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ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE EDUCATION IS OUR PASSPORT TO THE FUTURE, Our faculty member Ms. Ankita Singh organized FOR TOMORROW BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO Anveshan- Student’s paper presentation wherein PREPARE FOR IT TODAY – MALCOLM X TYBAF students did research work on different topics and gave presentations. It helped them gain This academic year witnessed several unique events and increase the enthusiasm for academic research. that were very well executed by the faculty. The One faculty member CA Shanthilakshmi Mudaliar department kicked off the year with its first online got the Gyan Vistaar 2021 award from VESLARC for lecture series on “Living with Courage” followed by innovative teaching ideas. Two faculty members Dr. online sessions on “Interview skills” and “Anger Anu Bansal and Ms. Ankita singh presented a Management”. A two-day lecture series wherein research paper in VESASC national conference. One four sessions were conducted on “Commodity and faculty member Dr. Anu Bansal published a research Derivative Trading and use in the portfolio”, “How to paper in International Journal of All Research master stock selection for Intraday”, “How to Education & Scientific Methods. analyze IPO” and “CDSL” in association with Infinite Financial Academy were also conducted. Handmade First Rank Anuradha Gupta in INKZOID Book of Poster making competition was organized by World Record Event VESASC students BAF Association on topics like “Conserve today for better tomorrow, Magic of Poster Making Competition Maths, Positive and negative sides of Covid-19, Save wildlife, Cultural Diversity in India, Save girl child and Crypto- Currency”. Our department has offered a short term 30 hours online Certificate Course in Advanced Excel, ERP Tally for FY, SY and TY students and another Certificate Course “Taxpert” was offered to SY and TY students in collaboration with Satyam Institute of Tax Accountant. The young emerging author and writer of our department, Ms. Anuradha Gupta secured first position amongst more than 1000 participants in the international event “Christmas Competition- Inkazoid Book of World Record Event” organized by Inkazoid Foundation. She has participated in several other online international story and poem writing competitions and won various prizes. Many students also won prizes in sports, NSS and LLE. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 32

ACCOUNTANCY Accountancy plays an important role in everybody’s have written and presented a number of research life, every one of us knowingly or unknowingly papers which were also published. To abreast on follows the rules of accountancy in our daily lives. syllabus revision, question paper pattern and other The Accountancy Department empowers students academic enrichment activities, department through quality education and imparting practical members are connected with the Board of Studies training on topics wherever it is possible. This not members through Whatsapp group. only helps them in their academic race but also makes them industry ready. Good results in the subject of accountancy shows knowledge and teaching skills of faculty members on The faculty members adopt various teaching, one hand and enthusiastic, vibrant and efforts of learning and evaluation methods like chalk and talk students on the other hand. Along with academics, for solving practical problems, PowerPoint other activities are also conducted by the presentations, case studies, virtual industrial visit, department under the banner of ‘Accountancy bank visit, class tests, assignments, quiz through Association'. The aim of Accountancy Association is Google form, peer learning etc. to widen the social circle of students, to train them in better time management, sharpen their skills and Along with regular lectures, the department exploration of their area of interests. This year conducts bridge courses for students who have not various intra-college activities were conducted viz. studied accountancy in junior college, remedial Poster presentation, PowerPoint Presentation and lectures for slow learners, assignments and class Smart Accountant. tests for all the students. Poster Presentations were organised for all Year Guest lecture on the topic of GST was organised by ICA for T.Y.B.Com students, which helped them to students to promote creativity and improvement of clear their doubts, getting ideas about practical implementation. Our alumni Ms. Shweta Jha basic conceptual understanding. Also, arranged a lecture for T.Y.B.Com students on Block chains in order to guide students about recent communication skills, team building and better developments in financial markets. understanding of the topics, PowerPoint Faculty members always make efforts to acquire a new horizon of knowledge and desire to get Presentation was Organised. intellectual joy from doing some creative work. All members actively participated in workshops, Students should be competent enough to face seminars and conferences. Dr. Sunita Sherifani, Mr. changing challenges of the highly competitive world Sanjay Premchandani and Ms. Chaitali Gaonkar and this was tested through ‘Smart Accountant Contest(Accountex’22) - A MCQ based test' FY, SY & TY students participated for this contest which helped them boost their confidence. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 33

BANKING AND INSURANCE \"All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.” Even during the pandemic, we did not give away the long-lasting ritual of celebrating Bank In resonance with this saying, we worked with Nationalisation Day. It was upheld in it’s true spirit determination and proudly nurtured the “BEST by organizing a series of events from 19th July, 2021 STUDENT of VESASC from our department i.e., Sejal to 27th July, 2021. Gagwani, for the year 2021-22. The Careers and placements of our students have The Department of Banking & Insurance has always always been of prime importance. Various tried to bring in innovation through teaching and competitions and sessions are arranged keeping carried out various activities that help their this in focus. To name a few, “Smart moves to stakeholders to improvise and develop their future. Crack Bank Exams” by Mr. Vinit Upadhyay, Financial Bingo and Banking Bay were some of these Managing Director of P.U. Education Service, innovations which helped students to remember the “Career prospects in Insurance” by Mr. Swapnil financial concepts and terms easily. On the other Jadhav, Officer at LIC, “Careers in Banking & hand, to ensure the mental well-being of our Financial Services” by Mr. Veerdhaval Talpade, students, a session on “It’s OK to seek help” in “Financial Literacy: Focus on Internship” by Mr. association with VESLARC was organised. To impart Vishal Gada, Director at Financial Planning awareness on the RTI Act and discuss the important Academy, were also organized. We invited our provisions which could help the students to utilise alumni to give a talk to the third year students to their fundamental right for getting information, a provide a roadmap and share valuable insights session by Mrs Anusuya Yadav (LLB, LLM) on “Legal about MBA-CET preparation. A student who Literacy: RTI Act, 2005” was also organised. completed an ACP project, was invited to share his research on “Bitcoins” with first year students, who To commemorate and celebrate women's social, created an inquisitiveness about acquiring economic, cultural, and political achievements, as knowledge out of the syllabus. Also, this year we well as to promote awareness about gender equality had 3 students who completed their ACP with A and advance gender parity, we at the BBI department grade. celebrated, “Women Shakti: A tribute to Indian Culture” with great zeal and enthusiasm. It is not the destination that matters, what matters is the journey and the department has been fortunate to complete the journey successfully with beautiful memories…. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 34

