Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR)

1. Awareness Program – E-waste collection and donation event.

ISR Civil Students actively participated in the e-waste collection from societies and their households and donated the same to the Recyclers, M/s. Electrofine Recyclers Pvt. Ltd at MIDC Bhosari Pune during the first semester of the academic year 2024-25. The objective of this event was to understand the concept of electrical and electronic waste management and how important it is to reach to the formal sector (recyclers) for the further process of e-waste to safeguard the environment and human health. Total 4.85 Kgs handed over to the above-mentioned recycler.

Glimpse of the Event:Conducted on 4th October 2024.

2. Financial Literacy Activity for the students of NFBM Jagriti School for Blind Girls.

The students of ISR Cell, AS&H Department, were taken to Jagriti Vidyalaya (Blind Girls School) to give hands-on training on Financial Literacy. The activity was conducted on November 30, 2024. At first, students gave a speech on the importance of financial literacy and how to be aware of frauds and then they made students feel the different bank cards as they couldn’t see the cards. Afterwards a hands-on training for the same was given by our students. Total 22 students ware participated in this activity.

Glimpse of the Event

3. To help the students of Jagriti School for Blind Girls to know more about online transportation facilities.

The students of ISR Cell, AS&H Department, were taken to Jagriti Vidyalaya (Blind Girls School) to give hands-on training on using various e-commerce and travelling and ticketing applications. The session provided valuable learning on the apps' ease of use and areas that could be enhanced for better accessibility. Total 15 attendees got benefited through this activity on 6th Feb-2025.

Glimpse of the Event

4. Light up the Joy" activity

The "Light up the Joy" activity, organized by the ISR Cell and Art Circle of the Computer Department, aimed to celebrate Diwali by blending creativity with community service. Participants, including students and faculty, painted and decorated diyas, which were then sold. The funds were donated to orphanages, spreading joy and supporting those in need.

Glimpse of the Event

5. Health Hygiene Awareness

This initiative aimed to educate the community on the importance of maintaining proper hygiene practices to promote overall public health and well-being. Through interactive sessions and informative materials, participants were made aware of the signicance of regular handwashing, waste management, and personal cleanliness.

Glimpse of the Event

6. Road Traffic rules and safety awareness activity.

An activity on Road Traffic rules and safety awareness was organized under Institute Social Responsibility (ISR) cell of PCCOE, on February 10, 2025 at Lions Chowk, Pradhikaran, Nigdi,Pune. The activity was organized by ISR Students Volunteers from Information Technology Department of PCCOE,under guidance of faculty Mr. Rohit Tate. ISR Students Volunteers displayed awareness posters to peoples on Road and asked few of them to wear helmet, connect seat belt etc….

Glimpse of the Event

Few initiatives

Hour of Code

School Activity - Technical Training-1

A Holistic Approach To Develop Emotional And Social Abilities Of Girls Students” in association with Lila Poonawalla Foundation (LPF)
Awareness session Technologies for Health care & Medical Diagnosis

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Eco friendly Ganesh Festival - A move toward s green earth.

Objective of the activity: To create the awareness among the people of the society and contribute towards the nature by using biodegradable things for Ganesha Festival’s decoration.

Brief about activity: Institute Social Responsibility (ISR) Cell of E&TC Department has organised an Eco-Friendly Ganesh Festival activity on 22nd August 2020, Saturday. The motto of the activity was to create the awareness among the people of the society and contribute towards the nature by using biodegradable things for Ganesha Festival’s decoration.

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Hour of Code

Objective of the activity: To make students aware about computer hardware and software

Brief about activity: Students of ISR cell have arranged interactive online sessions as part of “Hour of Code” organized by ACM for students of City Pride School to make them aware about various components of computer and also taught them about how to do basic computer programming.

Activity-1: Technical Training-1

Objective of the activity:

To aware the students regarding Education, Sports & Woman welfare. Technologies for Agriculture, Food Processing & Rural development.

Brief about activity:

IT department student 6 teams participated in Eureka 2020 from 19th October 2020 to 4th December 2020. Eureka 2020 provides an opportunity to students to showcase their talent in knowledge-sharing skills, Work for Noble social cause in the field of education and network with like-minded people across the nation.

With the same purpose our students had conducted online sessions in different schools (Rural & Urban Schools). Screenshots of activity conducted.

Cloth donation

Objectives :

To help the genuinely needy people by donating the blankets/cloths/sweaters

Brief about activity:

Department of E&TC organised an event to donate old sweaters, clothes and blankets to the needy people or underprivileged people at nearby places

Notebook donation

Objectives of the activity:

To help the genuinely needy students by donating the notebooks

Brief about activity: E&TC ISR cell students prepared about 60 notebooks from the scrap unit test answer books and donated to children of sweeper staff working in PCCOE

Computer Literacy Programme

Objectives of the activity:

To help the genuinely needy students by educating them about the basics of computer

Brief about activity: E&TC ISR cell students conducted the computer literacy programme on every Sunday for the children of sweeper staff working in PCCOE

Informative and awareness session on MAHA-LABHARATHI app

Objectives of the activity:

1 Beneficiary can get information about various government schemes.
2 By this app user can also get information about various documents needed for applying various govt. Schemes and where to apply for the same.

Brief about activity:

MAHA-LABHARATHI is very useful app which is developed by government of Maharashtra. In this app user can get information about various government schemes. By this app user can also get information about various documents needed for applying various govt. Schemes and where to apply for for the same.

In this session, At starts Miss. Bhakti explained to audience about Mahalabharathi app i.e. What is Mahalabharathi, How can it help us for getting benefits of various government scheme’s and how easy to handle this app.

In second part of session, Mr. Yash gave them information about how to use the app of Mahalabharathi. In this session he informed them how to create account on Mahalabharathi app, how fill up basic information of yourself on Mahalabharathi app and how to applied for various schemes. The last part of session, Which was doubt clearance session. Student volunteers interacted with all the audience personally and create their accounts on Mahalabharathi app by which they can applied for various government scheme’s by their own in future.

Awareness About Digitization-Government Schemes, Software

Objectives of the activity:

To aware residents of Vadeshwar Gram about various Government Schemes for their welfare.

Brief about activity:

Students of ISR cell visited Vadeshwar Gram during NSS Camp organized by college and conducted one day session for residents of Vadeshwar gram to make them aware about various government schemes available for them and also informed them about how registered for those schemes and how to get benefit from them.

Stationary distribution

Objectives of the activity:

1) Sense of Gratification towards the needy
2) Social Awareness about the society.

Brief about activity: The stationary from the “lost and found section” of our department which was left un-utilized and un-identified over a period of time was distributed to students of Late. Aanasaheb Magar Z.P. School, Borhadewad on 09/02/2019, Saturday from 11 am onwards. In total 75 Pouches (Containing Pen, Pencil, Compass and Scale) and 30 Compass Boxes were distributed by ISR team to the boys and girls of 5th standard. Total 75 girls and 30 boys were benefited from this activity

Road safety awareness program

Brief information of event: ISR cell E&TC department has organized a “Road safety awareness program” for Girl students and ladies faulty on 24/09/2019, Tuesday at 11:00 AM. Total 180 girl students and ladies staff of E&TC department are benefited by this activity. In the First half of this event, the authorised speaker from Honda motorcycle & scooters India Pvt.Ltd. Pune, Mr.Swapnil Jawharkar gave the theory knowledge about vehicle & driving rules and in the second half of the event, demonstration was conducted for safety precautions and tips while driving to attendees.

Outcome of the activity: Students have created awareness by educating about the basics of driving and road safety.