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INTRODUCTION 1

ngoing COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced everyone in the world and India has been no
exception. However, impact of the pandemic and it’s consequence, have been felt disproportionately
depending on one’s status in the society. Online studies and examinations, extended lockdowns,
Oworking from home, dependence on internet have become the new normal. Even in these gloomy
circumstances over the past year, the energy and drive exhibited by students’, faculty, alumni and non-teaching staff
of Acharya Narendra Dev College have been a beacon of hope. This year’s Annual Report is all about capturing this
very dynamic quality and positive energy exhibited by the aforementioned stakeholders. Many a times, student’s
own kitchen was turned into a laboratory. In addition following the safety guidelines for Covid-19, students
created their own virtual lab experiments in the college that could be demonstrated to their outstation batch mates
and was added to our collection of virtual lab experiment library.

During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, NSS Volunteers worked round the clock to reach out
to university staff members and other people in distress and tried to help them in every possible manner like
development of Chat Bot system on Whatsapp by NSS volunteers to provide verified leads about COVID-19
resources and helped around 100 patients, tele-consultation with verified doctors, providing ration kits, organizing
yoga series, plantation drives, project wellness to spread awareness on mental health issues like depression,
loneliness, aggression, which arose due to the ongoing pandemic.

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The college continues to be recognized amongst the Best Science Colleges of India (18 rank in India Today
Survey 2021). Adding a new feather to the cap over the last year is that almost all the faculty promotions pending
since 2012 have been accomplished with active cooperation from the University of Delhi. The promotions included
that of 14 faculty members from Stage I to Stage II, 22 faculty from Stage II to Stage III, 18 faculty members
from Assistant to Associate Professors and 05 faculty members from Associate to Professors. I am happy to report
that the college also has been granted three flagship schemes – that of Paramarsh, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA)
of Government of India and DBT STAR College Scheme. Under UBA scheme, the college has adopted five
rural areas in South Delhi: Khanpur, Govindpuri slum area, Okhla industrial area, Pul Prahlad and Tajpur Pahari,
Badarpur. Whereas under Paramarsh scheme, ANDC has taken the initiative to mentor six colleges from different
parts of India – a) A. K. P (PG) College b) Dr. Nobin Bordoloi College c) Manyawar Kanshiram Government
Degree College e) Holy Family College of Nursing and f) Swami Shraddhanand College. Seven Departments
of the college have been recognized for DBT STAR STATUS in 2020. Over the year the college has continued
to attract extra-mural project funding from Government funding agencies including – DST, ICMR, SERB and
MERA INDIA Project to name a few. It also gives me great pleasure to report that inspite of the pandemic there
have been 78 publications in peer reviewed international and national journals of repute over the last year. This year
Dr. Seema Gupta and Dr. Pankaj Khanna have been recognized by the Department of Chemistry, University of
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