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Date: 21/05/2020 Objective : To promote and foster collective actions, to implement activities in favour of sustainable production and consumption of tea and raise awareness of its importance in fighting hunger and poverty.             21 st May, 2020: Tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world, after water. With time, it has become a very important cash crop the world over. There was a dire need to plan and implement actions to secure wages of workers at tea plantations, their health and security, sustainable methods of tea production, etc. Thus, the United Nations, on recommendations of the tea growing countries of the world, especially India, declared 21 st of May as International Tea Day.            Department of Botany, Y & M AKI’s Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce, celebrated this day via the digital platform ZOOM, a step taken in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic on 21 st May, 2020....

REPORT ON: VISIT TO MAHABALESHWAR ORPHANAGE Organized by: DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY under the aegis of MUSKAN (the Healing Smile), a social initiative of the college and POONA COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Date: 25 th January, 2020. No of beneficiaries: 77 Accompanying staff: All staff dept of Botany (06).      Department of  Botany took an initiative to visit Mahabaleshwar orphanage to render their services in kind on Saturday,  25 th January, 2020. The department in association with Poona College Alumni donated the following commodities with prior communication with the orphanage Headmistress: 1. Head scarves for girls (210) 2. Sweaters for girls and boys (180) 3. Shoes for girls and boys (131 pairs) 4. Steel bowls and spoons (400) 5. Apples (60kg) 6. Kinnos (60kg) 7. Jalebis (10kg) 8. Hand wash (15 litres: donated by department of Chemistry)    Headmistress Mrs. Shabana Asad, of Mahabaleshwar Orphanage, gave an introductory speech. Head, De...

Excursion Tour Mahabaleshwar for T.Y.B.SC. Botany students on Saturday 29/12/2018. No of Beneficiaries: 09         In charge: Dr Rafik U. Shaikh. Teacher Accompanied: Mrs. Shaikh Meherunisa M. Objective of the study tour: To make the students understand the vegetation of Mahabaleshwar.                The study tour organized for the students to Mahabaleshwar included special visit to Gureghar forest conservatory for research & development.   The students were able to observe a conserved area spread on 100 acres of land.   Mr. More who is a forester explained about the working of the conservatory with special reference to 25 different species of Eucalyptus    which were taken care of & different gymnospermic plants like Pinus, Podocarpus, Cuperesus and Aurucaria etc. Noteworthy was two plants of Agathis robusta which were near the entr...

Report on Distribution of Certificate for Course conducted on Fruit, processing, preservation and entrepreneurship by Department of Botany Date: 18/09/2018                                            Day:  Tuesday                  Time: 11:30 -12.30 pm Venue- Conference Hall                               No. of Beneficiaries:  71 Organized by:  All staff members Department of Botany organized certificate distribution program for the students who were enrolled for certificate course in fruit processing, preservation and entrepr...

Report on excursion tour to Lonavala for T.Y.B.SC. Botany student Excursion In charge:    Dr Sayyed Iliyas & Dr Aafreen Ahmed Staff Accompanied  for the study tour:  Mrs. Shaikh Meherunisa & Miss Nabila Shaikh                     No of Beneficiaries :  09 Date:  08/09/2018            Time:  7:00 am to 7:45 pm               Day :       Saturday  Objective of the  visit:  To study the vegetation type of a hill station during the Monsoon.. About  the place:                Lonavala is a hill station situated about 70 kms from Pune. It is part of  Western Ghats, one of the hotspot  for...

Y & M Anjuman Khairul Islam’s POONA COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE Camp, Pune - 411001. Department of Botany Minutes of the Meeting                        Date: 14/08/2018                                                                                                                   ...

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017: An educational visit to the Botanical Survey of India, Regional Office, Western Circle, Pune, was organized for the students of S.Y and T.Y. (Botany) by the department of Botany to create awareness regarding Career Development in the subject. B.S.I. is one such forefront for the subject of Botany. The visit was organized on Thursday, 21 st September, 2017 from 11am to 4 pm. The Director and his enthusiastic staff welcomed all. A brief history of B.S.I. was presented in the form of a documentary which highlighted the aims and objectives. Students were imparted with information and knowledge regarding the working of B.S.I. by showing them different repositories like Museum, Heritage building, Herbarium, Pathology Laboratory and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) working concept.  The students were briefed up regarding collection and preservation of museum and Herbarium specimens. Herbarium section had angiospermic flora maintained by following Benth...