Following the nationwide movement of Swaccha Bharat – Swastha Bharat, the SWA organized a cleanliness drive in the college and hostel campus on 14^th October, 2014. Students as well as teachers participated in the drive and cleaned the college and hostel premises.

The SWA was a part of the Diabetes awareness rally held on 14^th November, 2014 on World Diabetes Day.

A program was organized for all the Post Graduate students of NKPSIMS by the PG committee of SWA. Guest speaker for the program was Dr. Shailesh Pangaonkar. He touched upon various aspects of doctor patient relationships like paying attention to patients complaints, taking proper history and being a good listener

The welcome of the freshers batch of 2014 started with a debate competition organized on 11^th December,2014. Topic for the competition was – In today’s social context, moral policing has no

role. The winners were Mr Shivam Garg, and Ms. Jasmine Kaur. Mr. Anubhav Dubey won the consolation prize.

For the first time in NKPSIMS, a sports meet was held to welcome the freshers batch. Sports competitions for the new students were organized on the morning of 20^th December,2014 which included 100 m running, Chess, Carrom and Table tennis. The first three winners were awarded for each sport from the boys’ and girls’ teams.

A personality contest was held where the students competed for the title of Mr and Ms Freshers. The contest included 4 rounds – introductory round, talent round, a surprise round where each contestant was given an unusual prop to entertain with and the last – Judges’ question round. Ms. Pooja Bhange won the Ms Freshers title, while Mr Arpit Roy was named Mr Freshers. The runners up for the contest were Ms Aafreen Sayeed and Mr Divyansh Mathur.

The contest was followed by DJ night and dinner.

An intercollegiate debate competition was held at LAD college on 22^nd December, 2014. Mr Yashendu Khullar won the 1^st prize while Mr Utkarsh Gaur stood 3^rd. NKPSIMS was awarded with the Best Team award.

The SWA organized a Saraswati puja on the occasion of Basant Panchami on 24^th January, 2015 at the central library. The puja was done done in presence of students, teachers as well as the non teaching staff. Everybody was served traditional Bengali Bhog and Dona Prasad courtesy Dr Kajal Mitra, Dr Mohana Majumdar and Dr Ratan Roy.

The SWA played a major role in organizing the Walkathon 2015 – an initiative by the Silver Jubilee Committee to celebrate the 25 years of NKPSIMS on Republic day, 26^th January, 2015.

Students of NKPSIMS, led by Ms. Aarzoo Meghrajani participated in the Annual Vidarbha level Folk dance competition organized by IMA Nagpur on 26^th January, 2015. The team won the 1^st Runners Up prize performing the folk dances of Madhya Pradesh

As an initiative for beautification of the college campus, the SWA organized a wall painting contest wherein students from the MBBS, Dental and nursing college participated. The contest was held on 8^th February, 2015. The theme for the outer wall was ‘Innovations and Technology’ while that for the inner wall was ‘India’. The team of Mr Shubham Varma, Ms Neha Rahate and Ms Suhaani Chandak won the 1^st prize for the inner wall while the 1^st position in the outer wall went to Ms. Devyani Wanjari.

The annual social gathering, JOSH 2015 was held from 12^th February to 28^th February 2015.

• 12^th to 18^th February – Lakshya – the sports meet
• 24^th February – Jugalbandi – the Antakshari

         Tarana – the Musical night

• 25^th February – Kalagram – the Art exhibition

         Ablaze – the Fashion show

• 26^th February – Crossfire – the Intercollegiate debate

          Ignite – the Intercollegiate Rock nite

• 27^th February – Zenith – the Cultural extravaganza
• 28^th February – Valedictory

• Celebrating 25 years of NKPSIMS, the SWA organized 3 Vidarbha level Inter Medical Collegiate competitions for the 1^st time ever in NKPSIMS–
  1. Cross fire – Intercollegiate Debate (26^th February)
  2. Malhar – Intercollegiate Singing Competition (1^st March)
  3. Cosmic – Intercollegiate Dance Competition (1^st March)

There was once again a clean sweep of awards by the NKPSIMS students.

Ms Devyani Wanjari and Mr Yashendu Khullar won the 1^st prize For and Against respectively in the debate competition.

Dr Suresh Iyer won the 1^st prize in the Intercollegiate singing competition.

Team “South Africa” led by Mr. Abhishek Mankar won the 1st Prize in the intercollegiate

dance competition.

• As a part of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of NKPSIMS, the SWA for the first time ever organized a STAR NIGHT where INDIAN OCEAN – India’s first ever Rock band performed live in concert and enthralled the audience with their melodious songs, on 2^nd March 2015.

Mr Yashendu Khullar – 1^st prize in the Intercollegiate Debate competition. Dr. Nikhil Ingle – 1^st prize in the Intercollegiate Solo Singing Competition.

The Resurrected group, led by Mr Shalabh Janbandhu – 2nd prize in Intercollegiate Dance Competition

The SWA gave a special farewell to the outgoing Dean, Dr Dasgupta on 27^th March, 2015. CČD – Coffee With Dean was an informal affair where Dr Dasgupta chatted about all aspects of his life with the host Mr Yashendu Khullar and then the Rapid fire round with Mr Abhishek Mankar. The students then gave him a farewell gift basket and sang a farewell song for him.

In the first week of April 2015 the SWA helped to organize the first ever batch trip for the 2013 batch MBBS batch – with the total organization being looked after by batch representative Nrupal Dhande and his team of batchmates. The students enjoyed the great weather and snow in Manali and sight seeing in Delhi. Dr Anne Wilkinson and Dr Sanjay Walulkar accompanied the students.

The graduation ceremony of the 2009 ABCD and EFGH batches was held on 22^nd August 2014. Dr Vedprakash Mishra was the Chief Guest for the ceremony. Dr Amit Daphale and

Dr Surabhi Mitra were awarded the Outstanding Student of 2009 batch. The graduates were given a folder containing the Hippocratic oath, their alumni contacts and a certificate and a pen engraved with their names. The ceremony concluded with the hats off ceremony and passing of the torch to the next batch students.

Abhishek Mankar                                                            Dr Anne Wilkinson

Secretary SWA 2014-15                                                  Co-Chairperson SWA 2014-15

MBBS 2012 batch