The Mount Carmel College, Autonomous, is committed to empower women who are socially and economically marginalized in the community through a value based integral approach. Keeping this as criteria, the college has started an Equal Opportunity Cell (EOC), which will conduct several programs to impart knowledge about the social rights of the Minorities and SC/ST sections.

The UGC has planned to establish Equal Opportunity Centers in colleges to oversee the effective implementation of policies and programs for disadvantaged groups. These groups are SCs, STs, women, OBC (non-creamy layer), minorities and physically challenged persons.

The main objectives of establishing this cell in colleges are

1. To provide guidance and counselling with respect to academic, financial, social and other matters.
2. To ensure equity and equal opportunity to the community.
3. To look into the grievances of the weaker sections of society and suggest amicable solution to their problems.
4. To disseminate the information related to schemes and programs by Government and other agencies for the welfare of the socially weaker section. and
5. To sensitize the college on the problems related SC/ST and Minorities.

Equal Opportunity Cell in Mount Carmel College functions under the

Chairperson                          

Dr. Sr. Arpana, Principal

Co-ordinator                          

Ms. Uma Thavamani

Committee members            

1. Ms. Haseen
2. Ms. Dorothy

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CELL ACTIVITIES

2017

Orientation program

• The Equal Opportunity Cell conducted an orientation program on 9^thJan 2018, at 10:00 am to address the students to disseminate different social, economic and educational programs conducted by the Government of Karnataka through Minorities and SC/ST departments.
• Dr. E. Venkataiah, IAS, Rtd., Advisor to Nodal agency for SCSP and TSP, Social Welfare Department Vikasa Soudha, Bengaluru Government of Karnataka was the keynote speaker.
• Dr. E. Venkataiah, enlightened the students about the various schemes available for Minorities and SC/ ST Students.
• Students from both UG & PG attended the orientation program. The students belonging the Minorities and SC/ST students were requested to register their names in Equal opportunity cell to avail more information on various schemes offered through Directorate of Minorities, Minority Welfare department, and Social Welfare Department, Government of Karnataka.

2018

Minorities Right Day Program

• To mark the “Minorities rights day” on 18 th December 2018, the Equal Opportunity Cell conducted an awareness program to disseminate different social, economic and educational programs available for Minorities by the Minority Welfare Department, Directorate of Minorities, Government of Karnataka.
• Mr. Niaz Ahmed Sheriff M, M.Com, Joint Director,Minority Welfare Department, Directorate of Minorities, Bengaluru, Government of Karnataka was the Keynote speaker.
• The Directorate of Minorities ensure a more focused approach towards issues relating to the notified Minorities communities, namely Muslim, Christians, Jains, Buddhist, Sikhs and Parsis. The Directorate working with a vision to enable all the Minority community people to lead a productive life with equal opportunities in the field of Socio, Economic, Education etc.
• Mr. Niaz Ahmed Sheriff M, introduced schemes to promote accelerated socio-economic development of Minorities, educational concessions for students, implementation of schemes for development of Women and Children, providing training and employment opportunities.
• Brochures entitled “Know about Minorities Schemes”, “Civilization can be judged by the way it treats its minorities”- Mahatma Gandhi, was distributed amongst student to get more information about the schemes.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is a flagship programme of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India.

The mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India.

As a Participating Institution, MCC has adopted following villages for their development in collaboration with district administration.

Bengaluru Rural District:

1. Marasandra, Doddaballapur Taluk
2. Koramangala, Devanahalli Taluk
3. Thyamagondlu, Nelamangala Taluk

Bengaluru Urban District: 

1. Hebbagodi (CT)
2. Huvinayakanahalli.

Activities under UBA:

1. Identification of the villages
2. Field visit – Conducting Village survey and Household survey
3. Recognition of major THREE problems/issues by contacting village development officer/representatives of village or by organizing Gramsabha meeting.
4. Preparation of plan of action/village development plan/technological intervention etc. for each village by consulting project co-ordinator and concerned stakeholders like Grampanchayats, BDOs, District Development Authority etc.
5. Evaluation of proposed solutions by Subject Expert Group.
6. Execution of Sustainable, Innovative, Implementable and Scalable technological intervention and Continuous Monitoring.

Nature of Intervention:

Low cost technological solutions covering agriculture, education, health, sanitation & hygiene, housing, organic/natural farming, drinking water, bio-energy, afforestation, skill development, digital literacy, e-gram panchayat etc.

UBA Cell, MCC:

Co-ordinator:

Ms. Sunanda BV, Dept. of Economics

Core Team:

Mr. Govinda Gowda, Faculty of Commerce

Ms. Kalavathi P, Dept of Sociology

Dr. Sujata Suryakant Mali, Dept of Economics

Ms. Suma N, Dept of Electronics

Dr. Geetha Santosh, Dept of Nutrition & Dietetics

Mr. Deepak P, Dept of Zoology

Dr. Koyal Biswas, Dept of Hindi

Ms. Padmashree, Dept of Commerce

Contact Details:

uba@mccblr.edu.in

The Counselling cell was set up in 1990 to help the students to overcome emotional stress and trauma and discover themselves, The college has three counsellors which ensures that one or more of them is available on all working days.

Objectives

1. To enable students with emotional problems to recharge themselves.
2. To facilitate students to get clarity in their thoughts and make positive choices in the given situation.
3. To facilitate self-discovery.

In a counselling session the student feels accepted and this helps her to open up her feelings, which are listened to by the counsellor. In the process, the student begins to get clarity in her thoughts and is able to know herself and make positive choices in her given situation.

The counselling cell is involved in value education classes and also runs credit courses in life skills. Through this process, much has been achieved. Students have empowered themselves to overcome problems like low self-esteem, loneliness, fear among many others. There have been cases of suicidal tendencies that have been overcome. Counsellors also help students access more specialised help if so required.

Counsellors Contact Details:

Ms. Arathi Bansy – 9980589350

Ms. Kaavya Chandy – 7760643068

MOC block – Ground Floor and First floor