BIOTECHNOLOGY \"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the the department faced was to raise the morale of most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.\" students. Lacking social interaction was a major - Charles Darwin concern and so came in the concept special weekly activity 'Chai Pe Charcha', which as the name Indeed, the uncertainty that was left by the pandemic suggests, was an opportunity for the students who and online classrooms was felt when the year began. had never even met their classmates to socialize and Rather than fret about it, just like Darwin's finches in experience a break from the monotony of online the Galapagos, the department adapted to challenges lectures. To motivate students, mixed groups of that laid ahead. second year and first year students were made in the Harry Potter leaderboard style. The academic year kickstarted with UDAAN 2021, an online interactive career guidance session by the As a part of 'Chai Pe Charcha’, the first activity Microbiology-Biotechnology Association. Eighteen conducted was a game of 'Describe me with a alumni from the Microbiology and Biotechnology Tweet'. The students had to say something about department, who were currently pursuing post- themselves in 140 characters. This game proved to graduation in different fields, interacted with the be an ice breaker among the socially cut off students of the department to facilitate the students to students. All of them enjoyed and learned something make well-informed decisions and learn from their about each other. experiences. The department also conducted a session called “Plan Your Vacation”, just before the vacation This was followed by a series of weekly activities began. Students were missing the offline classes and including dumb charades, screening of a sci-fi were completely demotivated. documentary followed by a discussion. The best of all was when the department called for “One act This session was intended to motivate students to plays” shot in the form of a video. One of the groups organise their time in the vacation and make it more came up with a play on the life of Marie Curie and fruitful. Ideas given in this session revolved reading the other group talked about the accidental subject-related books, a recommended list of Sci-fi discovery of coal tar which were truly innovative movies, and a range of online courses. An online skill and ingenious pieces of work. development session on “Be Creative with Microsoft PowerPoint'' was conducted for the students of the In August, two sessions of Research Paper Biotechnology and Microbiology department, where Presentations were conducted for each of the students were given hands-on training on how to use classes. This was also the month when the first MS PowerPoint for designing and concept-based years joined the band wagon of online lectures. As a diagrams. The month of June came with a crowning part of their welcome session, the Seniors took up glory to our department as our student, Mushahidi the task to familiarise them to Google classroom Mohd Mubasshir, won first place in the final round of and its setup. the 15th Avishkar Research Convention: 2020-21. The first year students participated in a Poster As the academic term began, the first challenge that Presentation called 'Atho’. The idea was to make a SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 35

poster on any one of the fermented foods that are a As the offline college began in full swing, the seniors specialty of a particular culture. This was to arranged a yogurt tasting session, wanting to make familiarize them with the scientific basis of the most of their last months in college. They made fermentation and to enhance their skills of digital flavored yogurts and butter right from the basic poster making. steps. The classrooms turned into tasting Centres and tasters voted for best Flavours. A virtual workshop on Molecular Docking was conducted with the initiative of students from Third Just like Darwin's finches adapted themselves to year. The seniors also very enthusiastically, passed survive, the Department of Biotechnology not only on the legacy they received from their seniors in the managed to adapt themselves to the changing form of WEP workshop. An inter-departmental situations but also helped the students soar high three-day workshop on the Basics of Word, Excel, and prepare for the future. and PowerPoint was conducted for over 200 students who registered and successfully completed this workshop. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 36

CHEMISTRY Chemistry is life as it touches every aspect of our Internship - Mr. Rahul Shintre of TYBSc. of 2021-22 existence in some way. Chemistry education plays successfully completed internship in the central an important role in enhancing the quality of chemical lab at RCF from 2nd November, 2021 to learning, research and development. It ensures that 16th November, 2021. students are equipped with good knowledge to give PHD- Ph.D. interviews were conducted online on services to human needs for food, health care 14th October, 2021 four students appeared and one products and other materials aimed at improving was admitted . the quality of life. M.Sc Induction Program - Dr. Prasanna Ranade organized an Induction program on September 23, We, the Chemistry Department at VESASC approach 2022 for M.Sc Part I students. the topics by correlating it with daily lives and try to Our college got autonomous status, first meeting of adopt methodology of experiential learning our BOS was held on 13-12-2021. Our BOS members wherever possible covering full syllabus for our were : i) Prof. Bhalchandra Mahadeo Bhanage, Dean students. National Science day celebration Achievements - We encourage our students to take part in various competitive examinations including NET, SET, CSIR, ICT, IIT-JAM examinations etc. Our best practice is the conduct of a Chemistry enrichment lecture series in which students are taught the basic concepts of chemistry & are given the practice of MCQ. This year 27 Students participated in the APTITUDE TEST-Chemistry in association with INDIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (MUMBAI BRANCH). Ms.Priyanka Kanojiya (MSc-II) ranked in TOP 05 & Ms.Deeksha Singh (TYBSc) ranked in TOP 10. Avishkar Convention - A group of five students of TYBSc. Disha N, Vishal M., Kshitijan, Anaghap. Aditya N. successfully completed Inter-Collegiate Avishkar Research Convention 2021- 22 at UG level, under the guidance of Dr. Ritika Makhijani. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 37

