Guru Nanak College - Dhanbad | Jharkhand

Department of Creativity

Creation of the Department of Creativity was an innovative idea. The students of the college had been performing quite well at various University level, inter college cultural event—Youth Festival from 2008 itself. The budding talent amongst the students was visible, and it was felt, it needed chiseling and polishing.

The college has neither a sanctioned department of Performing Arts neither has there any scope for getting the posts of teachers sanctioned by the Government. It was felt that some training and teaching of Music, Dance, Drama, Fine Arts would make our students more proficient and skilled.

With the above perspective in view, it was decided by the core committee of the college administration to have a department of Creativity in the college. The department was started on 16th February, 2012 with great fanfare and it was decided that the students enrolled who could spare time in this department will not be charged any extra fee for teaching and training. And serious efforts were made to enlist some eminent coaches from various sister institutions, who could spare some time for taking classes in our college in the afternoon.

These classes started since 2012 with great fanfare where budding artists were being groomed by some of the best coaches available from various sister institutions of Dhanbad, who were being paid by the college for their extra work. The students enrolled were given certificates on successful completion of the course.

The department of Creativity has been further strengthened and better organised with the passage of time. It has also paid rich dividends by making our students win prizes even at the national level.

The following are the celebrated teachers of Music, Dance, Theatre items, Fine Arts and Literary activities who got associated with college in the department of Creativity, and added value to the imaginative idea of the college administration.

Dr. Ranjana Das was appointed co-ordinator of the Depatment of Creativity, who had been associated with the cultural activities of the college for the past 4 years and had shown quality of leadership. Dr. Mina Malkhandi was selected as assistant co-ordinator as also to lead the team in various youth festivals. Similarly many other teachers also co–operated in this work which added strength to the department. The following are the coaches during the last 8 years who have been important resource persons in various fields of cultural activities:-

Music: 1. Shubendu Dev Burman, 2. Romen Mukharjee, 3. Somnath Choudhary, 4. Abhishek Choudhary, 5. Avinash Hazra, 6. Vikash Kumar Solanki, 7. Amarnath Ram, 8. Babu Soais.

Dance: 1. Ms. Thakkar, 2. Ms. Kadambiri, 3. Sunita Mondol.

Theatre: 1. Gautam Viswakarma, 2. Satish Kumar Ram, 3. Swarup Kumar Roy, 4. Ram Murty Phathak, 5. Balwant Kumar.

Fine Arts: 1. Shymal Sen, 2. A.K. Mishra, 3. Bablu Kumar.

Literary Events: Regular Teachers of the Department of English & Hindi.

The above teachers have shown sterling leadership qualities of commitment and have made our department of Creativity a robust organization.

The following students of college have done the college proud by winning not just at the zonal level of youth festival but also at the national level:
1. Ashok Kumar Manjhi - Theatre & Mimicry - 2014
2. Shubhi Baweja - Music - 2016, 2017 & 2018
3. Sweta Ranjan - Music - 2018
4. Astha Ranjan - Music - 2018
5. Adarsh Kumar Sharma - Music - 2018
6. Ayush Vishwakarma - Fine Arts - 2019

The Department of Creativity went from strength to strength and had acquired a identity of its own by 2015. Its classes were organised regularly under the active supervision of the co-ordinator, Dr. Ranjana Das and Dr. Mina Malkhandi, the team leader for organising cultural events. Several new and important personailities were inducted as teachers in the department for training and teaching of the students. Even the number of students enrolled in the department has grown in big number.