Taking Swachh Bharat Mission as college project

IGMCRI students use skit, quiz, posters and interactive session to share information with schoolchildren

March 03, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:43 am IST

PUDUCHERRY, 02/03/2015: (For Campus Connect) Students of the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute share information on hygiene and sanitation with school children. Photo: Special Arrangement

PUDUCHERRY, 02/03/2015: (For Campus Connect) Students of the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute share information on hygiene and sanitation with school children. Photo: Special Arrangement

Taking the Swachh Bharat Mission forward, undergraduate students of the Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, used a skit, a quiz, an interactive session and posters to share information on sanitation, hygiene and diseases with students of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kathirkamam, last month.

This ‘intervention’ was part of the medical students’ project, ‘Assessment of knowledge, attitude, practice on sanitation and hygiene’ carried out at their clinical postings in the service area of the Primary Health Centre, Lawspet.

Meanwhile, at the Department of Physiology, medical students took part in a poster competition in the second week of February on effective biomedical communication on the theme ‘Homeostasis.’ The medals and trophies to winners were given away by Dr. V. Govindaraj, Director, IGMCRI.

Successful in

campus interview

Ten students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MRK Institute of Technology, Kattumannarkoil, Cuddalore, were selected in a campus interview conducted by the Accurate Steel Forgings (India) Limited, according to a release from the institute. P. Kathiravan, Chairman of the institute, issued the placement order.

Discussion on

budget held

Appreciating the move by the government to prosecute those holding black money, S. Senthil Kumar, Secretary, E.S. Educational Charities, said that chartered accountants have an important role to play as advisers at a panel discussion on the Union Budget 2015 organised by the Departments of Commerce, Economics and Business Administration of the Theivanai Ammal College for Women, Villupuram.

T. Palaniappan, a chartered accountant, appreciated the step towards cashless transactions and employment generation. However, he said providing PAN number for purchase or sale transactions was not very practical. Vikraman, District Development Manager, Nabard, appreciated the move to diversify loan portfolio of Nabard in this Budget, and the new agricultural credit target.

Reporting by

Annie Philip

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.