GEO-CRUSADERS

The Environmental Society of PGDAV College

Mission Statement

The mission of Geo-crusaders is to create awareness and motivate students towards understanding various repercussions of environmental degradation and creating a healthy environment for our present and future generations. Issues regarding various socio-ecological aspects, ways of sustainable development as well as environment conservation will also be addressed. The society also aims to work in collaboration with other institutions working towards environmental awareness programs and conduct symposia, workshops, trips, and college projects to keep students updated with new researches and approaches towards keeping our environment in good health.

World Ecology, Environment and Development (WEED) Award

The College along with society was awarded by World Ecology, Environment and Development (WEED) Award by the International Association of Educators for World Peace in 26^th World Environment Congress at Indian International Centre, New Delhi on 7/8 November, 2017.

Aravalli Utsav-2017 at India Habitat Centre

The society organized a visit to India Habitat centre on 14^th November 2017 for the Under Graduate students under CBCS module. At Aravalli Utsav students came to know about the native flora and fauna of the Aravalli Mountain Range and also about the invasion of the alien species of Prosopis juliflora. They also got to know about the importance of the native flora and fauna to maintain the ecosystem in an effective way and the problems related with the invasive species Prosopis juliflora.

Plantation Drive

The society organized a plantation drive on 15^th November, 2017 in the memory of Late AVM Shri. Vinod Rawat Ji. We along with our students and office bearers of Geo-crusaders planted saplings of various plants which are native to Delhi. We also assisted an NGO- Leaders For Tomorrow (LFT) in carrying out plantation driveat our college campus.

Geo-crusaders @ Asian Waterbird Census 2018

The faculties are participating as volunteers in the Asian Waterbird Census 2018 being held during the month of January and February of the year. Dr. Richa Agarwal and Ms. Renu Jonwall participated in the census held at Okhla Bird Sanctuary on 6^th January 2018 and at Delhi Zoo on 20^th January 2018, under the leadership of ecologist TK Roy, state coordinator Delhi, AWC, Wetland International South Asia. The reports covering the census have been published in various leading newspapers.

Cleaning the campus

Geo-crusaders organized cleanliness drives in the college campus in the academic year of 2017-2018. More than 100 students along with the faculty members of the society participated in the drive, collecting waste paper, bottles and other non-biodegradable waste. Students also created awareness among their friends and colleagues through posters, newspaper cuttings and interactions; and encouraged them to keep their campus neat and clean. Members of the society also placed and tagged the coloured dustbins (both blue and green) in the college area to inculcate the habit of throwing dry and wet wastes separately.

Geo-crusaders at Aaghaz 2018

The members of Geo-crusaders celebrated the Annual Fest "AAGHAZ'18" on 1^st and 2^nd February 2018, by fostering the youth to safeguard the environment. The society came out with flying colours as it was able to attain its objective of creating awareness among the youth by putting up posters and showcasing the documentary related to World Wetlands Day. The activities which were organised by Geo-Crusaders included:

Placement of coloured dustbins (both blue and green) in the college area to inculcate the habit of throwing dry and wet wastes separately.
Different games which involved:

a. Environmental Quiz

b. Word search (searching environment related words)

c. Celebrate world Wetlands Day

Commercium, the Commerce society of P.G.D.A.V. College is one of the most active and renowned society that has maintained the reputation as one of the biggest societies with 250 members. This year, the society was formed on 19^th September with some phenomenal post bearers and teacher coordinators. The teachers Coordinators elected this year were- Convenor Mr. Surender Kumar, Co- Convenors Ms. Monika Saini and Ms. Neerza, Teacher Co-ordinators Ms. Ritu Gupta and Ms. Anindita Goldar. Mukul Singla was elected as the President of this society with Neeraj Pandey and Ayush Kansal as Vice President, Sajal Jain and Ayush Dhoundiyal as Secretary, Saumiya Kapoor and Yash Gupta as Joint Secretary and Rohan Arora as Treasurer of Commercium 2017-18. They started their journey of this year with the celebrations of Teacher’s Day by acknowledging the efforts put in by the teachers in developing the students. On 19^th September,they came together as a team and shared a vision of an organization that was built to stand apart from the rest. The team invited two renowned speakers from the field of commerce for the INAUGURAL SESSION namely, CA Abhinav Kalra (GST Panel Consultant) and CA Atul Gupta( Central Council Member, ICAI) who graced the ceremony and sharing the insights on the then newly accepted tax system-GST. With this, the journey started and the society organized various seminars and workshops to develop and improve inter personal skills, cracking interview sessions and building up confidence amongst the students to brush up their overall personalities. With the spark of initiating something afresh, this year the team started their own blog- FINANCIAL SCOOP – managed by the members of the society. The blog is powered by their opinions and ideas related to the changes taking place in the economy financially and strategically. Taking chances and with a fresh outset, for the first time ever in PGDAV College, Commercium organized “YOUTH CONCLAVE” which was a 2 day event and it aimed to bring together top professionals under one roof, who have carved a niche for themselves in their respective fields. The lineup consisted of speakers from different walks of life. On DAY ONE, eminent speakers like C.K. Khanna, Tarun Anand, Onkar Khullar, Rishabh Rana, Suraj Saha, Salman Khan Niazi and Zalman Khan, Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami and Ankit Madaan graced the event with their motivational talks and sharing their secret of success. DAY TWO was also garnished with distinguished speakers like Priyanka Raina, Vikrant Gupta, Arvind Gaur, RJ Raunac and Papa CJ. YOUTH CONCLAVE was a huge achievement and has set a benchmark for all the future events of our college. Carrying the same spirit of enthusiasm and success,they arecomin up with their Annual Fest, COMMQUEST with the theme of “PARIVARTAN- CHANGING DYNAMICS OF INDIAN ECONOMY” which will include amazing and exciting events like B-Plan, Treasure Hunt, Gangster Vegas and many more such events. Commercium is a society that always thrives to be the best and stand apart from the crowd by doing the impossible.