Infrastructure and Campus Development, National Science Day Celebration : On NSD, 28th Department of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical February, 2022 Seminar competition and poster Technology, Mumbai. competition was held in the AV room at 11:30am. Dr. ii) Dr. Yogita Shinde, Assistant Professor, Kishinchand Ritika Makhijani, In-Charge of the Chemistry Chellaram College, HSNC University, Mumbai. Association highlighted the objectives & important iii) Dr. Nandkishor Chandan, Vice Principal and activities of the Chemistry Association. Ms. Sakshi of Associate Professor, Siddharth College of Arts, TYBSc. explained the life of the famous Indian Science and Commerce Mumbai. Scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and thereafter iv) Our Alumni -Mr.Vaibhav Rasam of 2003 batch, the competition started with a lot of enthusiasm General Manager Supply chain, Loreal India, FMCG. from all the students. V) Our Alumni - Mr. Karun Sodah of 1990 batch, Assistant Professor, K.C.College HSNC University Our department ensured we work as a team by Mumbai. helping the students not only with their curriculum Dr. Parinita Madan took voluntary retirement on 4th but also continuously mentored them to keep a January 2022 after serving this institution for 32 positive attitude and not lose faith in these years. challenging times. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 38

COMMERCE It is rightly said by Michele Jennae - “There is no Commerce without community, and there is no community without Commerce.” The Commerce Department believes in giving the To enhance knowledge, imagination and innovation students a base to build up the community along with among students, our department organized its their own careers. A student with a successful career annual department festival, 'INNOVISION' which contributes immensely to society. To provide was an inter-collegiate event and a National level students an insight into various career opportunities Quiz competition \"KOMMERTSIYA QUIZOHOLIC\" available to them in the field of Commerce, our where students across different states participated. department conducted a spectrum of expert guidance lectures. To connect theoretical learning, practice and research an international internship opportunity This year the department conducted a “Webinar on was provided to students through the Nusantara Career Opportunities after B.Com (Commerce) by Mr. Project conducted by AIBPM (Association of M.D. Bhatt, Corporate Trainer and motivational International Business and Professional speaker who gave a detailed insight into various Management), Indonesia. 15 students successfully career options open for Commerce students. An completed the 3 months internship and got great expert lecture by Mrs. Archana Nair, Ex-Banker and exposure to market research, presentation and Faculty at Joshi Bedekar College of Arts and publication of research papers. Commerce on the topic “Career Prospects in International Trade & Business” was organized to give The faculty and students of our department students insight into the global corporate world and presented 10 research papers and won laurels of 4 growing opportunities in this field. Best research Paper presented in Conferences this The department also conducted an expert lecture on year. 13 research papers published in UGCC are “Importance of Competencies and Skills in Corporate listed journals and International journals. One World” in collaboration with Alumni Association of student was encouraged to participate in Avishkar VESASC by our own Alumni, CMA Ms. Archana Shah, Research Convention - Zone II Round with Senior Manager, Reliance Industries Ltd. which will University of Mumbai. play a vital role in making students ’job ready’. Session by Alumni Ms. Archana Shah Best Research Paper Award - Dr. Sadhana Singh SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 39

COMPUTER SCIENCE So, after trying all possible methods of teaching - Online, Offline and Blended, what is the best mode of teaching? Well, still there can be lots of arguments on the same, but after being used to the world of “Online”, do you feel that there would be 100% offline?. On behalf of staff and students, let me share some of got published in “Smart Sensor Networks” the prominent activities of this academic year. We published by Springer. (ii) Dr. Madhavi Vaidya co- are happy to share that - authored a chapter,\" Exploring performance and predictive analytics of agriculture data\" in the Dr. Madhavi Vaidya got registered as a co-guide Elsevier Journal with Ms. Shweta Katkar, (iii) Dr. at JJT University, Rajasthan. Madhavi published a book called “Information Dr. Madhavi Vaidya received CIEMA Outstanding Retrieval” published by Wiley. (iv) Akansha Jagtap of Thesis and Dissertation Award in first TYCS & Dr. Madhavi presented a paper “Improving International conference on Security and Crisis blended learning in higher education using decision Management, Serbia, MCKV West Bengal, CT tree technique, post pandemic” in a Engineering, Punjab. multidisciplinary virtual national conference by Two TY students got shortlisted for the best Mutha College on 10/12/21. student award. Ms Saraswati Balotiya got selected as runner-up for the best student. Our students participated and conducted various activities. In Dec’21, the SYCS students launched the In research - (i) a research chapter written by Dr. fourth version of TecKnow magazine. In October Madhavi, Mr. Pritish & Mr. Kamlakar titled “Energy 2021, Ms.Rutu, Ms. Muskan Harwani & Mr. Lokesh Efficient Smart Lighting System for Rooms” got Deore of FY conducted a Photoshop session. In published in “Smart Sensor Networks” published by Mar’22, students organized and conducted Springer. (ii) Dr. Madhavi Vaidya co-authored a Vihaan’22 restricting it to the students of our chapter,\" Exploring performance and predictive college. analytics of agriculture data\" in the Elsevier Journal with Ms. Shweta Katkar, (iii) Dr. Madhavi published a Our teachers were involved in various activities - (i) book called “Information Retrieval” published by Mr. Kamlakar Bhopatkar attended a FDP on “Ethical Wiley. (iv) Akansha Jagtap of TYCS & Dr. Madhavi Dimensions of Writing a Research Paper\", (ii) Dr. presented a paper “Improving blended learning in Madhavi Vaidya gave an online-talk on “IR & higher education using decision tree technique, Post Correlation of IR with NLP & ML” to the research Pandemic” in a multidisciplinary virtual national students of HVPM’s Degree College, Amaravati, (iii) conference by Mutha College on 10/12/21. Ms. Rajashree Date and Ms. Neha Narne conducted a workshop on Digital Safety in collaboration With In research - (i) a research chapter written by Dr. Kotak Education Foundation on 23rd Nov 2021 and Madhavi, Mr. Pritish & Mr. Kamlakar titled “Energy 25th Nov 2021 for 6th,7th,8th standard students. Efficient Smart Lighting System for Rooms” SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 40

