An ongoing cycle management workshop gathers no less response in the outskirt of Guwahati. Organized by Assam Don Bosco University at Azara the 5 days workshop is being attended by the representatives from all the north eastern states and West Bengal and Bihar.
ADBU Vice Chancellor Dr Stephen Mavely opened the workshop at a function attended by director of the school of social sciences Dr Riju Sharma along with has 19 field officers from northeast region.
In his address resource person and coordinator of the workshop Dr Lukose Jacob said, “the PCM is the process of planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling of a project effectively and efficiently throughout its various phases, from planning through execution, then completion and review to achieve pre-defined objectives or satisfying the project stakeholder by producing the right deliverable at the right time, cost and quality.”
Dr Lukose’s book entitled A to Z on Project Cycle Management is the handy resource material the participants to follow during the 12 hours workshop. The ADBU faculty member has over 30 years of field experience heading the departments of programme support services, human & institutional development services, thematic, quality management and capacity building at Caritas.
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These are the Cultural Ambassadors from the youngest one to the oldest one should be representing India across the world, opined Veerappa Moily, very impressed after seeing dance drama “Chordhora...
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AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Thursday said that only the regional party has every strength to raise voice of Assam in parliament.Addressing a huge rally in Lakhimpur on behalf of...
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The weather is clear. Durga puja festivity takes full grip across the state. Mahasaptami puja falls on Wednesday a day after the idols of the goddess of strength was installed. Tight security is in...
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Despite a mammoth security arrangement before the Prime Minister’s visit to Itanagar, a shoot out incident has rattled the state capital on Thursday morning. The firing incident that took place...
Former Chancellor of Assam Don Bosco University is set on a national youth mission experimenting with a new ‘wake up call’ training college students. The first of the seres was held at the School of Social Sciences and Engineering at Rajagiri College, Kochi during first and third week of August.
Founder director of Child Friendly Guwahati Salesian Father V.M. Thomas (Vattathara) conducted four 2-day workshops at the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate institution as part of a skilling effort to build up young people in Leadership and in Professional Life.
Christened CROSSOVER, the innovative youth program for college and university students “is an intensive 2-day Inner Engineering Workshop...
Salesian College Sonada and its Siliguri campus has launched for the first time Skill Oriented diploma and degree courses starting with this academic session in mid-July.
Admissions are going on for Bachelor of Vocation Courses in Retail Management, at Sonada, and Travel and Tourism Management at Siliguri campus.
“This skill based program which provides both Diploma and Degree possibilities is the need of the hour to fight growing unemployment in the country,” says Principal Dr George Thadathil who claims Salesian to be the first college to implement the program in the Hills.
“Both students and parents are enthusiastic when informed about the new program with three possible exit...
Kalimpong: A Job Oriented Training Institute which has pioneered a Teacher Training Diploma Course in Elementary Education (private) has attracted brighter students to flock to its innovative program.
Salesian Br. Lawrence Mondol, Principal of Don Bosco Technical School in Kalimpong situated outside the tourist hill town at its sprawling campus at 14th Mile says, “Our Institute offers 12 job oriented training programs to rural youth including 1 two year course, 5 one year courses and 6 three months courses.”
The two year course, Diploma in Elementary Education (D. El. Ed), is mandatory for any one to get a Government job as primary school teacher. Eligibility for this diploma program...
Darjeeling: An inter-faith group in Darjeeling has shown the way to harmonious and peaceful living among members of all religious beliefs amid news of rising incidents of intolerance and religious bigotry in the society.
The Darjeeling Inter faith group on May 25 held a two hour session on the theme, “Dialogue and Fellowship: Shared Beliefs and Practices Across Communities.” The group was formed in 2005 under the leadership of Father George Thadathil, principal of Salesian College Sonada who is also secretary of Darjeeling Diocesan Commission for Inter-faith dialogue.
Some 50 members of various religious affiliations were present for an opening session by visiting professor Dr Georgios T...
Darjeeling: A US Educationist who taught 21st century learning skills to Salesian College Sonada and Siliguri faculty last October is back in seven months to teach young faculty of both campuses on Continuous Professional Development.
This time, Prof Loren Weybright is engaging young faculty who joined teaching positions in the last five years on a 3-day workshop in what he calls: Building Relationships, Developing Wise Practices, and Integrating Technology.
Some 18 faculty members participated in the practical workshop on college level teaching from 20th to 22nd May.
Divided into two groups, the participants applied ORID Conversation model in teaching. It consists of:...
Darjeeling — The first college in the Darjeeling hills to under take National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has retained its ‘A’ Grade in the 3rd Cycle concluded on 3rd and 4th May 2019.
Announcing the result of the NAAC Peer Team Visit on 20 May 2019, the Director of Bangalore-based NAAC Dr. S.C. Sharma wrote, “I am glad to inform you that the outcome of the Assessment and Accreditation (A&A) exercise of your institution has been processed and approved by the [40th] Standing Committee constituted by the Executive Committee to examine the peer team reports and declare the accreditation results.”
Dr Sharma continued, “Your institution has been Accredited with a CGPA...
Guwahati: A Salesian who headed national media offices in New Delhi will now be in charge of the media office of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) in Manila from 22nd March 2019.
Media trainer Fr. (Dr.) George Plathottam has been appointed Executive Secretary of the FABC Office of Social Communications (OSC) in Manila, the Philippines. The FABC-OSC is responsible for the Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), the only continental Catholic Radio service broadcasting in 22 languages of Asia for the last 50 years.
The RVA Golden Jubilee celebrations are scheduled for 11-12 April 2019.
The FABC Central Committee meeting in Rome on 25 February 2019 appointed 62 year old...
Darjeeling: The Salesian College Publication participating in the 23rd Annual Darjeeling District Book Fair held from 14 to 17 March 2019 won laurels for being the only college publication at the fair.
The anuual book fair was organized by Darjeeling Book Fair Committee in Darjeeling's iconic Capitol Cinema Hall - a stone building with a clock standing 100ft high and used to house a 600-seat theatre from 1921 to 1984.
The annual feature was hosted under the aegis of West Bengal State Department of Mass Education Extension and Library Services which promotes the Literacy and Library Movements in the State for the benefit of the common people.
It is for the third consecutive time...
A priest social worker who has worked in northeast India for some 40 years has come up with a photo journal of his photographic collection chronicling the life and culture of Mising tribe among whom he has worked for some 15 years.
Fr Thomas Kalapurackal is the founder-director of Institution for Culture And Rural Development (iCARD) at Jorhat in Assam that focus on training young Mising tribal people in leadership to serve their community.
Salesian Provincial of Dimapur province Dr Jose Kuruvachira released Fr. Kalapurackal’s latest book called Tani Cool, on 4 March 2019 at Don Bosco, Baghchung, in the presence of a large number of educationists and social workers from Golaghat,...
Darjeeling: A Darjeeling based Energy Engineering scholar has become the first one in the region to get a PhD degree in Building Thermal Comfort and Environment for his thesis entitled 'Study and Analysis of Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model in Darjeeling Hills’. The above study was undertaken in the School of Engineering and Technology at Poornima University, Jaipur. Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Salesian College Sonada for over 15 years, Mr Samar Thapa from Kurseong in Darjeeling district successfully defended his doctoral thesis early September. “Thermal comfort standards are required not only to ensure good indoor climatic condition, but also to optimize the energy...
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