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Peer mentoring enriches the students through student to student interaction on various topics and issues. Helped them with new ideas, opportunities, rules and answered queries.

  • The Department of History believes that there should be a healthy and value-based relationship between the different years of undergraduate students. We in the department have always had senior students who have helped their juniors and mentored them every now and then. To formalize this effort the Department feels that we select some 3rd year History Honours students who would help and mentor their juniors.
  • The Peer Mentoring of History Honours continued in the new academic session 2021-22. The present group of Peer Mentors is Sandleen, Shubha, Afia, Shreya, Shamaila, Lipika, Nishu, Nandini under the guidance of Dr Navendu Shekhar. They have been active in providing guidance to their juniors on various issues like library, college functioning, academics and general counselling. The peer mentors had made a PPT for 1st year students which include which informed them about the importance of college ID, how to access Google chat or Google Meet etc.
  • In 2021-2022 Peer Mentoring was initiated for students of History Discipline B A Programme. This was done by taking the following students in the mentoring group-
    1. Karishma Mehta BAP/19/361
    2. Apurva Gupta BAP/19/232
    3. Jaya Upadhyay BAP/19/213
    4. Chanchal Rai BAP/19/470
    5. Mariya Shah BAP/19/509
    6. Mavia BAP/19/510
    7. Nikita Sharma BAP/19/169
    8. Simran Kaur Kalsi BAP/19/523
    9. Vinita Sharma BAP/19/360
    10. Pakiza BAP/19/237

    Each of them had taken a time-slot of 3.5 hours once a week and would guide and counsel their fellow juniors as and when they required assistance. They even had Google Meet sessions to help and counsel them on academic topics and how to access online library facility provided by the college. Mentoring was done through Google Chat platform on college domain.

  • The Peer Mentoring of History Honours and History Discipline B A Programme continued from January to April 2022 with same group of Peer Mentors as in previous semester. A break was taken from mentoring sessions as 2nd and 3rd year students have to appear for their final semester (4th and 6th).

  • The department organised a special programme for the outgoing batch of the 3rd year students (2018-21) on 28th April 2021. This was a very informative session for future progression for the 3rd year students by our alumnae – Ms Priyanka Gupta, Ms Vaishnavi Singh and Ms Sadia Shakil.

  • A formal Peer Mentoring programme was launched for the students of History Honours on 28th October 2020 under the mentorship of Dr Simmi Kapoor Mehta. It was planned that student interaction in these Covid times would take through Google Chat platform. Our seven students who are part of this programme are-
    1. Vartika, HIS/18/70
    2. Kritika, HIS/18/23
    3. Ifra, HIS/18/51
    4. Saumya,Tiwari, HIS/18/41
    5. Shivangi Rai, HIS/18/76
    6. Deeksha Khandelwal, HIS/18/24
    7. Shreyasi Dutta, HIS/18/4

    They have been helping their junior by solving their queries through Google Chat and they have had meetings through Google Meet on 18th January 2021, 3rd February 2021 and 13th February 2021.

  • A webinar on ‘Heritage Conservation’ was organised by our Heritage Society, DHAROHAR on 31st October 2020, at 11 am through Google Meet. Our speaker on the occasion was our alumna Ms Aarushi Mehra, a conservator-restorer at National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (Lucknow), deputed to Maharaja Laxmeshwar Singh Museum, Darbhanga, Bihar. She is responsible for the preservation and conservation of artistic and cultural artifacts from the personal collections of the Maharaja.

  • Ms Seema Saini, our alumna who is a High Court Lawyer, addressed students on 11th January 2018 (Alumnae Meet) regarding taking law as profession.

  • 14th February 2017 was an important day for our girls who had attended a workshop at INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) on 19th January 2017. All of them gave a presentation to rest of History Honours students about their experience and what all the various speakers had focused on. All the six students discussed one session each.
    1. Anjali Ghosh
    2. Shikha Khokkar
    3. Vandana Gauhar
    4. Priyanka Gupta
    5. Tanya Sharma
    6. Swati Chaudhary