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SCHOLARSHIP
The quality and caliber of our students is also reflected in the
large number of scholarship holders in the college. We have 37
University merit/Vice-Chancellor scholars , 20 Medal /Prizes have
been awarded by the University, there are 12 National Talent Scholars,
37 College scholars, 38 State and other scholars. There are 39
SC/ST and visually challenged scholars and 64 have received the
Science Meritorious Awards, 34 students enjoyed Fee concession
and 38 students were given help from the Students Aid Fund.
Co-CURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES
English:
The
The English department organized weekly student seminars throughout the year, in which students presented papers on diverse subjects like Children’s Literature, Diasporic Literature and others. During the year there was guest lectures by Dr. Anindyo Roy of Colby College, USA, Professor Vijaya Venkatraman of Jamia Millia Islamia and Professor Sambuddha Sen of the Department of English, University of Delhi. The annual Literary and cultural festival KUDOS was organized and students also participated in cultural and literary festivals of other colleges. Paresh Chandra, B.A(Hons.) English, IInd year won the first prize and the second prize respectively in paper presentation contests, at Lady Shri Ram College and Indraprastha College for his paper “Harry Potter: Fantasy of Power, Real Lack of Magical Fulfillment".
Flare, the creative writing contest, which has been open to all students of Delhi University for the last two years, was this year extended to other universities of Delhi as well. The most exciting event is the publication of some of the best stories of past competitions as a book by Hindu College in collaboration with Shubhi Publications. A first of its kind, it was made possible with the help and encouragement of Ms. Sneh Thadani.
Economics
The Economics Department held talks by Professor Ramaa Vasidevan, Assistant Professor Colorado state University who spoke on the “Hegemony of the US Dollar” and Professor Anjan Mukherjee from JNU. The Annual Ranjan Roy Memorial Debate was also organized.
The highlight of the year was a two day ‘Teach-in’ on the 9th & 10th November, during which Professor Amit Bhaduri gave lectures on Macroeconomics with special reference to India’s recent growth and globalization. It was widely attended by students and teachers from Economics departments across the University. The All-India Economics students meet ‘L’economiste’ was held on 11th & 12th December, 2007 with Professor Jayati Ghosh as the Chief guest. It had inter-college competitive events like debates and paper presentations together with a panel discussion.
Commerce:
The six students cleared PE II (Inter Examination of Chartered Accountants) out of which 1 has secured All India rank 14th. Dhoop Mittal, a student of B.Com(H) IIIrd year received call from all the IIM’s.
Mathematics
‘Acuity’ the Mathematical Society organized a seminar on “Random Walks And Networks” by Prof. Rahul Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and its annual festival ‘ALPHA’ on 1st and 2nd November, 2008. Prof Rajendra Bhatia, ISI, Delhi gave the inaugural lecture on “What is infinity” and Professor Ajay Kumar, Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi spoke on “Fourier Series” on this occasion.
Statistics
The Department of Statistics successfully organized a two day festival “Kurtosis” on 29th and 30th November, 2007. Apart from the usual events like quiz and others there were academic talks by Professor Karmeshu, School of Computer and System Sciences, JNU, Dr. Cini Varghese of Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), Pusa, and Shri Vakul Sharma, Advocate Supreme Court. The most popular event was the first ever talk in Delhi University by Mr. Raghunath Madage, President- “Mumbai Dabbawalas”. He spoke to a packed audience.
Hindi Sahitaya Sabha
The inaugural function of Hindi Sahitaya Sabha was presided over by the veteran journalist-poet Shri Bal Sarup Rahi, an ex-student of the college. The Deepak Sinha Memorial Lecture chaired by the eminent scholar Dinesh Mishra, was delivered by the well known story writer Dr. Kamal Kumar who spoke on ‘Gender in Literature’. The four day Hindi Utsav ABHIDHA – 2008 was inaugurated by Munshi Prem Chand’s contemporary story writer Smt. Chandra Kiran Sonrexa. Other eminent speakers were Shri Kanti Chandra Sonrexa and Dr. Mamta Kalia. There were eight sessions in all where the main participating scholars were Dr. Divik Ramesh, Dr. Lalitya Lalit, Shri Vivek Gautam, Shri Harshvardhan Arya, Dr. Krishan Lal, Dr. Usha Krishan, Shri Rajiv Malik, Dr. Ravi Sharma, Shri D.P. Sinha, Dr. Mahesh Anand, Dr. Uma Pathak, Dr. P.C.Tandon and Dr. Ashok Chakradhar. The last session was Satire Recitation by the very well known Hindi Prose writers Dr. Hari Joshi, Shri Subhash Chander, Dr. Aloke Puranik, Shri Gobind Sharma, Shri Manohar Puri, Shri Kulvinder Kang and Dr. Harish Naval.
