Institutional Distinctiveness
COMMUNITY SERVICE IN PANDEMIC
Community Service is meant to link the community with the college for mutual benefit. The college finds an opportunity to develop social responsibility among students and also emerge as a socially responsible institution.
Arihant College was one of the very first educational institutes coming forward to support local authorities in the time of the Pandemic by providing its premises infrastructure for the Covid Care CentreVaccination Centre.
OBJECTIVE:
Community Service shall be an integral part of the curriculum, as an alternative to the two months of Summer Internships / Apprenticeships / On the Job Training, whenever there is an exigency when students cannot pursue their summer internships.
Our students of BBA (HA) voluntarily joined the corona warrior’s team in different hospitals of Indore at the peak of the Pandemic.
The specific objectives are:
• To sensitize the students to the living conditions of the people who are around them.
• To help students to realize the stark realities of society.
• To bring about an attitudinal change in the students and help them to develop societal consciousness.
• To make students aware of their inner strength and help them to find out of box solutions.
7.3 Institutional Distinctiveness
SWIMMING CLASS FOR DESERVING CANDIDATES (2017-2018)
Driven by a strong belief that sports can be used as a strategy for individual character development and to nurture The efforts of the college, supported by an enabling sports policy, have translated into positive outcomes for the Society in general. One of the most eventful and esteemed activities conducted by the college is the swimming coaching to local youths. This activity aims at coaching local youths for swimming by swimming of the institute. This activity is being successfully conducted from last 4 years with great response. The College being endowed with a large campus focuses on tapping the potential of the youths by creating a mini-sports arena in the campus. So far, we have achieved to create a water sport facility which caters to the youths of the State and the students of this college. And the youths practising in the swimming pool has already started, bringing accolades in the national level swimming competitions. We also have an indoor stadium which we are trying to use it to its potential. Furthermore, we are focusing on developing a multi-purpose sports stadium to tap and groom young talents to bring laurels for the nation in the near future.
The main objectives of the activity are…
- To make a person physically fit, mentally alert and emotionally balanced
- To help them achieve higher goals in this activity.
- To provide exposure to competitive environment.
- To make youths more profound in the area.
- To provide valuable contribution to the society
- To create awareness about importance of swimming amongst young generation.
- To inculcate importance of discipline, cooperation and helping nature amongst youths.
- To create skilled s persons who can contribute to country. The college has facilities to train the students such as play grounds for various sports, yoga and fitness classes, skating rink, table tennis and necessary equipment etc. With the view to use these facilities for the betterment of the society also in addition to our regular students, this activity has been started. Having the humble idea of coaching the local and unprivileged yet potential sports persons, college started this activity under the supervision of the staff members and Expert coaches every day, from morning 7 to 8 and 6 to 8 in the evening. The students who have secured great positions in national and state level sporting activities coach the local sports persons from the city. On an average more than 200 sports persons are participating in these activities and more than 30 skilled candidates of our institute are participating in training activities. A large number of local students who got trained with these activities and coached by the students and staff members of the college have been successful sports persons and participated in state, national and international level competitions and received awards in state level and national level tournament/ championship for which the institute and everyone associated feels very proud.