v.E.S COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE
Principal Report 2009-10
(1) Academics and Professional Proficiency :
(a) New Courses : No New courses were started this year due to space constraint –
(b) Research :
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Dr. V.D. Barhate is recognized this year as a Research guide for Ph.D. by
University of
Mumbai from the current academic year. Two students have
registered for PhD under his guidance.
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The three minor and major research projects sanctioned last year were
continued.
( c ) Our staff members invited as resource persons elsewhere:
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Mr. Atul Mody attended an advisory committee meeting of K.J. Somaiya
Comprehensive College of Education on 14th December.
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Mr. Murugeshan evaluated the organizational structure of the election
manifestoes of five mock political parties for VESIT on 16th March 2010.
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Mr. Murugeshan judged the Mock parliamentary session relating to SEZ Drill,
Reorganization of States in India and making amendments, coupled with
discussion of Indo – China Border Conflict at VESIT on 17th March 2010.
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Mrs. Mugdha Apte went as a resource person for a discussion on the conduct of
the University Practical Examination on 26th February.
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Mrs. Shikha Dutta went as resource person for a workshop on “Introduction to
world Literature” at S. K. Somaiya College on 5th December 2010.
(d) Staff Development / Faculty Improvement Programme:
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Mrs. Shital Patil of I.T. department attended a training programme by STTP on
“Java and related technologies” from 29th to 1st August 2009.
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The College management organized a staff Induction programme for staff
members who have recently joined the V.E.S. family. The programme was
conducted by Principal Dr. (Mrs.) J.K.Phadnis, Dr.(Mrs.) S. Nagpurkar, Mr. P.
Murugeshan and Mrs. Latika Menon on 26th and 27th November 2009.
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Prof. Uday Acharya made a presentation to the teaching staff on “Work Life
Balance: Personal and Professional Issues” on 6th March 2010.
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Prof. Aarohi Parimu Khar made Presentation on “Empowerment of Sexually
Abused Women” on 8th March 2010 for the benefit of the teaching staff members.
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Dr.( Ms.) Viney Kirpal from Pune (ex IIT Professor) made a presentation on
“Interpersonal Relationships and Team Building” for the benefit of teaching staff .
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Mrs. Santhini Nair attended a one week short course in “Bioinformatics :
Emerging tool in Biological Science” from 1st to 5th February 2010.
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Dr. Anita Kanwar made a presentation on “Grants Available for research from
various gut Agencies”.
( e ) Paper / Poster Presentation by staff Members:
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Mr. Atul Mody presented a paper on “Capacity Building of Undergraduate
Physics Students” at the 2nd Conference of “Peoples Council of Education”
in October 2009.
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At a National Level Conference on “Continuing Education Programme in
Clinical Psychology” at Kannur that was organized by the Indian Clinical
Psychologists and accredited by Rehabilitation Council of India on 2 nd and
3rd October 2009. Mrs. Radhika Mohan presented two papers on
“Concession for Learning Disability in Maharashtra” and “Life Skills
Education”. She was also a panel member on both the days for the
discussion.
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Mrs. Dipta Dasgupta presented a poster on “Mind –Maps for Mathematics”
at the Homi Bhabha Institute for science Education in a National Level
Science Education Conference from 5th – 8th October 2009.
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Dr. Nagpurkar Presented a paper at the National conference on ‘Status of
Muslins in Maharashtra organized by the TISS and the Minority
Commission, Govt. pf Maharashtra on 18th and 19th December 2009.
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Mr. Atul Mody presented a paper at an international conference on Global
Interdependence and Decision Sciences (ICGI DS) from 28th to 30th
December.
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Mrs. Aarohi Parimu Khar presented a paper on 22nd January titled
“Empowering Sexually Abused Women” at K.B. college of Arts and
Commerce. It was a State-Level seminar wherein she won the “Best Paper
Award”.
