Crescent Sustainability Initiatives

Quality Education (SDG 4)

Life-Long Learning Access Policy

Policy Document

Responsible Executive : Director (IQAC)
Responsible Office : Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Student Affairs, Estate Office, Academic Office, Library and SDG Cell
Contacts : Registrar, Director (IQAC)

4.1 STATEMENT OF POLICY

Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes
Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
Ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
Substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries
Substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing states.

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Promotion / Implementation of Life-Long Access Policy

As per the vision and mission envisaged by its founder, the Institute provides educational opportunities to all, especially the oppressed community and women, without any discrimination. The Institute accommodate more students from the local community, especially women students. The network of our student community spread all over the world proves the inclusive education that we offer on our campus.

The Institute takes pride in providing access to education to all, those who seek knowledge and wisdom, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, community, gender or disability.

‘Unity in diversity’ is continuously practised on our campus to build a sustainable future

Appreciation Of Cultural Diversity

As the new team of ISTD-C, Onam was our very first event. The event was held on the 15th of September 2022 (Thursday). The first event was “Pookolam event” that was conducted by the art club in the MS block.

After the pookolam event, the actual ONAM celebrations started in the lunch break i.e., 12:40 pm. It started with the introduction of the event by the voice club heads followed by the chenda melam, which was later followed by the various events like music, dance, and fashion walk. The crowd seemed really excited and engaging.

Figure IV – 1: Onam Celebration at the University Campus organised by ISTD on 15th of September 2022, to appreciate cultural diversity.

Ensure Equal Access For All Women

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

We the Rotaract Club of Crescent, sponsored by Rotary Club of Madras Mount (Rotary International District 3232), had collaborated with Rotaract Club of Madras as Host Club along with 3 other clubs for an online Professional Service Project called “IKIGAI”. This event was held on 25th November 2021 through Zoom meeting.

Figure IV – 2: Online Professional Service Project “IKIGAI” – Executed by Rotaract Club on 25, November 2021.

The event started at 7 PM and around 80 participants were present for the session. District Officials, Presidents and Secretaries and fellow rotaractors attended the session. Rtr. Shrimathi was the Co-Chairperson for this Project.

Figure IV – 3: Screenshots of IKIGAI event.

It was a highly motivating session by speaker Cathy DeSouza, CEO of Curiosum Tech Private Limited. Cathy DeSouza detailed upon how she overcame the struggles of being a woman entrepreneur and successfully achieved her dream. She also advised the fellow rotaractors on various topics like mental health, setting priorities, and self-motivation.

Figure IV – 4: Screenshots of IKIGAI online presentation session.

We are grateful to the speaker, Cathy DeSouza, for enlightening and motivating us. We thank all the District Officials, Presidents and Secretaries who attended the session. A very special thanks to the board members for giving us their full support to the event by providing their valuable time. We would like to extend our gratitude towards our fellow rotaractors who are the pillar of support for this entire project.

“Passion is the fuel behind a successful career. Do what you love and success will follow.”

Eliminate Gender Disparities In Education

THUNINTHEZHU
“Freedom lies in being bold”

We the Rotaract Club of Crescent, sponsored by Rotary Club of Madras Mount (Rotary International District 3232) has organized an event “Thuninthezhu” a Community Service project. This project was initiated on 1st of July, 2021 (Thursday) at 4.30 PM in Zoom.

Figure IV – 5: Pamphlet for Thuninthezhu – A community service project to eliminate gender diparities in education.

On 29th June, 2021 campaigning was done through social media by our fellow rotaractors. In this pandemic situation, we want to create and share awareness about social media security, women’s safety, child security, so, we organized this event “Thuninthezhu” through online. In order to that we had an educationalist, motivational speaker Dr.ThamizharasiSivakumar as the speaker of the day. Rtr. Abinaya took incharge along with community service team.

We invited our fellow rotaractors, school students and women to take part in this event. Very special thanks to our board members for giving us their full support to the event by providing their valuable time. Also, we would like to thank our fellow rotaractors who are the pillar of support for this entire project.

Figure IV – 6: Few screenshots of Thuninthezhu.

“Stand up, be bold, be strong”

National Unity Day

As per the directions of the National Implementation Committee (NIC), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, National Unity Day is celebrated in India on 31 October to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who had a major role in the political integration of India.This event was organized by the Office of Student Affairs, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology.

An exhibition displaying the contributions of “Sardar Patel – The Architect of Unification” was inaugurated by our Honorable Vice-chancellor Prof Dr. A. Peer Mohamed and Registrar Dr. N. Raja Hussain in the presence of Dr. Karthikeyan Ramalingam, Dean Student Affairs, Dr. Shaheedha, Deputy Dean Student Affairs, Dr. M. Abdur Rahman, Assistant Dean Student Affairs& Dr. Ayub Khan at the ground floor of the convention center building. The inauguration was followed by a very interesting session where students gave inspiring talks on the contributions of Sardar Patel in unifying the princely states of our great nation.

This exhibition was attended by thousands of students and it was on display until 2nd November 2022. Later hundreds of students were made to take an oath on upholding the strength, unity and security of our nation. Following the oath taking event, more than thousand Crescent students participated in the Unity run which was flagged off by our respected Registrar Dr. N. Raja Hussain. The photos of the National Unity Day (RashtriyaEktaDiwas) event are attached herewith.

Figure IV – 7: Photographs showing National Unity Day Celebrations – Directions of National Implementation Committee (NIC), Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Table IV – 1(a): Promotion / Implementation of Life-Long Access Policy

Lifelong learning resources	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#cec https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#foc
Public lectures and community educational events	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#gea https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#pev
Executive education and training programmes for public education	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#tpcf https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#sttpai
Educational Outreach activities – community	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#dcap https://crescent.bytdigital.com/iqac-csi-sdg4-2021-23/#nsslsp
Merit oriented Scholarship	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/ug-fee-structure/
Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Educational Institutions	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/student-affairs/internal-complaints-committee-icc/committee-members/
Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) Online Complaint Form	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/student-affairs/internal-complaints-committee-icc/online-complaint-form/
Caste discrimination – student, faculty members	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/student-affairs/anti-discrimination-cell/prevention-caste-based-discrimination/
Library- Public in general	https://library.crescent.education/
Gender Equality	https://crescent.bytdigital.com/all-india-inter-university-ball-badminton-women-tournament-2022-2023/

Public accessible life-long learning resources

Academic Year 2021-22

Certificate Courses

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Certificate Programme on “Entrepreneurial Skill on Geospatial Data Management”

Three-day Certificate Programme on “Entrepreneurial Skill on Geospatial Data Management” was conducted from 23.02.2022 to 25.02.2022 by the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Infrastructure. Resource persons from various institutes such as Dr. G. P. Ganapathy, Professor& Director, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Vellore Institute of Technology, Dr. Pennan Chinnasamy, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Director – Rural Data Research and Analysis (RuDRA) Labs, Ms. K. Kanmani, Assistant Professor, BSACIST, Dr. M. Sivakumar, Project Scientist, Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University, Mr. T. Rajesh, Technical Director & Business Development Manager, Geo Lightning Services, Mr. B. Kannadasan, Assistant Professor, BSACIST, Mr. S. Rajesh Kumar, Director, Technical Sales, TechApps Consulting, Bentley Channel Partner and Dr. Iyappan Lakshmanan, Principal Consultant, Magendiran Consultancy Services gave lectures. More than 130 participants from various institutes attended and got benefitted.

Certificate Course in Medical Biomaterials

Figure IV – 8: Pamphlet of Certificate course in Medical Biomaterials conducted during September 5 – 7 & 14-15, 2022.

Online Certificate Course on LABVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD)

Figure IV – 9: Pamphlet of Online Certificate course on LABVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD).

Free Access to Campus Facilities, Online & Library Resources

In collaboration with the Chengalpattu district Labour Welfare and Skill Development Department, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology organized a MEGA JOB FAIR for private sector on sunday (20.03.2022).

Figure IV -10: Banner showing the MEGA JOB MELA – 2022 conducted by Department of Employment & Training Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu State Rural & Urban Livehood movement & B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology. The University provided its entire campus for conduct of this event.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thiru. M.K. Stalin has inaugurated a mega job fair for private sector, said providing everyone a job that suits their qualification, was his government’s aim and his government was improving school and college education towards achieving it. He also inaugurated the programme telecast by Kalvi TV for the benefit of candidates, preparing for various competitive exams.

Minister for MSME T.M. Anbarasan, MP G. Selvam, legislators S.R. Raja, Varalakshmi Madhusudhanan, S.S. Balaji, I. Karunanithi, C.V.M.P. Ezhilarasan, M. Babu, Tambaram Mayor K. Vasanthakumari and Deputy Mayor G. Kamaraj, Labour Secretary Kirlosh Kumar, Director of Employment and Training K. Veera Raghava Rao, Chengalpattu Collector A.R. Rahul Nadh, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology (deemed university) Chancellor Mr. BSA Arif Buhary Rahman and other senior officials were present on this occasion.

Figure IV – 11: Photographs showing the few snapshots of MEGA JOB MELA – 2022: Inaugural session, Public gathering participated in the MELA.

We are happy to share that we have received an Appreciation Certificate from Thiru. C. V. Ganesan, Hon’ble Minister for Labour Welfare, Population, Employment and Training, Census, Urban and Rural Employment, Thiru R. Kirlosh Kumar, IAS., Secretary to Government, Employment and Training, Thiru. K.Veera Raghava Rao, I.A.S, Director of Employment & Training, Govt. of Tamil Nadu & their team today (31 March 2022).

Figure IV – 12: Appreciation Certificate received from the Government of Tamil Nadu for providing the campus for conducting Job Mela.

The highlight of the event was the mention by the Hon’ble Chief Minister & Minister that such a job mela is the first of its kind in Tamilnadu and Crescent University associated with it and supported in successful conduct of the event. Crescent University is the first University to receive such an appreciation certificate from the Government of Tamilnadu. The Appreciation certificate was handed over to our Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor & team.

Figure IV – 13: Appreciation Certificate from our District Collector Thiru. A. R. Rahul Nadh, IAS., on 7th April 2022

Online Resources

Following are the two objectives related to public access to the resources.

To start Libraries/Digital Libraries and reading rooms for the use of the Public in general.

These objectives were extracted from the Memorandum of Association of the sponsoring body of the Institution and the Rules and Regulations of the statutory body implemented by the Institution.

The University takes great pride in making the world know that the resources of the University can be used even by persons who are not studying on campus. The facility is open to all irrespective of any discrimination. Therefore, the University envisages the promotion of not only its students but whoever is interested in educating themselves.

The aim is precisely, the welfare of society as a whole. For the same reason, it provides huge access not alone to the library but also to the online courses, video lecture materials and other facilities which students/the public want to access. Any student who is endowed with intellectual ability is promoted and encouraged to navigate his skills and achieve great success.

The University has been organizing events in the public domain by conducting public lectures, various events, and educational events and ensure maximum public participation. The University also offers vocational training to the public, free of cost and this has enabled many persons to secure jobs and earn their livelihood. Many families are benefitted from this and in this way the University ensures that it is always in the service of the community. The various departments of the University have also organized many extension activities beyond the campus which has benefitted the students in the nearby schools, the people of small hamlets in the vicinity of the University, the small towns and the city areas which is appreciated by the people who are the beneficiaries of such activities.
Last but not the least, the University takes pride in providing access to education to all, those who seek knowledge and wisdom, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, community gender or disability. This was the vision and mission envisaged by its founders.

There are a total of about 190 video lectures, 53 PPTs & 68 pdf files developed for different courses by our faculty members of all the departments.

These lectures are available for public access to enhance life-long learning skills.

Public users can access the course materials through the URLs of the respective department e-learning portal as given below.

School of Mechanical Sciences:

Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Polymer Engineering Department of Aerospace Engineering

School of Infrastructure:

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Social Sciences and Humanities:

Department of Commerce Department of English

Crescent School of Pharmacy:

Crescent School of Pharmacy

School of Physical and Chemical Science:

Department of Chemistry

Crescent School of Business:

Crescent School of Business Department of Management Studies

School of Electrical and Communication Sciences:

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

School of Computer Information and Mathematical Sciences:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Information Technology Department of Computer Applications Department of Mathematics & Actuarial Science

School of Life Sciences:

School of Life Sciences

Others:

Repository CITL BSA Crescent Institute – YouTube

Library Public Resources

Click here to view the Website

These e-Resources can be accessed from anywhere at any time through any device by anyone, including the common public (those who are not a member of our Institution).

eBooks

The revolution, which took place in information and communication technology (ICT) has made a paradigm shift in the route to access library & information centres. Realizing the importance of e-access and its advantages, the library has shifted its focus towards open access as well paid subscription to e-Books.

e-Journals

PhD Theses of B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology

Automobile Engineering, Civil Engineering

Chemistry, Commerce

Computer Applications, Computer Science & Engineering

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, English

Electronics & Communication Engineering, Information Technology

Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Islamic Studies

Life Science, Management Studies

Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering

Physics, Polymer Technology

All PhD Theses of BSACIST @ Shodhganga

E-Theses

Shodhganga -ETD Repository of Indian Universities – INFLIBNET initiative

Open Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT Open)

Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works

Open Access Theses/Dissertations

OLD QUESTIONS

UG – Question PapersEngineering

Aeronautical Engineering, Architecture, Automobile Engineering

B.Des (Interior Architecture), Bio-Technology, B Tech Common

Biotechnology and Cancer Biotechnology, Civil Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Information Technology, Law, Mechanical Engineering

Polymer Engineering

SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

Pharmacy, B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com

BBA LLB, B.Com LLB, BBA Financial Services, BCA- B.Com & B.Sc (Common)

School Of Islamic Studies, Common to All Branches

PG – QUESTION PAPERS

Actuarial Science, Biotechnology, Chemistry

Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Information Technology

M.Arch, Manufacturing & CAD-CAM Engineering

Arabic & Islamic Studies, Management Studies

Computer Applications, Microbiology

Physics, Power Electronics & Drives

VLSI & Embedded Systems, PhD – Question Papers

E-Patents

Canadian, European, Indian Patent design and trademark office, Internet sites for patent search, United States, WIPO PCT database

E-Reference

Free Online Courses

E-NewsPaper

About 10,000 newspapers worldwide

Free Online Courses

Swayam, NPTEL, Coursera, Khan Academy, Edx, Academicearth

Research Support Resources

Plagiarism

About Plagiarism, Turnitin – Plagiarism Checker

Journal Finder

Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester, Scopus Journal Analyzer, Manuscript matcher, IEEE Publication Recommender, Open Journal Matcher, AUTHOR SERVICES – Taylor & Francis, Springer Author Academy

Journals List

Scopus Indexed Journals, Web of Science Indexed Journals, UGC CARE Journals

Reference Management Tools

Mendeley, EndNote, ReadCube Papers, Zotero

Writing Tools

Grammarly, Wordtune, Prowritingaid, Ginger

Citation Generator

Citation Machine, Bibliography, Easy Bib

Fellowships and Scholarships

UGC – Fellowship and Scholarships, Research Funds, Department of Biotechnology Scholarships, Department of Science & Technology Scholarships, Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research,
SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), Google PhD Fellowships, Commonwealth Fellowship, United States – India Educational Foundation (USIEF) – Fulbright program

Learning Support Resources

National Digital Library, One India One Digital Platform, Spoken Tutorial, NPTEL, SWAYAM
e-PG Pathshala, Virtual Labs, Talk to Teacher

Study Materials for Competitive Exams

https://www.tnpsc.gov.in/English/books.html, https://tnpsc.news/tnpsc-study-materials/, https://sscportal.in/study-kit, https://sscstudy.com/, https://prepp.in/ssc-cgl-exam/study-material, https://www.examrace.com/Study-Material/, https://www.edubull.com/exams/competitive-exams

ICT Initiatives of Ministry of Education, Government of India

Copyright Guide for Indian Libraries

Resources on Demand

The main objective of ‘Resources on Demand’ scheme is to empower the rural community by providing authentic information to support their day-today life. Keeping the above in mind, the Central Library will provide resources / information without violating the copy-right act. Those who need any resources are requested to contact the Librarian at librarian@crescent.education

Academic Year 2020-21

Online Courses

Following are the two objectives related to public access to the resources.

