The college students are enrolled for extension work projects and perform various activities for the social awareness based on various issues / problems in the society such as Save Girl Child, Pollution, Aids, Global Warming, Environment, Tree Plantation, Importance of Education, Illiteracy, Child Labor, Dowry Deaths, Malnutrition, Watershed Management and so many. The students are creating awareness about these social problems / issues through various activities such as Street Play, Exhibition, Poster Making, Songs, Speech, Survey, Elocution, Seminar & Conferences. For the purpose, students are actually going to the society and involve the community and make them aware of our role in eradicating social problems faced by the society and trying to convince the people human duties as an ideal citizen. To facilitate the sensitization of the student to the socio-cultural realities, the Department offers for the student, extension work projects encompassing social issues. There are six types of Extension Work Projects are being offered by the department under the two different units for enhancing the employability and IT skills of the student. The projects are as given below:

1. Vocational career oriented projects: –
2. Career project (CP): –

Relevance of the activity:

• It has seen that student who do not get admission to a degree program in medicine, management, engineering or architecture feel lost and directionless when they enter graduate degree program
• The career project aims at proving information about a career in-depth particularly if he aspires to take up.
• It is expected that the information about careers in the form of the charts, brochures and short talk will become the material of a GUIDANCE CLUB

Purpose:

• To help a student to find out information about a career before undertaking it.
• To enable a student to learn the interview technique, method of collecting information, how to prepare materials for the dissemination of information etc.
• To help a student about the job market of the career being exploded.

Activities to be performed:

1. Attend training programs at the college and at the department.
2. Select a career one likes.
3. Interview two persons following the career using the questionnaire
4. Find out all possible information about the career from Vocational Guidance Centers, libraries, etc.
5. Prepare four charts on the career.
6. Prepare a four page (eight side) booklet/pamphlet/brochure on the career covering all the points below:
   1. Nature of work in the career.
   2. Working conditions.
   3. Qualifications necessary for entry ad success.
   4. Preparation needed: Education and training essential for entry.
      1. Degree of specific abilities required: mention, very high/High/Average Preparations needed
      2. Employment and advertisement
      3. Estimated earnings
      4. Outlook for this occupation
      5. Related occupations
      6. Advantages and disadvantages
   5. Prepare a five-minute talk on the career.
   6. Exhibit the career in an exhibition at a school, one’s own and at the university
   7. Attend and participate in the Annual Festival of the Department.
   8. Write the project report.

Records/ Material to be submitted:

1. 4 charts
2. Pamphlet/brochure/booklet
3. Talk (in written format)
4. Interview schedule of two person interviewed.
5. Anna poorna Yojana (APY): –

Relevance of the activity

• Cooking and catering are skills that are required by the women from the age of adolescence itself.
• With an era of fast – food shops and catering on a small scale becoming a source of large income returns, it is felt that women should be encouraged to enter these professions.
• Nonfood items can also be sold such as: Pen, pencil, Rubber, Plastic folders, files, books etc.

Purpose:

The activity is designed to encourage the student to try their hand entering the field of small scale business.

ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE BY A STUDENT ARE:

1. Attend the training programs at the college and the department
2. Identify the items that are liked by students but are not easily available in the vicinity.
3. Select an item that can be prepared by the students him/herself or had prepared from others or that be purchased on a large scale.
4. Fix the sale price for the item.
5. Arrange for sale in the college and campus nearby or at the functions, meals in the vicinity.
6. Organize twenty – five such sales (either weekly or on alternate days)
7. Keep an account of the cost incurred, sale proceeds, etc.
8. Calculate the profits made.
9. Attend and participate in the Annual Competition/Festival of the dept.
10. Write the project report.

