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New facilities coming up at Miranda House

Parul Sharma

To encourage students in creative pursuits like pottery, carpentry

NEW DELHI: In line with its policy of encouraging students in their creative pursuits, Delhi University's good old Miranda House will set up a pottery studio during the upcoming new academic year.

The college had along with the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, conducted a workshop recently where students of Bachelor of Elementary Education actively took part. The college now has acquired the potter's wheel to launch the studio.

The pottery studio will be a college facility open to all students. Miranda House is also introducing handlooms and carpentry for its students. Both handloom and carpentry will be for B. El. Ed. students to begin with and will later be made available to all girls. The college will rope in master craftsmen to conduct some of the workshops.

"I believe girl students should get the workshop experience. Amateur activities often provide a forum for launch of artistic careers. Through carefully crafted interaction and activities within and outside the classroom, we provide experiences that help the students discover innate capabilities, set life-long goals and proactively work towards their fulfilment," says Principal Pratibha Jolly.

The college will also add five more computers to the existing five at the Amba Dalmia Resource Centre - a computer-based resource centre for visually challenged students. The centre has networked computers that facilitate work with special talking software such as "Jaws" and "Safa".

"The college is committed to providing rich resources to its large group of visually challenged students. We want them to be properly trained in computers so that they become completely independent of a writer during their exams," adds Dr. Jolly

The old library hall of the heritage section of the college has also been renovated recently to create a "Heritage Hall" for academic and cultural activities. The "multi-purpose" hall will be used for exhibitions, conducting workshops, seminars and concerts as well as practising for dramatics.

Miranda House is also planning to further expand its gym facility that is currently housed in a room by getting more fitness machines.

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