive written or electronic messages, emails, offensive telephone calls or jokes or comments forms the behavior of sexual harassment element. To create the awareness about these matters guidance lecture on “Legal provisions for issues of college girls” was organized on 27th September, 2011. Advocate Sapna Khobragade practicing at Bombay High Court gave valuable guidance on use of Right to Information Act and various legal acts to protect the girls from such kind of abuse.
3. Seminar on “Women Empowerment: New dimension and new challenges”.
There have been significant advances for Women in many parts of our country in relation to health, education and employment over the past decade. However, the persistent and increasing incidence of violence against women, the underrepresentation of women in decision-making in all areas and at all levels and the fact that women continue to be disproportionately affected by discriminatory laws governing marriage, land, property and inheritance is unacceptable in this millennium. In addition, new challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality have emerged over the past decade.
Even in areas where progress has been made, still there is much room for improvement. The role of women has changes drastically; the role of typical “grihani” (housewife) who catered to all the requirements of the household has been changed. The continuity of change in socio-economic and psycho-cultural aspects of human living has influenced the role of women. With the process of industrialization, modernization and globalization showing its deep impact on society all over the world, the role and responsibilities of women has attained new dimensions, definition and perspective. Seminar on “Women Empowerment: New dimension and new challenges” on 30th November, 2011 jointly organized by Women Development Cell and Department of Political Science on the occasion of constitution day and death anniversary of Founder of Women Education, Mahatma Phule. DCP Rashmi Karandikar, Thane, Mumbai Police and Dr. Kranti Jejurikar, Coordinator, WDC, University of Mumbai were the chief guest of honors. The guests were felicitated by offering a frame of preamble of Indian Constitution besides shawl, coconut and bouquet. Mrs. Kalpanatai Mhatre was also felicitated on this occasion on her election as Chairperson, Standing Committee, Mira Bhayander Mahanagar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) Seminar highlighted the major problems faced by women in Indian Society like dropout rate, feticide, save girl child.
DCP Rashmi Karandikar put forth her experience how a girl can carry out the role of a male successfully. There is a lot of difference between the status of girls in Mumbai and those from other rural areas. She anticipated the change in mentality of Indian Society. Dr. Kranti Jejurikar in her speech threw a flood of light on various issues of girl students. Both the eminent personalities responded the queries asked by the audience in a very satisfactory manner. All the students were benefitted intellectually by the programme. Career guidance was also given to the young students.
Women development cell is committed to organize more and more initiative and such programmes to create social awareness about the problems of women and in particular regarding gender discrimination.
Dr. (Mrs) Anupama Gawde
Coordinator, Women Development Cell
WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CELL
| Sr. No. |
Name of Activity |
Date |
Guest Speaker |
Details about activity |
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1. |
Guest lecture on “Cervical and breast cancer”. |
24/08/2011 |
Dr. Navneet Desai, Gynecologist, Shobhana Hospital Bhayander | To create awareness among the girls students about cervical and breast cancer and precaution to be taken. |
|
2. |
Guidance lecture “Legal provisions for issues of college girls”. |
27/09/2011 |
Advocate Sapna Khobragade, Bombay High Court. | To guide and advise girls students on various issues like college ragging, sexual harassment, etc. |
|
3. |
Seminar on “Women Empowerment: New dimension and new challenges”. |
30/11/2011 |
DCP Rashmi Karandikar, Thane, Mumbai Police. Dr. Kranti Jejurikar, Coordinator, WDC, University of Mumbai. |
On the occasion of constitution day and death anniversary of Founder of Women Education, Mahatma Phule, seminar highlighted the major problems faced by women in Indian Society like dropout rate, save girl child. Career guidance was given to the young students. |
DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY
REPORT OF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED IN 2011-12
In the academic year 2011-12, the entire education system in colleges affiliated to Mumbai University was drastically changed to make it more relevant to the current credit based grading system. Accordingly, a new credit based system of 60/40 pattern designed by University of Mumbai was imposed at F.Y. and T.Y. Level. Since then Department of Accountancy conducted host of programs and guidance lectures for the students. One of the most significant feature of the change was that, this pattern was designed in such a way that the undergraduate students can concentrate on college lecture as 40 marks for internal is covered through class tests, assignment and active participation of the students.
1. Guidance lecture on How to make PPT presentation
There has been a considerable amount of dissatisfaction and criticism among academics and industry people about the quality of undergraduate students. One of the primary function of an Accountant is to provide financial information to managers in the organization through PPT presentation. Excessive emphasis in Accountancy subject is given on external reporting. To train our students and boost their confidence to make presentation of financial reporting the unique assignment of PPT presentation in the subject Management Accounting on topic Ratio Analysis was introduced. Guidance lecture was given by Dr. Anupama Gawde on 8th September, 2011 to T. Y. B. Com. students. The guidance was given regarding making of PPT presentation, using ICT technology, analysis and interpretation of financial statements and financial data.
