Lab opens under CERI

Jalandhar: CT Group of Institutions, South Campus, Shahpur, has launched Centre of Excellence for Research and Innovation (CERI). The first research lab under CERI was inaugurated by Chairman Charanjit Singh Channi, Managing Director Manbir Singh, Vice Chairman Harpreet Singh along with Campus Directors Dr GS Kalra and Dr Rahul Malhotra (Maqsudan) and Dean Academics Dr Anupamdeep Sharma. The CERI is established at the campus to facilitate all the students and faculty members to promote research culture, generate innovative ideas for research work and carry out project work under the mentorship of field experts and academicians. The whole idea is to create zeal among students to convert their project ideas to products and ultimately establish their startups. On the day of inauguration, the students and faculty members of different departments demonstrated their working prototype.

‘No to single use plastic’ staged

Under the guidance and supervision of Col Yogesh Bhardwaj, 8 Bn Punjab, the NCC cadets of Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara staged a street play named ‘No to Single Use Plastic’ in relation to the Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan. The cadets played different roles. The theme of the play was based on discontinuing the use of disposable plastic. The cadets pledged to discontinue the use of single use plastic in their lives. Dr Savinder Pal, the college Principal, appreciated the cadets on this occasion and further discussed the use of plastic and its impact on the environment. She urged the people to minimise the use of plastic in order to conserve the environment.

Workshop on machine learning

The department of information technology of Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus, Jalandhar organised an online workshop on “Machine Learning” for the students of BCA & MCA. Amit Kumar Singh was the resource person for machine learning technology who is a senior Python Corporate Consultant in Ducat Company. He discussed the future perspective of machine learning by major multinational companies around the world. He guided the students with the emerging platforms such as Jupyter with practical oriented knowledge. Over 100 students participated in the event and gained in depth knowledge of this domain. Sukhbir Singh Chatha, Director, Academic Affairs, put forth his views that machine learning is the need of the hour and congratulated the department for conducting such events. Dr SK Sood, Director, LKCTC appreciated the students and motivated them to work hard in their field to acquire excellence. Nidhi Chopra, HoD, IT, appreciated the synergy of the students as well as the efforts of the IT department for organising such workshops.

Online skill enhancement courses

Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar,will start online skill enhancement courses for the students of Class XII from May 3 to May 21. Principal Dr Neerja Dhingra shared that since Central government has put forth that the final examinations of 12th standard are not going to be scheduled before the month of June it would be a golden chance for those students to use their time productively and escalate their favourite skills through these courses which are absolutely free of cost. She added there are 15 courses out of which the students can choose. These classes will surely help them to choose the fields of their career as well tomorrow. The courses vary from dance, music, design, management to multimedia, fine arts, communication skills, computers, theatre and anchoring.

KMV organised Medical Camp

KMV organised a medical camp for Covid-19 test for all the staff members as per the government guidelines. A total of 110 staff members from the college gave their sample for the testing. The test conducted was the RT-PCR test. A team under the leadership of Dr Kamalpal Sidhu comprising of Dr Mukesh Kumar, Dr Daljit Kumar, Dr Renu, and Harbhajan conducted the test. All the guidelines and protocols of Covid-19 were properly followed during the test. Principal Prof Dr Atima Sharma Dwivedi averred that this camp was conducted in order to safeguard the health of the staff members. The students will be allowed to enter college premises after thermal scanning. The college premises have been sanitised and sanitisers have been placed at various places within the college campus. Principal lauded the efforts of the organising committee for successfully organising the camp. TNS