Taking cue from parent-teacher meeting held in schools Dhanbad’s Guru Nanak College, a minority institute affiliated to Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University (BBMKU) organized a parent-teacher meeting (PTM) during which parents of 125 students participated, today. Around 62 students were from the History department of the college and 63 from the Political Science department.

College principal, Purnendu Shekhar along with five different teachers from the above mentioned department were present for the meeting. They took feedback from both the students and parent regarding teaching, extra-curricular activities as well the infrastructure facilities of the college. They also apprised them about the institute’s plan to augment the infrastructure facilities and improving the academic activities etc.

Talking to The Telegraph Online today Shekhar, said, “We have been organizing such meetings on a regular basis since 2019. Just ahead of the lockdown, we had conducted a PTM, last year.”

“After the campus reopening this year, we have started PTM and subject wise PTM for Computer Science, Economics etc have already been conducted. Today during the first session we engaged with 62 students pursuing their undergraduate degree in History, the second session was for 63 students from the Political Science department,” he said. According to him similar meetings will be held with parents of students pursing degrees in English, Commerce and Psychology on April 11.

“Such kind of interactions are best way of improving the academic as well as infrastructural facilities of the campus, we are keen on continuing this practice. In fact, we have carried out a lot of improvement based on feedbacks received during the PTMs. Betting our library facilities and having it turned into a digital library was on the basis of some feedback that we got,” said Shekhar.

Sunil Kumar, a government school teacher of Putki was present for the meeting along with her daughter Sushila Kishore, a semester 1 student of BA (History Honours). He said, “The meeting was quite informative as we came to know about the way of teaching and also received information about the performance of our wards.”

“We suggested the teachers and principal of college present during the meeting to organize excursion trip for the History students to the nearby historical places in order to increase the interest of the students in the subject,” added Kumar.

Uzma Kayenat, a student of semester I of BA (History Honours) who attended the PTM along with her mother Sazda Khatoon said, “This has helped our parents connect with our educational pursuit in a better manner. Having them involved in the process will only help us get better support from our family members too.”