Workshop on Human Rights and Covid 19-A Right to Health perspective
Department of Political Science has organised workshop on “Human Rights and Covid 19-A Right to Health perspective”, on 10th December 2020 to commemorate International Human Rights Day through online mode.

The resource person distributed the students in different break up room and they were given a topic to discuss among themselves and then a complete discussion took over the importance of Rights and Health. Sir focussed more on the nutritious food; he shared a small video to all the participants depicting the inhuman treatment done to the Covid patients. Resource person has enlightened us with Human Rights. Number of students actively participated in the discussion and raised their query to the resource person.

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SAMVIDHAN (Webinar on Constitutional Values)
Department of Political Science has organized Webinar on Constitutional Values titled as “SAMVIDHAN” on 26th November 2020 through online mode between 10.45 to 11.45 am. Prof. Mahesh S Betasur, Assistant Professor, Kristu Jayanti College of Law, was the guest of the day. He delivered a lecture on the topic – “Ideals of Indian Constitution”.

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Webinar on ‘National Educational Policy’
The Department of political science has organized an online “Webinar on National Educational Policy” to bring an awareness on new national educational policy.

Dr. Mustafa, the Dean and Professor, Department of Education, Central University, Kerala was the resource person for the session. The resource person gave an insight about the characteristics of the National Educational policy highlighting the advantages of the policy.

The Webinar was opened to all. Nearly 140 people across the country participated in the Webinar. All the participants received E-certificate.

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On Students’ Presentation on Constitution Day
Date: 26th Nov, 2020
Class: III sem HEP, EPS and V sem JPsEng
Objective of the activity: To make students aware of Indian constitutional values and principles.
Activity details
Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas is celebrated in India on the 26th of November, marking the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949. The Dept. of Political Science commemorated this day with various events which included a quiz (Syntagma) based on questions on the Indian Constitution, a webinar with guest lecture who spoke on the basic values and principles of the Indian Constitution. Apart from these two events, the department also arranged for students’ presentations on topics related to the constitution.

A number of students presented on various aspects of the Indian Constitution, its process of formulation and its foundational ideals and values. This event gave the students an opportunity to learn and find out on their own the basic foundational ideals of our constitution and what our constitution’s founding fathers had envisaged.

Names of students who presented-
1. EMMANUEL SELVA ROYAN R- 19HU21032- HEP
2. JOEL JOHN- 19HU21042-HEP
3. KEVIN STANI-19HU21014-HEP
4. KEREN MARY JOSE-19HU21013-HEP
5. REEYA SHARMA- 19HU11018-EPsS
6. HARIHARAN K-19HU11007-EPsS
7. VIKRAMA DITYA-19HU11035-EPsS
8. GRACE BLESSY-19HU11026-EPsS
9. SREELAKSHMI SUDARSAN-19HU11021-EPsS
10. HANNAH MARY THOMAS-18HU7A1052-JPsEng
11. PERSIS SARA ABRAHAM-18HU7H1037-JPsEng
12. IPSHITA MUKHERJEE-18HU7A1014-JPsEng

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Syntagma (Online Quiz)
Objectives:
1. To commemorate the Constitution Day.
2. To enable more people to actively participate.
3. Engage the participants in a unique and interesting way and to provide an insight and to create an awareness of the Constitution.

The Department of Political Science organized “SYNTAGMA” - An online Quiz from 26th November 2020 to 27th Nov. 2020 to Commemorate Constitution Day. The quiz was opened to all. Nearly 177 participants across the country participated in the quiz and E-Certificate was provided to all those who scored above 80%.

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Workshop on Human Rights and Covid 19 - A Right to Health perspective
The Department of Political Science organized a workshop on “Human Rights and Covid 19-A Right to Health perspective”, on 10th December 2020 to commemorate International Human Rights Day through online mode between 2.15 to 3.15 p.m. with the 2020 Theme: Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights.

The workshop began with a silent prayer. Sanjay of Class III Sem HEP was the MC for the program, welcome speech was given by Deepthi the student coordinator and the introduction of the guest was done by Prof. S.J. Michael, Head of the Department of Political Science and Coordinator for the Department of Social Sciences and Language.

The resource person distributed the students in different break up rooms and they were given a topic to discuss among themselves and then a complete discussion took over the importance of Rights and Health. Sir focussed more on the nutritious food; he shared a small video with all the participants depicting the inhuman treatment done/meted out to the Covid patients. The resource person has enlightened us on Human Rights. Number of students actively participated in the discussion and raised their query to the resource person. Later, Athira proposed the vote of thanks.

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Poster Designing Competition on account of International Anti-Corruption Day
Date: 9th Dec. to 11th Dec. 2020
No. of Participants: 20
Objectives:
1. To bring an awareness about the impact of corruption on the society.
2. To imbibe the feeling that Saying, “No to Corruption is not impossible”.

“Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust. It is even more damaging in times of crisis – as the world is experiencing now with the COVID-19 pandemic. The response to the virus is creating new opportunities to exploit weak oversight and inadequate transparency, diverting funds away from people in their hour of greatest need” as said by UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.

To commemorate International Anti-Corruption Day, the Department of Political Science organised a Poster Designing Competition to bring awareness about the types of corruption, its impact on the society and the measures to prevent corruption by saying No to Corruption.

