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Important Events During Year 2008 - 2009.

1. National Conference on 
	"Environmental Management: Watch Your Carbon Footprint."
	Date:  23 - 24 January 2009.	
	Last date for registration and submission of Abstracts: - 10 Dec. 2008.
2. National Conference on 
	"Gender Equity at Work and Home 
	- A key to National Development."
	Date:- 09 - 10 January 2009.
3. National Conference on 
	"Recent Trends in Biosciences and Applications in Industry."
	Date:  05 - 06 December 2008.
	The student’s entry is closed.
	Only a few seats are remaining for
	the teacher/industrial delegates.
	Last date for registration and submission of Abstracts
	extended to 10 Nov. 2008.
4. A four-day Lecture Series 
	organized by the Chemistry Department
	Date:- 24^th to 27^thNovember, 2008
5. Report on"World Environment Day”
	Date: 05^th June, 2008. (09.30 a.m.)
6.  Report on VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE LECTURE SERIES ON
	WHAT NEXT AFTER SSC & HSC?
	Dates:  31^st May, 2008. (3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.)
		1^st June, 2008. (9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon)

Bro.Yogesh Pangam, a handicapped student of XII Std. Computer Science stood first in Handicapped Category of Mumbai Division securing 87.67%

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Admission for M.Sc. (Biotechnology).

We are proud and delighted to inform you that our College has got the permission from Government of Maharashtra to start of M.Sc.(Biotechnology) from the academic year 2008-2009.

Last date for Admission 17 October 2008.

Regarding admission, kindly contact:

Dr.(Smt) Kamalrookh Marolia (Co-ordinator)

Mr. Malay Shah (9819930649)

M.Sc. Biotechnology

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New Courses.

Following new courses have been approved by Government of Maharashtra and will be starting from academic year 2008-2009.

Sr.No.	Course Name
1.	B.Com. (Financial Marketing)	Admission forms may be obtained from counter at room no. 003 ground floor.
2.	M.Com. (Business Management)	Contact Prof. M.G.Ravindran (Commerce Dept.) / College Office [Information and Fee Structure].
3.	M.Sc. I.T. (Additional Division)	Admission will begin after declaration of T.Y.B.Sc. (I.T.) results.

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Activities to be conducted in future.

26/09/08	Cultural association Programme
26/09/08	Awareness about environment Dr. Surendra Pathak	Nature Club
26/09/08	Awareness about environment “An Inconvenient truth” by Al Gore	Go green Ass. Jr. College
29/09/08 6/10/08	Jeevan Vidya Workshop by Dr. Surendra Pathak
02/10/08	Meeting of Past NSS Volunteers	NSS
	Post Diwali 10 days residential camp	NSS
18/11/08	Vasundhara Bachao & Kanya Bacho	NSS
23/10/08 24/10/08	Peer training workshop in HIV awareness	NSS
	Global warming lecture series & workshop	NSS
1/12/08	Ralley of volunteers from Ghatkopar area on AIDS awareness.	NSS
1^st to 7^th Dec 08	Observation of AIDS awareness week	NSS

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N.S.S.Volunteers bagged the 1st rank in street play

Jidnyasa trust, Thane and Municipal Corporation, Thane had jointly organized a street play competition for N.S.S.Volunteers in August, 2008. The theme of the competition was "Eco friendly Ganesh Utsav" various colleges from Mumbai and Thane had participated. Our College had bagged the 1^st rank comprising of a trophy, certificate and Rs.3000/- as incentive cash for the participants.
The same team of volunteers performed six street plays at various places during Ganesh Utsav. The Prize distribution ceremony was held at T.M.C. office on Saturday, the 15^th November, 2008.

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Report On Disaster Preparedness.

The two- day workshop on Disaster Preparedness was conducted in our college on 18^th and 19^th of this month. The workshop was funded by the Greater Mumbai Municipality Disaster Risk Management Cell. It was attended by 54 participants including 38 students from our College, three faculty members, five non-teaching staff and eight students from other institutions.

The Workshop was inaugurated at 10.00 a.m. sharp in the presence of the Chief guest, Mr.V.V.Vaidya, the chief, Disaster Risk Management Cell, B.M.C., Mr.Ramesh Deokar, Program Officer, N.S.S. University of Mumbai and Principal Dr.J.K.Verma.

The first lecture was delivered by Dr.Tushar Guha, Managing Director of “Nrityanjali”. Dr.Guha explained the Basic concepts of Disaster, their types, and the requirement of Disaster Management . Shri.Madhukar Sanap, the district project officer, made a power point presentation on “Disaster Management in Mumbai”. After this the students dispersed for a Lunch break.

Post lunch a lecture by Mr.Sanjay Nerurkar from Mumbai Five Brigade was extremely interesting and lucid. Mr.Nerurkar explained the principles of combustion and method of extinction. Different types of five extinguishers were displayed and after a tea break demonstrations of use of five extinguishers were made. All participants were given a chance of handling extinguishers.

2^nd Day

The day began with a lecture on first Aid. Mrs.Snehal Desai from K.E.M. Hospital explained the principles and contents of First Aid, Types of injuries, signs, symptoms and treatment.

The Stages of search and rescue, self rescue were explained by Shri Rajendra Lokhande and Shri Brahmadande, from the BMC DRM team. The entire session after Lunch was devoted to practical exercises, various types of knots, stretcher drill and stretcher improvisation. Each and every participant was keenly involved in the practicals.

At the end of the day, Prof.D.G.Phondekar gave a presentation on “Evacuation Plan” and a mock drill was conducted.

In presence of the Principal Dr.J.K.Verma participants shared their experiences and certificates were distributed. Prof. Phondekar announced a project ‘each one teach one’ for the participants session concluded with a vote of thanks to the BMC Disaster Management team.

The idea of conducting a workshop on Disaster Preparedness had germinated in the mind of Prof.D.G.Phondekar some three months ago. In this respect, yet another workshop on the subject has been planned by our NSS unit for teachers of the Campus institutes to be conducted somewhere in September, 2008.