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- Title of the Practice: Museum (Historical and Cultural)
- Goal: Museums ensure understanding and appreciation for one’s own culture and history. They promote better understanding of the collective heritage and foster dialogue, curiosity and self-reflection. Further, they serve to help future generations comprehend their history and recognise the achievements of past generations. Inculcating civic responsibilities is one of the basic objectives of the institution. The institution believes that conservation of historical and national heritage is one of the important duties of both an individual as well as an institution. In this background the institution planned for establishing a Museum for preserving historical and folk items found in the surrounding area.
- The Context: Basrur was an urban centre in medieval period with the name ‘Hosapattana Basurepura’. It was a confluence of cultures during the period of the Vijaya Nagara Empire. The foreign travellers who visited Basrur during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries left reliable accounts of the beauty of this town as a cultural centre and its usefulness. But during the colonial rule when the administrative offices were transferred to Kundapura the town lost its political significance. Since the College is located in this place of historical significance the institution thought that being a centre of higher learning it should preserve both the articles and the memories for the benefit of future generation by establishing a Museum.
The Practice: A committee consisting of the Principal, teachers and students has been constituted to set up and maintain the museum. A faculty from the Department of History serves as the coordinator of the committee. The museum has two sections-outdoor as well as indoor. In the outdoor section few stone inscriptions, mastikals, veergals and other monumental antiques have been placed. The date and historical importance of each one of these is explained in the attached name plate.
In the Indoor Museum, a sincere attempt is also being made for the preservation of historical and folk antiques. It is dedicated for preserving and exhibiting the cultural heritage of Coastal Karnataka. Details of the articles collected and exhibited in the indoor museum are given below-
| Sl.No | Articles | Sl.No | Articles |
| 1 | Hand platter (Big) | 45 | Bronze Career |
| 2 | Hand platter (Small) | 46 | Namada Karadige |
| 3. | Small grain measuring equipment | 47 | Red sandalwood statue |
| 4 | Water Container | 48 | Dupadagindi |
| 5 | A box to place sacred ash (Small) | 49 | Lamp |
| 6 | A box to place sacred ash (Big) | 50 | Spice Container (Big) |
| 7 | Knife | 51 | Copper Container |
| 8 | Lamp | 52 | Spice Container |
| 9 | Chippina Soutu | 53 | Copper Vessel |
| 10 | Noodle making equipment | 54 | Porcelain |
| 11 | Churning Rod | 55 | Lamp |
| 12 | Ragi mudde preparing equipment | 56 | Plates |
| 13 | Bullock cart made of Bamboo | 57 | Glaser |
| 14 | Wooden statues | 58 | Kaimarige |
| 15 | Rolling Sticks | 59 | Bronze Plates |
| 16 | Marada Achchu | 60 | Bronze Vessel |
| 17 | Muhurtha Kamba | 61 | Bronze Plate |
| 18. | Mann marige | 62 | Gold Box |
| 19 | Grating equipment | 63 | Copper Glass |
| 20 | Giliguta | 64 | Waring Lamp |
| 21 | Maddale (metrical instrument) | 65 | Bronze Plate |
| 22 | Football | 66 | Coins |
| 23 | Devara Karadige | 67 | Copper Vessel |
| 24 | Lamp | 68 | Flower Pots |
| 25 | Cane Basket | 69 | Jewellery Box |
| 26 | Copper vessel | 70 | Sieve |
| 27 | Lantern | 71 | Gindi |
| 28 | Pot for filtering rice | 72 | Bronze vessel |
| 29 | Alage | 73 | Jewellery (Portuguese) |
| 30 | Plough | 74 | Lamp Pol |
| 31 | Wooder Plough | 75 | Gindi (Bronze) |
| 32 | Palmleave | 76 | Chennemane |
| 33 | Mudi (to store rice) | 77 | Porcupine |
| 34 | Thiri (to store paddy) | 78 | Glass (Big) |
| 35 | Wooden statue | 79 | Kaimaragi |
| 36 | Pot | 80 | Becket |
| 37 | Deer Horn | 81 | Gindi |
| 38 | Horn | 82 | Porome Tortoise |
| 39 | Mask of bull | 83 | Kadegolu |
| 40 | Gerese | 84 | Bronze Bull |
| 41 | Drum | 85 | Mini Dining Table |
| 42 | Sunnada Pathre | 86 | Old wall clock |
| 43 | Salt container | 87 | Gramaphone |
| 44 | Spice Container (small) |
- Evidence of Success: There is a good response both from the students and the public for this project. Many people contributed invaluable antiques voluntarily and free of cost. Students also have taken keen interest in the collection. The institution also have the practice of conducting historical exhibitions on certain special occasions where our students do exhibit historical antiques.
