Centre for Service Excellence

CDP/Road Safety/Red Ribbon Club/Youth Red Cross/Rotract Club/Scribes Forum

2020-2021 Activities:

➢ Road Safety Patrol in Collaboration with Rotary Club of Pearl city

conducted an awareness meet on road safety on 4th November 2020. The

keynote address was given by Rotarian. PDG. Major Donor. J. P. Joe

Villavarayer. The Chief Guest was Rotarian. D. Nagendran, Retired

Principal of VSVN Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar.

➢ On 12th January 2021, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated as

“National Youth Day”. As a part of this Road Safety Patrol in association with the Centre

for Service Excellence of St. Mary’s college (Autonomous) conducted a poetry recitation

competition on the topic of “Inspiring ideas of Swami Vivekananda”, through Google Meet.

➢ Road safety Patrol volunteers distributed face masks at the entrances of the college to the

students to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the campus.

➢ Red Ribbon Club on 1st December 2020 due to a pandemic situation a

powerpoint presentation regarding AIDS Day awareness programme was

shared with all the First year students of the college through online medium.

➢ On 29th January 2021 a webinar on the topic 'Attitude Cost Health'

was organised through google meet and also streamed through

YouTube. The Guest Lecture was given by Dr M Lucy Nirmal

Medina, MBBS, MD, HOD of Microbiology Dept, Government

Medical College and ESIC Coimbatore.

➢ On 12th January 2021, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated as

“National Youth Day”. The Centre for Service Excellence and Youth Red Cross of St.

Mary’s College (Autonomous)-Thoothukudi organized a webinar. Dr.A.M.Sonal,

Assistant Professor, Department of Tamil, St.Mary’s College (Autonomous)-Thoothukudi

was the resource person. She gave a lecture on the topic “Vivekananda A Role Model for

Youth”.

➢ On 12th January 2021,the ‘National Youth Day’ was celebrated in memory of the birth

anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by Rotaract Club of St.Mary’s College

(Autonomous) in association with the Centre for Service Excellence. As a part of this,

elocution and poetry writing completions were conducted. Rotaract Club of St. Mary’s

college (Autonomous) organized an online elocution competition in English on the topic

“The Ideas and the Principles of Swami Vivekananda”. Students from various

departments of St. Mary’s College (Autonomous), Thoothukudi actively participated in it

and sent their video presentations on Swami Vivekananda.

➢ Scribes Forum and Centre for Service Excellence of St. Mary’s college (Autonomous)

conducted an essay writing competition in English and Tamil through online mode. 25

students from various departments of St. Mary’s College (Autonomous), Thoothukudi,

registered for the competition. The topic for the competition was “Youth Contribution in

celebration of New India”.

2019-2020 Activities:

CDP

The rural development programme of St.Mary‟s College is engaged for the empowerment of

women. Our institution has been registered as a participating Institute in Unnat Bharat

Abhiyan. It concentrates on the social and economic upliftment of the rural people in the

adopted villages - Korampallam, Maravanmadam, Palayakayal, Servaikaranmadam and

Tharuvaikulam. About 928 students and 22 faculty actively involve themselves in this

scheme.

Key progressive works undertaken in the rural areas :

• At Anthoniarpuram, in Korampallam village, with a population of 1190 people we

offered training in palm leaf craft and product making to the women. We have also helped

them to start units of their own.

• In Servaikaranmadam, we provided tailoring machines and started three months training

programme. This has given them confidence to meet their financial requirements.

• In Tharuvaikulum we oriented the people on roof and home gardening, and also created

provisions in 10 houses. It was heartening to note that they have cultivated and reaped the

benefits of their first harvest.

• In Palayakayal we initiated the programmes on water harvesting, roof garden

making,cloth bag distribution and spoken English training to village students.

• Pond cleaning in Tharuvaikulam and environment cleaning in other areas were

undertaken.

• All these productive undertakings were done after convening the Grama sabha meeting

and consulting with the members, about the needs of the village people.

Apart from these we offered 66 total number of programmes in the past one year.

• Preparation of Handworks using Waste Materials, paper bag making, soap making and

Vermicompost

• Providing psycho-social inputs with therapies like Laughter, Clapping and Body-

Movement Therapies

• Health awareness on the importance of Medicinal Plants and eradication of Dengue.

• Academic enlightenment given to young students by tutoring, spoken English and

eradicating Math Phobia.

• Eco-consciousness promoted with Water Conservation, Area Cleaning, Seeds

Distribution, Ban plastic awareness campaigns and Digital Awareness programmes.

