Govt. College, Attingal

Started in 1975, Government College, Attingal offers undergraduate courses in Economics, History, Communicative English, Commerce and Polymer Chemistry and a Postgraduate course in Economics and Commerce.
The first batch of the students of B.Sc. Polymer Chemistry, who passed out in 1998 has brought laurels to the college, securing 100 percent pass and the largest number of first classes in terms of percentage in Kerala University. There are three units of NSS, two units of NCC which have been serving the community around and actively participating in most of the public programmes. Students of the college, talented in Art and Literature and athletics, have participated in University and State level competitions and brought laurels to the institution many times. Courses offered B.A Economics History B.Sc Polymer Chemistry B.Com. EDP&CA M.Com Tax M.A. Economics

EXPLORATION OF NATURE

(Govt. College Attingal Study Tour 2007-08.)

 

As part of the subject ‘Environmental Studies’, a study tour was conducted by the Commerce dept. of Govt. College Attingal from 04th to 09th Jan 2008. The study tour plans and all other preparations had begun two months ago but date was a factor that was not comp

romising. This is the individual study tour report.

          As decided earlier the tour party left from college at 5:30 pm. The following was the tour schedule, even though there were lots of places to be visited in the package list, some places had to be neglected due to lack of time and due to unexpected events.  

         

     Tour package:

     05-01-2008:  Reach Kalpatta College,

                               Thirunelli Temple,

                               Kurvadweep,

                                Kattikulam Wild life sanctuary,

                                Kalpatta earth dam,

                                Pookode Lake,

     

                         Stay at hotel Affas, Waynad.

        06-01-2008: Edakkal Caves,

                                 Soojipara Water fall,

                                 Muttangya- educational forest,         

                          8pm starts to Ooty (camp fire).

 

        07-01-2008:   Ooty Dodapetta tea factory,    

                                   Botanical garden,

                                   Dodapetta Lake Boating.

                                   6pm at Coimbatore (purchasing),     

                                   12pm Starts to Vega land (Ernakulum).

 

      08-01-2008:      11 am Vega land,

                            6pm return,

                                    9:30pm - Cinema.

 

      09-01-2008:     4am reach Govt. College Attingal

 

                    The study tour was conducted in order to make the participants know more about: what is meant by eco- tourism? And what is a pure nature? The aim of the tour was to ‘know nature through exploration’.

                    There was two bus hired for the tour. Small one was for the seventeen boys plus two Sirs. And the larger bus was for girls who were seen sleeping all the time. After a thirteen hour travel we reached Kalpatta. We reached Kalpatta College by 6:30 am were the morning accommodation was provided.

                    Kalpatta college campus was a wonderful one, with greenery all-around. The coffee estate near to it added beauty to the hill sight view of the campus. It was just a half an hour game for boys to get fresh.

 

          As per the tour schedule our first destination was Thirunelli Temple. The temple was situated on top of a hill and the travel through the hill side was an exiting one. The time was just creeping in and the heat of sun was not felt yet. The factors that make Thirunelli a tourist place, are the presence of the temple itself, Panjatheerthum lake- were foot prints of Lord Maha Vishnu is encrypted on the rock, Pabanashini, and the bird wild life sanctuary situated near to the temple.

 

Even though it was a well noticed tourist place, it was the mercy of the tourist that kept the place clean. There were neither tourist guides nor guards to guide the tourist and to keep the place clean.

 

On the way to our next spot, Kuruvadweap, we were able to see some parts of Kattikulam wild life sanctuary. It was a pleasure to see the protection provided and taken by the forest dept. to the wild and to the public.

 

Kuruvadweap was a gifted tourist place. It is a group of protected island about 950 acres. It is enriched with herbals and wide variety of birds. This is a wonderful place for bird watch. Thousands of varieties of birds visit this place through out the year. There were many tourist guides to provide us with much information about the island. There were much material and information for environmental students to collect and know.

   

          After spending evening at Kuruvadweap it was time to return. The day’s halt was at Affas hotel at Waynad.

