EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
NSS
The College initiated a half unit of NSS w.e.f 10/10/2006 under HPU advisory committee vide item number 4 in its meeting held on 13/09/2006. The NSS unit of the College can enroll 50 students as volunteers.
Red Ribbon Club
Red Ribbon Club of the College spread awareness amongst students of AIDS. The club organizes awareness camps on AIDS at regular intervals in village areas. The volunteers engage themselves in distributing pamphlets regarding AIDS and the way of living.
The red ribbon, as an awareness ribbon, is used as the symbol for the solidarity of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the awareness and prevention of drug abuse
Red like Love, as a symbol of passion and tolerance for those affected. Red like blood, representing the pain suffered by the many people who have died of AIDS. Red like the anger over the helplessness we are facing for a disease which still has no cure. Red as a sign of warning to not carelessly ignore one of the biggest problems of our time.
Red Ribbon clubs are envisaged to instill among all the students in the educational institutions values of service, develop healthy life styles, and increase access to safe and adequate quantities of blood to all the needy by promotion of Regular voluntary blood donation. Apart from this, RRC aims at harnessing the potential of the youth by equipping them with correct information on Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Nutrition and Reproductive & Sexual Health and building their capacities as peer educators in spreading messages on positive health behavior in an enabling environment.
Objectives:
The specific objectives of the programmed are as under
To instill life skills into youths to live better and healthier life.
Increasing the capacity of the education system in teaching, training of various basic health aspects and helping the adolescents and youths for achieving positive health.
To ensure that every college going youth in the state is equipped with conceptual knowledge about various basic health aspects which he may possibly encounter during his life.
To motivate youth and build their capacity as peer educators and change agents by developing their skills on leadership, negotiation, and team building.
To promote voluntary non-remunerated blood donation among youth.
Promote Regular voluntary blood donation by young people and increase access to safe and adequate quantities of blood.
Road Safety Club
The College has constituted a Road Safety Club so as to make students aware about the road safety issues at an early age.
The Club conducts various activities including:
Organising competitions of painting, slogan writing, declamation and skit etc. on road safety themes.
Conducting training camps/programmes to promote road safety.
Designing high quality road safety awareness wall calendars to be hanged in class rooms.
Printing of attractive road safety materials including booklets, dairies, scales etc.
Distributing awareness material to students.
Electoral Literacy Club
‘Greater Participation for a Stronger Democracy’
Electoral Literacy Club engages students through interesting activities and hands-on experience to sensitize them on their electoral rights and familiarize them with the electoral process of registration and voting.
At Electoral Literacy Club, learning meets fun. Activities and Games are designed to stimulate and motivate students provoking them to think and ask questions. Through Electoral Literacy Club, Election Commission of India aims at strengthening the culture of electoral participation among young and future voters.
Budhil Eco Club
Objectives of the Budhil Eco Club are to educate the tribal students about their environment and encourage their participation in preservation and conservation activities such as plantation, environment rallies, cleaning campaign and celebration of important days i.e. Water Day, Earth Day, World Environment Day, Ozone day etc.
People today, especially the young people, are concerned about the environment. Eco Clubs are means by which students and youth can organize themselves to learn more about this issue, and also take action to improve their immediate environment.
For teachers, it is a wonderful opportunity to create awareness, build attitudes and help students take up activities in real world, in a way in which the constraints of the classroom and curriculum will not allow.
The Club can thus help to extend the boundaries and scope of the formal educational system, encouraging creativity, and empowering students for constructive action.
How can an Eco Club help in environmental education?
Eco club activities can help the teacher to meet the objectives of Environmental Education, which are to:
Create awareness and sensitivity among individuals and social groups to the total environment and its allied
Impart knowledge to help individuals and social groups gain a variety of experiences in and acquire a basic understanding of, the environment and its associated
Build attitudes to help individuals and social groups acquire a set of values and feelings of concern for the environment, and the motivation for actively participating in environmental improvement and
Teach skills to help individuals and social groups to identify and solve environmental problems.
And lead the students towards action to participate in appropriate action to help solve these problems and avoid future
How many students can form a Club?
Teachers often mention that they if they register 40-45 students at the beginning of the year, they may be left 25-30 who are really interested.
The Eco-club guidelines drawn up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests require at least 20 students to be members before a Club can be registered.
How much contact should the Club have with the rest of the college?
It is most important to let the rest of the college activities. This will not only make the Club members feel important, and more responsible for their actions, it could also motivate other classes to take up similar activities or join/form Clubs.
How I can join this Budhil Eco Club club?
You can join this Budhil Eco Club by downloading application form from the college website and submit the form after filling your credentials to the in-charge of Budhil Eco Club. Or you can collect the application form directly from the in charge of Budhil Eco Club.