To ensure that access to various facilities, resources, and activities is accessible to all (Faculty, staff, students, alumni and public) regardless of ethnicity, religion, disability, immigration status or gender. To start Libraries/Digital Libraries and reading rooms for the use of the Public in general. These objectives were extracted from the Memorandum of Association of the sponsoring body of the Institution and the Rules and Regulations of the statutory body implemented by the Institution. The University takes great pride in making the world know that the resources of the University can be used even by persons who are not studying on campus. The facility is open to all irrespective of any discrimination. Therefore, the University envisages the promotion of not only its students but whoever is interested in educating themselves. The aim is precisely, the welfare of society as a whole. For the same reason, it provides huge access not alone to the library but also to the online courses, video lecture materials and other facilities which students/the public want to access. Any student who is endowed with intellectual ability is promoted and encouraged to navigate his skills and achieve great success. The University has been organizing events in the public domain by conducting public lectures, various events, and educational events and ensure maximum public participation. The University also offers vocational training to the public, free of cost and this has enabled many persons to secure jobs and earn their livelihood. Many families are benefitted from this and in this way the University ensures that it is always in the service of the community. The various departments of the University have also organized many extension activities beyond the campus which has benefitted the students in the nearby schools, the people of small hamlets in the vicinity of the University, the small towns and the city areas which is appreciated by the people who are the beneficiaries of such activities. Last but not the least, the University takes pride in providing access to education to all, those who seek knowledge and wisdom, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, community gender or disability. This was the vision and mission envisaged by its founders.

There are a total of about 190 video lectures, 53 PPTs & 68 pdf files developed for different courses by our faculty members of all the departments.

These lectures are available for public access to enhance life-long learning skills.

Public users can access the course materials through the URLs of the respective department e-learning portal as given below.

School of Mechanical Sciences:

Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Polymer Engineering Department of Aerospace Engineering

School of Infrastructure:

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Social Sciences and Humanities:

Department of Commerce Department of English

Crescent School of Pharmacy:

Crescent School of Pharmacy

School of Physical and Chemical Science:

Department of Chemistry

Crescent School of Business:

Crescent School of Business Department of Management Studies

School of Electrical and Communication Sciences:

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

School of Computer Information and Mathematical Sciences:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Information Technology Department of Computer Applications Department of Mathematics & Actuarial Science

School of Life Sciences:

School of Life Sciences

Others:

Repository CITL BSA Crescent Institute – YouTube

Library Public Resources

Click here to view the Website

These e-Resources can be accessed from anywhere at any time through any device by anyone, including the common public (those who are not a member of our Institution).

eBooks

e-Journals

PhD Theses of B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology

Automobile Engineering, Civil Engineering

Chemistry, Commerce

Computer Applications, Computer Science & Engineering

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, English

Electronics & Communication Engineering, Information Technology

Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Islamic Studies

Life Science, Management Studies

Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering

Physics, Polymer Technology

All PhD Theses of BSACIST @ Shodhganga

E-Theses

Shodhganga -ETD Repository of Indian Universities – INFLIBNET initiative

Open Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT Open)

Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works

Open Access Theses/Dissertations

OLD QUESTIONS

UG – Question PapersEngineering

Aeronautical Engineering, Architecture, Automobile Engineering

B.Des (Interior Architecture), Bio-Technology, B Tech Common

Biotechnology and Cancer Biotechnology, Civil Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Information Technology, Law, Mechanical Engineering

Polymer Engineering

SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

Pharmacy, B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com

BBA LLB, B.Com LLB, BBA Financial Services, BCA- B.Com & B.Sc (Common)

School Of Islamic Studies, Common to All Branches

PG – QUESTION PAPERS

Actuarial Science, Biotechnology, Chemistry

Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Information Technology

M.Arch, Manufacturing & CAD-CAM Engineering

Arabic & Islamic Studies, Management Studies

Computer Applications, Microbiology

Physics, Power Electronics & Drives

VLSI & Embedded Systems, PhD – Question Papers

E-Patents

Canadian, European, Indian Patent design and trademark office, Internet sites for patent search, United States, WIPO PCT database

E-Reference

Free Online Courses

E-NewsPaper

About 10,000 newspapers worldwide Free Online Courses

Swayam, NPTEL, Coursera, Khan Academy, Edx, Academicearth

Research Support Resources

Plagiarism

About Plagiarism, Turnitin – Plagiarism Checker

Journal Finder

Journals List

Scopus Indexed Journals, Web of Science Indexed Journals, UGC CARE Journals

Reference Management Tools

Mendeley, EndNote, ReadCube Papers, Zotero

Writing Tools

Grammarly, Wordtune, Prowritingaid, Ginger

Citation Generator

Citation Machine, Bibliography, Easy Bib

Fellowships and Scholarships

UGC – Fellowship and Scholarships, Research Funds, Department of Biotechnology Scholarships, Department of Science & Technology Scholarships, Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research, SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), Google PhD Fellowships, Commonwealth Fellowship, United States – India Educational Foundation (USIEF) – Fulbright program

Learning Support Resources

National Digital Library, One India One Digital Platform, Spoken Tutorial, NPTEL, SWAYAM e-PG Pathshala, Virtual Labs, Talk to Teacher

Study Materials for Competitive Exams

ICT Initiatives of Ministry of Education, Government of India

Copyright Guide for Indian Libraries

Resources on Demand

Public lectures and community educational events

Academic Year 2021-22

PINK – Gender Equality Awareness

B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology ensures that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

We the Rotaract Club of Crescent, sponsored by Rotary Club of Madras Mount (Rotary International District 3232) along with 12 other clubs has organized an event “PINK – Particular Information Need and Knowledge”, an International service project. This project was held on 10th and 11th of December 2021. This project was conducted to spread the awareness about the Gender Equality, Mensural Health & Hygiene and Elevate Rotaract. The sessions were much effective and efficient to the current day of living.

Figure IV – 14: Pamphlet of PINK – Particular Information Need and Knowledge – A gender Equality Mensural Health & Hygiene Awareness event conducted by the Rotaract Club of Crescent.

DAY-1

The first day is on 10th December 2021 where, 2 eminent speakers Rtn/Rtr. PDRR. Subhadra Marimuthu Karthik and Rtn.Saradha Ramani took sessions on Gender Equality and Menstrual Health & Hygiene.The speakers made the topic very clear and the sessions were enlightening. Total number of beneficiaries were 115.

Figure IV – 15: Few screenshots showing the PINK online sessions – Gender Equality.

DAY- 2

The second day is on 11th December 2021 where Rtn/Rtr. PDRR. Girish E took a session about the future of rotaract “ELEVATE ROTARACT”. His session was so knowledgeable that made everyone understandable. Total number of beneficiaries were 75.

“Pink is the color of strength, a color of conviction, a color of decision making”

Figure IV – 16: Pamphlet & Screenshots showing the PINK event – Elevate Rotaract.

Public Events

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Figure IV – 17: Pamphlet and Reports of the Public events: 1. Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Protecting Inventions & Innovations, 2. GATE WAY to Public Sector Unit Recruitment.

Figure IV – 18: Pamphlet of the Public Events: 1. Writing for digital media, 2. English Studies Now: Single Platform, Diverse opportunities!

Career Guidance Programme for the School Students

Crescent School, Vandalur, Chennai (16.03.2022)

Career guidance and quiz programme for the Plus Two students were also organized by EEE department of B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent institute of science and technology on 16.3.2022. The event started with formal inaugural address by the Vice Principal of the School followed by the career guidance speech delivered by Dr. Jennathu Beevi AP(Sr.Grade)/EEE. Later on Dr.Shafeeque Ahamed AP/EEE delivered a lecture on “Electrostatics” to plus two students. Then quiz competition was conducted by Mr.S.Suresh, AP/EEE and Dr.K.Shafeeque Ahamed AP/EEE . Around 60 students participated enthusiastically in the quiz competition . Finally the students with top score were awarded with cash prizes.

Vellayan Chettiyar Higher Secondary School, Thiruvottiyur, Chennai (10.03.2022)

Mont Fort School, Santhome, Chennai (09.03.22)

Figure IV – 19: Photographs showing the Public Events conducted for the Secondary and Higher Secondary School / Students. 1. Vellayan Chettiyar Higher Secondary School, Thiruvottiyur, Chennai (10.03.2022), 2. Mont Fort School, Santhome, Chennai (09.03.22).

Academic Year 2020-21

Implementation of NEP 2020 in HEIs

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is the first education policy of the 21st century and aims to address the many growing developmental imperatives of our country. This Policy proposes the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance, to create a new system that is aligned with the aspirational goals of 21st-century education, including United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG4 – Quality Education), while building upon India’s traditions and value systems. Education thus, must move towards less content, and more towards learning about how to think critically and solve problems, how to be creative and multidisciplinary, and how to innovate, adapt, and absorb new material in novel and changing fields. Pedagogy must evolve to make education more experiential, holistic, integrated, inquiry-driven, discovery-oriented, learner-centred, discussion- based, flexible, and, of course, enjoyable. The curriculum must include basic arts, crafts, humanities, games, sports and fitness, languages, literature, culture, and values, in addition to science and mathematics, to develop all aspects and capabilities of learners; and make education more well-rounded, useful, and fulfilling to the learner. Education must build character, enable learners to be ethical, rational, compassionate, and caring, while at the same time prepare them for gainful, fulfilling employment. The gap between the current state of learning outcomes and what is required must be bridged through undertaking major reforms that bring the highest quality, equity, and integrity into the higher education system. To facilitate the stakeholders of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) vis-à-vis internalization and institutionalization of the nuances of NEP 2020, the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology organizes a National Webinar on “Implementation of NEP 2020 in HEIs” during 16th June 2021 through Online. The Session details are given below

Name of the Eminent Speaker	Topics
Dr. DP Agarwal Ex-Chairman, UPSC, New Delhi	Evolution of NEP in India & their impacts
Dr. Dinesh K. Paliwal Former Member Secretary, NBA, New Delhi	Benefits of NEP 2020 to the Stakeholders
Prof. S. P. Thyagarajan Chancellor, Avinashilingam Institute of Home Science & Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore	Overview of NEP 2020 – The HEIs Perspective
Dr. S. J. Thiruvengadam Dean – Academic Process Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai	Revamping of Curriculum aligning with NEP 2020
Dr. Siby John Director (Ad- Interim) Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh	Implementation of NEP 2020 in HEIs

Around 650 participants including Vice Chancellors, Directors, Deans, Head of the Departments from various colleges / institutes across the Country have participated.

NEP Webinar – Attendees

Youtube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2W8k2zHcfw

Webinar on Development with Environment

Report for Webinar on Development with Environment
Conducted on 14th June 2021,
Organized by School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences (SCIMS), Department of Computer Applications

Faculty Coordinators: Dr. A.K. Reshmy, AP/CA, Dr. Sudha Rajesh AP/CA, HoD/CA Ms. S. Sabaria, AP/CA

Conveners: Dr. Venkatesan Selvam, Dean/SCIMS, Dr. S. Pakkir Mohideen

PREAMBLE

Webinar on Development with Environment was held on 14th June 2021, during 11 am – 12.30 pm. The Department of Computer Applications, School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences organized it. The main objective of this webinar is to create awareness among the students to reduce the generation of hazardous wastes.

The Resource Person of the webinar was Ms. Pallavi Rampati, Technical Consultant, Paul-Edu Technology and Management Services, Chennai.

The report discusses about the following aspects of the programme:

Course Content and Online Delivery Mode of the Webinar on Development with Environment
Online Participants Registration Process for the Webinar on Development with
Certification for the Webinar on Development with Environment
Analysis of Participants Feedback for the Webinar on Development with Environment
Sample Screenshots taken during on Development with Environment

1. Course Content and Online Delivery Mode of the Webinar on Development with Environment

This webinar provided the participants with interesting things about environment for healthy living. Resource person started the session with the importance of environment for role in healthy living and the existence of life on planet earth. The speaker explained about the different types of pollution, and its causes and how to live with good environment. Ms. Pallavi, imparted her knowledge on the various initiatives and policies at National and international levels taken in environmental sector. At end of the session, the participants gained knowledge on how to improve the environmental efficiency at global level. The participants were provided with the course content and slides, which were shared online.

2. Online Participants Registration Process for the Webinar on Development with Environment

The Brochure highlighting the necessary information about the Webinar on Development with Environment was designed and circulated. The Brochure is displayed below:

There was no Registration Fee for the participants attending the Webinar on Development with Environment. Interested participants were requested to register their details in a google form, which was shared through the link: https://forms.gle/9PcMeNzzPU6b4G4eA 70 participants have registered for this event, 53 participants attended this Webinar.

Summary of Participants	Total No. of Institutions	06
	Participants from other state	09
	Participants within TamilNadu	44

The details of confirmed participants are given in Annexure A

3. Certification for the Webinar on Development with Environment

The certificate was made available to the active participants.

The sample certificate issued to the participants is given in Annexure B

4. Analysis of participants’ feedback for the Webinar on Development with Environment

The feedback about the webinar was collected from the participants in order to improve the further conduct of these types of events

Feedback Points	Analysis	Inference
How satisfied were you with the event?		95% of the participants were fully satisfied and 3% felt it was very good. Almost 98% of the participants are satisfied with the event.
How relevant and helpful do you think it was for your knowledge gaining?		The session was extremely relevant and helpful to 85% of the participants, and 10% of the participants felt it was very much helpful. Overall 95% participants gained knowledge through this event.
How satisfied were you with the session content?		85% of the participants felt the session was excellent and 13% felt good. Almost 98% of the participants were very much satisfied with the event.
How did you rate the overall assessment of the event?		93% participants felt it was very good. % of the participants felt overall event is very satisfactory.

The overall organization and deliverance was satisfying to 95% of participants. Also, the session which was deliberated and given to the participants would really make them to keep and protect their environment for future.

