BANGALORE: While most of us may have come across government colleges functioning with no teachers, few students, and no proper building, here is a government college that does not crib.
Thanks to the faculty members.
The Government Science College in Nrupatunga Road in Bangalore is a government college with a difference, generating facilities that makes it stand out. The college which started in 1921, has more than 1,200 students, of which around 300 are in PG courses. Teachers here, apart from teaching are involved in various schemes that help students, especially from a poor economic background.
There are around 100 teaching faculty members in this college, who contribute Rs 1,000 from their salary every year for the the welfare schemes, which comes around to one lakh. College Students Welfare Officer, K Y Narayana Swamy who teaches Kannada said that they have started ‘Sahakari’ which means co-operation, a unique scheme under which one meal a day is provided to 150 poor students.
For this scheme they have a tie up with the college canteen. “We issue coupons, each worth Rs 10, with which one can have lunch at the college canteen. Last year, we were feeding 100 students, which went to 150 this year,’’ he said.
A full fledged health centre inside college campus has also been set up under the initiative of the teachers.
They have a tie up with the Lions Club, Jayanagar, where doctors visit the college twice a week and offer free medicine to the students, who cannot afford medical facilities outside.
Not just this, along with K C General Hospital, MSc Biotechnology students from the college have done a blood group mapping test. The college alumni association is also an outcome of the initiative of the teachers. The alumni which was started in 2002 have distinguished Environmentalist Yellappa Reddy, K N Puttegowda, President of Bangalore Advocate Association, Infosys Director K Dinesh and other eminent individuals in its rolls.
