Outreach

Extension activities in the neighbourhood community in terms of impact and sensitising students to social issues and holistic development

The College conducts different extension activities in the neighbourhood community to impact and sensitize students with social issues and holistic development. The Institution plans and organizes all its extension activities through the NSS units, NCC, UNICEF Programs and Eco Clubs of the College. The NSS Units of the College organizes following extension activities regularly: Swatcha Bharath, Swatchata Pakhwada, New India Manthan, Digital India, Skill India, Blood Donation Camps, AIDS Awareness Campaign, Cleanliness Drive, Plantation Programs, Construction of Rain harvest pits, Environment Awareness programs, ODF Program, Demonitisation, Online Transactions, Anti-Liquor Drive, Literacy programs, Communal harmony Rallies, Fund raising for Victims of Natural Calamities, campaigns on girl child and women related issues, Importance of Yoga and Street Plays highlighting various socio-political and cultural issues in the surrounding area.

Through UNICEF students are sensitized on issues such as Child marriages, Child abuse, Child labour, Child Rights, Menstrual health and hygiene, Gender equality and Balanced Nutrition etc. The members of UNICEF are trained as Peer Leaders and organize programs at School, Junior College and Community level on various Adolescent issues. The college took up ‘Kishori Vikasam’ an innovative Residential outreach program one of its kinds to sensitize girls in Govt welfare hostels.

The college organizes Environmental Awareness programs and observes important Environmental days by organizing relevant programs such as Plantation, Sapling Distribution, Rallies on Ozone protection, Environmental protection, No plastic Campaign, Save Trees Campaign, Save planet Earth, Water Conservation etc under Eco clubs. The college runs a Waste Management Club and the members look into the safe disposal of e-waste, waste food, plastic and paper waste in the college campus.

At the beginning of every academic year, students are informed in detail about the various NSS and other extension activities by conducting an Orientation program. The NSS Unit adopts a nearby village for three years and all the outreach programs are organized there. The volunteers carry out a cleanliness drive and stay there for a week in the Camp taking up different works like campaigning on the construction of individual toilets, rain water harvest pits, sanitation pits and maintaining the sanitation of the roads. The College has up till now adopted following three villages: 1) Sebastian Colony 2) Rammurty panthulupeta and 2) Dharmapuram colony in the last five years.

Apart from these activities, the College organizes awareness programmes like ‘Save Girl Child, Educate Girl Child’, ‘Voters Awareness Rally’, women empowerment programs etc. To inculcate national integrity among students, they are encouraged to take part in Pre- Republic Day camps, Republic Day camps, National Integration camps and Youth Exchange programs through NCC and NSS. A good number of NCC Cadets and NSS Volunteers have represented in different National Pre -R. D., RD and NIC Camps.Besides, NCC provides Leadership training camps, rescue operations during natural calamities, taking the responsibility of crowed management during collegiate and public programs.

The NSS Special Camping programs provides an opportunity to the students to interact with and help the community through shramadan involving the local people for the immense services rendered by our NSS Units, the College has received the Best Program Officer Award from the State Government of Andhra Pradesh a couple of years back. The college also offers training programs for girls and women of below poverty line of the locality in Computer operations, Spoken English, Tailoring etc through Community College and offers training for DWACRA Women and Street venders on preparation of nutritious and hygienic food in collaboration with the Dept of Home Science.