5. Sample Screenshots taken during Webinar on Algorithms and its uses

List of Participants:

S.No	Participant Name	Designation	Institution / Organization / School Name	Email
1	Mr. Syed Ajmal	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	syedajmal052000@gmail.com
2	Mrs. K. Krishna	Assistant Professor	Vivekananda College	krishnaarunphd@gmail.com
3	Ms. S. Nithya	Student	Mount Carmel College	nithyasrinivas1602@gmail.com
4	Ms. S. Sabaunnisa	Student	Mount Carmel College	syedsabashabana123@gmail.com
5	Mr. A. Mohamed Thareek	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	thareek0711@gmail.com
6	Mr. S. Akshay Kumar	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	akshaysubramanian064@gmail.com
7	Mr. Ibrahim	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	ibrahim7ibbu7@gmail.com
8	Mrs. P. S. Sujatha	Assistant Professor	Vivekananda College	brahassujathaps@gmail.com
9	Mr. Venkatakrishnan	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	ashokvenkat102@gmail.com
10	Ms. T. N. Saira Begum	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	sairabegum2306@gmail.com
11	Mr. Mahmood Mabrook	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	mahmoodking26@gmail.com
12	Ms. R. Surabhi	Student	Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.	surabhirajgopal13@gmail.com
13	Mr. E. Sharun Pandi	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	sharunpandi301@gmail.com
14	Ms. S. Hamthul Meera	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	meerasp2002@gmail.com
15	Ms. Gokul Priya	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	gokulpriyaja@gmail.com
16	Ms. H. Vazeerunnisha	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	Vazeerunnisha@gmail.com
17	Mr. Sargunan	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	sargudhoni30@gmail.com
18	Mr. A. Afroz	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	afrozahamed2017@gmail.com
19	Ms. K. Sneha	Student	Mount Carmel College Autonomous	snehakarunanidhi26@gmail.com
20	Ms. Merin Abraham	Student	Mount Carmel College, Bangalore	merinabraham83@gmail.com
21	Mr. Hariram Narayanan	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	rkhrn2k@gmail.com
22	Mr. T. Deepak	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	deepakthulasingam2001@gma il.com
23	Mr. R. Gokul	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	gk1846416@gmail.com
24	Ms. D. Vinodhini	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	02vinodhini06@gimal.com
25	Ms. J. Poojashree	Student	St. Josephs College of Commerce	poojjayaprakash@gmail.com
26	Ms. H. Vazeerunnisha	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	h.vazeerunnisha@gmail.com
27	Mr. M. Vignesh	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	vicky.mv311@gmail.com
28	Ms. K. Sneha	Student	Mount Carmel College Autonomous, Bangalore	snehakarunanidhi26@gmail.com
29	Mr. K. Ibrahim	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	ibrahim7ibbu7@gmail.com
30	Mr. M. K. Aamir Malick	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	m.aamirmalick@gmail.com
31	Mr. Jhalak Dutta	Assistant Professor	Heritage Institute of Technology	jhalak.dutta@heritageit.edu
32	Ms. A. Arshiya Sultana	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	sultu9242arshiya@gmail.com
33	Mr. S. Mohan Raj	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	mohan.cubcads2018@gmail.co m
34	Ms. R. Hemalatha	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	hemaram1118@gmail.com
35	Mr. Mahmood Mabrook	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	mahmoodking26@gmail.com
36	Mr. G. Faizal Rahuman	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	faizalrahuman8@gmail.com
37	Mr. S. S. Hudaifa Fabin	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	fabin.cubcads2018@gmail.com
38	Mr. S. Mohammed Shabeer	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	shabeershami728@gmail.com
39	Mr. M. K. R. Thameem Ansari	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	thameem892148@gmail.com
40	Mr. A. Kesavan	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	Kesavankesav14@gmail.com
41	Mr. M. Vignesh	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	vicky.mv311@gmail.com
42	Mr. E. Sharun Pandi	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	sharunpandi301@gmail.com
43	Mr.S. M. Abdul Basith	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	abdulbasithshaha@gmail.com
44	Ms. Thulashini	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	thulash297@gmail.com
45	Mr. Danish Ahmed	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	danishahamed498@gmail.com
46	Mr. A. Mohamed Thareek	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	thareek0711@gmail.com
47	Ms. K. Latha	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	latha.cubcads2018@gmail.com
48	Ms. M. Lavanya	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	lavanyamahendiran24@gmail.c om
49	Ms. V. Kiruthika	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	kikiv070@gmail.com
50	Ms. S. Divya	Student	B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	divi.saravanan024@gmail.com
51	Ms. P. Malathi	Assistant Professor	Saveetha School of Engineering	maludhurkka@gmail.com
52	Dr. N. Noor Alleema	Assistant Professor	SRM Institute of Science and Technology	nooralln@srmist.edu.in
53	Mr. Jhalak Dutta	Assistant Professor	Heritage Institute of Technology	jhalak.dutta@heritageit.edu

Annexure B

Sample Participation Certificates:

Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

Report for Webinar on
Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies
Conducted on 12th June 2021
Organized by School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences (SCIMS), Department of Computer Applications

Faculty Coordinators: Dr. Sudha Rajesh, AP/CA, Dr. P.Amudhavalli, AP/CA

Conveners: Dr. Venkatesan Selvam. Prof & Dean-SCIMS, Dr. S.Pakkir Mohideen, Asso.Prof & Head, CA

PREAMBLE

Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies was held on 12th June 2021, during 10.30 am – 12 pm. The Department of Computer Applications, School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences organized the event.

The Resource person of this webinar was, Mr.S.Muthu Kumar, Technology Lead, Infosys Ltd, Chennai

The report discusses about the following aspects of the programme:

Course Content and Online Delivery Mode of the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development
Online Participants Registration Process for the Career Opportunity and Skill Development
Certification for the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development
Analysis of Feedback from participants for the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development
Sample Screenshots taken during Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development

1. Course Content and Online Delivery Mode of the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

This webinar provided the participants with increasing the present knowledge about the preparation towards the Industry needs. This webinar specially designed for the betterment of student’s career. It helped them to gain knowledge on preparing for an interview and to improve skills.

2. Online Participants Registration Process for the Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

The Brochure highlighting the necessary information about the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies was designed and circulated. The Brochure is displayed below:

There was no Registration Fee for the participants attending the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies, Interested participants were requested to register their details in a google forms which was shared through the link: https://forms.gle/iAqYfX2FsFaRjCoaA. A total of 138 participants have registered for the event and 60 participants attended this Webinar.

Summary of Participants

60 students from various Colleges and Universities

The details of confirmed participants are given below:

Sl.No.	Name	Designation	Institute name	Mail id
1.	Mr.Abdul Rahman S	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	abdulrahman74013@gmail.com
2.	Mr Abdullah	Student	Noorul Islam College of Arts and Science	abdullahaboobacker02@gmail.com
3.	Mr Abilash.B	Student	Noorul Islam College of Arts And Science	abilash9381@gmail.com
4.	Mr Abin K	Student	Noorul Islam Collage of Arts and Science	abinksa46@gmail.com
5.	Mr Abinesh. A	Student	Dhanalaksmi Srinivasan Engineering College	abineshanbu6@gmail.com
6.	D.Arunesh	Student	Egs Pillay Engineering College	arunesh14112000@gmail.com
7.	Mr.Dhachanamoorthy V	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	dhachu.venkatesan@gmail.com
8.	Mr.Dinesh Kumar Purushothaman	Student	Easwari Engineering College	dksuriya009@gmail.com
9.	Mr.Gopi M	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	gopim2323@gmail.com
10.	Mr.Hareesh Kumar S	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	hareeshkumar8837@gmail.com
11.	Mr.Kalaiselvan. M	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	kalaiselvankalai777@gmail.com
12.	Mr.Kesavan A	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	Kesavankesav14@gmail.com
13.	Mr.Krishna K	Assistant Professor	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	krishnaarunphd@gmail.com
14.	Mr.Mohamed Haris S	Student	Vivekananda College	201371601338@crescent.education
15.	Mr.Mohamed Uvais.S	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	mdys6364@gmail.com
16.	Mr.Mohamed Zubair	Student	University College Of Engineering Bit Campus	smohamedzubair8@gmail.com
17.	Mr.Mugesh	Student	Noorul Islam Collage of Arts and Science	massmugesh97@gmail.com
18.	Mr.Navaneethakrishnan.S	Student	Noorul Islam College of Arts and Science	navaneethakrishnanselvadurai@gmail.com
19.	Mr.Rasith Riswan	Student	Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College	rasithriswan@gmail.com
20.	Mr.Shanmugarajeshwaran	Student	Mohamed Sathak Engineering College	Shanmugarajeshwaran4@gmail.com.
21.	Mr.Srinath S	Student	Noorul Islam College of Arts and Science	srinathsrinivasan2017@gmail.com
22.	Mr.Vijay M	Student	Dr.Mahalingam College Of Engineering And Technology	vijayvicky21494@gmail.com
23.	Mr.Vijay V	Student	Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College	vijay01nov29@gmail.com
24.	Mr.Vijayanand M	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	vijayanandmurughan@gmail.com
25.	Ms.Aafreen Shan .A	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	aafeeluv786@gmail.com
26.	Ms.Ashvika R	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	ashvika2908@gmail.com
27.	Ms.Bharathi. S. T	Assistant Professor	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	bharuaswanthi@gmail.com
28.	Ms.Chitra T T	Assistant Professor	Vivekananda College	chitrathirumal25@gmail.com
29.	Ms.Divya.S	Student	Vivekananda College	divi.saravanan024@gmail.com
30.	Ms.Habeeba Begam	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	habeebabegam10@gmail.com
31.	Ms.Hemalatha R	Student	Noorul Islam College of Arts and Science	hemaram1118@gmail.com
32.	Ms.Jeya Shyla N S	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	nsjs_shyla@yahoo.com
33.	Ms.Kathren Sopiya A	Student	Nesamony Memorial Christian College	aronkathren@gmail.com
34.	Ms.Krithika. R	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	krithikazest2003@gmail.com
35.	Ms.Lalitha G	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	200282601043@crescent.education
36.	Ms.Latha D	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	dlathasatheesh@gmail.com
37.	Ms.Malathi P	Assistant Professor	Nesamony Memorial Christian College	maludhurkka@gmail.com
38.	Ms.Radha S	Student	Saveetha School of Engineering	kradhai87@gmail.com
39.	Ms.Ramaneeswari	Student	Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education	19ifte075@ldc.edu.im
40.	Ms.Shini Lawrance	Assistant Professor	Ladydoak College	jessiesashni@gmail.com
41.	Ms.Sowmya S	Student	Nesamony Memorial Christian College	sowmiyas81807@gmail.com
42.	Ms.Steffi J	Assistant Professor	Anand Institute of Higher Technology	stefficsc88@gmail.com
43.	Ms.Sujatha P S	Assistant Professor	Sarah Tucker College	brahassujathaps@gmail.com
44.	Ms.Vetha Dharshilin V M	Student	Vivekananda College	vedhadharshilin123@gmail.com
45.	Mr.Jabakar Philipson S	Student	Kvcet	jabakarphilipson25@gmail.com
46.	Mr.Jabinson S	Student	NICAS	jebinsunil@gmail.com
47.	Mr.Jeeva R S	Student	Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering And Technology, Pollachi	jeeva.sivasubramaniam@gmail.com
48.	Ms.Jency Magdalene J	Student	College of Engineering Guindy	jencymagdalene@gmail.com
49.	Mr.Jenitt.A	Student	Karapaga Vinayaga College of Engineering And Technology	jenittjenitt2128@gmail.com
50.	Mr. Ramkumar	Student	A.M.Jain College	ramkumardhanapandiyan112@gmail.com
51.	Ms.Sonaa R	Student	Jeppiaar SRR Engineering College	sonaaraj156@gmail.com
52.	Ms.Sowmya	Student	Anand Institute of Higher Technology	sowmiyas81807@gmail.com
53.	Ms.Sowmya P	Student	Srm Ist	sowmyapasupathi1011@gmail.com
54.	Ms.Sri Varsha.G	Student	B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	srivarsha865@gmail.com
55.	Ms.Vidavaluru Keerthana	Student	Sree Venkateshwara College Of Engineering	V.keerthanakeerhana@gmail.com
56.	Mr.Saktheeswaran. M	Student	SRM University Ramapuran	Sm3768@srmist edu.in
57.	Ms.Vinosha V. R	Student	Noorul Islam College Of Arts And Science	vinoshavinod2000@gmail.com
58.	Mr.Vinothkrishnan R	Student	B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	vinothkrish1998@gmail.com
59.	Mr.Wahid Basha U	Student	B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology	wahidbasha98@gmail.com
60.	Ms.Yamini E	Student	Jeppiaar SRR Engineering College	yamini0331@gmail.com

3. Certification for the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

The certificate was made available to the active participants. The sample certificate issued to the participants after the successful completion of online test is given below:

4. Analysis of Feedback from participants for the Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

The feedback about the webinar was collected from the participants in order to improve the further conduct of these types of events

Feedback Points	Analysis	Inference
Please rate the speaker’s knowledge of the topic:		87.1% of the participants were fully satisfied and 12.9% felt it was good.
Did the session is up to your expectations?		The session was extremely relevant and helpful to 97.4% of the participants, and only 2.6% of participants felt it was fair.
The duration of the event was just right?		74.4% of participants are strongly agreed for the duration, 23.1% were neutral and 2.6% only disagree with the duration.
Overall session evaluation		74.4% of participants are rated excellent and 25.6% rated as very good.
Would you like to join any event like this in future?		97.4% of the participants were eager to participate in the future event, and only 2.6% of participants felt it was fair.

The overall organization and deliverance was satisfying to 95% of participants. Also, the session which was deliberated and given to the participants can be applied for the career opportunity.

5. Sample Screenshots taken during Webinar on Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies

Other Related Events

Date	Name of the Event
26.06.2021	Cres-Festo 21
14.06.2021	Webinar on “Development with Environment”
12.06.2021	Webinar on “Career Opportunity and Skill Development Strategies”
05.06.2021	Webinar on Digital learning
03.06.2021	World Environment Day Celebrations
27.05.2021	Webinar on “Smartphone Security”
(21.05.2021 to 22.05.2021)	First Two day Virtual International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century
(26.04.2021 to 30.04.2021)	Five Day Online STTP on “Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Industry 4.0”
27.03.2021	CIIC 2nd Foundation Day and Demo Day

Executive education and training programmes for public education

Academic Year 2021-22

Training Program on Computer Fundamentals for the Primary School Students

A REPORT ON THREE-DAY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS
22nd October 2022

Organized by NSS and Unnath Barath Abhiyan of our institute in Collaboration with IIT Bombay spoken tutorial

B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology is keen in increasing the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship. As an initiation, the NSS and Unnath Barath Abhiyan of our institute in collaboration with IIT Bombay Spoken tutorial, has organized three-day Training Program on Basic Computer Education to the Primary School Students of Panchayat union primary school, Thundalkazhani, Karsangal from 19 to 21 October 2022 in our Crescent Campus.

The Training Program was coordinated by Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed Dean, Academic Affairs, Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood NSS Coordinator, UBA Coordinators – Dr. Aisha Banu W and Dr. S Sharon Priya and Program Coordinators – Dr. Srinivasan, Dr. Noushad and Ms. Anitha.

DAY 1 – Fadhil Ahmed Abdul Kadar UG Student, explained the basics of using a computer, the understanding of hardware and software components and also various components of a computer to the students. Students were provided with chart presentation tasks for deeper understanding of the concepts to the students.

DAY 2 – Arshad Pervez UG Student, gave a hands-on demo on how to use the internet, the working of a search engine also various tools provided by Google like Gmail, Gdrive, Sheets, Slides and Docs.

DAY 3 – Arun S R UG Student, demonstrated about KTurtle an educational programming platform. The students were taught basic syntax and were given mini tasks to create simple shapes.

A book drive was organized in the institute to populate the school’s library with informative books for the students. Also, the 2nd year students of the CSE department raised funds to provide the school students with new school bags, rain coats and various other stationery items.

The brochure of the programme is given below:

Figure IV – 20: Pamphlet of Three Day Training Program for School Students of Panchayat Union Primary School organised by National Service Scheme of Crescent University on 19-21 October 2022.

A total of 20 school students benefitted from this Training Program. The details of the participants are given in Annexure A. The certificate was made available to the participants who attended the entire session. The sample certificates issued to the participants are given in Annexure B.

ANNEXURE A

Table IV – 1: List of participants (Primary Schoool Students) for the three Day Training Program.

S.No	Ad.No	Name	B/G	Class
1	841	P. Nisanth	B	5th Std.
2	679	M.Deepak Kumar	B	5th Std.
3	856	V. Hemanth	B	5th Std.
4	683	T. Suriya	B	5th Std.
5	681	M.Iyappan	B	5th Std.
6	752	M.Dharshan	B	5th Std.
7	797	M. Mohammed Satik	B	5th Std.
8	684	J. Jesin Raj	B	5th Std.
9	838	K. Farhan Khaif	B	5th Std.
10	839	K. Fahin Khaif	B	5th Std.
11	677	M. Varsha	G	5th Std.
12	756	P.Dharshika Shree	G	5th Std.
13	757	S.Dhanushka	G	5th Std.
14	754	A. Sahira Banu	G	5th Std.
15	746	A. Gajalakshmi	G	5th Std.
16	675	S. Kalaivani	G	5th Std.
17	849	S. Kalaivani	G	5th Std.
18	771	S. Afra	G	6th Std.
19	712	M. Vaishali	G	6th Std.
20	799	D. Kalaivani	G	6th Std.

ANNEXURE B

The sample certificate issued to the participants after the successful completion of online test:

Figure IV – 21: Sample Certificates for the Students Completed the KTurtle Training and Computers Training.

Annexure C shows the pictures of the workshop.

