Department of Women's Studies - Achievements

Ongoing Project

1. RUSA “Financial Empowerment of Marginalized/Destitute Women in Coimbatore District”. 800 Marginalized and Destitute women are being trained in various entrepreneurial skills. The amount utilized till now is Rs.7, 75,000/-.

2. Management and Entrepreneurship/English Employability and Entrepreneurship” funded by UGC, sanctioned amount Rs. 25,00,000/

3. Skill  Development Programme on  “Event Management”  funded by UGC, New Delhi

4. Minor Project on  “Financing of MSMEs: Issues and Challenges – A study with Reference to Salem District of TamilNadu funded by ICSSR as Co Principal Investigator

5. Inter Country project in ERASMUS-EDU-2022-EMJM-DESIGN entitled “EMJM Rural areas and violence against women” with SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA University, Spain, University of Cape Verde, Cape Verde, CIESAS-Unidad Regional Sureste, Mexico, andUniversity Federal of Paraíba, Brazil

6. To conduct a survey of women population in selected area and create a directory of breast and cervical cancer patients

Completed Projects

• I innovative Project “Technology Inclusion for the Development of Small and Medium Scale Women Enterprises in Coimbatore”-April 2011. The sanctioned amount of the project Rs.1,00,000/- (UGC)

• Minor project “Implementation of Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention and Redressal) Act 2013” by Stake Holder of Coimbatore District – An Intervention Study. The Project was successfully completed. The outcome of the project 110 Institutions have initiated to Implementation of Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention and Redressal) Act 2013”. The amount sanctioned for the project Rs.4,47,000/-.

• Major Project “Women’s Contribution to Farm based Economies and Their access to Land Rights – A Study in Tamil Nadu”. The project is in 2^nd Stage. Ist installment of the project utilized Rs.11, 07,225/-. 

• “Screening and Create the Registry of Disease pattern in Tribal Communities and provide the Health Care Strategies, genetic Counseling and create the awareness to Tribal women Population in Tamil Nadu, India

• Gender Audit of Bharathiar University

• RUSA “Financial Empowerment of Marginalized/Destitute Women in Coimbatore District”. 547 Marginalized and Destitute women are being trained in various entrepreneurial skills. The amount utilized till now is Rs.7, 50,000/-.

• MoU with University of Santiago de compostela, Spain.

• Signing of Guelph MoU.

• Consultancy - Awareness Programme on POSH Act.

• As Empanelled by Ministry of Women and Child Development, New Delhi the Department has organized 42 awareness programme to the workers of the SCM Garments under consultancy service.

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

• State Institute of Rural Development     - SIRD                          
• REST (NGO) Rural Extension Service Trust        
• NMCT – Native Medicare Charitable Trust         
• Good Shepherd Health and Education Centre                        
• CEEMA – Centre for Educating and Empowering the Marginalized
• Aishwaryam NGO

The Department of Women’s Studies entered into an MOU with the Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore, with an understanding to undertake the following activities:

Exchange of faculties and students in the programmes conducted by the department of women’s studies, Bharathiar University and Nirmala College for women. Students field visit and internship programme.

Newsletter - December 2025