BEST PRACTICES ACHIEVEMENT AND CORE VALUES

Best Practice – 1. Environmental Awareness

Objectives of the practice

To sensitize the students and staff towards environmental consciousness, Environment committee with NSS and NCC work with the motto “Save the nature to save the future, make safer environment for better tomorrow” .

   The main objectives of Environmental Awareness

• To create awareness about environmental conservation andactively involve students in environmental protection.
• To develop green , clean and beautiful campus that is situated in the urban central place
• To identify the various environmental issues and need to address them.
• To make greening an integral part of institutional development agenda.
• To adopt measures for waste management and adopt recycling.

Context 

All of us have a moral obligation to protect the environment and elevate the sustainable development of our planet for future generations. The degradation of environment is deteriorating the health and security of almost all the species on the earth. Thus, it becomes necessary that we take notice of the impact of our actions on the environment. In order to spread environmental awareness and protect the nature around us, we need to take certain measures and make efforts to undo some of the damage already caused by humans. Therefore, the college has initiated various environmental awareness and protection programmes.

The Practice

As part of our environmental awareness program the institution has conducted various activities such as 

• Solar lights in the campus are installed in the college. The college is proud of its energy saving practices. Besides producing approximately 2500 units of clean electricity every month by our solar panels,total 98 LED lights were installed across the campus. One LED light saves 68.16 units of electricity per session. 98 LED lights have saved us 6679.68 units of electricity in total during the session.
• Rainwater harvesting system installed in the main building.
• Recycling of wastewater from RO is used for watering plants.
• Compost pits and Vermicomposting units are functional in the college.
• There are four gardens in the college campus, one Botanical garden, and Herbal garden. These gardens are maintained by gardeners, NSS and NCC sudents .
• Campus trees have been labelled with botanical details.
• The Campus is beautifully landscaped. Environment committee with NSS and NCC plant various kinds of plants in and out of the campus on World Environment Day. A rich variety of flora and fauna predominates  the natural landscape of the campus.
• Restricted entry of vehicles in the campus
• Bird houses have been put up on some trees.
• Extension lectures related to environmental pollution, awareness, quiz competitions, etc. have been organised for awareness
• As a conventional practice, guests, resource persons and other visitors are presented potted plants as souvenirs.
• Conventional bulbs and tube lights have been replaced by LED lamps.
• In the college campus there is a complete ban on single use plastic in class rooms, labs, canteen in the institution’s premises and hostel.
• As an initiative to make our college campus completely smoke and tobacco free smoking and chewing of tobacco is strictly prohibited in the campus.
• In the campus the pedestrian –friendly pathways have been constructed for the smooth movement of the students and staff. These roads are maintained on regular basis.

Evidence of Success

The college has ensured the active participation of maximum number of students, staff and other social groups in the initiatives undertaken to protect the environment. To a large extent, it has successfully sensitized the participants towards the issues concerned with the conservation of environment and encouraged them to spread the message of saving the environment and natural resources.

Problems Encountered

Although the green initiative activities were conducted with a great success. The major challenge was posed by the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020-2021 which had adverse impact on the execution of important activities. Disposal of E-waste has been difficult since the institution has to follow State Government rules.

2.  ‘Unnayan’ - A Skill Development Initiative

Objectives of the Practice:

• Embracing the rapid technological advances and using them for educational purposes
• Providing exposure to our students for non-conventional, entrepreneurial career paths
• To learn the basic English skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary.
• To introduce the students with the know-how of fashion industry and also motivate them to pursue it as a career.
• To improve skills of various techniques of food preservation and marketing.
• To expose students to myriad government schemes and portals for employability and skill enhancement.

•  To organize presentations and interviews with successful start-up owners and entrepreneurs.
• To provide leadership in making non-academic contributions to community.

Context

The present century has posed a plethora of new challenges for the present generation of students. A completely new skill –set is the demand of the day. Computer efficiency, digital literacy, critical thinking, entrepreneurial skills, leadership quality are just a tip the iceberg. Being an all women college the institution feels even more responsible for promoting gender equity. Catering to mostly rural and semi-urban population of girls, the focus is always on providing maximum exposure to the students to market practices. 

The Practice

Programs organized by

Dept of English

Dept of Home Science

Placement and Entrepreneurship Cell

Dept of GPEM

The focus of the college is always on providing maximum exposure to the students to global practices. To this end, the Department of English organizes English play every year that provides an opportunity to the learners to get more engaged with the nuances of the language and culture. The Department of GPEM organizes a fashion workshop and exhibition every year that showcases all the garments prepared by students. It also allows for a sale of the garments and other textile products during the exhibition. This practice introduces the learners with the know-how of fashion industry and also motivates them to pursue it as a career. Department of Home Science organizes Food Preservation Workshop where students learn various techniques of preservation. Also, they learn how to market their products.

Placement Cell ensures arrangement of talks and lectures by District Employment Officer, local industrialists and entrepreneurs to widen the horizon of students.

The establishment of an Entrepreneurship Cell in the college has been an important step towards widening the horizon for our girl students. Apart from conventional career options, the cell works towards providing exposure to our students for non-conventional, entrepreneurial career paths. The cell had only one teacher mentoring them. Other than that, the regular day-to-day functioning was taken care of by a team of students providing them with an experience in leadership roles. The cell organized presentations and interviews with successful start-up owners and entrepreneurs. An interview with Mr. Manish Bhatia, MD of the MGB Group of Hotels, and two subsequent visits to his hotel The Lemon Tree helped the students understand the functional aspects of a hotel and restaurant. A workshop by Mr. Ankur Jain and Ms. Anjali Goyal, founders of the startup Secondcry.com gave the students an insider’s perspective about the challenges, and preparations required for a startup. Advertisement competition covering all mediums of marketing and advertising - radio, print and television - got our students wanting to learn more about this aspect of entrepreneurship.

Evidence of Success

Student’s employability skills are enhanced as they learn food preservation by experts in the field.Annual ‘Vastram’ exhibition – where students not only display dresses and other textile products designed and created by them, but also sell them for a profit – has enabled them to better understand the working of this industry.Annual English plays have boosted the confidence of our rural students who now feel more comfortable using the language.Informative talks by government officials and entrepreneurs have kept our students updated about government schemes for skills enhancement and employment opportunities.Entrepreneurship Cell enabled students to interact with entrepreneurs from different fields, who enlightened them about the challenges and opportunities of the same.

Problems encountered 

Students coming from rural background, often find it difficult to actively engage themselves in activities that require them to bring raw material on their own. Highly beneficial as they are, the workshops organized by GPEM and Home Science department become financially challenging for students to attend as a very meager sum is allotted for the same.

Since this is a government college, industrial visits by various departments suffer a setback owing to non-availability of conveyance allowance to students.

The onslaught of COVID-19 made it extremely challenging to provide a physical, offline exposure to entrepreneurial and employability initiatives.

Core Values