St. Thomas College Bhilai the Bhoomi Pujan of Gym was done by Shri Tamrdhwaj Sahu Honorable Home Minister Government of Chhattisgarh. It is worth mentioning that the amount for this gym is provided by the MLA find. First of all Administrator of College Rev. Fr. Dr. Joshi Varghese welcomed honorable minister by presenting him a bouquet and said that it was demended for the long time by the students for gym facility and today honorable minster accepted our request. The St. Thomas Family will be obliged for the minister. Honorable Minster Mr. Sahu said that the youth is the future of the country and it is very necessary to be fit for the youth because a healthy body keeps a healthy mind. I hope that this gym will be very helpful for the students in future. Honorable Mayor of Risali Municipal Corporation Mrs. Shashi Sinha, Commissioner Risali Municipal Corporation Mr. Ashish Dewangan, Chairmen Risali Municipal Corporation Mr. Keshav Banchhor were also present. On this occasion H. G. Dr. Joseph Mar Dionysius, Manager Bishop St. Thomas College Bhilai and Principal Dr. M. G. Roymon were virtually present.  Principal Incharge Dr. Mariam Jacob, Heads from all the departments, other Professors and staff members were also present.

Webinar on “Incubation and Start-ups in Higher Education” Conducted at St.Thomas College Bhilai.The PG. Department of Commerce under the aegis of departmental Association Commzenith , ED Cell and Institutional Innovation Council Association, in collaboration with our MoU Patners Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai and Smt. Radhadevi Goenka College for Women Akola Maharashtra organized webinar on the topic “ Incubation and Start ups in Higher Education” On 27th May 2022. Dr. Manoj Varghese, Dean IIC, RCET Bhilai and Mr. Varun Agrawal, Owner of Varun Insustries Akola Maharashtra were the resource persons on the Occasion. Dr.Manoj Varghese stressed on How to build a successful Startup.He emphasized on the potential key factors that help to set a start-up avoiding which an individual might not successfully execute the business idea. On the other hand Mr. Varun Agrawal, the second resource person, dealt with the practical need and importance of Incubators and Accelerators in incubating the business idea and then expanding its potential into a medium or large scale enterprise. He shared his personal experiences with the participants. Principal of St. Thomas College Bhilai Dr. M.G.Roymon said that entrepreneurship and startups is the need of the hour and is required for economic development. The participants from both the colleges included the faculties and the students.127 participants registered and attended the program .Dr. Rupa Gupta Asst.Prof. department of Commerce,Smt. Radhadevi Goenka College for women Akola welcomed the Participants. Dr. Shubha Diwan Asst. Prof. Biotechnology Department and Convenor of ED Cell Proposed the Vote of thanks. Dr. Prateek Sharma Asst. Prof. department of commerce,St.Thomas College Bhilai conducted the program. Dr. Sapna Sharma Head Department of Commerce, St. Thomas College Bhilai and Dr. Ambadas B. Pandey Head Department of Commerce, Smt. Radhadevi Goenka College for Women Akola Maharashtra congratulated the departments of both the colleges for the conduct of this program.The students opined that the session was fruitful for them and would like to attend such type of sessions in future.

St. Thomas College, Bhilai, P.G Dept. of Psychology, in collaboration with MOU partners Holy Cross women’s college, Ambikapur and Government Kamla Devi Rathi Girls P.G college, Rajnandgaon organized three days online workshop on Basics of Research Methodology.  Resource persons of the workshop were Dr AvantikaKaushil, Assistant Professor, Govt. E.V.P.G College, Korba and Dr. Jay Singh, Associate Professor, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Kaushil gave inputs on the topic ‘Data collection and Sampling Techniques’ and spoke that a researcher has to be very honest in collecting appropriate sample and discussed various methods of data collection and sampling techniques.Dr. Jay Singh, gave his expert lecture on ‘Introduction to Basics of Statistics’. It was a very interactive session in which students were introduced to inferential and descriptive statistics, importance of normal probability curve and when to use statistics such as ANOVA, ANCOVA and Factor Analysis.

Administrator of the college, Rev Father Dr.Joshy Varghese appreciated the topic of the workshop and stressed that in todays academic world every student should develop his research skills to be a betterstudent and researcher. Principal Dr. M.G. Roymon said the IQAC has to conduct such academic development programs for quality enhancement.Dr. SR. Shanta Joseph, Principal, Holy Cross women’s college, Ambikapur addressed the gathering in the opening session and encouraged the organisers for their efforts. Dr. Alok Mishra, Principal, Government Kamla Devi Rathi Girls P.G college, Rajnandgaon gave full support for the conduct of the workshop. Dr.Debjani Mukherjee Head, dept. of psychology welcomed the gathering and said every student must know the basics of research methods and statistics as it is very useful in higher education.MoU partner colleges give a platform to students to interact and learn together. Dr.MamtaAwasthi, Head, Dept. of Psychology Holy Cross Women’s College, Ambikapur and Dr.BasantSonber, Government Kamla Devi Rathi Girls P.G College, Rajnandgaonaddressed the students and enlightened them on the various aspects of Research Methodology. Dr.AnkitaDeshmukh, Dr. Mona Makhija and Ms.Divya Singh Assistant Professors of the three colleges conducted the sessions and Dr.Sumita Singh Assistant Professor St. Thomas College, proposed the vote of thanks. Mr. J Maju, Assistant Professor assisted in smooth conduct of the workshop.

PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, St. Thomas College, Bhilai has jointly organised an alumni interaction and lecture with Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) on 11.04.2022. “The title of seminar was “Scientific illustrations and scientific communications”. The guest speaker was Dr. Disha Chauhan, is an Alumni of St. Thomas College Bhilai. The resource person, Dr. Chauhan is Entrepreneurship & Technology Outreach Consultant, C-CAMP Bangalore. She spoke about different ways of representing scientific data into different modes of communication like research papers, books, articles etc. She talked about the possible career in the field of scientific communications. She interacted with students and made them illustrate their own versions of biological concepts. This activity helped students in visualising information other than textbook knowledge. Number of beneficiaries who attended was 60.