Miscellaneous - Digital Library
"Million books on the 'Web'" is the slogan with which
the Digital Library has taken its roots from. Under the Indo-US
Science & Technology Collaboration programme SASTRA signed a MoU
with Carnegie
Mellon University, USA and has established a scanning centre at Srinivasa
Ramanujan Centre. All old books, some of which are treasure troves,
available in various libraries such as Saraswathi Mahal, Thanjavur,
Gopal Rao Library, Kumbakonam are scanned and stored. This project,
when complete, will provide readers with information on the web.
Evaluation System
SASTRA is following Semester pattern for all the courses. Credit based system of study that matches established standards is adopted. Out of a total of 100 marks allotted for each subject, 50 marks are allotted for continuous Internal Assessment [with components of periodical tests / seminars / quiz / assignments] and 50 marks for the End Semester Examination.
It is a notable feature that summer coaching classes are being conducted to offer special coaching for the weak students for 3 weeks. Students, who have arrears in Odd/Even semester Examinations, can take up examinations for those subjects in Summer Term Examinations, after undergoing the special coaching.
SRC Organizing Competitions for Schools / College Students
Inter
School Students Cultural Festival is being conducted every year at
SRC, to motivate and encourage
school students improve their skills in extra curricular
activities. Various competitions like Oratorical contests in
English and Tamil, Quiz, Carnatic Vocal Music,
instrumental music and
Cricket tournament are conducted for a school students.
A cash award of Rs. 2000 is given to the winner and Rs.1000
to the student who gets the second position in each competition.
In addition to these individual prizes, a special prize of
Rs. 5000 is awarded to the school of the best performer in Tamil
& English Oratorical and Quiz competitions and the school
winning Cricket match, for the development of the school
library/department of physical education. SASTRA has instituted Rt. Hon'ble Shri V. S. Srinivasa Sastri Gold
Medal for English Oratorical competition and Mahamahopadhyaya Dr.
U. V. Swaminatha Iyer Gold Medal for Tamil Oratorical competition,
to honour the great sons of this soil, Shri
V. S. Srinivasa Sastri and Dr. U. V. Swaminatha Iyer.
These Intercollegiate Oratorical competitions are held at
the Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre every year and the winner of the
each competition is given a gold medal of one sovereign. One
unit of NSS functions at SRC with one in-house programme officer
and 100 student volunteers' [Boys and Girls].
Service activities of NSS include cleaning temples, blood
donation, spreading health
care awareness and tree plantation programmes.
This
club affiliated to the Lions club of Kudanthai Mahamaham, does
service activities such as organization of Blood donation and Eye
donation camp, Tree
plantation, AIDS, Leprosy and other health awareness programmes.
NSS
unit of SRC and Leo club of SASTRA played a vital role in managing
the crowd during Mahamaham 2004. The students were also involved
in first aid relief activity during the Fire accident in which 100
children lost their lives and Tsunami rescue activity at Poompuhar
and Nagapattinam. Affiliated
to Rotary club of Kumbakonam Mid-Town, the
activities of the club are classified under four major heads viz.,
club service, community service, vocational service and
International service. The
quiz club at SRC named as 'Master Mind' quiz club is functioning
with the objective of improving general knowledge/encouraging and
developing the habit of reading/creating competitive spirit among
the students. Frequent
quiz competitions are being organized by the club. SASTRA
publishes the following periodically: ITIHAS IT Is
Happening At SASTRA, a quarterly newsletter, also available at
www.sastra.edu Tight Rope walking by
Prof. K. G. Seshadri, Allied
Publishers Random harvest by Prof. K. G. Seshadri, Saraswathi
Publications Silver Tongue by Prof. K. G. Seshadri, SASTRA PressNSS Activities
LEO
Club of SASTRA
Rotary Club of SASTRA
Master Mind Quiz Club
Publications by SASTRA