2019

Martyrs Day Date: 14th August, 2019 Time: 12:00 am to 1:00pm Participants: NSS Volunteers of St. John Technical Campus NSS units (SJCEM, SJIPR, SJCHS) Venue : Hutatma Chowk , Panchbatti Palghar (West) St. John Technical Campus – NSS Unit, St. John College of Engineering and Management (SJCEM), St. John Institute Pharmacy and Research (SJIPR), St. John College of Humanities and Sciences (SJCHS) NSS volunteers took initiative to attend Martyrs Day programme on 14th August 2019. On 14th August 1942, there was an uprising against the British, in which five brave fighters Kashinath Hari Pagdhare, Govind Ganesh Thakur, Ramchandra Mahadev Churi, and Govind Sukur More were martyred in Palghar. Therefore, the main circle of Palghar is known as “Paachbatti” (which means ‘five lights’) in honour of these martyrs. 14th August has been declared as “Martyrs Day” in Palghar and people gather at Paachbatti circle to honour five martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the Quit India Movement. The NSS unit of St. John Technical and Educational Campus also joined them at Paachbatti. There were 16 volunteers of our NSS units who had gathered to honour these martyrs by prayers.

Essay and Poetry competition In order to commemorate the Guru Purnima, the Literary Club of SJCHS conducted an Essay and Poetry competition for the students. The students were asked to submit their essay and poetry written by them on the theme of Guru Purnima which celebrates the pious relationship between the Guru and the Shishya.There were total 17 entries: 13 in English, 3 in Hindi and 1 in Marathi. All entries of the students expressed their respect for teachers and their sincere desire to learn from them and repay their debt of gratitude through a promise to excel in their studies. The winners of the competition are: English: First Position: Anam Memon (FYBA) Second Position: Jyoti Mishra (SYBA) Third Position: Gautami Patil (FYBA) Hindi: First Position: Vaishnavi Bhosale (FYBA) Marathi: First Position: Rohit Modak (TYBBI)

Just a minute (JAM) competition “Just a minute (JAM)” is an interesting game like competition to encourage students to showcase their English communication ability. This competition gives excellent opportunity for the students to further develop their communication capabilities through the challenges that they are made to take on during the competition, posed either by the JAM Master through the interesting and challenging topics that the participants are made to speak on, or by the objections that they have to face from their fellow participants in case they have trespassed the rules of the competition. In totality, the competition is an interesting platform for students to engage in public speaking in a game like situation. Such competitions can encourage students to come out of their shell and develop their confidence to communicate in English. The JAM Competition was conducted for the second year and third year students of SJCHS on 5th July 2019 at 11 am. The coordinators of the Event- Ms. Tanya D’Souza and Ms. Divya Bhagat welcomed the audience and the participants and laid out the rules of the JAM competition. A variety of topics were given on the spot to students for speaking for sixty seconds. Some of the topics were: “If I were Invisible”, “My Dream Job”, “If Time Stopped” etc. The topics triggered imagination of the participants and kept them engaged in spewing out one thing or the other (though within the context of the topic) with regard to the topics as their turns came otherwise they would have lost the opportunity to score against each other. Sister Hilda, and many teaching faculties and students of different departments witnessed the imagination power and expressions of the participants. This provided students with a golden opportunity to practice and exhibit their speaking skills. The final round further peaked the interest of the audience as they held to their seats watching the finalists racing against each other in the verbal duel. Jolly Guliana (First place), Srishti Anand (Second), Rosette Nirmal (Third) were declared as the winners of the competition. It was the first event of the Literary Club for the current academic year and was well received by all-the participants, the audience and the college administration. Sister Hilda, the Administrative Head of SJCHS complimented the students for their participation and enthusiasm. She further requested us ( the Literary Club) to hold the same event on more regular basis than to conduct it as a one time event in an academic year.

Self Defence Techniques The Women Development Cell believes that “Feeling confident in your ability to protect yourself empowers you to live with less fear and more freedom” It is extremely important for women to learn self defence techniques for their own safety and confidence, especially in today’s scenerio when women are vulnerable to rising number of unethical behaviours and violence. Keeping this in mind, the women development cell of SJCHS organised a session on Self defence techniques on 22/06/2019, in which the Martial arts trainer Mr. Shiddhant Shukla and his associated team members provided hands on training on Self Defence Techniques. Around 100 girls students got benefitted by the training. At the end of the session, the techniques to use day to day things as a weapon were shared.

World Day Against Child Labour St. John College of Humanities & Sciences, Department of Commerce has organized an programme on World Day Against Child Labour for SYB.Com/TYB.Com/SYBBI students at the institute premises on 12th June, 2019. The major objective of the programme was to create awareness about the child labour prevalent in the whole world, so that the students can understand the wrong happening in our society and in their nearby and try to give their best possible help to this sections of the society. The speaker of the programme was Dr.Rambali R. Maurya, Asst. Prof.,Commerce,SJCHS. In total 79 students has attended the programme along with faculty. Speaker of the programme addressed the issue of child labour around the world. He has given various facts and figures about the issue. Programmes has been started with small videos displaying problem of child labour and then followed by PPT presentation. The programme concluded with the vote of thanks.