International Day of Endurance observed at Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar
Jalandhar: The students and teachers of Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar, observed ‘International Day of Endurance’ on the theme given by UNESCO that ‘tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human’. A drama was enacted by the would-be teachers to spread the message that the quality of being tolerant is very much essential for becoming a good teacher as ‘Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates – there will be movement without direction’ as quoted by KB Ghosh.
Dengue awareness drive
To make the students aware about anti-dengue measures, a team from Municipal Corporation led by Saroj Rani Kapoor along with team motivators Jyoti and Gurpreet Kaur visited the Eklavya School Model Town campus. They talked about the causes of dengue spread and how we can contain its spread. They urged the students to keep the surrounding spick and span to bring down the cases of dengue. They asked the students to clean all sorts of water containers at least twice a day to break the breeding cycle of dengue larvae.
Healthy munching activity
In winters to keep good health and immunity DIPS School, Tanda, pre-primary wing organised healthy munching activity. The purpose of this activity was to encourage students to adopt healthy eating habits. Students prepared healthy food along with their teachers in the activity cooking without fire. Teachers taught students the art of making salad with corn and sprouts fruit chat, sandwiches, juice etc dishes were prepared beautifully. They also discouraged junk food. Seasonal fruits and vegetables were used to prepare healthy dishes. Teachers mentioned about vitamins, nutrients, proteins etc present in these green vegetables which are beneficial for health.
KMV shines in Zonal Youth Festival
Kanya Maha Vidyalaya once again proved its excellence by lifting overall second runner up trophy in Zonal Youth Festival organised by Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Like every year, this year too the students displayed their talent and bagged first position in quiz, debate and elocution competition in the Youth Festival. Along with the top position, KMVites also bagged the second position in group dance, phulkari, poster-making, clay modelling and on-the-spot painting competition. In giddha, rangoli, fancy dress, collage and classical instrumental (non-percussion) competitions, KMV bagged the third position respectively.
Homage to Mahatma Hans Raj
Sanskrit Department and Vedic Adhyan Society organised an extension lecture to pay homage to Mahatma Hans Raj on his Nirwan Diwas at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya under the guidance of Principle Prof Ajay Sareen. Principal Dr. Ajay Sareen, Dean Vedic Adhyan Society Mamta and Head of Sanskrit Department Dr Meenu Talwar extended a green welcome to the speaker Acharya Jayendra from Gurukul Noida. Principal Dr Ajay Sareen paid homage to the pious soul by saying that the institution stands firmly and proudly for the ideals preached by Mahatma Hans Raj after whom it is named.
Seminar on DST schemes
GNA University Research Division organised a seminar on “Scientific DST Project Schemes and Writing Skills” by two renowned senior scientists of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi. The main objective behind organising the seminar was to promote the research and project writing skills amongst the teachers by providing information on various project funding schemes and essentials for effective communication. Dr Rashmi Sharma, Scientist F, DST, New Delhi, delivered lecture on ‘Opportunities in Science & Technology’. In her lecture, Dr Rashmi acquainted the faculty about the components of DST and various scholarship schemes provided by DST like Inspire Scheme, SRG (Start Up Research Grant), NPDF (National Post-Doctoral Fellowship), SYST (Scheme for young scientists & Technologist), SERB, International S& T cooperation, Women friendly initiatives of DST and many more.
DAV Prof gets global ranking
DAV University faculty Dr Keshav Walia has made the institution proud by bagging the place in world’s top 2% scientists 2021. The list for the current year scientists has been published by Stanford University. He is working in the Department of Physics whose research area has been Laser Plasma Interaction. Top scientists’ names were shortlisted by Stanford experts on the basis of standardised parametres such as publications, journal impact, citations and composite score. He has an overall rank of 1,045 worldwide in the field of optics. Over 2,000 Indian scientists made it to the list.
Student Council elected
The members of the student council for the academic session 2021-2022 were conferred with badges by Dr Navjot, Principal, Lyallpur Khalsa College for Women, Jalandhar. Priya Chopra was pinned with the badge of president. The badge for Head Girl was given to Nisha and for Co-Head girl, the badge was given to Harsharan Kaur Maini. Class Representatives from different streams were also honoured with the badges. Principal Dr Navjot congratulated the newly formed student council and urged them to perform their duties with utmost dedication and sincerity. She also added that by becoming the members of the student council, the students will be able to enhance their leadership skills, decision making ability, confidence etc. The Student Council was formed under the guidance of Kiranjit Bajwa, Incharge, Student Welfare Committee of the college. TNS