History
The Department has organized a historical tour to Dharamshala for understanding the Dalai Lama Centre and the Buddhist monastry.
Pol.Science
The Department of Political Science organized a two day national conference on “A hundred years of Gandhian Satyagraha” on 23rd and 24th of March, 2007 in which eminent scholars on Gandhi presented their papers. A Gandhian Study Circle was also formed. The Department’s two day annual festival ‘Polity’ on 22nd and 23rd November, 2007 had a Panel discussion on “Reservation and Politics in India” with panelists :Professor S.K. Chaube, Professor Pushpesh Pant, Dr. Kavita A.Sharma, Dr. Nivedita Menon and Dr. Amita Baviskar. The theme of the prestigious N.N. Agarwal Paper Presentation was “Development –Strategy in India”.
Philosophy :
It was indeed a very significant event that B.A Honours Course in Philosophy was introduced in Hindu College from the academic year 2007-2008.
Sociology
The Sociology Department began the year with a lecture on “Insurance and Pensions” - :A theoretical exegesis of an American story” by Fulbright Scholar Dr. Geeta Patel, Associate Professor at Wellesley College, USA. Later Safina Uberoi highly acclaimed documentary film maker screened her award winning film “My Mother India” followed by a discussion.
B.A(H) IIIrd year went on research field trip to KOTEDA Village in UDAIPUR, where students explored tribal socio-economic and cultural life; water harvesting programmes; the architectural history of the City Palace in Udaipur; and the impact of migration on women and children. The annual Sociology festival, RITES in November was inaugurated by Prof. T.N. Madan, who delivered a talk entitled, “Of Apples and Actors”. A day long Youth Meet (in collaboration with german media organization, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), India), on the theme – “Youth In Political Decision – Making”, was organized in which student participated as speakers from across Delhi University colleges, JNU and IIT. The meet was, later telecast on NDTV Metro Nation.
Sanskrit
The Department of Sanskrit organized a two week long course on “Conversational Sanskrit” in collaboration with Sanskrit Bharati. Professor Pushpendra Kumar, delivered inaugural lecture on “Relevance of Puranas in Modern Context”. Lectures were delivered by Dr. Patanjli Bhatia, Reader PGDAV College on “Phonetic Similarities in Sanskrit and Foreign Languages”; Professor Saroja Bhate, Former Head, Pune University and Professor Radhavallabh Tripathi, Head, Department of Sanskrit, Sagar University on “Job prospects in Sanskrit and Related Fields”, Dr. Jiyalal Kamboj lectured on “Vaidika Sabdartha Nirnaya” and Dr. Rajkumari Trikha, Reader in Maitrei College on “Philosophy of Banabhatta”.
Rishiraj Pathak, Renu, Ramesh Chander, Chandan Hazarika, Mohit Kumar, Parshuram Jha,Amit Jha and Vikas Tiwari won prizes in competitions held in various colleges. Talent awards were given to Pranveer, Praveen Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Vijay Prakash, Kapil, Sandeep, Jwala Prasad, Chandra Gupta, Devendra, Jag Narayana, Sampat, Rishiraj Pathak and Neeraj by Delhi Sanskrit Academy. The Academy also honoured the college for having the largest number of students in M.A. Examination.
Botany
Students of Botany Department went on an educational trip to Jageshwar and Chaukori (Uttaranchal, U.P.) to study the flora. They learnt of the importance of biodiversity during a field trip to Yamuna Biodiversity Park and also visited the National Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Blue Green Algae at IARI, Pusa, Delhi and Mahatma Gandhi Institute (Solar Energy) at Bakoli, Delhi. This apart, a one day Botanical festival (Inflorescence 2007-2008) was organized by the Botanical Society ‘Sanjeevani’ on 6th February, 2008. Students from various colleges participated in this colourful event.
Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry scored a significant first by jointly organizing an International workshop with Department of Chemistry, Delhi University and TERI from 7th -9th January, 2008. This Indo-US Workshop on Green Chemistry was attended nearly 200 delegates from 45 leading Academic Institutions in the field, 15 industries and various government agencies.
The Chemistry society ‘TATVA’ began its new academic session with a lecture by Professor S.C. Jain, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi who appraised the students on the recent trends in Chemistry and the available carrier options.
