The Department of Science and Technology (DST) celebrated International Women’s Day at its premises at Technology Bhavan, New Delhi on the theme “Invest in Women:  Accelerate Progress” and deliberated on the need of investing in ladies’s well being, schooling, and significance of making an environment that encourages ladies to place of their greatest.

Emphasizing the importance of empowering ladies each at dwelling and on the office, Joint Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) Ms. A. Dhanalakshmi underscored the necessity for concerted efforts to create an enabling setting the place ladies can thrive, contribute, and lead.

Professor Uma Kumar, Head, Department of Rheumatology, AIIMS, New Delhi spoke in regards to the significance of investing in ladies’s bodily, psychological and religious well being and pressured upon assist for analysis on autoimmune illnesses that may have an effect on the working capability of ladies.

Dr Vandana Singh, Head, WISE-KIRAN Division spoke about how DST’s schemes have helped and inspired ladies scientists and have performed a task within the speedy rise of ladies researchers and principal investigators within the nation.

Two technical classes delved into essential features of ladies’s well-being and the entrepreneurial journey of ladies in growing knowledge-based start-ups.

In the session specializing in the holistic well being of ladies, Gynaecologist Dr Aparna Sharma, and Cardiologist Dr. Shashi Mohan underlined the significance of specializing in the bodily and psychological well-being of ladies and sustaining work-life stability. They mentioned the challenges ladies face in balancing their skilled lives with private well-being and dwelt on prioritizing self-care and adopting wholesome life.

In the session on the position of ladies in startups, ladies entrepreneurs and business consultants shared their experiences, challenges, and success tales. The session underscored the immense potential of women-led start-ups in driving inclusive financial improvement and fostering a tradition of innovation.

The classes introduced collectively ladies from a variety of disciplines and helped them to study methods of navigating challenges from one another’s experiences.

A movie on “Nari Shakti at DST” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQgY2DFqcs was created and unveiled in the course of the occasion. Further, a poster on ladies’s participation in STEM throughout totally different divisions of DST was launched. In addition, a dental well being check-up camp was organized by Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS) within the DST premises for oral hygiene.