FROM THE DESK OF THE HEAD OF THE HOME SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

The philosophy of Home Science aims at utilization of modern science to improve home living, study of humanities to improve family life, sound scholarship for intellectual thinking, research to increase information on facts of life, use of all resources to make home and family effective parts of the social fabric, emphasis on the control of material things to realize the higher spiritual blessings, making natural and social forces useful towards realizing time and energy to make life more beautiful, gracious and worthwhile.

Home Science encompasses family health, foods and nutrition, home management, clothing and textiles, marriage and family, child care and human relations.

The role of Home Science lies in developing women power and thereby achieving the goals of family life and protecting health (according to Sarvoday leader Smt. Meera Bhatt, “The realization of inner strength itself is women empowerment”). Home Science education has played an important role in strengthening the inner ability of our women by enhancing their level of education and by imparting financial independence. It has been a major pathway for women into public education and for providing entry to a wide variety of careers for women in academia, business, public education, government and health care. This development of women is essential not merely for the benefit of womenfolk but for the very survival of the society, for the progress, peace and prosperity of the country. From another angle, the Home scientist as a home maker enriches the quality of life of her family members and the society while the Home scientist who also enters a career takes on multiple responsibilities and makes strides at the homefront and in her career sphere. In this perspective, the P.G.department of Home Science  has been at the helm of this semi-rural backdrop rearing young minds and preparing them for the hearth, at the same time enhancing their proficiency for the pursuit of a career.

Rema Subhash

Head

Department of Home Science