ENACTUS PGDAV COLLEGE

Enactus is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities. It helps the students to develop skills to become socially responsible business leaders wherein students develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living of people in need. In addition to the community aspect of the program, Enactus leadership and career initiatives create opportunities for learning and exchange among the participants as well as the placement of students and alumni with companies in search of emerging talent.

ENACTUS basically means "entrepreneurship in action" - initiating business ideas and solutions with innovation and passion while keeping in view sustainable impact and integrity of running the business. Keeping the spirit of social entrepreneurship in mind, ENACTUS PGDAV was formally created on January 25,2016 under the supervision of faculty advisors Dr. Pratibha Agarwal (Convenor) and Dr. Richa Agarwal (Co-Convenor)

The office bearers for this year are :

President : Paaraj Vohra

Vice President : Arpana Nagpal

Secretary : Rohan Dalmia

Joint Secretary : Shreyash Kumar

Marketing Head : Aporwa Siwali

Treasurer : Vaibhav Mehta

Quality Check Head : Samyak Jain

Technical Head : Anshul Narula

Project undertaken for this session is KORAKAGAZ which initiates with the collection of waste paper through collection drive held by volunteers of Team Enactus from time to time. This waste paper is traded for recycled paper that is then transformed into a spiral binded notebook which has merchantability. Under Project Korakagaz certain individuals from the slums of Nehru Nagar have been identified who possess entrepreneurial spirit. The notebooks are developed by this target community aiding them to earn their livelihood sustainably. The required skill, technical expertise, marketing and business opportunities are provided by Team Enactus PGDAV. Apart from holding a great appeal to its user the notebooks produced under Project Korakagaz are enviromental friendly as they fulfill the principal of 3R's (reduce , reuse and recycle).

This time also the team showcased its project at the annual cultural fest of the college- Aaghaz 2017. The Chief Guest of the function, environmentalist of international fame Dr. Vandana Shiva launched these notebooks and wished greater achievements for Project Korakagaz for times to come.The participating community from Nehru Nagar slum was also much motivated by her encouraging words.

Overall Project Korakagaz received an overwhelming response not just from the students of various colleges attending the fest but also from the college faculty.Along with it we also got some valuable suggestions to further improve upon the existing ideas.The team plans to take forward this project with greater enthusiasm.

ECOLIBRIUM

ECOLIBRIUM, the Economics Department Society of PGDAV College is a very dynamic body that keeps organising competitions, seminars, talks etc. to keep students updated with economic developments and give them real world exposure.

The highly anticipated Economics Department’s offi cial ‘Freshers’ Welcome’ programme was held on 3rd September, 2015. The Principal, Dr M. M. Goyal, welcomed the freshers and spoke about the scope of economics and the importance of teacher-student interaction. Dr Pratibha Agarwal, the teacher-in-charge of Economics Department noted the significance of the occasion and encouraged the students to work and follow their dreams. The new students also got the opportunity to showcase their talents and creativity.

On 8th October, 2015, Ecolibrium organised an intra department competition called ‘Understanding Newspaper,’ commencing with the paper presentation on the topic ‘Price Of Development’. The motive of this competition was to make the students read, analyse and understand economics and finance related news.

The topic referred to the conflict between RBI and the Finance Ministry regarding the interest rate and the students followed the issue closely for the presentation. Dwelling upon the theory, practical aspects and policy implications of the topic, the competition was an enriching experience for all the students. The judges for the event Dr Dolly Narula and Dr. Ashwini Mahajan also presented their views on the topic unveiling its various intricacies. The judges also welcomed the enthusiasm displayed by the students and hoped that they would maintain their keen interest in macroeconomic policy. The event concluded with Dr Pratibha Agarwal announcing the results and congratulating the winners.