ANNEXURE C

Figure IV – 22: Photographs showing the conduct of training program.

STTP on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Industry 4.0

Report for Five Day Online Short Term Training Programme on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Industry 4.0
(Technologies and Solution Methodologies for Real-world Scenarios) 26.04.2021 to 30.04.2021

Conducted during 26th – 30th April 2021 Organized by School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences, BSACIST in association with Computer Society of India (CSI) and ICT Academy

Convenor
Dr. Venkatesan Selvam, Dean, SCIMS

Coordinators
Dr. Gufran Ahmad Ansari, Prof./CA & Director (CFSC)
Dr. S. Revathi, Prof./CSE
Dr. N. Ayyanathan, Assoc. Prof/CA

Co-Coordinators
Mr. N. Rajendran, AP(Sr.Gr)/IT
Dr. A. Ramachandran, AP/CSE
Mr. V.M. Niaz Ahamed, AP/CA

A Five Day Online Short Term Training Programme on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Industry 4.0 (Technologies and Solution Methodologies for Real-world Scenarios) 26.04.2021 to 30.04.2021 was organized by School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences, in association with Computer Society of India (CSI) and ICT Academy, through Zoom platform.

The inaugural function was attended by the participants from various institutions and organizations along with faculty members and Heads of the various departments of this prestigious institution of repute with 36 years of academic excellence.

Inaugural Session started with Qirath, followed by Welcome Address by STTP Coordinator, Dr. Gufran Ahamed Ansari, Prof/CA & Director (CFSC). Presidential Address was delivered by Dr. Venkatesan Selvam, Dean, SCIMS. The Chief Guest of the Inaugural function, Dr. Lalith Kumar Singh, Nuclear Scientist, NPCIL (BARC), Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, delivered Keynote address on “Artificial Intelligence for Reliability Analysis of Safety-Critical Systems”. He explained the Markov models on reliability of systems and Petri Nets, which explains about the reliability prediction of safety critical systems. The second session was handled by Dr. Mohanraj Vengadachalam, Data Scientist, Standard Chartered, Chennai, on the topic “Introduction to Industry 4.0 & AI and Industry 4.0 Applications in Image Processing”. Dr. Mohanraj, gave a brief introduction about Computer Vision and he gave several real time applications of Computer Vision.

Post inauguration, after session was started by 2.00 p.m. on 26th April 2021. The title of the invited talk was “Role of Industry 4.0 in Digital Marketing”. The resource person for the session was Mr. V. J. Saravanan, Digital Marketing Strategist, Founder – Managing Director, Four steps Training Solutions.

The second day of the STTP program started with a session on “IoT Powered Energy Analytics” at 10.30. The session was handled by Dr. M.P. Selvan, Professor NIT Trichy. The session started with the Intrusion of Communication Technology in Power Sector. Ms. R. Ramakala, IoT Trainer, Skill Technica handled the second session, on the topic “IoT for computational Intelligence”. She gave a brief introduction about IoT, AI and ML and explained several real time applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Day 3 forenoon session was delivered by Mr. Siva Prasath. CEO, Jothana Software Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, on “Advanced Machine Learning Techniques Data Science, Data Analytics, AI & Python Basics”. He gave introduction about python with hands on using Jupyter Notebook. He continued with post lunch session on “Introduction to NumPy and Pandas, Predictive analysis, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression and Model Creation”.

Day 4, session started with “Cyber Security Attacks Detection and Mitigation” by Dr.S.Sibi Chakkaravarthy, Cyber Security Consultant. He took over the post lunch session on the topic “AI Powered Malware Analysis”.

The last day of the STTP Programme Day 5, Resource person was Mr. Arshad Sarfarz Ariff, Senior Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd., on the topic “Introduction to Blockchain Technology”. Later on, Quiz was conducted to the participants followed by feedback. The last session of STTP ended with valedictory function.

The Chief Guest for the Valedictory function Mr. Raj Kapoor, Founder, India Blockchain Alliance and delivered Keynote address on “Blockchain Technology in Industry 4.0” was presided by Dr. Venkatesan Selvam, Dean (SCIMS).

Figure IV – 23: Photographs and Screenshots showing the conduct of Five Day Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Industry 4.0.

Academic Year 2020-21

STTP on Disaster Mitigation

ONLINE- SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAMME on DISASTER MITIGATION A shift from disaster management towards disaster preparedness

PHASE 1 – 07.09.2020 to 12.09.2020 PHASE 2 – 19.10.2020 to 24.10.2020 PHASE 3 – 16.11.2020 to 21.11.2020

COMPLETION REPORT

Sponsored by

Organized by

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, SCHOOL OF INFRASTRUCTURE

About the Short term training programme The world is facing various environmental disasters which will ultimately affect the sustainability of human kind. Integrated approach embedded with disaster preparedness and risk reductions are the key factors to focus on to achieve sustainable hazard mitigation. Disaster preparedness provide a platform to design and coordinate the activities that would predict, prevent disaster and reduce the effects of their impact on vulnerable population. Community preparedness, early warnings, assessment of vulnerability, contingency planning, training in disaster management, capacity building, well prepared initiatives from the government are some of the tools that would serve as sustainable options that would reduce the risk of disaster and help community to effectively cope during the disaster and also to face the consequences. Basic understanding on the impacts caused by the disasters and development of eco- friendly recovery methods would favour mitigation and enhance the development of sustainable community. The main objectives of the STTP are i) To understand various categories of disaster and challenges posed by the disaster. ii) To explore on the disaster management cycles and risk reduction options. (iii) To analyse the impacts of the development projects on the disaster and to find effective measures to develop eco friendly recovery options.

PHASE – 1 07.09.2020 to 12.09.2020

AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme (STTP) –“Disaster mitigation: A shift from disaster management towards disaster preparedness”- Phase I was conducted through online mode with the speakers as listed in the below table using Google Meet video conferencing.

Programme schedule
07.09.2020 (Day – 1)
10.00 AM-10.30 AM	Inauguration
10.30AM -11.30 AM	Inaugural Address – Climate change adaptation: Challenges	Dr.K.PALANIVELU Professor & Director Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Management, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University
11.45 AM – 01.00 PM	Landslide risk reduction strategies	Dr.G.P.GANAPATHY Professor& Director, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	First response for water, wastewater & waste management during disaster	MR.VARUN SRIDHARAN, CEO, M/S. Greenevironment, Chennai
08.09.2020 (Day – 2)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Role of Geomatics in Disaster mitigation and management	DR.S.VASANTHA KUMAR Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,VIT, Vellore
11.45 AM – 01.00 PM	Disaster management for coastal structures during cyclonic events	MR.PARAMESAWARA PANDIAN S Technical Director, BMT Consultant India
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	Earthquake disaster mitigation	Dr.MUTHUMANI K (Former Director ASTAR Lab – CSIR-SERC) Professor, Dean, School of Civil Engineering,VIT University, Chennai
09.09.2020 (Day – 3)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Disaster management for industrial pollution	Dr.ARYA V, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi
11.45 AM – 01.00 PM	Adaptation as coastal disaster preparedness to changing climate and rising sea levels	Dr.A.SALEEM KHAN Postdoctoral Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, IIT Madras
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	Extreme weather events and climate change: Lessons from Kerala	Mr.NIDHIN DAVIS K Former Hazard Analyst- Kerala State Disaster Management Authority. Technical expert Climate Change –GIZ India
10.09.2020 (Day – 4)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Vulnerability assessment and ERP- Water treatment plant	Prof.K.S.LOKESH Professor &Former Registrar, JSS Scientific and Technical university, Mysuru.
11.45 AM-01.00 PM	Computing Tools, Techniques and Methods for Natural Calamities warning and Response system	Dr. SUDALAI MUTHU T, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering HITS, Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	Role of Environmental management, types of disaster and mitigation	Dr.LAKSHMI C Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering SJB Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.09.2020 (Day – 5)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Water shed management during disaster	Dr.S.V.MURUGAN Director, National Agro Foundation, Chennai
11.45 AM – 01.00 PM	Scientific technology for coastal disaster management	Dr.SISIR KUMAR DASH Scientist E, National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	Geotechnical aspects in seismic design of foundation and hazard mitigation	Dr.PREMALATHA K Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University
12.09.2020 (Day – 6)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies- An Overview	Dr.J.S.SUDHARSHAN Assistant Professor, NICMAR, Pune
11.30 AM- 1.30 PM	Certificate Examination for the participants	Conducted by Department of Civil Engineering
1.30 PM – 2.30 PM	Lunch Break
02.30 PM-03.00 PM	Valedictory and Feedback session

Details of the Session

Dr.K.PALANIVELU

Dr.Palanivelu delivered a lecture on Climate Change Adaptation: challenges and way forward. Disaster and its classification was elaborated. The disaster preparedness and its management principles was elaborated . Climate change and the reasons for global warming effects were highlighted in the session. The global average surface temperature change and its scenario were forecasted.

Consequences and impacts of climate change was described followed by increase in sea level. Mitigation and adaption to climate change was discussed. Convention articles referring to adaptation and adaptation to climate change in national and international level was elaborated. Adaptation strategies for water resources sectors was clearly discussed. Major impacts and strategies for sustainable habitat was discussed.

Dr.G.P.Ganapathy

Dr. G.P.Ganapathy, delivered a lecture on landslides risk reduction strategies. Case study on different landslides like Darjeeling, Malpa, Mumbai, Amboori, Kedarnath and Malin was highlited in the session. Landslide, its causes and types were also elaborated. Technological tools for evaluation of landslides was discussed.

Three important criteria for landslide maps are landslide inventory map, landslide susceptibility map and landslide hazard map. Usage of instruments like piezometer, inclinometer and tiltmeter for landslide warning was also discussed. The role of GPS and data logger was elaborated. Landslide occurrences, population growth, geological map, geomorphological map and topography map in Nilgiris were discussed. During the discussion an app named “TN smart” for receiving disaster risk alerts, reporting emergency situations and providing feedback alerts was also described.

Mr.Varun Sridharan

Varun Sridharan delivered a lecture on “First response for water, wastewater & waste management during disaster”. The immediate response after the disaster with no potable water, sanitation and hygiene was elaborated. The significance of WASH(Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in emergencies was discussed.

The importance of epidemiological triangle with environment, agent and host was introduced. The problems like low quality water and sanitary surveillance after a disaster was described. The steps required in water treatment in emergencies were discussed. Predictive data approach for water and wastewater distribution systems was discussed. Use of IoT enabled solution for water and sewer networks was introduced.

DR.S.VASANTHA KUMAR

Dr.S.Vasantha Kumar presented a topic on “Role of Geomatics in Disaster Mitigation and Management”. He presented a case study on landslides, flood, soil pollution and accident related studies. Landslide in nilgiris and its frequency and its impacts were discussed. Case study on extraction of topographic and morphometric features for ooty- Mettupalayam highway was discussed.

Usage of DEM for deriving topographic features such as slope, aspect and curvatures was explained. Case study on the effect of deforestation on landslides in Nilgiri district was elaborated. Case study on landslide hazard zonation of Nilgiri district using remote sensing and GIS. Flood simulation and inundation mapping of Adayar river using GIS was elaborated. Case study on the extent of soil contamination caused by Tanneries in and around Dindigul was also discussed. Accident analysis done in NH-209 (Dindigul – Palani Road) was discussed.

PARAMESWARA PANDIAN S

Parameswara Pandian delivered a lecture on “Disaster Management for Coastal structures during cyclonic events”. Initially the various terms related to coastal structures was briefed along with photographs. Different waves generated during cyclones and its pattern was discussed. Cyclone modeling and monitoring after warning was also elaborated.

Precautions that need to be followed in coastal construction areas during cyclones was highlighted in the session.

Dr.K.MUTHUMANI

Dr. K.Muthumani delivered a lecture on “Earthquake disaster mitigation”. The case study on Kutch, Gujarat earthquake on January 26, 2001 was discussed. Natural disasters response and relief activities are described. The role of risk assessment and hazard risk map was also described. Vulnerability and its types (i.e) tangible and intangible was also described.

Flood vulnerability, drought vulnerability and earthquake vulnerability of Andhra Pradesh was described with hazards map. Global economic losses due to major earthquakes and also the economic losses in India was elaborated. Disaster management structure in India was elaborated. India’s vulnerability to various sets of disaster was described. Earthquake effects and development of earthquake resistant buildings was elaborated.

Dr.Arya V

Dr.V.Arya delivered a lecture on “Disaster Management for Industrial Pollution”. Different industrial accidents like Minamata accident, Bhopal gas tragedy and Baia Marie cyanide spills were described. Prevention methods for industrial disaster was listed. Major polluting industries and chemical pollutants were elaborated.

Self purification of river was illustrated. Fate of chemicals like dye, paint and fertilizers were described. Tannery industries in Kanpur and its pollution in Ganges were discussed. Ground water and surface water pollution in patencheru industrial area, medak district was mentioned. Heavy metal contamination in industrial area of Panipat city, Haryana was elaborated. Industry classification based on the pollutant level was described. The emerging contaminants and its exposure pathways were also discussed.

Dr. A. SALEEM KHAN

Dr. A. Saleem khan delivered a lecture on “Adaptation” as coastal disaster preparedness to changing climate and rising sea levels. He elaborated global climate change and its impacts. The need for the climate change adaption was also listed. Sea- level rise and impacts of climate change in coasts was also discussed. Different types of adaption methods were elaborated.

Coastal adaption to SLR(Sea Level Rise) and its strategies was explained. Importance of mangroves and vulnerability assessment was discussed. The framing adaption strategies used in coastal areas were also listed. Mainstreaming SLR adaption strategies or policies were also discussed.

NIDHIN DAVIS K

Nidhin Davis K delivered a lecture on “ climate change and extreme weather events: learnings from kerala”. He elaborated the recent disasters that occurred in the past five years. He also discussed about the anthropogenic green house effect. He also described about the extreme weather events and climate change due to disasters like cyclone storms, landslides, floods.

He also described about the climate risks and global warming. The current scenario of kerala for different disasters was also elaborated. The different emergency operations in the regional level was also discussed. The learnings from Kerala experience was elaborated briefly with flood vulnerability maps.

Prof.Dr. K.S.LOKESH

Prof. K.S. Lokesh delivered a lecture on “Vulnerability assessment and ERP- Water treatment plant”. He elaborated the Vulnerability assessment and emergency response plan. Vulnerability assessment checklist is designed to identify potential areas of vulnerability associated with these assets and appropriate actions that can be taken to minimize the vulnerabilities identified.

An emergency response plan is vital in case there is an incident that requires immediate response. It should be reviewed at least annually (or more frequently if necessary) to ensure it is up-to-date and addresses security emergencies including ready access to laboratories capable of analyzing wastewater samples.

Dr. SudalaiMuthu T

Dr. Sudalai Muthu T delivered a lecture on “Computing tools, techniques and methods for natural calamities warning and response system”. Different natural and man- made calamities or disasters were elaborated. The various disaster preparedness tools were listed. The application of geographic information systems for disaster management were also elaborated.

The important tools in GIS like clip tool, merge tool, dissolve tool, intersect tool, union tool and erase tool was discussed. The remote sensing in natural hazard assessments like aerial photography, airborne radars and thermal IR scanners were also described. He briefed the role of social media and artificial intelligence to disaster response.

Dr.Lakshmi.C

Dr. Lakshmi.C delivered a lecture on “Role of environmental management: types of disaster and mitigation”. The process of environmental management plan was described. Environmental disaster management was elaborated along with goals and principles. Environmental disasters along with the direct and indirect damages were also briefed.

Case study on flooding of river Ganga and Marbi disaster in Gujarat was also discussed. Drought management factors and case study of great Bengal famine 1770 was elaborated. It was followed by other disasters like earthquake and cyclone along with a case study. The mitigation strategies for the above mentioned disasters was also discussed. The causes and mitigation measures for landslide was also discussed.