Physics
The Department of Physics took a significant step this year by establish a book bank consisting of around 300 books. The computer laboratory was also expanded to provide broadband and printing facilities.
The Physics Society ‘Eureka’ successfully organized a three day festival ‘Quarks 2007’ on the 6th, 7th and 8th of December. A combination of academic and popular events it was inaugurated by Dr. Savita M. Datta, Director of the Campus of Open Learning and Principal, Maitreyi College, Delhi University. The Guest of Honour was Prof. D.S. Kulshrestha, Head of the Department of Physics and Astrophysics. The launching of the Physics Magazine ‘Quarks 2007’ on this occasion was also a landmark event for the society. The highlight of the festival was a special discussion on “Nanotechnology and its Applications” by Professor S. Annapoorni and Dr. Vinay Gupta from the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Delhi University.
Inspiring lectures, seminars and career-counselling sessions wsere also organized together with a three day educational trip to Nainital. On Teacher’s Day, Dr. T.R. Sheshadri, Reader, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, delivered a lecture on “The Formation of Galaxies”. Professor Hema Sharda an alumnus of the department and now a Microelectronics Research Scholar at the University of Western Australia held a career counseling session, for the students.
Zoology
“Genesis”, the Zoology Society, organized its Annual Festival, “Metamorphosis” on 3rd and 4th December featuring many academic events like Paper Presentations, General Quiz and a lecture by Mr. Faiyaz, Scientist, Wazirabad Biodiversity Park. An educational excursion to the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa was conducted from 20th to 28th September. IInd year students visited the Solar Energy Research Centre, Gurgaon on 31st October where Dr. P.C. Pant, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy gave a lecture on The Relevance of Renewable Energy. The Final year students visited the Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, Patel Chest Institute in October where they studied the working of a Spirometer.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Masque
Masque, the English Dramatic Society with Bani Gill as President and Neha Jain as Vice President, chose an adaptation of ‘Party’ by Mahesh Elkunchwar as this year’s production. It was well received not only due to its stunning stage effect but also for its technical skill, having won best Director at Jesus and Marry College and best team at National Institute of Immunology. It was chosen to participate in the renowned ‘Old World Theatre Festival’ at India Habitat Centre and won prizes at Colleges like BITS Pilani, St. Stephens, Lady Shri Ram and Jesus and Marry college. It was also invited by the ‘Atelier’ theatre group to perform at the Shri Ram Centre.
IBTIDA (The Dramatics Society)
The annual stage production of Ibtida in 2007-08 was Girish Karnad’s ‘Hayavadana’ directed by Anuj Rawra under the guidance of Mr. P.C. Vernekar (NSD graduate 1979). The play talked about the imperfectness of the universe.
The street play ‘Kahan Jayenge Bhaiya’? written by Ankit Chadha was a tremendous success. With top awards in more than 6 colleges and guest performances at National School of Drama and Rajiv Chowk Metro station, the play raised the issue of displacement. The office bearers for the year were: Ankit Chadha, President, Ankur Sharma, Treasury and Communications Manager.
Abhirang
‘Abhirang’ the Hindi dramatic society conducted a number of inter-active sessions to discuss the different aspects of the Hindi theatre including a poetry recitation session ‘Aavriti’ focusing on voice modulation and dialogue delivery. It also staged ‘Premkatha Panchtantra Se’ directed by the eminent theatre personality Sh. Vageesh Kumar Singh to a packed house. A few members of ‘Abhirang’ also acted in Miranda House presentation ‘Gadar Ke Saaye mein’.
Vagmi
It was again a rewarding year for the ‘VAGMI’ the Hindi Debating Society of Hindu College under the Teacher-in-charge-ship , Dr. Bimlendu Tirthankar.
‘Vagmi’ organized a series of Parisamvad, subjects based on Ragging, Modern education and Society and Women empowerment.
Member speaker Rupesh Shukla of Hindi (Honours) IIIrd year was awarded the IInd best speaker in Jesus and Mery College. He won the Ist Prize in Laxmibai College, IIIrd prize in I.P. College and IInd prize in Satyawati College debates.
Aakanksha Jain, student of Botany (Honours) Ist year won Ist Prize in Lady Shri Ram College and IInd prize in Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College debates.