The most awaited event i.e. the department’s annual festival, ECOLLIGENCE -2016 took place on March 14, 2016. The fest was graced by Dr Sanjaya Baru, renowned policy analyst as the Chief Guest. The fest hosted a variety of competitions and drew huge participation from many colleges of University of Delhi.

DEPARTMENT OF HINDI

Dr. Manoj Kumar Kain, Advisor, ‘Chintan’ Committee of the Department of Hindi organized many literary-cultural activities for the development of talent among students. In August, a welcome program was held on the occasion of ‘Tulsi Jayanti’ in which Dr. Jagannath Sharma ‘Hans’ was the chief guest. This program was presided over by Dr. Mukesh Aggarwal, Teacher-in charge of Department of Hindi. Dr Veena, Dr Avnijesh Awasthi and Dr Krishna Sharma spoke on this occasion. ‘Teachers Day’ was celebrated; the students presented copies of Ramcharitra Manas to their teachers. Under the auspices of ‘Chintan’ Committee, Dr. Kapil Dev Nishad held Bhasha Sahodri Hindi program. Through this program, the students were made aware of employment potentials in Hindi.

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

“Sankhyiki” the Statistics Society of the College is actively involved in organising various extra-curricular academic events and activities in which the students participate with great zeal and enthusiasm thus making each such event a grand success. Most notable of Sankhyiki’s activities is the departmental festival ‘SKEWSION’ held once in each academic session and this year it is scheduledto be held in the first week of April. During ‘SKEWSION’ the society arranges a talk by an eminent personality from statistics or some interdisciplinary field as well as from the industry along with events such as creative writing, quiz, statistical antakshri and other informal events. This year “Sankhyiki” plans to take its traditions a step further by adding a field visit for the students besides aforementioned activities.

SPIC MACAY

The college also has a PGDAV chapter of SPIC MACAY which organizes various cultural events to promote awareness of India Classical Music and Culture amongst the youth today. The programs provide an opportunity for interaction with renowned artists.

PROGRAM REPORT

On 11^th November, 2014 our P.G.D.A.V College chapter of SPIC MACAY for the first time witnessed mesmerizing odissi dance recital by Padma Shri Smt. Madhavi Mudgal who was accompanied by Smt. Manikuntala Bhowmick, Shri Jitendra Kumar Swain, Shri Yar Mohammad, Shri Kiran Kumar.

The program started at 11:30 am with lamp lighting by Smt. Madhavi Mudgal, Dr. M.M.Goyal (Principal) and Shri Mohan Lal ji (ex.Principal) accompanied by Saraswati Vandana.The program was attended by the Principal, College Faculties, and large number of students. Smt. Mudgal explained about the Indian Dance Heritage and various mudras like tribhnaga, chok etc. All were completely spell bound by the Performance organizing or as viewers immensely benefitted. Those students who participated in this program learnt about team work & dedication. They also got opportunity to meet such an eminent personality and this personal interaction inspired them to excel in their life.

At the end the students and faculty members were left wanting for more. Such was the impact of the performance.

DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT

The Sanskrit society “laLÑr leok;” organized a lecture on the topic “laLÑr ds fofo/ vk;ke”. The lecture was delivered by Dr Satyamurti, Associate professor, special center for Sanskrit studies JNU, in the month of October 2015. The department also organized a trip to the parliament for the students along with the students of commerce department.

Department of History

The History Society, ‘DHAROHAR’ on 27^th October, 2016 organized a talk by Dr. S. S. Biswas, former Director General, National Museum, on “Heritage and Heritage Management”. It was followed by ‘Paper Presentation’ on the topics “Science and Technology in Indian History”; “Religious Pluralism in Indian History” and “Nationalism Today” for the first, second and third year respectively.

The society also organized an educational trip for the second year students to the National Museum with the idea that the students will be benefitted in their understanding of Heritage and its management in a better way.

The Society, then organised its Annual History Festival ‘ATEET’ on 10^th March, 2017. Aditya Mukherjee, Prof. of Contemporary History, JNU was the chief speaker. He spoke on ‘The Importance of Contemporary History’. The topic was useful as a new Paper on ‘Contemporary Indian History’ has been included in the current CBCS syllabus. An Exhibition was also organized on ‘Architectural Forms in India’, the topics of which were ‘Temple / Mosque / Palace-Fort Architecture’. The entries ranged from Konark, Khajuraho temples to Qutub mosque. The students also staged a play on ‘The Trial of Bhagat Singh’. It was appreciated by all. This was followed by a Quiz on ‘Indian National Movement’. Finally prizes were given to the students for various competitions like paper presentation, exhibition and the quiz. The programmes enriched the students academically and ended with great success.

