CSIR-NEIST organized a workshop for the young women on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2019 CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST) had organized a “Workshop on Empowering Young Women through S&T interventions” on the occasion of International Women‟s Day on 08 March 2019. The convener of the programme welcomed the guests and explained the gathering aboutthe aim of the workshop which wasto create a conducive environment to share best practices and experiences in overcoming challenges in the region; and to gain insights learned from the successful entrepreneurs, resource persons. This would motivate and encourage the budding women entrepreneurs for empowerment as well as development of the NE region. Director, CSIR-NEIST, Dr G Narahari Sastry in his speech mentioned that women will be equally responsible for development of the country in future and expected that women should take much more visible roles in the society. To bring women back to science, he mentioned about the scheme “KIRAN” by DBT, Govt. of India which allows women to take up projects in research institutes after a gap in their career. Dr Arup Kumar Misra, Director, ASTEC attended the inaugural session of the workshop as a Chief Guest. In his address, he spoke about the importance of women in shaping the main stream society. Describing about the number of sufferings witnessed by him in different corners of the country, he emphasized how women needs to understand her rights so that she can be significant in her own sphere. In the technical session, Dr Sunil Saikia, the former Director of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship and the Director, GCMS delivered the keynote lecture where he emphasised the need of conducting special entrepreneurial training for women to enable them to start their own ventures. He informed about the financial institutions and banks that have special cells and plans to assist women entrepreneurs. Giving the examples of successful women entrepreneurs of Assam, he encouraged the participants to utilize the traditional knowledge and wealth to popularize it globally. Also, Debanga Pallav Saikia, Founder of „Kharkhowa” Foods shared his journey from being a MNC employee to the owner of his company “Kharkhowa”. He also shared his experiences and setbacks and explained how an entrepreneur can be different from a businessman. He advised the participants to have courage, faith and be bold enough in the field of entrepreneurship. After lunch, an interactive session was held between the resource persons, students and the scientists of CSIR-NEIST (who had worked closely with the entrepreneurs of the country through transferring their own technologies). Dr Sunil Saikia, Dr Jatin Kalita, Shri Devanga Pallav Saikia, Dr Mantu Bhuyan, Shri JJ Bora, Dr Dipul Kalita, Er Dipankar Neog, and Dr SP Saikia joined the programme along with the participants. The opportunities, availableschemes, funding sources, registration of the farm, etc. were discussed during the session. A lot of interesting and curious questions were asked by the students which were answered the panel of experts.
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CSIR-NEIST organized a workshop for the young women
on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2019
CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST) had organized
a “Workshop on Empowering Young Women through S&T interventions” on the
occasion of International Women‟s Day on 08 March 2019. The convener of the
programme welcomed the guests and explained the gathering aboutthe aim of the
workshop which wasto create a conducive environment to share best practices and
experiences in overcoming challenges in the region; and to gain insights learned
from the successful entrepreneurs, resource persons. This would motivate and
encourage the budding women entrepreneurs for empowerment as well as
development of the NE region.
Director, CSIR-NEIST, Dr G Narahari Sastry in his speech mentioned that women
will be equally responsible for development of the country in future and expected that
women should take much more visible roles in the society. To bring women back to
science, he mentioned about the scheme “KIRAN” by DBT, Govt. of India which
allows women to take up projects in research institutes after a gap in their career.
Dr Arup Kumar Misra, Director, ASTEC attended the inaugural session of the
workshop as a Chief Guest. In his address, he spoke about the importance of
women in shaping the main stream society. Describing about the number of
sufferings witnessed by him in different corners of the country, he emphasized how
women needs to understand her rights so that she can be significant in her own
sphere.
In the technical session, Dr Sunil Saikia, the former Director of Indian Institute of
Entrepreneurship and the Director, GCMS delivered the keynote lecture where he
emphasised the need of conducting special entrepreneurial training for women to
enable them to start their own ventures. He informed about the financial institutions
and banks that have special cells and plans to assist women entrepreneurs. Giving
the examples of successful women entrepreneurs of Assam, he encouraged the
participants to utilize the traditional knowledge and wealth to popularize it globally.
