Report by the EC at

General Body Meeting of

Women’s Association of I.I.T. Kanpur

January 14, 2018

Faculty Club

Website of WA

Neeru Chhabra and Chitralekha

Revathy, Anjana, Anamika

Big thanks for IITK website team

Special thanks to Sudha Shukla who maintained the previous site

Nature of Activities July 16 till Dec 17

• Celebrations (Teej, Dandiya 17 & 18, Diwali 17 & 18, Holi)

• Cultural programmes (Jazba Jr)

• Children’s Book Club, readers activities • Walkathon and Health Talks • Painting exhibition & Poetry recitation • Holi Milan 2017 • Exhibitions & Sales • Go Green Club- plantation, flower show, Green

Ambassadors • Fancy Dress Competition

Physical Progress 1 General Body Meeting 9 July 16 Nearly 55 members, Fac Club

2 Plantation Drive 30 July 16 Behind Petrol Pump

3 Jazba Junior 6 Aug 16 Audi, more than 120 kids participated, 30 members

4 Teej Celebration 20 Aug 16 Organised at Directors lawn, 90 members

5 Health Talk 1 Sep 16 Dr Shubha Agarwal, Outreach, nearly 80 participants

6 Poetry & Painting 24 Sep 16 6 members of WA presented

7 Dandiya 8 Oct 16 Nearly 100 people, Fac Club lawn

8 Diwali Mela 2016 24-25 Oct 16 Community Centre II, estimated foot print 500 pd

9 Painting Exh: Radha Harish 13-14 Nov 16 More than 200 visitors, and 50 children

10 Happy Feet: Walkathon 20 Nov 16 Fac Club, Nearly 100 participants

11 Voter Awareness Week 19 Feb 17 Social media

12 Flower Show 25-26 Feb 17 Nursery, huge crowd exceeding 600

13 Talk on Stray Dogs 26 Feb 16 Dr Neelima Deshpande

14 Holi Milan 19 Mar 17 Security Office, more than 25 members

15 Health Talk (Accu-pressure) 31 March 17 Dr Satyendra Kumar Upadhyay

16 Workshop – Go Green 3 July 2017 Composting methods, tailoring tote bags by Radha

17 Dandiya 2016 22 Sept 17 In the Ashiyana, with choreographed dance performance

18 Diwali Mela 2017 14-15 Oct 2017 Nearly 40 stalls and foot print nearly 1200

19 Fancy Dress Competition 19 Nov 2017

Financial Progress

Collections

ITEMS AMOUNT (in Rs)

Activity 88100

Holi Milan 6000

Exhibitions 30000

Memberships 123200

Diwali Mela 241691

Bank Interest 4658

Activity charges receivables 3000

Go Green Receivables from IWD 20000

Interest on FDs 7168

CBC collections 21275

Total 545092

Financial Progress….

Expenditure & Profit

ITEMS AMOUNT (in Rs)

Expenditure

Incurred by WA 254479.2

Incurred by CBC 13002.75

Profit 277610.1

Activity

17%

Holi Milan

1%

Exhibitions

5%

Memberships

23%

Diwali Mela

44%

Bank Interest

1%

Go Green

4% CBC

4%

FD interest

1%

Share of Collections

Diwali Mela 2017 & 2018 were fund raising events, committed for charity.

The profits (75%) committed for charity: - Opportunity School Go Green Fund (Rs 150000/-) - CBC and WA Book Club (Rs 50000/-)

Funds Flow 12.1.2018

Opening balance on 1.5.16 (in Rs) Balance

bank 4171.00

cash 11964.00 16135.00

Profit for 1.5.16-31.12.17 277610.09 293745.09

Receivables Total

Kathak (Dec) 1000.00 1000.00

Chess (Dec) 1000.00 1000.00

Calligraphy ( Dec) 1000.00 1000.00

Go Green IWD 20000.00 20000.00

CBC 8272.25 8272.25

Interest on FD 7168.00

Bank balance 210513.00

Cash in hand 44791.84 293745.09

Donation to Opportunity School Go Green Fund 150000.00

Donation to Library Working Committee 50000.00

Balance 93745.09

Major achievements • Expanded the membership to include all women on campus,

increased membership of faculty, staff and their spouses, and student spouses (Membership collection went up 75.2% in 2017)

• Strived to develop entrepreneurship amongst women on and off campus (90% stalls in Diwali Mela 2017 were of women)

• Showcasing talents of members – Painting exhibition by Radha & campus kids registered more than 200

visitors

– Anamika’s puppet stories & Vandana Singh’s story telling sessions

– Artists (Shiroli Anand, Vandana, Bani Dheer)

– Poetess (Anjana, Suparna, Shikha and others)

• New members came forward for organising events & activities (ex Fancy Dress Show by Gauri and Chaithra)