Qualities and talents that can be developed by the student:

• Time management
• Decision making
• Public Relations
• Planning & organization of a project
• Leadership
• Understanding production and marking on a small scale
• Self-confidence

COMMUNITY ORIENTED PROJECTS: –

STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS): –

1. Relevance of the activity

• Work in an adopted area.
• To facilitate the college to obtain basic data about the status of women in the area of work.
• After obtaining the information, the college can plan to work for the population education program.
• Activities to be conducted be a student

1. Learn the basic methodology of research.
2. Determine the local area, which will be covered by the survey.
3. Build rapport with the community
4. Survey 40-50 women in the age group 20 to 45 years
5. Collect and tabulate the data with the help of a computer.
6. Follow the Research Methodology.
7. Do analysis and interpretation of data.
8. Write the Project Report.
9. Data / Records to be maintained (SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE) Student may design their own questionnaire with the help of the teacher as per the requirement.

Part A : Personal Details

1. Age- ___________ years
2. Educational level: Never studied/Studied up to __________/Studying in _______
3. Marital status: Married/ Unmarried/Deserted/Widowed
4. Live in a Hut/Chawl/Building/Bungalow
5. Family income (per month): < 5, 000 / 15,000 or more
6. Total Number of Members of your family: _______
7. Family structure: Joint/ Nuclear
8. Up to what level has your mother been educated? _____________
9. How many siblings do you have? ________

Part B: Please answer the following questions (tick your choice)

1. Women are less intelligent than men. Agree/ Disagree
2. Women should always vote for the same political party that the men of the house suggest. Agree/ Disagree
3. It is not important for a woman to speak English in order to be liberated. Agree/ Disagree
4. Dowry should be given in order to cover the wife’s expenses. Agree/ Disagree
5. The rightful place for a lady is within her home. Agree/ Disagree
6. Only men should drive cars. Agree/ Disagree
7. Adopting children is acceptable. Agree/ Disagree
8. It is important to have a son in order to carry forward the family name. Agree/ Disagree
9. Men should be paid more for the same job that a woman does. Agree/ Disagree

10.A lady is always answerable to her father, husband and son. Agree/ Disagree

11.Men should help a lady with chores at home. Agree/ Disagree

12.The highest posts in offices should only be handled by men. Agree/ Disagree

13.Women should eat only after the family is fed. Agree/ Disagree

14.Men resorting to violence is justifiable, but not women. Agree/ Disagree

15.In your family, would a daughter be permitted to choose her field of Education? Yes/No

16.In your family, is a girl expected to marry an individual unknown to her? Yes/No

17.Are sons and daughters treated equally at your home? Yes/ No

18.Do women have a role in decision making in your family: Yes/ No

19.The legal marriageable age for a girl is: 16 years/18 years/ 20 years

20.Do you know there are laws protecting women? Yes/ No

Part C: Evaluation of Personal Details (SAMPLE) Education has/has not had an impact on:

1. i) Socio-Economic Status: Family Income = _____________________ Number of Members lower (less than 5,000) / middle (5,000-8,000) / higher (greater than 8,000)
2. ii) Family Norm: Traditional (Joint)/ Modern (Nuclear)
3. iii) Number of siblings: Small (1-2)/Medium (3-4)/Large (more than 4) family
4. iv) Profile of woman in the family: Comparing the Mother’s level of education and the respondent’s level of education, we can say there is No/ Negative/ Positive growth.

Sheth J. N. Paliwala College Pali from 10/9/2022 to 16/9/2022 Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama camp was organized in this week. The program was organized in collaboration with Patanjali Yoga Committee, Uttar Raigad.

On 17/1/2023, the “Udaan” festival of Mumbai University was organized at J. N. Paliwala college pali. A total of 50 extension teachers and 247 students from 17 colleges participated in this program.

On 23/1/2023 Retired Deputy Commissioner central government Shri. Suhas Patil a special lecture was organized in collaboration with NSS.

The Department of Lifelong learning & Extension University of Mumbai organize training programs for the Teachers and Student Manager from the associated participating colleges. Teachers and nearly 10 Student Managers are trained and motivated to carry out the extension work projects in the colleges and to benefit the community.