Initiatives

To build the youth with the mind and spirit to serve the society and work for the social uplift of the down-trodden masses of our nation as a movement.

Education through community Service and Community Service through Education.

• Understand the community in which they work
• Understand themselves in relation to their community
• Identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem-solving
• Develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility
• Utilize their knowledge in finding practical solutions to individual and community problems
• Develop competence required for group-living and sharing of responsibilities
• Gain skills in mobilizing community participation
• Acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitudes
• Develop capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters and
• Practice national integration and social harmony

• An accomplished social leader
• An efficient administrator
• A person who understands human nature

To build the youth with the mind and spirit to serve the society and work for the social uplift of the down-trodden masses of our nation as a movement.

Education through community Service and Community Service through Education.

• Understand the community in which they work
• Understand themselves in relation to their community
• Identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem-solving
• Develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility
• Utilize their knowledge in finding practical solutions to individual and community problems
• Develop competence required for group-living and sharing of responsibilities
• Gain skills in mobilizing community participation
• Acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitudes
• Develop capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters and
• Practice national integration and social harmony

• An accomplished social leader
• An efficient administrator
• A person who understands human nature

The 21st century is indeed an era of Knowledge. Human wisdom and knowledge has become transnational and is being transferred globally in an unprecedented way by dint of amazing process of science and technology. The world has almost become a ‘Global Village’. Human mind is being explored and exploited to its fullest in the domains of knowledge and learning world over. When India is going to be a global leader and a torch-bearer to the world in days to come, it is expected that every citizen of India is able to take initiatives on his own and is aptly equipped with rich and noble values of our glorious cultural and historical heritage. This global image of Gujarat follows our practices in science, technology, research, education, trade and commerce, proper administration and our traditions. In the light of this scenario that the Higher Education of State emphasizes new policies and action plans to infuse and instill within the youth of Gujarat the spirit of global competition and to encourage them to display their talents to meet challenges of the newer changing order of the world.

• Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav and Swarnim Gujarat Mission for Excellence coincide with Gujarat celebrating its glorious  half century since the establishment of the state. The State proposes to induce renewed spirit and to introduce newer action plans encompassing all walks of life for the betterment of the society .
• To fulfil this noble mission, colleges and universities across Gujarat focus on various areas of education, art and knowledge for the manifold progress of the youth. These areas of focus are known as Band/Cluster/Spectrum/Continuum/Symphony of Activities(Dharas)

• In our college, Under Saptdhara initiative different activities focusing on skill development and skill enhancement of students are conducted such as creative writing, proof reading workshop ,essay writing competition, poetry recitationElocution competition, poster making, painting, salad decoration, rangoli making, drama workshop,sports avtivities for the overall development of students.
• Under Saptadhara , we have been focusing on many Govt. initiatives such as HAR GHAR TIRANGA, CLIMATE CHANGE, DRUGS FREE INDIA, SWACHCHH BHARAT ABHIYAN etc. Awareness programs and various competition on these themes have been conducted involving huge participation of students and increase their commitment and enthusiasm towards a brighter better India.
• Saptadhara is playing a vital role in guiding the youth, creating awareness and boosting their enthusiasm in a constructive manner by involving them in activities such as SHARING IS CARING, PLANTATION OF TREES, CLEAN CAMPUS GREEN CAMPUS, BREAST CANCER AWARENESS.

Empowering the young population of the State to unlock their creative potential through Start-up and Innovation so as to enable them to contribute for sustainable development and inclusive growth towards the realization of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat.

• Create a student-centric innovation and incubation ecosystem across the academia.
• Establish an Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem at all levels of education: Schools, Institutes and Universities.
• Develop functional incubators at all universities in the State.
• Scout and nurture innovation and Start-up across academia and enable them for maximum value creation for the industry, society and the State at large.
• Build internal capacity of educational institutions and strengthening mentoring processes.
• Promote Intellectual Property related awareness programmes and develop mechanisms for filing and approvals of IP.
• Set up a common robust digital platform that would allow seamless support to stakeholders.
• Develop an integrated mechanism of performance analysis by fixing predetermined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Encourage students, innovators and Start-ups in sunrise sectors, traditional and disruptive technologies.
• Formulate and implement various interventions and mandates based on learnings from best practices and past efforts to facilitate the journey of Mind-to-market.
• Nurture the evolution of Gujarat Start-up ecosystem across its various phases like emergence, activation, integration and maturity.

• Outreach and sensitize 5 million students for innovation and entrepreneurship, covering at least 1000 Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and 10,000 Schools of the State.
• Support to 10,000 student-led Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs/Prototype).
• Assistance to 5000 IP filings.
• Build capacity for at least 500 educational institutions and universities in the State, to have a robust preincubation support system for beneficiaries.
• Nurture 1000 school student led innovations.
• Groom 1500 student Start-ups and upscale existing Start-ups.
• Incubate 500 Start-up (physical and virtual).
• Support to 500 Start-up under Start-up Srujan Seed Support (Up to INR 10 Lac).

At Institutional Level Gujarat Arts and Commerce College (Evening), Ahmedabad is bound to take step by step action to make the goals of SSIP 2.0 come true. We have an active SSIP committee working well in-line with the guidelines of SSIP 2.0. We have also formed a SSIP club of college students interested in taking up entrepreneurship as a future profession. The benefits of the same shall be available to society at large in the coming future when these budding learners become job-givers someday. Also, interested students can join the SSIP club and take benefits of various Startup motivation and innovation related activities undertaken at College.

• Gujarat students advance in the field of innovation, research and startup.
• Students studying in the fields of arts, commerce and science start a business and build a career.
• Entrepreneurial activities gain momentum.
• Innovative Ideas will create prototype models through new technology.