• Provided platform to campus kids to perform: – Jazba Jr (120 participants)

– Chess championship (15 participants)

Major achievements… • New events:

– Walkathon: a fitness walk with more than 100 participants

– Health Talk with the Health Centre & Students (gynecologist)

– General interest talks (handling stray dog, accu pressure)

– Holi with the Security Jawans

• Activities in the Faculty Club

– Bridge (every Saturday evening)

– Calligraphy & Chess activities were promoted amongst young ones through organizing competitions

• Brought in social organizations (Eezy Naukari, Roti Bank, Parivartan, organic farmers coop, Spastics Centre, Kiran Village)

Major achievements…. • Infrastructure – renovation of 2 rooms of Faculty

Club, painting & lighting of faculty club, laying of badminton court

• Streamlined Activities at Faculty Club (bookings, registration, payments) making it easy & transparent

• Step-by-Step guide on how to conduct big events- Jazba and Diwali Mela

• Documented the guidelines for smooth functioning of WA

• Website contains information including archives

CBC • Children Book Club (CBC) 2nd April 2017 • Enthusiastic response of kids and parents • Rapidly growing membership (75+ ) • Monthly activities • CBC Journal online version • Volunteering by parents and senior kids

Go Green Initiatives

• Plantation drive (July 2017)

• Green Ambassador quizzes & activities

• Promoting cloth bags (tailoring class, old clothes collection, supplies to shop keepers)

• Composting Workshop with Green Cell

• Represented in the IITK Solid Waste Committee

Jazba Junior by Faculty Club & Women’s Association

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Event Coordinator DANCE

Event Coordinator FOLK SONG

Event Coordinator FANCY DRESS

Event Coordinator STAGE

DECORATION

Event Coordinator SKIT

Event Coordinator COMPERING

Our Request to Director IITK to recognise women on campus dt 10 Feb 17

• I- Cards to spouses (similar to the Health Centre card). This will make us eligible to enter Antragini Gate without needing to take our spouses ID cards

• Limited permit to use the Central Library facility (time & days of the year could be restricted based on the academic calendar)

• Email Id’s with iitk alias so that all women on campus could be reached in one Go. There are several notices like power cut and/or cultural programme that should reach women residents directly.

• Representation of campus women in relevant user committees such as health centre, nursery, women cell, space committee, school management committees of Campus School, Opportunity School, Kislaya and Snehan etc. The WA Executive should be asked to nominate members to various committees.

Who made it happen

• Patrons – Mrs S Manna and Mrs Rachna Agarwal

• Director IITK (computer for CBC, email to members)

• Solid Waste Committee

• Faculty Club team

• Timely delivery by IWD staff

• Partnerships with Health C, Nursery, Green Cell

• Active volunteers – Website team, Anjani Dube, Saurabh Bajpai, Bhawna Harish, Shara ……

Special thanks for • Neeru , Chitralekha and Revathy for website development • Anjana, Jayashree, Sujata & Anamika, Vandana & Prachi, Ratna & Amrita for CBC • Neeru, Neeta, Anamika and Vandana Bahuguna for ‘Go Green’ • Shruti Sakshi Priya Vatsala Nalini for fund raising through Diwali Mela • Gauri Sharma and Chaithra for Fancy Dress Competition • Geeta & Vatsala for Teej celebrations • Sakshi and Veena Bansal for Health Talk • Anjali, Indira, Vandana and Sakshi for Voter awareness • Reema, Neeta, Chandana, Anju , Neelam, Prerna, Sujata and many more for Walkathon • Nalini Mittal & Sujata for Flower Show • Mangai, Sujata and Savita for beautiful decoration work • Radha Harish for all the artwork • Renu, Anamika, Nirmala, Sweta, Savita, Amrita, Shilpi, Saumya, Lipika, Anjana, Shikha,

Akhila, Vimla, Nalini, Rajitha, and Richa for Jazba Jr • Bhakti and Faculty Club members for making Bridge Club active • Support of Kiran Biswas, Shubha Karnick, Karuna Sharma, Anubha Goel, Shilpi Kayastha,

Nidhu Gupta, and Vidhu Shekhar deeply acknowledged • Friends to bear with my demands – Vatsala, Priya, Neeru, Aprajita, Shruti, Sakshi, Neeta

and Vandana Bahuguna

Enthusiastic Patron & EC members

• Guhapriya • Vatsala • Jayshree • Neeru • Nalini • Geeta • Aprajita • Rohini • Anjana • Shruti

Unfinished agenda

• Sanjha Chullah

• Picnics

• Cinemas and Musical nights at Fac Club

• Farewell & Welcome parties

• Kitchen Queen competition

• Developmental workshops

• Shops for members, encouraging first time entrepreneurs

Issues Members Need to Ponder

• FB policy – adv and posts by non members

• Membership payment online

• Logo

Thank You