Biking club

GCC Biking Club, a unique initiative to cultivate proper riding ethics among the students, has been initiated by Joseph V G, chairman, Garden City Group Institution. There has been an increase in the number of road accidents and most of these involve the youth.  Many of them ride or drive to their educational institutions. Fatal accidents can be avoided if proper riding gear and  right attitude is imbibed.  Besides, young lives are lost because of overspeeding or rash riding giving motorcycling a bad name. Some of these accidents can be avoided by using helmets. As a part of outbound programmes, the biking club of the college is embarking on an elaborate venture. To create awareness and inculcate a culture of safe riding among riders, Rahul Devnath and Rahul Kumar have set out on their debut expedition through South India.

Training programme

The technical training programme on geoinformatics was inaugurated recently at the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics, Bangalore University. Teachers and research scholars from different parts of India participated in it. The main aim of the workshop was to educate teachers, engineers and research scholars to teach technical subjects like GIS, remote sensing and GPS at undergraduate level and to take up research activities using these technologies in their respective fields. The training programme was sponsored by National Natural Resource Management System, ISRO, Bangalore. Dr J Krishnamurthy, Scientist/ Programme Coordinator, EOS, ISRO and Dr K Eresi, Director, PMEB, Bangalore University, were the chief guest at the inaugural function. Prof A K Wodeyar,  Prof B Eshwarappa and I N Patil were present at the function. Krishnamurthy said, “Technologies should be applied to utilise resources in rural areas so as to develop rural India.”

Hanjagi explained the process and progress of  the training in remote areas while Wodeyar stressed the importance of geographical knowledge and information for planning and monitoring land and water resources.The three-week long programme mainly overviewed GIS Remote Sensing and highlighted the GPS .

Talents day

BET Composite PU College (under the management of Bismillah Educational Trust) held a ‘Talents Day’ for the PU students recently. It was day of fun and frolic, wherein the girls exhibited their skills. Mimicry, mono-acting and dumb charade were the highlights of the day. Yet another interesting programme was the ‘Laughter Challenge’ . Naveeda Khanum of I PU Commerce and Ayesha Begum of 1 PU Science bagged the honours.

New technology

Bangalore University purchased a new high technology web offset machine worth Rs 40 lakh and installed it in the University printing press at Jnanabharathi campus. Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University H A Ranganath switched on the machine. He also addressed the gathering. 

Sanjay Vir Singh, A P Ranganath, member of the Syndicate of Bangalore University,  H L Somashekar, teachers and the non-teaching staff attended the function.

Dr Sarvothama Kamath, Director of Prasaranga Printing Press, had put in much effort for installing the machine.