A Great Tradition

It gives me immense pleasure to welcome all the guests, eminent resource persons, delegates and students in the UGC sponsored one day National Seminar on Recent Trends in Chemical and Geological Sciences and its Relavance to Environmental Conservation on 22nd December, 2012, jointly organized by Department of Geology and Chemistry of our Mahatma Gandhi Arts, Science and Late N.P. Commerce College, Armori. At the outset, let me thank all of you for accepting our invitation and being here with us. The champion of cause of education, agriculture and of the welfare of downtrodden, late Wamanraoji Wanmali cherished the dream of upliftment of the people of Gadchiroli and Chandarpur districts of Vidarbha. He is the spirit behind taking education to the doorsteps of common people of this region. With this view, he founded Manoharbhai Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Armori. He put his heart and soul in the expansion of educational activities all around. Now Manoharbhai Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Armori is expanded to a great extent comprising many institutions, more than four thousand students and over 500 employees. The college aims to improve the quality of life, environment and society by imparting value education. The college is now considered as one of the acclaimed institution in Gondwana University. The staffs of the college put in hard labour to achieve excellent results. The students of this college reached new heights and are now occupying distinctive positions in all walks of life. The progress graph of this college is continuously rising higher and higher. The college has well developed campus which consists of ladies hostel, two separate buildings, well maintained play ground, audio visual seminar room, language laboratory and auditorium which is under-construction. The college offer some job oriented subjects like Geology, Microbiology and Computer Science. The college has started post graduate specialized courses like M.Sc. (Geology), M.Sc. (Chemistry), M.Sc. (Mathematics), M.A. (Marathi), M.A. (History) and M.A. (Economics). Almost all the departments have taken minor research projects and some departments have taken major research projects funded by the UGC. Besides the has some support services like departmental libraries, Herbal Medicine, Office Automation, Electrical Maintance, Computer center, sports facilities to cater to the needs of students. It is a matter of immense pride for us that in the year 2012, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Bangalore accredited this college as B Grade with CGPA of 2.88 on 4.0 point scale

.The College also runs Career Oriented Programme sanctioned by UGC, NET/SET Guidance Centre, UPSC/MPSC Guidance Centre and Placement cell. Apart from achieving glory in academic field, the college promotes arts and culture by means of variety of extra- curricular activities in the college throughout the year. Our students also get regularly placed in some of the central and state Government organisations like Geological Survey of India, Oil & Natural Gas Corparation, Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), Ground water survey & Development Agencies (GSDA), Directorate of Geology Mining (DGM) and reputed private mines. Every year our students got the honour of representing the state in Republic Day parade at New Delhi. This Seminar on Recent Trends in Chemical and Geological Sciences and its Relavance to Environmental Conservation will ignite thinking and sharing platform to creative minds for excellence in their domain. Once again, I congratulate all delegates, research scholars, post graduate students who are taking part in the Conference. Thank you

Dr. L.H. Khalsa Principal (Chairman, NSRTCGSEC 2012)