Taking Swachh Bharat Mission as college project

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

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