Festival

Guru Purnima Celebration Guru Purnima is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Ashadh of the Hindu Calendar to pay our homage to the lineage of spiritual masters. It coincides with the holy birthday of Shri Ved Vyas, the compiler of 4 Veda & 18 Purans. This year, the pious day fell on 16th July, 2019 as per English Calendar. On this sacred day of Guru Purnima, the Literary Club of St. John College of Humanities & Sciences celebrated this day with all the teaching & non-teaching staff of the college. Both the teaching and non-teaching staff were welcomed in the Hindu ritual style of applying ‘Tilak’ to the forehead. Handcrafted roses were gifted to all the faculty members as a token of love from students. Sister Hilda Albuquerque (Administrative Head) was the Chief Guest and she graced the event showering a lot of appreciation for the students for their respect for the teachers. The student members of the Literary Club hosted the event with great enthusiasm. Rueben Alwa (SYBMS) & Naman Kherodiya (SYBCom.) were the speakers of the event. The event started with St. Francis prayer. Shristi Anand (SYBBI) gave a speech on the significance of this auspicious day, starting with the hymn of ‘Gurur Bramha’. An amusing game was arranged for all the faculty members where they were required to use their imagination to construct a story based on the stuffs that were especially assorted for them. While the participating faculty members took on the challenge of the game and spouted funny and interesting stories, all others laughed and were regaled listening to their stories. The inspiration of this game came to the students through the club’s vision and mission of ‘Carving Creative Persona’ wherein the students will develop their thinking capabilities. No doubt, the students really racked their mind in thinking of a game that would be suitable for the faculty members. And the staff also responded with equal enthusiasm by involving themselves in the exercise in imagination. Lastly, the festivity ended with the vote of thanks by Prabhakar Prajapati (SY BSc. HS)

Gandhi Jayanti Celebration Name of the Activities: 1) Mahatma Gandhi Awareness Rally 2) Essay and Elocution Competition 3) Cleanliness Drive activity at Adopted area Participants: Students & Staff of St. John College of Engineering and Management (SJCEM), St. John Institute of Pharmacy and Research (SJIPR), St. John College of Humanities and Sciences (SJCHS) Aldel Education Trust’s St. John Technical and Educational Campus, Palghar organized various activities on the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. As per circular received by DTE and NSS cell the activity was to be conducted between 24th September 2018 to 2nd October 2018. Keeping this in mind, we organized a Rally, Essay & Elocution Competition, and Swachahta Hi Seva on the theme of Mahatma Gandhi. The Students of St. John Technical Campus took active part in the rally on ‘Non – Violence’ & ‘Gandhiji’s life and his work’. The rally was conducted from Palghar Railway Station to Lakshmi Narayan Mandir by the NSS Department on 25th September 2018, (Tuesday) . The main motive of this rally was to create awareness by celebrating the greatness of the Mahatma, and that every one should take a pledge to adopt his way of life and principles of truth, empathy, humbleness, honesty and sincerity. A total of 100 students participated in this event. St. John Technical Campus also organized a second activity of Essay writing and Elocution competition on 28th September 2018 (Friday)at the College hall and Communication Skills lab. The Principals of the colleges chaired the competitions and inspired students to take part in every sort of activities. The main objective of this competition was to create awareness of the relevance of Mahatama Gandhiji even today. Considering the need to follow Gandhian ideology, the students were notified to take part in the essay competition. The College received a fruitful response from students from various disciplines. A total of 21 Students took part in this competition. Some of the students wrote extensive essays highlighting on Gandhian principles and ideology and some of the students expressed their views regarding Gandhi’s struggle for independence of India. The third activity was conducted by the NSS volunteers of St. John Technical Campus, Palghar. They actively took part in the cleanliness drive conducted at adopted area, Dastooripada on Saturday, 29th September 2018. The main objective of this activities was to spread awareness among people about Gandhiji’s ideology, cleanliness & hygiene. Cloth bags were distributed during the drive. A Total of 20 NSS volunteers actively participated in this event. The NSS volunteers explained the importance of Cleanliness and also created Anti-plastic awareness and distributed cloth bags to the villagers. All family socio-economic survey reports conducted by students were collected and kept as a record for further procedures. The people staying in the villages were very positive and thankful that St. John Technical Campus, Palghar – NSS volunteers organized the Cleanliness Drive and cleaned the villa