ANANT MATHEMATICS SOCIETY

The Department of Mathematics started its session with an Orientation programme held on August 8,2016 for the freshers. This programme was followed by appointing new office bearers for the society through interview sessions for Annant Mathematics Society. The following students of B.Sc.(Hons) Mathematics were selected this year:

President: Himanshu Sharma, IIIrd year

Sr. Vice President: Rishabh Sahu , IIIrd year

Vice President: Yash Sethi, IInd year

Secretary: Sunny Kumar, IIIrd year

Treasurer: Nayandeep singh Lamba, IInd year

The society under the leadership of new office bearers organized a fresher welcome programmme on 19^th September, 2016 in which various interesting activities were held. The society aims to provide a better platform for students to learn and experience the soul of mathematics. Every year the society hosts some lectures in which we invite hon’ble prof. to speak about their research, projects and to inspire young minds to pursue mathematics for their higher studies. This year Anant Mathematics Society organized an Invited talk on 4^th January, 2017 by an international speaker Prof. Sat Gupta, Professor of Statistics and Associate Head , Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

He delivered the talk on the topic “Variations of the Greenberg Unrelated Question Binary Model”

The students not only were exposed to a new area of interdisciplinary research namely “Survey sampling” but also got a glimpse of the international research.

The talk indeed proved valuable for the students as well as the faculty.

The session was chaired by Sh. Mohan Lal ji, one of the founder faculty of the college and served as Principal, P.G.D.A.V. college for 26 years. The talk was graced by our guests of honour Dr. H. L. Bhatia , who has served as faculty, vice-principal , Principal P.G.D.A.V. for 5 years and Dr. J. K. Krishnamurthy , faculty, bursar, vice-Principal and Principal P.G.D.A.V.

The department organized its annual Mathematics fest Spectrum 2017 on 3^rd April 2017. Dr. Aparna Mehra ,Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi delivered a talk on “Data envelopment analysis : a method of ranking alternatives” Apart from the talk the fest saw great participation in the day long inter-college competitive events like Paper presentation, mathematical quiz, Soduku, mathematical Tambola.

KAIZEN - THE CAREER COUNSELLING CLUB, PGDAV COLLEGE

KAIZEN, the Career Counselling Club, PGDAV College was started in March 2015 to make students aware of emerging career options; to help them identify careers best suited to their own strengths; and, to promote creativity in career selection. The club is largely run by the students along with teacher convenor Dr.Kusum Lata Chadda from the department of Political Science and Dr.Rajni Jagota , Ms.Geetika Jaggi, Ms Megha Aggrawal and Ms Akanskha of the Commerce department( the last two joining in 2016) as torch-bearers who provide overall guidance and help in getting logistical support for its activities.

Following were the office-bearers for the session 2016 - 17 :

1. President, Anmol Titoria (B.Com.Hon, III Year)

2. Vice-President, Udit Thukral (B.A.Honours, Pol. Sc. III Year)

3. Secretary, Shreyas Kumar Rai (B.A.Hon. Pol.Sc II Year)

4. Under Secretary, Navnit Kumar(B.A.Hon. Hindi III Year)

5. Treasurer, Vatsala Gupta (B.Com.Honours III Year)

6. Media Coordinator, Electronic, Himanshu Kakkar (B.Tech IV Year)

7. Media Coordinator, Udit Prakash (B.A.Hon. Pol.Sc II Year)

The above team carried out the work of the Club with utmost efficiency. The office-bearers for the fresh session will be elected in the new session. The date will be notified later.

Various suggestions for a name of the new club came from the students and finally the name ‘KAIZEN’, a Japanese word for ‘incremental change/improvement’ was selected. Our motto is ‘Aspiring for excellence Always’.

The club conducts two types of activities: regular and sponsored.

Regular activity is a weekly activity of the club, which generally consists of book reviews; presentation of biographical sketches of persons of eminence; a session on vocabulary (English and Hindi); discussion on current topics. Students are also encouraged to showcase their self-composed poems and share individual experiences of personal growth.

From January 2016, two modules in weekly activities have been introduced. These are in the nature of series on :

i) Constitution of India by Dr.Kusum Lata Chadda;

ii) Legal framework of Business in India by Dr.Rajni Jagota

Sponsored activities include programs that are technical in nature. Professional Institutes like, Career Launchers, Landmark Institute, NIESBUD (National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development), IMT etc; as well as individual professionals are invited for the same.

NCC

The college has both girls and boys army wing of NCC which are amongst the finest in the university. NCC unit of the college has 160 boy and 54 girl cadets consisting of students of both morning and evening. Under the guidance of ANO LT. Seema Agarwal and Dr. Harish Arora the unit has an active training and cultural calendar. The cadets get training in army and other subjects like Drill, First Aid, Map Reading, Signals, Civil Defence, Slithering, Firing etc. They actively participate in "Anterdhwani" organised by DU and ATC, CATC, TSC, PRD, RD, NIC camps organised by Indian Army all over India. Besides imparting weekly training in drill and cultural interaction, the college unit organises well attended inter-college NCC Festival "PRABAL" and NCC Day at the end of the year. Trekking tours and overnight camps at college bind the NCC cadets in a lifelong friendship. After the completion of successful training and written exam cadets get B and C certificate which help them in getting direct entry in Army and also make them disciplined souls who obey with a smile and become good leaders and citizens.