Also, Debanga Pallav Saikia, Founder of „Kharkhowa” Foods shared his journey from
being a MNC employee to the owner of his company “Kharkhowa”. He also shared
his experiences and setbacks and explained how an entrepreneur can be different
from a businessman. He advised the participants to have courage, faith and be bold
enough in the field of entrepreneurship.
After lunch, an interactive session was held between the resource persons, students
and the scientists of CSIR-NEIST (who had worked closely with the entrepreneurs of
the country through transferring their own technologies). Dr Sunil Saikia, Dr Jatin
Kalita, Shri Devanga Pallav Saikia, Dr Mantu Bhuyan, Shri JJ Bora, Dr Dipul Kalita,
Er Dipankar Neog, and Dr SP Saikia joined the programme along with the
participants. The opportunities, availableschemes, funding sources, registration of
the farm, etc. were discussed during the session. A lot of interesting and curious
questions were asked by the students which were answered the panel of experts.
About 110 girl students from Jorhat College, DR College, HPB Girl‟s College,
Bahana College, Jorhat Science and Technology Institute, Jorhat Central College,
Majuli College, JB College and DCB Girl‟s College participated in the programme.
The details of the participants are in table 1 (Annexure-I).
The valedictory function was attended by Shri SC Kalita, Chief Scientist of CSIR-NEIST as Chief Guest and Dr Madhavi Sastry,Project Manager, Deshawas Guest of Honour. Prize distribution among the winners of Quiz and Debate competitions organized among the staff and distribution certificate of participation among the participants were also conducted. Later, in the evening Dr Madhavi Sastry delivered a talk on “Effect of Water-Restructuring Mutations on Ligand Binding to Human Carbonic Anhydrase: A theoretical study” in the presence of the Scientists and the students of the institute followed by an interactive discussion. The programme ended with a vote of thanks. The details agenda of the programme is attached in Annexure-II. Feedback from the students were also collected for future reference.
Felicitation of the Chief Guest, Dr Arup Kumar Misra, Director, ASTEC, Govt. of Assam by Director, CSIR-NEIST
Chief Guest Dr Arup Kumar Misra, Director, ASTEC, Govt. of Assam during his speech in the inaugural session
Participants, Resource persons and organizers of the “Workshop on Empowering Young Women through S&T interventions” at CSIR-NEIST on 08 March 2019
Keynote lecture by Dr Sunil Saikia, Former Director, IIE & presently Director, GCMS
Dr Jatin Kalita, Head, RPBD during his speech on “S&T interventions of CSIR-NEIST towards entrepreneurship development”
Interactive session
Interactive session
Address by Er SC Kalita, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NEIST as Chief Guest during valedictory function.
Dr Madhavi Sastry, Project Manager, Deshaw during her presentation
Certificate distribution among the participants by the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour during Valedictory programme
Annexure-I Table 1: Details of the participants
H.P.B. Girls’ College, Golaghat
Sl. No. Name of the Students Class Contact No.
1. Nargish Ahmed BA 6th Semester 9101543564
2. Popimoni Gogoi -do- 6000252132
3. Namrata Gogoi -do- 8811849367
4. Upasana Kashyap -do- 7002498398
5. Lusona Bora -do- 6000274710
6. Namita Phukan BA 2nd Semester 8403950166
7. Dhariti Gogoi -do- 9365922074
8. Krishna Dutta -do- 7086514569
9. Bornali Gogoi -do- 6001869646
10. Kabita Kurmi -do- 8134981758
11. Jafrin Begum -do- 8134026775
12. Parishmit Bharali -do- 8133037652
13. Pinki Basumatary Teacher In-Charge 8876926956
