Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (DJJS) today organised an interactive workshop on gender equality at CCIT Institute here under its ongoing "Santulan" campaign against sex-selective abortions. The campaign was launched by the religious outfit, headed by Ashutosh Maharaj, on July 11 this year, in a bid to create mass awareness and sensitisation against the social menace.
The workshop primarily focused on cracking the discriminative behaviour against women, which in turn bred a diseased society, where boys were preferred over girls and female foeticide remained rampant.
Deepika Sehgal, a disciple of Ashutosh Maharaj, and the focal point of "Santulan" programme moderated the two-hour workshop, attended by teachers, other staff members of the institute, students and their parents. She undertook the "ice breaking" interactive quiz on gender sensitisation and a picture game on gender/sex difference to drive home her points.
A lecture on "Value-based grooming" by sadhvi Harimitra Bharti, another disciple of Ashutosh Maharaj, followed the interactive session at the workshop.
She said, “Identifying individual psychology and resultant mind sets as the primary driving forces for human actions and their repercussions on the state of women in our society, our campaign aims at instigating a positive social change on the issue of gender equality through the instrumentation of the eternal science of self realisation.”
Deepika said, the campaign, since its launch, had laid several benchmarks in creating awareness against the menace of sex-selective abortions. This included an interactive conference with experts of medicine and health, gender equality workshop with volunteers of the programme on the International Youth Day.