Eclectica- Report for the session 2016-17

Eclectica- The English Literary Society of the college planned a plethora of fun filled activities and events for the session 2016-17. The annual self composed poetry recitation competition was held on September 25, 2016. The purpose of this event was to bring out the latent talent of the students, which hides somewhere in the corners of the four walled classrooms. The event was followed by a movie screening on John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.

Childhood is the most beautiful season of life. The participants revisited sweet and sour memories of their childhood with their poems based on the theme Childhood Revisited. The judges for the event were Mr. Mukesh Bhairwa, Ms. Jyoti Kathpalia and Ms. Aleya Giri. There were 20 participants in all with four prizes on the grab- 3 for conventional poetry and 1 for the newly introduced slam session. The first prize was bagged by Namya Kaushic, second by Amrit Versha and the third by Jaideep Singh. Devansh Chaudhary won the prize for the slam poetry. From wanting to role-play ‘Batman’ to finding best friends in the trees, to reliving cherished memories where the hardest decision was to choose the ice cream flavor, to upsetting over uncontrollable appetite, everybody’s childhood had it all.

The society geared up and expanded its horizons with the launch of Constellation’17, its first ever annual department festival- an amalgamation of academia and some exciting events. It provided a platform for students from colleges across the city to hone their talents and engage in a plethora of intellectually stimulating delightful activities. This edition was held on 20th-21^st February, 2017. The theme for the same was Journeys: Metaphorical and Actual.

The two day festival began with the Student Paper Presentation Competition scheduled on Day 1. Through this competition, the society endeavored to delve deeper into the phenomenon of daily interests, which seem rather subtle on the outside but have myriad layers to its being. The judges for this event were Dr. R.N Bhardwaj (our retired senior faculty), Ms. Renu Kapoor and Mr. Dharamraj. The first prize was bagged by Aditya Pant, second by SVD Chandrashekhar and third by S. Bhavsudha. The audience unraveled newer identities by evaluating journeys of characters from popular works of literature such as Funny Boys, God of Small Things, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Catcher in the Rye, amongst many others. The participants also discussed refugees and their identity crisis. A few of them linked spiritual journey with science fiction and assessed humanity through changes across the centuries from Marxist perspectives. This event attracted participants from 10 colleges in the city.
Day 2 commenced with Kaliedoscript- an unconventional creative writing competition that involves a video played in loop. It was judged by Ms. Megha Sharma and Ms. Pritika Nehra. The participants had to base their pieces of writing from an instance in the video. The first prize went to Kritika Singh, second to Shilpa Dwivedi and the third to Karishma Sahoo. The event was followed by an In-Costume Monologue competition, wherein students not only had to dress up like their favorite characters from any works of literature but also enact a monologue. Ms Jyoti Kathpalia and Ms. Vandana Agarwal were the judges for the event. Ayush Awasthi and Sheh Yadav won the prizes in order respectively. On both days of the event, the society organized Bring Your Own Book- the great book barter fair which was a huge success. A book for a book educates the youth! Over 500 books were exchanged. Eclectica hopes the festival becomes a yearly tradition.

Kanika Sahijwani
Secretary, Eclectica

SATARK

The Consumer Club, PGDAV College

Satark, the Consumer Club of PGDAV College was launched in 2011. The idea behind setting up the club, a sort of unique initiative in itself, was to raise awareness in the society and provide redressal of consumer grievances. Satark is a constituent of Consumers’ Forum, registered in 1980, under Government of India Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Forum is a member of CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL (LONDON) and Consumer Coordination Council, New Delhi. It is solely devoted to the cause of consumer protection relating to adulteration, high prices, incorrect weights and measures, medical negligence and other services that flout minimum parameters.

E-WASTE AWARENESS AND COLLECTION DRIVE

SATARK has been spreading awareness about “E-WASTE” since 2013. The club had collaboration with GIZ and now with e-Parisara, who are authorized e-waste recyclers. The club conducts e-waste awareness programs and then the collection drive. After understanding the harmful effects e-waste, the students and faculty of PGDAV have pledged to reduce-reuse-recycle the electronic gadgets and devices. Last year the members worked hard and collected 100kg e-waste which was disposed with, E-Parisara, an authorised e-waste recycler.

FIELD VISITS

The club undertakes consumer awareness programs in different schools. Faculty and students of SATARK visited St. Brij Mohan Sr. Secondary School situated in Anangpur Village. The school students were addressed on two important topics- food safety and consumer rights. The club organized awareness programs in Dev Samaj Senior Secondary School on 19.4.2012; in Saraswati Bal Mandir on 2.5.2012 and Guru Nanak Senior Secondary School, Faridabad, on 3.5.2012. The students also visited Village Chalera, at Sec 44, Noida, UP on Sun 9th Sept 2012.

