Government Degree College, Eluru College News Letter for the Month of January 2021
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Government Degree College, Eluru College News Letter for the Month of January 2021 1 Principal’s Message Principal: Dr. T. Raja Rajeswari, M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D Government Degree College Eluru was established in 2008. It is situated at center Eluru city. As it located in urban atmosphere and easily accessible with good transportation facilities, The College has expectable potentiality for its excellence in coming future. Since its foundation, the college has produced many graduates by providing qualitative education in bachelor degree. Since Eluru town is surrounded by many villages, the college provides opportunity of education to many students who come with rural and poor background. Since it is a government college and it is at accessible location, Degree Online Admissions Help Line Centre is also officially given to the college. Presently the college is being run in the Government Jr. College premises and building with a Principal’ s office cum staff room, six classrooms and a Virtual Lab which is used as meaning hall for various programs, as an e-class room, as a lab for science and computer technology streams. The need of own land and full infrastructure is going to be fulfilled by the Government of Andhra Pradesh; the land acquisition process is going on fruitfully. In this academic year, we are on a confident expectation of 2 arraignment of possible infrastructural amenities. The college, apart from regular classes, offers daily coaching classes in view of various competitive exams through Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) an official body initiated by Commissionarate of Collegiate Education, AP. The JKC wing of the college is actively engaged in equipping the students with industry-needed and global skills. The college maintains Women Empowerment Cell for empowering girl students and redressing grievances of the girl students and women staff. Red Ribbon Club is another active wing of the college. It involves students with various awareness programs on HIV & AIDS and blood donation camps. All these student-centric, service -oriented activities are useful to inculcate knowledgeable and humanitarian attitude in the minds of students. Through such programs students can achieve social and academic excellence. The college has three groups; viz. B.A. (HEP) , B.Com (General) and B.Sc. (MPC; CBZ). One more new group is approved for this academic year by Adikavi Nannaya University, namely B.A. with the combination of Tourism, History and Political Science. The college has 12 teaching staff members with One Doctorate, two M.Phil Degree holders. For JKC, a guest mentor has been recently taken. All the staff members have good teaching experience with excellent command on their individual subjects. Regarding Non-teaching staff, the college has one senior assistant, one junior assistant (on Out Sourcing) and an attender. Most of the students who studied /are studying in this college are economically backward, but so far, many of the passed-out alumni of the college are well settled in various private sector jobs, and some could achieve Government positions also. Apart from curricular aspects, the college also encourages students in games & sports and various cultural activities. Each department conducts educational tours every year. Guest lectures and experts’ talks are arranged for the benefit of the students. The college is going to have a new infrastructure and own building as soon as possible. Student- centered teaching and learning approach is implemented in the classes. The college, with collective efforts 3 and mutual help of the faculty members, works for student welfare. Our main motto is to make our students complete citizens with required knowledge and skills along with social consciousness so as to be useful to the nation as responsible citizens. Dr. T. Raja Rajeswari M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. Principal 4 1. Eluru Eluru is a city and the district headquarters of West Godavari district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the 14 municipal corporations in the state and the mandal headquarters of Eluru mandal in the Eluru revenue division. The city is on the Tammileru river. The city is well known for its wool-pile carpets and hand woven products. As of 2011 Census of India, the city had a population of 217,876. Its history dates back to the second century CE. Eluru plays a major role in education for urban and rural students from nearby villages. It has an average literacy rate of 83.90% with, according to the 2011 census, a total number of 155,894 who are literate. This includes, 80,434 men (88.13%) and 75,460 women (79.82%). Primary and secondary school education is provided by government, aided, and private schools, under the School Education Department of Andhra Pradesh. There are more than 100 private schools and 49 municipal schools. There are more than 30,000 students in these schools. 