Add-on course was introduced for the interested conducted a session on “Market Research”, (v) students of SY & TY called - “Developing Web Apps Squad conducted two seminars on the topic of using Flask Framework''. It was conducted by Mr. “Digital Marketing” & “GDPI”, (vi) A seminar by Ignatius Gonsalves, Software Engineer at Senergy Decodetech to give information about the Intellution. It was conducted in July-Aug 2021. internship programs at their organization. Some new activities were conducted this year - (i) Various seminars were organized by the “Samwad” where students of FY, SY & TY would department. (i) Mr Abhimanyu Karandikar, Ex- informally meet together online to discuss various Consultant, EXL HEALTH conducted a session on issues with each other, (ii) “Know Your Neighbor” “Studying Abroad After UG”, (ii) 3 seminars were where each student would share information about conducted by VESLARC on the topics of “Living their benchmates, (iii) “Online KhoKho Quiz” where With Courage”, “Its ok to seek help” and each student would come online and would get a “Importance of Hard-Work” (iii) Ms. Shravanti question of multi-choice type. First two activities Sunchu, Senior Developer conducted a session on were organized by Dr. Madhavi, last activity was Flutter, organized by Mr. Kamlakar. (iv) Mr. Milind Bhopatkar, Senior Manager, Kantar, Metaverse has become a buzzword recently, but do you know that the term metaverse was first used in Neil Stevenson's 1982 novel, Snow Crash? By the way, The Matrix (1999) was one of the first movies to depict the metaverse SOCIAL STIGMA VIHAAN 22 PPT Competition PAGE 41 VIVEK 2021-2022

ECONOMICS The year 2021-22 was conducted in the blended A State Level Know Your Economist (KYE) poster mode, both online and offline. Rising to the making competition was organised by the occasion, the Department of Economics adjusted Department of Economics on 16th September 2021. accordingly. Keeping all safety protocols in mind, 24 posters were submitted by students from we arranged many innovative virtual events to different colleges in Mumbai. encourage the students' participation to learn Economics with fun. The department conducted A talk was delivered by our alumnus, Ms. Richa various events like movie screening, Know Your Sharma (Assistant Professor at S.K Somaiya College) Indian Economy (KYIE) - National Level Quiz on the topic \"Career Prospects in Economics\" on 2 Competition, Know Your Economist (KYE) State March, 2022, at 11:30 pm on Google Meet. She Level Poster Competition, two Students’ Webinars, guided the students on different career Career Guidance talk etc. opportunities in economics and also shared her successful journey and experience, as in the past, Know Your Indian Economy (KYIE) - National Level present and future. Quiz Competition was a humble endeavour on the part of the Department of Economics to \"Stay at The Department of Economics in collaboration with home, Stay Safe and Learn''. This was organised on the NSS Unit of VESASC organised a Webinar on 14th July from 2 to 3 pm. The idea was to kindle the “Road Map for Financial Markets” by Dr. Sharan curiosity of students to know even more about the Kumar Shetty, an excellent industry and academic economy they live in i.e India. It had 638 expert, on 13th August, 2021 through Google Meet. participants from 10 States across India like UP, MP, All in all, it was a blended year with lots of learning Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Nagaland, Dadra Nagar Haveli, and achievements!! Gujrat, West Bengal, the maximum being from Maharashtra followed by Orissa. Knowledge can be gathered by many sources, one of the interesting sources being movie screening and discussion. On 5th and 12th August, 2021, \"The Young: Karl Marx\" movie was screened for TYBA Economics and SYBCom students, followed by a discussion on theories of Karl Marx and alternative economic systems. The Economics Department in association with KNOW YOUR ECONOMIST Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics (MDAE) organised a Webinar on \"Does direct cash transfer work? Evidence from tribal schools in Maharashtra\" by Dr. Sandhya Krishnan (Assistant Professor at MDAE) on 29 th September 2021. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 42

FINANCIAL MARKETS “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”- process of investment. The department in Stephen Hawking. collaboration with NSE also conducted a webinar on “Build your future be smart about money” under A student’s future is decided by what he does today Global Money week. The department had also made and not tomorrow. Financial literacy is an important efforts to make the students understand the virtual tool to improve the financial capability of our youth trading platforms through an inter-departmental and the growth of the economy. Therefore, seminar by ICICI Direct titled “STOCKMIND - A individuals should know how to handle money and Virtual Trading platform”. In order to develop multiply it. Keeping this in mind, the department of creativity, public speaking, communication skills, financial markets focuses on teaching the students and academic involvement the department about economic & financial principles which will conducted various presentations and group help them as citizens to understand and make discussions on topics like contract specifications of choices about many of the critical issues listed commodities and unlisted commodities, confronting our nation. gender sensitization, and awareness about environmental catastrophe. The current academic year was a mixed journey of an online and offline rides. Experiencing the new The department has successfully managed to strike challenges of moving everything online and then a proper balance between the traditional and back offline the department tried to maintain its modern teaching methodologies through various sanity. The very first activity that the department online teaching techniques and timely interactions. conducted was introducing the system to the students. The department conducted an online The major focus was to develop the cognitive orientation for the first-year students and parents abilities of the students through academics as well to give them an insight into the college and the as various class activities in the form of quizzes, department’s activities. It also served as a platform elocution, debate, presentation, grooming sessions to inform students to guide them on how to choose and many more. career options available in the field of the Financial Market. Money Multiplier Warren Buffet once said, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die” and with the same intention, the department was successfully able to conduct an inter-departmental activity named “Money Multiplier” to help the non-commerce background students in understanding the importance of investing in various investment avenues and the SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 43

