Enriching Students’ Commitment to the Society through Extension Activities
a) To provide students a platform to discharge their social responsibilities. b) To create awareness about social issues among students. c) To make them understand the importance of maintaining surrounding environment healthy and clean. d) To sensitize students towards equality of gender. e) To make students aware of the importance of health and hygiene. f) To inculcate the national spirit among students.
In this era of materialistic approach towards life, students seem to be absorbed in attaining their materialistic goals by any means hence; they seem to be neglecting their social responsibilities. To make the students aware of social issues viz. Environment conservation, Gender Equality, Disaster management and inculcation of national spirit, are confronting us with more severity. These issues can be attended to at family, immediate society and at the level of educational institutions in which they are studying. B. H. College, Howly feels it imperative to address some of these issues through creating awareness among students by involving them in extension activities. This may bring about a positive change in the attitude of students towards these social issues.
Blood Donation: Students are always ready to donate blood either to the needy patient or at any blood donation camp. The college have a Red Ribbon Club, which sensitises students toward volunteer social services. Sensitisation Drive The student groups visit old-age homes; chars’ areas; destitute/isolation wards and child cancer wards of hospitals periodically. Awareness Campaign: Students organise cancer awareness classes with the support of medical practitioners. Periodical health check-up for the detection of cancer and lifestyle diseases, eye diseases, hair donation campaigns, first aid classes etc., are also conducted. Community Services: Community services undertaken by the students include family health surveys, Socio-economic survey, and survey on water quality.
a) Students planted around 1000 plants during the last five years both in and off campus plantation drives. b) Students took imitative in measuring noise pollution level and taking necessary measures to minimize. c) Students are motivated not to use plastic.
a) At the outset students were reluctant to participate in blood donation camp, but they overcame this fear after counseling session. b) Initially students were uninterested to participate in extension activities which they thought to be of least importance in scoring marks. c) Initially, students hesitated to participate in Covid-19 awareness and prevention activities. d) Insufficient funds for making masks hindered the mass distribution of masks. e) Lack of proper legal provisions to procure chemicals required to make sanitizer prohibited college in the supply of sanitizer to needy populace. f) Green Campus initiatives are challenging, so they require determination and a long-term commitment from all the stakeholders. g) The Green Campus initiative is a rather expensive practice. It needs expert advice and an investment of resources. h) Sufficient manpower is needed to sustainably maintain green practices. i) Lesser awareness among the students and community towards environmental issues aggravates the problem levels.
Participatory Learning
We believe on innate potentiality of every student. To explore the talent of the students, the institution opened numbers of areas of participation for them according to their interest. Students involved in such program got an opportunity to exchange their views and opinions among the peers and enrich learning. People can enjoy the flavour of learning at their own which enhance their self-confidence and creativity. Objectives of Practice: a) To develop students self-confidence, leadership quality, self-assessment ability and spirit of cooperation. b) To promote the ethical and social values of tolerance and inclusiveness. c) To enable learners to overcome obstacles, manage time and stress, and deal with challenges with following participatory activities Publication of Magazines Wall Magazines, Activities in Students Forum, Publication of Departmental News Letter, Participation in Blood Donation Camps, Participation in Village Adoption activities.
The race for success and self-aggrandisement spoiled the sense of empathy and joys from the mind of the students. Students are learning like a machine having little values for humanity and social wellbeing. As an institution founded on the human values and ethics, the college considers as its mission to support innate potentiality and all-round development students. Students a caring attitude not only to fellow human beings, especially those underprivileged, but also to all life forms around them. The multi-pronged-programme launched by the college is an exercise in peer and experiential learning. It has taken up regular activities for active students’ participation.
In calculate students’ innate potentiality: Students are encouraged and incentivised to participate in different fields including art, music, sports and cultural activities to cultivate their innate potentiality. Publication works by students: The students of publish magazine and wall magazine, News Letters and college Magazine in a regular interval at their collective affords. Students Forum: the students involved in various extension activities through their forum. These forums include economic forum of the department of economics, Political Forum of the department of Political Science, Science Forum, Commerce Forum, etc. Creative Exhibition: In connection with Annual College Week students took part in creative exhibition where the students showcase and demonstrate their inventions. Students Union Body: In order to have a practical exposure to democratic electoral procedure, students’ union body is formed every year as per the Principle of Electoral Democracy.
Enhance the creative skills of the students. Students are writing articles, poems in newspapers and periodicals as well as participating in Art and Drawing competitions. Some of them are publishing book as well. A few of these achievements include: Sl. No Name of the students Detail of publications 1 Sweety Ray Participated as folk dancer to set World Record(Guinness World Record) for world largest Bihu performance held in Saru Sajay, Guwahati held on 14 April 2023 2 Dikshita Nath Participated as folk dancer to set World Record(Guinness World Record) for world largest Bihu performance held in Saru Sajay, Guwahati held on 14 April 2023 3 Joly Nath Participated as folk dancer to set World Record(Guinness World Record) for world largest Bihu performance held in Saru Sajay, Guwahati held on 14 April 2023 4 Seema Nath Participated as folk dancer to set World Record(Guinness World Record) for world largest Bihu performance held in Saru Sajay, Guwahati held on 14 April 2023 5 Surajit Bhuyan Recepient of 7th Annual Bharatratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika National Award, 2022 6 Surajit Bhuyan Recipient of SAHITYA RATNA RASTRIYA BATA (7th Annual Bharatratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika National Award, 2022) 7 Attended Civil Defence Advance Training Course, batch no-602 at the Central training institute of civil defence & home guards, Assam during 01-06-2023 to 22-06-2023. 8 Ritul Nath Own Go;d Medal in 42 CSK State Martial Arts Championship-2020 held on Gujrat on 27 December, 2020 9 Bikul Hussain Wrote a Novel titled BASTAB JAGAT 10 Bhrinkul Moni Das 11 PAKGHAR 12 Jwnwmphuri Basumatary Awaeded with Grand Miss Jum Baksa. 2023 13 Pulak Rabha ‘Pulak Nixasar” A good number of NCC carder recruited in Assam Police, Indian Army and Because of our mission to explore inherited potentiality and giving exposure to capitalised it, some of our students entitled with the following achievement/designation Sl. no Name of the students Detail of recruitment 1 Rodali Talukdar, economics, 2014 Fashion Designer 2 Rajashi 3 Nisad Ahmed Medal winner in International Curate 4 Nilam Social worker, BBA departments of the college adopted village named. The students of BBA render the services like educating the illiterate, creation of health awareness, etc.
The schedule of the semester system appeared as one of the major problems towards executing such activities as the students hardly get anytime to spare after the routine exercise of the semester system. However, somehow the problem is managed by sparing more times after the routine works or sometimes on non-teaching days. Another issue is that initially the students consider these activities worthless as do not contribute to any credit earning. As such it takes time to streamline the students for such initiatives. However, once they acquainted with the work they gradually become fond of it.
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