Assessment Period 2015-2020

HENRY BAKER COLLEGE, MELUKAVU A Christian Minority Educational Institution run by CSI East Diocese

Criterion VII:Institutional Values and Best Practices

7.1.9 Human Values and Professional Ethics Sensitization of students and employees of the Institution to the constitutional obligations: values, rights, duties and responsibilities of citizens

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THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL

23-8-2016

Organ Donation Awareness Public Campaign

The Department of Commerce organized an Organ Donation Awareness Campaign at

Melukavumattom town on 23rd August 2016. CSI East Kerala Diocese Treasurer, Rev. V.S.

Francis inaugurated the programme. An organ Donor Rev. Fr. Sebastian Kidangathazhe delivered the keynote address. Dr. Tharsis Joseph (CMD Deepika), Rev.JustinMony (Clergy

Secretary, CSI East Kerala Diocese), priests, Management representatives, Grama

Panachayat Members, Staff Members and Students participated in the programme

23-8- 2016

Proclamation Rally for Public Awareness of Organ Donation

The Department of Commerce organized a proclamation rally for giving awareness to public about Organ Donation and against social evils. All students and staff members actively participated in the proclamation rally.

COTPA AWARENESS RALLY

The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and

Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 or

COTPA, 2003 is an Act of government of enacted in 2003 to prohibit advertisement of, and to provide for the regulation of trade and commerce in, and production, supply and distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products in India. National Service Scheme, HBC also observed 31st May 2018 as anti-tobacco day under COTPA 2003. 200 NSS volunteers and 7 teachers participated in the rally. It was a joint endeavour of CHC, Edamaruk,

MelukavuGramapanchayath and NSS HBC and it was a very successful programme.

FLOOD RELIEF ACTIVITIES

From August 19th 2018 onwards, the NSS volunteers of the college and Krishibhavan,

Thodupuzha jointly started collection and distribution vegetables and other food materials for flood affected areas of . It was a great relief to the people staying in the flood rehabilitation camps.

On 23rd August 2018 our NSS Unit organized “ShoonyathayilekkOrukaisahaym” [A

Helping Hand in the Void] the second stage of flood relief activities, exclusively for selected houses at Panniyarkutty, Idukki district. For this opened a collection centre at

Melukavumattom. All generous persons from Melukavu contributed enormously to this programme. Through this collection centre we collected many household items like kitchen wear, dress materials, food items, provisions and study materials for school-college students.

This was solely done by the support of NSS volunteers, who always remained in the centre for collecting goods. The collected materials were distributed to the Kudumbasree hotel at

Melukavumattom on 5th September 2018 and to people at Panniyarkutty on 9th September

2018.

Cleaning Mission in Flood Affected Areas: Cleaning the houses of flood affected villages was our second flood related programme. Our students and teachers actively participated in this programme. We also provided food for the MelukavuGramapanchayat members and other volunteers who were involved in the village cleaning programme in Vaikkom taluk.

18-10-2019

CYCLOTHON – ANTI DRUG AWARENESS CYCLING

An Anti-drug Awareness Cycling Programme was conducted by the Department of Tourism on 18th October 2019from Melukavu to Kodanad.This cycling was flagged off by the Sub

Inspector of Police, Melukavu. The members of the Cycling team visited MKNM HSS,

Kumaramangalam, Iype Memorial HS, Kaloor, and St. Joseph’s HSS, Paingottoor, and conveyed the message against using narcotics and distributed leaflets to motivate the students to become volunteers of anti-drug campaign.

30-1-2020

PALLIATIVE CARE KUDUMBA SANGAMAM

The NSS Unit of Henry Baker College associated with the Palliative Care

KudumbaSangamam organized by the Community health Center, Edamaruk and Melukavu

Grama Panchayath. Invited NSS volunteers from Henry Baker College took effort to cheer

and entertain patients and their caretakers. Nineteen NSS volunteers actively participated in this programme.

BLOOD DONATION CAMP

NSS Unit, Henry Baker College, and IMA blood bank , jointly organized a blood donation camp on 12 February 2019. Forty-six NSS volunteers and a few teachers generously donated their blood.

FLOOD RELIEF ACTIVITIES

NSS volunteers of the college collected and distributed provisions and food materials for flood affected areas of district on 15 August 2019. It was a great relief to the people staying in the flood rehabilitation camps.

2-11-2019

NSS BLOOD DONATION CAMP

The NSS unit of Henry baker College Melukavu, Organized a Blood Donation Camp in collaboration with Lions Club of Pala Spice Valley, on 2nd November 2019. The Camp was inaugurated by Sri. Mani C. Kappen MLA and Presidential Address was given by Rt.

Rev. V.S Francis, manager of the college and Bishop East Kerala Diocese. MJF Ln. Mr Babu

Vadakkemuri expressed his gratitude to the NSS unit of the college for its continuous endeavor in this regard. MJF Lion KJ Thomas IPS (Rtd.), Lion. Prof. Renjith Sebastian delivered words of felicitation and Lion. Remy Babu proposed the vote of thanks. 40 volunteers came forward to donate blood during the camp which included students and members of the teaching & non-teaching staff. At the end 40 units of Blood could be collected in the camp. The blood donors were provided with a blood donation certificate card by SH Blood Bank, Kottayam.

17-3-2020

Distribution of Sanitizer Viols

As WHO declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, Kerala State Govt. took important measures to stop corona virus spread. In order to meet the increasing demand of hand sanitizers locally, the teachers and students of Department of Physics, Henry Baker College, came forward to produce alcohol-based hand sanitizer to be distributed among the general public. As a social responsibility activity, we handed over 100 bottles (100 ml each) of sanitizers to Dr. Sarala,

Medical Officer, Community Health Centre, Edamaruku, , free of cost on

17/03/2020. We also supplied hand sanitizers to State Bank of India, Melukavumattom and

Melukavu Service Cooperative Bank, Melukavumattom.

National Webinar on “Online Plagiarism Checking: An Easy Approach” (28th May 2020)

This a webinar was jointly organized by the Research and PG Departments of Commerceand History during whole India COVID-19 lock down period in association with IQAC. The webinar was held on 21 May 2020 at 11a. m. The webinar aimed to educate the PG students and Research Scholars about Online Plagiarism Checking. Ms. Jyothy Maria Johny, Research Scholar, Kerala University was the Resource Person. Dr. Gireesh Kumar G.S., Principal, inaugurated the programme. Total number of participants of this programme was 96.

Student Orientation Programmes