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, 2016-2017

Commercium is one of the largest societies of our college. It provides a platform to students to hone their academic as well as extracurricular skills through various activities such as seminars, intellectual quizzes and various fun events.

As every new beginning comes after some other beginning’s end, similarly after the success of commquest’16 and the departmental farewell the society marked a new start under the stewardship of Dr Ashok Kumar Gupta (Convenor) and Dr. Mini Walia (Co- Convenor and H.O.D) together with other faculty members namely Ms.Monika Saini, Ms.Dippinder Kaur, Ms.Sunita Dr.Gurcharan Sachdeva, Dr.Atul Kumar,and Ms.Shikha Menani.Special thanks to Ms. Renu Jonwall (Ex-Officio) for giving her valuable inputs and helping the society with her experience.

The society being one of the largest in college, it consists of nearly 130 members. The interviews for the same were conducted on 17^th and 20^th September 2016. The executive team for the session 2016-17 is as follows: Reeshabh Goyal (President) Shruti Gandhi (Vice-President) Piyush Garg (Vice-President) Abhinav Vashisth (Secretary) Vatsala Gupta (Secretary) Ojaswee Bajaj (Joint-Secretary) Tarishi Agrawala (Joint-Secretary) and Bhavesh Ahluwalia (Treasurer). Regular meetings were held to discuss various important matters regarding commquest’17 and other events planned for the year.

To mark its inception for this year’s session the society organized a talk on G.S.T on 8^th of October 2016, the speakers for the talk were CS RK Khurana, CA Ashu Dalmia and Mr. Anshuman Tiwari (editor of India Today).The talk was informative and gave a good picture of what G.S.T is all about. The students learned a lot from this session and were able to enhance their knowledge. The society again organised a talk on Effective Communication Skills by Dr. Shivani Kapoor from NDIM, Delhi on 14thof February 2017.

Based on the fact that Innovation has been the driving force for development of the commerce field, the theme for this year’s annual fest was Brain it on: Initiate to Innovate. The society organized a successful fest on 22^nd and 23^rd of February 2017 by meeting the yardsticks set by previous year and as well as setting a new benchmark .The event was graced by Shri Ravi Wig (Ex-President of PhD Chamber of Commerce) Commquest’17 had a total of 11 inter college events namely: Debate,IPL bidding,FIFA :Console Gaming, Black market, Mock Stock, Street soccer, Ad making competition, Hotel bidding, World trade, treasure hunt and Quiz . Mass participation was experienced.
To mark the session’s end 1^st and 2^nd year members of the society took initiative to organize Commerce Department Farewell on 19^th of April 2017.
It has been a very eventful year for the member of commercium and it has kept all of the members on their toes. We hope that commercium reaches newer heights and continues the hard work!