Exhibition
About 170 students of the Department of Botany, Holy Cross College, displayed nutritious vegetables, fruits, greens and tubers at an exhibition. The students also prepared delicious and healthy food items. The event was inaugurated by Sr. Jeusin Francis, Principal. Speaking at the workshop on ‘Microgreens,’ E. Gopalakrishnan, founder and promoter, Millet-IN, focussed on health benefits of microgreens. The microgreens are tiny greens, lettuces or herbs harvested when they are young. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Department of Botany, Holy Cross College, and Millet-IN on the occasion.
Technical symposium
Over 400 students took part in ‘Techquest’16,’ a national-level technical symposium organised by the Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, Pudukottai. Jayabarathan Chelliah, chairman, Mount Zion Educational Institutions, presided. S. Raghavan, Director, Integral Rapidtranz System Pvt Ltd, motivated the students to remain focussed on their goals. Events such as quiz, ‘code optimization,’ gaming, and ‘sketch it,’ were conducted. Thirty students presented papers.
Training programme
The Department of English, Nehru Memorial College, organised a training programme on meditation for its students. T. Jayaprakasam, Principal, presided. Pon. Balasubramaniam, president of the college committee, and Pon. Ravichandran, secretary, were present. I. Jayaraj, South East Asia Co-ordinator of ACEM India, New Delhi, and Kalpana, general secretary, were the resource persons. Mr. Jayaraj said that meditation would help the students be more active and efficient. Ms. Kalpana spoke about how meditation could help personality development and self-understanding.
Students win titles
Jamal Mohammed College won the men’s badminton and table tennis titles in the Bharathidasan University inter-collegiate tournament held at J.J. College of Arts and Science in Pudukottai. In badminton, Bishop Heber College and J.J. College of Arts and Science bagged the second and third spots respectively. In table tennis, J.J. College of Arts and Science and Bishop Heber College bagged the second and third spots respectively. S. Regupathy, MLA, gave away the prizes.
Experiences shared
Entrepreneurs with expertise in various fields and start-ups shared their experience and valuable insights at ‘Start-up Weekend,’ held at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi.
More than 30 start-up ideas were presented and 10 of them were chosen for mentoring. It was followed by team building session where participants were required to join a team and work on them. The 10 teams had a rigorous mentoring phase which developed their ideas to become a potential breakthrough. The teams had a rigorous battle on the pitch deck but only three start-ups emerged on top.
Seminar organised
The Association of Communicative Electronics, students association of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MAM College of Engineering, organised a seminar on ‘Basic Electronic Components Testing.’ A. Kasthuri, Director, A.K. Tronics, Tiruchi, spoke on basic electronics and functions of electronic components. He gave hands on training to the students about component testing and analysis. M.A. Mohammed Nizam, secretary and correspondent, U.S. Sarvadhayaparan, director, and S. Ravimaran, Principal, were present.
Science exhibition
The Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur, organised Science Exhibition – 2016 in which the Tiruvarur District Education Officer B. Cholan and Ramesh Vemaraj, CEO of Decitech Consulting Inc., of the United States participated as the guests of honour at the valedictory function.
PMU Registrar S. Sridharan presided over the function and delivered his presidential address. Mr. Cholan insisted that if every student worked hard, India will become a super power soon for which students must inculcate discipline and humanitarian values apart from developing the scientific temperament.
Cash prizes worth more than a lakh of rupees were given away to winners. More than 800 students participated in the events.
Awareness camp
A three-day entrepreneurship awareness camp was held at Arasu Engineering College, Kumbakonam, in which students were exposed to various opportunities and challenges that lay before the entrepreneurs.
Chief Executive Officer of the Sona Business Incubation Cell, Salem, inaugurated the meet and observed that youth must be sensitized to the opportunities ahead of them and they must also be aware of the responsibilities before venturing into a business.
Principal B. Gopi offered felicitations. On the second day, an industrial visit was arranged for the participants to Kali BMH Systems where its Managing Director K.R. Giridharan detailed the salient features of a n entrepreneur based on his experiences.
Open Day programme
The Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur, organized an Open Day programme at its premises recently. Collector A. Annadurai, inaugurated the event in which the IICPT Director, Dr. C. Anandharamakrishnan, presided over the inaugural. NABARD General Manager V. Chelladurai inaugurated the industry pavilion.
During the day, the IICPT technicians demonstrated the food processing technologies, machinery and showcased novel food products to the visitors. The Open Day was organised based on the theme ``Safe Food for Healthier Nation”. Those entrepreneurs who benefited using IICPT developed technologies exhibited their products and shared their success stories with the visitors.
The students of IICPT presented cultural events for creating awareness on food safety among the public.
Technologies developed by IICPT for novel product development such as Quinoa Nankhatai, vermicelli from traditional rice, millet idli dosa mix and choco rice flakes were released.
More than 5,000 visitors including students, farmers, entrepreneurs, self help groups and the public visited the expo.
Lecture delivered
The qualities that made V.R. Krishna Iyer a notable jurist were laid bare by Tiruvarur District Chief Judicial Magistrate L.S. Sathiyamurthy during the course of his lecture in the Sastra University under the Knowledge Leadership Forum series recently.
Speaking on the life and times of Justice Krishna Iyer Mr. Sathiyamurthy observed that Justice Iyer was a unique multi-facetted personality with humane qualities and rare skills. He was a distinguished lawyer who defended many prominent leaders of the day like A.K. Gopalan and appeared from the Munsiff Court at Tellicherry to the Kerala High court in number of sensational cases.
He served as an Independent MLA for two terms and became a Minster of the first Kerala government after the division of the state from the then Madras Presidency.
He was later elevated as a judge of the Kerala High Court and later became member of the Law Commission of India and then as Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
His life made it clear that honesty, sincerity and commitment to the cause of justice would hold any legal practitioner in good stead, always, and the present generation of lawyers have a lot to lear from that, Mr. Sathiyamurthy noted.
He was the first serving Supreme Court judge to visit the Tihar Jail and paved the path for correctional therapy and reformative measures. He delivered more than 750 verdicts during his tenure in the Supreme Court and most of them bore the stamp of landmark in them.
Dr P Ravisekar Raju, Head of the Law Department, presided over the event.
(Compiled by G. Prasad and
L. Renganathan)