• Career counselling
• Guidance for Higher Education
• How to crack Competitive Exam of Government Sector
• Importance of Skills in Professional Courses
• Soft Skill Development
• Campus Placement

• Finishing School aims at empowering students with various Skill sets in addition to Knowledge that makes them Industry ready. Finishing School Trainers enable students to hone their Life Skills, Employability Skills, Functional and Spoken English Skills so as to carve a niche in the competitive and dynamic world.
• Finishing school training is given to final year students studying in college Finishing school training is also given to postgraduate students from the year 2019-20.
• So far, there are trainers for 85 Life Skills and Employment Skills components, and 37 English Component trainers who have national/international certification and corporate experience have been impaneled by KCG.
• A total of 80 hours of training is given to the students under finishing school. Which have been divided into a total of 4 components.

To prepare Graduating students of Gujarat for better employability, Industry readiness, and a prosperous career through appropriate training interventions. The vision goes a step further beyond Gujarat to spread the progressive initiative of Finishing School throughout India.

• The Mission of Finishing School initiative is to train the young minds such that they emerge as polished diamonds in their respective fields and to prepare them for the corporate world by enhancing their Leadership and Employability Skills.
• The Finishing School Initiative aims at creating an India where no Youth is left behind when it comes to seeking employment just due to skill gaps. Thus, we take a step towards creating trained Industry ready youth and they take a step towards creating a better nation and a brighter future.

• To Identify students who are in need of Training in essential and critical skills that enhance their employability
• To provide such students with suitable Training in Modules that add value to their education and enable them to leverage on best career opportunities
• To strengthen students with self-esteem, self-confidence, professional skills, and functional communication skills which is the prerequisite for a healthy professional life and life in general?
• To empower students in the practical application of their knowledge in the different Domains of the eco-system and thereby contribute positively towards nation building
• To support the economic progress of the State by providing a robust and well-equipped talent pool as a part of the human resource in the State.

The Training Structure consists of 4 Segments

Set- A (LIFE SKILL & EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS)- 20 Hours
Set- B (FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH SKILL-1) – 20 Hours
Set- C (LIFE SKILL & EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS) – 20 Hours
Set- D (FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH SKILL-2) – 20 Hours

Every year students from the Gujarat Arts and Commerce College (Evening), Ahmedabad take benefit of Finishing School in a batch size ranging from 35-55 students and get rigorous training of 80 hours. In the year 2021-22 a batch of 39 students took benefit of the Finishing School.

To attain higher levels of access, equity and excellence in the State higher education system with greater efficiency, transparency, accountability and responsiveness. Key Features: Norm-based and performance-based funding.

Launched in 2013, the RUSA aims at providing strategic funding to eligible state higher educational institutions. The central funding (in the ratio of 60:40 for general category states, 90:10 for special category states and 100% for union territories) is based on norms and is outcome dependent.

Campus years are treasured by graduates long after they leave the hallowed portals of their universities. Not only does that time shape their thinking, this phase allows young minds to open up, to understand the path they want to take, and sometimes, more importantly, the road they don’t want to follow.

With that at the very core, the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan, a centrally sponsored programme, aims to work with 300-plus state universities and its affiliated colleges to raise the bar of campus life.

RUSA isn’t a touch-up tint of paint .It is the central government’s plan to develop every state university to its most exemplary version

The key objectives of RUSA are to improve access, equity and quality in higher education through planned development of higher education at the state level. Objectives include creating new academic institutions, expanding and upgrading the existing ones, developing institutions that are self-reliant in terms of quality education, professionally managed, and characterized by greater inclination towards research and provide students with education that is relevant to them as well the nation as a whole.

• COMPONENT – 9 (EQUITY INITIATIVE):
  • Purchase under Equal opportunity cell
  • Arranged karate coaching camp for girls for self-defense
  • Books for references and better knowledge more than curriculum
  • Books for competitive examm
• Future plans:
  • Arrange gender equality seminars, lectures
  • Gender counseling
  • Innovative scheme for Mentoring of girl child
  • Gender sensitization campaign

• COMPONENT – 12 (VOCATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION)
  • The purpose of this component is to provide vocational training, certificate and opportunity of placement
  • Vocational courses like Account Executive and Digital Manager were organized in our college in association with Adani Skill Development Center and Narayan Foundation
• Future plans
  • New batches of various vocational course

• Motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean by undertaking plantation of trees.
• Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water.
• Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
• To develop skills of observation, experimentation, survey, recording, analysis, reasoning needed for conserving environment through activities
• Organise seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the school to motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean.
• Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water and cleaning of water body in the adjacent area.
• Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
• Educate students to create awareness amongst public and sanitary workers, so as to stop the indiscriminate burning of waste which causes respiratory diseases.
• Sensitize the students to minimize the use of plastic bags, not to throw them in public places as they choke drains and sewers, cause water logging and provide breeding ground for mosquitoes.
• Organize tree plantation programmes, awareness programmes such as quiz, essay, painting competitions, rallies, Nukkad Natak etc. regarding various environmental issues and educate children about re-use of waste material & preparation of products out of waste
• Campaign against use of loud speakers, motivate students not to use crackers and fireworks, recycling of glass and metals, use of unnecessary horns.
• Field visits to environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wildlife parks, etc.
• Organise rallies, marches, human chains and street theatre at public places with a view to spread environmental awareness.
• Action based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives both within and outside the school campus.
• Grow kitchen gardens, maintain vermin-composting pits, construct water harvesting structures in school, practice paper recycling etc.
• Prepare inventories of polluting sources and forward it to enforcement agencies.
• Maintenance of public places like parks, gardens both within and outside the school campus.
• Mobilise action against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorised places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes etc.
• Beautify selected road side area with plants and flowers and put campaign boards to generate awareness.
• Any other innovative programme on environmental issues.