Extension Activity: Anti-Superstition Demonastration

Superstition is one of the widely spread vices in our society. Many unfortunate incidents keep appearing in newspapers. The gravity of situation was realized in Maharashtra as well and the Maharashtra Assembly created history by passing the much-awaited anti-superstitions bill in the winter session of the state legislature in Nagpur on Friday 13^th December 2013.

NSS unit of our college organized a demonstration by staff members of Chemistry Department in Kanhe Gaon against superstitions on 15^th December 2013. It is necessary to create awareness in our society to provide a healthy and safe social environment with a view to protect the poor and ignorant people against the evil and sinister practices and customs thriving on blind faith, beliefs and ignorance. The blind faith and beliefs are propagated in the name of God or some so called divine or super natural or magical powers or evil spirits. The God's men, quacks and conmen exploit and harm mentally, physically and financially the poor and ignorant people in the Society thereby destroying the very social fabric of the Society.

During NSS Winter Camp, the demonstration on 7^th December 2014, was given to the students of orphanage, special children and other villagers at Naigaon. The students showed how with the help of chemical reactions, artificial blood is shed from hands and people are deceived by the trick. Other items presented by students include getting blood from lemon, generation of fume in an empty beaker, burning sugar with very bright flame, burning the cloth without damaging the fabrics. They talked about Late Narendra Dabolkar, President; Maharashtra Andhrashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS) which is an organization working towards eradication of superstitions.

The department of chemistry had organized a superstition eradicating programme  “Chemistry behind superstition” under “Be Safe” programme on 1^st Feb 2017.The programme was conducted in green auditorium.Students of T.Y.BSc. demonstrated short reactions that illustrates superstition.The programme was conducted in three sessions as

  10:30-11.30: Arts

  11:30-12.30: BCA

   12:30-1.30: BBA

The programme started with brief explanation of superstition using power point presentation which was followed by practical demonstration .Students from all stream showed keen interest and gave overwhelming response .

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Extension Activity: Blood Donation

Good Morning,

The institutes of higher education are required to play pivotal role in nation building exercise through Teaching, Research and Extension. The department of Chemistry conducts various such activities. Readers are requested to give their inputs for further enrichment of these activities.

1) Blood Donation Camp: The department has organized this activity for consecutive three years. This activity is organized in coordination with certified blood banks. The students and teachers actively participate in this activity. The purpose of this activity is to enlighten students about the problems of blood scarcity faced by hospitals and patients during health crisis and encourage them to take up this activity as a responsibility towards the society.

We are posting short reports and glimpses from the blood donation camps organized by the department.

Academic Year 2016-17

The blood donation camp was organized by Post Graduate Department of Chemistry and Research Center, AISC, Pune on Wednesday, 31st August 2016, at L1 Hall, Second Floor, Library Building, Abeda Inamdar Senior College, with the help of Red Plus Blood Bank, Bhosari, Pune. It began at 10:00 am and continued till 04:00 pm, with a steady stream of donors throughout. The L1 hall was abuzz with college students and staff chatting with each other, happy to be able to play their part in lending a helping hand to people in the region.

            L1 hall was utilized for medical check-up of potential donors, as well as the donation itself. They were provided with glucose water and food including tea, coffee, biscuits and banana. It was great to see more people than pre-registration numbers turning up at the venue. This stretched the capacity of the blood bank, as a result of which the contact details of the donors were taken so as to allow them to donate at the earliest to the blood bank. The blood bank asked for 40 units. Blood bank got 25% more volunteer than their expected numbers and the collection tallied to 51 units.

Academic Year 2015-16

As a part of celebration of 25 Years of Excellence, Post Graduate Department of Chemistry and Research Center had organized a Blood Donation Camp in association with Aacharya Anandrishiji Blood Bank, Pune, on 27^th October 2015 at 10:30 am to 03:30 pm. Many students from different departments of our college had visited the camp and 21 students donated their blood on this occasion. 

Academic Year 2014-15

The department of Chemistry, Students Welfare Association and Acharya Anandrishiji Pune Blood Bank organized a Blood Donation Camp on 28^th January 2015. All the institutes in the Azam campus were informed about the date and schedule of the camp. Banner and pamphlets were displayed in the campus in advance to create awareness about the blood donation. A multi-lingual slide show was prepared and run on the day of blood donation.

The response of the students was very encouraging. Many girl students also came forward to donate blood. All the approved procedures were followed by the bank staff for the collection of blood. The donors were given certificate of appreciation and a small gift. 51 bags were collected during this camp. The blood bank gave a certificate of appreciation to the department of Chemistry and Students Welfare Association.

Guest Lecture on Health and Nutrition

Department of Chemistry organized guest lecture for female students on Health and Nutrition on 17th August 2017. Dr. Sweety Agarwal, Nutritionist at Sanjeevan Hospital, Pune discussed about the different types of healthy meal which students can take so that it help them to increase their concentration, boost their memory and help to fight against disease . She talked about variety of diseases in brief namely obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease , cancer, dental diseases, osteoporosis etc. she added that all these disease are preventable through a healthy lifestyle involving a balanced diet and regular physical activity. 

Dr. Kavita Agarwal Delivering Insights on Women Health Issues

Question and Answer Session