Dr S V Murugan

Dr.S.V Murugan delivered a lecture on “watershed management during disaster”. Watershed concept and its importance was explained. It was followed by the evolution of watershed and principles of watershed. Water related Disasters in the world was elaborated. Strategies of IWM towards disaster management were discussed.

Watershed management and natural disaster management was also elaborated. The various mitigation measures of water related disaster was also discussed.

Sisir Kumar Dash

Sisir Kumar Dash delivered a lecture on “Scientific technology for coastal disaster management”. He elaborated on different application of technology in coastal disaster management. He also elaborated in detail about the GIS and remote sensing. GIS provides a tool for effective and efficient storage and manipulation of remotely sensed data and other spatial and non-spatial data types for both scientific management and policy oriented information.

Remote sensing makes observation of any object from a distance. He also explained about the need of warning and forecasting system. An advance system of forecasting, monitoring and issuing early warnings plays the most significant role in determining whether a natural hazard will assume disastrous proportions or not.

Dr.PREMALATHA K

Dr.K, Premalatha delivered a lecture on “Geotechnical aspects in seismic design of foundation and hazard mitigation”. She explained about the seismological features of the earth and also about the seismic events. She also elaborated about the theory of plate tectonics and the evidence for its movement.

She also elaborated about the different types of seismic waves. She also elaborated major earthquake hazards and ground response analysis. Earthquake damages and local site effects in different region was also explained. Liquefaction and effects of liquefaction, flow failure, lateral spreading and related phenomenon was also elaborated.

Dr.J.S.SUDHARSHAN

Dr. J.S.Sudharshan delivered a lecture on “Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies- An Overview “. He explained the concepts of disaster risk and key components of risk. He also elaborated on key disaster trends and the underlying driving factors. Actions involved in disaster risk reduction were also explained.

Feedback Analysis Report Feedbacks about the STTP were collected from the participants through Google forms for carrying out improvement in the upcoming STTP. The analyses of the report are given below. Regarding the effectiveness of the webinar, nearly 85.9% of the participants found that the webinar to be excellent and more than 12.7% of the participants registered that the webinar was good. Overall 98.6% found that the STTP was effective. CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION The sample participation certificate for the participants is given below

PHASE – 2 19.10.2020 to 24.10.2020 (6 days)

AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme (STTP) –“Disaster mitigation: A shift from disaster management towards disaster preparedness”- Phase II was conducted through online mode with the speakers as listed in the below table using Zoom video conferencing platform.

Programme schedule
19.10.2020 (Day – 1)
10.00AM -11.30 AM	Role of remote sensing and GIS in Disaster management	Prof P K GARG Civil Engg Deptt IIT Rorrke, Roorkee (Uttarakhand) & Former Vice Chancellor Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	Impact of Waste disposal on Climate Change and mitigation options	Dr.S.V. Srinivasan Principal Scientist Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai –
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	A practical demonstration on the role of remote sensing and GIS in Disaster management	DR.S.VASANTHA KUMAR Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,VIT, Vellore
20.10.2020 (Day – 2)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Transportation Planning and Management for Disasters, Emergencies and related events	Dr. P. Partheeban Dean – Planning and Development Chennai Institute of Technology Kundrathur, Chennai – 600 069.
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	Hazards and disaster management	Dr.K.P.Jaya Director-Centre for Research, Division of Structural Engineering Department of Civil Engineering Anna University Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Activities of National Disaster Management Authority	Prof. Dr. S. GANAPATHY VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Professor (Environmental Law And Management) Anna University Chennai
21.10.2020 (Day – 3)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Water shed management In Tsunami affected areas using GIS	Dr. S. POONGOTHAI,Professor, Department Of Civil Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	Disaster due to Nuclear radiation	Mr.J.Rooby,Scientist – H, Nuclear power corporation of India Limited, Kalpakkam
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Disaster Management and preparedness in Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant	Mr. Syed Amir Basha, Chief Technology Officer, Desalination & Head, Nemmelli Desalination Plant Operation, VA Tech WABAG.
22.10.2020 (Day – 4)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Chennai flood 2015: Lesson learned and way forward	Er.G.R.RadhaKrishna, Assistant Executive Engineer,WRD.,PWD., Lower Palar Basin Sub Division, Chengalpattu
11.30 AM-01.00 PM	Design of Commercial Buildings with Disaster mitigation measures – a case study	Mr.Velan, City Head – Chennai Operations & PAN Indu Head – property Management, Capitaland Indo Limited, Taramani, Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Role of Advanced survey in Disaster management	Ms.V.S.Kalaranjini, FT research Scholar, Institute of Remote sensing . CEG campus, Anna university, Guindy
23.10.2020 (Day – 5)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Important structural elements to protect the steel structures from cyclone	Dr. R. BASKAR, Professor, Department Of Civil And Structural Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram
11.45 AM – 01.00 PM	Solid waste management during disaster	Dr.R.Rajamanikam, Project coordinator, Centre for Environment and Humanity, Kodaikanal International school, Kodaikanal
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.15 PM	Applications of 3D Mapping in Disaster Management.	Mr.Allah Pitchai K, Senior Engineer, Application sales and support Allterragulf, Doha, Qatar
24.10.2020 (Day – 6)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Keeping Schools safe in Earthquakes	Prof. Dr. S. KOTHANDARAMAN, Principal, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pudhucherry.
11.30 AM- 1.30 PM	Certificate Examination for the participants and Valedictory and Feedback session	Conducted by Department of Civil Engineering

Details of Session

Dr. Prof Pradeep Kumar Garg

Dr.P.K. Garg delivered a lecture on role of remote sensing and GIS in disaster management. He discussed about Disaster Information and Monitoring Systems which make use of remote sensing data in the operative process of early warning, mitigation and management of natural disasters.

He also desribed how Remote sensing can that assist in damage assessment and aftermath monitoring, providing a quantitative base for relief operations. He also elaborated that, in the disaster rehabilitation phase GIS is used to organise the damage information and the post -disaster census information, and in the evaluation of sites for reconstruction. He elaborated the details of plan form index and how it works. He describes space technology for disaster management in view of pre-disaster and post-disaster.

Dr. S. V. Srinivasan

Dr. S. V. Srinivasan, delivered a lecture on Impact of Waste disposal on Climate Change and mitigation options. He clearly explains how most of the rubbish ends up in dumpsites or in landfills. When organic waste decomposes, carbon dioxide and methane gas is created.

Both carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and climate change. He also discussed about Kyoto protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases (GHG) in theatmosphere. The essential tenet of the Kyoto Protocol was that industrialized nations needed to lessen the amount of their CO2 emissions. He elucidates with the statistical data of carbon dioxide emissions in Indian industrial sectors. Finally he concluded with the impacts of climate change and global warming.

DR.S.VASANTHA KUMAR

Dr.S.Vasantha Kumar presented a topic on, “A practical demonstration on the role of remote sensing and GIS in Disaster management”. He explains how GIS and remote sensing are incredibly useful and effective tools in disaster management.

Remotely sensed data can be used very effectively for quickly assessing severity and impact of damage due to, earthquakes, landslides, flooding, forest fires, cyclones and other disasters. In the presentation he clearly explains with the case studies. Particularly the extraction of topographic and morphometric features for Ooty to Mettupalayam highway case study was clearly understandable. He finally explains how Remote sensing can assist in damage assessment and aftermath monitoring, providing a quantitative base for relief operations. In the disaster rehabilitation phase GIS is used to organise the damage information and the post -disaster census information, and in the evaluation of sites for reconstruction.

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Dr.K.P.Jaya

Dr. K.P. Jaya delivered lecture on, ”Earthquake hazards”. In which she explained what are the major earthquake hazards, risk of earthquake, and Importance of studying earthquake hazards. She elaborates that In any given earthquake produced by slip along a fault can produce a number of hazards including ground shaking, liquefaction, ground displacement, fires, and tsunamis.

Ground shaking is simply the vibration of the land surface while liquefaction transforms what was a solid to a liquid‐like state. In contrast, ground displacement is a direct result of the slippage along the fault. These three processes, in combination or acting alone, can produce tremendous damage to buildings and other structures. In some instances, they can rupture dams and gas lines and thus produce flooding and fires. Though such processes are dangerous their ability to affect large numbers of people are limited by the size of the community that the earthquake occurs in or near. In contrast, tsunami produced by earthquakes on distant lands can devastate large regions hundreds of kilometers or miles away.

Dr. S. GANAPATHY VENKATASUBRAMANIAN

Dr S Ganapathy venkatasubramanian delivered lecture on, “Activities of National Disaster Management Authority”. In which he describes about National Disaster Management Authority, and the activities carried out by them. He explains that the policies, plans and guidelines for Disaster Management to ensure timely and effective response to disasters.

Also it holds the authority to Lay down policies on disaster management, Approves the National Plan, Approve plans prepared by the Ministries or Departments of the Government of India in accordance with the National Plan, Lay down guidelines to be followed by the State Authorities in drawing up the State Plan, Lay down guidelines to be followed by the different Ministries or Departments of the Government of India for the purpose of integrating the measures for prevention of disaster or the mitigation of its effects in their development plans and projects, Coordinate the enforcement and implementation of the policy and plans for disaster management, Recommend provision of funds for the purpose of mitigation, Provide such support to other countries affected by major disasters as may be determined by the Central Government, Take such other measures for the prevention of disaster, or the mitigation, or preparedness and capacity building for dealing with threatening disaster situations or disasters as it may consider necessary, Lay down broad policies and guidelines for the functioning of the National Institute of Disaster Management.

Dr. S. POONGOTHAI

Dr. S. Poongothai delivered lecture on, “Water shed management In Tsunami affected areas using GIS”. In which she explained Watershed management is used to describe the process of implementing land use practices and water management practices to protect and improve the quality of the water and other natural resources within a watershed by managing the use of those land and water resources in a comprehensive manner.

She elaborated the methods of watersheds such as Contour bunding / graded bunding, Check dams and gully control structures, Land levelling / land smoothening, Bench terracing, Farm ponds, Percolation ponds, Waterways, Diversion drains. Also she explains the uniqueness of coastal watersheds and importance of it. Finally she discussed the tools of GIS used in watershed management.

Mr. J. Rooby

Mr. J. Rooby delivered lecture on, “Disaster due to Nuclear radiation” in which he explains about Disaster Management Guidelines: Management of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies. He describes how Radiation can either kill cells or damage the DNA within them, which damages their ability to reproduce and can eventually lead to cancer.

When radiation is present, high energy particles pass through your body. These can collide with atoms in your body and disrupt atomic structure. He explained about Emergency Classification Levels, Emergency Classification & Notifications, then he specifically elaborated about Prophylaxis. He finally explains the Emergency Preparedness Plans, Training for Off-site personnel, Site Emergency exercises, EP Programme audits, Corporate Social Responsibility and public awareness activities that followed at kalpakkam nuclear power plant.

K. SYED AMIR BASHA

K. Syed Amir Basha delivered lecture on,” Disaster Management and preparedness in Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant” in which he explains how is reverse osmosis used in desalination and also explained types of membrane process used for desalination: reverse osmosis (RO) and electro dialysis (ED).

In the RO process, water from a pressurized saline solution is separated from the dissolved salts by flowing through a water-permeable membrane. He discussed about process flow diagram on disaster management in SWRO plants. Finally he elaborated that the Cellulose acetate powder is a fiber derived from wood pulp and according to the researchers, cheap and easy to make in any laboratory. According to that, the membrane can quickly desalinate highly concentrated seawater and purify even badly contaminated seawater.

Er. G.R. RADHA KRISHNA

Er. G.R. Radha Krishna delivered lecture on,” Chennai flood 2015: Lesson learned and way forward” in which he explains about storm water drainage system. He emphasized that the area of the Corporation was expanded from 176 sq.km to 426 sq.km in the year 2011. The Population of the Chennai city is fast approaching 1 crore. The Greater Chennai Corporation has taken various steps to provide necessary infrastructure facilities in the newly added areas of the City.

The flat terrain of Chennai City needs effective Storm Water Drainage System to prevent water stagnation in roads, and average level of the land in the city is only 2.0m above the Mean Sea Level (MSL). Because of this flat terrain and tidal effects, flooding and water stagnation happens in the city during the monsoons. In order to mitigate flood from low lying and flood prone areas of Chennai city, it is necessary to provide Storm water drain net work. He finally concluded with the meteorological statistics of Chennai flood 2015 and the details about unprecedented rainfall during Chennai flood 2015.

Dr. C. VELAN

Dr C. Velan delivered lecture on,” Design of Commercial Buildings with Disaster mitigation measures – a case study” in which he explains about Disaster Management which can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters.

He also elaborated that the Disaster management plans are multi-layered and are planned to address issues such as floods, hurricanes, fires, mass failure of utilities, rapid spread of disease and droughts. India is especially vulnerable to natural disasters because of its unique geo-climatic condition, having recurrent floods, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes, and landslides. As India is a very large country, different regions are vulnerable to different natural disasters. For example, during rainy season the peninsular regions of South India are mostly affected by cyclones and states of West India experience severe drought during summer.

V. S. KALARANJINI

V.S. Kalaranjani is a full time research scholar in the Institute of Remote Sensing (Anna University) with accepted synopsis. Her research interests include Disaster Assessment with Geospatial techniques with particular focus on Space-based SAR data and InSAR technique.

She was awarded with Meritorious Anna Centenary Research Fellowship from the Centre for Research (Anna University) in 2016. She has published the first scientific work on quantitative assessment of South Indian landslides using InSAR. She has presented disaster related papers in National and International Conferences in the recent years. She has visited NGI (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute) at Oslo, Norway as a part of DST-IRS project. She was certified P.G MASTER DIPLOMA IN CADD & BUILDING DESIGN in the year 2012. She was awarded a degree of Rashtrabhasha Praveen (B.A. equivalent) by The Executive Committee of The Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai. V.S. Kalaranjani delivered lecture on,” Role of Advanced survey in Disaster management” in which she explains about Conventional surveying techniques using high precision total stations, GNSS and laser scanners, are instruments of extreme operability but there are still many evident limits on their use especially regarding the survey of both the roofs and the facades of tall buildings or dangerous places, typical in post earthquake situations.Another very important disadvantage of the traditional surveying, especially during the post seismic periods, regards the overall safety of the instruments, operators and workers. In particular, the seismic sequence that may last for months after the main shock, causing collapses and ulterior damage that in most cases can also damage the transport and communication infrastructure creating important problems for all instruments located in that area and definitely posing a further serious risk for all operators. Moreover, some surveys have to be repeated periodically in order to achieve a final result.

Dr. R. BASKAR

Dr. R. Baskar delivered lecture on, “Important structural elements to protect the steel structures from cyclone” in which he explains about the shape of new buildings and shape is the most important single factor in determining the performance of buildings in cyclones. Simple, compact, symmetrical shapes are best.

The square plan is better than the rectangle since it allows high winds to go around them. The rectangle is better than the L-shaped plan. This is not to say that all buildings must be square. But it is to say that one must be aware of the implications of design decisions and take appropriate action to counter negative features. The best shape to resist high winds is a square. If other shapes are desired, efforts should be made to strengthen the corners. If longer shapes are used, they must be designed to withstand the forces of the wind. Most houses are rectangular and the best layout is when the length is not more than three times the width. Finally he concluded that the good quality of design and construction is the single factor ensuring safety as well as durability in the cyclone hazard prone areas. Hence all building materials and building techniques must follow the applicable Indian Standard Specifications.

Dr. R. RAJAMANIKAM

Dr. R. Rajamanikam delivered lecture on,” Solid waste management during disaster” in which he explains about solid waste, objectives of managing solid waste. He emphasized that Disaster waste is a well-recognized threat to health, safety and the environment, and can also be a major impediment to post-disaster rescue operations.

The safe disposal of solid waste is critical for public health, and is especially true during an emergency. Not only will existing collection and disposal systems be disrupted, but there will be extra waste caused by the emergency itself. Initially, for camps of displaced people or refugees and similar new sites, there will be no arrangements in place at all. If solid waste is not dealt with quickly, serious health risks will develop which will further demoralize the community already traumatized by the emergency. This technical note highlights the key issues to consider in managing solid waste during and shortly after a disaster.

