Condolence meeting for H.H. Baselios Marthoma Paulose II organized

An online Condolence meeting was organized by St. Thomas Mission in collaboration with MGM College Dimapur Nagaland at St. Thomas College Bhilai to give memorable tribute to heavenly abode Catholicos of East & Malankara Metropolitan Supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church India, H.H. Baselios Marthoma Paulose II. On this occasion, the chief guest and speaker was Fr. Abraham Thomas Faculty, Old Theological Seminary Kottayam, Kerala & Secretary Dept. of Ecumenical Relations, MOSC.  H. G. Dr. Joseph Mar Dionysius SST Metropolitan, Calcutta Diocese said that Marthoma Paulose always worked for social development and he motivated others also to serve the society. Chief Guest and speaker Fr. Abraham Thomas said that being a spiritual personality Marthoma Paulose II was a symbol of simple living high thinking motive. He always believed to serve the society as a whole. He was a dynamic and multitalented personality and these kinds of persons are very rare in today’s time. His visionary thoughts and beliefs will always motivate us. Administrator of College Rev. Father Dr. Joshi Varghese presented a short and brief introduction about the life of Baselios Marthoma Paulose by sharing a short documentary video. He said that H.H. Baselios Marthoma Paulose II sacrificed his whole life to service the society and poor people. Assistant Professor and Additional HOD of Dept. of Commerce Dr. Sheeja Varkey said that being a social activist Marthoma Paulose always worked for the betterment and development of economically weaker people of society. At last Principal of College Dr. M. G. Roymon proposed vote of thanks and presented his gratitude towards the chief guest Fr. Abraham Thomas. He also thanked to College Administrator and Manager Bishop for their continuous support and guidance. On this occasion the Principal of MGM College Dimapur Nagaland, Fr.Dr. P. S. Varghese and other staff members were also present. The program was conducted by Mr. Pratik Sharma Assistant Professor, Dept. of Commerce.

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM COMMENCES IN ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT

A certificate program on “Inland Aquaculture” has been started in the P.G. department of Zoology of St. Thomas College , Bhilai. The program is of 30 hours duration and lasts from 5th to 15th of June,2021. The modules include topics like sustainable aquaculture,major aquaculture system and practices, monoculture, polyculture, pearl culture, Mussel culture, Socio-economic evaluation of Aquaculture Technologies, etc.

 Prof. Dr. Madhusoodhana Kurup, Former and Founder Vice Chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Chairman, advisory committee, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture,Ministry of Commerce and Industry, was the key note speaker on the inaugural day of the program. The Principal of the College, Dr.M G Roymon welcomed the guests, Dr. Jayasree Balasubramanan,Convener of the program and Head of Department of Zoology briefed the topics and theme of the certificate program and introduced the resource persons. Dr. Joyamma John, Assistant Professor and Organizing Secretory of the program proposed the vote of thanks.

 Renowned fisheries scientists from different regions of India,Dr. M Harikrishnan, Director,School of Industrial Fisheries,CUSAT,Kochi, Dr. K K Anikuttan, Scientist, ICAR-CMFRI, Dr. K.Ganesh, Assistant Director, Marine Products Export Development Authority,Dr.M.K.Anil,Principal Scientist & Head,Vizhinjam Regional Centre of CMFRI, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Dr. K V Radhakrishnan,College of Fisheries,Central Agricultural University,Agartala  and  Dr. T.Ganesh, Dr. S Venu, from Department of Ocean Studies & Marine Biology, Pondichery University,Port Blair Campus  will be the  resource persons in the 15 days program.

5 Day Workshop for Student Development

“Chhattisgarh is the most preferred place for entrepreneurship”

Bhilai : St. Thomas College, Bhilai’s Department of Economics
has organized a Five-Day virtual workshop for student development on “Entrepreneurial Ability, Opportunity and Personality Development” from 23rd April, 2021 to 27th April, 2021. Dr. Aruna Palta, Vice Chancellor of Hemchand Yadav University, Durg was the Chief Guest of this event. The guest speaker for Day 1 of this workshop was Dr. P. K Nimonkar, State Head of Chhattisgarh Industrial and Technical Consultancy (CITCON), Raipur.

