Best Practices
Institutional Values and Best Practices
A. Institutional Values:
The Sonari Commerce College has a reputation of strictly adhering to a zero tolerance policy of gender disparity. All the policies and practices taken by the college are gender neutral. The women cell of the college is authorized and empowered to hold and host any program they plan to promote gender equality. The college celebrates International Women’s Day and other women empowering programs under the behest of its women cell. No complaint of any kind of sexual harassment has ever been registered since the inception of Anti Sexual Harassment Committee. The college has a well equipped, spacious Girls’ Common Room with recreational facilities. There are separate wash rooms and toilets for girl students and female staff of the college. It is always seen that the different bodies in the college including our students union always get adequate representation of all genders. Both boys and girls students equally participate in various functions, festivals held in the college. Even in the NSS group and other committees of the college, the sex ratio is maintained.
B. Institutional Best Practices:
Two Best Practices successfully implemented by Sonari Commerce Coollege are: Poor Students’ Welfare Fund and Tobacco Free Campus. They are described in the following way.
Best Practice No:1
Title of the Practice: Poor Students’ Welfare Fund.
Objectives of the Practice:
(i) To provide financial assistance to economically backward but meritorious students.
(ii) To create interest among the economically backward students towards higher education.
(iii) To avoid drop out students for higher education.
(iv) To enable economically backward students to fulfill their dream through education.
The context: In our society, there is wide economic disparity. Therefore, there is a need for equal educational opportunities. The institution believes in social responsibility. So it provides financialassistance to meritorious students from poor economic backgrounds, by creating a ‘Poor Students’ Welfare Fund’. Recently, the institution has established a book bank, named as “Poor Students’ Book Bank” under this practice. The college provides books to the needy students for the whole session or semester from this Book Bank.
The practice: The College provides this holy service to the poor but meritorious students which really help them to complete their higher education. The institution expects that they will help to improve the society.
Evidence of Success: Many poor students are benefited by this practice. Miss Nikita Ghosh, a student of Commerce Stream, succeeded to become the best graduate of Dibrugarh University in the year 2019 availing the benefit of this best practice of the college. Till date many students coming from poor background have successfully completed their graduation taking this advantage and presently they are contributing to the society.
Problems Encountered and Resources required: Though the college is providing financial assistance through Poor Students’ Welfare Fund, collected one time from the students at the time of admission, it is not enough to cover all of them. So, a bigger fund is necessary for this purpose.
Best Practice No: 2
Title of the practice: Tobacco Free Campus
Goals:
(i) To aware the students of the college and the nearby people of the harm of using tobacco in any form.
(ii) To make the college campus clean and tobacco free.
(iii) To save the young generation from the grip of any toxin.
The context: The practice is undertaken by the college with the help of local govt. authority.
The Practice: Students of the college hail from different casts and communities. Some new comers are seen using packet products having tobacco. As soon as it is detected, they are aware of the harm of tobacco to human body and mind. With the help of the teaching staff, NSS unit, Students’ Union etc. the college takes various steps like holding meetings with the students, holding health caring workshops with the help of govt. health organizations, postering against the use of tobacco etc. to make the college campus tobacco free.
Evidence of Success: The College has succeeded to make its campus free of tobacco. Students and any other employee of the college do not use tobacco in any form in the college campus. Having noticed the successful application of the practice in the college, the District Tobacco Control Cell, Charaideo, Assam has awarded the college a Tobacco Free Appreciation Certificate on 26th January, 2023 on the occasion of
celebration of the 74th Republic Day of the country. The college observes ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on 31st May every year.
Problems: The environment where our students bring up and belong to is mostly affected by tobacco. They see people using tobacco in their day to day life and gradually form a habit of using it. So, a common awareness of the harm of using tobacco should be made by the respective authority.