Sree Narayana College, Cherthala

About Us

Uniqueness

Institutional distinctiveness.

Our institutional distinctiveness is reflected in our pedagogical approach through which we mould and empower students from deprived communities and sections thereby transforming them as the vanguards of reforms in their locality. Unlike other higher educational institutions in our locality, most students of our college belong to socio-economically marginalised sections. These students also come from areas prone to natural calamity.

After being admitted to the institution, these students are moulded to become socially and morally responsible citizens, contributing towards the welfare of the society and environment they live in. The institution ensures that the students imbibe the values and ideals advocated by the great visionary Sri Narayana Guru. This is done through the activities of various clubs, committees and cells. Sree Narayana Guru Study Centre, for example, plays a major role to instill these values pertaining to our vision and mission among the student community. 

These enlightened students are encouraged to constructively contribute towards society through various social extension activities. The very students who come from deprived backgrounds are thus moulded to make a difference in the lives of their fellow citizens and society in general. They are trained to become active members of our community outreach programmes.

Our students, staff and alumni were at the forefront to provide relief to the people of our locality during the Great Flood of 2018. For about two weeks, our institution provided food, shelter and clothing to more than 4000 affected people . Various instances of volunteer activities exemplify the sense of social commitment imbibed by our students. Regular cleanliness drives and blood donation camps are conducted by our students. As part of the blood donation campaign on 05-10-2017, they also created Rare Blood Donor’s Registry. Two thousand dresses were collected and handed over to P.Krishna Pillai Smaraka Trust as part of the Dress Bank Project  executed by our students. They also collected fund from various sources and constructed a house for their college mate as part of the Sneham Kondoru Veedu Project. Later they took initiative for constructing yet another house for a student of the college who lost her house during the flood.

A Palliative Care Unit was started by our NSS volunteers with technical support from National Health Mission. Later on, our students assisted Palliative care professionals to take care of patients  of Kanjikuzhi Panchayath. In addition, oxygens cylinder, walkers, adult diapers, water bed etc  were donated to needy people.

Students also organized  Breast Cancer Awareness Programme  2021 for giving awareness to elected members of local bodies under the Cherthala Legislative Assembly Constituency. As part of the public health care initiative, the students mobilized a treatment fund for Mr.Kiran.C, a student of RLV College Thrippunithara. Students and teachers of our college contributed towards this cause.

Eighty students from our college participated in the Canal Rejuvenation Project of the Government of Kerala and helped in tracking and surveying of canals in Alappuzha town. 

School bags worth Rs.12000 were purchased using the fund collected by the NSS volunteers and handed over to P.Krishnapillai Smaraka Trust for distribution. As part of  the flood relief activities of 2018, student volunteers visited relief camps in Kainakary,Nedumudy and Pulinkunnu and distributed Doxycycline tablets , hand gloves ,masks and antiseptics.They also collected relief materials worth Rs.30000 and handed it over to the collection centre run by the revenue department.

Student volunteers also helped in conducting a Health Survey in Kuttanad. They also served a control room work force at Collectorate, Alappuzha district. They were also actively involved in the setting up of flood relief camp at our college. Twenty volunteers served as resource persons of Suchithwa Mission at selected camps of Alappuzha and Cherthala to monitor camp hygiene, waste management and create awareness among campers. 

Student volunteers also worked as inspectors deputed by UNICEF at the collection centers of Alappuzha district. Our students were actively involved in the Rebuilt Kerala Programme and Changathi Project (literacy programme for migrant workers).Our students donated a rack and 240 library books to the students of Mayithara Childrens’Home. In addition students also collected and donated books to Kites Foundation as a part of Library Renovation Programme. Flood relief activities were continued during the 2019  flood as well.They helped in rebuilding bund in Kuttanad and their work was highly appreciated by the District Collector Dr.Adeena Abdullah and the Minister of Finance Dr.T.M.Thomas Isaac through their facebook post.

Twenty student volunteers participated in the cleaning,repainting and beautification of Anganwadi in ward 9 of Mararikulam North Grama Panchayat.Our students were involved in the beach cleaning drive at Chethy as part of Swatchatha Hi Seva Programme.This was followed by a street play to give awareness regarding the disposal of plastic wastes. Students from various departments participated in the Beach Cleaning Drive at Marari Beach as part of  Swatch Nirmal Tat Abhiyan.`

They also worked as part of the Clean Alappuzha Project and helped in getting declarations from vendors of Alappuzha town on not dumping waste into canals and nearby areas. In association with Kanjikuzhi Block Panchayat, our students drew pictures and draw Covid 19 awareness messages on Block Panchayat walls.Our students also served as volunteers at the Covid Call Centre at District Call Centre Alappuzha and were also part of Covid Task Force constituted by the District Collector.

Our students conducted four surveys in the Mararikulam North Panchayat .This include Jalanidhi survey, Pension survey, Digital survey and Life Index survey. In March 2022, students took initiative to teach the neighbours and local people about the advantages of online transactions. They enabled  people to download and use apps related to digital financial transations. 

The Digital India initiatives were further pursued when students visited the adopted village and helped the farmers to download Kisan apps into their phones. Kisan Suvida and IFFCO Kisan were the two apps installed in the phones of farmers. Through these apps, farmers can track daily price of commodities, market trends and services provided by the state and central governments.  Students also helped the farmers to download some apps through which they can display and sell their vegetables directly to the customers.