Mecca, one of the most awaited college festivals of Delhi University,
was organized from the 19th to the 21st December, 2005. Over 500
students from all over the country took part in the various competitions
such as Debate, Quiz, Choreography, Street Play, Indian Music
and others. The well known band from Pakistan – JAL as well
as the famous sufi rock star – RABBI SHERGILL performed
during the festival. The event was a major success due to the
persistent hard work of the Prime Minister Bhargav Goswami and
his team under the guidance of the ECA Committee.
Rupesh Shukla and Aakanksha Jain won IInd best team prize in Mata Sundri College debate. Tamanna Banga (M.A. Hindi) and Nidhhi Dewedi, B.A(Honours) Ist year won best Team prize in Satyawati College debate.
The Vagmi organized the annual debate. 30 speakers participated end spoke on Nandigram.
Debating Society
The Debating Society inducted 7 new members this year who performed excellently in various debates. The team of Dipankar Ghose and Parth Kanitkar won best team in the Fresher’s debate at Kirori Mal College. Dipankar Ghose also won best speaker in the Fresher’s debate at Hindu college and second best speaker at SRCC. Also, the team of Akanksha Saxena, Suchita Salwan and Dipankar Ghose came second at the Freshers’ Parliamentary Debate organized by SRCC. Parth Kanitkar won Best Speaker at Harmony – the St. Stephen’s college festival.
Senior debaters also performed exceedingly well with the team of Megha Sud, Abhinav Verma and Vinayak Uppal winning the best team at People’s Speak – the Parliamentary Debate organized by Sri Venkateswara College, where Dipankar Ghose won the best Adjudicator. Urvashi Sarkar and Utathya Chattopadhyay won best team in L.N. Birla debate at the Delhi stage and Utathya Chattopadhyay reached the finals of the National stage held in Kolkata. Also, both teams from Hindu College reached the semi finals of the prestigious Premchand Memorial Debate organized by the Debating Society. The team of Abhinav Verma and Vinayak Uppal came third.
The debate was won by Ramjas College and received widespread publicity through the media sponsors: The Times of India and NDTV Metro Nation, who even covered the finals live on National Television. The Culture Council, University of Delhi together with Hindu College Debating Society organized TANTRA, the extremely prestigious annual College Extempore debate. Also, the society organized a conventional debate in association with the Indian Parliamentarian’s Association and Culture Council of University of Delhi on the pressing issue of environment. It also organized the Ashok Priyadarshi Memorial Fresher’s Debate.
Vivre
Vivre, the Film and Photographic Society screened several films like ‘Born into Brothels’ which focused on the power of photography to change lives; a retrospective of the works of the renowned Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, including the movies “The White Balloon” and “Offside”.
Several movies like “The Adventure”, “The Read Desert” and “The Passenger” of the recently deceased Michelangelo Antonioni were screened as a tribute to him. Each of these was followed by a discussion and printed material pertaining to them was given to students.
In the second term, members showed movies of their choice in a ‘Show and Tell’ and led discussions on why the movies had impacted them. Some of the movies shown were ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘American History X’.
In the third term there was a back -to -back screening session called ‘Take 4’–showing ‘Paris Je t’ aime’, the extremely popular ‘Juno’, ‘Capturing the Friedman’s’ and the Woody Allen classic, ‘Annie hall’.
Alankar : The Indian Music Society
Alankar, the Indian Music Society began the year by “Dhwani” a musical extravaganza that flagged off the audition process.
Members participated in a number of intra and inter college competitions winning several prizes. Rudraksh, the Alankar band, bagged the 2nd prize in the Band competition in AIIMS. Swati Subramanian was among the top 5 finalists in Light Music Competitions and top 3 finalists in classical music competition at IIT Delhi. She also won the 2nd Prize in both solo classical and light music competition in Shri Venkateshwara college.
Arun Jaiswal (2007-08), an intra college music competition was held in memory of Shri Arun Jaiswal, an erstwhile student of Hindu College. Swati Subramanian and Soumyajit Roy, won in the female and male category respectively.
The society’s two day annual cultural music extravaganza, Harmony (2007-08 brought the year to the close with a series of inter college competitions and performances by ‘Rudrakash’, the ‘Alankar Band’ and the famous ‘Vedanta’ which has as its members, Shri Rajesh and Ritesh Prasanna. Swati Subramanian, won the 3rd prize in classical (solo) competition; Tanvi Kakati the 3rd prize in Light (solo) and Ayushman Baruah, the 3rd prize in Instrumental (solo) competition.