Our faculty make sincere efforts in pooling all the teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it has resources together in making the students industry an inspiring change & learning is more than ready and good citizens as well. absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. Keeping such ideologies in mind the department has The department takes equal interest in encouraging managed to maintain students’ interest even in this the students to take part in various intercollegiate new style of teaching-learning and thus achieving competitions, research paper presentations, NSS, the departmental objective of imparting knowledge Forum Activities, etc. Coping with the ongoing through quality education. pandemic situation the department has realized that Saudagiri Winners SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 44

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY “The moment you’re about to quit, is the moment right before the miracle happens. Don’t give up.\" - Anonymous. In the spirit of the above quote, B. Sc IT Department of VES College is preparing its students for the future to attain gradual success by adopting value-based strategies with positive spiraling effect. The department strives towards inculcating group dynamics, human skills, and employable skills in the students. It conducts subject-oriented seminars, and other activities for the students to develop their communication skills and do certification in different subjects. Besides the above, we conduct many activities to make the best of the students’ potential Innovative Practices of the Department: Thats IT Donation to Access Life Foundation Mini-Web-Dev: To collate the theoretical knowledge into practical application, mini web sites are developed by the Placement: FYIT Students. In the year 2021-22, the department achieved 67.24 % of placement. Out of 58 eligible students, 39 students Mini-App-Dev: To collate the theoretical knowledge into are placed through pool campus, off-campus, and on practical application, small applications are developed by campus. the FYIT Students. 3P Evaluation: Project-Prototype-Presentation--- Internship: Learning of SDLC in the subject of Software Engineering Three students of the department were placed in through Live projects; Game Development at Axis Entertainment Ltd, GO Presentation: S.Y.B.Sc IT students developed Graphics Prathamesh Dighe as Frontend Developer in SG Object to show their skills in Computer Graphics. Infosystems and Aryan Shirodkar as Manager and Business Development Intern in Shape AIl have Association Activities: completed the internships. The department has conducted different competitions based on the innovative practices that are followed by the Student Activities: department. The department conducted 3 seminars. The 4 Students from SYIT and 9 students from TYIT have TYIT students conducted a “IT Tech Drive” for the successfully completed 120 hours of Lifelong students of SYIT to give them the idea of how interviews Learning and Extension Programme. are conducted and what type of questions are asked during the interviews. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 45

MANAGEMENT STUDIES “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be orientation. Departmental clubs namely Mentor Club understood. Now is the time to understand more, so and Knowledge Club conducted a lot of mentoring, that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie bonding and knowledge building collegiate and intercollegiate activities. We ended the year with a With this motto we @BMS started the academic nostalgic, fun filled and eventful farewell for the final year putting all the worse behind and with bright year students. hopes of a wonderful year ahead. SEWA our annual welfare event was conducted with Achievements : Ritika Mahavar (SYBMS) and Ritesh much enthusiasm by our students wherein they sold Borade (FYBMS) won the State level Championship products in the college and the proceeds of which in Acrobatics and have qualified for Nationals. was donated to our sister institution Rochiram Abhishek Prasad (TYBMS) who was selected to be Thadani Hearing Handicapped School. part of Mumbai University Mallakhamb team won silver medal in overall individual ranking in inter- On 4th March 2022 our department organized SEWA university Mallakhamb competition. Our students (Social Entrepreneurship & Welfare Activity) for from all three classes won various laurels in both FYBMS, SYBMS & TYBMS in the Stilt area between inter and intra college competitions in poster 9.00 am to 1.30 pm. It was organised for combining making, photography, poetry, story writing, PPT, practical exposure to students on important music etc., proving that they are good in curricular concepts such as social entrepreneurship and and extra curricular activities. inculcating in them the joy of giving. Best practices : Guest lectures and workshops were conducted in both online and offline mode by our illustrious alumni established in industry, who gave valuable inputs to our students on important topics for grooming and upskilling them. An online seminar was organized where a faculty SEWA - Buy for a Cause Expert from MET organized an informative online google seminar - ‘Get The Edge’. which provided students a realistic glimpse about “Careers after graduation”. Departmental events : We invited the first year students with an elaborate and knowledgeable SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 46

The main aspect of the event was that the students of the event were achieved through the dedication prepare delicacies from home & the proceeds & hard work of students with guidance & mentoring earned by selling these delicacies are donated to of faculty. The students who participated in SEWA our sister institution - Rochiram Thadani High got valuable experience in social entrepreneurship. School for Hearing Handicapped. The slogan for this The juniors learned a wonderful lesson from their year 2021- 2022 was 'Eat for a Cause' which was seniors about event management, crowd control, created in line with ‘cause marketing’ to encourage delivery management, and their delectable culinary everyone to buy more products, in turn raising abilities. The social cause factor drove the young more funds for the cause. entrepreneurs to go beyond their comfort zones. The event was a success in terms of providing Learning Outcome: hands-on experience. Students received training in The qualitative aims were the betterment of the the struggles and triumphs of social specially abled students & quantitative aim was the entrepreneurship. amount funds raised. The event proved to be a big success as both the qualitative & quantitative aims Online guest lecture given by our Alumna Ms. Shreya SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 47

