Movie Club

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The Movie Club was established on 27th July 2022 to execute different awareness programs on social and community-based problems, climate change, environmental, cultural, women empowerment, and sustainable development needs. It Promotes learning, discussion and community-building. The movie club is a platform to discuss and debate different environmental issues. The Movie club is open to all students and faculty. It also inspires students to convert ideas into actions on different environmental problems.

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Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and SAKEC Movie club in Collaboration with NSS SAKEC have organized an event on Farmer’s Crisis on 25th August 2023 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The session on the ongoing farmer’s crisis shed light on the multifaceted challenges faced by agricultural communities.
Mr. Rohit Parakh was invited as a speaker for this important discussion about farmer’s crisis. He is working on ecologically and economically remunerative agriculture for Farmers from social enterprise and advocacy perspective. He elaborated on the issues and problems faced by the farmers and how we can provide a helping hand to them and also gave information about organic farming.
The event began by reciting Saraswati Vandana,followed by the felicitation of the Chief Guest and a small address to the students. It was followed by a few words of wisdom by Dr. T.P Vinutha, Head of the Department of Electronics & Telecommunication and Head of SAKEC NSS Dr. Pinky Vishwakarma. The Speaker showed us a video related to the topic of the event and also gave information on the same. The discussion emphasized the critical issues encompassing this crisis, which include fluctuating market prices, inadequate access to modern technology and resources, and policy constraints. The lack of financial support mechanisms and the burden of debt were highlighted as major contributors to the crisis, leading to distress among farming households.
The session underscored the urgency of collaborative efforts to address these issues, aiming to ensure food security, sustainable livelihoods, and the overall well-being of farming communities. Later, participants raised their doubts and concerns regarding this issue. The event ended with a vote of thanks and the National Anthem.

Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering in Collaboration with MUSE foundation have organized the session on ” Climate change” on 14th September 2022 from 10.00 am to 12:00 pm
The speaker for this event was Mr. Tanmay Shinde. Mr. Tanmay Shinde is an environment & IT professional. He is a part of youth of Aarey , Fridays for future, save our coast and other Mumbai collectives. He raises his voice towards all the environmental wrongs in the city and country. He is regularly involved in tree plantation & clean up drives.
In the session the speaker talked about the various climate changes occurring in the environment due to various new technologies. Also, he explained how these climate changes have an effect on our human life. To explain this more in detail he has shown some short films to the students. This session helped students to understand what effect our actions can have on the environment and how responsibly we all should use the resources. Also, as future engineering students were motivated to think about what solution can the design to reduce the effect on the environment.

Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering in Collaboration with MUSE foundation has organized launch of SAKEC Movie club on 27th July 2022 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering college have signed MoU with Muse foundation for implementation and functioning of MUSE movie club in the premises of Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering college
For this event along with the members of MUSE foundation three youth activists Mr. Tabrez ali sayyed, Ms. Manisha Dhinde and Mr. Ankit Dave were also present for the launch. Mr. Tabrez ali sayyed is a youth activist and environmentalist . He is a core member of the Aarey conservation group. He played a very active part in the save aarey movement since last 5 years. In his session he mostly spoke about acheiveing a balance between the human made world and the natural world.
Ms. Manisha Dhinde is an Adivasi resident of Aarey and she is also a part of an indigenous community whose lives will be directly impacted by the construction of Metro car shed inside Aarey.
Keeping up with the theme of our launch that is the environment. All the speakers and guests talked about the current issue of the construction of a Metro car shed inside Aarey. They have also shown a short movie which was giving the message that how our lives will be affected if we destroy all the forest from Mumbai City. The event was more effective as the speakers shared their own life experiences staying inside Aarey along with the animals and the volunteers who fought to save the forest inside the Mumbai city.