Directorate of Students Welfare

Dean of Students Welfare

Dr. Y.K. Kotikal

Address: University of Horticultural Sciences, Udyanagiri, Navanagar, Bagalkot - 587103. Tel: 08354-201165

Mobile: 9449872868

E-mail: dsw@uhsbagalkot.edu.in

The University has established the directorate of Students Welfare since its inception during 2009. The Directorate is responsible for all co-curricular activities of students like sports, physical health and education, cultural and literary activities, NSS and NCC. It is also responsible for creating and supervising the facilities for comfortable stay of students in the campus including such of the amenities like hostels, canteens, dispensaries, placement cell etc. The directorate is headed by the Dean of Students Welfare who plans and directs programmes of students advisement, counseling, placement and promote discipline among the students.

The co-ordinating flow chart of the students activities:-

Student counseling:- Freshly admitted students of graduate degree programmes are assigned to the teachers for counseling and guidance. The teachers-counselors are provided with guidelines for effective counseling and preventing ragging, with the help of anti ragging committees of the respective colleges. The counselors keep track of their counselees with respect to their academic performance and other co-curricular activities. The progress of the students is informed to their respective parents. One senior teacher is nominated as foreign student Adviser to co-ordinate and monitor the welfare programme of international students. In order to improve the functioning of student counseling in the university it is planned to conduct a systematic survey by an external agency focusing on interaction between counselors and his counselees, constraints in counseling and redressal of problems.

We are proposing to establish a students counseling and monitoring cell with financial assistance under developmental grants by ICAR, by creating the database of all the students using the software developed by one of our students.

Student Clubs:- The Directorate has started student clubs like “Entomology club”, “Oleri club” to encourage the literary and scientific attitude of the students. It is planned to start some more clubs namely Fine Arts club, Emergency Social service club, Adventure club, Cultural club etc. The fees collected towards students Association and Sports will be utilized for these purposes.

Board of Management Vice Chancellor

Dean of Students Welfare

Other officers Director of Research Director of Extension Registrar, Dean (PGS) Librarian, Estate Officer Comptroller, Administrative Officer

Directorate of Education

Deputy Director of Students Welfare, Chief Medical Officer, Foreign students Advisor, University level committees

Deans of all colleges

Hostel Management Committee Chief wardens/ wardens / Staff advisors / Students counselors Physical education teachers

Students Associations Anti ragging committee sports committee cultural activity committee

Group Insurance Scheme:- All the students admitted to B.Sc (Hort) are made to subscribe compulsorily for group health insurance scheme in all the constituent colleges. The minimum medical facilities are provided at all the campuses for treatment of common ailments. At present there is one campus doctor available for the students to take care of them during the ill health cases of severe nature are referred to Government hospitals and some local private hospitals recognized by the university. Financial Assistance to students:- The university has been awarding merit, general, free studentship and student aid fund to the eligible students every year, enable students to get EBL charges and the students belonging to SC/ST and other backward categories will get the financial benefits as per the government orders and provisions.

Further, the scholarships from outside agencies like ICAR / ASPEE / Jindal are also being utilized by the students. A couple of our post graduate students got Inspire awards, ICAR junior & senior fellowships etc. Coaching Classes:- Regular coaching classes are arranged to train the students for ICAR – Junior and Senior Research fellowships, NET/SET/ARS examinations, civil services examinations like IAS, IPS, IFS and KAS etc.

Owing to the intensive coaching our students have been getting ICAR Junior and Senior Fellowships and admissions to various post graduate programmes.

Table 1 : Total number of Students securing ICAR fellowships

Sl. No. Year JRF SRF 1 2010-11 8 - 2 2011-12 4 - 3 2012-13 15 01 4 2013-14 17 02 5 2014-15 14 02

Student performance in JRF and SRF is increasing. Our students also got selected for ARS – NET

Performance in co-curricular activities:-

The Directorate conducts the intercollegiate sports and games meet as well as intercollegiate youth festival every year mainly to encourage the talents and select the team of students for Inter Agri. University sports meet and youth festival. We are proud to mention that our students have made significant achievements at the Inter Agri. University level also.

Table 2 : The students who excelled in sports and cultural activities at inter-varsity level

Sl. No.

