- The Parvatibai Chowgule College
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Smt. Parvatibai Cultural Foundations College of Arts & Science Established 23 June 1962 Academic affiliation Goa University Principal Dr. R.V. Gaonkar Location Margao, Goa, India Mascot Tiger (Chowgule Tigers) Website http://www.chowgules.ac.in/ Smt Parvatibai Chowgule College Of Arts & Science, also referred to as Chowgule College or just Chowgules is a college based in the South Goa district of Margao, on the west coast of India. Goa liberation movement was at its peak. People had come out at streets to fight with the Portugal army. During that period there was another freedom Movement going on in the other part of Goa.
Vishwasrao Chowgule, an industrialist and philanthropist had been negotiating with the newly formed government to get a plot to build a college. Finally, in 1962 Chowgule House got permission to house a college in the military barracks setup near Arlem. Founded in memory of his mother, the college was inaugurated by the then External Minister Smt. Lakshmi Menon on 23 June 1962.
In 2008, Chowgules was accredited with A Grade by NAAC & in 2010, won the Goa University Silver Jubilee Year Award for "Best College" [1]
The Chowgule College entrance
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Courses offered
It offers courses in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Masters of Arts (Geography), Masters of Science (Information Technology) streams and Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Application and the newly introduced course in Biotechnology.
As the main college for Arts and Science education in South Goa since the early 'sixties, it has been home to a number of prominent alumni. Its present principal is Dr. R. V. Gaonkar.
Campus Facilities
Chowgule college library encompasses Reading Rooms, Book stacks and Specialist Function Area such as Visual Room and Multimedia Resource Center.
The C-Library has a collection of 57,794 items. It subscribes 75 latest scientific as well as general journals. The specialist collection includes Books, extensive reference materials, AV materials, rare photo collection. More than 2700 bound volumes are available
Chowgule Sports and Fitness Center is Located in the south of Goa on a sprawling 5 acre property. The center itself has an indoor capacity of 35,000 sq. ft. which is equipped with sports and recreational fitness facility featuring: cardio equipment, selector machines, free weight, indoor running track, plyometrics platform, dot drill mats, Jacuzzi, steam bath and changing rooms for men and women.[2]
In 2007, The College campus inaugurated its exclusive Wi-Fi network, that promoted e-learning as well setting up online courses,which is called Chowgules Learn Anytime Any Place (CLAAP), which helped students get course material online as well as have discussions on the various forums.[3]
College Activities
Chowgule College has Bachelor's degree in Science and Arts. Annual Activities are carried out in the Academic field by having different Subject Day celebration wherein various activities like quiz, debate, poster making etc. are held. Prominent among these are "Pegasus", known as the only undergraduate English Literary Festival in Goa, organized by the Department of English wherein various state level colleges participate.
A newly organized Information technology event called I-RIX,[4] organized by the Department of Computer Science has been very successful with large participation of students all over the State of Goa. The event includes various competitions and talks by successful IT resource persons.
Other Activities
The tiger is the official mascot of the college and the students here are regarded as Chowgule Tigers.
In April 2010, a sequence of the film Golmaal 3 was shot on the sports campus of Chowgule College.
In 2010, Chetan Bhagat and in 2011, Nandita Das was made the chief guest of the Founders day celebration of the college.[5]
Notes
- ^ Chowgule College-Best College Award Archived 19 May 2011 at WebCite
- ^ http://59.165.134.98/chowgule/jsp/sports/sports_fitness_center.jsp Chowgule Sports and Fitness Center Archived 19 May 2011 at WebCite
- ^ https://moodle.chowgules.ac.in/login/index.php The CLAAP e-learning website Archived 19 May 2011 at WebCite
- ^ http://i-rix.in Official I-rix webpage Archived 19 May 2011 at WebCite
- ^ Chetan Bhagat interacts with Chowgule students Archived 19 May 2011 at WebCite
References
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