This Jalandhar College observes Vigilance Awareness Week

Apeejay College of Fine Arts (ACFA), Jalandhar in collaboration with the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India has recently organised the Vigilance Awareness Week to educate students about the negative effects of corruption.

On this special occasion, Mr Kundan Lal, Assistant Director, MSME and Mr Gopal Krishan, PA to Director guided the students and talked about the pitfalls of corruption and how it rots the very roots and culture of the country.

During the week, multiple activities like rangoli making, poster making and slogan writing competitions were organised for the students of ACFA. 

In rangoli making competition, Diksha of BFA Semester 1, Manya of B.Com Semester 1 and Vikash of BFA Semester 1 bagged 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions respectively for their artistic presentation through colours.

While, in poster making competition, the top three positions were bagged by Riya Maggo of BFA Semester 7, Devanshi of BD Semester 1 and Priya Kumari of BD Semester 1. For the slogan writing competition, students of BD Semester 7, Natasha Chabra, Khushi and Dansih Jain won first, second and third positions respectively.

Further, a nukkar-natak was performed to create awareness among the students on corruption. They also took a pledge promising integrity, vilgilance and commitment to the high and noble standards of life.

Dr. Neerja Dhingra, Principal of ACFA expressed, “Today’s youngsters are the future of the nation, so it is essential to imbibe values amongst them and make them realise that work done with honesty bears more fruits and to have clean consciousness is more important than filling pockets through corruption or other wrong practices.”

On winning the slogan writing competition Bhanvi Sharma said, “I promise to live with integrity and commit to the high and noble standards of life. It was shocking to acknowledge the high rate of corruption around us. The lectures were given by the expert to reduce the impact of corruption. It was a Versatile and sublime week for all of us.”

Another student, Natasha Chhabra from B.Design semester 7 expressed, “Vigilance awareness week served its purpose perfectly. We learned about the effects of corruption. I was shocked by the Indian cliché way of offering corruption. This week was an eye opening experience.”

Lastly, Dr Dhingra appreciated the efforts of Ms. Rajni Gupta, Head of Department of Design, Ms. Rajni Kumar, Coordinator of the event and Dr Gagan Gambhir, Professor at ACFA for successfully organising the event.