         

          On the succeeding day we visited Edakkal Caves, known for its ancient wall encrypts. It was a window opened to the present generation to tell them about the ancient Kerala. It was told by the Guide that the cave was formed after an earthquake occurred about a millions of years ago, which made a hill to split and a huge rock got struck in between the parted rocks. It is situated about 4000ft above sea level and total height of the hill is about 5000ft above sea level.

 

          The archeological dept. with the help of encrypts was able to know about the type of life the ancient humans were having. The Cave was very much protected and all sought of protective measures was taken by the Tourism dept. of Kerala.

 

          We left Edakkal cave by noon and left for Soochipara Waterfalls. There are three major falls at Soochipara. Entry to two falls was not provided as it was very dangerous and no safety precautions were present. It was a growing tourist place which was gathering tourist attraction in recent years. It was also noticed that the falls were not much preserved; there were neither guards nor any medical facility. But it was a wonderful place to be visited.

 

          The third day of tour was at Ooty (Tamil Nadu). We reached Ooty at 2:30am and it was chill cold at that time. On the way to Ooty we had to pass almost 17 Km through Muttangya forest and most of us did not get the vital chance to see the forest glow at mid-night.

 

          Our first destination point at Ooty was the Suicide point. It is the place from were we can see the entire Ooty, covered with thick fog. There is a binocular tower on top of the hill, from were we could see the Ooty town. Then we were taken to the Dodapetta tea factory. It was a tea museum too; it told us how tea reached India? And how did it gain its importance? We were also able to know the working of a tea factory, the different procedures through which the tea leaves are passed through and the wide variety of quality tea are produced. We also came across the different types of tea. And we had an opportunity to buy export quality tea products.

 

One of the most beautiful and biggest botanical garden of South India is located at Ooty. And we had the opportunity to visit there, and experience nature’s beauty from a single place. The garden introduced us with many types of flowers, plants, trees etc… One of the most attractive things was the rose garden, which surprised everyone’s mind with the large collection of various roses. We had boating at Ooty Lake and its beauty and thrill made us to have it twice.

 

Even though no one was interested to return from Ooty, they were seen enjoying themselves at the ‘Vega Land’ water theme park on the fourth and last day of the tour. We also took part in a food festival conducted at Cochin. After watching the second show of ‘Kavitha’ theatre at Ernakulum we returned back to Attingal.

 

We reached Attingal College at 4:30am. It was the response from all the participants of the study tour that “it has been a wonderful and informative experience. The real mean to know nature was not yet complete but we are satisfied to know little of it. The real touch of nature is nature itself and it could not be made artificially. And we are also thankful to the Professors, Teachers and all others who became part of the study tour which made it a successful one.”

NCC - Do You Have It In You?

Be part of NCC (National Cadet Corps), India’s first youth organization, to make your future bold and successful.

Moto:

“UNITY AND DISCPLINE”

 

            National Cadets Corps, the first youth organization of India was formed after the NCC act passed by the Parliament of India in 1948. Every last Sunday of November is considered as NCC day. There are four divisions, JD (Junior Division), JW (Junior Wing), SD (Senior Division) and SW (Senior Wing) of NCC. Cadets up to class tenth are grouped as JD, for boys and JW, for girls. Students of twelfth and degree classes are part of SD and SW. 

             There are three wings of NCC - Army, Air Force and Naval. NCC girls division was established in the year 1949, Air wing in 1950 and Naval Wing in 1952.

             NCC is a huge organization it is distributed as:

Ø  NCC Director General, it is situated at Delhi commanded by Lt General Prakash.S.Choudary (AVSM, VSM); he is the supreme commander of NCC.

 

Ø  Directorate, there are 17 directorate of NCC; Kerala & Lakshadweep dir is one of them. It is commanded by Brigadier, he is the supreme commander of NCC at state level.

 

Ø  Group Head Quarters, there are five groups in Kerala & Lakshadweep dir – Kollam, Thiruvanathapuram, Kottayam, Ernakulum and Kozhikode. Colonel is the officer in chief of Groups.

 

Ø  Battalion, there are seven battalion in each group (e.g. 1Kerala Bn, 2Kerala Bn, 3Kerala Bn, 4Kerala Bn, 1Kerala Air, 1Kerala Naval and 1Kerala Girls Bn). Lt Colonel is the commander in chief.