Mr. ALLAH PITCHAI K

Mr. Allah Pitchai K delivered lecture on,” Applications of 3D Mapping in Disaster Management” in which he explains about the different dimensions of mapping in disaster management such as human dimensions, physical dimensions. He also explains about monitoring, control AND Resource Management, analysis and assessment studies etc.

He emphasized about Chronic Intelligence such as Past Occurrence, Onset Speed, Frequency of events, Magnitude, Area affected, Terrain info and Demography. He discussed about spatial relations in vulnerable eco-system and its relationship among the Disaster Management.

Dr. S. KOTHANDARAMAN

Dr. S. Kothandaraman delivered lecture on,” Keeping Schools safe in Earthquakes” in which he clearly explains about earthquake-prone communities that need earthquake-resistant schools. He elaborated that earthquakes cause the collapse of school buildings and the injury and death of staff and students.

Further, when schools are closed because of earthquake damage, education is hampered, community life disrupted, and potential emergency shelters unavailable. Where school attendance is compulsory, communities have an obligation to provide a safe study and work environment. He also discussed about why do schools collapse even during moderate earthquakes. Experts agree that many collapse due to avoidable errors in design and construction. Often, the needed technology is not applied and laws and regulations are not sufficiently enforced. Application of existing knowledge can significantly lower the seismic risk of schools and help prevent further injury and death of school occupants during earthquakes. Moreover, this can be accomplished at reasonable cost and within a reasonable period.

Feedback Analysis Report Feedbacks about the STTP were collected from the participants through Google forms for carrying out improvement in the upcoming STTP. Regarding the overall experience of the STTP, nearly 83.3% of the participants found that the training programme was excellent and more than 16.7% of the participants registered that the training programme was good. Certificate of Participation The sample participation certificate for the participants is given below

PHASE- 3 16.11.2020 to 21.11.2020 (6 days)

AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme (STTP)–“Disaster mitigation: A shift from disaster management towards disaster preparedness”- Phase-3 was conducted from 16.11.2020 to 21.11.2020 through online mode with the speakers as listed in the below table using Microsoft teams meeting.

Programme Schedule
16.11.2020 (Day – 1)
10.00AM -11.30 AM	Impact of Urbanization on flooding	Dr. B.V. Mudgal Professor, Centre for Water Resources, Anna University
11.30 AM- 01.00 PM	Understanding Disasters and Resilience: Concepts, Perspectives, Concerns and Experiences	Dr.S.Janakarajan Professional Consultant, MIDS President, SaciWATRs, Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30PM	Intelligent Transportation systems for Disaster management	Dr. S.Moses Santhakumar, Professor Civil engineering department NIT Trichy
17.11.2020 (Day – 2)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Mitigation strategies of hydrogen sulphide emission	Dr. V.Preethi Associate Professor Hindustan Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	GIS Applications in Disaster Management	Dr E.S.M Suresh, Professor & Head, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India) Taramani,Chennai.
	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Soil Nailing Techniques to encounter land slide Hazards in Hilly area with a case study.	Mr. Karthikeyan A M/S. Karthikeyan Associates Arumbakkam Chennai
18.11.2020 (Day – 3)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Prevention and control of corrosion in RC structures: Preparedness to avoid major disasters	Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed Professor of Civil Engineering, Dean – Academic Affairs, Director – Centre for Prevention and Control of Corrosion in Concrete Structures (PC3S) BSACIST, Chennai
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	Geospatial technology for urban flood modeling and management	Dr.K.Srinivasaraju Associate Professor, IRS, Anna University
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Potential impacts of climate change on reservoir services: Specific reference to Quantity and Quality	Dr. E. Arun Babu Assistant Professor (Sl.Gr) Centre for Water Resources Anna University, Chennai
19.11.2020 (Day – 4)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Geospatial Technology for Hazard Mapping and Disaster Management.	Dr. R. Jaganathan, Dean, Research Professor and Head Department of Geography School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Madras,Guindy Campus, Chennai
11.30 AM-01.00 PM	Disaster mitigation of structures	Dr.S.Senthil Selvan Professor, Department of Civil Engineering SRM University, Kattankulathur, Chennai
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.00 PM-03.30 PM	Early warning systems of IMD: An overview	Dr. S. Balachandran, Scientist F & Head, Regional Meteorological Centre, College Road, Chennai-6.
20.11.2020 (Day – 5)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	Pandemic and Sustainability	Dr. Ambika S Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Department C-214G, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana
11.30 AM – 01.00 PM	Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic	Dr. A.Sadhana Rajkumar Nutritionist , Diet and Fitness Consultant
01.00 PM-02.00 PM	Lunch Break
02.30 PM-04.00 PM	Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Management	Dr. Athira P, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Palakkad
21.11.2020 (Day – 6)
10.00 AM-11.30 AM	NDMA guidelines for landslide mitigation	Dr.Vasanthi Padmanabhan Dean School of Infrastructure BSACIST

Details of Session:

Dr. B.V. Mudgal

Dr Basavaraj Veeranna Mudgal, deliverd on Impact of Urbanization on flooding. The need for Disaster Preparedness and Flood Assessment in Urban Areas was highlighted in thesession. The need for real time flood modeling and the Emergency Action Plan for Dam Safety was also explained during the session

Dr.S.Janakarajan

Professor Janakarajan delivered a lecture on Understanding Disasters and Resilience: Concepts, Perspectives, Concerns and Experiences. Professor Janakarajan highlighted the need for Disaster management and discussed the biggest limitation that is the lack of data base.

Some of the important questions related to Resilience was raised and Adaptation challenges was laos highlighted. SLD process to undertake a resilience planning effort along with the case studies was discussed in the session

Dr. S. Moses Santhakumar

Dr. S. Moses Santhakumar delivered the lecture on the Intelligent Transportation System. The key points discussed during the session includes, the enabling Technologies related to ITS, Geographical Information Systems, GPS. The need for Interface in Transportation Data Acquisition, the importance of Pneumatic road tubes, Traffic Flow Sensors – Non-Intrusive Detectors, Video Image Vehicle Detection System (VIVDS), Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) System and Incident Management System with Variable Message Signs was highlighted in the session

Dr. V.Preethi

Dr.V.Preethi delivered lecture on Mitigation strategies of hydrogen sulphide emission. Some of the key points discussed in the session includes Sources of H2S, Environmental effects of H2S and s2 , Detection of H2S, Conventional techniques for H2S removal Mechanical/operational H2S mitigation techniques, Chemical H2S mitigation techniques etc.

Prof. Dr. E.S.M. SURESH

He has conducted more than 300 training programs for Polytechnic College faculty and More than 200 for Engineering College, 10 International Training Programs sponsored by ITEC/TCS/SCAAP (5 in Civil Engineering and 5 in Educational Media).

Dr. E.S.M. Suresh delivered the lecture on GIS Applications in Disaster Management and the few key points discussed includes Disaster management, ICT tools in disaster management, GIS in disaster management, GIS based maps for disaster management(flood), GIS in emergency management, DMS – Space enabled products and services

Mr A.Karthikeyan

Mr A.Karthikeyan Post Graduated, M.E- Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai from 1998 to 2000. During school days, Mr A.Karthikeyan received award from “President of India” for the service in The Bharat Scouts & Guides in 1989.

Mr A.Karthikeyan Started his Own Business as an Entrepreneur since 2000. Practicing as a Structural and Geotech. Consultant. Carrier record crosses 1800 projects includes Residential Apartments, Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, Hotels, Temples, Churches, Mosques, Shopping Malls, Industrial buildings, Radio Towers, Earthen Dam, Machine Foundations, Rehabilitation of Structures, Underpinning, Earth Retaining Structures etc., Other than a Design Engineer, Guest faculty for Part time B.E in College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, from 2010 to 2016. Mr A.Karthikeyan delivered the lecture on Soil Nailing Techniques to encounter land slide Hazards in Hilly area with a case study. the important points discussed includes; Soil Nailing, Land slide and its effects, Landslide mitigation, Soil nail techniques, Installation methods of soil nailing.

Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed

His immense passion in teaching and ethusiasim raised him to the positions of Professor of Civil Engineering and currently serving as the Dean – Academic Affairs, BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology.

Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed delivered the lecture on Prevention and control of corrosion in RC structures: Preparedness to avoid major disasters . the key points discussed includes Corrosion cycle of steel, Cost of corrosion, Mechanism of protection of steel by concrete, Two major causes / types of corrosion in concrete structures, Severe distress due to corrosion

Dr.K.Srinivasaraju

A few key points discussed: Geomatics, Urban flooding, Mobile laser scanner, 3D city model mapping

Dr. E. Arun Babu

A few key points discussed: Reservoir Services, Climate Change, Quantity of Reservoir Water, Impact of climate change on Reservoir services, Mathematical and statistical tools used to study impacts of climate change on reservoirs, Case studies and SWAT Modelling

Dr.S.Senthil Selvan

The key points discussed: Why is seismic engineering not widespread?, Cyclones affect houses because of enormously powerful winds, Design and maintenance of house, Basic Design Concepts #1 to #8, Behaviour of RC buildings during earthquake, Structural Design procedure, Disaster and Mitigation of Steel buildings during earthquake

Dr. S. Balachandran

Dr. S.Balachandran joined the India Meteorological Department as operational forecaster in 1992 at Pune. During last 28 years he served in various capacities at different units like Instrumentation, Research, and Operational units of IMD at Pune, Delhi and Chennai. He is a faculty member of training centres of IMD.

He represented IMD in Technical meetings held at National Hurricane Centre, Florida , USA, South Korea, France, Myanmar and Maldives. He served as working group member of International Tropical cyclone research team. He Served as Member , Board of studies – Physics , Bharathiar University. At present, he is serving as the deputy Director General of Meteorology and Head, Regional Meterological Centre Chennai which is the nodal Centre for weather forecasting services of southern states comprising Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karataka and Andrapradesh. The key points discussed includes Early warning system, Damages due to tropical cyclone, Observational tools, Automatic weather stations.

Dr. Ambika S

A few key points discussed: COVID – 19 in India, Preventive measures of COVID – 19 in India, Triple Bottom line aspects, Impact of air pollution on pandemic, Pandemic and sustainability

Dr. A.Sadhana Rajkumar

A few key points discussed: COVID – 19 in India, Preventive measures of COVID – 19 in India, Need for a healthy diet systems, Impact of pollution on pandemic and its impact on health, Sustainability in health

Dr. Athira P

A few key points discussed: The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019, Disaster Risk and Disaster Risk Management Disaster, Risk Drivers, Possible Disaster Risks, Climate Change, DRR and Climate Change Adaptation

Dr.Vasanthi Padmanabhan

The key points discussed: Land slide and effects, Landslide effects, Landslides mitigation techniques, Capacity building, PM’s 10 Point agenda

Feedback Analysis Report Feedbacks about the STTP were collected from the participants through Google forms for carrying out improvement in the upcoming STTP. The analyses of the report are given below. Regarding the effectiveness of the webinar, nearly 86% of the participants found that the webinar to be excellent and more than 14% of the participants registered that the webinar was good. Overall 98 % found that the STTP was effective. Certificate of Participation The sample participation certificate for the participants is given below

STTP on Internet of Things

One week Short Term Training Programme (STTP) – Online On Internet of Things – Everything Future
Sponsored by AICTE
Slot -1: 24th August 2020 to 29th August 2020

Session – Report

Programme Co-ordinator: Dr.S.Revathi, Professor, CSE, BSACIST, Dr.Sabiyath Fatima, CSE Dr.V.Muthu Priya, CA
Conveners: Dr. Venkatesan Selvam, Dean, SCIMS Dr. E. Syed Mohamed, Prof. & Head, CSE

PREAMBLE

The department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai organized a Short Term Training Programme on Internet of Things – Everything Future in association with AICTE from 24th August 2020 to 29th August 2020. This programme was successfully conducted and coordinated through the online portal with dedicated sessions. The STTP program received an overwhelming response with 160 participants from various institutions/colleges approved by AICTE and affiliated to various Universities across India. This STTP is conducted for one week which comprised of technical session and hands on training session on different spectrum of IoT. Everyday three sessions were conducted to ensure the participants received the effective knowledge through this programme. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Day-1 (24.08.2020)

Inauguration Session and Session 1 :

STTP was inaugurated at 9.30 am on 24th August 2020 by Dr. A.Peer Mohamed, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dr. A. Azad, Registrar, BSACIST, Chennai along with Mr. Amirtha Swamy, Keynote speaker, Founder & CMD – Theju Technologies, Bangalore and Founder & CTO – Watt-On technologies, Hyderabad. Dr.S.Revathi, Professor & Co-ordinator of the STTP has briefed the objective of the Short Term Training Program and the overall schedule of the STTP. Dr.V.Muthu Priya, Asst. Professor(Sl. Gr.), Computer Applications Department, BSACIST has introduced the chief guest. Mr. Amirtha Swamy gave an introduction on how IoT interrelate with various devices and how it could be applied in real time applications along with case studies like smart farming, smart charging, etc. Vote of Thanks was delivered by Dr.N.Sabiyath Fatima, Associate Professor, CSE Department, BSACIST, in which she paid her gratitude towards all the dignitaries.

On Session 2:

Topic: Introduction to Internet of Things and Architecture
Resource Person: Dr.K.Muneeswaran, Sr. Professor and HOD, Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi.

Dr. Revathi, Professor, BSACIST, Chennai has commenced the session by welcoming the resource person. After that, the resource person of this session, Dr.K.Muneeswaran, equipped the participants with the objective, importance and various sources of literature collection relating to IoT. He delivered the introduction about IoT and clearly explained the concept that connects the devices to the internet and how they communicate with each other over the internet. He projected a clear understanding of the importance of IoT and its functional Sub- System. He discussed the basic concepts used in the technology relating with best suitable real life examples which are essential for the understanding of technology.

On Session 3:

Topic: Sensors, actuators & Interfacing
Resource Person: Dr.Malleswaran, Professor & Head incharge, ECE Department, Anna University, Kancheepuram.

The Speaker of the Session Dr.M.Malleswaran shared his knowledge on internal operations of sensors and need for it in IoT. Also, he presented more on different types of sensors and actuators for IoT application. He explained the architecture diagram of computer process control system. He further added to it, the importance of interfacing in IoT process where it involves the communication between the device and computer networks. He detailed the process of Analog to Digital convertor and Digital to Analog convertor in the interfacing process.

Day-2 (25.08.2020)

On Session 1:

Topic: IoT Data Link Layer protocols & IoT Network Layer Protocols Resource Person: Dr.Pushpalatha, Professor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.

The Speaker of the Session Dr.Pushpalatha presented topics related to “IoT Data Link Layer protocols & IoT Network Layer Protocols”. She projected a clear understanding of the importance of LoRaWAN and future problems in the real world. She emphasized on Applications of Zigbee Technology through a hands-on project. She projected on comprehending the theoretical concepts and relating to the practical aspects of Industrial Automation, Home Automation, Smart Metering and Smart Grid monitoring. She insisted on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) which is a low power wireless technology used for connecting devices with each other.She also added on concepts relating to Network Layer- Encapsulation Protocols-LoWPAN.

On Session 2 & 3:

Topics:

Virtual Hands on Training session of IoT Applications Automation
IoT devices, dashboard automation using Node Red simulation

Resource Person: Dr.Maheswari R, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT, Chennai.

The Speaker of the Session Dr.Maheswari R presented topics related to Virtual Hands on Training Session on IoT Applications Automation. She gave a brief introduction about the IoT Protocol Contained application protocol (CoAP), Message Queuing Telemetry Transport MQTT, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). Step by step installation guidance on Node Red was given by Dr. Maheswari to all the participants, during which lot of queries asked by the participants were addressed by her then and there.

On session 3, she explained the key features and benefits of Node Red. Followed by which she explained how to access the editor in a web browser, how to drag one node on to the workspace from the palette, how to add debug node, function node deployment. She also showed how to connect the wire from the output port of one to input port of another.

