Best Practices

The two institutional best practices are :

This is one of the Best Practices of Prajyoti Niketan College, Pudukad. All five departments engage in extension activities and services to the nearby communities and public. Almost all the clubs and forums join hands with the departments towards societal engagement. The Centre for Community Engagement at Prajyoti Niketan College takes the initiative in organizing various programmes. Under the leadership of the various departments, we plan, organize and carry out various programmes for the Pudukad Community. Dept of English had adopted Mar Kurialassery Memorial UP School and the final year students had initiated ‘Aurora – Reach Out to Teach’ for the students of the school. IQAC with the support of Jesus Youth had initiated the ‘Hunger Hunt’ Project in collaboration with Fr Davis Chiramal Charitable Trust for the needy people of Pudukad. A Food Shelf had been established adjacent to the Panchayath Road to place food packets on all five days in a week. We have also collaborated with Kodakara Block Panchayath and had done several activities. The Dept of Commerce had launched a YouTube Channel, Prajyoti Commerce for Community (PC2) to impart financial literacy to the public. Dept of Psychology runs the Prajyoti Clinic with clinical psychologists certified under Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). They also conduct suicide prevention classes and mental health campaigns in the Pudukad and Nandikara Schools under Pudukad Grama Panchayath. They also enhance the psychological awareness of students through YouTube videos prepared by the students. Dept of Computer Science had conducted FDPs for teachers from other colleges and districts. Dept of Electronics had also conducted a one month programme for all under graduate students pursuing Electronics Main in the University of Calicut.

We need to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We try to enter into a stable relationship between human activities and the natural world. Prajyoti Niketan College and the management had taken considerable effort for maintaining green and sustainable campus. The staff and students under the leadership of National Service Scheme take special care for the maintenance of the green campus initiatives. Two types of forest are maintained in our campus – Kuttivanam in the 20 acres land and Miyawaki forest within 6 cents of land. Well-maintained butterfly garden, Gandhi Peace garden, Vertical Garden, Vegetable Garden, Grotto Gardens, Oxygen Parks, Open Meditation Centre etc are some of our ‘go green’ initiatives. We nurture fauna also along with flora. A beautiful fish pond is also nurtured in the campus. The National Service Scheme units of our college in association with the Dept of Social Forestry, Govt of Kerala have organised several green initiatives outside the campus too.They participated in the ‘Afforstation Activity’ of Chalakudy Forest Division. ‘One Volunteer-Three Plants’ was the slogan of the Activity.