WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME  2001
The Government of India declared the year 2001 as Year For Women Empowerment. Series of welfare programmes were conducted all over for the benefit of the women.
PEACEFUL SOCIETY took the lead to commemorate the year as the Empowerment of Women in Goa and designed a 6 months intensive programme .
Peaceful Society launched the Women Empowerment Programme’01 on 28^th July’01at Peaceful Society premises in Madkai. The inauguration of the programme was done at the hands of Shri Ravi Naik, Deputy Chief Minister of Goa, The other invitees were MMC Chairperson Kamlini Painguinkar, Dr. Pramod Salgaonkar  Chairperson of Women’s Commission, Dr. Poornima Usgaonkar.

The Special features of this programme were conduction of  workshops on varied issues concerning the women in the society. Workshops were held on subjects like Law & Judiciary, Education, Health, Banking, Politics, Women Commission, Government Schemes,  Women & Literature, Entrepreneurship, Media & Theatre, Difficulties encountered in Marriages , Journalism.
Eminent personalities were invited to deliver talks, to share their views and opinions, with the woman folk. Women usually confine themselves to their houses , their life revolves around their husband and children , they are bound  by their household duties, meeting the expectations of their in-laws. As such it  becomes our  duty   to enlighten them on various developments and facilities meant for their betterment. A small working group  comprising of Mrs. Bharati Bandodkar, Dr. Poornima Usgaonkar, Mrs. Jyoti Kunkolicar  was constituted to design the programme.

Following 11 workshops were organised as part of Women Empowerment Year,

                                                  
 LAW AND JUDICIARY.

Sr. No.	Date	Subject	Resource Person/s
	28.07.2001	Law & Judiciary	Adv. Shubhalaxmi Nayak, Adv. Anuja Prabhudesai,
	11.08.2001	Banking	Ms. Pratima Dhond Ms. Amol Morajkar
		Health	Dr. Purnima N Usgaonkar Dr. Lalana Bakhale Ms. Manisha Naik
	22.09.2001	Women And Politics / Role of Women In Politics	Ms. Nirmala Sawant Prof. Prajal Sakhardande
	06.10.2001	Women’s Education	Ms. Sudha Amonkar MS. Suman Pednekar
	20.10.2001	Government Development Schemes for Women	Ms. Sandhya Kamat, Ms. Meena Goltekar. Mr. Ajit Panchwadkar
	06.11.2001	Women and Literature	Ms. Hema Nayak, Ms. Sita Kakokdkar Prof. Bhushan Bhave Prof. Prajal Sakhardande
	24.11.2001	Women and Theatre	Ms. Ujawala Tarcar, Ms. Jyoti Cuncoliencar Mr. Shridhar Kamat Bambolkar
	18.12.2001	Women Entrepreneurship	Ms. Shakuntala Parab Ms. Nisha Pandit
	19.03.2002	Women and Marriage	Ms. Mangala Sane Ms. Shanta Sadhale
	23.03.2002	Women’s Commission	Dr. Pramod Salgaonkar

The participants for the workshops were mostly women from Ponda Taluka.

Ms. Bharati Bandodkar did attended various such programme organised by the Govt. Of Goa as part of Year of women Empowerment.