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Deva Matha College Kuravilangad is an aided minority institution established in 1964 by The Major Archiepiscopal Marth Mariam Archdeacon Pilgrim Church, Kuravilangad with a strong resolve to open the avenues of higher education to the rural agrarian populace. The college has been a beacon of hope for not just the minority community but for the socially and economically underprivileged sections of the Central Travancore. The University result attainment over the last five years with an average of 83 percentage, when more than fifty percentage of our students avail themselves of the various financial assistances offered by the Government for the inept, bears testimony to the meritorious academic performance of our students and validates the consistent academic commitment of the institution. The college with twelve UG Programmes, ten PG Courses and with two recognized PhD centres strives to transform the rural youth and women into agents of change by adhering to the notions of gender equity.
The competency and employability of the students are enriched through initiatives like Skill Enhancement and Employability Scheme (SEED), PSC/Bank Exam Preparatory Courses, Add-on courses on Soft Skill Enhancement and Finishing School sessions. The campus placement records of the students and their socio-demographic background stand witness to the service rendered by the college in uplifting the deprived. A significant number of the students work in part time jobs to earn while they learn guided by the faculty. Many among the alumni of the institution are entrepreneurs.
The well-structured mentoring system practised in the institution enables the faculty to identify students with struggles, potentials and special needs. The co- curricular and extension programmes designed by considering the insights derived from the intensive mentoring process undertaken by the faculty stand out as a distinguished support mechanism.
Community centred academic interventions and pursuits are a varied attribute of the college. In taking up research projects both by the students and the faculty in the humanities stream accord a priority to issues entwined with subdued local history and folk culture. Language Empowerment Assistance Programme ( LEAP) offered to rural schools, Financial Literacy Programmes to the elderly in the adopted villages, Yoga training offered to the school students, Free Summer Sports Camps for the rural children offered by Deva Matha Sports Academy are a set of programmes that stimulates the broad vision of Deva Matha. The science departments channelize their research outputs to the rural communities that the college attempts to redefine through ventures like Sustainable Energy Management, Urjjakiran, and Science Exhibitions that eradicate superstitious conceptions on natural phenomena
The college is equipped with an infrastructure that receives regular and time bound upgradation to effectively carry out the teaching learning process in a way that suits the needs of the twenty first century. An all-encompassing ERP system that accentuates the pace of smart management of curriculum transaction is a remarkable fete and falls in line with the Green initiatives of the college. The E-Learning Centre with 3D Projector serves as a potent technological tool to materialise the objectives of blended learning. The well-stocked library with digitalisation in offing, ICT enabled Smart Classrooms with wi-fi hotspots in specific access points, the spaciously restructured Open Auditorium and the newly built smart conference hall aggrandise the learning experience.
Even when the patriarchal norms and conventions are so pervasive in the present-day society, Devamatha stands apart through a number of model institutional policies which reconceptualise the traditional gender role. A remarkable 80 percentage of the faculty appointed and currently working are women. The student council has a substantial number of female students. Women faculty heads majority of the Departments. The College Council and the vibrant clubs of the college like The Women’s Forum, The Oratory Club, The Counselling Cell, The Entrepreneurship Club, etc. comply with the gender equity norms of the college. There is a high representation of female students in NSS and NCC units. The DMC Women’s Forum envisages programmes and events with an impetus to promote Gender Sensitisation and Equity. The vocational training programmes offered in hand embroidery and fabric painting to the deprived women in the adopted village empowers them to achieve financial self-reliance.
The students are sensitised to the challenges of the local community through the diverse social welfare projects undertaken at the adopted villages of the college. Sustainable Energy Efficient Green Village, the leading community centred initiative of the College was designed and undertaken to suit the requirements of the adopted communities in the neighbourhood. The thrust areas of the project included workshops in making Eco-friendly products for everyday use (paper/cloth bags, upcycling plastic waste materials), seminars on Road safety, Safe Dietary Habits and Domestic Violence.
Student Training for Entrepreneurship Development and Community Interventionis a vocational training programme conceived by the college and funded by DSS MG University to address the vexing concern of the unemployability of the rural youth. LED Bulb Assembly, Mushroom culture, Designing Portable Waste Management Systems and Cloth Bag making were the four key components of the course. A model mushroom culture unit was set up in the college and the produce was distributed in the adopted villages.
The college maintained its lofty standards of social responsibility in times of emergencies like Kerala Flood of 2018 and the Covid 19 pandemic through The Rapid Response Volunteer Team (RRVT). The team undertook cleaning drives in the flood hit areas and provided over 800 litres of floor cleaners prepared in the college. The NCC team of the college made a decisive intervention to meet the exigencies that arose at the heightened phase of the pandemic by distributing self-stitched cloth masks to all the households for free of cost in Kuravilangad Grama Panchayath and by producing 50000 masks to be distributed in the hotspots of the pandemic hit areas in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
The mentoring system, skill enriching sessions, value education, community sensitisation programmes and the profound academic process through which the students of Deva Matha pass through mould them into responsible citizens and empower them to effectively surmount the varied challenges that the world offer them.