The event was headed by Dr. Aparna Ghosh, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics, under the guidance of Principal, Dr. M.G Roymon and Dr. Mariam Jacob, HOD of Dept. of Economics. Dr. M.G Roymon delivered a welcome speech at the beginning of this event. Bishop His Grace, Dr. Joseph Mar Dionysius, Manager of St. Thomas College and Father Dr. Joshi Varghese, Administrator of the college, appreciated the workshop and greeted everyone. Dr. Aruna Palta gave a short speech after which Dr. Nimonkar began his presentation on the topic “Business and enterpreneurial opportunity in Chhattisgarh.”

Dr. Nimonkar brought the fact to light that Chhattisgarh is the most preferred place for entrepreneurship. He went on to highlight the reasons behind this. Chhattisgarh being the 9th largest state in India is only at the 17th position in terms of population. This shows that it has ample place available for development. Chhattisgarh also has good transportation system, robust telecom infrastructure and abundance of minerals and agricultural products. All of these make Chhattisgarh an ideal place for entrepreneurship. He spoke in great detail about the various agricultural products and industries that are flourishing in the state and also threw light on the Industrial Policies.

After the presentation, Dr. Nimonkar cleared the queries of the students. Dr. Mariam Jacob concluded the event by giving a Vote of Thanks to all the participants of the workshop. The guest speaker for the 2nd day of the workshop, Mr. Chandrahas Behar, Retd. IAS Officer, Raipur will speak about “Self Management”. Day 3’s guest speaker, Mr. Vivek Joglekar, Academic Director of Aadharshila Vidya Mandir, Bilaspur will speak on the topic “How to face an interview ?”. Day 4’s guest speaker, Mr. Kaustubh Dharmadhikary, Director and owner of KAPS Ice-cream, Raipur, will speak about “Pursuing enterpreneuship as a career”, and the special guest of the final day of the workshop, Dr. Prasant Shrivastava, Dean Student Welfare, Hemchand Yadav University, Durg will be speak on “Personality Development”.

Certificate Program “Professional Business Skills” started

The Department of Management Studies, St. Thomas College, Bhilai started two week certificate program on the title “’Professional Business Skills to develop the business skills in youth according to the changing scenario post Covid. The chief guest of today’s inaugural session was Dr. Aruna Palta, Honourbale Vice Chancellor, Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg. First of all Dr. Susan R. Abraham Head, Dept. of Management Studies, St. Thomas College gave a brief introduction about the certificate program and said that as per the industrial requirements, changes and expectations, well known and experienced speakers from industry are included in this program. Principal of College Dr. M. G. Roymon welcomed all the eminent guests and said that on Regular Intervals St. Thomas College organizes such programs for the betterment of students and we are dedicated towards the upliftment of students. Dr. Aruna Palta, Vice Chancellor, Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg appreciated the efforts taken by management department and said that this program will help students to develop their decision making, personality and will help them to mould their professional skills as per the industrial requirements. H. G. Manager Bishop Dr. Joseph Mar Dionysius, Metropolitan Calcutta Diocese congratulated the department and said that due to this pandemic the situations are changed and this program will help students to develop their skills as per the changing requirements. Administrator of College, Rev. Father Dr. Joshi Varghese gave his best wishes and said that students will have to develop themselves according to the present professional requirements. The Speaker of today’s session was well known blogger, story teller, and motivational speaker Dr. Ajit Varwandkar.  He stressed on goal setting and said that today’s youth should select their career on the basis of changing industrial scenario. He said that now a days social media is very helpful for selection of career options. He cleared all the doubts of participants by giving answers to their questions. The program was conducted by Mahendra Ikhar, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Management Studies and Vote of thanks was proposed by BBA student Gurpeet Kaur.

