The Inter College Women's Association has been working in the field of women's development and empowerment since 1987 and has achieved significant success in its various endeavours....

Our Aims & Objectives :

•  To bring about friendliness and solidarity among 15,000 and more staff and students of various women's colleges of Patna.
•  To work zealously and unitedly for various women's issues.
•  To be ever ready for action in cases of atrocities perpetrated on women.
•   To develop in young women students self-esteem, self-confidence, uprightness, and leadership through intercollege programmes of value clarification and intellectual and cultural activities.
•  To create increasing awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of our social milieu, especially with regard to women.
•  To reach out to and help the wider society of women and children.

The Beginnings :

In July 1987, two university women, Ruby and Ragini, were murdered by their husbands. The women`s colleges of Patna joined in protest against such atrocities. Patna Women`s College took the lead and a committee of teachers of three colleges was formed. They organized a march, in which hundreds of teachers and students of several women`s colleges and other institutions of Patna walked through rain and slush to register their protest. They carried on the agitation for some weeks, till the police had arrested both the husbands and had, in one case, changed what was declared a suicide case into a murder case.....