Campaign for Women’s Rights and Safety

The Department of Biotechnology and Biotechnology Association continued its campaign for women’s rights and safety by organizing a street play DASTAK (Voice against atrocities on women) by the students of the department of Biotechnology at the New Panvel Railway Station. Through the play students demanded that the government draw up a comprehensive plan to ensure women’s safety and that people react to such heinous crimes and also help victims who fall prey to such injustice. The play was Written, Directed and performed by the first and second year students of the B.Sc. Biotechnology stream. The play was based on the different threats faced by women in the country and was performed on the 24th January, 2014 it was a ten minutes play and stirred many emotions on the onlooker. The association is known and recognized for always taking up topics and themes that are off the beaten path and keep adding new elements to perceive and practice things.