Day-3 (26.08.2020)

On Session 1,2 & 3:

Topics Covered :

Applications of IoT
Hands on Training using Tinker card- Arduino Programming and Sensors interfacing
Hands on Training using Tinker card

Resource Person: Dr.Sabura Banu, Founder & CEO, Intellectz Tech For All, Chennai.

The speaker of the session Dr. Sabura Banu started with brief introduction of IoT. How IoT works and the structure of the IoT. She forecasted the Global IoT Market. She clearly discussed the massive potential of IoT. And then listed out the application of IoT. The ultimate goal of IoT is to automate human Life has explained briefly. She gave many interesting applications of IoT like smart Garbage Cans and smart mirror. She focused with Technological challenges of IoT, Criticisms and controversies of IoT.
On Session 2 and 3, Dr. Sabura Banu started Hands on Training using Tinker card- Arduino Programming and Sensors interfacing. Few latest addition of Arduino projects were demonstrated and described about ARDUINO and discussed about its features in detail. She gave hands on session on Tinker card and how to use the features and tools in it. It was a very interactive session and all the faculties and the research scholars were involved with real interest in the hands on session.

Day-4 (27.08.2020)

On Session 1 & 2:

Topic: Internet of Things – Cloud Integration
Resource Person: Mr.Revanth Kumar, CEO, Unturtle Technologies,Hyderabad.

The Speaker of the Session Mr.Revanth Kumar presented topics related to “IoT Cloud Integration”. He projected a clear understanding of the Greater usage of the IoT in cloud that has acted as a catalyst for the development and deployment of scalable Internet of Things applications and business models. He clearly explained that the cloud computing and IoT have become two very closely affiliated future internet technologies with one providing the other a platform for success. He explained IoT in cloud offers public cloud services which can easily help the IoT area, by providing third party access to the infrastructure. He explained IoT devices need a lot of storage to share information for valuable purposes.

He described that IoT in cloud, like the StoneFly, Cloud Connect to Microsoft Azure can provide customers with greater space which can increase as per the users demand, helping to resolve the storage needs of customers. He described that IoT in cloud provides the connectivity which is necessary to share information between the devices and make meaning from it at a fast pace. He insisted that Internet Cloud Computing infrastructures help IoT to give meaning to the greater amount of data generated.

On Session 3:

Topic: Industrial 4.0 with additive manufacturing
Resource Person : Mr.J.K.Rohith, Director, Madras Scientific Research Foundation, Chennai.

The Speaker of the Session Mr.J.K.Rohith presented topics related to “Industry 4.0 Additive Manufacturing”. He explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0) is changing the traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology. He discussed the concept of additive manufacturing relating with best suitable real life examples with the 3D printing which are essential for the understanding of technology. He projected a live demo on manufacturing of face shield for COVID -19 protection through additive manufacturing technology.

Day-5 (28.08.2020)

On Session 1:

Topic : Road ahead on the connected vehicles with IoE Resource Person: Mr.S. Vijay Anand,
Director, aLTRAN, Chennai.

He started with today’s transportation challenges and need of connected vehicles. He explained how digital transformation takes place from M2M to Internet of Vehicle (IoV). Next he explained the different use cases/applications of car and bike. Apple car play, Google android auto, mirror link – car connectivity consortium, connected car concepts(in-car connectivity, in-car scenarios), digital License Plate for connected Car, Mobile phone Centric Telematics were discussed by him. He also explained what Amazon Alexa can do for connected car. He also explain how Kia Motors India become the leader in connected cars.

He also make clear the Adaptive Media Streaming” from cloud Network. He took example for the connected car meets home. He took an example of Ethernet AVB for connected car. In the title “Edge computing “ vehicle telematics, how the different sensors are used in connected car. He also gave details of need of edge computing in connected vehicles. He explained the data management and security risk foreseen in the connected car. Vehicle Data Analytics at Edge with Machine learning concept was dealt by him with challenges and key features of data analytics.

On Session 2 & 3:

Topics:

Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Software Defined Networking(SDN) based IoT

Resource Person: Dr.Azka Wani, Wani Systems, Dubai.

The Speaker of the Session Dr.Azka Wani presented topics related to “Software Defined Networking(SDN) based IoT”. She inspired the audience by explaining an environment where each object is having an unique identifier and has ability to transfer data over a network without the need of human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. She discussed about the borderless system architecture which raises extra threat to the system access control. She emphasized on the new systems administration, the Software Defined Networking (SDN), offers numerous chances to secure the system in a more productive and adaptable way. She added that a SDN based model is also proposed for securing the IoT against the identified attacks. She described that the Security mechanism is contained in the control plane or Controller and the security policies are enforced in to the IoT gateways as flow rules.

Day-6 (29.08.2020)

On Session 1 & 2:

Topics:

MQTT protocol overview
Blockchain Overview and its adoption in IoT

Resource Person: Mr.Manikandan, Principal Systems Engineer, Aricent Technology, Chennai.

The Speaker of the Session Mr.Manikandan presented topics related to “MQTT protocol overview and Blockchain Overview and its adoption in IoT”. He explained how to work on assets –range from tangible to intangible, Chaincode – software for business logic, Ledger features, Privacy through channels, Security and membership services.

Valedictory Session & Session III :

Receiving an overwhelming response from participants, a week long short term training programme STTP on Internet of Things – Everything Future came to an end with the Valedictory Session. Dr. S. Revathi, Professor CSE Department, BSACIST explained the outcome of STTP Programme and introduced the chief guest of valedictory session Mr.Khuzema Siam Wala, Director, Siam Computing, Chennai. He delivered the speech related to IoT and its applications. He explained how The Internet of Things (IoT) works as a network of physical objects or “things” embedded with – Electronics – Software – Sensors – Network connectivity which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. He enumerated few applications of IoT like building and home automation, manufacturing, medical and healthcare systems.

This distinctive user friendly programme cumulates together the real-world industry experience, practical hands-on session and exposed faculties and researchers to the Internet of Things. The technological update on this topic helped the institution in updating the curriculum according to the disciplines of subjects. B.Tech CSE with specialization in IoT educates the students about the effective use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology for solving real-life multi-disciplinary problems that cater to the need of society and are economically feasible.

The oral feedback received from the audience and online link was posted for collecting the participants’ observation/feedback which is critical in improving the quality of the future session. Vote of Thanks was delivered by Dr.E.Syed Mohamed, Professor & HOD, CSE Department, BSACIST, in which he paid his gratitude towards all the dignitaries who has spared their time to share their expertise with the participants. Nevertheless, he has given thanks to AICTE for their continuous support and financial assistance to successfully organize this short term training programme.

Session Video Links

Educational Outreach activities – community

Academic Year 2021-22

Demonstration – Cancer Awareness Program

Cancer Awareness Programme – 21-04-2022

National Service Scheme (NSS) of B.S.A. Crescent institute of Science and Technology in association with Adayar Cancer Institute conducted a Cancer Awareness Programme in Karasangal village to make village community more aware of cancer, its symptoms and its prevention, on April 21st ,2022 in Karasangal village premise. The awareness programme inaugurated by the Dakshimamurthy, Karsangal panchayat union president. The NSS programme officers Dr.C.Srinivasan and Dr.Noushad was present the function.

The main purpose of this event was to create awareness among the village community about cancer’s disease, its causes and effects. They were also informed about how to fight with this disease. The team members from Adayar cancer centre arranged various awareness programme for the village people. 54 village members participated in the awareness programme and benefited from this event.

Figure IV – 24: Geo-tagged photographs showing the Educational Outreach Activity “Cancer Awareness Program” conducted by NSS Unit of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology at Karasangal Village.

Free Medical Camp

National Service Scheme (NSS) of B.S.A. Crescent institute of Science and technology jointly with Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) conducted a “FREE MEDICAL CAMP” in association with Tagore Medical College, Chennai for the benefits of school students of Panchayat Union Middle School, Keerapakkam Village.

The camp was inaugurated by Mrs.Selva Sundari Rajendran, President of Keerapakkam village and Mr.A.K.G.Balaji, Vice-President of Keerapakkam village. Ms. Shanthi, headmistress of panchayat union middle school appreciated the efforts taken by the NSS unit for the benefits of school children. Nearly, 200 school students undergone medical investigation and got benefited by this free medical camp.

Inaugural function of FREE MEDICAL CAMP

Medical Camp Unit

Figure IV – 25: Photographs showing the Free Medical Camp – An Outreach Activity conducted by Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) at Panchayat Union Middle School, Keerapakkam Village.

NSS – Life Skill Programme

Report on
BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
National Service Scheme
7 Days Special Camp

Theme: Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19
Date: March 16-22, 2022
Venue: Government High School, Karanai Puducherry Panchayat, Vandalur Taluk, Chengalpattu District

The seven days special camp has been organized by the NSS units of BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology at Government High School, Karanai Puducherry Panchayat, Vandalur Taluk, Chengalpattu District of Tamil Nadu during the period of March 16-22, 2022.

The main objective of National Service Scheme Special Camping was to create a way for individuals to live with that community for seven days and experience their conditions and problems. It gives chances for group living, collective experience sharing, and continual connection with the community.The NSS volunteers are expected to dedicate their time to the development of the adopted village through Regular Activities.

There were various programmes and functions were organized under the leadership of the NSS units of the Crescent Institute. Programmes like cleaning of village and school premises, awareness of environment affecting factors, Awareness on health and hygiene, women empowerment, first aid awareness and various sports, funs and cultural programmes for the school children’s were organised. Around 110 volunteers from the three III units of the NSS Crescent Institute of Science and Technology including boys and girls were actively participated.

Figure IV – 26: Banner and Program Schedule of Seven Day Special Camp on “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

DAY-1 – 16.03.2022

The inaugural ceremony was held in Govt.High School,KaranaiPuducherry Panchayat at 2.00 p.m. Dr.V.M.N Jalal, General Manager of B.S.A Crescent Institute of science and Technology, Dr.N.Raja Hussain,Additional Registrar,BSA Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Dr.M.Senthilkumar, State NSS Officer,Tamil Nadu State NSS Cell, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Chennai , Dr.Ayub Khan Dawood, NSS Coordinator,BSA Crescent Institute of Science & Technology graced the occasion. Nearly 110 NSS student volunteers participated in the inaugural function.

The inaugural ceremony was initally conducted in the renuvated school building. The renovation work in the school building was supported by the management of B.S.A. Crescent Institute of Science and technology. The school teachers and students welcomed the chief guest and other officials with sweets and students-made greeting card.

Inaugural ceremony of renovated building	Mrs.P.R.Suryakala, Headmistress, Government High School, Karanai Puducherry Welcoming the chief guest
NSS Student Volunteers	Inaugural ceremony of NSS Special Camp
Dr.Raja Hussain, Additional Registrar, BSA Crescent institute of Science and Technology honoring the chief guest Dr.M.Senthilkumar, State NSS Officer	Dr.V.N.A. Jalal, General Manager of BSACIST addressed the gathering
Dr.M.Senthilkumar, State NSS Officer addressing the gathering	Mrs. P.R. Suryakala, School headmistress gave the gesture of happiness for conducting the special camp in their school.

Figure IV – 27 (a): Few Snapshots of First Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

The programme was started by the reciting of the Qirat which was followed by the Tamil Thaivalthu. Dr.M.Senthilkumar, State NSS Officer, Tamil Nadu State NSS Cell, Directorate of Collegiate Education was the chief guest for the inaugral ceremony. Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood, NSS Coordinator, BSACIST welcomed the gathering. Dr.V.N.A. Jalal, General Manager of BSACIST addressed the gathering with his encouraging words and insisted the student’s responsibilities in serving the society. He requested the students to plant more saplings in the school campus and guide the school students in the right path. Dr.N.Raja Hussain, Additional Registrar, BSACIST delivered a motivational speech. He described the importance of NSS special camp and the motivated the student volunteers by sharing his personal NSS experience and the special awards received by him for his NSS activities. Followed by them, Dr.M.Senthilkumar, State NSS Officer gave the key tips to the student’s community for getting placed in government sectors with the help of NSS activities. His words were very much supportive to the entire NSS team.

Mrs.J.NaliniJagan, President, Karanai Puducherry Panchayat, Mrs.P.R.Suryakala, Headmistress, Government High School, Karanai Puducherry and Mrs.P.Selvi, Headmistress, Panchayat Union Primary School extended their thanks to management of BSACIST and to the entire NSS team for rendering great support for the school and village premises. Mrs. P.R. Suryakala gave the gesture of happiness for conducting the special camp in their school.

Mrs.J.NaliniJagan, President, Karanai Puducherry Panchayat honored Dr.Ayub KahnDawood, NSS Co-ordinator of BSACIST

Figure IV – 27 (b): Photograph of First Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

Followed by the inauguration, student volunteers were nominated for village survey. The survey was taken on male and female literacy rate in this particular village. Literacy lifts individuals out of poverty and also it empowers women and girls

DAY-2 – 17.03.2022

The second day started with the cleaning of village premises. NSS student volunteers were disseminated in teams and sent to various locations.

NSS volunteers cleaning the village premises

Figure IV – 28 (a): Few Snapshots of Second Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

Followed this, Childline India Foundation gave a presentation on role of youth in child protection. CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF) is the nodal agency of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development for setting up, managing and monitoring the CHILDLINE 1098 service all over the country. Awareness on child protection was given to both NSS student volunteers and also to Govt. High school children. CIF gave awareness about child protection through various skits and presentations. They delivered messages on Child abuse and violence, child sexual abuse and child marriage.

Director of Childline India Foundation addressing the students

Skit played by Childline India Foundation team

NSS student volunteers and school students attending the Childline Foundation presentation

Skit played by Childline India Foundation team

Figure IV – 28 (b): Few Snapshots of Second Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

In afternoon session, students planted trees in the village premises

DAY 3 – 18.03.2022

The day started with field work in village premises for an hour. Cleaning work was continued in the village premises.

NSS volunteers cleaning the village premises

Figure IV – 29 (a): Photograph of Third Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

NSS volunteers cleaning the village premises

Followed by that, a wonderful presentation was given on health and hygiene by Dr.P.Arumugam, Professor and Head of Transfusion Medicine, TamilnaduDr.MGR Medical University, Chennai. He highlighted the importance of blood donation and hygiene that we have to follow for a healthy life. He elaborated the role of students in saving human life.

Figure IV – 29 (b): Few Snapshots of Third Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

In the afternoon session, Mr. Umesh Subramanian, Senior Professional cyber security, Consultant of Ingram Micro, Chennai gave a presentation on environmental awareness. By profession he is a cyber security specialist but his major focus on society development. He is involved in many societal activities like lake renovation, environmental improvement plans etc., He insisted students role in the protection of environment and the sustainable development for future generations. He explained how the degradation in environment protection may lead a problem to all organisms in earth.

Mr.Umesh Subramanian addressing the gathering about environmental awareness

Figure IV – 29 (c): Photograph of Third Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

Mr.Umesh Subramanian addressing the gathering about environmental awareness

DAY 4 – 19.03.2022

Effective field work was done by NSS student volunteers in and around school premises. Clean and neat school environment may help the school students to create a good ambience for their education.

Figure IV – 30 (a): Few Snapshots of Fourth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

NSS volunteers cleaning the school and village premises

Three-fourth of the NSS team was involved in cleaning process and remaining members assisted in medical camp held in that village. Medical camp was supported by Tagore Medical College, Chennai.

Figure IV – 30 (b): Few Snapshots of Fourth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

Medical Camp by Tagore Medical College supported by NSS volunteers

In the afternoon session, Dr.ZeenathZarina, Dr. ZeenathZarina, Assistant Professor of Commerce, MCC, Tambaram, delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Women Empowerment” for NSS Volunteers.

Figure IV – 30 (c): Photograph of Fourth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

DAY 5 – 20.03.2022

A field work was done by NSS student volunteers in village and cleaned the various public places used by the community.

