Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management Campus Facilities - Hostel Fees, Infrastructure, Address

The library of SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management is well equipped with 4860 books on various subjects of media, management and information technology. It also has books of fiction, nonfiction, general knowledge etc. All books are classified with the help of Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme (22nd Ed.) and arranged accordingly so as to make easily accessible.

Library is computerized with the help of LIBSYS software. Students and staff can see library collection with the help of OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and Web OPAC. Library also subscribes 15 daily newspapers and 27 periodicals. It also has a very good collection of CDs, DVDs and films and has institutional membership of American Center Library.

We are extremely excited to announce the entrepreneurship cell of Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management! The Entrepreneurship Cell of UPG is a brainchild of the BMS faculty of the college. UPG is blossoming into an institution par excellence and is now initiating into one of its highly student assistive departments - the Entrepreneurship Cell. This cell, shall advice aspiring entrepreneurs, provide them with an insight to their business ideas and guide them on their young journey of becoming an Entrepreneur. This initiative is tailor made for the large number of budding businessmen and women in our college, we aim to prepare them for the challenges that they will face in the future. Our main objective is to actually help the students! By this we mean, we will not just give the students a listening ear and a brief path to their goals, but we will make sure we are there to help them, guide them and advise them on their first phase of their entrepreneurship journey. The cell makes sure that only those who actually hold a fire within them to establish a business of their own are a part of the cell. As this cell is not like the other cultural committees of the college, here we all mean business & thus, the core members will have to take initiative and see to it that all the activities are carried out with serious dedication. All the tasks and activities need to be designed and carried out in a professional manner, so as to make sure the students are rightly benefitted. Knowledge into various fields will be required, as the ideas coming in from students will not be pertaining to one single stream of business. UPGCM believes that education moulds an individual, an individual influences the society and a society defines what a country becomes. Since, the Entrepreneurship Cell is a new initiative it will take a little time in setting up and reaching out to students, just like a newly set up business requires gestation period! However, with the guidance of the extremely knowledgeable and approachable professors and the very determined committee members, this cell will soon be doing wonders for not only the aspiring entrepreneurs but the society as a whole. We will help the young aspiring minds of students - nurture and grow in their field of interests that in turn will help develop the society, because if we have ideas of new businesses, we can definitely reduce our dependence on other nations. Every business goes through circumstances where it has to meet up to targets, deadlines as well as set a benchmark in its performance. We at EC gave students tasks and projects which helped them imbibe on qualities such as hard-work and patience. We encourage them to give in their best and always work for quality over quantity. And who else better than the professors can help motivate the students to put in their best and strive to success, just the way they do for academics! The results acquired post submission of the tasks required critical analysis, as through this a student was made aware of his strengths and weakness and they were guided on how they could do tasks better. We have also successfully conducted various activities with the help of Asian institute of Family Managed Business (AIFMB), the company with which we have tied up. The tie up has helped us to make this cell much more informative which has further benefited the students. The EC is an initiative taken by the college to assist, guide and advice their students, who are aspiring entrepreneurs.

Overview

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is- what are you doing for others? In today’s fast paced life, where competition, prestige, precision, out-witting, corruption, apathy, hostility, ignorance, contemptuousness and tech-tonic life have escalated beyond limits, NSS is where you derive satisfaction out of social work. Hence the tag line- NSS: ‘Not Me But You’.

UPG NSS has completed five successful years since its conception in 2010. This year too, it has served souls and won hearts. The journey commenced with the Blood Donation Drive and Thalassemia Check-up in collaboration with Indian Medical Association, C.B. Patel Research Centre and J.J. Mahanagar Hospital. Throughout the year, NSS was involved in a plethora of events like Book Binding Activity, Malaria Awareness Rally and pamphlet distribution, Beach Cleaning Drive during and after Ganesh Chaturthi, Traffic Management Activity, De-Addiction Rally, Peace Rally, Flag Selling, Snake Awareness Seminar, Cancer and Hepatitis Awareness Seminar. The students also visited the BMC School and taught the children various art and craft forms. The students attended a 7 day camp at Vajreshwari in Thane District where they participated in activities like Tree Plantation, Tribal School visit, river bank cleaning etc.

UPG NSS volunteers had also taken part in the NSS fest of NM College- Sankalp, Dahnukaar College- Idradhanushya and NSS fest of Sathaye College- Janeev. The unit won2nd prize in Street Play and 1st prize in the presentation on “CHANGE”, in Sankalp; 2nd prize in the Elocution competition and 3rd prize in the quiz competition in Indradhanushya; and a consolation prize for essay writing and first prize in the dance competition in Janeev.

It’s not just work that UPG NSS volunteers do, there is so much more, it is about humbleness, self-confidence, compassion, humility, dignity of labour, staying grounded, relating with the under-privileged, feeling the pulse of common people and most important, discovering your own self.

College Women Development Cell

In response to the Vishaka Judgment passed by the Supreme Court in 1997, the University of Mumbai set up the ‘University Women Development Cell (UWDC)’ in 2001 with the key purpose of making the University a gender-sensitive space. The University also directed all its affiliated colleges to set up a ‘Women Development Cell’ at college level.

In compliance of this directive of the University, the Women Development Cell of Mithibai College was set up in the year 2004 under the chairmanship of Ms. (Prof.) Kinnari Ramanathan.  It is an active committee comprising of staff members and students of Mithibai College, and functions with an aim to prevent sexual harassment, promote well being of all the female students and staff members and create a gender sensitized community within campus as well as in the society.

According to the Supreme Court of India, the following constitutes sexual harassment:

1  Physical contact and advances
2.  A demand or request for sexual favours
3.  Sexually coloured remarks
4.  Showing pornography
5.  Any other unwelcome physical, verbal, or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.

College Women Development Cell Members:

1       Prof. Babita Kachroo (9819358889)

2.      Prof. Shubhangi Nargund (9821029851)

3.      Prof. Sunita Gupta (9967574590)

4.      Prof. Mayur Sarfare (9892586121)

5.      Mr. Rajendra Mali (9757019487)

6.      Ms. Roopal Trivedi (7506565349)

7.      Ms. Nidhi Patel (9869716832)