- Problems Encountered and Resources Required: Some of the problems encountered are:
- Difficulties involved in the transportation of the stone inscriptions
- The institution does not have specialized conservators to take care of the statues and inscriptions
- Paucity of funds required for procuring and maintaining the materials
1.Title of the practice: Herbal Garden
- Goal: Important goals and objectives of developing herbal garden are-
- Creating awareness of the therapeutic value of herbal medicines.
- Helps teachers and students of the College and neighbouring institutions to acquire basic knowledge of medicinal plants available locally.
- Learn to understand and protect plants in their original habitat without being exploited and destroyed
- To uphold the traditional knowledge of Science and Medicine.
- The Context: Plants have been the basis for medical treatment through much of human history and such traditional medicine is widely practiced even today. Today the use of plants in treating day to day ailments has gained eminence worldwide. Even modern medicines make use of many plant derived components. It is estimated that more than 25 per cent of the modern medicines have been derived from herbs. Needless to stress the importance of herbal and medical plants in our lives it is pertinent to propagate and popularize them more. There is a need to make everyone including our young generation aware of various kinds of Indian herbs and their significance in our lives as the students are the future of the nation. Keeping these objectives in mind the institution thought of developing a herbal garden.
- The practice: The College has set up of a well planned herbal garden that includes several extinct and rare species of flora. Total area of the garden is 2000 sq.ft. There is Eco-club to maintain and develop the garden. The committee works under the direction of its coordinator Mr. Purushottam Balyaya, Head of the Department of Commerce. The coordinator himself has very good knowledge of the traditional medicine system.
Total number of species more than 30 including rare species. Important medicinal Plants planted in the garden are-:
| 1. | Kiskare | 16 | Rasna |
| 2. | Arjuna | 17 | Chitramoola |
| 3 | Kutaja | 18 | Bhrami |
| 4 | Noni | 19 | Guduchi ( Amratha Balli ) |
| 5 | Hipli | 20 | Tamala Patra |
| 6 | Vidhari | 21 | Ramachcha |
| 7 | Garga | 22 | Pathre ( Sambrothi ) |
| 8 | Goranti | 23 | Kumkuma Plant |
| 9 | Agnimantha | 24 | Nannari |
| 10 | Pata | 25 | Pancharangi |
| 11 | Tulsi | 26 | Maricha |
| 12 | Neem | 27 | Nimba |
| 13 | Nidil | 28 | Jestamadhu |
| 14 | Eshwara Balli | 29 | Pippali |
| 15 | Sarpagnada | 30 | Tumba |
5 Evidence of Success: The students have shown keen interest in acquiring knowledge of herbal plants developed in the College. They support this programme by collecting plants, and watering them during winter and summer. The garden is kept open for the public during working hours. They can make use of the herbs and leaves available in the garden free of cost. School children in and around Basrur also visit the garden.
- Problems encountered and resources required: Since the institution does not have a science course, teachers from science background are not available in the College. So the College has to borrow or hire experts from outside agencies. Hence, the garden is not generating any income to the institution. The institution has to invest funds for the purpose.
