Generating Social Awareness through Extension activities
To develop a sense of belongingness to the society and generating awareness among students about issues those are faced by our society today.
Just like the environment, society today is also at the cross roads. Dwindling between a traditional mind set on one hand and vast exposure to the west on the other, the student today is striving to find his position. Various evils have cropped up in this time of turmoil and the society needs sensitive and open minded citizens to help it overcome them. The college is fully aware of its responsibility towards the society and has undertaken various efforts to help it.
The following practices have been adopted to fulfil the social responsibility of the college –
• Regular debates and group discussions on issues pertaining to society like women empowerment, gender sensitization, social inclusion, ethics, communal harmony, corruption etc.
• Importance of community service like cleaning of roads, gardens,
• organizing awareness drives about voter registration, blood donation, female infanticide etc by NSS volunteers and NCC cadets. Poster competitions, slogan writing, debates and skits about social issues during our cultural programmes.
• Regular monitoring of problems of students of all categories. Equal opportunity for all to participate in college events.
• Banning of the use of polythene. Declare No Smoke Zone.
• Increase in the number of girls in the institution.
• Increase in the number of reserved category and minority students.
• Organised one Webinar.
• Cadets of NCC participated in state level competitions.
• College tries to get affiliation for Post Graduate classes in two subjects under RUSA scheme.
• With the help of staff and students the problems seemed very small and insignificant
Generating Environmental Awareness To develop a responsible and environmentally conscious approach in our students.
Environmental consciousness is the need of the hour given the approaching dangers of climate change and environmental degradation.
Scientists and activists, the world over are working day and night to find out possible methods to fight their menace. We as academicians and parts of the society are also responsible for generation of environmental awareness among our students who are the torchbearers of tomorrow, the institution has taken up the issue seriously and devised certain practices for environmental protection and awareness.
Following practices are duly performed for the purpose-
• Students and staff have been instructed to switch off the lights and fans when the class-room is not in use.
• All traditional bulbs of the college have been replaced by CFLs and LED lights to reduce power consumption.
• All equipments used are energy efficient. College is equipped with solar panel of 8 KW for reduced electricity bill and to promote renewable energy.
• Garden based like twigs, leaves and flowers etc are composted and not burnt.
• Use of polythene has been minimized.
• Potted plants have been placed in the corridors to increase green cover.
• On line and soft copies of documents are used more and more to reduce the use of papers.
• Old paper waste is recycled and not burnt.
• Tree plantation drives are conducted each year to increase the green cover of the College. Environmental awareness lectures, programmes and activities are regularly organized by different departments of the college and Eco-restoration club.
A success is evident from the following results –
• Reduced electricity bills. Increased green cover of the college.
• Improvement in over-all ambience and environment of the college.
Following problems were encounter initially during the practice –
1. Apathy of staff and students towards electricity conservation.
2. Unwilling approach of the office staff to switch over from paper to electronic mode of working.
3. Scarcity of expertise in handling computer operations.
4. Ignorance towards environmental problems.