सेंट थॉमस कॉलेज ने मृदा विश्लेषण पर ऑनलाइन प्रमाणपत्र कार्यक्रम का उद्घाटन किया

वनस्पति विज्ञान के स्नातकोत्तर विभाग ने “मृदा विश्लेषण” पर 15 दिवसीय ऑनलाइन प्रमाणपत्र कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया। यह प्रमाणपत्र कार्यक्रम छात्रों में मृदा विश्लेषण की बुनियादी समझ विकसित करने और मृदा परीक्षण के लिए आवश्यक कौशल को बढ़ाने और मृदा स्वास्थ्य के संबंध में रिपोर्ट तैयार करने पर जोर देता है। यह कार्यक्रम मृदा परीक्षण प्रयोगशालाओं में रोजगार के अवसर प्रदान करेगा और अपनी स्वयं की मृदा परीक्षण प्रयोगशाला स्थापित करने में भी मदद करेगा।

कार्यक्रम का उद्घाटन कॉलेज के अध्यक्ष हिज ग्रेस, डॉ जोसेफ मार डायोनिसियस ने किया। अपने उद्घाटन भाषण में हिज ग्रेस ने वर्तमान परिदृश्य में मृदा विश्लेषण के महत्व पर जोर दिया जब प्रदूषण मानव स्वास्थ्य पर भारी पड़ रहा है। हिज ग्रेस ने यह भी कहा कि मृदा विश्लेषण से कृषि पृष्ठभूमि वाले छात्रों को विभिन्न कृषि और गैर-कृषि उपयोगों के लिए भूमि की उपयुक्तता का आकलन करने में कौशल विकसित करने में मदद मिलेगी और साथ ही जैविक खेती की आवश्यकता पर जोर दिया।

कॉलेज के प्रशासक रेव. डॉ. जोशी वर्गीस ने मृदा विश्लेषण पर एक प्रमाणपत्र कार्यक्रम विकसित करने पर वनस्पति विज्ञान के पी जी विभाग द्वारा की गई पहल की सराहना की। डॉ. जोशी वर्गीस ने यह भी कहा कि चूंकि मृदा विश्लेषण एक मूल्यवान कृषि पद्धति है जो मिट्टी में उपलब्ध फसल पोषक तत्वों की सटीक मात्रा निर्धारित करती है, इस व्यावहारिक दृष्टिकोण से किसानों को लाभ होना चाहिए। प्राचार्य डॉ. एम. जी. रॉयमन ने सभा का स्वागत किया और इस प्रमाणपत्र कार्यक्रम में शामिल अनुभवी संसाधन व्यक्तियों के समूह के प्रति आभार व्यक्त किया। इस कार्यक्रम में डॉ संतोष कुमार सार, प्रोफेसर और प्रमुख, अनुप्रयुक्त रसायन विज्ञान, बी आई टी, दुर्ग सी जी; डॉ. आलोक तिवारी, प्रधान वैज्ञानिक, मृदा विज्ञान और कृषि रसायन विज्ञान विभाग, आई.जी.के.वी, रायपुर सी जी; डॉ मीनाक्षी भारद्वाज, सहायक प्रोफेसर वनस्पति विज्ञान, इंदिरा गांधी कला और विज्ञान कॉलेज, वैशाली नगर, भिलाई सी.जी; डॉ सतीश सेन, सहायक प्रोफेसर वनस्पति विज्ञान, वी. वाई. टी. पीजी ऑटोनॉमस कॉलेज, दुर्ग सी जी; डॉ आर.के. ठाकुर, सहायक प्रोफेसर मृदा विज्ञान, जवाहरलाल नेहरू कृषि विश्व विद्यालय, बालाघाट एम पी; डॉ आशीष भुई, सहायक प्रोफेसर रसायन विज्ञान, पं. दीनदयाल उपाध्याय स्नातकोत्तर कॉलेज, झालमाला कबीरधाम सी.जी और कुमारी जागृति खिचरिया, एप्लाइड केमिस्ट्री बी आई टी, दुर्ग।

