DKM COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS), VELLORE

FINE ARTS COMMITTEE- REPORT (2018-19)

The Fine arts committee of D.K.M College has conducted various competitions to the students to exhibit their talents like Pencil sketch, Mehandhi, Hair Do, Jewellery making, Saree Designing, Flower Bouquet Making, Cooking, Vegetable and Fruit Carving, Handwork, Song- Solo and Group, Kolam, Rangoli and Folk Dance- Solo and Group dance from 27^th August to 6th September 2018. Around 200 students participated in various competetions. The best performance of each programme was judged by a group of our faculty members and selected for prize distribution.

In view of the fine arts day celebration an exhibition by Jayavanth Silks and Sarees was organized on 4^th October 2018 for the benefit of the students and the teachers in concessional rate.

The fine arts day celebration was conducted on 26.12.2018 at 11.00 AM and the chief guest was Mr. P. Balasubramanian, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Head, Department of Tamil, Sacred Heart College, Thirupattur. The fine arts day celebration began with a prayer song. Dr. S. Sasikala, Assistant Professor in Tamil, Fine Arts Committee Secretary welcomed the audience. Among the various competitions already conducted the best performance like Solo and group Song, solo Dance and Group dance were also presented on the stage.  The Chief Guest Mr. P. Balasubramanian gave special address to the students and distributed the prizes to the winners of various competitions. An exhibition of the prize winners articles  took place on the same day. The Overall Championship trophy was won by the students of Chemistry department. Vote of thanks was given by Dr. A. Vinodhini, Assistant Professor in Zoology and the programme came to an end with National Anthem.

Fine Arts Committee members:

1. Dr. S. Sasikala, Dept. of Tamil                                           
2. Dr.A.Vinodhini, Dept. of Zoology
3. Mrs. R.Sarathy, Dept of English

Student Secretary: Ms. Ritu, II B. Sc.Mathematics

Chief guest Mr. P. Balasubramanian, addressed the gathering

        Chief guest Mr. P. Balasubramanian visited the exhibition

                Students creative work in the exhibition

Department of Chemistry received the overall championship trophy

D.K.M. COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS), VELLORE

Department of History

Extension Activity –Mass Palm Tree Plantation

                The III B.A History Students and Dr.A. Amirthavalli, Associate Professor and HOD Planted 3200 Palm tree Seeds in Kurumbapallayam village in Kaniyambadi in Vellore District
on 8^th October 2018 .

D.K.M COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS), VELLORE-1

REPORT ON VARIOUS COMPETITION ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (AIDED)

Competition is part of our life. It matters a lot. It makes people to laugh and cry. Competition educates us, persuades us and entertains us. It brings people together like scattered pieces of cloth stitched together to craft a beautiful quilts. The Department of English (Aided) has set the benchmark for conducting extracurricular activities in such a way that students not only enjoy but also learn a great deal from it. With the same perspective, the English department has organized various competitions like Painting, Essay writing, Calligraphy, Spot Talk and Poetry writing for the students of all the departments. The department believes that such types of competition would help in developing essential skills (LSRW) of the students and also go a long way to boost confidence of the students. The main purpose was to showcase the ability to express words in their own way enables to create own unique identity. Through these competitions, students had the opportunities to expose their knowledge of literature and language. All the competitions were supervised by Dr. M. Manimozhi, Asst. Professor of English, Department of English (Aided).

      The competitions held on the month of September the dates as follows:

NAME OF THE COMPETITION	DATE
PAINTING	12.09.2018
ESSAY WRITING	14.09.2018
POETRY WRITING	25.09.2018
CALLIGRAPHY	26.09.2018
SPOT TALK	27.09.2018

D.K.M. College for women (Autonomous), Vellore

Department of English

Film Festival Report – 2019

The Department of English has conducted the Film Festival on 15 of February, 2019 at D.K.M. College for Women (Autonomous), Vellore. This event was organized diligently with vibrant, contagious and exuberant.

Mrs. Anitha Daisy Winfred, Assistant Professor of English from Auxilium College for Women, Vellore has graced the occasion as the Chief Guest while distinguished guest, Ms. V. P. Gayatri, Head of the English Department (Aided) D.K.M. College, Mrs. S. Indra Gandhi, Head of the English Department (Unaided) D.K.M. College, have presided over the function. Also, Elite Staff members of the English department and Student made this as event grand success.

‘Film festival – 2019’ was instigated with the prayer service by Mrs. D. Sasi kala and the event was followed by lighting of Kuthu vilakku by a group of dignitaries Chief guest Mrs. Anitha Daisy Winfred, Miss. V.P. Gayatri ,  Mrs. Gayatri, Mrs. S. Indragandhi, Mrs. D. Sasi kala and Mrs. S. Sanjula. Dr. M. Manimozhi Asst. Prof. English has compered the whole program and Mrs. R. Sarathy formally applauded the chief guest, other dignitaries present on the dais, colleagues and students.

            Further, the program was followed by the valuable lecture of the chief guest.  She gave a lecture on “Animated movie”, which was helpful to the students. English Department students had the opportunity to watch the Animated movies like “SPIRITED AWAY”, “GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES”, and “MULAN”.  People believe that literature has a capable of only reading and writing persistence. But this event has set a breakdown from that stereotypical view of Literature.  At last, the event was concluded by the vote of thanks presented by Mrs. S. Sumathi, English Department.

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WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CELL

Imitation Jewellery Training Programme

(2018-2019)

Women Development Cell conducted the Inauguration of Imitation Jewellery Training programme on 06.02.2019 at 10.00 a.m in the D’block conference hall. The training is given for 3 days from 06.02.2019 to 08.02.2019 from 9.30 A.M to 5.00 P.M in collaboration with the Department of Rural Development, Tamilnadu. Dr. P.N Sudha, the Principal, DKM College for women felicitated the chief guest. Mr.I.Rooben, Coordinator, District Supply and Marketing Society, Department of Rural Development, Tamilnadu addressed the gathering about the importance of skill development among women. About 72 students from various departments of aided and unaided stream participated in the programme and benefitted greatly. Students were trained to make silk thread jewelry, oxidized jewelry, pearl works in bangles, neck wears, bracelets, anklets, studs and hangings.

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The valedictory programme took place on 08/02/2019 at 12.30 p.m in the D’block conference hall. Mr.I.Ruben,Coordinator, District Supply and Marketing Society, Department of Rural Development, Tamilnadu presided the function and distributed the certificates to the students. 72 students participated and benefitted from this skill training programme.

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The training was found to be useful as per the feedback forms collected from the students. Mrs.Bharathi, Assistant professor in Microbiology and member of WDC presented the vote of thanks. The training programme successfully concluded with the National Anthem.

Department of History

Extension Activity -Tree Plantation

                Trees were distributed to the I B.A., History Students on 19^th December 2018. They have to maintain the trees.

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Department of History

E-Tourism Report

The Department of History in collaboration with Mr. Joshap Raj , J R Travel Solutions Vellore, conducted 15 days(30 Hours) E- Tourism Certificate Course from 30/1/2019 to 19/2/2019.   Nearly 55 students of III B.A., History got benefited .Practical sessions like booking on line tickets training was given. 

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Department of History

Epigraphy and Museology Report

                The Department of History in Collaboration with “Foundation for Archaeology, Epigraphy and Conservation Society, Vellore” Conducted Epigraphy and Museology training from 28.01.2019 to 08.02.2019. Nearly 40 students of II M.A., and  II B.A., History Students got benefited. The Training was useful to the History Students to read inscriptions and test was conducted to identify the letters belonging to which period and to conserve artifacts.

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