UDAAN-the flight of Extension

 

GUIDELINES

Every year the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension organizes the Annual Extension Work Festival titled "UDAAN – the flight of Extension" in the months of January - February in a decentralized manner in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg– the districts under the jurisdiction of the University of Mumbai. These six Extension Work Projects areAnnapurnaYojana (APY), Career Project (CP), Industry Orientation Project (IOP), National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) (for school dropouts), Population Education Club (PEC), and Survey of Women’s Status (SWS). 

The department will be organizing this Festival in an offline mode and intends to invite all Extension Work colleges to participate in the festival. The Best Performances and Best Displays will be awarded the Udaan Certificate based on the recommendations of the panel of expert judges. The Organizing College, Field coordinators, Extension Teachers, and Anchors will also be felicitated with Special Contribution Certificate.

The objectives of the festival are: -

 a) To create awareness about the extension work done by the University of Mumbai through affiliated colleges in the community. 

b) To create awareness about social issues through various competitions on extension work projects with a focus on College Youth. 

c) To give opportunities to the students to enhance their skills to co-relate with the new avenues in the fields of Management, Education, and Entrepreneurship, in this modern technological world. 

COMPETITIONS

The following Competitions will be organized in TRADITIONAL MODE (OFFLINE) for Annual Festival “UDAAN: The Flight of Extension: 2022-2023”. Only registered DLLE students can participate in these competitions.

The participation in following competitions is mandatory. 

1. Street Play Competition (One entry each college) 

2. Poster Competition (One poster each college)

1. Street Play Competition (Mandatory) 

 You are requested to present a street play on any of the Extension Work Projects taken by your college (any one). 

 Use only Code No. at the time of Competition which will be given to you on the day of festival. 

 Disclosure of the college name in any form in the competition is strictly prohibited. 

 Each college will be given 10 minutes for performing Street Play in the competition. 

 Street Play will be performed only in the form of Street Play. Hence, only traditional musical instruments such as Dholak, Flute, Harmonium, sambal, zaanj etc. can be used in the Street Play. For convenience purpose, Mobile phone can be used.. 

 Maximum 15 participants can participate in the Street Play including musicians, singers etc. Additionally, 5 students (possibly who prepared the posters or participants of other competitions) can participate in the festival. 

 Wearing costumes of characters, make up in the Street Play is not a compulsory condition. Uniformity in the dressing style of the participants will be appreciated. 

 The scoring of the Street Play will be done based onrelevance of theme to extension project, acting performance, presentation, overall impact, and the message delivered by the Street Play

2. Poster Competition 

 The college should prepare only one poster (per college) by one or two students together on any of the Extension Work Projects which they have taken for the academic year 2022 - 2023. The size of the Poster should be approximately 28” × 22” (inches) preferably on a card paper which can be easily rolled over. Use of hard card board paper, thermacol sheets or any other material for the poster may create inconvenience for transportation of the posters. 

 The poster should be prepared on the day of the Festival by the participating College at the respective Center from Morning 10 am to 12 pm- 02 (two) hours. Please bring card paper and required colour materials (preferably water or poster colours) to prepare poster. The code numbers for the posters will be given by the Department on the day of the Festival. 

 Copying of poster from any source will lead to disqualification. 

 The scoring of the competition will be done on the basis of content of the poster, creativity, colour schemes and message delivered by the poster. 

 Please bring attendance sheet of the students participating in the Festival in regular proforma.