Jamia Hamdard celebrates International Women’s Day with Delhi Police

Jamia Hamdard celebrated Women’s Day with a session themed ‘Women security in the Digital Age' in collaboration with the Delhi Police’.

Jamia Hamdard celebrated Women’s Day with a session themed ‘Women security in the Digital Age' in collaboration with the Delhi Police’. The event was held on campus with both online and offline participation. The event was celebrated to show solidarity with the global concept of gender equality and equity. The global theme of the event was 'Choose to Challenge'. The theme was selected to make awareness about the need for alertness among individuals and that one should be responsible for their own thoughts and actions and call out gender bias and inequity. The prime objective was to make aware the Jamia Hamdard teachers, staff, and the students about cybercrimes and how one can take up as a challenge not to be a victim of cybercrime and use of ICT and social media safely. The event was presided over by the Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Hamdard, Prof M.A Jafri. Compering of the function was done by Dr Nishat Quddus, Assistant Proctor Jamia Hamdard. The Chief Guest was Parvinder Singh (IPS), Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, South District and the invited speakers were Akhileshwar Swaroop Yadav, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chandra Kanta, (IPS), Assistant Commissioner of Police and R.K.Meena, SHO, Tigri Police Station. The Dean Students Welfare, Prof Reshma Nasreen welcomed the chief guest, invited speakers, and the august gathering. R.K.Meena, S.H.O spoke on the topic” Citizen services on Mobile Apps. He spoke about the various apps launched by the government to offer essential police safety services to the citizens, like the address of the nearest police station and its staff. He further explained the objective of this service which aims to provide a smooth interface between the citizens and the police. His talk educated the audience about the various apps which have been made available online by the police for safety. This would be certainly useful to us today and in the future.Akhileshwar Swaroop Yadav in his speech spoke about “Security and Safety of Women” and urged people to be alert while in traffic and use mobile phones carefully and minimally during that time.