MICROBIOLOGY It was a year of renewed hope as we witnessed the The department continued its National level online gradual retreat of the pandemic and the college come intercollegiate activity termed “Microbytes'' which alive with the return of the students. The facilitates peer-to-peer learning of topics in Microbiology Department tried to make the most of Microbiology through interactive course content the situation during the online as well as offline and virtual labs. This programme is the brainchild of period. Our teachers employed various innovative Mr. Suman Ganger and the TYBSc students of Batch methods such as flip classroom, pre-recorded videos, 2019-20. The content is prepared with existing POGIL (Process oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) online/offline learning resources and curated by the and collaborative learning methods to enliven their microbiology teachers. Assessment is done on the online classes. When the classes went offline, they basis of quizzes and peer graded assignments. This modified their teaching methods and added the chalk- year, certificates were awarded to 74 students and-board to their repertoire of teaching aids. The including 21 inhouse students, 41 from various Student Connect practice of the college helped us to Mumbai colleges and 12 from colleges outside connect personally with the students and understand Mumbai. their problems, in both the online and offline modes. Dr. Santhini Nair has been recognized as a PhD 1st and 3rd prize won by Dr. Santhini Nair (Microbiology) guide for Mumbai University, while Dr. and Dr. Malay Shah for research paper Shweta Patil and Mr. Suman Ganger have been presentations at an International E- recognized as guides (M.Sc. by Research). We Conference conducted by Wilson College currently have six ongoing PhD students under the supervision of Dr. N.N.Malik and one PhD student who is being guided by Dr. Santhini Nair as a co-guide. Two of our SYBSc students successfully completed online courses conducted by foreign universities. Siddharth Ramesh was one of the 30 students selected from among 600 applicants for a Cell Biology course conducted by Harvard University in collaboration with ScienSpur and Laxmi Mittal South Asian Institute. He has recently enrolled in a course on “Principles of Biochemistry” at Harvard. Tejas Thombare pursued a course on Astrobiology conducted by Arizona University and presented his learnings to the students. Our SYBSc and M.Sc students attended workshops on Bioanalytical techniques conducted by SIES College Sion, where they learnt the principle and applications of various instruments and also received hands-on training for the same. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 48

The Microbiology Association continued with its A session titled “Footprints of Batch 2009” was activities in the online as well as offline modes. M.Sc. conducted by a panel of seven alumni, while Part 2 students conducted an online welcome session another titled “Journey to entrepreneurship” was for the FY class, while the SY and TY students got conducted by Dr. Sayantani Palit and Mr. Anirban together for an interactive session. During these Palit who have jointly founded Pragmatech sessions, association activities were discussed and Healthcare Solutions, Vadodara. Their main students were informed about the association Class product is a novel Cervical Cancer Testing kit representatives. An oral research paper presentation which has been patented and is undergoing clinical competition was conducted for TYBSc (Microbiology) trials. Another speaker was Mr. Rakesh Mohan, students, in which six students presented research Executive Director, Scientific Remedies Pvt. Ltd., papers from different fields like AI in Healthcare, Food who spoke about his pet food manufacturing Microbiology, etc. A screening of the Microbiology company. Two sessions of SCOPE (Sessions on based movie “Contagion” was done for all the Career Opportunities and Perspectives), our online students. career guidance series were conducted in which our well-placed alumni shared their experiences The annual prize distribution function of the and advice with the current students. Association was conducted offline after a gap of 2 years, in which the academic toppers and winners of The department completed a paid consultancy association competitions conducted in the previous work for HUBER ATE Envirotech for monitoring two years were felicitated. Gaurav Patekar and industrial waste by carrying out COD and BOD Ashwini Satpute were declared the Star Students of analysis. MSc (Part 1) students were actively 2019-20 and 2020-21 respectively and felicitated on involved in this project. The department has started the occasion. The programme included a variety of coaching sessions for Competitive exams (NET, student performances including poetry recitation, SET, PhD entrances) for the MSc students. songs, dances and a humorous skit titled “Go Corona Go ''. We plan to increase the number of seats for M.Sc (Microbiology) to 30 next year. Several other The department has joined the MANAV-Human Atlas innovative changes are being planned for the Initiative of IISER, Pune. An orientation on \"How to department for the coming year. We look forward Read Scientific Literature?\" and \"Introduction to to a new beginning in the wake of our newly MANAV- The Human Atlas Initiative\" was organized in acquired autonomous status. this regard. A Popular Science Lecture was organized by IWSA (Indian Women Scientists’ Association) and The future depends on what we do in the present - supported by BRNS-DAE (Board of Research in Mahatma Gandhi Nuclear Sciences - Department of Atomic Energy) on the topic “World’s most radiation-resistant bacterium: Deinococcus radiodurans and what can you do with it?”. The speaker was Prof. Shree Kumar Apte Ph.D, Distinguished Professor at School of Biological Sciences, UM-DAE Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences. It was attended by nearly 300 participants from various institutions.The department also conducted a session on “DNA Sequencing” by Mr. Alok Vaidhya, Director, SLS Research pvt. Ltd. Surat. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 49