Figure IV – 31 (a): Few Snapshots of Fifth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

In the afternoon session, NSS volunteers conducted their filed work in BSA Crescent Institute campus. Students cleaned the water conservation area and other important area of crescent campus. All the volunteers including boys and girls actively participated in campus cleaning in the afternoon session.

Figure IV – 31 (b): Few Snapshots of Fifth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

DAY 6 – 21.03.2022

A blood donation camp is conducted by the NSS unit as part of special camp with collaboration of The Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University, Chennai. The Vice Chancellor Dr. A. Peer Mohammed inaugurated the blood donation camp. Dr. A. Azad, Registrar, Dr. N.Raja Hussain, Additional Registrar and Mr. VNA Jalal, Senior General Manager Dr. D.Ayub Khan Dawood , NSS Coordinator BSACIST were present in the function. 90 unit of bloods donated by NSS volunteers to public cause through The Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University, Chennai.

Figure IV – 32 (a): Few Snapshots of Sixth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

In the afternoon session, a first Aid Awareness prgramme is conducted for NSS volunteers. Prof,.R.Manickam, District Secretary IRCS Chengalpettuexplained various lifesaving first aid techniques for the NSS volunteers. The session was very interactive and all the volunteers learned the first aid methods through a practical class conducted by resource person.

Figure IV – 32 (b): Few Snapshots of Sixth Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

Figure IV – 33: Five Day NSS Speical Camp published as News in the State daily.

DAY 7 – 22.03.2022

Valedictory function was organized in the last day of the special camp at the Govt.High School, Karanai Puducherry Panchayat premises. The function was inaugurated by our Honourable registrar Dr. A. Azad of BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology. In his speech, he recollected the memory of his school days and delivered the speech on importance of conducting such special camps in the villages for the development of personality of the students particularly. He also promised to the villages such types of programmes will be conducting in the village in near future. Before, the welcome address given by the Dr. NoushadC , NSS Programme officer of the institute.The special address given by the Dr.N Raja Hussain, the Additional Registrar of the institute. Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood, NSS Coordinator of the institute and Mr. VNA Jalal Senior Manager felicitated in the function. Mrs.P.R.Suryakala, Headmistress, Government High School, Karanai Puducherrygave the gesture of happiness for conducting the special camp in their school.The NSS team distributed the sports items and dustbin for the School and Shoe and gloves distributed to village cleaning workers. Special prize distributed to the students in the school for those who have actively participated in sports completion and chess completion. The NSS special camp certificate were distributed to the volunteers. Finally, the vote of thanks given by the Ms. R.Anitha NSS programme Officer of the Crescent Institute of Science and Technology.

Figure IV – 34: Few Snapshots of Seventh Day activities of “Youth for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID 19” organised by NSS Unit at Government High School, Vandalur Taluk.

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School Project – ICT Training in Schools

MoU

Proposal on Activities: Academic Year (2021-22)

A. Preamble B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology had signed a non-binding Institutional Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay on 21st June 2018. Following this agreement, we have been offering open-source ST courses for the benefit of U.G and P.G students across various disciplines of the institution. We have been recognized as one of the Nodal Remote Centre (NRC) of IIT Bombay ST and organized various workshops / training programmes for the benefit of school teachers, college faculty and industry personnel. Since January 2019, our Institution has offered 28 open-source ST courses, in multiple batches, benefiting more than 10000 students. In the Academic Year 2019-20, we have conducted 3 workshops and one FDP on various courses for the benefit of 250 faculty members. In the mean time, our Institute signed a MoU with IIT Bombay on 18.08.2021 to work on broader aspects viz.

Visits by and exchange of faculty members and research scholars
Exchange of information including, but not limited to, research publications of faculty members.
Joint research activities and joint supervision of research work.
Joint conferences or symposia on subjects of mutual interest.
Joint educational outreach activities.

In this context, Our Institution wants to become ‘Nodal Centre’ of ST : School Project to jointly work with IIT Bombay in “Joint educational outreach activities”. B. IIT Bombay – ST : School Project The following are the objectives of ‘Nodal Centre of IIT Bombay ST – School Project’ :

To establish a network with the schools in Chennai, Chengalpet and Kancheepuram districts of Tamil Nadu.
To act as an interface between Spoken Tutorial Team of IIT Bombay and Schools to facilitate membership registration.
To organize state / district level awareness programs about IIT Bombay (ST): School Project for the Administrative Heads of Schools.
To conduct workshops and training programs for school teachers in association with IIT-Bombay (ST) in the relevant themes / software.
To organise a week-long outreach programme for students and teachers of neighbouring schools.

C. Action Plan for the Academic Year 2020-21 The districts Chennai, Kancheepuram and Chengalpet are the immediate focus area for implementation of IITB ST School Project. According to the statistics available with us, there are about 900 schools in these three districts. In the Academic Year 2020-21, it is proposed to target 200 – 225 schools in and around our Institute covering Chennai, Chengalpet and Kancheepuram districts. Salient Activities Proposed: To conduct an awareness programme, once in three months, to disseminate significance of IIT Bombay ST: School project to Administration Members (Principals/Correspondents/Head Teachers) of Schools.

Three programmes in an academic year (September 2021 – June 2022)
Schools targeted for each programme : 60 – 70
The ratio of Higher secondary to Primary Schools will be 70 : 30
Three senior administration members from each school will be invited for the programme.
Total expected administrators per programme : 175 – 200
Resource persons shall be from IIT B ST and our Institution.

To facilitate schools to become members of IIT Bombay ST School programme and acting as mentor / facilitator in the teaching – learning process for the benefit of teachers and students

To facilitate schools completing the registration process by acting as a liaison. Target enrolment : Minimum 200 – 225 Schools
Phase I (September – December, 2021) : 75 schools
Phase II (January – March, 2022) : 75 schools
Phase III : (April – June, 2022) : 50 schools
To help schools in the course registration process, online examination etc.
To motivate teachers and students to pursue ST courses by regular visit to schools and interaction with potential stakeholders.
To conduct summer school for the students of neighbouring government schools to enhance their programming skills.

To organize workshops / training programmes in ST courses identified under School Project

At least 8 programmes in an Academic Year (1 programme per month)
The Academic sessions will be conducted in the Institution by targeting minimum 25 schools with a teacher enrolment of at least 75 – 100.
In case of a larger educational institution with an excellent IT infrastructure, the team from our Institution (BSACIST) will organize the programme in the school premises.
The resource persons shall be our faculty members and IIT Bombay ST team.
Issue of certificates jointly endorsed by IIT Bombay ST and Crescent (BSACIST).

D. Institute Coordinator & Mentor

Institute Coordinator : Dr. W. Aisha Banu, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Mentor : Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed, Professor, Civil Engg. Department & Dean, Academic Affairs

Report on Orientation and Training Session to School Teachers

Preamble B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai – 600048 is acting as a Nodal Centre of IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorials : School Project for implementing the ITC Training of schools in Chennai, Chengalpattu and Kanchepuram districts of Tamil Nadu. Under the IIT B ST School Project, tutorials were developed in major subjects’ viz. Programing Language, Information Technology, Animation and Graphics, Basic IT Skills and software for Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, etc. The tutorials are designed to suit the Knowledge levels of classes from 6th std. to 12th std. About the Programme To create awareness about IIT Bombay ST School Project, office of Dean, Academic Affairs organized an ‘orientation and training session to school teachers’ on 16.09.2022 (Friday), 11 a.m. at Seminar Hall, Civil Engineering Department in a blended mode. The Spoken Tutorial Authorities and outside participants joined the meeting through Meeting Link – https://meet.google.com/kwp-cdwf-ueq?hs=224. 40 school teachers from various schools in and around Chennai, Chengalpattu and Kanchipuram districts have participated and got benefitted. Prof. Kannan M. Moudgalya, Professor, IIT Bombay – Mentor, Ms. Priyanka Shroff, National Coordinator and Mr. Dharmendra Chawda, Training Manager from IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorials was participated online. Dr. M.S. Haji Sheik Mohammed, Dean AA chaired the inaugural meeting and welcomed the school teachers. He explained the context behind evolution of IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial courses and its significance from the point of view of school teachers and students. Dean AA stated that spoken tutorial courses are in open source and one can learn these courses on their own pace and language of comfort. He also motivated the school teachers to actively participate in training session so as to enable ICT Learning among the school students. Dr. W. Aisha Banu, Professor, CSE & Coordinator of the IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial school program elaborated the benefits of spoken tutorial courses. She emphasized that Spoken Tutorial is an audio-video tutorial developed using the screen-cast methodology. Each video is designed for 10-minute duration. She also mentioned the salient features of Spoken Tutorial courses as follows:

Each course is designed in a simple and easy manner so that even a beginner can understand the content and also meet the growing needs of the learner. The digital content ensures that learning happens at all levels – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced
The course contents mandates side-by-side practice thereby ensuring learners’ active participation.
It provides excellent self-learning methodology since these courses are offered through regional and foreign languages, in addition to English.
The courses can be learned at a convenient pace and time.

Prof. Kannan Moudgalya emphasized the importance of offering ICT enabled education to the school students for the growth of the nation. In a larger context, he stressed the role of school teachers in nation building through ICT training to the students (and hence to their parents) in the school level. Mr. Dharmendra Chawda, Training Manager of IIT Bombay Spoken tutorial elaborated the objective and advantages of spoken tutorial courses through power point presentation. Ms. Preethi Verma, Asst. Professor, Computer Science and Engg. & Institute coordinator conducted training session to the school teachers in various aspects viz. process of registering and implementing the IIT Bombay spoken tutorials in schools. A detailed presentation was made to impart knowledge and skill in conducting the spoken tutorial courses. The presentation covered the various steps involved in registering and conduct of the courses as below:

The students shall be divided by Class wise (standard of study) and mapped with a course. The respective course teachers take care of enrolment, teaching-learning process and online examination.
The ST courses are mapped to the relevant courses offered by the institution to improve the skill set of the students.
At the End-of-Course, online tests and certificates are available for those who wish to test their expertise in the chosen software.
These certificates will add value to students during placement.

Finally, the session concluded with an interactive discussion and oral feedback. Ms. N. Shahana, Data Analyst, Office of Dean (AA) gave vote of thanks Snapshots taken during ‘orientation and training session

NSS Special Camp on cleaning of school premises, awareness of healthy food habits, importance of hygiene and sanitation, manuring and irrigation, importance of disaster management, farm pond, rainwater harvesting and conservation methods- and various sports, funs and cultural programmes for the school children’s

REPORT ON NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME
SPECIAL CAMP
27.09.2021 to 01.10.2021

Venue: Panchayath Union Middle School Keerapakkam, kattankulathur Union Kancheepuram, District.

The Five days special camp has been organized by the NSS units of BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology at Keerappakam, Arungal, and Murugamangalam panchayaths in the Kattankullathur union of Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu during the period of 27.09.2021 to 01.10.2021. There were various programmes and functions were organized under the leadership of the NSS units of the Crescent Institute. Programmes like cleaning of school premises, awareness of healthy food habits, importance of hygiene and sanitation, manuring and irrigation, importance of disaster management, farm pond, rainwater harvesting and conservation methods- and various sports, funs and cultural programmes for the school children’s and for NSS volunteers. The main motives for conducting the special camp is to develop the society , enlighten the villagers and NSS volunteers by giving awareness on various socio- economic issues facing by the downtrodden sections. Around 150 volunteers from the three III units of the NSS Crescent Institute of Science and Technology including boys and girls were actively participated each and every programme conducted in the village as part of special camp.

The inaugural function was organized at the panchayath Middle school Keerappakkam village. The very first day the swachh bharat mission programme was started with the welcome address of the Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood, NSS Coordinator of the institute. Earlier the programme was started by the reciting of the Qirat which was followed by the Tamil Thaivalthu. During the welcome address the Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood was discussed about the importance of conducting the swachh bharat mission in the village and what are the advantages getting by the villages while conducting the programme . The special address given by the Dr.N Raja Hussain, the deputy registrar of the institute. He showed the very interest and happy to conduct the cleaning programme in the village and explain the importance of NSS and various programmes to be conducted as part of the Swachh bharat mission. He stressed the functions and programmes of NSS for the development of society particularly and overall community generally. This will help the students from the schools for their mental and moral enrichments.

Mr. K Babu the headmaster of Keerapakkam panchyath middle school gave the gesture of happiness for conducting the special camp in their school. In his speech he stressed the importance of conducting such type of camps in the schools for the development of school generally and for the mental and moral well being for the students. Dr. Vijayprasad, Dean Crescent School of Phramacy, Mr. S Babu, BDO kattangaluathur, Mr. L Tamilselvan , VAO of Keerapakkam, Mr. D Harikrishnan ex-panchayath president of Keerapakkam, Mr. R Rajendran, ex panchayath president of Keerapakkam, were present in the inaugural function. NSS volunteers from the Crescent, school childrens, teachers from the school and general public were presented at the time of inaugural function.

Day second started with the cleaning of both schools-Panchayath union middle school, Keerappkkam and another belong to the Arungal Panchayath Union primary school. The NSS boys volunteers were engaged in the white washing while the girls volunteers were involved in the cleaning of school ground. The school’s compound wall was not good enough to look, so Crescent NSS volunteers were initiated the cleaning of the walls by whitewashing.

The day third started with cleaning of Crescent Institute of Science and Technology campus premises. As part of the programme boys and girls volunteers wholeheartedly participated the cleaning drive. The volunteers cleaned the areas of children’s park in the staff quarters, premises to the staff quarters, the way to the staff quarter which is near to the basketball quart and the way from the staff quarters to the college. More than 60 volunteers participated in the progamme.

The fourth day started with white washing of the two schools. Panchayath Union middle school, Keerappakkam and Panchayath primary school at Arungal. Both schools’ compound wall has been whitewashed by our volunteers. After the white washing Dr. Geetanjali, President of IWC, KK Nagar gave a guest lecture on healthy food habits. In her talk she gave an idea about the importance of healthy food among the teenagers especially among the girls. The talk was very interesting and thought provoking. Dr.

Parimala BSMS, PGDYM, Appolo Hospital Chennai had delivered the lecture on Importance of Hygiene and sanitation. The talk was very useful for the girls volunteers, especially they got awareness of importance of Hygiene during the menstrual period. After that Ms. Harini, Chairman, International service organization gave a talk on the evils of plastic. In her talk she gave wonderful narration about the disadvantages of usage of plastic in our society.

The Keerappakkam panchayath Union middle school’s was again engaged for cleaning the playground. Too much bushes and grasses were there in ground and due that it was unused for playing. So our Crescent NSS volunteers cleaned the entire area of the ground and makes it better and comfortable place to play. As part of the cleaning programme Crescent NSS donated one volleyball net and one volley ball to the students of the school. As tone of happiness Crescent Institute gifted two ceiling fans for the Panchayath Union Middle school and further offered four computers for giving computer awareness to the students in the school.

The tree plantation drive was arranged in the Keerappakkam panahcyatht premises. The tree sapling drive was inaugurated by our Honourable registrar Dr. A. Azad of BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, by planting a tree. Followed by the tree plantation an awareness programme were organized among the villagers in order to provide an understanding about the tree plantation, manuring and watering the trees. More than 100 tree sapling were planted in the three villages of the special camp.

Valedictory function was organized in the last day of the special camp at the Keerapakkam panchayath middle school premises. The function was inaugurated by our Honourable registrar Dr. A. Azad of BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology. In his speech, he recollected the memory of his school days and delivered the speech on importance of conducting such special camps in the villages for the development of personality of the students particularly. He also promised to the villages such types of programmes will be conducting in the village in near future. Before, the welcome address given by the Dr. Ayub Khan Dawood, NSS Coordinator of the institute. Mr. K Babu the headmaster of Keerapakkam middle school gave the gesture of happiness for conducting the special camp in their school and Honored our Registrar with a shawl. NSS special camp certificate were distributed to the volunteers. Finally the vote of thanks given by the Ms. Sonya NSS programme Officer of the Crescent Institute of Science and Technology.

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