6th edition of Azadi Amritmahotsav

Hisar: The speakathon club under the mentorship of training and placement cell, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, organised the sixth edition of ‘Azadi Amritmahotsav’ series in the form of “Online story telling competition” to commemorate the 75 years of India’s Iindependence. Students had to narrate the story or incident on any one of the two given freedom fighters “Desh Bandhu Chitranjan Das” and “Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay” with some special mention of message from that story in the present context. Pratap Singh Malik, director of the training and placement cell honoured the chief guest and NSS coordinator Dr Anil Kumar. He also mentioned that the death anniversary and birth anniversary of Desh Bandhu Chitranjan Das and Shri Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay fell on June 16 and June 27 this week, respectively. Students spoke enthusiastically and confidently about the stories and incidents related to life, struggles and sacrifices of Desh Bandhu Chitranjan Das and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Online extension lecture

Kurukshetra: An online extension lecture was organised by the department of home science, Indira Gandhi National College, Ladwa, on the topic “Adolescent nutrition”. Dr Shweta Saini, assistant professor, HoD, department of home science, Dayanand Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Kurukshetra, was the resource person of the programme. Showing her concern for the disorganised meal patterns of adolescents due to various social, environmental and psychological reasons, Dr Shweta emphasised on the importance of creating awareness on the value of nutrition among the youth. She said imbalanced diet patterns might lead to severe ailments in future such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and heart diseases. Awareness of nutrition in youth may help them change their food preferences on the basis of its nutritive value.

GJUST professor honoured

Hisar: Washington-based organisation Geology in Public Interest (GPI) has invited Professor R Baskar from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, to join the steering committee for the global network for Geoscience and Society. This network strengthens cooperation and actions that supports the global geoscience community. It provides an opportunity to partner with others to advance resilience and sustainability following the UN’ s sustainable development goals (SDGs). They will also associate Prof Baskar with issues concerning geoscience education. The GPI will promote awareness of geoscience among public. Prof Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor and Prof Avnesh Verma, registrar of the university, congratulated Prof Baskar for this achievement.

Tree plantation activity

Yamunanagar: Mukand Lal National College, Yamunanagar, organised a tree plantation activity, in which students of various streams participated with zeal and enthusiasm. Around 20 students planted saplings and shared it through their “geotag location”. Dr Neeti Daryal, HoD of self- finance department motivated and encouraged students by saying that they should participate in these types of activities for their overall development. Dr Rahul Khanna, officiating principal of college, said such activities played a very important role in the holistic development of participants.

Public speech competition

Yamunanagar: A national-level public speech competition was organised under the aegis of commerce department at Maharaja Agrasen College, Jagadhri. The main theme of this competition was screen free life. College principal Dr PK Bajpai said due to the Corona epidemic, every person had started using mobile, TV, laptop, but too much of everything was bad. Head of the department, Dr Seema Gupta presided over the programme. Programme organising secretary, Dr Rakhi said all participants presented their views on the subject.