MULTIMEDIA & MASS COMMUNICATION As quoted by Abraham Lincoln “The best way to Shrirang Kirshana, Prasadhini Gautam, Shashi Nair predict your future is to create it.” The Department and Yoshetaa Jogi. The fest also helps to provide a of BAMMC of VES College of Arts, Science & platform for students to showcase their various skills Commerce aims to emphasize the right path of of writing, anchoring, reporting, acting, designing, education in the field of multimedia and mass music and dance. communication by enhancing the skills of each student since its inception. BAMMC is an incredibly SAW : Social Awareness Week (SAW) is a donation fascinating field of study. The department focuses and collection drive. As part of SAW, students spread on a balance between theory and practicalities of awareness about road safety, drug addiction, and the the course. Our department with a vision to provide importance of voting among other subjects. This holistic education, has inculcated in its teaching year we had an addition to the social activities and methodology the ideas of learning through food distribution. The theme was based on safety seminars, webinars, activities, events, group Measures for Covid-19 by conducting webinars. The projects, guest lectures and alumni 10 day Programme was accompanied by the students speech/interactive. Be it photography, filmmaking, as well as the faculty members in all the three zones, marketing, public relations, content writing, digital Chembur, Navi-Mumbai and Ulhasnagar – Kalyan. media, event management, personality SAW is an initiative to spread awareness and give development, the department has never left any back to the society making students understand and stone unturned. Following the legacy of conducting learn to also look after the society. events every year, the department organized various intercollegiate and intra-collegiate events. Alumni Lecture : The department organizes guest lectures on subjects related to the course. Likewise, Impressions, the department’s annual Inter- this year Mr. Nikhil Kalyanpad of batch 2013-14 was collegiate festival is the longest running media invited for an alumni lecture on 16th March, 2022 to festival in Mumbai. The 19th Year of Impressions share his knowledge on the topic “Career Prospects was conducted online on 11th, 12th and 13th in Marketing”. This session indeed gave a brief February 2022. The theme for this year was introduction to marketing, areas of specialization in “Revisiting the Khalnayaks: 90s Villains”. The theme the same and to bring out the perspective of the took us back to the late 90s villains and showed that corporate world to the students. it brought a lot of nostalgia of late 90s kids. Chief Guest were R. Sridhar and Ms. Bhavna Agarwal. The department also conducts online events, media Among the guests for the events in Impressions exhibition, guest lectures, sports activities and much some were Sonal Mehrotra , Akshya Srivastava , more. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 50

PHYSICS It always gives a great pleasure to look back and take analysis of results & modelling of the different account of things our department has done during the reactions. Starting from accelerating the 6Li beam, academic year. In this year, we were hopping between types of nuclear reactions, processing the signals, online and offline modes of teaching on account of detector technique of charge particle identification surge in the covid -19 cases. Teachers and students using surface barrier dE-E detector was explained. were well prepared on account of experiences of the Energy calibration of detectors using known alpha previous academic year. We all made best use of all energies of 229Th was shown. Measured elastic possible resources such as pen tablets, various angular distribution after analyzing the data was softwares for effective online teaching of courses and presented. virtual lab sessions. Further, students were delighted after reopening of the college and interacting with classmates as well as teachers and also exploring experiments in labs. They were deprived of many of these enjoyable parts of college life in the previous year. This year, faculty and Ph.D. students of the department presented eight articles in National/international conferences, published four articles in different journals and a chapter in an edited Educational Visit to Nehru Science Centre by S.Y. book. and T.Y. B.Sc. students Some of our students showed keen interest in seminar In collaboration with Indian Physics Association- presentations. T.Y. B.Sc. students, Satyam Pandey and Department of Atomic energy, IPA-DAE C. V. Raman Jagruti Ahire gave a talk on Laser Interferometer lecture on “Studies on compact objects using Gravitational Observatory (LIGO). The talks gave an Astrosat” by Dr. Seetha from ISRP was organized. Dr. overview of LIGO, comprising two enormous laser S. Seetha presented some interesting results using interferometers located 3000 kilometers apart, AstroSat (multiwavelength satellite), India’s first exploiting the physical properties of light and of space space observatory. itself to detect and understand the origins of Space astronomy has opened up access to several gravitational waves (GW). The interesting talk was wavelength bands of electromagnetic spectra followed by discussions on various aspects of LIGO and inaccessible from ground. Studies in UV and X-ray science behind it. bands give insights in study of X-ray binaries. She covered in her talk - black body radiation, sun, stars, Arati Chavan, Ph.D. student of physics department and massive stars and how to observe neutron stars and UGC-DAE-CSR, KC Research fellow gave an online talk black holes. She also highlighted the data and a few on “Nuclear reactions involving weakly bound nuclei”. interesting results on white dwarf, planetary nebula, The talk was very well planned, starting with very basic, neutron stars taken from AstroSat. familiar concepts to students, further leading to discussion of various nuclear reactions and different At the end of the talk students interacted with aspects of research involved in planning experiments, Dr S.Seetha about various topics of her talk as well SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 51

as career prospects on completion of B.Sc./M.Sc. Physics department in 1989 and had a long, successful Physics. and memorable teaching career in our college. She was Head of Physics department during the period 2015 to Further, different talks and interactive sessions 2021. She was a very good teacher liked and respected by were organized to acquaint current students with students and colleagues alike. We bade her goodbye with different career options and how to pursue heavy hearts. dreams. Dr. Vivek Jadhav, Lead Scientist at Cytiva, Massachusetts, USA gave an online talk on “Career One of our colleagues, non-teaching staff, Mr. Babu in industry after physics”. Our alumnus, Varak retired in August 2021. Babu was very supportive in Durgaprasad Gupta (2011-12 batch), presently various lab activities and experiments; he was skilled in working in Materials Science Industry, Ideaforge mechanics & optics lab experiments. He was a very Ltd., interacted with students and gave a talk on resourceful person in planning any new experiment. As Career prospects and work in material science soon as briefed about it, he would immediately say industry. Also, our alumnus Rohan Mehta (2018-19 “karuya na sir!” and would arrange different possible batch) interacted with students and shared alternative things to set up the experiment from insights of pursuing different career options after available resources. Also, he used to design many B.Sc. Physics. indigenous things required for lab experiments. We bade him goodbye with heavy hearts. Amidst all these activities and events, one of our colleagues Mrs. Hemalatha Deshpande retired from service in December 2021. She joined the Students’ Seminars -Talk by T.Y. B.Sc. students on LIGO SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 52