 

Ø  Company & Troops, each battalion have five companies (College) and thirteen troops (Schools). A company’s strength is 160 and of a troop are 100 cadets. They are commanded by ANO (Associate Ncc Officer), AO (Administration Officer), TO (Training Officer). .

 

National Cadet Corps aims at making each and every cadet a perfect citizen. It is a youth organization which provides self growth to the cadets as well as provides service to the society. NCC provides the cadets a sense of nationalism and secular outlook so that it contributes towards the inculcation of a sprit of national integration among the cadets. It organizes many types of camps for the cadet’s training. In centrally organized camps, cadets from different states are brought together and made to stay and work together with a view to provide the sprit of unity in diversity. Besides giving thrill and excitement each cadets are able to know the survived culture of each state through the folk dances, group songs, orchestra and the national integration awareness presentation of each state. This makes each cadet to know the diversity of Indian culture and the long heritage of India.

 International camps like YEP (Youth Exchange Programs) makes the selected groups of cadets to know about other countries by visiting those places.

 NCC provides an opportunity for the cadets to know about an Army personal’s life style and discipline. Each camps of NCC are conducted as similar to an army training camp. Discipline is a must for each cadet and the cadets should follow the camp rules and instructions of their seniors and officers. In common camps the Cadets are thought about the discipline and cleanness to be maintained by them. Here each cadet learns to share and struggle.

 

The daily drill and games makes a cadet fit to face any physical challenge. The class conducted allows the cadets know about the various weapons, signal, ranks, etc used by the armed forces of India. These classes make a cadet proud of their nation and create respect for his country and flag in his or her mind. These classes also prepare the cadets to attend the certificate exams conducted by NCC.

 

NCC develops the following in you:

ü  Comradeship

ü  Courage and character

ü  Discipline

ü  Co-operative mind

ü  Honesty

ü  Service mind

ü  Secular outlook

ü  Sprit of adventure

ü  Responsible

Types of Camps offered by NCC to Cadets:

Centrally Organized Camps (15 to 20 days)

• Youth Exchange Program (YEP)
• Republic Day Camp
• Thal - Sainik Camp
• Nau – Sainik Camp
• Vayu – Sainik Camp
• National Integration Camp (NIC)
• National Trucking, Mountaineering
• Parachute training (Para – sealing/ jumping)
• Rafting
• Light weight aircraft training
• Army Attachment Camps (only for boys/SD)

 Common Camps (10 to 12 days)

• Combined All Wing Annual Training Camp (CAWATC)
• Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC)
• Annual Training Camp (ATC) etc…

 

Other than camps cadets are facilitated to write certificate exams of NCC like ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’. ‘C’ certificate is the highest certificate that a cadet can hold. Recently the India govt. has passed the bill to provide wattage and preference to the NCC certificate holders for all types of uniform works i.e. Defense, Police, Forest guard, Fire Force etc. NCC certificates are also worthy of grace marks for PSC (Public Service Commission) Examinations.

 Cadets who have attended any of the above said camps are worthy to get grace marks for their University or Board exams.  The grace marks to the NCC cadets of University of Kerala, at graduate level examination are detailed as below

YEP (Youth Exchange program)                                : 7%

Representing RDC/ Parade                                         : 5%

TSC/ Nau-Sainik/Vayu-Sainik camp, Independence

Day Camp, Sports and games at Delhi                       : 4%

Certificate Holders:

            ‘B’ Certificate                                                 : 2%

            ‘C’ Certificate                                                 : 3%

Centrally Organized Camps

(NIC, Army Attachment, National Trucking…)        : 1%

ATC, CAWATC, CATC…                                        : 1%

 

