Hyderabad: She M Power, a full day Women’s Conclave and Awards 2020 function held here at HICC today. Dr Tessy Thomas, Director General of Aeronautical Systems, DRDO, who was the chief guest, inaugurated the conclave.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Tessy Thomas hailed the SCSC for conceiving the conclave and conducting it for the past 33years. Though women are 50% in the population, but, unfortunately they hold just 1% of the world’s property. Women perform far better than their male counterparts. Men and women must be equal partners both at work and home, she added. She hailed Swati Lakra, IG (Law & Order) and Incharge, Women Safety Wing, Telangana for punishing offenders, violators of the law. “We need to correct the offenders and ensure change in their behaviour and mind set,” the Space Scientist added.
Sai Pallavi, film actress, said mothers should teach their boys to treat women on the street with respect and treat them as their lady family members at home. Pratyusha Sharma, SCSC joint secretary and Women’s Forum leader said the Conclave had fire side chats on interesting topics with esteemed speakers from Industry, achievers, motivators, IPS officers, media and film industry. The best practices followed on women safety were also shared by many organizsations, she added.
Krishna Yedula, SCSC general secretary, said the Cyberabad Police and the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) were jointly organizing the conclave. He said the SCSC is the joint collaboration between Cyberabad Police Commissionerate and IT industry to promote Hyderabad as the preferred IT destination. It has four verticals—Women’s Forum, Security, Traffic and Cyber Security Forum. The city has CCTV surveillance on par with the best in the country with over six lakh CCTVs already installed and working. He described the conclave as Festival for Women.
VC Sajjanar, Cyberabad Commissioner of Police and Chairman of SCSC, shared that SCSC is a unique organization. The city has over six lakh CCTVs, Surveillance TVs for effective surveillance mechanism. DCP Anasuya and Swati Lakra also spoke.
“She M Power Awards” were presented to Jagtial and Suryapet Districts and Nizamabad Commissionerate. She Teams were given away the awards. Gayatri Athreyan of Wipro; Shiva Kardi of Infosys; Giwthami of Cyient were recognised with awards as the Best Margadarshaks, Jitender Bahri of Intellect Design Arena; Anjanisatish Burla of Tata Consultancy were adjudged as the Best Male Ally Awardees and Ryan, Tata Consultancy Services were given away awards for Best Practices for women safety. Infosys, Raheja Corp, were chosen for Best Practices ICC(Internal Complaints Committee).
Commissioner’s Award was presented to Cognizant Technology Services, Hyderabad. Uma Sameera V of 3 AMIGOS Entertainment and Ajit Nair of TCS awarded for Best Short Films. “She Safe App” was unveiled at the Conclave. Bharani Aroll, Vice Chairman of SCSC introduced Shalini, Sripradha, Sumana Sunkara, Amit Mulay, Pallav and Mamta Vegunta who have contributed for the development of the App.
Later, Dr Seema Rao, India’s first Woman Commando Trainer said there was a warrior in every woman. Some 1,200 people, including police officials from two Telugu States participated.
Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary; Ms. Shailee Basnet, Mountaineer; SS Rajamouli, the Bahubali fame Director; Seema Rao, Women Commando Trainer; Deepa Karan; Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar, Secretary, TSWREIS; Dr. Ranajana Kumari, MD, Centre for Social Research; Suinita Krishnan, Social Activist; Prashanth Nadella, Vice President & Centre Head, Cognizant Hyderabad; Meghana Gundlapalli, Rhythmic Gymnast; Sailjaa Kiran, MD, Margadarsi Chit Funds among many others spoke at the Conclave.
