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CONVOCATION 2010
STUDENTS OF ENGLISH	STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS

STUDENTS OF ZOOLOGY	STUDENTS OF BOTANY

Pritilata Wadder Birth Centenary Celebration 2010 - 2011

Organized by: Department of History Bethune College

Phase-II

OBSERVANCE OF PRITILATA SAHID DIBASH

The Officer-in-Charge, Staff& students of Bethune College request the pleasure of your company at the observance of Pritilata Sahid Dibash to be held at 11.15 a.m on 24th September, 2010 at Bethune College, Kolkata.

Programme

	11.30 a.m.- 12.30 p.m		Lecture 1 Speaker: Ms. Malini Bhattacharyya

	12.30 p.m.- 1.30 p.m.		Lecture 2 Speaker: Ms. Manini Chatterjee

	1.30 p.m.		Tea

Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly 150th Birth Anniversary Celebration

STATE LEVEL SEMINAR: 9 September, 2010 Bethune College, Kolkata

In Association with: Bethune College Sammilani

Sponsored by: Department of Higher Education Government of West Bengal

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

10.30 a.m.		Registration

11.00 a.m.		Welcome Address Dr. Manjusha Sinha (Bera) Officer-in-charge, Bethune College

11.10 a.m.		Inauguration Professor Suranjan Das Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University

11.30 a.m.		Key note Address Professor Bharati Ray President, Governing Body, Bethune College

11.40 a.m.		Tea

Session – 1		Session – 2

Chairperson	Professor Manimala Das Vice-Chancellor, Netaji Subhas Open University	Chairperson	Professor Pushpa Misra Former Principal, Bethune College

12.00 noon	Speaker: Dr. Sunanda Ghosh Former Head, Department of Political Science, Bethune College Title: Chandramukhi Basu – Reconstructed	1.45 p.m.	Speaker: Dr. Arabindo Ghosh Joint Director, Administrative Training Institute, Kolkata Title: Pro-poor Capacity Building in India’s Women Health Sector

12.30 p.m.	Speaker: Dr. Sumitra Chowdhury Former Principal, Victoria Institution, Kolkata Title: The Life and Works of Dr. Kadambini Ganguly	2.15 p.m.	Speaker: Dr. Rajasri Basu Director, Women’s Study Centre, Rabindra Bharati University Title: Ascelepius’s Unfavoured Daughter: The Case of Women Doctors

1.15 p.m.	Lunch	3.00 p.m.	Vote of Thanks

		3.10 p.m.	Cultural Programme

PRITILATA WADDER BIRTH CENTENARY CELEBRATION 2010 - 2011

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE About Inter-college Essay & Extempore Speech Competition

Phase-I

26th August 2010

Inaugural Ceremony		10.30 a.m.

	Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Sri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, will grace the Inaugural Ceremony of Pritilata Wadder Birth Centenary Celebration with his presence as the Chief Guest on 26^th of August 2010, in Bethune College, Kolkata, along with Prof. Sudarsan Ray Choudhury, Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge, Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal and Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice- Chancellor, University of Clacutta as Guests of Honour, and Sri Atish Dasgupta, Director, Directorate of State Archives as Special Guest. Prof. Bharati Ray, President of the Governing Body, Bethune College will chair the occasion. The details of the ceremony are as follows:

	Inauguration of Pritilata Bhavan by Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	10.35 a.m.

	Opening of yearlong celebration of Pritilata Wadder Birth centenary	10.55 a.m.

Inauguration of the Two-day long Archival Documents and Photo Exhibition		11.30 a.m.

International Seminar		12 noon

	Lecture I :	12 noon
	Speaker : Prof. Bhaskar Chakraborty, Centenary Professor, Department of History, University of Calcutta

	Lecture II :	1.00 p.m.
	Speaker : Prof. Maleka Begum, Retired Professor, University of Dacca

	Lecture III :	2.30 p.m.
	Speaker : Prof. Selina Hosain, Eminent Literary Figure of Bangladesh

27th August 2010

	Inter-college Essay & Extempore Speech Competition	11.30 a.m.

	Cultural Programme	2.30 p.m.

	Prize-giving Ceremony and Closing of Archival Documents and Photo Exhibition	4.00 p.m.

Detailed schedule of the other programmes of the year-long celebration will be announced later on.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

AALAP - Annual Cultural Programme

Since 2004, students of Bethune College have been organizing an annual Cultural Festival –‘Aalap’. Corporate Houses were the main sponsors of this programme. Inter-college competitions are held on creative writing, elocution, debate, quiz, music, choreography etc. Eminent judges have been present to assess the performances. Famous Bengali musical bands are invited to perform in the evening.

OTHER OCCASIONS

Students also celebrate Teacher's day (5th September), Rabindra Jayanti (8th/9thMay), and Bethune day (12th August) as part of their cultural festivities.

The College pays homage to John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune by observing his death anniversary on 12th August each year. On this day a representative section of the students go to Bethune’s tomb and offer flowers.

The College also organizes a lecture known as Bethune Memorial Lecture by an eminent academician on this occasion. A tree plantation festival known as bano mahotsab is organized by the department of Botany on the day. Apart from this, the students also participate in an elaborate cultural programme on the day of the Annual Prize Distribution ceremony of the college.

Students are encouraged to participate in intra-college competitions that are held in September every year. This includes creative writing (Bengali and English), elocution, debate, quiz, poster-painting, recitation (Bengali and English), choreography, Rabindra Sangeet, light classical and drama competition.

Almost all the departments bring out wall magazines where students write on cultural, socio-political, scientific issues and on other themes of their own.

BETHUNE DAY SPEAKERS

1. Swami Tyagarupananda, Principal, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Ramakrishna Vivekananda University delivered the speech on ‘Sikha o Samajer Prati Daebodhhota’ on Friday 12th August 2011

2. Dr. Somnath Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Jadavpur University delivered the speech on ‘Nari Siksha, Bethune & Vivekananda’ on Thursday 12th August 2010

3. Pravrajika Amalaprana Mataji, General Secretary, Sri Sarada Math & Ramakrishna Sarada Mission, Dakhshineswar delivered the speech on Holy Ma Sarada & Sister
Nivedita on Wednesday, 12th August 2009

4. Prof. Sunirmal Chanda, Vice Chairman, Centre for Study of Man and Environment, delivered the speech on ‘the life of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose’ on Tuesday, 12th August 2008

5. Swami Atmapriyananada, Vice Chancellor of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University the Bethune Day speech on Saturday, 11th August 2007

6. Prof. Bharati Ray, President of the Governing Body of Bethune College delivered the Bethune Day speech on Women empowerment Saturday, 12th August 2006

ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION

The Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony is a mega event for the College and is held in the last half of February every year.



Stage performance during Annual Prize Distribution
	English Drama	Bengali Drama

COLLEGE SPORTS

Bethune College provides its students with games and sports facilities. The college games room has indoor games like Carom and Chess.

The outdoor games section has BADMINTON and TENNIQOIT RING in its test.

The college also provides for regular practicing of various throw and jump events.
As far as the physical fitness section is concerned, the games room offers the students with bi- cycle, agro meter, twister, chest- expander, and ladies cycle.

The college holds its Annual Sports Meet in the month of December every year. Besides this the college also participates in various inter- college sports meets and has many prizes to its credit.

SPORTS 2009

Inter Government College Sports Meet