Gender and Development

Bharathidasan University Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Career Hub (BECH-RUSA 2.0) launched One-week online course on "Gender and Development" from 8^th June 2020 to 15^th June 2020 by Dr. Mariya Reimondez, Gender & Development Expert, Independent Researcher & Writer, Galicia Vigo, Spain on 08.06.2020, by Dr. V. Geetha, Researcher, Feminist Writer & Translator, Chennai, on 09.06.2020, by Dr. Prasanna Venkatesan N, Financial Analyst, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Washington DC & Dr. Meera Velayutham, President IAWS, Policy Analyst & Independent Researcher, Formerly with CDS Trivandrum, Kerala on 11.06.2020, by Prof. Venkatesh B Athreya, Former Professor & Head, Dept. of Economics, BDU, Adjunct Prof. RGNYD on 12.06.2020 & by Prof. Ishita Mukhopadhyay, Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta, Kolkatta & Treasurer IAWS on 13.06.2020 . The online course received an overwhelming response in terms of the number of registrations. The healthy trend of registrations is that students, research scholars and faculty members across various disciples have registered for the course. The total number of registrations stood at 488. The lecture videos of the course have been hosted in BECH-RUSA 2.0's website (www.bechrusa.in ) and can be viewed by the registered candidates. An online test (MCQ based) was conducted on 16^th June 2020 and 487 successful candidates were issued E-certificates and the successful candidates will be issued e-certificates.