Nima Girls Arts College, Gozaria is one of the leading institutes of higher education for girls in the North Gujarat region, affiliated to Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan. The College has been awarded 2(f) ,12(b) and was accredited ‘B’ (2.44) grade by NAAC in the year 2011. The institution works with specific vision and mission to provide higher education to the (mostly poor) girls of rural and surrounding area and strives to make overall development by educational and co-curricular activities.
The vision of Nima Girls Arts College, Gozaria aims at attaining excellence of students in academic world and preparing them for 21st century world to inculcate the skills and values needed in real life; and above all making them responsible citizens and human beings. Our NSS unit is the heart of the college throbbing with activities quite in tune with the vision and mission of the college.
With the purpose of developing the latent abilities in personality of the students, the college organizes various activities like sewing, knitting and embroidery activities, celebration of various subject days, knowledge week, English speaking contests, Debates, Music, Acting, Traditional Day, Essay writing, Quiz, G.K. Test, Navaratri celebrations, Tours and Picnics etc. and many other activities are organized.
The college possesses a well-furnished Digital Education and Learning Laboratory, which is used in imparting computer education and English language learning to nearly computer-illiterate girl-students of college representing the adjoining rural area.
Apart from this, through its social activities our institute has established a well-built bond with the local community and is popular for its compassionate keenness in surrounding areas. College possesses a spirited and dynamic National Service Scheme (N.S.S.) Unit which includes active volunteers, always ready to serve in any difficult situations. The unit regularly organizes Blood Donation Camps, Distribution of clothes among the needy ones, Rallies for dissemination of general awareness among the villagers and thus inculcates significant values and ethics like cleanliness, discipline, courage, self-confidence and humanity among students. It creates awareness about de-addiction, superstition and illiteracy, girl education, women empowerment, female infanticide etc. among the people of Gozaria and surrounding areas. Our volunteers not only served the surrounding areas of Gozaria but also helped and provided immediate help to the needy families in remote areas too by organizing a ‘Kapda Yajna’.
This unit has also organized 22 special Shibirs (weekly Off-Campus Workshops) in nearby villages every year. Till today, the unit has organized this kind of off-campus workshop-Shibir in 20 villages. During these days of off-campus workshop, volunteers organize various activities of social awareness and campaigns along with carrying out a weekly residential stay among the villagers.
The unit always remains vigilant and alert to fight against any natural or man-made calamities. It plans various programmes and collective extension activities for national and social awakening. It also organizes activities like rally, blood donation camps, and self-protection training sessions in collaboration with the CWDC unit of the college, celebration of Republic and Independence Day and many other events of national importance.
Thus, N.S.S. unit has established a golden tradition of humanity, philanthropy and social service by their humane approach, sensitiveness and hard work which make it a prestigious and popular unit of the college. People of different villages know them personally as they have connected with them emotionally. Because of this unit of the college, our college has become a distinct and unique institute of the region which is very close to the people’s heart in their days of distress and happiness.
The college is like an oasis in desert. It can repeatedly assert the fact that had there not been this institute, thousands of girls of the surrounding area would have been deprived of higher education. In addition to all this, this college has established a strategy to prevent the lower class girls in the nearby region from discontinuing their studies. All the teachers of our institute collect the details of the girl-examinees from the higher secondary schools of the surrounding villages before the result of H.Sc. After declaration of the HSC results, the staff visits their houses in person and convinces their parents to continue the higher education of their wards. We visit remote farms, slums, and interior areas. As such we succeed in our mission and enable the deprived girls to get scholarship and to reap the benefits of the reservation policy. Today, many of our students have become successful servants of Government of Gujarat in the form of teachers, clerks, health workers, police, bus – conductors etc.; many of them have joined jobs in private sector and few have started their small scale businesses.