A three day Life Skills Training Program organized at ISTAR
A three day life skills training program was organized for all the final year students of ISTAR during 16, 17, 18 August 2023. This program was initiated by Training and Placement Cell of The CVM University with support of RUBICON.
Four trainers from RUBICON gave training to the students in the areas of personality development, communication skill, English reading, writing and speaking skill, presentation skill as well as job preparation and interview preparation skill.
All the students actively participated for all three days into various activities and were benefited a lot.

Book - Exhibition on (chemical science & technology, computer science, valuation, industrial hygiene & safety, instrumentation & control, environmental science, geoinformatics, physics and general topics) dated 08/08/2023 at ISTAR college, 3rd floor, room no. 412 organized by ISTAR Library and Chirag Book Distributors.

Heartfulness Meditation - A Way To Manage Stress & Regulate Mind during 24th to 26th June, 2023 . All staff members from SICART, ISTAR & R&N Patel Ipcowala were present.

ISTAR - WDC committee has celebrated Women's Day on 13th March, 2023 "Women with a voice is, by definition a Strong Women" more than 70+ girl students participated and made the event successful.

Counselling cell, ISTAR - Organized expert talk on “Career Guidance for Preparation of CSIR UGC NET & GATE” for Semester - I students on 2nd September, 2022 (Friday) at 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm in Room No. 421(Seminar Hall), ISTAR Building.

On the account of World Environment Day - 2018, Respected Shri Manish Sir, Vice-President of CVM, has planted the saplings of environment-friendly plant species in ISTAR campus. To prevent the plastic pollution, he also inaugurated the distribution of eco-friendly bags to create more awareness among people. He has taken an initiative and novel drive of “My Campus, Clean Campus” in all the institutions of CVM.

World Environment Day (WED) occurs on the 5th June every year, and is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environmental components. World Environment Day [WED] was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, resulting from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. Two years later, in 1974 the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth". It has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. WED has grown to become a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, WED has a new theme that major corporations, NGOs, communities, governments and celebrities worldwide adopt to advocate environmental causes.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Erik Solheim, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Head of UN Environment, jointly announced that India will be hosting the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2018.

“Beat Plastic Pollution”, the theme for World Environment 2018, urges governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together and explore sustainable alternatives and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic polluting our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.

“India is excited to host the World Environment Day this year on June 5. Indian philosophy and lifestyle has long been rooted in the concept of co-existence with nature. We are committed to making Planet Earth a cleaner and greener place”, said Dr. Harsh Vardhan.

“If each and every one of us does at least one green good deed daily towards our Green Social Responsibility, there will be billions of green good deeds daily on the planet.”

The Government of India has committed to organizing and promoting the World Environment Day celebrations through a series of engaging activities and events generating strong public interest and participation. From pan-Indian plastic clean-up drives in public areas, national reserves and forests to simultaneous beach clean-up activities – India will lead the initiative by setting an example.

Plastic Pollution Facts:
• Every year the world uses up to 5 trillion plastic bags
• Each year, at least 13 million tones of plastic end up in the oceans, the equivalent of a full garbage truck every minute.
• In the last decade, we produced more plastic than in the whole last century
• 50 percent of the plastic we use is single-use or disposable
• We buy 1 million plastic bottles every minute
• Plastic makes up 10% of all of the waste we generate

So use always degradable plastics (bioplastics) instead of non-degradable plastic bags, to keep our surroundings clean and green.

Activity list:
1) Marshal Art Training Session Handle by:
    Sensei Chetan Fumakia- Director, Pragati Academy, V.V.Nagar
    Sensei Krunal Thakkar – Director-Operations, Pragati Academy, V.V.Nagar
2) Greeting Card Designing competition based on theme “Women Rights- Gender Equality”
3) Expert Talk: Dr. Bhavana Chauhan- Head, Food & Nutrition Department, S.M. Patel Home Science Collage.
4) Mehndi Competion
No. of participants: 50 Participants (Students & Faculty Members)
Competition Winner
Greeting Card Competition:
[1] Saini M. Patel & Paras Patel (MCA Department)
[2] Hiral Soni (Ph.D.- EST Department)
[3] Seema and Margi Patel (EST Department)
Mehndi Competition:
[1] Kajal Patel (IC Department)
[2] Hiral (IC Department)
[3] Siddhi Patel (EST Department)