Name of the student Event Year Place secured

Held at

1 Mr. Sudeep H P

1500 m Run 2009-10 II Parabhani

2 UHS-March fast team March fast 2009-10 III Allahabad 3 Mr. Bhojraj Best NSS

Volunteer 2009-10 - GKVK,

Bangalore 4 Mr. Sudeep H P 1500 m Run 2010-11 - KAU, Thrissur 5 Mr. Sudeep H P 800 m Run 2010-11 I KAU, Thrissur 6 Mr Satish K B 800 m Run 2010-11 III KAU, Thrissur 7 Mr. Chirag Reddy Discus throw 2010-11 IV KAU, Thrissur 8 Miss Akanksha 100 m 2010-11 III KAU, Thrissur 9 Miss Navyashree High jump 2010-11 IV KAU, Thrissur 10 Mr. Sudeep H P 1500 m Run 2011-12 I PDKV, Akola 11 Mr. Sudeep H P 800 m Run 2011-12 II PDKV, Akola 12 Mr. Sudeep H P 1500 m Run 2012-13 I KVAFSU, Bidar 13 Women’s team Kabaddi 2012-13 II KVAFSU, Bidar 14 Mr. Panduranga I P Javelin throw 2012-13 IV KVAFSU, Bidar 15 Miss Tanuja Discus throw 2012-13 IV KVAFSU, Bidar 16 Mr. Saikiran Light vocal 2012-13 II KVAFSU, Bidar 17 Mr. Mahesh Dashyal Poster making 2012-13 II KVAFSU, Bidar 18 Mr. Mahesh Dashyal Painting 2012-13 III KVAFSU, Bidar 19 Miss Anuradha R H Rangoli 2012-13 III KVAFSU, Bidar 20 Team One act play 2012-13 II KVAFSU, Bidar 21 Team Folk dance 2012-13 III KVAFSU, Bidar 22 Team Mime 2012-13 IV KVAFSU, Bidar 23 Roopa V R High jump 2013-14 II AAU, Jorhat

24 Vidyashree High jump 2013-14 III AAU, Jorhat

14th All India Inter Agricultural Universities Youth Festival – 2013-14:

Sl. No Event Position of UHS, Bagalkot 1 Patriotic song I Prize 2 Group song (Indian) II Prize 3 Poster Making I Prize 4 Cartooning III Prize 5 Rangoli II Prize 6 Mono acting IV Prize 7 One act play II Prize 8 Skit III Prize

Our university bagged Group Championship in Music- (Runner), Fine arts-(Runner), Theater-

(Runner) and OVERALL RUNNERS with 44 points.

Student placement services:-

There is student counseling and placement cell at the university level. The students are made known by notifying the opportunities at various organizations. The private organizations are approached indicating the availability of graduates and post graduates. All possible help and guidance is extended to the graduating students to stand on their feet. Campus interviews are also organized whenever an organization approaches the university and the directorate approaches renewed private NGOs to indicate their requirements.

Student Amenities:-

Students are provided with necessary requirements like hostel, cafeteria, auditorium, library, sports and recreation facilities etc.

Hostels:-

The university has constructed the boys and girls hostels at all the campuses of the constituent colleges as per the existing students strength of the respective colleges. The functioning of the hostel is governed by the “UHS, Bagalkot hostel regulations” by nominating the wardens from the university administration. There is a requirement for PG hostel and an international student hostel at the university head quarters and two other campuses of the university (Arabhavi & Bagalkot) where PG programmes are running.

Sports and other activities:-

To encourage the students participation in sports, NSS, NCC, Cultural activities, appropriate weightage is being given for the candidates participating in university level competitions as per regulations governing for admissions and employments in the University.

Physical Education for I year, NSS for I & II year students are compulsory. We have created facilities for sports at various campuses including the grounds, indoor games and sports equipments and still need to be strengthened with modern sports amenities.

Since inception, University has been conducting the intercollegiate sports meet and youth festival regularly and our students have participated in Inter Agri University sports meet as well as youth festivals. Similarly, our NSS volunteers have been participating in National Integration camps, pre-republic day camps, NSS national and state level youth festivals besides the regular activities and special camps.

Minimum sports amenities are available in all the colleges of the University

Sl. No. Facilities / Equipments College 1 Table Tennis at all colleges 2 Shuttle badminton court at HQ 3 8 late 400 mtr track (play ground) at HQ 4 Gymnasium at HQ 5 Volley ball / Kabaddi / Kho Kho grounds at all colleges 6 Sports equipments at all colleges

Staff working under the Directorate of Students Welfare:

1. Dr. Y.K. Kotikal, Dean, Students Welfare, UHS, Bagalkot 2. Dr. V.M. Ganiger, Programme Co-ordinator, NSS Cell, DSW office, UHS, Bagalkot 3. Dr. R.M. Hiremath, Asst. Professor in Physical Education, DSW office, UHS, Bagalkot 4. Mr. C. Mahadevappa, Asstistant cum computer operator, DSW office, UHS, Bagalkot 5. Mr. Mahantesh S. Mataladinni, Driver(LV), DSW office, UHS, Bagalkot

Students involved in regular NSS activities