| |19 OCTOBER 2021HIGHERReviewARTS AND COMMERCE COLLEGES - 2021HIGHER EDUCATIONReview TOP 10 Science stream such as M. Sc. and Pro-fessional Courses. For working profes-sionals, Housewives and college drop-outs, who are unable to attain regular college are offered distance education through YCMOU via our institution. Under this scheme B. A., B. Com., B. Lib., M. Lib., M. A. (English), Mass Media, MBA (Finance) and many more courses are offered and every year more than 1500 students are benefited," says Dr. Bhagwan Abhimansingh Rajput, Principal, Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar College of Arts, Commerce and Science.Keeping in mind the present sce-nario to enhance student's skills, the college has collabo-rated with the Tata Institute of Social Science Mumbai. It also provides National University Stu-dents Skills Development (NUSSD) programs, comprising of courses such as Financial Li-teracy, Legal Literacy, Digital Literacy, Leadership Entrepre-neurship, Motivational Skill De-velop-ment & Communication Skill Devel-opment in English and so on. "In our college, we have well qualified and experienced staffs as per UGC norms. All teaching staff are NET/SET quali-fied and most of them have either com-pleted or perusing Ph. D. Number of books have been published by teaching staff on various subjects. NSS Unit of the college has got Best Program Offi-cer and Best NSS Unit Award on Dis-trict and University level. The college has also been honored as `Best College Award' in Rural areas by the University of Mumbai. Being ISO certified 9001: 2015. We have completed three cycles of NAAC reaccreditation on time with constant improvement in grade," states Dr. Bhagwan Abhimansingh Rajput. Equipped With Modern Infrastructur-al FacilitiesEven though situated in rural and trib-al areas, Comrade Godavari Shamrao Parulekar College of Arts, Commerce and Science provides the best amenities to its students. Along with a separate library building furnished with an In-ternet facility, it has plenty of books, reference books, e-books, magazines, Journals and Newspaper, from where the students and staff access the books through library software SOUL 2.0 and N List. With well-equipped labs for sci-ence faculty, social sciences, language and literature, and computer lab, there is a separate science centre sponsored by Larsen & Turbo (L & T) Ltd. This centre spread scientific temperaments among college students as well as oth-er students nearby various schools and colleges. The college has developed and maintained Botanical Garden to create awareness of medicinal herbs to gain practical knowledge to the students. There is a separate well-furnished and equipped Auditorium Hall to conduct various programs. Considering the need for a digital platform and pan-demic situation, the college provides ICT facilities to the students as well as teaching staff to apply various ICT tools and deliver curriculum and extra-cur-riculum activities effectively. NSS unit of the college conducts various social activities such as `Swatch Bharat Abhiyan', Anti Plastic Move-ments, Blood Donation and Health Check-up camps, Energy & Water Con-servation, Environment aware-ness, Disaster management and so on. In this pandemic situa-tion, the NSS unit has created awareness related to Covid ­ 19 through the various digi-tal banners, distribution of sanitizers, masks & food packets to migrated la-bours & needy peoples and also created awareness of vaccination to the rural tribal people. "Our students are our brand ambassadors. They make a mark for themselves wherever they go and have an edge over the students from other colleges. This has been possible due to the encou-ragement and relent-less efforts of our teaching staff, who ensure all the aspects which are essen-tial for the capacity building of the stu-dent and are incorporating curriculum beyond what is suggested by the univer-sity. With our college Placement Com-mittee constantly working for on and off-campus placement of our students, most of our students are in gov-ern-ment services and various reputed pri-vate organizations. In the newly raised Tribal Palg-har district, ours is one of the colleges which efficiently provides lots of educational facilities to the tribal students at the University of Mumbai. We are aware of the various challenges in this area and plan to overcome them to serve the best educational facilities to the tribal students in the future," concludes Dr. Bhagwan Abhimansingh Rajput.Even though situated in rural and tribal area, Comrade Godavari Shamrao Pa-rulekar College of Arts, Commerce and Science provides best amenities to its students
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