God of prosperity: A group of Cimage College students sits around their rangoli on the campus

Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna (CIMP), students visited Dayanand Anathalaya to celebrate Diwali with the centre’s children.

Samvedna, a social marketing club, is an initiative of the institution to develop the state. Its members visit the orphanage in Danapur every two months to spend time with the children.

This year, to celebrate Diwali, the postgraduate diploma students visited the orphanage on October 22.

The students cleaned the orphanage and arranged clothes and playthings for the children. Excited to see the CIMP students, the children played and danced with them.

Samvedna organises visits to the orphanage every two months. Twice a year, all first- and second-year students are also taken there.

The management institution generates fund from among the students to organise different activities at the orphanage. The club also arranges private tutors for the orphans wishing to study. The club pays for the tutors.

Social time

Cimage College in the city reached out to the less fortunate last week when the students celebrated Diwali with some slum children.

The special celebration was planned for slum children around the Patliputra area on October 21.

At the start of the day, rangolis were made and diyas were placed around the college. Later, the Cimage College students visited the slums around their institution and distributed crackers, sweetmeats and candles among the little ones.

“Members of the college’s Utsav Club arranged for Rs 9,500 from all the teachers and students of the college. They bought crackers and sweets for slum children with the amount. The initiative taken by the college students was really commendable,” said director Neeraj Agrawal.

Puja Kumari, a bachelor of business administration student and one of the volunteers of Utsav Club, said: “As a child, I celebrated Diwali with my friends and cousins. We lit lamps, gorged on sweets and watched fireworks light up the night sky. That is the kind of experience every child deserves. So, we took the festival to them (the slum children). A small gesture also makes a lot of difference.”

The college director added: “At Cimage, all the teachers and students are part of one family. They celebrate all the festivals together and also try to spread happiness among others.”

Go clean

The young minds of St Xavier’s College of Education took up brooms on the eve of Diwali to clean the DAV Inter School grounds in Danapur.

The college teachers also supported the BEd students in their Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

“We have decided to take up this activity on a regular basis. Once a month, areas in and around the college would be cleaned. We want to carry out green activities too. So, the students with support of the teachers will plant trees around the St Xavier’s campus on November 3. Later, we’ll plant trees in and around the city as well,” said Deep Kumar, a teacher at St Xavier’s College of Education.

Sample well

Central University of Bihar faculty member Arun Kumar Sinha this month presented a statistics paper at an international conference in Vietnam.

Sinha, head of department, statistics, was invited to International Conference on Official Statistics from October 8-10.

The event was organised by the International Association of Official Statistics, International Statistical Institute, the Netherlands, in collaboration with the General Statistics Office of Vietnam at Da Nang.

The main theme of the International Association of Official Statistics 2014 conference was meeting the demands of a changing world.

Sinha’s paper, “Estimating the urban population using minimum information” was the leading presentation of the session on urban statistics for the post-2015 development agenda. He said: “The paper discussed the expertise of field personnel in sampling units, determining gender composition of a population for estimating an unknown population of a place more efficiently.”

Speaking more on the paper, Sinha said: “Such sampling is required to for implementing many welfare schemes of the government and non-government agencies.”

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