Campus notes: National Handloom Day observed at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya

Jalandhar: The Design Department of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya celebrated National Handloom Day by conducting a one-day handloom workshop for the students of design, fine arts and multimedia. Dr Rakhi Mehta, Head Design Department, was the resource person. She demonstrated the handloom operations and importance of handloom fabrics in our life. Various Handloom fabrics like Banaras Brocades, Khadi, Kanjivaram etc. were discussed in detail during the workshop. Principal Prof Ajay Sareen encouraged the students. She said that in our life we should give importance to handloom fabrics. Dr Seema Marwaha, Dean Academics, Dr Ashmeen Kaur, IQAC Coordinator, Dr Anjana Bhatia, Dean, Innovations, and Dr Neeru Bharti Sharma, Head Fine Arts Department, were present at the time of workshop.

Shubhita 1st in BJMC

Shubhita of Lyallpur Khalsa College Jalandhar has bagged the first position in the Guru Nanak Dev University exams of BA (Journalism & Mass Communication) Semester by getting 377 marks out of 450 whereas Anshu secured 5th position by getting 362 marks and Vikrant bagged 6th Position by getting 359 in the same class. This information was given in a press release by the Principal of the College Dr Gurpinder Singh Samra. The president of the college governing council Balbir Kaur congratulated the students and wished them success in life. Prof Manohar Singh, Head Department of Computer Science & IT, and Prof Himanshu were also present on the occasion.

Lovenya Sahni third in BVoc

Students of BVoc (E-Commerce and Digital Marketing) Semester III of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar brought laurels to the institution by securing various positions in the University. Lovenya Sahni bagged 3rd position in the university by securing 366 marks out of 425. Monika, Riya and Rushali stood 6th in the university by securing 358 marks. Varsha stood 8th by securing 350 marks, Jasmeet stood 9th with 347 marks and Ruchika stood 10th in the university by securing 345 marks. Principal Prof Dr Ajay Sareen congratulated faculty members and students for this achievement.

Freeships for meritorious students

Kanya Maha Vidyalaya has announced full freeship to students scoring 95% marks and above and students achieving top position in the university in any stream. Principal Dr Atima Sharma Dwivedi said, “The college offers an amount of Rs10,000 as scholarship to students scoring 90 to 94.9% marks, Rs6,000 to students obtaining 86 to 89.9% marks and Rs4,000 to students securing 80 to 85.9% marks. The students securing 1st position in the class receives Rs4,000 as scholarship,Rs2,000 is given to students securing 2nd position in the class. The college provides up to 100 per cent fee waiver for economically weaker students and further helps them by offering free books, free Internet facility, free remedial classes and free personality development programme, foundation programme, yoga, self defence classes, moral science programmes and student counselling facilities.

Teej celebrated

The festival of Teej was celebrated at Desh Bhagat Technical College, Hoshiarpur, with enthusiasm and traditional fervour. Setting the tone of the entire function, A glimpse of Punjabi Virsa (heritage) greeted everyone as an exhibition of folk art and cultural lifestyle organised. A lively cultural programme was held and swinging ropes in the college ground were decorated with flowers and delicacies. “Kheer Poora” were also served to add to the occasion. Ravinder Kaur was present as a special guest and she addressed everyone, saying that the festival highlights the importance of women in society. College Chairman Balwinder Singh, and Managing Director Jaspreet Singh congratulated everyone on this festival. He said in his speech that women are progressing in every field and are leading the world.

Pre-primary online activities

Tiny tots of Eklavya School have performed various online activities related to the academics. These activities helps in making the teaching learning process more interesting easier and creative to the students. By watching the real images of things like real leaves, parts of plant, real fruits and vegetables students will understand the concept deeply. They did sorting of grains, colouring in tree and ice cream, montessori activities like hopping, balancing and jumping. They did yoga and meditation also. They did theme activities like types of leaves, soluble /insoluble, types of plant. JK Gupta, chairman of Eklavya School, encouraged the children by saying that doing activities are good for enhancing their knowledge. The Director, Seema Handa, appreciated the efforts done by the students.

Skill development contest

CT Educational Society hosted a state-level skill competition 2021 on restaurant service, an initiative of National Skill Development Council (NSDC) and Punjab Skill Development Mission (PSDM). In this competition, seven participants from various organisations participated. They were given a variety of tasks to perform like napkin folding, silver service and identification of glasses. The three member jury namely Sahil Kashyap, Ankush and Rajeshwar Singh announced the top three winners. Aryadhya Rai of Lovely Professional University secured first position, Jaskin from CT Educational Society, Jalandhar, got second position and Hrithik Kataria from LPU secured third position. CT Group Managing Director Manbir Singh and Director Dr Yogesh Chhabra congratulated the winners for participating in this event. TNS