TALKS

Every year the club conducts talks on consumer related issues. The current session started with a talk on “GST and its impact on consumers”.In January 2015, Satark in collaboration with Inner Wheel Club organised a talk on “Women Property Rights”. The audience was benefited with this relevant topic and learned rights of women across religions as well as does and don’ts while making a will. On 26^th Oct 2012, the club in collaboration with Consumer Voice (a voluntary organization in Interest of Consumer Education) organized a Workshop on Stock Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Investor Awareness to educate students of the college about financial awareness and irregularities.

KSS

SATARK has made a beginning from 2016 to hold Knowledge Sharing Sessions (KSS) to provide the members a platform to share and enhance their knowledge by discussing on consumer related issues. The club believes in not just creating awareness, but also practising the same.

INTERNSHIPS

The students of the club undertake internships with Consumers India and work on real life issues related to the consumers. Last year Navnit Kumar (President, Satark), interned with Consumers India under the mentorship of Dr Roopa Vajpayee, from 10^th Dec 2016 -16^th Jan 2017. He worked on the topic Rivers and Consumers, where he accessed the pollution of water bodies, critically analysed the programmes and policies and regulatory framework for water resources in India.

KITCHEN GARDENING

The increased prevalence of pollutants in the air and pesticides in food lowers the immunity of people who are genetically prone to allergies. We all are effected by the chemicals in food we eat. One probable solution to escape the chemicals is kitchen gardening. The students were sensitized about the ill-effects of chemicals in food and benefits of kitchen gardening. As a result all the students started gardening at their houses. Some have made a kitchen garden and some who didn’t have space are growing in pots.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

The club conducts various inter-college and intra-college competitions like poster making, poster presentation, ad making, essay writing, debate, etc. on various consumer related issues. The club conducts events on the theme of World’s Consumer Day. In 2017, several competitions were organised on the theme- Consumer Rights in the Digital Age and the club was featured on Consumer’s International website.

The club propagated a cracker-free Diwali to reduce the pollution and to create a healthy environment to live in. The club has a dynamic fb page which creates awareness, shares global news related to consumers and shares the activities conducted by the club.

TEAM SATARK ( For each Academic Year)

Founder- Dr Vandana Agrawal, Associate Professor, Department of English

Convenor- 2011-2015

Advisor- 2016-2019

Dr Anuradha Gupta- Associate Professor, Department of Commerce

Advisor- 2019 till date

Ms. Sakshi Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce

Member- 2013-14, 2014- 2015, 2015-16

Convenor- 2016 -17 till date

Ms Bhawana Miglani, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce

Member- 2013-14, 2014-15, 2017-18

Treasurer- 2015-16, 2016-17

Ms Khushboo Aggarwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce

Member- 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-2017

PLACEMENT REPORT 2015-16

The placement cell aims at providing jobs to every student who intends to work after graduating. In the current session 2015-16 with the efforts of the placement team we have strived hard to achieve our goals. With an overwhelming response from the industry we have been able to place 340 students.

Apart from inviting companies to the college, we also held workshops and seminars to prepare our students for the recruitment drive. A lecture on 'Do's and Don'ts of GD and Frequently asked questions in PI' by prof KK Srivastav was well attended.

Mr Krishnan from Ernst Young guided students in preparing their resume. The placement cell also invited alumini of the college to interact with the students and conducted mock GDs to remove fear and phobia of the candidates.

For enhancing entrepreneurship and self-employment skills among students the placement cell in collaboration with career counselling club organised a seminar on 'Entrepreneurship as career option'. Senior consultant Dr H P Singh at NIESBUD was invited. He made students aware of various business options,government policies and loans available for the startups.

We have progressed not only in terms of number of placements but also the quality. With top corporate houses such as Ernst Young, RBS, British Telecom, Aon Hewitt, L & T, Genpact, ICICI Prudencial, IBM concentrix, AdviceAda, Limetray, Oberoi group visited our campus and offered decent pay packages. The success of our placement cell warrants a due credit to the students team that worked meticulously throughout the year. The placement cell of the college is in a continuous process of developing alliance with more and better potential recruiters. We wish and hope to achieve even greater success in future.

PLACEMENT REPORT 2016-17

The Placement Cell of our college is characterised by an unparalleled zeal to help the students secure jobs after graduation. More than being an organising body, the placement cell here strives to recognise the individual abilities and weaknesses of students. It enables us to appreciate and cultivate the qualities our students possess and to inculcate the ones they lack. With the combined knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of the faculty and student members from various departments, the placement team is well equipped to put their resources together for the benefit of the students.

We can boast of successfully maintaining strong ties with the suitable companies, achieved by us because of our skilled students and a positive work culture, which makes them come back year after year. According to our record this year, around 200 students have been placed in high standing corporate institutions such as: Ernst and Young, Concentrix, Genpact, Comviva, Aon Hewitt,British Telecom, Royal Bank of Scotland amongst others. We are still awaiting quite a few recruiters, which will, without doubt raise the number.