2. Guest lecture on “How to file income tax return through E-filing”
Guest Speaker: CA Rupesh Singh
IC Institute, Mira Road
To give the practical exposure to Third Year B.Com. students in the subject ‘Direct and Indirect Taxation’, guest lecture on “How to file income tax return through E-filing” was organized on 29th November, 2011. The process of electronically filing Income tax returns through the internet is known as e-filing. It is mandatory for companies and Firms requiring statutory audit u/s 44AB to submit the Income tax returns electronically for AY 2007-08 onwards. E-filing is possible with or without digital signature. Detailed information with practical example of filing tax return through internet was given through presentation.
3. Guest lecture in the subject Costing and Auditing – Accounts II.
Guest speaker: CA Professor Pratap Kadam
Head of Department, Department of Accountancy,
Gokhale College, Borivali.
Department of Accountancy had a pleasure to invite CA Prof. Pratap Kadam to guide the students of T. Y. B. Com. in the subject Costing and Auditing (Accounts – II) on 17th January, 2012 as he was one of the paper setters at Mumbai University. In the current academic year 2011-12, the University of Mumbai changed the evaluation pattern as well as the paper pattern in the concerned subject. In this regard, the department invited him as a guest speaker to help students to overcome their problems and anxieties. The guest lecture was organized in the conference room with the full strength of students. Hon’ble Sir exhaustively catered to the paper pattern, weightage on certain topics, expected questions, time management, scoring aptitude and selection of questions. Student’s queries and doubts were also cleared.
4. Guidance lecture in the Management Accounting – Accounts III
Guest Speaker: CA Prof. Mahesh Sathe,
Department of Accountancy,
Raheja College, Santacruz.
The Department organized guidance lecture on 20th January, 2012 in the subject Management Accounting – Accounts III. CA Prof. Mahesh Sathe, who was one of the paper setters and moderator at Mumbai University, provided guidance regarding change in paper pattern, change in passing criteria, how to tackle the question paper effectively, weightage of chapters and how to score maximum marks in the subject.
5. Guidance lecture in the subject Financial Accounting
Guest Speaker: CA Prof. Pradeep Kamtekar
Department of Accountancy,
Poddar College, Matunga.
Guidance lecture was organized on the subject Financial Accounting – Accounts I on 27th January, 2012. Financial Accounting is a subject which requires perfect knowledge and practical experience. Students were guided by CA Prof. Pradeep Kamtekar who not only gave valuable inputs to the students but also revised all the chapters in the subject thoroughly.
6. Guidance lecture in the subject Direct and Indirect Tax
Guest Speaker: CA Prof. Shashikant Desai
Head of Department, Department of Accountancy,
Chetana College, Bandra.
Guidance lecture was organized on 28th January, 2012 in the subject Direct and Indirect Tax for T. Y. B. Com. Every year lot of changes occur in the taxation policy of the Government which has direct impact on changes in income tax act which is too complex in nature to understand for the students. CA Prof. Shashikant Desai, who is a paper setter at University of Mumbai, gave proper guidance and cleared the concepts of direct and indirect tax with simplified language and suitable examples.
7. Presentation on Ratio Analysis
It is universally believed that a good knowledge of quantitative technique is necessary for Accounting to be able to process Accounting data and analyse a wide variety of managerial problems and remedial measures, therefore, it is important for Accounting graduate students to be familiar with the relevant new developments taking in their profession. One of the new recent development is expressing financial with the use of PPT Presentation. As a part of assignment, it was made mandatory for all the T. Y. B. Com. students to make PPT presentation on ratio analysis which was observed by department members on 10th to 15th February, 2012 and best three PPT’s were selected which has motivated our students.
8. Felicitation of ex-Chairman, Board of Studies
Accountancy, University of Mumbai
Department of Accountancy, took this honor to felicitate Prof. CA Dilip Phadke,
ex-Chairman of Board of Studies, Department of Accountancy of Mumbai University, as the Principal of our college, Dr. V. N. Yadav is member of Board of Studies and Department of Accountancy has healthy and cordial relations with all the members of Board of Studies. On the occasion of moderation of F. Y. B. Com. papers Prof. CA Dilip Phadke was invited. Our principal expressed deep sense of gratitude towards the cooperation of members of Board of Studies and felicitated with bouquets and memento. All the department member gathered to say thanks to a good mentor for his many contributions to the department which in their own unique way have made our department a stronger and more capable. It gave the department the opportunity to wish him every success in the future as he looks forward to new challenges and rewards after retirement.
As a part of initiative to develop all round personality of our students, the department of Accountancy will continue to arrange more such programs in the coming year.
Dr. (Mrs) Anupama Gawde
Coordinator, Women Development Cell