CHEM-BOND activities for the academic year 2008-2009 concluded with valecdictory function held on 4 th March 2009. Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Head NEERI was invited as Chief Guest. Dr. Rakesh Kumar delivered informative lecture on ‘Green Chemistry’ and gave prizes to winners of CHEM-BOND competitions. KSHITIJ 2009 Department of Management Studies organises an Annual Academic Programme every year namely “KSHITIJ” which is based on Management Themes. The theme for the academic year 2008-09 was”A CASE PANAROMA *Career *Attitude * Skills *Ethics”. It was held on Saturday, 21 st February 2009. Speakers were invited to speak on ATTITUDE and CAREERS. Programme was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr.P.N. Singh an Eminent HR Expert, Chairman, Grid Consultants Pvt Ltd. Shri Nimish Pandhya District President Shri Satya Sai Seva Organisation spoke on ATTITUDE and Shri N Gautam an expert in career planning spoke on CAREERS. This year KHITIJ also witnessed an intercollegiate case competition on ETHICS. Total 10 teams had participated in the competition. Dr. D.V. Amonkar Memorial Competition Dr. D.V. Amonkar Memorial Competition was held on 23 rd August 2008. This is an annual intercollegiate elocution competition being organized by the Department of Botany for the last twelve years. Dr. Sanjay Deshmukh, Professor and Head, Department of life Sciences, University of Mumbai was the chief guest and he spoke on Sustainable Agriculture. 47 participants from different colleges spoke on the topics like: Carbon Credit, Food-Security-Reality or Myth and Medicinal plants for Autoimmune Diseases etc. The Winners were from SIES, Vivekanand and R J College. Hindi Sahitya Parishad • Inaugural function was held on August 9, 2008. Famous poet Shri Alok Bhattacharya was called upon as Chief Guest, who provided an insight on importance of Language.
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