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Dr. Malik and Ms. Reshma Turbekar presented a paper on “Determination of
in-vitro cytotoxic antiproliferative and antimetastatic action of Rutin and
Quercetin on highly metastatic B16 F10 Murine melanoma” in Biotrendz 10National Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology”, organized by
MGM School of Biomedical Sciences and MGMcollege of Engineering and
Technology, Navi Mumbai on 5th February 2010.
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At Khoj 2010, the National Level Seminar and poster Competition on Global
Warming organized in our college, the following Professor-student teams in
our college made Poster presentations:
1. Mrs. Hemamalini Varadarajan, Ms. Geetanjali Harale and Ms. Sneha Ramesh on
“Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystem.”
2. Mrs. Ritika Makhijani, Ms. Virochan Chavan and Firdos Kadar Sherif on “Global
Warming and World Economy”.
3. Dr. Vasant Barhate, Mr. Vivek Parab, Ms. Lalitha Meenakshi on “Vision to Green
World”.
4. Dr. Anita Kanwar, Ms. Usha Rao and Garima Singh on “Reverse flow of Sea water
: Narmada colling for Help”.
5. Mrs. Hemamalini Varadarajan, Mr. Vijay Vig and Ms. Prachi Vadnere on “Solar
Variation and Green House Gases the Cause of Eartn’s Temperature Increase”.
6. Mrs. Parinita Madan, Ms. Hanshada N. and Ms. Sonali G. on “Global Warming –
Asocial Sin”
7. Mrs. Varsha Ahuja, Mr. Ronak Patel and J. Chandrashkar on “Global Warming –
An Inconvenient Truth”.
8. Ms. Gayathri B. and Mrs. Radhika Mohan on “Moving Towards Being a Resilient
Nation : Psychosocial Perspective on Global Warming”.
9. Dr. S. Nagpurkar, Mr. C. M. Bhavdas, Mr. P. Murugeshan and Mrs. Samhitha
Sharma-Kain on “Global Warming Management: An Economists’ Approach-MicroPerspective, Macro Marketer”
10. Mr. Malay Shah, Ms. Shehnaz Moayyad .B. and Ms. Aishwanya M. on “Green
Oil: An Alternative Mobile Energy”.
11. Mr. Kishor Dichwalkar and Mr. Chiraya Choubisa on “Global Warming”.
12. Mrs. V. Murthy on “Global Warming : Some ways to contain it”.
13. Mr. V. T. Johnson on “Well Without Water”.
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14. Mr. Banerjee on “Global Warming”.
15. Ms. Meena Sharma, Mr. Deepesh Jain and Mr. Aditya Mhatre on “Skating on
Melting Ice”.
( f ) Publications by staff members:
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Mrs. S. Jayalakshmi authored two books-“Dot NET Technologies for T.Y.B.Sc.
C.S” and “Internet security for T.Y.B.Sc-IT” that were published by Vipul
Prakashan on 25th March 2009 and 29th June 2009 respectively.
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A research paper by Dr. V. D. Barhate, Mrs. Parinita Madan, Mr.Anand Kumar
S.Gupta (M.Sc. student) and Mr. Datta B., Mandhare (M.Sc. student) was
published in the Oriental Journal of Chemistry 2009 Vol 25(3) on “Extractive
Sphectrophotometric Determination of Pd(II) with Isonitroso-p-nitroacetophenone
Thiosemicarbazone”.
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Mrs. Jayalakshmi Srinivasan and Mrs. Shital Patil released their book
“Introduction to Computer Application” for BMS students (Published by Vipul
Prakashan) on 31st December 2009.
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Mr. Atul Mody presented a paper at an international conference on Global
Interdependence and Decision Sciences (ICGI DS) from 28th to 30th December.
His Paper titled “Physics: Teaching and Learning through problems” appeared in
the bulletin of Indian Association of Physics Teachers I (12), pg 323-325.
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Mrs. S. Jayalakshmi released the third edition of her book on “CRM” which was
published by Vipul Prakashan on 26th February.