Rules

1. Grace marks shall be awarded only for graduate course of the University.
2. The cadet should attend 70% of the NCC activities of the year.
3. Grace Mark shall be awarded initially to the candidate on the basis of his/her performance in the respective academic year only.
4. An academic year is 1^st June to 31^st May.
5. The student shall claim the grace mark within one year after the end of an academic year. (I.e. claim for 2005-06 should be made before 2007).
6. The said grace marks are subject to a maximum of 10%.
7.  Moderation shall be effected after the grace mark has been added to the original marks of a student.
8. If the marks of a candidate are below the required minimum for a pass in internal/ viva/ practical, grace marks can also be distributed to these items to get a pass.
9. Grace marks shall be given for all papers/ parts/ subjects of a course.
10. Application with all relevant documents and attested copies of the Certificate for grace marks shall be submitted through the principal/ NCC Coordinator and forwarded to the Controller of Examination. Proper entry shall be made in the originals for the certificates of proficiency by the office of verifying authority.
11. The grace mark shall be distributed to the best advantage of the candidate.

 

It could be well noticed that NCC has played a vital role in encouraging youth to join Indian Armed Forces. For Army recruitments NCC cadets have more preference, especially the certificate holders. The ‘C’ certificate holders are remitted form the written examination of recruitment.  

 NCC has been serving the nation for the past 60 years. And it shall serve the nation in future too. NCC has made each and every cadet to think in a different way, and has laid foundation in hearts and minds of young men and women that- its there duty to change the society and play a purposeful role in its transmission.  Now it is the responsibility of the next generation to join NCC and serve nation.

 Do you have it in you- to change?

Know Your Self

IF you were born on the 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th of any month you are number 1.

If you were born on the 2nd, 11th, 20th, 29th of any month then you are number 2.

If you were born on the 3rd, 12th, 21st, 30th of any month then you are number 3.

If you were born on the 4th, 13th, 22nd, 31st of any month then you are Number 4.

If you were born on the 5th, 14th, 23rd of any month then you are number 5.

If you were born on the 6th, 15th, 24th of any month then you are number 6.

If you were born on the 7th, 16th, 25th of any month then you are number 7.

If you were born on the 8th, 17th, 26th of any month then you are number 8.

If you were born on the 9th, 18th, 27th of any month then you are number 9.

Number 1

You are smart, a straight talker, funny, stubborn, hardworking, honest, jealous on a competitive basis, kind hearted, temperamental, friendly, and popular. You always want to be on the top and most likely to be independent. You are most likely to fall in love at a young age, but will marry once you mature! You are likely to have problems with people who have opposite views and you are most likely to take revenge over your enemies on a long time basis. You are a spender, but you will have a good profession in the future. If you are guy you will be very popular. You can go anywhere from the local shop to the heart of the parliament because you are positive and talented in numerous areas. But in your life you will always have some people who will work hard to bring you & your name down. Because of your intelligence, some might hate you. You are a pioneer, independent & original your best match is 4, 6, 8 while a good match would be with 3, 5, 7

 Number 2

No matter what, every one will love you because you are ruled by the Moon. You day dream a lot, you have a very low-self esteem, you need to have a back up for every move in your life, you are very unpredictable. You tend to change according to time and circumstances, selfish, have a very strong sense of musical and artistic talent and powerful verbal communication. You can be sweet as an angel and can be ruthless when double-crossed. Some might say you have a sixth sense. You will become a poet, writer, an artist or a business person. You are not strong in love, so your relationship will be in disarray until you settle down. If you are a girl, you will be responsible for your family. If you are a man, you tend to get involve in fights & arguments in the family. You will sacrifice your life for your family. You are gentle, intuitive with a broad vision. You make a well-balanced person. Your best match is 2, 5, and 9 no other people can put up with you!!!

 Number 3

You are hard hearted and selfish most of the time. You always tend to have lots of problems within your family in the early stages but you will be able to cope with everything. You seem to have your way in everything. And from birth you would always have to work hard to achieve anything you want. You always make a point to set examples on others, especially the younger ones. Generally you are not a cool person. It's not easy dealing with you. A tough player you are! But once you are comfortable with someone, it will be a lasting friendship. You always earn respect from others. You seem to have lots of worries and problems but they won't be for long. You will have brilliant kids! You love money a bit too much so temptation will push you to try endlessly. You will look after your family and help friends, so you will spend a life time just being generous and kind (except for men born on the 21st). You love your freedom, creative and ambitious, a person who brings beauty, hope & ample joy to this world!!! Your best match 6 and 9. Good match 1, 3, and 5.

