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GOLD MEDALS

  GOLD MEDALS

 

    Initially it started with 18 Gold Medals in 1999 but the number increased to 20 in successive years. The Medals are presented to the toppers in various subjects covering languages and optional subjects.  There are medals for the college topper and for the college topper among girls as well.  The Gold Medal Award Committee monitors the entire process right from the selection of students to the actual presentation of medals to the winners.

             The Gold Medal Committee is constituted with the Principal as the Chair-person, one eminent person from the town as the Secretary, a senior member of faculty as the Convenor and another eminent person from the town as a Member. Details of the committee at present are as follows:

 

Gold Medal Award Committee:

            Chairperson:    Sri B. Maruthi Rao, Principal

Secretary:         Ln. S. Dhananjaiah

Converner:       Dr. N. Prempal Reddy

Member:           Ln. M. Bheeshma Chary

 

           The institution remains ever grateful to the philanthropists who had come forward to sponsor gold medals in the interest of the educational advancement of the region in general and the enrichment of the students of the institution in particular.  Each of the sponsors had to be deposited an amount of Rs. 25, 000/ with the account meant for the purpose.  The expenditure incurred in connection with the preparation of the medals is met from the corpus fund thus created.

 

List of Donors and Gold Medals sponsored

 

 

 

 

 

Sl. No.	Subject	Medal	Sponsor
1	English	Late.Baby.Sai Prakarsha Memorial	Sri.K.Mallikarjun
2	Telugu	Late.Smt.Lakshmi & Late.Sri.Ramasharma Memorial	Late.Sri.K.Vasantha Kumar
3	History	Late.Chiluveru Sambaiah Memorial	Sri.C.Kasinath
4	Economics	Late.Sri.Madavaram Jayanandam Memorial	Sri.MJ.Krupavaram
5	Political Science	Late.Sri.Venkat Reddy & Late.Smt.Shakaramma Memorial	Ln.N.Mohan Reddy
6	Buisiness Organisation	Late.Sri.Pagidimarri Chandramouli Memorial	Sri.P.Balaraju & Bros.
7	Bus.Statastics	Smt.Anasuya	Sri.Y.Yadagiri
8	Accountancy	Late.Smt.Alampally Buchamma & Late.Sri.Alampally Papaiah Memorial	Ln.Alampally Narsimha
9	Computer Application	Sri Perumalla John Memorial Medal	Ln. P.J. Samson
10	Maths	Smt.Jayapradha Devi	Ln.V.V.Rama Rao
11	Physics	Sri.Ramabadraiah & Smt.Kondamma	Ln.T.Yadagiri
12	Chemistry	Late.Sri.Arroju Ramaswamy & Smt.Lakshmi Memorial	Ln.Dr.A.Narahari
13	Computers	Late.Ch.Vishwanadham Memorial	Sri.Ch.Gopi
14	BA	Late Sri.Mora Narayana Chary	Ln.N.Bheeshma Chary
15	B.COM	Late.Smt.Lalitha Devi Memorial	Sri.K.Mohan Reddy
16	B.Sc(MPCS)&MPC	Late.Sri.A.Narsi Reddy Memorial	Smt.N.Vijaya Lakshmi
17	B.SC(BZC&MBZC)	Dr.Amrutha Rani	Dr.R.Arunachalam
18	College Topper among the Girls (G)	Smt.Samudrala Manemma	Ln.Samudrala Dhananjaiah
19	College Topper among the Students	Sri.V.Shankar Reddy	Late.Sri.V.Vijayender Reddy
20	Botany	Sanjeevani Charitable Trust	Fr. Raphael
21	Zoology	Late Ln. Munagala Gangadhar Rao Memorial	Ln. P.J. Samson &              Sri V. Venkata Ramana Reddy

Eligibility Criteria for winning a medal:

The following are the criteria stipulated for considering a student for the award of a gold medal:

1. He/She should pass all the subjects in a single attempt
2. Marks secured in improvement are not considered

 

Utmost care is taken in the process of selection a student for a particular medal.  After the list is prepared, it is displayed in all the notice boards in the college with an instruction that if anyone has an objection to the list, he should represent it to the Principal for necessary corrections/modifications before the date specified.  The Gold Medal Committee and Grievance Redressal Cell after a thorough examination of the objection, makes appropriate changes in the list, if required. 

 

As has been mentioned earlier, Gold Medals are awarded to the winners on the ‘Graduation Day’. Eminent Academicians and Officials from Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda are invited as guests to the ceremony.  Generally, in other colleges, the passing out students are obliged to run from pillar to post to obtain their Study & Conduct Certificate, Transfer Certificate and Memorandum of Marks.  Relieving them from this burden, all the passing out students are handed over their respective certificates in a file on the Graduation Day itself. 

 

1. EvidenceofSuccess

             The pass percentage of the college has recorded a huge rise of 29% i.e., from 42% in 2013 to 71% in 2014.  The institution believes that the practice of gold medals has been one of the key factors for securing First Place with 71% of passes in the Annual Examinations of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda in March, 2014.  It is noteworthy in this context that a student Ms. Y. Sujatha of B.A.(EHP) bagged as many as 7 Gold Medals in various subjects in 2013 and with this inspiration, Ms.D.Swathi of B.Sc.(MPC) bagged as many as 8 Gold Medals in 2014.

 

1. ProblemsEncounteredandResourcesRequired

             As the expenditure involved in the practice of awarding Gold Medals is met from the interest on the corpus fund referred to earlier, there are no financial problems with regard to the Gold Medals.  Since all the members of staff actively involve themselves in the programme and the work is shared by them, there are no problems with regard to human resources either.       

 

7.       Notes

The practice of celebrating the Graduation Day is worth emulating by every institution since it provides a platform to encourage the students who perform well in studies.  Especially the presentation of Gold Medals instills in the newly enrolled students a competitive spirit exhorts them that they too have the potential of winning the medals with hard work and consistence.  It also gives an opportunity to brief the new entrants about the college.