PSYCHOLOGY “We are not what happened to us, we are what we The Department of Psychology follows student choose to become”. Carl Jung. centric practices to ensure seamless learning. Students are guided for future career The department of psychology saw lots of changes this academic year. The year began with a host of opportunities for the same, a career guidance activities lined up for students. To update students session was organized for SYBA and TYBA of the trends in the industry, speakers from the psychology students. A dissertation guidance industry were invited for talks , seminars and session fo r orienting MA Part 1 and 2 students workshops. Beginning in the month of July 2021 the for their dissertation process was conducted at the department organized Alumni talks. beginning of term two. The first was by Ms Disha Mehta who is the Senior Faculty members are continuously upgrading HR Associate at ‘ Akansha foundation ’ , an NGO their knowledge through attending various working in the field of education for the underpri- vileged. She spoke about the role of the HR programs from time to time, this year too, Mrs. generalist in NGO setting, and also discussed the Aarohi Khar HOD Department of psychology scope of psychologists in development sectors. attended an Online 12 week Refresher course Another alumnus Ms.Vidhi Shah, Senior Executive equivalent, NPTEL - Swayam course by IIT Human Resource in Schindler India Pvt Ltd, was Guwahati, on “Introduction to Cognitive Psychology” invited to deliver a talk on various business sectors, and was Adjudged as Topper with Elite + thrust areas of HR, various roles of HR, pros and Gold certification (95%) . Dr Radhika Mohan cons of MBA, and MA , as well as internships. Both also attended a FDP titled “Managing online the alumni were from 2012-13 batch. classes and co-creating MOOC 7.0” for a period of two weeks and another one on “Pedagogy and A skill building workshop was organized for students learning; mapping new approaches”, for a period of on Expressive Art therapy for Mindfulness. This one week. session was also conducted by alumni Ms. Eshwari Bhoga. Active participation in Research is also an integral part of the department. Mrs. Aarohi Khar Virtual learning that was so helpful during lockdown presented her research paper and was days, continued to be our adjunct medium of awarded the Best Research Paper award in the knowledge acquisition. Faculty members from category of Humanities for her paper titled various colleges were invited to enlighten the “Sexual Predation of children online: Process students virtually, through webinars. Ms. Sonal & precautions”. Jhambekar, Head Dept of Psychology K. J. Somaiya College was invited as a guest speaker . She She also published an article for popular writing gave a brief history of the key events that shaped titled \"Unsafe Cyberspace” in Monthly publication the field of IO Psychology, the thrust areas that IP “NAAD”. A monthly publication of All India Kashmiri psychologists work in, and finally the various career Samaj. A 5-Day, National Level conference on opportunities and settings in the field of IO psychology. Prevention of Interpersonal Abuse and Violence was also attended by her. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 53

Dr. Radhika Mohan also published a chapter in The department saw a major change in the the book Learning Disabilities “Counseling faculty composition by January. The Parents of Special Children: Insight from Resilient previous head Dr. Gayathri Balasubramanian Parents” (September 2022). She also published took VRS and two other faculty members Ms. an article “Stress and Adaptation Among Mumbai Local Train Commuters”. Dr. Radhika Mohan Arpita Sarkar and Mr. Ankeet Gokulgandhi also co-judged intercollegiate Avishkar Research resigned to move to greener pastures. Two new Convention 2021-22, on behalf of the University. faculty members Ms. Vidita Save and Ms. Nisha Karamchandani joined the department of Psychology for the remainder of the term. SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 54

SOCIOLOGY The Department of Sociology has been one of the Believing in inclusiveness such that social oldest departments of our college. We are a student- background or language does not become a centric department and we aim to make our graduates barrier to learning, we adopted a bi-lingual an asset to the society. Since we have students from a communication for lectures and teacher-student myriad background, they require special assistance and interaction. care not only academically, but also outside the realm of academia, in terms of encouragement and guidance. The third-year students did a complete research The department has always encouraged students to project on gender related topics and applied the gain experience in different aspects of life, which gives research skill taught in class in an actual project. them a glimpse of the “real social world”. During these times of trial, our attempt has always been to analyze the current predicaments The last two years, as we know, were challenging years using theories and engaging in fruitful class for all of us with Covid-19 forcing us to change not only discussions. We endeavor to make our students our daily living but also to embrace new ways of not only academically sound, but also people who teaching and learning. Even though the new modes and can make a difference to society for the better. methods of virtual learning were rather challenging, we must admit that both the staff and students adapted quickly and we successfully continued our journey of growing in knowledge. We, in our department took advantage of this situation and engaged a lot in exploring information available virtually, such as documentary screenings, going on virtual tours of ancient places and cultures. We organized a few virtual guest lectures on various topics ranging from “representation of women and other marginalized groups in India”, “women as nature’s conservers” and “careers with sociology major” SOCIAL STIGMA VIVEK 2021-2022 PAGE 55