The Women’s cell was started in accordance with the mission of Sant Hirdaram College to empower young women to grow as valuable assets of Global Society by providing them quality higher education enabling them to develop high intellectual level with spiritual cultural and ethical values. Women cell also seeks to empower young women to attain emotional, physical, and mental freedom to withstand the changing phases throughout their life. It functions with the added aim to enhance self-esteem and empowerment in students. It awakens the students to diversify academic canvas by including new job oriented market driven courses and try to make a balanced blend of knowledge and skills.

In response to the Vishaka judgment legal measures have also made their way into college and as per Sec 6 (2) of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, Redressal) Act, 2013 an Internal Complaints Committee was duly formed in the college to look into, and adjudicate matters relating to any kind of sexual harassment meted out to students or female employees in the institution.

Apart from providing a discussion forum, the cell organizing sessions on mental health, legal issues related to women and gender equality, fitness drives and several literary events to express the views of students. They team up with the internal complaints committee and provide a broader forum to the students. In a girls’ college, a WC, unknowingly, becomes the strength of all the girls and offers her different perspectives on gender issues.