BHARATHI WOMEN'S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

NCC

Our College NCC consists of 54 cadets.

They are trained in such a manner that a cadet is modelled to be a good citizen of the Nation. ‘Duty and Discipline’ forms the motto of NCC.
It also develops their character, leadership quality, obedience, punctuality and hard work.
2012-2013: Every year our cadets attend all the camps like CATC-NIC, BLC, ITC & RDC that is conducted through the year without fail. Apart from this they also participate in various rallies like Eye Camp, AIDS awareness, Ever Green – organized by the Exnora.
2013-2014: Apart from the regular camps this year our cadets conducted two social programmes.<p>
1. They visited an Ashram named ‘Anugraha’ – for the mentally sick children. They donated stationary items to the children.
2. They organized a traffic controlling near our college in morning between 8 to 10 A.M. They carried out this programme for a week.

The NSS of Bharathi Women’s College has 5 units, comprising 5 programme officers and 500 volunteers. Inspired by the motto NOT ME BUT YOU, the NSS units actively organize and participate in regular community outreach activities like awareness programmes, rallies, blood donation camps, medical camps, cleaning drives( on and off campus), wall painting , pond cleaning, collection of relief materials during time of natural disasters , observing/ celebrating significant dates throughout the year in association with NSS University of Madras, Stanley Medical College, Sankara Nethralaya, Vasan Eye Care, Election Commission, Greater Chennai Corporation, RPF, Environmentalist Foundation of India etc.,

An annual Special Camp is organized in Arumandhai and its neighbouring villages.

SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES:

• NSS team won the Mega Project Award 2011 from University of Madras for helping with the record sale of handloom products.
• Ms.M.Priya and Ms.P.Sumathy won the award for Best Volunteer at Pachaiyappa’s College for the year 2013.
• National Integration Camp, Bangalore: G.R. Divya (Dept. of English ) and M. Sweetha (Dept. of Mathematics) represented University of Madras team and won the First Prize. (March 15-21, 2018)
• Dr. S. Lavanya, NSS Programme Officer represented University of Madras as Contingent Leader in the National Integration Camp organized by NSS Regional Directorate, Chennai held in Alagappa College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi from 10 December, 2018 to 16 December, 2018. D. Gayathri, III B. Sc., Mathematics also participated in the Camp.
• Two of our volunteers R. Soundhariya, II B. Sc., Zoology and S. Bavadharani, III B. Sc. Maths made the institution proud by participating in the State RD Parade on 26^th January, 2019.
• National Adventure Festival: NSS volunteers S. Bavadharani, III B. Sc. Maths, S. Priyadharshini, II B. Sc., Maths and R. Soundhariya, II B. Sc., Zoology took part in the National Adventure Festival, held in Chandigarh from 02 February 2019 to 10 February, 2019, as part of the NSS Team from the University of Madras.
• Youth Parliament Festival: On 19 January, 2019 Ms. K. Gayathri, I B. Sc., Biochemistry got selected to represent Chennai District at the State Level in the District Level Youth Parliament Festival Selection held at Stella Maris College, Chennai.
• Youth Talk Symposium to End Child Marriages: On 15/02/2019 Ms. T. Sakthimeena and Ms Sweatha from II B A English participated in Youth Talk Symposium to End Child Marriages in Stella Maris College, Chennai. The programme was telecast live.

Programme officers

• Ms. M. Padma (Department of Chemistry )
• Ms.A.Nanda ( Department of English )
• Dr.M.D.Bindhuja ( Department of Zoology )
• Dr.S.Lavanya (Department of Maths)
• Ms.K.Abitha (Department of English)

NSS Activities

Activities during 2012-13

Activities during 2013-14

Activities during 2014-15

Activities during 2015-16

Activities during 2016-17

Activities during 2017-18

Activities during 2018-19

ACTION PLAN 2019-2020

YRC – YOUTH RED CROSS

YRC Programme Officer : Dr.Thulasimala, Asst. prof and Head, Dept. of Geography</strong;>
Started from 1988-89, 40 UG students are members of Youth Red Cross, and they take part actively in all its related activities, coordinated with a student president and a secretary.

RRC – RED RIBBON CLUB

In-charge : Dr.T.Rajeswari, M.A., M.Phil,Ph.D., Asst. Prof In Telugu
Many students are members of the Red Ribbon Club, and they take part actively in all the activities of the club.

GO GREEN

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment for the benefit of the individual and society in large .the main objective is the reduction of pollution and making the environment more <strong>CLEAN AND GREEN</strong>. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are the “3” s that helps us to reduce global warming. As an initiative from the PG Department of Botany, the project‘GO GREEN’ is initiated. The rationale behind the programme is not only the solid waste management of the campus, but also to create awareness on clean and green environment amongst students and to promote leadership opportunities to them.

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Solid waste of the campus falls under three categories namely

• Paper (in any form….even torn bits tickets, etc.)
• Plastics (in the form of bottles, covers, cups, etc.)
• Biodegradable (food waste, leaves and others)

Management of paper waste

The company ITC has a corporate social responsibility scheme named “ Wealth Out of Waste (WOW) which involves corporate and Educational institutions. The company gives collection bins, where even torn papers, tickets etc. are collected. Collection van visits the campus, weights the paper and encashes either in the form of A4 sheets or as Cheques.

Plastic waste

Plastic collection bins will be placed in the campus. Local venders will collect the waste weekly.

Biodegradable waste

Biodegradable waste will be collected and processed for compost. The solar fed compost will initially be used for our own use and in the future it will be sold.

Awareness programmes
A series of lectures, workshop and training on Clean- Green environment is planned throughout the year

Student participation and Leadership:

Each class has three volunteers who will be named as Go green volunteers who will monitor the cleanliness of the class room and segregation of waste and each floor will have one active volunteer as Floor Leader who will be in charge of the cleanliness of the floor. Each Block will have one Block leader who is the active participant and leader by herself who will coordinate with the floor leaders. One student coordinator will be selected. She will coordinate the entire activity. This type of Leadership ladder will motivate the students and help them mould them self in to an effective leader in due course.
The following activities were done during 2018-19

• MoU signed with ITC-WOW for recycling.
• Lawn, organic garden and rockery were made.
• Trash towers for pet bottle collection.
• Workshop on “Organic Garden Techniques-2019-20” was conducted.
• Future Plans:
  a. Establishment of mini forest and kitchen garden.
  b. Entrepreneurship of garden products.