सर्टिफिकेट प्रोग्राम की संयोजक और वनस्पति विज्ञान विभाग की प्रमुख डॉ. विनीता थॉमस उद्घाटन सत्र की वक्ता थीं। डॉ थॉमस ने मिट्टी के बुनियादी पहलुओं पर एक अद्भुत अंतर्दृष्टि दी और कहा कि मिट्टी सबसे महत्वपूर्ण कृषि संपत्तियों में से एक है जो फसलों को पानी और पोषक तत्वों का एक मूल्यवान भंडार प्रदान करती है। प्रत्येक प्रकार की मिट्टी के अपने गुण होते हैं जिन्हें बदला नहीं जा सकता, जैसे कि बनावट। उन्होंने इस बात पर भी जोर दिया कि मिट्टी की गुणवत्ता के प्रबंधन में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण कारकों में से एक नियमित मिट्टी विश्लेषण है। इसके बाद प्रतिभागियों के साथ संवाद सत्र का आयोजन किया गया। कार्यक्रम का संचालन डॉ. ज्योति बख्शी, कार्यक्रम समन्वयक ने किया और कार्यक्रम के सह-समन्वयक डॉ. सुरुचि पारखी ने कार्यक्रम को सफलतापूर्वक आयोजित करने में सहायता की।

A Talk on Patent Filing

The P.G. Department of Chemistry of St. Thomas College organized a Webinar on Patent Filing. The Guest Speaker of the Webinar was Dr. Santosh Kumar Sar (Prof and Head, Department of Applied Chemistry, BIT, Durg.) Chief Patron H.G. Joseph Mar. Dionysius (Manager, Bishop), Patron Fr. Dr. Joshi Varghese (Administrator)Dr. M.G. Roymon (Principal) , Dr. James Mathew, Head, Department of Chemistry(Convener), Dr.Chanda Verma, Additional Head, Department of Chemistry ( Organising Secretary) were present in the Webinar.

Dr. James Mathew (Convener) in his welcome address briefed the Members about the Patent filing in India. Dr. Chanda Verma (Co-convener) focused on the topic of the webinar, she also emphasised the students at home and outside to take full benefit out of this and come out with their interesting inventions. Dr. Santosh Sar the guest speaker first explained the meaningof patent, he came out with the copyrights of the inventions and at the same time he discussed the intellectual property act and knowledge about the patent filing of the product and creations of the mind and the need of it in the field of protection.Sir has discussed about the patent and also the operative system of it inIndia. Furtherwith the easy references of toys and Chocolates he clarified the way how to obtainthe patent .He finally requested the students and member to implement with new inventions and make this science field fertile with proper patent granting.At the outset, Patron Fr. Dr. Joshi Varghese (Administrator)Dr. M.G. Roymon (Principal) mentioned their heartfelt thanks to the speaker and also appreciated the department for organising   talk on such  innovative topic. At the conclusion of the webinar, there was a healthy interactive session between the speaker and the participants which came out to fruitful results. The webinar was conducted by Miss Neha Verma (Asst. Prof, Dept of Chemistry) and the vote of thanks was given by Ms.Poonam Krishna Dutta(Asst. Prof, Dept of Chemistry).

NATIONAL WEBINAR ON CAREER COUNSELLING BASED ON MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE AND DERMATOGLYPHIC ANALYSIS

Education Department of St. Thomas College, Bhilai organized National webinar on career counseling based on multiple intelligence and dermatoglyphic analysis on 24th March 2021.

 Honourable Vice Chancellor, Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, Dr Aruna Palta was the chief guest of the programme and graced the occasion by delivering keynote address. She expressed the need and importance of dermatoglyphic analysis in career counseling in the current scenario.

 Rev.  Fr. Dr. Joshi Varghese blessed the occasion with his presence.

 Principal of the college Dr. M.G Roymon extended warm welcome to the chief guest Honorable Vice Chancellor Dr Aruna Palta, Resource person Dr.Joby.P.A and all the participants.

Dr. Sheeja Thomas, HOD department of education and convener of the program introduced the resource persons by briefing his profile.

The invited resource person Dr.Joby. P. A, spoke about the importance of dermatoglyphics in recognizing our multiple intelligence thereby helping to choose the career of our choice. He also emphasized the importance of dermatoglyphics in finding out ones strengths and weakness and thereby helping in chasing our passion and selecting the right career for each one of us.