The competition was opened to all Political Science students from various classes from 9th Dec. 2020 to 11th Dec. 2020, Nearly 20 students participated in this and the best were awarded:
First Prize - Ritika Karmakar Reg. No. 20HU7H1030
Second Prize - Gowri Sreekumar Reg. No. 20HU7A1007
Third Prize - Praveena Reg. No. 19HU1H1028
N Vaishnavi - Reg. No. 20HU7H1032

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Mobile Photography Competition
Department of Political Science organized mobile photography competition for UG students as a part of International Day of Peace on September 21st 2020. It was a creative event in which the participants got an opportunity to capture “Peace” and submit the photographs that showed both the academic and the social side of the individual. The competition started exactly at 09.00 a.m. The contestants were briefed on the rules and regulations to be followed while clicking the pictures and also the judgement criteria. Mr. Mark Alwin Yesudas (18HU7H1035) from V Semester BA JPs English bagged the first prize. Second prize was awarded to Mr Rahul Sangma (18HU2A1031) from V Semester BA HEP.

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Anexartisia-20
Date: 15th August to 18th August, 2020
No. of beneficiaries: 337 Responses
Objectives: 1. To bring awareness among the people relating to the Independence of India.
2. To enable more people to actively participate.
3. Engage the participants in a unique and interesting way and to provide an insight of the Past important events which marked the Independence of India.
The Department of Political Science organized anexartisia-20 an online Quiz programme to bring awareness and information relating to the Independence Day under the able leadership of Prof. S.J Michael, Head of the Department and Coordinator for the Department of Social Science, and was assisted by Department faculty and the co-conveners of the quiz- Dr. Kaveri Swami and Prof. Shareef Povval. The Quiz was opened to all. It started from 15st August 2020, to 18th August 2020, 5 p.m. 337 participants across the country participated in the Quiz and E-certificates were issued to all those who scored above 80%.

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Webinar on National Educational Policy
Date: 11th Sept. 2020
No. of beneficiaries: 140
Objectives: 1. To bring awareness about the National Education Policy.
2. To enable more people to participate actively.
3. Engage the participants in a unique and interesting way and to provide an insight of National Educational Policy.
The Department of Political Science organized an online “Webinar on National Educational Policy” to bring an awareness on the new National Educational Policy.

The webinar began with a silent prayer. Prof.Rukmini Kakoty, MC for the programme, welcomed every one for the programme. Dr. Mustafa, the Dean and Professor, Department of Education, Central University, Kerala was the resource person for the session. The session began with the Presidential address given by Rev. Father Josekutty, Director of Kristu Jayanti College; Welcome Speech was given by the Prof. S.J. Michael, Head of the Department and Coordinator for the Department of Social Science and language followed by the introduction of the Chief Guest by Dr. Shareef. The resource person gave an insight about the characteristics of the National Educational Policy highlighting the advantages. The programme concluded with Dr. Kaveri Swami proposing the vote of thanks.

The Webinar was opened to all. Nearly 140 people across the country participated in the Webinar. All the participants received an E-certificate.

Workshop on Human Rights
The Department of Political Science, Kristu Jayanti College conducted a workshop on Human Rights for the students of Political science on 25.9.19.

The resource persons for the workshop Professor Dr. Mary Princess Lavanya of St. Joseph College addressed the students on human rights.

The workshop commenced with a welcome address followed by address by the chief guest and resource person.

Dr. Mary Princess Lavanya gave an insight about the Human rights, their significance and issues faced in reality. The resource person advised the students to come forward to register their difficulties in sustaining their rights and stressed on how the rights that are intrinsic to humans and the moral and political views that exist in the current scenario. The resource person also addressed in detail on the documents that are present in Human Rights. Various categories present in Human Rights such as Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and how they could be classified into first and second-generation rights were also touched upon. During the next session, Dr.Mary Princess Lavanya divided the students into various groups and gave them case studies to work upon and reflect their points of view on those case studies. Each group presented their view points and the resource person analysed their views to give her inputs.

The event was formally concluded with a vote of Thanks. The workshop was coordinated by Dr Sneha.D.R, staff co-ordinator, Department of Political science.

THE POWER OF YOUTH IN INDIAN POLITICS
Date: 13/07/18
Class & No. of students: V Sem B.A, 4 students.
Places/Industry Visited: St. Aloysius Degree College, Sarvagna Nagar, Cox town, Bangalore.

Department of Political Science of Kristu Jayanti College took the students under the guidance of Head of the Department of Political Science Prof. S.J Michael, to participate in the seminar organized by St. Aloysius Degree College, Sarvagna Nagar, Cox town, Bangalore. The theme of the seminar was “THE POWER OF YOUTH IN INDIAN POLITICS.” The key Speaker was Mr. Jignesh Mevani, Honourable MLA from the Vadgam constituency of Gujarat state. He stressed upon the role of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his writing “YUVAK.” He further spoke about the farmer suicide issue in Gujarat and how they are exploited by the feudal lords. He mentioned the works of Dr. Mukul Sinha, who is a Human rights activist and how he gave up being a physicist and took up the cause for helping the sanitation workers and security guards and his role during the Hartal for the riot victims. He concluded by saying that the youth should be active enough to work for the sole motto of development of the labour class and Dalit community of India and how they should seek for the ideology of pro-changers which has different parts like pro-constitution, pro-schemes etc.

Learning Outcome:
Students learnt about freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh etc. Students learnt about the role of youth in Indian Politics.