COACHING CLASSES FOR NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS
STUDENTS’ INITIATIVE – SHARADA U-GET
COMMERCE LAB
STUDY CIRCLE
ON-LINE COACHING CLASSES FOR BANK / OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Sri Sharada College, Basrur was established in 1973 by the Sri Sharada College Trust with the noble vision of providing higher education to rural youth. The institution aims at empowering economically less fortunate and socially marginalized sections of society. The founders of the College also believe that no education is worth the name if the instructions in various disciplines are not accompanied by proper shaping of character. Hence there is special focus on value based education and cultivation of proper attitude and awareness of various responsibilities that they would need to shoulder in future. Majority of the students admitted to the College are from rural background, hailing from socially marginalized communities. Further the presence of more than 55 per cent women students itself indicates the inclination of the institution towards education and empowerment of women. The institution is located in rural atmosphere. It is committed to the protection and conservation of environment through multiple measures like rain water harvesting, energy conservation, solid and liquid waste management and planting trees. Efforts are made to maintain a clean, green, and pollution free campus. The NSS and NCC units also join hands to achieve these objectives.
The institution is committed to the ideals of social justice, empowerment of women and marginal groups, communal harmony and good citizenship. The college invests all its potentials to see that its graduates will be persons of knowledge, ability, skill and morality The institution is known for its distinctiveness due to some best and innovative practices introduced from the beginning of its inception. Important among them are-
- Establishing and maintaining a historical and cultural Museum- There are both Indoor and Outdoor wings in the Museum
- Developing and maintaining a Herbal Garden with the objective of creating awareness of the therapeutic value of herbal medicines
- Provision for free mid day meal for the needy students with special focus on the women and socially marginalized students
- Effective mentoring system with each class being assigned to 2-3 teachers handling the respective classes
- Around 30 committees, clubs and associations for co-curricular and extra- curricular activities
- Establishing Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Career Development Cell and Placement Cell
- Special coaching camps for the students of neighbouring schools and colleges
- Research Methodology workshops, Faculty development Programmes and ICT coaching for the teachers
- Free computer classes and remedial classes for the students
- Village adoption and wide range extension programmes in the adopted village etc.
COACHING CLASSES FOR NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS
Objectives:
- To identify the native talents in the field of Games and Sports.
- To provide required training and coaching by the experts in the field.
- To encourage and motivate them to pursue Games/ Sports as a career option.
- To make younger generation in and around Basrur village to be acquainted with the sports facilities available in our institution.
Context:
In our survey of the neighbouring High schools and Pre-University colleges, we found that the students of those institutions are having strong orientation towards sports and games. But they lag behind in showing good performance in inter-school/inter-college sports tournaments. That is partly due to the lack of infrastructural facilities and non-availability of expert coach in their respective fields. Ours being one of the reputed institutions of Mangalore University for its achievements in the fields of Volley Ball, Gymnasium, Ball Badminton and chess, prepared a plan for organising coaching camps in those fields for the benefit of the students of those institutions . In the first phase, we introduced coaching camp in volley ball with financial assistance from Mangalore University. The Plan is in operation since two academic years.
Practice:
First we made an appeal to Mangalore University for financial assistance. The University has agreed to bear the expenditure required to pay the remuneration to be paid for the coach and assistant coach. The college agreed to bear the expenditure incurred for food and infrastructural facilities.
Co-Ordinator – Sri Suraj Kumar Shetty M. Phed,
Physical Education Director.
Trainer : Volley Ball
Chess – Sri. Naresh B & Sri Gururaj
Kashvi Chess School, Kundapura.
Wrestling – Sri Sharath Devadiga.
University Wrestler,Old Student, Sri Sharada College, Basrur.
Kabaddi (Men)- Sri Suraj Kharvi,
State Level Player,Old Student,Sri Sharada College, Basrur
Badminton (Men)-Sri Kishan- Police Udupi.
Old Student, Sri Sharada College , Basrur.
STUDENTS’ INITIATIVE – SHARADA U-GET
Sharada U-Get is an initiative of the students to start their own training group to provide training to face upcoming challenges in the corporate world especially for placement. The two students of the Final B.Com class named Chethan and Chandan got training through attending many training and skill development programs in different colleges and institutes and they imparted same skills to the students of our college. The main objectives of this initiative are:
- To ensure the students to acquire the skills to enhance their employability.
- To impart confidence building techniques to the participants.
- To empower them to impart requisite skills to grow in a corporate environment.
- To provide to the students exposure to outer world and fir them into the rapidly changing job market.
- To acquire the skills needed to bring about an overall change in the personality of the students.
Sharada U-GET has organized various programs for the benefit of the students especially skill development programs.