14. Mousumi Boruah Teacher In-Charge 9101659064
DCB Girls‟ College, Jorhat
15. Arpita Das BSc 6th Semester 8638525816
16. Bonisha Begum -do- 7896437681
17. Munni Das -do- 8811824220
18. Malashkiva Kotoky -do- 8811850705
19. Dipika Moni Das -do- 8876693451
20. Ananya Saikia -do- 9101841494
21. Darshana Koushik -do- 7086200327
22. Pranjalika Singh -do- 9859331283
23. Supriya Saikia -do- 8403817746
24. Sneha Baruah -do- 863869165
25. Geetashree Saikia -do- 8638171330
26. Dipali Bora -do- 9859914114
27. Mr. Biswadeep Gogoi Assistant Professor 9508201485
28. Mr. Bikash Sharma Assistant Professor 7002272546
D.R. College, Golaghat
29. Dimple Borpuzari BSc 6th Semester 7577939156
30. Archita Handique -do- 8876556020
31. Trinayana Kalita -do- 9577292422
32. Rashmi Rekha Nath -do- 9954356490
33. Pompi Sinha BSc 4th Semester 8812023158
34. Himashri Das -do- 9101268041
35. Priti Talukdar -do- 7002824257
36. Shreya Sen -do- 8638807619
37. Neekita Urang -do- 7896606833
38. Martha Doley -do- 9706131631
39. Dr. Mridul Chetia
Asst. Professor, Deptt. Of Chemistry
9706585368
Bahona College, Jorhat
40. Barsha Baruah BA 6th Semester 8812901018
41. Disha Hazarika -do- 9706332409
42. Disha Das -do- 8134818703
43. Sangeeta Goswami -do- 7577854852
44. Deepsikha Bhuyan -do- 9678821046
45. Jaba Sabar BSc 6th Semester 7896690965
46. Nayanika Dutta -do- 7576064311
47. Rajashree Borah BSc 4th Semester 8724896126
48. Priyanka Kahnikar BSc 6th Semester 9954857609
49. Anjelika Hatibaruah -do- 6001828378
50. Dr Sangeeta Das Teacher In-Charge 9864277287
51. Mrs Ilaxi Borah Teacher In-Charge -
Majuli College
52. Rimjim Saikia BA 8486820194
53. Appun Ngatey Gam -do- 7086859439
54. Sadhana Saikia -do- 9957572327
55. Bhabani Das -do- 7896052269
56. Monisha Chintey -do- 6900823663
57. Bipula Sarkar -do- 9954859555
58. Jinti Saikia BSc 7002770696
59. Minakshi Kalita -do- 9365155605
60. Purnima Hazarika BA 9954985389
61. Anannya Boruah Teacher In-Charge 9954503001
Jorhat Institute of Science & Technology
62. Anindita Mahanta MSc 2th Semester -
63. Jenny Nath -do- -
64. Pragya Priya Saikia -do- -
65. Prostuti Parashar -do- -
66. Gyanashree Konwar -do- -
67. Jahnobi Gogoi -do- -
68. Arshida Hussain -do- -
69. Konkona Devi -do- -
70. Kobita Koiri -do- -
71. Naznun Arakharom -do- -
72. Dr. Parasa Hazarika Teacher In-Charge 9127054290
Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya
73. Priyanka Bora BA 8638927469
74. Ria Saha -do- 8811823761
75. Pallavi Bhowmik -do- 8638816045
76. Lovleen Kaur -do- 7002968462
77. Panku Parashar Borah -do- 9365052545
78. Indrani Sarmah -do- 8473917542
79. Moushumi Saikia -do- No
80. Shilpa Bora -do- 8011134014
81. Jimpy Bhuyan -do- 7086116256
82. Sanjan Nath -do- 708624060
83. Rimpi Bora -do- 9101520028
84. Ms Ratnamoni Dutta Teacher In-Charge 9435248080
12:15-12:20 hrs Bio data Reading by Mrs Kongkona Gogoi
12:20-12:45 hrs “S&T interventions of CSIR-NEIST towards entrepreneurship development” by Dr Jatin Kalita, Head, RPBD, CSIR-NEIST
12:45 - 12:50 hrs Bio data Reading by Dr Supriya Saha
12:50 - 13:15 hrs “The pleasure of becoming an entrepreneur and the contentment of becoming one's own boss and providing employment” by the Shri Devanga Pallav Saikia
13:15 - 14:00 hrs Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 hrs Interactive Session
15:00 - 16:10 hrs Valedictory Session
16:10 - 16:20 hrs Vote of thanks
16:20 - 16:30 hrs Tea
17:00-17:30 hrs Special lecture by Dr(Mrs) Madhavi Sastry Topic : Effect of Water-Restructuring Mutations on Ligand Binding to Human Carbonic Anhydrase: A theoretical study
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