Quiz Competition on Modern Indian History on February 09, 2021

Department of History, Baba Farid college, Deon, Bathinda organised a Quiz Competition on Modern Indian History on February 09, 2021 through Microsoft Teams.

The competition was held in two consecutive rounds. In the first round,50 MCQs, each carrying 2 marks, weregiven to the participating teams.

As many as 38 candidates participated.Out of those all, four teams qualified for next round. Starting at 12:30 pm.It was hosted by Dr Dinesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Baba Farid College.

He invited the participants one by one. It was instructed to each team that time to answer each question was given 5 seconds. Gurpreet Singh, from BA-I, won the contest and secured first position and Manpreet Singh, another student of BA I secured second position in this Quiz. Ms.Navninder Kaur,Dean, Faculty of Arts, HoDs of various departments, faculty members and students were also present.

The whole event was extremely knowledgeable and well organized under the supervision of Dr.Amandeep Kaur, Head of the department. At the end, she congratulated all the winners and offered a vote of thanks to all attendees.

Sikh Bhagat: Baba sheikh Farid ji (Quiz Competition) on 11th November, 2020

Department of History, Baba Farid college Deon, Bathinda, Organised an activity "*Sikh bhagat: Baba sheikh Farid ji *(Quiz Competition) on 11th, November, 2020 through Microsoft Teams. The competition was divided into two rounds ; In the first round written MCQ was conducted in wich total 42 candidates had participated. There were 50 questions and each question carried 2 marks. In second round, four teams were selected on the basis of results of first round . This was final round and there was a very tough competition. About the Quiz Competition, final round started at sharp 9:40 am. It was hosted by Dr Sukhjit kaur, Asst. Prof., Deptt of History Baba Farid College. She invited the participants one by one. It was instructed to each team that they will be given 5 seconds to respond on every question.* Tanish Goyal who is pursuing final year of graduation (B.COM 5th sem.) won the Competition and Kritya of B. Com 5th sem secured second position in this Quiz*. In the last part of the event, student had healthy discussion on the topic of quiz. And also two students Harpreet singh from deptt.of punjabi and Jagman singh from deptt.of History shared some facts regarding Baba Farid ji life and works. The whole event was very informative and well orgainzed under the supervision of Dr. Amandeep Kaur, Head of the department and she also congratulated all the participants and thanked to all the authority members.

Alumni Talk on History a pathway to success - 03/11/2020

The department of History, Baba Farid College organized an Alumni Talk on 03/11/2020 at 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM through Microsoft teams, entitled 'Importance and Scope of History'. Alumnus Mrs Manpreet Kaur and Mr. Davinder Singh Taffy Brar shared their intellectual, educational, cultural experiences and success stories with the current students and also spoke about the importance of history and said that history is our identity and base of society. Total 50 attendees participated in the alumni Talk. Overall session was very fruitful and interactive. The Principal of Baba Farid College Dr. Pardeep Kaura said that such programs are very important for the overall development of the students. Apart from this Dr. Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal, chairman of the college said that students should get maximum benefit from such programs.

One day Webinar on 'Understanding Pandemic in context of the Covid-19' on 27th May, 2020

Department of History, BFC, Deon Bathinda organized webinar on 'Understanding Pandemic in context of the Covid-19' on 27th May, 2020 at 11:00 AM on Microsoft Teams. The keynote speakers of this webinar were Dr. Sukhdev Singh Sohal, Professor (Retd) Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Dr. Ruby Bala, Asst. Professor, B.L.M. Girls College, Nawanshahr. The Webinar was started with warm welcome of Principal, Dean (Faculty of Arts), Heads of different Departments, all faculty members, students of BFGI and outsider attendees from various colleges. More than 150 faculty members and students from various college, institutions and schools participated in this webinar.

This Webinar was an attempt to look at the epidemics and pandemics which had plagued India, particularly the Punjab in the past two hundred years.  Dr. Sohal described that Health and disease are part of human society. Across the ages, human beings have struggled hard to maintain wellness of human body and mind. Human endurance and ingenuity has succeeded to overcome maladies and diseases turning into epidemics and pandemics. The current spate of Covid-19 throughout the world has once again shocked and jolted the world to think that we the humans are biologically fragile and have not yet overcome epidemics. The Covid-19 is crippling the social fabric and economic structure of the comity of nations irrespective of the standards of living and economic might of these nations.

Dr Ruby Bala described that Health and diseases are part of human society. She shed light on the pandemic like plague which was called ‘Black Death’ also. It is fact that in 1910-11, the plague again claimed nearly two lakh victims.  The Punjab recorded 3.5 million deaths, which was highest in India. As the people of the Punjab were mourning the dead and the series of epidemics ravaging and pillaging the region, another epidemics of influenza traumatically, it turned out be much more than plague in geographical spread. Speed, intensity and mortality of this unprecedented virulence can be gauged from the fact that within 25 days from15 to November 10, 1918, 4 to 5 percent of population died, this was more than 8 lakhs. In few months Influenza epidemic traveled the whole world and killed large number of people. Ruby Bala also attempted to look at events which has significant role in the history of health and medicine. The high food prices, heavy raining, famine, stealing of property and poverty enhanced more difficulties for the people in the history of the Epidemic.

The keynote speakers expressed their views with current and live examples like how COVID 19 and past pandemics affected society and economy of the country.  The webinar was very useful for all the attendees as it enhance once knowledge not only of COVID 19 but also of the Pandemics of past century.  This webinar hold the vision of engaging academic fraternity in meaningful assignments and contribute towards enhancing intellectual wealth of the nation. The webinar concluded with the query solving session and vote of thanks.

Farewell party for the students of M.A. 2nd Year

The department of History and Political Science (PG) has organized a farewell party for the students of M.A. 2nd year (History and Political Science) on 06-05-2016 in the Innovation Hall. The hall was nicely decorated. Farewell party was started with a welcome speech by a student of M.A. History. All the students were participating with great zeal in the party. There was a modeling round. Mrs. Harmeet Kaur, Ms. Sukhwinder Kaur were the judges. Kamaldeep Kaur from M.A. Political Science and Harwinder Singh from M.A. History were chosen as Miss and Mr. Farewell respectively. Our respected Deputy Director Academics and Vice Principal, BFC  gave encouraging speech to all the students. All the students were quite happy. In this way, they had a lot of fun on this day. In brief, this party has been accomplished very nicely.