Integration of Cross cutting Issues in the Curriculum

SIMATS ensures the integration of essential cross cutting issues in the formulated curriculum of all programmes offered at the institution and is an inseparable part of our curriculum. These courses are both mandatory and electives. Ensuring choice-based credit systems with flexibility, the students can enroll themselves to these courses across departments and disciplines. Learning activities involving both peer and group and extra-curricular courses learning integrates crosscutting gender, nationality and age. Students are engaged in various expert lectures on human values, and professional ethics anchoring the institute's measure of incorporating these into the curriculum.

Gender Equality

SIMATS enriches the content related to Gender by organizing several activities on women empowerment and gender equality. Students’ participation in rallies, role plays, and cultural programmes address gender related issues. Courses on “feminist and therapeutic jurisprudence”, “gender justice and feminist jurisprudence”, “women and criminal law” and other courses are offered by school of law addressing gender related issues. The institution has a women grievance cell and a women empowerment cell to address the problems faced and provide counseling to students, promoting gender equity among students. Every year the institute celebrates international women’s day, and offers free screening for breast cancer around 200 people benefitted in this screening. Also in the oral cancer awareness Program around 1000 people benefitted , frequently every year on the International Women's day the Institution provides free dental checkup and free basic treatment for women. We also felicitate women achievers who created great societal impact and in scientific discipline. SU-SWAGAT.

Environment and Sustainability

Environmental Science courses are offered across all the disciplines at SIMATS. This course is essential for creating awareness and inculcating its importance. Across the institution 59 courses are offered on topics related to environment and sustainability. The institution has an integrated rainwater harvesting System and waste water treatment plant. The treated wastewater is reused for gardening and maintaining a green campus. The institute also celebrates environment day, ozone day and plastic free environment programmes are periodically organized. The institute also adheres to the use of alternative energy sources including solar and wind energies powering few of the buildings. In addition to this, SIMATS strictly follows a zero emission policy inside the campus to reduce carbon dioxide emission. To state, it uses battery operated cars and free shuttle services for the public inside the campus.

The academic curriculum at SIMATS is enriched with courses related to community settings, human values, health determinants, health issues, social issues and professional ethics. Students are exposed to a widespread cultural aspect by organising camps and internships in rural health care centres providing opportunities to develop communication skills and a holistic strategy to treat diseases. Embedded in the curriculum, the students actively involve themselves in NCC and NSS club activities. Courses on mediation, yoga, soft skill courses, personality management and workshops on stress management are also conducted. Overall, participation in these activities inculcates team work, leadership qualities, gender equity, strengthens self confidence in students and allows them to tailor to handle situations adequately in a holistic approach.