The Western Music Society
The Western Music society took a significant step with the is academic year a fairly significant for Western Music engagements as some key steps were taken such as the development of a western music choir and wider participation in competitions. Along with our alumni in Artists’ Unlimited (one of the premier performance choirs around the country) Rohit, Sachid and Mallika, helped set up a choir in our college for the very first time. Though the choir did not become a competitive troupe this year, with respect to starting a tradition for the years to come, this was an important development.
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Sachidananda Bista, Ankita and Rohit successfully gave solo performance at inter college competitions, ranging from IIT Delhi to Miranda House. With Shweta’s big voice and Frank’s country, lilt they helped establish Hindu College as a force to reckon with in the Western Music arena of universities.
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In the duet singing category, Milton and Gokul collectively called Team Thistle were successfully at competitions such as the Youth Nexus.
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The singing was accompanied by and indeed would not have been possible without help from some of the senior team members, Pintso, Vinayak and Rohit.
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Other success stories are
- Daimel from Second Year played drums for two nationally recognized bands – Hypnosis and Frequency.
- Abhishek, also from Second Year, has evolved into one of the most sought after base players, doing professional work as a session artist with big names like ‘Parikrama’ and ‘Advaita’ as well as gathering success with his band Frequency on Channel (V)’s ‘Launchpad’.
- Rohit, is often called upon to appear as a guest performer in many college fests.
- Vinayak from Third Year is on the verge of launching a career as a professional musician with his imminent solo commercial release.
- Nikhil has been initiated into writing jingles for commercials.
- Mallika, Rohit and Sachit sing for the hugely popular Artists’ Unlimited.
The year was finally topped off by the annual fest, ‘Arpeggio 2007’ as part of the college fest, Mecca. It had a competitive format and two competitions solo and duet were held, judged by a Berkely alumni. Sachit, from Hindu College won the second prize at the competition.
Srijya
The Choreography Society Srijya started the year with IIT Delhi, where it qualified for the final five. It also participated in inter-college competitions held by LSR, LIC, BITS Pillani, JMC, Sri Venkateshwara College, Hindustan Times, Youth Nexus, SRCC, Hansraj and Hindu college.
Nakshatra – Fashion Society
Nakshatra, the Fashion Society participated in a number of events and won several prizes. Saqib Saleem, one of the leading models bagged the title of (Best Male model) and also got a contract with Elite modeling agency and also won the same title at Lady Irwin College. The team won the 1st position and cash prize of Rs. 21,000/- at the Youth nexus. The last competition was in Hindu College itself during the annual Fest Mecca, where the Nakshatra members emerged as clear winners. Swati Vatsa, President and one of the leading female models of the society bagged the title of “Best Female Model” and won a contract with Elite Modeling Agency. She also won “Best Dressed model’ at Institute of Home Economics.
Manthan, Quiz Society
The academic year 2007-2008 saw highly enthusiastic response to quizzing in Hindu College. Kaustuv Gupta won several national level inter-collegiate quizzes in IIT Delhi, AIIMS, St. Stephens, DCE and other Delhi University Colleges. Sidhartha Kalita and Abhishek Das did Hindu proud by winning the MECCA Quiz 2007. A Hindu team represented by Mohit Rathi, Balu S. and Kaustuv reached the city finals of IMS quotient 2008.
‘EARTHLINGS’ – Wildlife Society
A new Society, Earthlings, was inaugurated this year with the enthusiastic support of the students of the Zoology Department and a number of students of various other Department of the College. Dr. P.K. Sinha was the Teacher-advisor. A number of activities were carried out during the year, which included the following :
1. Screening of David Attenborough’s Documentary – Planet Earth on 3rd August.
2. A lecture by Professor Raghupathy Kannan, Visiting Professor and Fulbright Fellow, GB Pant University on the ‘Ecology of Hornbills’ was held on 5th September, 2007.
3. Nature walk in the Northern ridge guided by eminent author and nature enthusiast Mr. Ranjit Lal held on 15th September.
4. A 2-day Wildlife Photography workshop by Mr. Abhishek Verma and Mr. Manish Dhariwal of ‘Delhi Bird Club’ including a trip to National Zoological Park, New Delhi held on 27th and 28th October.
5. Movie Screening – Happy Feet to create awareness importance of conservation in a fun manner was held in November.
Environment Society (Panchtatva)
This year started with Panchtatva the environment society organizing seminar on today’s most pressing problem – “GLOBAL WARMING” along with screening of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” a movie on the same subject. During election time Panchtatva took an active role in cleaning the campus of all the election pamphlets and then sending them to “RAGHUDEV VOCATIONAL CENTRE” for paper recycling.
