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MANIPAL : This year is an important year for Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and Academy of General Education (AGE) as its Founder, Dr TMA Pai is one and the same. MAHE is celebrating its Silver Jubilee and Academy of General Education is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee this year. As a part of this celebration, MAHE is hosting a one-day International Women’s Day Conference on March 8, aimed at empowering women through the lens of education, leadership development and social justice. The theme of the conference is “Empowering Women to Positively Impact the World.”

This conference will be a perfect platform where every participant can gather the skill sets that will equip her to forge into the world by making it more inclusive and gender equal. The Conference will have renowned experts and will serve as a platform to identify promising pathways for inclusive growth and innovative partnerships to work on women empowerment. Behind every successful man is a woman. This celebration is to commemorate the remembrance of Late Mrs Sharada Madhava Pai (W/O Dr T M A Pai), who was the backbone to Dr TMA Pai, the Founder of MAHE & AGE in his success.

The celebrations will be led by Mrs Vasanti R Pai who firmly believes that there is a transition in the society regarding priority for a girl child in the family and positive attitude to help her for a bright future. For celebrating the spirit of womanhood, the theme for the day will be “Empowering Women to positively impact the World”.

During this programme, we are releasing a website for Team WomenMAHE, Manipal basically for opening a corpus fund to educate and cater to health needs of a girl child and also planning to have a separate endowment fund in memory of Late Mrs Sharada Madhava Pai for student research activities. Deputy Director General, ICMR, Division of Women and Child Health , Dr Anju Sinha, will be the Chief Guest for the inaugural session. Guest from various sectors like Ms Revathi Kasturi, Chief Executive, LAQSH Job skills Academy, Ms Prasanna Paniker, Ex- GM, Andhra Bank, Ms Shweta Pai, Vice – President Sales, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Mrs Shubhashini Vasanth, Founder, Vasanthakrishna foundation for Arts, Ms Prathiba Sudhir, CISCO, Business Operations and Partner Manager, Mr Allen Pereira, Retd. Chairman, Bank of Maharastra will be the participants at the celebration.

At the end of the day, Ms Savitha Shenoy, Corporate trainer on the topic “FEMPOWER” – will be conducting a workshop on motivation using NLP and fun for all the participants of the celebrations. To encourage Woman Empowerment, two big associations have come forward to support International women’s day i.e Syndicate Bank, Manipal and MEMG International (India) Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore. We are immensely grateful to them.