Workshops and Seminars on diverse and related topics are conducted throughout the year and students not only from third year but first and second year are also invited to participate in them. More than placement, our overall goal is to work on building in our students the confidence to face the world beyond college. For this, we take and analyse feedback from both the students and the recruiting companies before planning our workshops and lectures. This year, the activities of the placement cell began with an orientation program, conducted by Mrs. Renu Kapoor from the Department of English of our college which enlightened the students on the importance of Body Language while facing interviews and Group Discussions. This was followed by a ‘soft-skills’ session conducted by speakers from Ernst and Young which dealt with the importance of a powerful resume and the nuances of writing the same.

In order to hone the basic confidence and communication skills of our students, we initiated a fifteen day workshop on English language, with lectures by many faculty members and selected student volunteers. In order to answer the doubts of students regarding career options and future educational opportunities, we invited NIIT to hold interactive sessions on the upcoming and popular field of App development. The speakers encouraged students to explore diverse courses and job opportunities after graduation. Continuing with the list of workshops, one of our members, Dr. Pradeep held a talk to answer the various queries and doubts in Accounts.

We would like to briefly mention of seminars organised by the placement cell in collaboration with various organisations, primarily: a programme on ‘Turning Your Passion into Career’ by Human Circle, in which, the speakers Mr. Kamal Seth and Mrs. WoiletaBurdzy Seth encouraged students to find their passion and follow it and provided tips on tackling the obstacles they might find on their way. Another seminar was organised under the initiative of our respected Principal, Dr. M.M Goyal on Australian Education System, also aimed at enabling the students to explore global educational and occupational opportunities. In addition to placements in multinational corporations, we encourage our students to give back to the society by becoming associated with NGOs such as the Gandhi Fellowship with its aim to create Social entrepreneurs and offer teaching internships in various schools across country. Our students have been selected for internships for a number of esteemed organisations such as: Teach India, WaggyTaggy, City Furnish, The Indian Economist to name a few.

The Placement Cell of PGDAV College organised its very first Internship Fair on 20th April’17. Sixteen companies and/or start-ups participated in the event, namely,

Arbunize, Innobate, Turning Stones, Travel Traingle, etc. offering internships in various fields. The profiles included editorial, content writing, business development, data analyst, business analyst, marketing, sales, management, graphic designing, photography, android developer, blogger, public relations, HR, etc., for students from all courses.

Around 250 students from different colleges had registered for the fair. 70 students were shortlisted and eventually 42 students were hired by these companies. The fair offered a platform to the students to explore and broaden their horizons through these internships. The event proved to be successful.

The placement cell hopes to continue the efforts and rise to new heights, a feat made possible with the rewards of appreciation our students acclaim nationwide.

Anu Kapoor

Convener, Placement Cell (2016-17)

Placement Record as on Jan 2016

S.No	NAME OF THE COMPANY	NO. OF CANDIDATES SELECTED
1	Ernst and Young (EY)	18
2	TCS Ignite	01
3	Mera Medicare (Internship)	10
4	Advice Adda	11
5	ICICI Prudential Life Insurance	14
6	Oberoi Group	01
7	AON Hewitt	31
8	IBM Concentrix	31
9	Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)	71
10	Larson and Toubro (L&T)	06
11	Genpact	82
12	British Telecom	11
13	Internshala(Internship)	03
TOTAL		300

Placement Record 2014-15

S.No.	NAME OF THE COMPANY	NO.OF CANDIDATES SELECTED
1.	Ernst and Young (EY)	06
2.	Concentrix (IBM)	42
3.	Genpact	43
4.	e-Age	24
5.	AON Hewitt	10
6.	Libsys Ltd.	10
7.	Larson and Toubro (L & T)	14
8.	IIFM	03
9.	ICICI Prudential Life Insurance	11
10.	TCS Open Ignite	02
11.	Wipro (CPC)	19
12.	ATOS Ltd.	02
13.	Bharat Calling (Internship)	01
14.	Earth Infrastructure (Internship)	13
15.	L&T (Internship)	05
16.	Teach India (Internship)	05
17.	Tanishq (Internship)	01
18.	HTLC	01
19.	Gandhi Fellowship	04
20.	Times Pro collaboration with HDFC	19
21.	Teach for India
22.	NIESBUD e-learning EDP
	TOTAL NO. OF PLACEMENT	235

Admission Committee: 2017-18

B.A. (Programme) Committee:

1. Dr. Chander Pal Singh

2. Dr. Gaurav Kumar

Website Updation:

1. Dr. Sonia Sabharwal

2. Ms. Sakshi Verma

Enabling Committee:

1. Sh. Surinder Singh (Convener)

2. Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha

3. Sh. Varun Gautam

4. Dr. Pinki Punia

5. Dr. Rimjhim Sharma

Prospectus Drafting Committee:

1. Dr. Anuradha Gupta (Convener)

2. Dr. Kusum Lata Chadda

3. Ms. Jyoti Kathpalia

4. Dr. Gurcharan Sachdeva

ECA Committee:

