The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has started a campaign to promote engineering among women students. Called ‘IAmPower’, the campaign comprises free coding workshops for women students across schools in 20 Indian cities. This campaign aims at showing women that pursuing a career in engineering, science and technology can be fun,” said Soumitra Chattopadhyay, events manager, TechFest 2016-17. At a seminar by College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan in Churchgate on women rights, students said that reservation for women across public modes of transport was abysmal. “Many women complained about being harassed by eve teasers on trains and feeling unsafe while travelling in other modes of public transport.

Source: Hindustan Times September 04, 2016 17:15 UTC