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Mr. Atul Mody’s Paper titled “Physics : Teaching and Learning through
problems” appeared in the bulletin of Indian Association of Physics Teachers I
(12), pg 323-325.
( g ) Academic achievements and performance of students :
The result analysis sheets for the examinations conducted in 2009 are attached with this
report.
( h ) Co-curricular activities :
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The department of psychology organized a study visit for T.Y.B.A. (Psychology)
students to the Pune Mental Hospital to understand the nuances of
institutionalization of people having mental health problems on 4th January 2010.
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The Chemistry Association organized a series of special coaching lectures for the
Aptitude Test in Chemistry organized by the Indian Chemical Society on 6th
September. Four students were selected in this test.
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The department of Microbiology and Biotechnology organized a study tour to
Ahmedabad, Baroda and Anand in Gujrat from 25th to 29th October. They visited
Zydus Cadilla, Amul Dairy, National Research Center for Medicinal Aromatic
Plants, Natronal Institute for Occupational Health and M.S. University, Baroda.
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The department of Bio-technology organized an educational visit to Ahmedabad,
Baroda and Anand for 50 students from TY(BT), TY(Micro) and M.Sc.(Micro)
from 25th to 30th October 2009. The students visited the Zydus Research Center,
National Institute of Occupational Health, National Research Center for
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Amul and M.S. University, Baroda.
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Dr. Shikha Dutta accompanied S.Y. B.M.M. students on an industrial visit to
Bangalore and Mysore from 9th to 14th November. They visited the Krantiveer
Studio and Prasad Studio (Sound Mixing) in Bangalore.
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The S.Y.B.M.M. students launched “SPLAT” - an E- magazine on 26th
November.
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Mr. S.K. Saravana and Mr. Ashwini Kumar Yadav from T.Y.B.Sc. (Chemistry)
attended on one day workshop on “Instrumentation” that was organized by Shri
C.B. Patel Research Center and School of Sciences, NMIMS on 29 th November
2009.
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The M.Sc. Part II Chemistry students were taken on an educational visit to BARC
on 23rd December 2009.
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The department of economics sent Mr. Mayur Bajaj (T.Y.B.Com.) and Mr.
Avinash (T.Y.B.A.) to attend a Residential Leadership Camp at Lonavla from 21st
to 28th December 2009. The Camp organized highly interactive leadership
training session by experts over this period. The sessions reportedly were highly
stimulating.
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Four M.Sc. (Analytical Chemistry) students attended a conference organized by
Ruia college on various sophisticated analytical techniques on 9th January 2010.
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The students from T.Y.B.Com. (Banking and Insurance) went for an industrial
visit to Bangalore and Mysore from 16th to 21st January. They had the privilege of
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visiting Coca Cola Co. Ltd., Karnataka Silk Industries, Mysore Sandal Industry
and State Bank of Mysore.
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About 80 students from F.Y.B.M.S. and S.Y.B.M.S. attended a one-day seminar
on “Emerging Trends - Visioning to Reality” at Raheja college on 18th January
2010.
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53 T.Y.B.M.S. students accompanied by two professors went for an industrial
visit to HMT tractors, Mushroom factory and Pharma companies in the industrial
belt of Chandigarh- Shimla region from 2nd to 8th February 2010.
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The F.Y. B.Com. (Financial Markets) students were taken for an industrial visit
to the National Insurance Academy at Pune and to the Unicable Industry at
Lonavala on 20th February 2010.
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The S. Y. B.Com (Financial Markets) were taken for an industrial visit to Silvasa
on 29th February 2010. They visited Alok Industries and S. K. Synthetics.
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The S.Y B.M.S. students were taken for an industrial visit to Silvassa. On this
trip, 58 students were accompanied by two professors to Jaya Bharat Filament.
( 2 ) Sports / Extra-curricular Achievements :
Some prominent achievements are mentioned herea.) University Level :
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Ms. Kanchan Jadhav from S.Y.I.T. secured the silver medal at the University
level competition in Shot Put this year.