COMMERCE LAB
Title : Off-line Commerce Laboratory
Objectives :
The Department of Commerce of our college strive tirelessly in pursuit of excellence in commerce education and develops a practical oriented approach towards subject. For this purpose Department established a commerce laboratory which inculcates practical knowledge among the students as regards forms, instruments, agreements, applications etc.
The Context : Department of Commerce of our college maintained different formats of various commercial documents which provide a bent of practical knowledge to students while learning different commerce subjects , especially banking, insurance, law, financial management , accounts etc. Again , there are different types of cards like debit cards, credit cards, pan cards etc., which provide practical knowledge for digital transactions.
The Practice: There are more than 50 documents which are basically classified into (1) documents ( formats) related to Bank Transactions (2) documents ( formats) related to loan agreements and loan deeds (3) documents ( formats) related to insurance transactions (4) documents (formats) related to government departments and documents ( formats ) related to Companies.
Orientation programs are arranged for students, especially for first year commerce students who are required to accustom with these documents while studying their course . Classroom exhibitions of lab documents are arranged for the all the students once in a year.
- Bank Deposit opening Form
- Account Opening Form – NRI
- Account opening form – Current Account
- Account Opening Form- SB Account
- SB Account Withdrawal Form
- Housing Loan Application Form
- Education Loan Application Form
- Car/ Two Wheelers Loan Application form
- Application Form for ATM Card
- Online Registration Form- Internet Banking
- Term Deposit Advice
- Renewal Form – loan
- Form – D Pay-in-slip for deposits under senior citizens savings scheme.
- Draft/ Banker’s Cheque Application form
- Application for NEFT/ RTGS Remittance
- Deposit Pay-in-slip Form
- Format of Demand Draft
- Format of Cheque
- Deposit Slip/ Cash Transfer and Term Deposit Slip
- Draft/ mail transfer/ Cheque Application Form
- ATM Card
There are different formats related to loan agreements / deeds.
- Application for Agricultural Loan
- Loan Security Form/ Letter of Guarantee
- Mortgage Deed.
- Guarantee Agreement
The formats related to Company are as follows:
- Company Annual Report
- Company Meeting Notice
- Format of Equity shares
- Share Transfer Form.
- Attendance Slip-cum-entry pass for Annual General meeting
- Transferable Warrant.
- Attendance Slip and Proxy Form
- Form of Company Meeting and Proxy
- Final Accounts and Final Statements.
- Final accounts and Annual Report.
- Dematerialization Request Form
- Format of Debenture Certificate.
The various formats related to the Government Department and PPF transactions are as follows:
- Income Tax Returns
- Government of India- Income Tax Department – Acknowledgement.
- PPF Withdrawal Form
- Application for Nomination cancellation or Variation of nomination previously made-PPF
- PPF Scheme – Challan for Deposit of money into Government Account.
The formats related to Insurance companies are as follows:
- Certificate of Insurance
- Brochure of insurance Companies.
- Policy- Schedule Insurance company.
- Mediclaim Insurance policy
Title of the Practice
QUALITY INITIATIVE — STUDY CIRCLE
Aim: “ Teaching Counselling Mentoring and Self-improvement”.
Objectives: Sri Sharada college, Basrur is committed to promote and support effective learning and teaching. It will contribute to the development of a knowledge society through equitable access and involvement in learning process by the students. The knowledge delivery process and content will be reached to the students only through Teaching, Counselling and Mentoring . For this quality enhancement objective, our college started Study Circle among the students. Faculty members enhance the nature of the teacher-student relationship by actively involved in Counselling, mentoring and self-improvement initiatives.
The Context
As our college situated in rural area, majority of our students belonging to rural area. They require outside classroom learning module to upgrade and update their knowledge for success. In this platform college provides all the necessary tools to upgrade the learning process of the students. All the students are bringing together for the purpose of upgrading their knowledge Students who are lagging behind in studies should approach the concerned lecturers in person or on online mode requiring to conduct classes or to provide study materials of books. Weekly group discussions and interactions are scheduled for the students who are within the study circle.
