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By Our Staff Reporter
KODAIKANAL, DEC. 10. Education is the single proven successful strategy for empowering women. Empowered women have an important role to play in empowering the less-fortunate among them, the director of the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, Adarsh Sharma, said yesterday. She was delivering the 14th annual convocation of the Mother Teresa University here. Dr. Sharma said though women achieved a lot and crossed many milestones, they still had a long way to go. She said in Indian culture and tradition, gender bias was entrenched. These traditions resulted in an inter-generational cycle of discrimination.
Multifaceted efforts
However, the last few decades witnessed multifaceted efforts for empowerment of women. Women also responded positively, combating the pressures of depleting resources, modernisation and inflation to seek a stable income, Dr. Sharma said. In Tamil Nadu the women's literacy rate was 65 per cent, 10 points higher than the national average. In Dindigul, it catapulted to 87 per cent. The Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, presided and distributed degree certificates to 2,245 students. The Vice-Chancellor, Anandavalli Mahadevan, said the university was acquiring 25 acres of land at Nilakottai to set up an entrepreneurship development cell exclusively for women. The University Grants Commission had sanctioned Rs. 1.44 crores for construction of buildings under the Tenth Plan and the State Government Rs. 51.76 lakhs as building grant for 2003-05. Mother Teresa University was one among four in the country selected for setting up the entrepreneurship development cell. Enrolment for the university's distance education courses had increased six times and its revenue four times. An internal quality assurance cell was established. The university library had been chosen by the UGC for automation. A programme of credit transfer with Madras University was in the offing. Ms. Mahadevan said building a campus was of a top priority. Laboratories needed to be strengthened and in schools special areas should be developed. The university, after 18 years, acquired 111.53 acres in two places — Attuvampatti and the rifle range — for expansion. For the first time, physical and biological sciences management courses were introduced.
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