In October Panchtatva organized a rally with the motive of encouraging students against crackers. Our young environmentalist along with Dr. Anuradha Sharma also went to discuss various Environmental issues with Professor P. Pardha Saradhi, Head, Department of Environmental Biology, Delhi University and his environment team who later delivered the inaugural address on “Pros and Cons of Genetically Modified Organisms” at the annual fest “ECOPLUS’.
SPORTS
The overall performance in Sports was commendable.
In Cricket four players from the College represented
Delhi University Cricket team which got the second position in
All India Inter University Championship, namely Ashok Punia, Abhishek
Kaushik, Mandeep Singh and Pradeep Mann. Abhishek Kaushik and
Mandeep Singh were also selected for Vizzy Trophy Cricket Championship.
Mayank Telhan, a first year student represented Delhi in Ranji
Trophy and also India in under 19 World Cup Cricket Tournament
being played at Sri Lanka.
In Swimming Tarun Saini got the 1st Position
in Inter College Diving Championship.
Tarun Saini & Jasbir Singh also represented Delhi University
in All India Inter University Swimming Championship where Tarun
Saini got the 1st Position in the Diving Championship.
Yasser Tanvir won the Gold Medal in Junior National Shooting Championship.
In Basketball Navdeep represented Delhi University
in the Basket Ball Team, and was also selected for the All India
Inter University Basket-Ball Tournament.
In Lawn Tennis Honey Rana, B.A(Programme) IInd year student represented
Delhi University in Lawn Tennis Team. In Foot Ball Yuvavir Kadyan
represented Delhi University in Foot-Ball Team
LIBRARY
The
total collection of the library is now 1,13804. A total of 1612
books of different departments were added during this session.
The library subscribes to sixteen dailies and fifty four journals/magazines
both Indian and foreign relating to different subjects. A separate
room is provided to visually handicapped students in the reserve
section of the library with computer facilities. This year the
library hosted a one day UGC Infonet seminar on Access to E-Journal
consortium for creating awareness among the Principals of the
colleges of Delhi University. The Library has started barcoding
books and 25000 volumes have been completed. This job is in progress
and will be completed by the coming session.
HOSTEL
The Hostel has always been an integral part of the college. This
year some major repair and renovation works were done in the Hostel
mess and the students also got some new furniture. Residents organized
many sports competitions and also participated in competitions
organized by other colleges.
N.S.S.
The N.S.S. Unit started the year with the recruitment of new members
followed by an interactive workshop to help them familiarize themselves
with each other. It started with the Pagdandi School Project for
the children of the slum area in Quadisia Ghat (near ISBT). A
paper recycling campaign was conducted during the college election
time. Some members worked with Pravah as volunteers and also attended
an “Exposure Trip”. At the end of November a two day
annual festival ‘Srishti’ was organized which included
a blood donation camp, a movie screening, a workshop with Pravah,
a quiz for blind students and a music performance by NGO’s
Kutumbh and Manzil. Members were also involved in inter college
N.S.S. activities.
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NCC
The NCC wing of the college with Caretaker Incharge Dr. Harinder
Kumar affiliated to Ist Delhi Unit has a sub company of 50 senior
Division cadets. The Cadets were trained in various activities
related to Navy like Swimming, Sailing, Scuba diving and others
throughout the year. The performance of cadets in 50 meters swimming
race and in Scuba diving was highly appreciated by Lieutenant
General M.C. Bhandari..
Cadet Meenakshi Chaudhary represented the college in the ‘NAUSAINIK
CAMP’ at Vishakhapatnam, the biggest NCC camp. Mamta Malik
was awarded the‘Camp Senior Certificate’ by Colonel
M.S. Mann. Cadets who deserve special mention are Madhu Sharma,
Om Prakash, Naresh, Sarita, Yeshpal, Hari Prasad, Munish Kumar
and Ajay Pannu. All the cadets got good ranks and best grades
in ‘B’ certificate examination 2005.
DISHA
Disha,the college placement cell under the guidance of Shri Chandrachur
Singh has been very active since the beginning of the session
right from setting up the help desk during the admission time
to organizing seminars and placement talks. Various companies
such as Google, Ernst and Young, Indiabulls, Dainik Bhaskar, Mckinsey,
Balaji Telefilms, Taj group of Hotels, Genpack, Hewitt Associates,
State Bank of India, Goetze, Watsons and others have visited the
campus. Many students have already received the final offers and
recruitment process is still going on for many companies. The
placement cell also organized seminars with the Indian Airforce
and Business institutions.
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