Introduction

Vision

To provide a gender neutral and sexual harassment free environment to all women stakeholder of the university and empowering them to realize their potential and strive for equal opportunities.

Mission

To create gender neutral environment in and around the University
To provide an equitable opportunities to empower women stakeholders of the university.
To aware about women’s right and promoting general wellbeing of women students, teaching and non-teaching staff.
To groom the women to face all the challenges of life with dignity
To enlighten the women students and employees about their legal right

Women cell (WC) was constituted by the Honorable Vice Chancellor on May 12, 2025, which was reconstituted on May 12, 2025and recently reconstituted in June, 2022. WC is committed for upholding the dignity of all women members of the University (faculty, staff and student) by creating an educational environment free from gender bias and sexual harassment, unlawful persecution, discrimination of any kind and working grievance.

Objectives

The primary mission of Women cell of Guru Jambheshwar University Moradabad is to provide guidelines for protection from gender bias and basic right to work with dignity and to handle related complaints received or referred to the cell. Cell is an educational resource as well as a complaint centre for the members of the faculty, staff and students of the University. Its objectives are

To create a gender sensitive work environment in Guru Jambheshwar University Moradabad.
To promote gender equality in University campus.
Prevention of sexual harassment in University campus.
To fulfil the directive of the Honourable Supreme Court of India enjoining all employees to develop and implement a policy against sexual harassment of women at work place.
To promote a social, physical and psychological environment that will raise awareness about and deter acts of sexual harassment of women
To disseminate knowledge about rights and laws related to women.
To make them realize the moral human values in the society
To enhance self-esteem and self-confidence of women students, faculty and staff
To conduct gender audit/safety audit on regular basis

Secondary Objectives

To help girl students to change their mindset and attitudes towards life in terms of women.
To organize lectures on the topics of career shaping and how to better prepare for examination i.e. smart studies.
To make students aware of the different problems of the society in general and issues related to women.
To organize debates, speech and essay competitions for students.
To encouraging girl students for active participating in sports.

The Women Cell seeks to achieve these objectives/goals through

Dissemination of information : through production, distribution and circulation of printed materials, posters and handouts.
Awareness workshops : about sexual harassment for faculty, non-teaching and students. The aim is to develop non-threatening and non-intimidating atmosphere of learning.
Counseling : Confidential counseling service is an important service as it provides a safe space to speak about the incident and how it has affected the victim because sexual harassment cases are rarely reported and is a sensitive issue.

The women’s Cell shall be constituted as under

A Chairperson to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst senior women employees not below the rank of a Associate Professor or Deputy Registrar.
Dean, Students’ Welfare as Ex-Officio member.
Minimum two women representing the teaching community to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.
Two women belonging to the nonteaching community to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.
Any other member(s) to be co-opted by the Cell as and when necessary with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor.

Women Cell constantly works towards establishing safe and secure atmosphere in the University for girls and regularly organized gender sensitization workshops/seminar/awareness programs in the past academic years where the faculty, staff and students are invited to participate.
To spread the importance and ways for women empowerment and gender equality various talks, workshops and events will be organized. These programmes will also provide a platform to female students to understand their unexplored skills and talents.