COLLEGE DAY 2013-14

Respected Chairman sir, correspondent madam, secretary sir, the guest of the 21st College Day/sports day and placement day Function Advocate A.P.Jayachandran, Members of the teaching and non-teaching fraternity, Alumni, Parents, members from Press and my dear students. Good noon to all of you.

With immense pleasure, I present the annual report for the academic year 2013-14. At this moment, I want to express my sincere gratitude to all the great men and women who have done yeoman and dedicated service that has made PARK stand tall and committed to the ideals for which the college was founded.

This Autonomous institution has achieved many feats and climbed new heights. The award of the ‘Autonomous status’ by the UGC and NAAC’s accreditation at A grade are some of them, the only Arts and Science College in Tirupur district to receive this status.

The regular classes commenced on 19^th june 2013 for the ii and iii years and 8^th july for i year.

The UGC experts committee visited the college from 26.07.2013 and 27.07.2013 for EOA and extended the period of autonomy from 2013 to 2018.

CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS

In this academic year the college has conducted 31 seminars, conferences and workshops by various departments.

The Department of Commerce and Applied commerce organized .NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Crop Insurance.- need of the hour NCCI 2014 on February, 07 2014.

The department of Tamil organized 10 days national workshop on “ திணை மயக்கம் காட்டும் வாழ்வியல் நெறி’ sponsored by “செம்மொழி தமிழாய்வு மத்திய நிறுவனம்’ from 10.02.2014 to 19.02.2014.

IQAC of our college organized two days NAAC sponsored National conference on “Continuous enhancement of quality in higher educational institutions” on September 30^th and 1^st October 2013.

Deaprtment of MBA organized 2 days workshop on Entrepreneurship and skill development Programme on 24.10.2013 and 25.10.2013.

3 candidates received Ph.D. degree and 10 candidates received M.Phil degree in various departments in our college. Also 30 candidates doing Ph.D. degree and 59 candidates doing M.Phil degree in various departments in our college.

12 teachers attended the FDP Programmes and 46 teachers attended the seminar and conferences. 54 papers were presented by the staff in various conferences and 3 papers were published in journals.

Ph.D Research degree awarded to 3 faculty members. 5 staff members attended train the train programme conducted by TCS.

Campus has been used by Annamalai, Alagappa, Bharathiar, TNOU and SRM University to conduct their semester/ entrance examinations. Also TNPSC various group exams were also conducted in our college.

Total No. of books in the library at present is 26,035 and 108 periodicals are available.

The newly added e-journals are i) j Gate ii) INFLIBNET . Their cost is 1,25,000.00(one lake twenty five thousand only).

SPORTS ACHIVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR 2013-14

The year 2013-14 has been another year of our dominance in the sporting arena. The past year has seen all the teams from various disciplines, grow from strength to strength and in the process bring laurels to the college and all involved with sports in our college. K.SANTHOSH KUMAR III BCA has won III place in Bharathiar University Inter collegiate Tournament Best Physique.

STUDENT’S TRAINING AND PLACEMENT CELL

Campus Direct Recruitment for this academic year started on 10.07.2013. Many companies, both national and regional, from all over India visited our campus for direct recruitment including TCS, Airtel, IDBI, Sutherland etc. We have already received offers for 400 students.

FIRST TIME in the college, placement cell was entrusted with the work of conducting soft skills trainings for all students. External agencies such as Skill pro, Big U, Red Arrows, Zeal, Compus etc are assigned to train the students in various skills.

On 12th November 2013 the college had invited companies. In all, 12 companies visited our college on and after a day-long process, a record number of 176 students have been placed. On 8th March 2014 the college had invited companies again. In all, 19 companies visited our college and 135 students have been placed.

As many as 130 companies have received from us the database of the passed out students. By regularly displaying the information on job opportunities most of our students were able to get part time jobs in order to meet their day-to-day expenses.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Our college NCC wing had an eventful and a promising year, as it continued its tradition of sublime achievements, bringing pride and fame to the college and to the unit.

The NSS volunteers participated actively in various social service activities. From 20/02/2013 to 26/02/2013 NSS Special camp was organised at Poomlaur, Pallipalayam Village Amman Kalyana Mandapam. A Batch of 100 NSS Male volunteers and 80 NSS Female volunteers participated in this event. The activities included EYE camp, Dental check-up camp, Skin Care Camp, temple cleaning, School Campus cleaning, Mushroom cultivation, etc.

The Rotaract Club of PARK’s College has been involved in many projects this year so far and has helped light up many lives.

The youth Red Cross society was involved in the blood donation activities. RRC volunteers involved AIDS awareness camp.

The Eco club of our college is doing service to protect and preserve environment.

FOP was officially inaugurated for the academic year 2013-2014. They participated in all the programmes as volunteers to maintain discipline. They participated several awareness programmes outside the college.

The highlight of the Entrepreneurship Development Cell was aimed at the students open to the concept of entrepreneurship.

Parents are the major stakeholder in the highereducation. The first meeting of the Parent-Teacher forum was conducted on 06th July 2014. After a long discussion with the representatives of the parents it was decided to ask the opinion of the parents regarding various academic issues.

The PARK’s College Employees Co-operative Thrift and Credit Society Ltd., which was started in the year 2004 has completed its 10 years of functioning in the service of its members.

MG Hostel is indeed a .mini global village, with students hailing from different parts, classes, cultures and religions.

PARK Alumni Association is one of the very active wings of the PARK’S College.

Helping hands club, English Literacy Club, Fine Arts Club, Tamil Peravai, Humour Club, Leo Club, Kairali association, Yoga& Meditation Club, Karate Club, Women’s Forum and Consumer Forum are functioning effectively.

Obituary

Prof.A.Murugesan, former Hod of mathematics passed away on 19.12.2010.

Ramesh, V (09-EC-212), a final Year student of B.Com died on 23.07.2010 due to an accident.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Our college aims to build itself for its future. We must move on to a level of international standard fromwhere it is. To that end, we would like to focus on developing human resources and infrastructure. That is to enhance the way we teach and the ways our students learn.

Conclusion

First of all let me thank God almighty for guiding this college throughout this academic year and showering blessings on the administration, officials, teaching and non-teaching staff and students of this temple of learning.

I express my sincere thanks to our chairman, correspondent and secretary for their constant support and encouragement throughout this academic year to discharge my duties satisfactorily. I have been in this college for the past 18 years serving as HOD of cs for 14 years, vice principal for 2 years and as a principal for 2 years. Let me thank the management for the trust bestowed upon me for these years.

I am extremely fortunate to have an inspiring and wonderful band of dedicated staff members to share my responsibility all along this academic year. They stood by me and helped me in every possible way. I profusely thank each one of them.

Finally I thank sincerely our chief guests for their valuable presence today at 21^st college day, sports day and placement day function.

I take this opportunity to request our guests to address our students and inspire them to envision a bright future, not only for them but also for our nation so as to reach greater heights of glory.