Distinctiveness
College is located in semi-urban area of PCMC, wherein small and large scale industries of
various sectors are located. The middle and lower class employees of these industries are
residing in nearby areas. Students from these families as well as from rural area takes
admission for UG and PG courses in Arts, Commerce, Science and Computer Science.
Parents of these students desire that their wards should achieve skills in some sector and get
jobs or start own firm. Considering need and demand, college decided to offer Holistic
education which includes vocational courses , Research centres, NCC for defence services ,
Add on courses for skill development, Sports activities for career in sports.
Skill Development
Considering need of students and opportunities knocking because of industrial sector, college
started B.Voc. Programmes in Fashion Technology and Software Development Sanctioned
by UGC and approved by SPPU from 2014-15. Later, in 2018–2019, college introduced three
more B.Voc. Programmes in Retail Management, Travel Tourism Management and Beauty
Therapy Aesthetics. College created required infrastructure, laboratories and signed MoUs
with industry partners for training and placement support. It is worth mentioning that specific
skills are utilized to many beneficiaries. One such proud moment is Fashion technology
department of this college enthusiastically designed new dress for SPPU convocation
ceremony. Apart from this, departmental staff and students have designed uniforms for
drivers and guesthouse attendants of SPPU. Department also extended their expertise with
private industries such as designing for International brands Augustus, Clothing partner for
Lokmat model hunt, providing masks for web series NASHA. College started M.Voc.
programmes in Fashion Technology and Software Development from 2020-21 Institute
organises various activities regularly to enhance skill and give exposure to students such as
Fashion Show, Placement drive, Study tours, Internship and exhibitions
Online Education
Owing to Covid-19 pandemic situation in academic year 2020–2021, educational sector was
completely paralyzed. Institute adopted virtual mode for teaching - learning with all
available resources and tools like Goole Meets, Google Class, Zoom and practicals using
recordings/ live demo, simulations and virtual labs. Examination and Evaluation of students
of all classes successfully carried using learning management system (LMS). Faculty
members made untiring efforts for development of highest number of e-contents like power
point presentation, notes, demonstrations, audio -videos, multiple choice question banks, etc.
for College-SPPU LMS system and SPPU e-content depository system. For this purpose,
college faculty members recorded their on-screen camera presentation at SPPU E-media
centre. Our college was amongst the top colleges to record maximum number of lectures in
SPPU studio.
Sports
Physical Education is essential component of college education. Institute is having
playground of 5058 sq.M.. area and 200 M. running track as well as Gym having 131 sq.M.
and open gym . Sports Department of college provides physical education to students as well
as training for various sports such as Kabbadi, Valley Ball, Kho-Kho, athletics, running, long
jump and support to training for Hockey, Kayaking, High-jump. Every year college students
represent college team and individual at zonal, university, state and national level. Specially,
in year 2021-22 Sport department reported 2598 number of participation of students in 27
sports events at college, University, state and International level sports. In terms of an
achievements, five students are recipient of 9 medals in shooting and Hockey in Khelo India
national games. Prestigious achievement is 18 th Rank in International 2022 Asia Triathlon
Cup in Nepal. Overall 27 students are recipient of 29 medal at University, National and
International level events. College received highest awards and registered number of
participation in maximum number of sports activities ever in the college history. Apart from
this during this assessment cycle students bagged 1 Gold and silver at international level, 5
Gold at National Level 1 silver and Bronze at National level and Many awards at University
level while 3410 participation in sports in college level sports .
Research
College is having 7 research centres in Chemistry, Economics, Environmental Science,
Physics, Commerce, English and Political Science. Varied research activities are undertaken
in these centres, and During this assessment period 233 papers are published in peer
reviewed National and International Journals indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Science
citation Index, UGC care list and taken 5 patents. MoUs are signed with research institutes
and colleges. Research scholars work in collaboration with C-MET, SPPU and other
affiliated colleges there are 68 in-house and associate research guides and 209 students have
registered for Ph.D. and 42 students awarded Ph.D. till date.
Research work is being done in areas like Nano-materials , Photo catalysis, Organic
chemistry, sensing , hydrogen generation, environmental Pollution and energy, etc. Many
innovative idea were developed through Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Linkages
(CIIL)- i) novel composting machine by MSc students presented in SPPU’s start-up project
competition for further commercialisation ii) alumni, M.Sc. and external students formulated
herbal sanitizer, developed method for activated charcoal.
Sophisticated Instrumental Analysis Facility Centre (SIAFC) of college is equipped with
high end instruments like FTIR, UVDRS, AAS, GC, HPLC and XRD It provides consultancy
to industries and facility not only to research students of college but also to other Research
Laboratories, Industries and Institutes. To name a few, consultancy service provided to
Garware Beston, Minda Industries, Surelines and UNIKinger.
NCC
NCC of college was started in 2016. NCC is available for Boys & Girls students of our
College. Our College received sanctioned letter of 54 (SD & SW) NCC cadets (One Platoon)
of the Army wing in April 2016 from 2 Maharashtra Battalion NCC, Pune. First 18 Cadets
were enrolled at NCC HQ, Pune in July 2016 for first year. NCC parade is being taken on
college campus every Friday of the week. Many cadets from this department have attended
Republic Day Parade & Thal-Sena Camp in New Delhi. Cadets have been selected &
participated in National Level camps such as TSC, EBSB, NIC, BLC, Trekking, Rock
Climbing, etc. NCC department organized National level seminars, Digital payment
workshops, Traffic control rallies, Swachhata rallies, Tree plantation, Blood donation, Kranti
din, Army day, NCC day, Kargil Vijay Diwas and so many activities. 18 cadets worked as
volunteers in covid-19 at various vaccination centres for public help. NCC department has
reserved 40% Quota for Girls Cadets. As a result, several cadets joined the armed and police
forces since 2016.
