Centre for Youth Development and
Studies
[CYDS]
PAST:
The CYDS was established in our university in
the month of February 2003 with a specific aim to supply necessary academic
inputs to the student community of the colleges and departments coming within
the purview of
Since then the CYDS has carried out the
following activities:
Alumni Association: CYDS collected address of
the alumni from various departments in the university, contacted the alumni and
organized a meeting for them on 11.3.2003,
wherein election was conducted for electing the office bearers of the Alumni
Association.
Workshop on Computer Literacy for Rural Youth was organized on18.3.2003
Career Guidance and Counselling
Session on 21.3.03 was organized
for the college students.
BARDEX 2003: A five-day exhibition on
educational and employment opportunities to
the students during 27-31 May 2003. More than 50 colleges,
banks, employment offices, voluntary agencies participated and more than 4000
students had visited and signed in the register put for the purpose.
Reach the Peak programme
[26.12.2003 to 11.1.2004] was
organized by the CYDS. For this, students selection
and training programmes were organised
on 7.11.2003, 14.11.2003, 22.1.2003,
Personal Interview on 29.11.2003. Two-day workshop for the selected students
was organized during 14 &15, Dec. 2003.
Intercollegiate competitions were organized
during January 2004 and results
were published on 19.2.2004 [The Hindu, P.3], prizes and certificates were
distributed on 16.3.2004.
On
5.3.2004 Workshop on “Employment Opportunities” was organized
jointly with District
Employment Office at
One day workshop for the college students is
also organized on 16.3.2004. The
speakers would be Dr.M.Lakshmanan, Head of the
Department of Physics and Dr.V.Ayothi, Professor of
English.
Regular meetings of the
Lists of selected
students have been received from the Principals of the colleges. These students would be given suitable
training required by them during May-June 2004.