Vice President to attend valedictory of SB College centenary celebrations

The centenary celebrations of St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, volition reason with a relation to beryllium attended by C. P. Radhakrishnan, Vice President of India, connected February 28.

Mar Thomas Tharayil, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Changanassery, volition present the invited code astatine the event, which volition instrumentality spot astatine Archbishop Kavukattu Hall connected the assemblage campus. Speeches volition besides beryllium delivered by Governor Rajendra Arlekar, Minister for Cooperation and Ports V. N. Vasavan, and Mavelikkara MP, Kodikunnil Suresh. Although the assemblage completed its 100th twelvemonth successful 2022, the authoritative closing ceremonial had to beryllium postponed owed to COVID-19 restrictions.

The Vice President volition besides inaugurate the Dr. K. M. Abraham Centre for Energy and Environment, a state-of-the-art probe installation being established astatine the college. The centre is being funded with ₹1.5 crore by Dr. K. M. Abraham, a lithium artillery idiosyncratic and an alumnus of the college.

An authoritative connection said the centre volition beryllium equipped with precocious instruments, including an FT-Infrared Spectrometer, Fluorescence Spectrometer, UV/Visible Spectrometer and a Tubular Furnace for high-temperature testing, among others. In summation to research, the centre volition connection certificate courses, seminars and consciousness programmes. Its superior probe areas volition see caller vigor materials, biology protection, greenish chemistry, and computational chemistry.

The centre’s activities volition beryllium overseen by Tomlal Jose, who volition service arsenic its director.