1. Dr. Sushma Chaudhary (Convener)

2. Dr. Savitri Rawat (Co-convener)

3. Ms. Megha Agarwal

4. Ms. Bhawana Miglani

5. Dr. Richa Agarwal

Sports Admission Committee:

1. Dr. P.P. Ranganathan (Convener)

2. Dr. Manoj Kumar Kain

3. Nominees of Delhi University

Help Desk Committee:

1. Ms. Sakshi Verma

2. Dr. Rimjhim Sharma

3. Mr. Manoj Gupta (JACT A/c Section)

Grievances Redressal Committee:

1. Dr. Ankit Agarwal

2. Ms. Bhawna Miglani

3. Ms. Sonia Nair (Assistant)

SC/ST/OBC/ Help Desk:

1. Dr. Pinki Punia (Convener)

Liaison Officer SC/ST

2. Dr. Rimjhim Sharma

Liaison Officer OBC

3. Sh. Chhetan Chhoidub

Counsellors:

1. Dr. Richa Agarwal

2. Ms. Geetika Jaggi

Activities @2015-16

With our sleeves up, this year we have organized many grand social events. "सेवा परमो धर्म:", with this motto, NSS P.G.D.A.V. presents you with our annual fest, "Sevaarth", which is based on the theme “VISAGE OF INDIA”.

The most successful event we had this year was "Blood donation camp", in collaboration with "Red cross society" and "Lions club", in which even students from other colleges actively participated and appreciated the same. We organized so many awareness rallies, clothes and medicine collection drives, campus cleanliness drives, seminars on moral values and movie screening on social values. "Ravi Kalra", the founder of "The Earth Saviours Foundation", personally addressed us on our orientation programme and guided us in this rollercoaster journey.

NSS Report 2014-15

National Service Scheme (NSS) unit of our college has remained very active this year by organizing series of events in the form of lectures, talks, workshops, collection drives, cleanliness drives, annual festival, etc. in order to fulfill its primary objective of personality development through community service.

Informally NSS volunteers started working during admissions by helping students during admission process but the team of office bearers constituted in early August, 2014. More than 300 students were registered and became part of NSS Unit. Formally its operations began with orientation programme on 1stSept, 2014, for which Mr. Omkar Nath Sharma popularly known as of MEDICINE BABA was the chief guest. The NSS team was extremely motivated by his effort of collecting unexpired medicines and distributing to poor and needy people and thus started medicine collection drive in the college. On 24th September, 2014, NSS volunteers organized HYGIEIA-Cleanliness Drive in the college to celebrate NSS day. NSS volunteers also participated in large number in ‘Swwach Bharat Abhiyan’organized at Delhi University, North Campus where, they were highly appreciated by vice chancellor for their participation. The college NSS team celebrated Sardar Vallabhhai Patel Jayanti by screening a short movie on his life and career and how he became the deputy prime minister of India in the 90’s. Teachers and students were present in large number during the movie screening.

“Women empowerment”, remained the focus of this year’s NSS events. On 18th Oct, 2014, NSS organized “A talk on women safety- issues and challenges in the contemporary times” by Kavita Krishnan (Secretary of AIPWA) which highlighted the problems women face in society and gave new perspective to look at the issue. PGDAV NSS team initiated “sahas” a programme with primary objective of encouraging women in society, which remained very successful. Further NSS PGDAV college organized its annual festival for the first time, ‘SEVAARTH’ where various events like PWD talent hunt, best out of waste, T-shirt painting, extempore, treasure hunt etc. were organized based on the primary theme of women empowerment and other social issues. This event was inaugrated by renowned women activist Ms.Ranu Bhogal who shared her views on the topic and conducted an interactive session with students where students also got opportunity to express their opinion about the issue. One of the main highlight of the NSS festival was the self - defence workshop for women conducted by Delhi Police at the college campus. This inter college event turned out to be great success with more than 100 registrations for various events across different colleges of Delhi University.

The NSS volunteers and the core team showed tremendous enthusiasm throughout the year in organizing events in college as well as working with NGOs outside college. They participated in Blood Donation rally to celebrate the ‘NVBDR’ at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium to realize “LITTLE RED DOT POWER”. They also worked on project “Eklavya” with NGO named Indus Action and spread awareness about Right to Education Act and the rights related to admission in private schools. NSS volunteers participated in "Walk for life" can support drive to support cancer patients who are in trouble. Further NSS volunteers continuously provide helping hand to blind students in writing their assignments, audio recordings through their “helping the unaided” initiative.

Behind a successful team there is always a highly motivated leader. Right from the beginning NSS Programme Officers Dr. Pinki Punia and Dr. Perveen showed great passion in organizing events and gave shape to the ideas. As a result of inspiring leader, enthusiastic students and very supportive Principal Dr. M. M. Goyal, today PGDAV NSS team has reached a new level and redefined its identity.