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The college students also secured the following prizes- Ms. Subalaxmi Tripathi
from S.Y.B.Sc. won the 6th prize for long jump and 8th prize for 400m., Ms.
Vimla Chandra from F.Y.B.Sc. won the 3rd prize for long jump, Ms. Supriya
Adhikari from S.Y.B.Com. won the 3rd prize for high jump, Mr. Jayaprakash
Singh from F.Y.B.Com. won the 8th prize for 20 km walk and Mr. Sandeep Singh
from S.Y.B.Com. won the 8th prize for Triple jump.
b) Inter-collegiate Level
Some prominent prizes are listed below :
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Mr. J.Chandrashekhar, Mr. Virochan Chavan and Mr. Ronak Patel from S. Y.
(Biotech) and Mr. Vivek Parab from S. Y.(Micro) won the First Prize of Rs.
10000/- for their project on “Waste Management in College Laboratories” at a
State level competition titled “Vidnyan Sanshodhan Puraskar”on 28th February
2010.
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Ms. Divya Iyer and Ms. Dipti Iyer from S.Y.I.T. won the First Prize in debate at
the inter-collegiate festival conducted by Elphinston college during 7th and 8th
December and also at Ruia college on 18th and 19th December.
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At an intercollegiate festival organized by National college our T.Y.B.A
(Psychology) students were awarded the II Prize for the stall put up on mental
health from 14th to 16th December 2010.
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Our college team from T.Y.C.S. won the “Best College award” at an
intercollegiate IT event, “Zeal” that was organized by Sidharth College on 22nd
December.
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At the Madhava Mathematics Competition held at Homi Bhabha Center for
Science Education, Mr. Aditya Garg from S.Y.B.Sc. acquired the Third Position
among the Mathematics students from University of Mumbai and University of
Pune who participated in this competition on 3rd January 2010.
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Ms. Mayuri from T.Y.B.A. (Economics) won the First Prize in Poster Making at
the Intercollegiate Economics Festival “Aarth Aarohan” organized by SIES
College on 9th January 2010.
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Our college team won the I Prize in the Group Dance Competition at the intercollegiate festival of Mithibai college, “Shikar”, on 16th January.
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At the intercollegiate festival organized by Modern college on 20th and 21st
January Mr. Bhavesh from S.Y. I.T. won the First Prize in Tech Quiz and Second
Prize in Sudoku.
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Our students from S.Y.I.T. and T.Y.I.T won the “Best College Award” at the
inter-collegiate festival organized by ICL college on 27th and 28th January.
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The S.Y.B.Sc. (Microbiology and Biotechnology) students won the First Prize at
a Microbiology based skit competition organized by the Royal college as a part of
their intercollegiate festival titled “Gyan Manthan 2010” on 30th January.
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Mr. Chinmaya and Miss Supriya from T.Y. B.A. (Psychology) won the First Prize
at an intercollegiate seminar presentation on Carl Rogers at M.D. Shah Mahila
college, Mumbai on 6th February 2010.
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One team from S.Y.B.A. (Psychology) won the First Prize at an intercollegiate
seminar competition on “Stress and Adolescence” at P.N. Doshi college, Mumbai
on 9th February 2010.
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( 3 ) Mega events of the year ( Workshops / Seminars Projects / Exhibitions / Functions /
Intra & Inter-collegiate Functions)
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Dept. of Economics along with the Board of studies in Economics organized aone
Day workshop on the New syllabus of the T.Y. B.A. paper VIII ‘Indian Financial
System’ on 5th November 2009.
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At the invitation of the department of Psychology, Mrs. Radhika Narayanan from
S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research conducted a one – day inter-collegiate
workshop on “Discovering one-self: Explore your Potentials” on 27th June 2009.
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The department of BMM organized its annual cultural event “Raaga”on 10th
August 2009. Pandit Satish Vyas was invited as the guest of honour on this
occasion. Students from Sulabh Sulabh School for mentally retarded gave a
performance on this occasion.
