Jalandhar: Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya has been declared as the Green Champion by Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, GOI. Principal Prof Dr Ajay Sareen received the award from Jaspreet Singh, ADC (Development), in an event organised by the Ministry of Education, GOI. The event coordinators were Ranbir and Gaurav. About 1000 higher educational institutions participated in the Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education ‘One District, One Green Champion’ awards organised as per the directive of the Ministry of Education for Contribution to Swachhta Education and Practice under Swachhta Action Plan 2020-2021, which is a Swachh Bharat initiative of the Prime Minister of India. These awards are based on sustainability audit focusing on campus greenery, cleanliness and maintenance, toilet adequacy in campus, tree planting and community outreach in promoting Swachh Culture. Dr Anjana Bhatia, Dean Innovations and Research, sais the college was adjudged on various parameters of Swacchta and Jal Shakti such as greenery, using green herbicides and bio pesticides for greenery on campus outdoors and indoors, adequate water supply in the campus among others.

NAAC accreditation

A seven-day online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) is being conducted by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Lyallpur Khalsa College for Women from August 16-23 on the topic “NAAC Accreditation Framework: New Guidelines”. The inaugural session began with the welcome speech by Dr. Navdeep, Coordinator IQAC. Principal Dr. Navjot delivered a speech in which she highlighted about the rich heritage of the institution. She said that the college has an eminent historical background as its origin lies in the soil of Lyallpur, the soil that gave birth to Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, a true patriot. She also briefed about the eminent speakers for the FDP including Dr. Ramachandran, Dr Kulwinder Kaur, Dr. Vani Dutt Sharma, Dr Neena Seth Pajni, Dr. Parminder Kaur, Dr Priyadarshi Jaruhar and Prof Anchit Narwadkar.

Academic performances

Innocent Hearts College of Education stole the limelight once again. All the student-teachers of the college brought accolades home by achieving 94% first divisions in the result of GNDU B Ed. Examination Sem-III (DEC-2020). This examination was held by GNDU through the offline mode in April 2021 in the college. 45 per cent student-teachers achieved distinctions which substantiates that in the era of Covid-19 the college has worked hard in providing qualitative and digitalized education to the student-teachers at their homes. The student-teachers have also actively participated in the online studies so later they were able to achieve excellent marks through the offline mode. Ria Mahajan and Deepika bagged first position by scoring 78% marks in the college, Palak achieved second position by scoring 77.4% marks in the college and Gagandeep Kaur got third position by scoring 77.1% marks in the college.

Know the ‘Art of being disliked’

In continuity with the session series of ‘Professional Overthinkers’ workshops being organised by the dynamic counselling cell of Delhi Public School, Jalandhar, two more workshops were held for the students of Classes VI-XII. Titled ‘Art of being Disliked’ and ‘FOMO to JOMO’, the workshops were a not only a breath of fresh air and positivity but also engaging lessons in self- understanding and self- management for DPSites. In the ‘Art of being Disliked’ workshop, students learnt the ways of handling criticism, the art of self- acceptance and the significance of ‘let go’, which any individual needs to practice for mental well being and happy living. In the ‘FOMO to JOMO’ workshop, students developed an understanding of the ‘Monkey Mind’ and the ‘Personality Pillar’. They learnt the techniques and tools of mind management and developed an understanding of enjoying the journey of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ to the ‘Joy of Missing Out’.

workshop on Pre-primary teaching

Eklavya School organised an online workshop on pre-primary teaching under the process of hubs of learning in which the resource person was Inderpreet Kaur. The workshop was held on Google Meet in which teachers from different schools participated. In this workshop, Inderpreet Kaur explained about all the methods of teaching pre-primary by using PPT and by using live presentation on various montessori teaching aids such as pink tower, cylindrical blocks, brownstairs number rods, jodo cubes and puzzles. She explained the purpose and importance of these aids by manipulating it in the live session. She explained that by using these teaching aids students can understand the concept more clearly and deeply.

IKGPTU students shine

Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus is known for providing quality education to its students. This is proved by the result of MBA IV declared by IKG Punjab Technical University in which students of management have brought laurels to the institute by bringing merit positions in the university with 80 distinctions. Nearly 67% students scored more than 80% marks, 33% students scored more than 70% marks. In MBA IV Sanjay Shandil stood first by scoring 9.00 SGPA, Rahul Dadwal, Ravinder Kaur, Rohit Jassal, Tarun Dadwal and Deepali stood second by scoring 8.85 SGPA, Amandeep Kaur and Priyanka stood third by scoring 8.69 SGPA, Aditya Singh, Gita Devi, Gurpreet Singh, Manjeet Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Parminder Kaur, Ramandeep Kaur, Shivangi Sharma and Sonia stood fourth by scoring 8.54 SGPA. TNS