Institutional Distinctiveness
Our College is situated in that ward of Mumbai Municipal Corporation which has lowest human development index out of the total 24 wards. Obviously, most of the residents in the area near the college belong to low socio- and economic strata of the society. Most of them are workers in variety of fields and hence in their life of hand-to-mouth situation, hardly get time or are interested in spending time on their ward, though they do wish that their children get higher education and achieve a better quality of life. However, this lack of time, or disinterest of parents results in low academic level of children. Thus 90% - 95% of our students belong to low socio–economic–cultural group of society and particularly have low academic background. Nevertheless, it is a challenge for the teachers and support staff not only to give them higher education but also to bring them up on various counts in their life.
The Vision and Mission of our parent organization goes well with the condition of our students. Always our Management guides all the staff members to move on the path of helping our needy and under-privileged students.
1. Vernacular medium:
Most of the students (90%) have their school education in vernacular medium such as Marathi, Hindi, Urdu etc. so teachers always try to explain the concepts of any topic in 02 languages; one is English which is our medium of instruction and other in which students are comfortable.
2. Remedial Coaching:
There is a policy and procedure for classifying slow learners. We conduct remedial lectures prior to each exam.
3. Fluency in English:
Spoken English is the weakness of most of our students. Department of English has indigenously designed ‘Effective English Skills’ certificate course considering the need of our students. This programme is conducted at minimal fees atleast twice in a year. Similarly we also invite Times of India group to conduct Spoken English classes under the title “Teach India” for our students.
4. Moral value inculcation:
To emerge as good citizens, students need to have a strong base of moral values. Hence our Department of Psychology in collaboration with Counselling Cell have designed a story telling certificate course ‘Jeevan Ke Rang Kahaniyo Ke Sang’. Counsellors try to inculcate moral values through these stories.
5. City Visits
It was observed that many a times students, especially girls students although stay in the world renowned city of Mumbai, have hardly any information about the city. So we floated the idea of city visits. Around 08 students, girls and boys taken together, of more than 18 years of age, are encouraged to visit the heritage monuments in the city of Mumbai such as Gate Way of India, Asiatic Library, Jahangir Art Gallery, Marine Drive, Rajabai Tower, University of Mumbai ( Fort Campus ) etc. and also to visit Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya ( Museum ). College provides for travelling allowance, museum tickets and snacks to such group of students. These students have to submit photographs and report on these visits. Thereafter they present their experiences in the class room of such visits.
6. Income and Domicile Certificate issuing camp:
A high percentage of our students belongs to reserved category. Due to various personal reasons, they are unable to get income as well as domicile certificate. Our College helps and guides them by holding a camp on issuing these certificates. College invites Tahsildar and Talathi to our college for this camp. Student Council members also set up a counter to guide these students in 1:1 ratio.
7. Importance of health:
We arrange many guest lectures in which the importance of health and low cost processes to maintain good health are discussed. “Low cost health and beauty tips” is another activity of Health Care Centre.
8. Field trips / excursions:
Students learn on many aspects of practical life if they are given a direct exposure. Our Departments of Sciences, Economics and Accountancy arrange for field visits, industrial visits and excursions. The college always bears the part of expenditure to enable financially weak students to participate in such activities.
9. Employability enhancement:
Considering the need of the students to support their family and make oneself financially independent, college holds frequent employability enhancement activities. Most of the time, these activities are free of charge. In some cases, they are minimally charged. These activities include mock personal interviews, mock group discussions, resume preparation as well as uploading resume on employment websites. We also hold many certificate or crash courses such as Advance Excel, Tally- GST, MS-CIT, IBPS, Python, Django, NISM, NCFM etc.
10. Coaching for competitive exams:
The college invites expert faculty to train our students for competitive exams like UPSC, MPSC,IBPS, MBA-CET etc. In comparison to very high charges of outside coaching classes, college charges meagerly for these coaching classes to our students.
11. Book Bank Scheme:
We invite open and reserved category students to apply for book bank. One more trust ‘Siddhivinayak Mandir Trust’ has also offered our students the book bank scheme. In this way, we provide students textbooks free of charge for their academic learning.
12. Activities for women:
Girl students are always encouraged to undertake entrepreneurship based on their certain skills. The skills of girl students are appreciated by inviting them to present their skill and paying them honorariums as well as certificate of appreciation. They are awarded cash prizes for frequently visiting gymkhana to remove a social stigma from their minds about physical activities and sports. They are trained by inviting social workers on issues related to sexual harassment, women’s legal right and women safety.
13. Parents meeting:
Parent’s teachers meetings are conducted in which a dialogue with relatively less educated parents is developed. Parents are always specially honored for providing facilities for higher education to their wards.
Institutional distinctiveness for academic year 2021-22