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“Sci-Clone”, the annual inter–collegiate festival for postgraduate students of
biological sciences was organized by the department of Microbiology on 9th
October. The programme was attended by 156 post-graduate students who
participated in events like Paper Presentation, Poster Making, Debate and Quiz.
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The department of Economics in association with the Forum of Free Enterprise
organized the 45th A.D. Shroff Memorial Elocution this year on 11th November
2009. Our first Prize winner Miss. Mandeep from T.Y.B.A. was selected as an
intercollegiate finalist. The Forum sponsored cash prizes of Rs. 2500, certificates
and booklets for this competition. On the same day a slide show titled
“Cartooning out the story of the Global Recession 2008-2009” was presented by
Mrs. Samhitha Sharma Kain and Mr. Avinash from T.Y.B.A.(Economics).

The T.Y.B.Sc. (Physics) students organized “Exhibition 2009” on 17th November
2009. In this exhibition, they highlighted the origin, characteristics and
applications of different sections of the electromagnetic spectrum starting from
radio frequency waves to gamma rays. There were also a few electronic circuitary
exhibits like event counter, water level sensor etc.
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As a part of the “Awareness Programme for the Youth 2009”, Sri Sathya Sai Seva
organization conducted an Essay Competition and a Poster making competition in
three languages (English, Hindi and Marathi). On 21st November 2009.
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The department of B.M.M. organized a Social Awareness week (SAW) from 23rd
to 27th November to remind the people of their social responsibilities. The three
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sub-themes of SAW were “Start literacy”, “Save Environment” and “Stop
Violence”.
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The department of Mathematics organized its 20th M3 contest on 12th December
in which students from various disciplines participated.
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The department of BMS organized its annual inter-collegiate management festival
“Confluence” from 16th to 18th December 2009. It attracted participation from 40
colleges across the city. The major events included “Campus Show” i.e.
presenting your campus through a short film, “Unique Identity Card Project”, a
P.R. event, “Adorning the Role of Business Tycoons” and “Biz Antakshri”.
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The college annual indoor sports events were held from 20th to 22nd December
while the outdoor events were held on 23rd and 24th December.
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The department of Banking and Insurance organized its annual intercollegiate
festival “Euphonity” on 9th and 10th January. The chief guest Mr. Eknath Birari
(Senior Manager and Senior Faculty Member of staff Training college of oriental
Bank of Commerce) gave a talk on “Careers in Banking” The other events
organized were Sudoku, Try and Rectify Stock Market etc. About 200 students
from various Mumbai colleges participated.
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The annual intra-college festival “Talentia” was organized in our college on 11th
and 12th January with a number of events from fine arts, literary arts and
performing arts.
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The Research Circle of our college along with R.C.F. held a two-day national
level interdisciplinary seminar on “Global Warming: Causes, Consequences and
Coping Strategies” on 22nd and 23 January 2010, wherein several experts in the
field along with participants from the industry took part. The chairperson of the
seminar was Principal Dr. (Mrs.) J. K. Phadnis, The convenor and co-converner
were Dr. (Mrs.) S. Nagpurkar and Dr. V. Barathe respectively. The seminar was
inaugurated by J. Kohareswarn, Director, Marketing, R.C.F. in the presense of
Shri. B. L. Boolani and other illuminories. Dr. Sanjay Deshmukh Head of Life
Science department, University of Mumbai delivered the keynote address.
Another prominent presentation was by Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Scientist, NEERI,
The highlight of the seminar was the special case study presented by some
farmers from Harayana who have obtained and traded “Carbon Credits” under the
“Clean Development Mechanism”. There was also a presentation by Ms. Ruchi
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Jain, India Co-ordinator of 350.org who was a part of the Indian Youth
Delegation to the recent Copenhagen Summit. The Valedictory Address was
given by Mr. U. S. Jha, Chairman and Managing Director of R.C.F. A poster
competition on the seminar topic was also organized in which 35 entries were
received. Many of our college Professors also guided students and presented
posters at this seminar.
