PGDAV College

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The department, being the largest academic department of the college, in terms of strength of students, which is about two thousand in number and the strength of teaching staff, which is about half a century, has many achievements to count during the year. Members of our department, students as well as teachers, are intensively contributing to the corporate life of the college. Our faculty members, besides being engaged in their normal teaching assignments, have been contributing to research in the form of books, articles in journals of national and international repute, and paper presentations in conferences, national and international, both here and abroad. They have also been to reputed universities abroad for upgradation of their academic qualifications or for teaching assignments.

Academic Cells of the Department

About three years ago, the department started with the finance cell, followed this year by three more academic cells: International Business Cell, i.e., Globiz, human resource cell and advertising and marketing cell. These four academic cells during the year have organized various academic activities for the benefit of teachers and students. To start with, under the aegis of Finance Cell, i.e., Mudra, the department invited Prof. C. P. Gupta, Departments of Financial Studies, University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC) and Prof. Vanita Tripathi, Department of Commerce, University of Delhi for a seminar on “Debt and Equity Markets” (February 12). This was followed by a seminar (February 25) under Globiz on “New Perspectives on Trade and Environment in the Era of Global Economic Turbulence,” by Prof B N Goldar, formerly from Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), and presently member of National Statistical Commission and Prof. Surender Kumar, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. The department had a talk on “Functioning of Stock Markets” by Mr Harbinder Sokhi of Bombay Stock Exchange (March 11). Besides, the department invited Prof Pankaj Agarwal, Research Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto for a talk on “When Products Look Like People” (March 18) under Advertising and Marketing Cell. The department very recently, on the eve(March 22) of our cultural festival, Holi, under international business cell, invited Mr Navin Kumar Maini, former officiating Managing Director, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), for a talk on “Entrepreneurship Development”, in which Mr Maini, who is also a leading global expert on micro-finance, highlighted many important points for India to play a leading role in the global economy with an entrepreneurial spirit as is being enthused by the current political regime under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shri Shivraj Gupta, an eminent industrialist and family member of Shri Girdhar Lal was the guest of honour. The department is in the process of organizing a seminar (April 9)under the human resource management cell, where they have invited Prof Ajay Kumar Singh, Department of Commerce, University of Delhi and a person from industry, Mr Sahil Khan, Executive, HRD, BHEL.

COMMERCIUM

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.

"MUDRA", The Finance Cell

"MUDRA", The Finance Cell of PGDAV College is a Student-Teacher Body founded in 2014. Since its inception, the Finance Cell has been working for the enhancement and updation of financial knowledge of students and teachers. Various activities like Seminars, Workshops, Quizzes and Debates are organised by the Finance Cell.

In the current session 2017-18, MUDRA organised a Seminar on "Digital Payment Modes" on 26th September, 2017. The Speakers for the Seminar were Mr. Vikas Madan (Assistant Professor, Shri Ram College Commerce) and Dr. Sushila Madan (Associate Professor, Lady Shri Ram College). It helped the Students and Teachers to expand their knowledge horizons from commonly used payment methods to the newly launched BHIM app.

On 12th October, 2017, Mudra organised a Workshop on "Advance Excel". The Resource person was Ms. Divya Mehta (Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Dyal Singh College). It helped the participants to get practical knowledge of Excel. This helped the Final Year students in their placements as well. On November 4, 2017, Mudra organised an inter college Online Debate Competition on the topic "Is SEBI Enough to Control Stock Exchange?"

The Finance Cell is planning to organise an Educational trip to Parliament in the month of March. The Study Visit consists of a briefing on the Indian political system and other related issues by an officer of the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Mudra is planning to conduct Mock Stock Session with the students in the month of March. The link to the Facebook page of the cell is http://www.facebook.com/ficpgdavcollege/

GLOBIZ- International Business Cell