Ms. Deepti Santosh, Organizing Secretary of the Webinar conducted the programme.

Dr. Reema Dewangan proposed the vote of thanks.

Mrs. Rupa Shrivastva, Mr. J Maju, Mr. Chandan P Dekate, Mr. Santosh Yadav, Dr.Anupama Gangrade and all the other faculty members of education department extended their support for the smooth conduction of the webinar.

Opening of Phynics Forum “Phynics” in PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College

A virtual ceremony was organized on occasion of opening of Phynics Forum in PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College. The keynote speaker of this program was an expert in electronics and motivational speaker Mr. Nitesh Kumar Gupta, Assistant Professor, Kalyan P.G. College, Bhilai. He discussed his views on the topic “Friend Electronics” and highlighted the importance of electronics in daily life. He explained students about how to overcome the fear of electronics as a subject. He also discussed the carrier perspectives in this field. The next speaker of the session was Dr. Biplab Goswami, assistant professor, PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College. He delivered his talk on nuclear physics and shared his experience of research. Students had a very nice interaction with him about different queries regarding research careers in Physics. Principal Dr. M. G. Roymon congratulated the whole team and gave his best wishes for successful execution of this Forum. Mr. Amit Kumar Tamrakar, Incharge (Head) of the department shared his views about Astrophysics and related queries, and hoped that the forum will help students to understand concepts and to clear their doubts in Physics. In coming days this forum will organize various informative activities for students to develop and increase their knowledge in the field of physics. Hitesh Suktel and Ruchi Sen were appointed as student representative and Ayush Kosle was appointed as Technical representative of the forum. The program was conducted by Assistant Professor Mrs. Tulika Harshit and vote of thanks was proposed by Assistant Professor Rojan Joy.

Opening of Phynics Forum “Phynics” in PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College

A virtual ceremony was organized on occasion of opening of Phynics Forum in PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College. The keynote speaker of this program was an expert in electronics and motivational speaker Mr. Nitesh Kumar Gupta, Assistant Professor, Kalyan P.G. College, Bhilai. He discussed his views on the topic “Friend Electronics” and highlighted the importance of electronics in daily life. He explained students about how to overcome the fear of electronics as a subject. He also discussed the carrier perspectives in this field. The next speaker of the session was Dr. Biplab Goswami, assistant professor, PG department of Physics, St. Thomas College. He delivered his talk on nuclear physics and shared his experience of research. Students had a very nice interaction with him about different queries regarding research careers in Physics. Principal Dr. M. G. Roymon congratulated the whole team and gave his best wishes for successful execution of this Forum. Mr. Amit Kumar Tamrakar, Incharge (Head) of the department shared his views about Astrophysics and related queries, and hoped that the forum will help students to understand concepts and to clear their doubts in Physics. In coming days this forum will organize various informative activities for students to develop and increase their knowledge in the field of physics. Hitesh Suktel and Ruchi Sen were appointed as student representative and Ayush Kosle was appointed as Technical representative of the forum. The program was conducted by Assistant Professor Mrs. Tulika Harshit and vote of thanks was proposed by Assistant Professor Rojan Joy.

Three Days Combined Annual NCC camp organized in St. Thomas College

The NCC unit of St. Thomas College organized Three Days Combined Annual NCC camp from today 1st March, 2021 to 3rd March 2021. This camp was conducted under the guidance of Col. Hemant Dubey, Commanding Officer, 37 CG BN, NCC Durg. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic this camp was organized for 3 days. Principal of College Dr. M. G. Roymon inaugurated the camp and instructed all the cadets to follow covid-19 guidelines during the camp. He congratulated all the cadets and gave his best wishes to cadets for their bright future. In this camp the permanent trainers of 37 CG BN NCC, Durg were present in which Nayab Subedar Ranjan Kumar, Nayab Subedar lobzang Chalan, Havaldar Ramchandra P. and Havaldar Chandrakant took their parades and gave training to cadets.  25 cadets of St. Thomas College participated in this camp and camp was successful conducted by Lt. Dr. Laxman Prasad.