( 4 ) Campus Placements and Career Guidance :
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An Exhibition on various careers was organized in the Forum Hall of the college
on 8th ,9th , 10th , 11th and 12th of June. It was left open for the just passed students
of XII standard.
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A Career Talk was organized for the students and parents of just XII passed
students. Mr. Shankar Jadhav, a very senior corporate personality, spoke on
Careers through MBA and in top level management on 9th June 2009.
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A second Career Talk was organized for the students and parents of just XII
passed students on careers in Aviation Industry on 11th June 2009. The resource
person Ms. Hanovi spoke about service sector careers in general and careers in
aviation industry.
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IRIS Business Services (I) Pvt. Ltd. conducted its PPT (Pre Placement Talk) on
17th June 2009 and short-listed 12 students for further interviews at their corporate
office.
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On 19th June 2009 Genesys International Corporation Ltd. shot-listed 7 of our
students for final interviews at their corporate office at SEEPZ, Andheri.

“Gee Bee Educations” Conducted a seminar on “Education Abroad” for T.Y.I.T.
students on 11th July 2009.

Mr. Rahul and Miss Vidhi had a discussion with T.Y.I.T. students on “How to
prepare for MBA and MCA entrance exam” on 25th July 2009.
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“Career Launcher” conducted a Seminar on 21st August 2009 on “Preparations for
MBA”.
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Wipro Technologies conducted a pre-placement talk followed by interviews for
recruiting the 2009 batch graduates of V.E.S. on 26th and 27th October 2009.

The Accountancy department along with the Career Guidance Cell organized an
orientation programme for “Careers through Accounts” that was conducted by
ICFAI on 29th and 30th October 2009.
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A Career Guidance session was conducted by Prof. Umesh Chauhan on 14th
November and 28th November 2009, to orient the students on career planning and
handling of personal profiles.
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Mr. Vaze of Prerna Technologies conducted a 90 minute session on career
planning for the third year students on 21st November 2009.
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During the placement week organized by the Placement Cell of the college, from
1st to 7th December 2009,4 T.Y.B.M.S students were placed in WNS and 9 were
placed in J.P. Morgan. A placement programme by Wipro Technologies was also
organized on 13th December.
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The department of Sociology began a drive for free employment cards on 21st
December 2009 behalf of the government of Maharashtra for all the students of
the college. This was in collaboration with “For the People Foundation” a local
NGO run by Mr. Vikram Bhambani.
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Three students from Computer Science and two from I.T. were selected by HCL
in their placement programme organized at HCL, Ghatkopar on 24th December
2009.
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Our College organized a placement
programme by Tech Mahindra on 30th
December wherein neighborhood colleges were also invited (Pillai, SIES, Sion,
S.K. Somaiya and Acharya Marathe) 13 of our students were selected (5 from
CS, 7 from IT, and 1 from Physics).
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Under the WASE programme, Wipro Technologies Limited conducted interviews
for the students of T.Y.I.T. on 24th January 2010 in which 2 students got selected.

At the Wipro BPO placement programme organized on 9th February 2010, three
students from T.Y.C.S got selected.
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In aptitude tests conducted by HCL Ghatkopar and Thinklabs on 28th February
nine and two students have been selected respectively.
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At the Think Labs Placement Programme organized in our college on 20th
February for our ex-students from CS and IT, one ex-student got selected.
( 5 ) NSS Activities :
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The NSS Unit of the college organized a rural Camp from 25th to 31st December
involving 80 student volunteers in our adopted village ‘Sutrakar’ at Talasari
district Thane.
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The NSS Unit of the college organized its 9th Blood Donation camp in the college
on 4th January collected 63 bottles of blood for the Sarvodaya Blood Bank.
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The NSS wing of the college sent Ms. Puja Sathe from F.Y. B.Com. (Financial
Marketing) to attend a Student Master Training RRC (Red Ribbon Club)
programme organized by Mumbai district Aids Control Society for three days at
Lonavala from 28th February 2010.
Principal.
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