The Dept of Social Work, Pondicherry University and Project Puthri organized a One day Career Visioning event “Udyog Utsav, 2023” (Seventh Edition) for underprivileged Girl Children studying in Government Schools of Puducherry. The programme was organized at the Auditorium, Convention Cum Cultural Centre, Pondicherry University. The Welcome Address was delivered by Dr. K. Anbu, Head (i/c), Dept of Social Work where he formally welcomed the dignitaries and thanked the Vice Chancellor Prof Gurmeet Singh for gracing the occasion and Dr. Saundarya Rajesh, Managing Trustee, Avtar Human Capital Trust for collaborating with the Dept. He thanked the Programme Coordinator Prof. A. Shahin Sultana for coordinating this programme and all faculty, all participants for gracing the occasion.

 

Dr. Saundarya Rajesh delivered the Opening remarks by thanking the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor for supporting the event and gracing the event with his presence, then explained the objectives of the programme and thanked the Dept, Program Coordinator, the schools, teachers, children and all the collaborators for this event. Prof Gurmeet Singh appreciated the Dept of Social Work and Puthri for coming together and coordinating such an event. He emphasized the importance of the Mother tongue and how learning in the mother tongue has many advantages and appreciated the programme for attending to the needs of the school children and in addition the girl children which is very pivotal at this juncture. He thanked both the event organisers and expected that more such events would come in the near future and assured full support to such events. He appreciated the way the programme is being coordinated with more than 300 school children from government schools in Puducherry.

 

Then the Educational Institutions were honoured for their commendable support and achievements followed by awarding the Puthris with scholarships. This was followed by the concluding remarks by the Program Coordinator Prof A. Shahin Sultana, Professor, Dept. of Social Work who explained how this programme was worked out with Puthri team and the Dept of Social Work and how the career visioning for the school children was necessary at this juncture and how resource persons were brought in from different streams to create awareness for the schoolgirls. She thanked the Dept, Puthri, the delegates and participants and schools for being a part of this programme. With this, the Inaugural Programme came to end. The Sessions were then rolled out to action by the resource persons accordingly. The programme was successfully concluded.

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