These progressive measures empower the rural poor, particularly women by enhancing their

skills to have an earning of their own. We try to empower families and thereby villages as a

whole socially and economically by giving ample importance to environmental conservation.

We act as a bridge by bringing the needs of village people to the authorities, particularly the

District Collector. Students disseminate their skills to the deserving people for bringing a

social change, to empower the needy, to enhance their skills and to make them earn for

themselves so as to make them economically independent.

UBA DETAIL REPORT

No. of students involved: 527 Regular stream

401 Self Supporting Stream

No. of Staff Involved: 22

Road Safety Patrol

The Road Safety Patrol conducted an awareness programme on 16th August 2019.The chief

guest Mr. Arun IPS, Superintendent of Police, Thoothukudi gave a comprehensive overview

on road safety and his speech toned in a manner that leads student to think and rethink to fix

on them on the traffic rules and regulation to be strictly followed for the safety measures on

road. The special guest Mr. Judson, Traffic Warden, Thoothukudi gave an awareness talk on

laws relevant to road safety. He also insisted the students about the necessity of wearing

seatbelts and helmet for safety and the most necessity of helping a life during accident. Over

all his speech motivated the students to identify and fix with the significance of traffic rules

and regulations.

It organised a rally with placards of slogans in strategic positions of our college on 22nd

August 2019, an important means of gaining the students recognition

inside the college zone. The rally helped them to realize the necessity

of road safety education to protect lives and reduce accidents. It

encouraged more students to join RSP for promotion of road

safety education. RSP functions at raising public awareness on

Traffic Rules Logistic support of RSP

Red Ribbon Club

Club was inaugurated on 05.09.2019 by the Chief Guest Dr. Usha Godwin,Principal of Sarah

Tucker College, Tirunelveli.

On 30.09.2019, an awareness meeting over the topic Healthy Life on September 30, 2019 at

star Hall from 2.30 pm to 4.00pm.

On 04.03.2020 the red ribbon club members were participated in a rally to create awareness

about cancer on the February 4, CANCER DAY.The programme was organized by TMSSS

and our district collector. Thiru. Sandeep Nanduri I.A.S was the chief guest on that day.The

place where the Rally held is near St. Mary‟sboy‟s school.

An awareness meeting over the topic Awareness about PCOD,Irregular periods,Hemoglobin

imbalance, and Breast cancer was organised on February 10, 2020 at 1st B.com class room

from 2.30 pm to 4.00pm. The awareness speech has given by Dr. Agastina B.E.M.S and Dr.

Benisha B.E.M.S, Viruthunagar.

An awareness meeting over the topic Awareness about Cancer on February 10, 2020 at 1st

B.com class room from 2.30 pm to 4.00pm. The awareness speech has given by Dr.R.

Sinthiya Saroja BSMS, Nellai Cancer Care Centre.

An awareness meeting over the topic Eve‟s Health (Physical health) and Mental Health on

February 10, 2020 at 1st B.com class room from 2.30 pm to 4.00pm. The awareness speech

has given by Dr. Pethukani (Gynaecologist) and Dr. Poongothai (Gynaecologist) B.E.M.S,

Thoothukudi.

Youth Red Cross

Youth Red Cross Society organized an awareness meeting on

the title, “First Aid During Accidents” in the auditorium on

09th October 2019. Dr. S. Vaseekaran, Chairman IRCS,

Tuticorin District was the resource person. He gave training

on first aid to the students which save the precious life of a fellow being and reduce the

accidental deaths.

The volunteer service of the Youth Red Cross members rendered selfless service to poor,

sick, needy and disabled patients in the hospital at “May I Help You‟ service centre at

Thoothukudi Government Medical College Hospital, Thoothukudi from 20th January to 5th

February 2020.

Youth Red Cross Society organised a meeting on 3rd February

2020 in the Star Hall. Dr.S.Vaseekaran, Chairman Indian Red

Cross Society, Thoothukudi District was the resource person. He

gave a training on “Emergency First Aid- During Road

Accidents‟.He explained various appropriate safety,

precautionary measures and techniques. He taught how to recover at the time of minor attack,

severe blood loss,head injury, wound care, how to manage every day minor accidents and

how to treat unconscious and breathing casualties. He gave a demo to the students when they

happen to see a victim on road with dummy apparatus. He led the students to involve

themselves in his Demo session by practicing CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation).The

various procedures included stop bleeding, managing the crowd, trying to prevent

unconscious stage, reassuring the victim things would be fine, informing the family and

calling the ambulance.