 

Number 4

You are very stubborn, very hard working but unlucky in important matters in life, very cool and helpful. You might repel people away from you, you may cause nuisance to others if you are a man, as you gifted are with understanding other people's problems. If you are a girl, you excel in your studies and arts. If you are a guy you spend most of your time with girlfriends and you tend to have too much fun with your mates & girls. Your friends will spend your time & money and get on with their life and you will be left empty handed. So be careful! You love to spend. Your positive side is that you are always around to help family and friends. You always fall in love with those younger than you. You often live with disappointments but you will take good care of your family. You need to be careful of people who will take advantage of your kind heart. And beware of your relationships too. You are radical, patient, persistent, and a hit old-fashioned; you live with foundation &
order. Your best match 1, 8. Good match 5, 6, and 7

 Number 5

You are very popular and you can get things done only by talking. Even to your enemies! You are business-minded and like to do things spontaneously. You will be famous if you get involved in any business. Your friends and families will always ask for your help, and you are the one actually with the money to help your friends. You will have more than one relationship, but when you settle down you tend to be selfish. You tend to go for other relationships - even if you are married at times because of your popularity. You tend to get along easily with anyone because the numbers is a middle number. You love freedom and changes. You learn your life through your personal experiences. Your best matches are 1, 2, Good match 6, 8.

 

Number 6

Ooopppss... You were born to enjoy! You don't care about others. I mean you always wanted to have a lifetime of enjoyment. You will excel in either education or business management! You are talented, kind (but with only people who you think are nice), and popular. All good things come easily to you. Your mind and body is just made perfect for love. You are loveable by any number. But if you are number 6 men, you will be involved in more than a few relationships until you get married. If you are a girl, most of you will get married/engaged early. You are a caring person towards your family and friends. You are a person of compassion, comfort & fairness, domestic responsibility, good judgment, and after all you can heal this world wounds to make peace for everyone because you have the great power and caring talent to take the world of love one step further.. Your best match 1, 3, 6, and 9. Good match 4, 5

 Number 7

You are realistic, confident, happy, and talented in education, music, art, singing, and most importantly in acting. You also have a bad temper! You value your family status a lot; you will be in the top rank when you reach a certain age. If you are a guy, you are popular with girls. Most of the numbers 7’s face lots of problems with their married life. Only a few are happy. You have everything in your life but with worries throughout your life time. You need to get ready looking for a partner rather than waiting. If you don't, then you might end-up being single. You are born to contribute to everyone's joy. Your best match is 2. Good matches are 1, 4

 Number 8

You have a very strong personality and people will find it hard to understand you. You are more likely to suffer in your younger years. You might be also the one responsible to look out for your family. You often suffer all the way through life. You will learn life in a very practical way. You are the one who will fight for justice and may even die in the war too. You are normally very reserved with a handful of friends and most of the time, live life alone and always prepared to help others. However, once you settle down, (which is often late), then your hard lucks will disappear. You will face unexpected problems such as encountering poisonous animals, and accidents. You are highly- disciplined, persistence, and courageous, and it is your strength that will take you to success. You are a great part of a family team. You are a fighter! Your Best match 1, 4 and 8. Good match 5

 Number 9

You guys are the most incompatible people in the world. You are so strong, physically and mentally. You often have big-aims. You will work hard and will think it's still hard to get there, even if you already have gotten there! Normally you suffer in the early age from family problems and generally you will have to fight in life. You are respected by others. You were however very naughty in your childhood, and often got beaten up by your parents and had been involved in fights and you seemed to have suffered lots of injuries. But when you grow older you become calm and will fall into the quiet and dignified macho type. Love is not an easy matter for you. You are however good in engineering or banking jobs because people always trust you. Your family life is very good, but you will always worry over your children. Your finer qualities are that you are humanitarian, patient, very wise & compassionate. You are born to achieve targets and serve every one equally without any prejudice. You are a role model for everyone. Your best match 3, 5, 6, and 9

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