Rifle Shooting

Mumbai City Zone Champions!! In Rifle Shooting (Men & Women) Team PCACS

Mr. Kiran Jadhav: Second year M.Com student of Pillai College of Arts Commerce & Science – New Panvel won individual silver medal in All India University Rifle Shooting Championship held at Amritsar and selected in to the national squad for various international tournaments.

Mr. Kiran being felicitated by the Chairperson MES, Dr. Mrs. Daphne Pillai & CEO Dr. KM Vasudevan Pillai

Ms. Ayonika Paul: Second year ME student of PCE – New Panvel continued to be in Indian Rifle Shooting squad and won silver medal at a world championship held at Hannover. She also won two gold medals, (one individual and one team medal) in world Railway Rifle Shooting Championship held at France.

Ms. Aliana Paul: BE Automobile student of Pillai College of Engineering – New Panvel won Bronze medal at senior National Shotgun Championship at Jaipur and also won silver medal at world junior Rifle Shooting Double Trap Championship at Finland.

Ms. Kajal Jadhav: First year SE(Computer Engineering) student 0f Pillai HOC College of Engineering & Technology – Rasayani won the women individual Open Sight Champions title of Mumbai University Rifle Shooting Championship for the year 2016-17

PCACS won the Mumbai University Rifle Shooting Title: Pillai College of Arts Commerce & Science – New Panvel men and women teams won the Rifle Shooting Championship title by winning men`s gold medals in Pep sight and the women`s open sight gold medals. The PCACS team become the overall champions in Air Rifle Shooting Championship of Mumbai University

Mumbai University Rifle shooting Runners-up – PCACS

The Podium Girls: Mumbai University Swimming double bronze winning swimmer and Rifle shooting Silver winning Girls – PCACS

RIO (Brazil) Olympics 2016
Ayonika Paul, Ace Shooter and Common Wealth Silver Medallist, represented India in the Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – Olympics 2016 in the 10 meter Air Rifle Shooting Event on 6th August, 2016

Receiption to Ayonika Paul on her maiden Olympics Debut at RIO 2016

Mahatma Education Society’s Pillai Group of Institution has organized a receiption on 27th June, 2016 to bid a fond cheerio to the Engineering student of the college and Ace Shooter and Common Wealth Silver Medallist Ayonika Paul, who represented India in the Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – Olympics 2016 in the 10 meter Air Rifle Shooting Event. Ayonika a Post graduate student of Pillai College of Engineering is a student who is studying here for the last six years made us proud by becoming the first Olympian from the Pillai Group of Institutions.

The aim of this reception is to convey her all the best for Olympic debut at Rio-2016 from the teachers, staff and college / class mates of Ayonika. And in due course it also encourages our students to take up sports a serious profession.

Ayonika Paul is studying in Pillai College of Engineering from her under graduate engineering program start getting noticed by one and all during Asian Junior Rifle shooting championship where she won bronze medal at Kuwait during 2011.

Ayonika take up the sports Rifle shooting in her school days won her first medal in 2007 after she clinched a bronze at the international junior competition in Suhl, Germany. Since she has gone on to win multiple medals at the junior and senior level.

Today, Ayonika idolizes ace Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra even as they play on the same team. Ayonika an Indian international shooter, who competes in the 10 metre air rifle event won the silver medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and also won Bronze in ISSF World Cup 2014 in Slovenia.

Ayonika’s presence in the college encouraged the college to build a Rifle shooting range named “Aim High” – at Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai Campus and inspired many students to take up this excellent sporting event. The college now has the best team in Mumbai University with Individual Gold Medal and Team Silver. There are around 100 shooters training in the range from various streams at the campus.

On 29th January, 2016 was a proud day for all us as India secured their 11th Olympic quota from shooting when Ayonika Paul bagged the silver in women’s 10m air rifle event at the Asia Olympic qualifying competition. Ayonika Paul has been confirmed by the Selection Committee of NRAI to represent India at the Rio Olympics 2016.

We wish her “ALL THE BEST” – and sure that she will come out with Golden flying colours from the Shooting range of Rio-Olympics.

Pillai Student Qualified for Olympics

MES Sports Control Board is happily taking this opportunity to announce that our star shooter Miss. Ayonika Paul (Second Year – M.E. Student of PCE, New Panvel) is successfully qualified to represent India in the forthcoming RIO (Brazil) Olympics 2016.

Congrats……. Ayonika…….

Miss. Aliania Paul: Third year Automobile student of PIIT-New Panvel won silver medal at world junior Rifle Shooting Double Trap Championship at Finland (June 2015). She also awarded the best achievers award by Pillai Group of Institutions.

Mr. Tejas Karla: TY B.Com student of Pillai College of Arts Commerce & Science (PCACS) – New Panvel won individual silver medal and team gold medal at Gun for Glory National Rifle Shooting Championship held at Pune. Tejas also awarded with best achievers award for his outstanding performance in shooting.

Ayonika Paul: Ace shooter and BE(EXRTC) student of PIIT-New Panvel remains in the news for her silver medal victory in the Common Wealth Games 2014. She was also participated in the Asian Games and reached upto the finals. She also won Bronze in the World Cup Rifle Shooting Championship. Won gold in the prestigious National Games 2015 held at Kerala.

Aliana Paul: Aliana Paul (SE-Auto) student of Pillai Institute of Information Technology selected in to the National squad for the forth coming Asian Championship as well as World Rifle Shooting Championship for the year 2015. She also won Gold medal in the Shotgun event at Inter University Championship.

Tejas Karle: Second year B.Com student of Pillai college of Arts, Commerce and Science won bronze at Asian Rifle Shooting Championship at Tehran. He also won gold medal in All India University Rifle Shooting Championship. In the National Games at Kerala he won another medal. He is selected for coaching at Abhinav Bindra Rifle Shooting Academy, Bangalore.

Ayonika Paul: Ace shooter and BE(EXRTC) student of PIIT – New Panvel remains in the news for her successful journeys in India and abroad. She was crowned with Asian Championship bronze medal, All India Masters Gold medal, Senior National Championship Gold and also represented the Country in the World Cup Rifle Shooting at USA. Presently ranked No.1 in senior women category of India and World ranking No. 29. Ayonika Paul also awarded with “Shiv Chhatrapati Puraskar” – the prestigious Maharashtra Govt award for the excellence.

Tejas Karle: First year B.Com student of Pillai college of Arts, Commerce and Science won the Asian Junior Rifle Shooting Championship bronze at Nanchang, China. He also represented India at a tournament held at Iran.

Aliana Paul: FE(Auto) student of Pillai Institute of Information Technology New Panvel made us proud by winning gold medal in National Youth Shotgun Trap Rifle Shooting Championship. She also selected into the Indian probable camp for Asian games.

Prathik Deshmukh: First Year M.Sc(IT) student of PCACS made us proud by winning National Bronze, West Zone Silver and State Gold in the 10M Rifle Shooting Championship.