The Practice
Faculty members allocated with various subject assignments for the students. These faculty members are available to the students to solve the doubts relating to the subjects. At the beginning of the semester, this allocation should be made depending on the expertness of faculty in the subjects. Mentoring system of allocation is adopted for this purpose.
The E-books and PDF of materials are given through Google classrooms. All the question papers of all the semesters are given to the students through Google classroom at the beginning of the semester. In the Google classrooms all kinds of materials related to various subjects uploaded. The students can ask doubts directly commenting on the posts and indulge in discussion regarding doubts in discussion 24/7. All the question papers of the previous examinations with answers will be available in the classroom. The materials related to Bank and other competitive examinations are also provided through Google classrooms.
The Departmental Library Books and study materials are distributed for the students well in advance. The students are required to maintain record for these books and materials and circulate themselves on weekly basis. After completion of semester examinations in each semester, these books are returned to the HOD.
Success of the Practice
This practice proved to be successful to the maximum extent. During the year 2018-19 and 2019-20 , the results of target group of final year B Com class enhanced and they scored 100% in many subjects. The E-books and PDF of materials are given through Google classrooms. All the question papers of all the semesters are given to the students through Google classroom at the beginning of the semester. In the Google classrooms all kinds of materials related to various subjects uploaded. The students can ask doubts directly commenting on the posts and indulge in discussion regarding doubts in discussion 24/7. All the question papers of the previous examinations with answers will be available in the classroom. The materials related to Bank and other competitive examinations are also provided through classroom.
Problems Encountered and Resources Required
The total approach of Study Circle system is result oriented. The teachers are required to devote their after working hours for this initiative. It is a process where slow learners are identified and through counselling and mentoring they are brought back to the track. For this purpose , teachers are required to develop teaching-mentoring relationship with the students and concentrate towards bringing 100% result. The main focus of this initiative is no student remains deprived from the novel idea of learning and knowledge building.
TITLE OF THE PRACTICE
ON-LINE COACHING CLASSES FOR BANK / OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS Batch : On-line Coaching Classes for I Year B. Com 2019-20 Batch Mode : Google Classroom PDF form/ Watts App Group / Explanation in Google Classroom.
OBJECTIVE
Keeping in view the vision and objectives of the founders of the institution and limited resources available under present conditions, the college has strived hard to impart skill enhancement trainings for the students especially coaching classes for competitive examinations.
THE CONTEXT. It is the necessity of the institution to prepare the students for better placement opportunities along with making them graduate. As majority of the students of our college hail from rural areas, they are deprived from such coaching classes nearby. Apart from regular course classes, Department of commerce and career and counselling cell of our college jointly started online coaching classes for competitive examinations.
THE PRACTICE
The Career Counselling Cell and Department of commerce of our college jointly organised an on-line coaching classes for Bank and other competitive examinations. Now a day Bank jobs are most demand-in-jobs among other jobs in India. The aspirants generally appear for examinations conducted by IBPS, RBI, SBI and other private sector banks. These banking examinations can give the jobs for candidates in RBI, SBI and Associated Banks, 21 Nationalised Banks, 20+ Private sector banks, selected foreign banks and a large number of small and medium sized co-operative banks with Gramina Banks at the clerical , PO ( Probationary Officer), and SO ( Specialist Officer) levels.
In order to cater the needs of the aspirant students , On-line Coaching classes for Bank and other competitive examinations are conducted through Google classrooms . Professor Purushothama Balyaya, Assistant Professor and HOD , Department of Commerce, conducted these classes by uploading various lessons which are suitable for aspirant students. 23 separate lessons are sent and explained on online mode .
THE EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS
There is a good response from students about the initiative. The majority of the students on online classes show a positive attitude towards these classes. The students who are in final year B.Com classes felt helpful for appearing for different types of competitive examinations. They also involved in asking questions regarding their doubts while solving problems. The college was also started offline certificate course in Kannada Languge to impart coaching classes for competitive examinations. This will definitely help the future placement of the students.
PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AND RESOURCES REQUIRED
Some of the problems encountered are :
- Difficulty involved in developing special app for online classes.
- The institutions should impart sufficient training for faculty for making this initiative successful.
- Paucity of funds required for appointment of specialised staff, imparting training and development of this initiative.