2. Government Degree College Government Degree College Eluru is located at Kotadibba. It is located along with a Government High School and a Government Jr. College. In front of the college, there is a playground. The atmosphere of the college is very peaceful with green trees which provide cool shadow, a natural relief to visitors. Beside the college, we have a badminton court and a garage for keeping vehicles. As part of development of the college, with the intervention of Sri. Alla Nani, Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, The college is going to get land for construction of own building soon. 5 3. ViSIOn and MISSIon of the College Vision To provide qualitative education and skills to the students Mission By providing knowledge and its practical application methods in the class rooms, we try to enhance the knowledge and awareness capacities of the students. We try to improve the potentialities of the students by providing the information of subjects according to the needs in the job market. 6 4. Faculty Profile Languages Rajani Babu Lecturer in Dr. P. Lakshmi Telugu (Guest) Narasa Dasu M.A, SET, M.A, Ph.D, (M.Phil) NET-JRF, COP (Spanish) Lecturer in English (Regular) 7 Sciences V. Hari Krishna K. Ramesh Ch. Edukondalu M.Sc, M. Phil M.Sc M.Sc Lecturer in Mathematics Lecturer in Physics Lecturer in Chemistry (Regular ) (Regular) (Regular) A.L.K. Krupavaram V.N. Padmavathi M.Sc; NET M.Sc; M.Phil Lecturer in Zoology Lecturer in Botany (Regular) (Regular) 8 Arts P. Nirmala Kumari Y. Maneendar Rao K. Ajayi Babu M.A, (Ph.D), NET M.A M.A, (Ph.D), NET Lecturer in Lecturer in Political Lecturer in History Economics Science (Guest) (Regular) (Regular) 9 Commerce V.Harsha Vardhini K. Ramu M.Com M.Com, SET Lecturer in Lecturer in Commerce (Contract) Commerce (Guest) 10 5. Important Wings in the College • Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) Government Degree College, Eluru, contains JKC as a special wing of the college. Presently, our Full Time Mentor is deputed to CCE Office as per the instructions of the honorable CCE. Hence a guest mentor has been recently taken to fulfill the needs. This academic year, English lecturer took the charge as JKC Coordinator. • Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) The college has IQAC committee for maintaining quality standards in teaching, learning ad evaluation process. The committee is constituted with Principal Dr. RajaRajeswari to act as chairman, P. Nirmala Kumari (Lecturer in Economics), as coordinator and other lecturers as members. Under the guidance of coordinator, faculty members are doing various activities in the college. • Women Empowerment Cell (WEC) The college has constituted WEC in order to empower the female students, P. Nirmala Kumari (Lecturer in Economics) is acting as coordinator of WEC. It creates awareness among the students about gender sensitivity. Various programmes and activities are organized on WEC platform in order to educate and sensitize students’ community. • Red Ribbon Club (RRC) The college has Red Ribbon Club as one of the important wings. Dr. P. Lakshmi Narasa Dasu, lecturer in English is working as convener for this wing. RRC conducts various programmes to bring social awareness about HIV & AIDS among students. It also helps medical professionals by participating in Blood Donations. 11 6. Activities During Covid-19 Lockdown ➢ Every faculty member conducted Online classes through Zoom, Google meet, Whats app etc., ➢ All faculty members participated in National and International Webinars and Quiz programmes etc., ➢ On behalf of our college we distributed the food commodities for 30 families on 12.04.2020. ➢ Dr. T. Raja Rajeswari, principal of the college, personally donated an amount of Rs.10116/- to Chief Minister Relief Fund. ➢ Sri K. Ramesh Lecturer in Chemistry conducted State Level Webinar on the occasion of World Ozone Day on 16.09.2020. ➢ Sri K. Ramesh Lecturer in Chemistry Conducted National Level Quiz on Environmental Chemistry. ➢ Smt A. L. K. Krupavaram, Lecturer in Zoology, Conducted National Level Quiz on Covid. ➢ Sri K. Ramesh Lecturer in Chemistry prepared video lessons on Amino-Acids. ➢ Dr. P. Lakshmi Narasa Dasu, Lecturer in English, acted as one of the members of Subject Expert Committee in LMS for English. ➢ Dr. P. Lakshmi Narasa Dasu, Lecturer in English, contributed a video lesson as a presenter in LMS. ➢ Sri K. Ramesh Lecturer in Chemistry Prepared Question Bank on Paper-IV through Video Mode of AKNU. 12 7. Activities During November and December • Covid Testing 13/ 11/2020 Covid testing was conducted in the college. Both the college staff and the students were tested by the local health authorities in Eluru. Altogether sixty people were tested in the college. Test results were sent to individual mobile phones of the candidates who got tested after three days. As per the result no one in the college got affected with Covid. 13 • Webinar on Diabetes 14-11-20 Organizing Body: Department of Chemistry A Seminar was conducted on Diabetes on the occasion of World Diabetes Day .In this seminar, resource person provided information about how diabetes affects people and how it is to be prevented.