PGDAV College

SATARK

SATARK, The Consumer Club of P.G.D.A.V. College, was launched in 2011 and is a constituent of Consumers Forum, a non -profit organization registered in 1980, under Government of India society’s registration act, 1860. Consumer awareness is a nugget. Many consumers are avid buying new products but they are not aware that they can be deluded. Satark looks forward to spreading consumer awareness among people that is an understanding by an individual about their rights as a consumer, concerning available products. The concept contains four categories namely safety, choice, information and the right to be heard.

ORIENTATION 2019

A beginning marks the rest of the event. Satarak's Orientation began with a warm welcome of the respected Principal Sir, the honorable chief guest Mr Alok Agrawal. After a brief introduction of Satark - The Consumer Club, the faculty, core team and the rest of the members were welcomed. The esteemed chief guest Mr Alok Agrawal lit the lamp with goodwill and good wishes. Kanishka Madaan, the Vice President of the club was further invited to address the audience about the aims of the club. She took over the podium with enthusiasm and charm. She went ahead to discuss the problems and issues that comprises the society, which led her to discuss the amends that Satark has achieved and persisted over the years. She brought to everyone's notice the plan of the year 2019-2020 and what is on the hit list to be catered by Satark. The previous years were unforgettable, to highlight the work done and the achievements achieved last year, a video was showcased. The video was an insight to the endeavours of the previous years. The team members of Satark - crafted hand made momentos generated from the E-Waste. These momentos were presented to the Principal Sir, Chief Guest and all faculty members.

Moving on with the event, The moment that everyone awaited for. Our honorable Chief Guest enlightened the audience, core team and faculty with all that he had. He was full of courage and knowledge. It felt like he wanted to share all that he carried with him. He discussed the plight of the consumer and the mis-happenings that he experienced himself. He told the ways to make way from a particular threatening consumer problem. He discussed everything of importance. Topics that are usually untouched and intangible were dutifully debated by Mr Alok Agrawal. After the gracious words of the chief guest. It was a special moment for the faculty members and the core team members to wear their roles on themselves. It was the moment of the badge distribution. After the felicitation of the office bearers. The anchors invited the most favorite and special convener - Mrs Sakshi Verma. She appreciated the management and the team work. She brought to notice the key points such as no plastic bottles were used this year since Satark is an ambassador of issues like this.

To conclude the momentous day we invited over The President of Satark - Manaman Kaur to extend her vote of thanks. She was thankful and sweet with her words. Her eyes were gleaming of her vision for the club this year. She stood impenetrable and optimistic.

TEAM SATARK 2019-20

Founding Member- Dr Vandana Agrawal

Advisor- Dr Anuradha Gupta

Convener- Ms Sakshi Verma

Members- Ms Nisha Goel, Dr Ritu Tanwar, Ms Megha Madal, Ms RVS Chuimila

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Events & Activities @ 2018-19

1. KSS:

Satark- the counsumer club of PGDAV college organised it's first event, Knowledge Sharing Session with the new team, on 4th Sept 2018. Komal from English Hons, 3rd year and Utkarsh from BA program, 2nd year

discussed the Consumer Protection Act. The president of the society, Himali skillfully presented all the facts and cunning of the retailers and other service providers which the usual consumers fail to notice. All the do's and dont's for a consumer wishing to avoid being outwitted were interestingly presented. The audience shared their personal experiences of exploitation. All said that the session helped them in becoming more Satark.

2. HANDALING CONSUMER'S GRIEVANCES:

On 13th September 2018, SATARK,The Consumer Club of P.G.D.A.V College organised Inaugural of the session 2018-19 followed by an interactive session on Grievance handling by resource persons from Consumers Forum Mr. Nalin Tripathi and Mr Alok Agrawal. The audience enthusiastically cleared their queries. Later, Investiture Ceremony was done by giving badges to the respective teachers, Core team and all the departmental heads.

3. E-WASTE AWARENESS & COLLECTION DRIVE:

In order to create awareness regarding E-waste management among undergrads, a knowledge sharing session, in collaboration with E-parisara (authorised recyclers) was organised by Satark, the consumer rights society of P.G.D.A.V. college on October 30th,2018. The event whose main objective was to promote environment friendly recycling practice was succeeded by a week long E-waste collection drive from October 29th to November 2nd.

The speaker of the event Mr Manoj from E-parisara, filled us with often ignored facts and figures related to the electronic waste and how it can be corrected. Later on in the interactive session, he also introduced the curious audience with numerable ways of adapting eco-friendly recycling habits.

Our honourable Principal sir, Dr Mukesh Aggarwal ended the session by emphasizing as well encouraging the students through contributing to the collection drive which was to be carried on by the team members.

4.NGO VISIT :

The SATARK TEAM visited NGO BLESSINGS on 6th of October and informed the women and children about Consumer Rights, Protection, and complaint filing procedure. The complete session was very interactive. We presented three acts to show how the consumers get cheated and how they must raise their voice for that. The question-answer session at the end made it even more cognizant for all.

5. INTER COLLEGE DEBATE COMPETITION

On 18th February 2019, Satark, the Consumer Club of PGDAV College, organised an inter - college Prime Time Debate competition on the theme "Internet of Things" in the old seminar hall. The event was judged by Dr. Sunil Prakash, the President, Consumers Forum, Ms. Ameeta Gupta, Consumers India and Dr. Vandana Agrawal, Associate Professor, PGDAV College. The teams were given different topics under broad theme wherein they were given time to express their opinion followed by crossfire round from audience and judges.

A total of 10 teams, 2 students in each, participated in the event and insightful arguments were put forth. Nikita and Shubham, and Abhik and Sarthak of Amity University bagged the first and second position respectively. The third position was shared between Gunjan and Annanya, and Anish and Tanvi of PGDAV College and ARSD Coleege respectively. Sonali and Anubhav of PGDAV college were given the consolation prize whereas the best interjector prize was given to Pragya. The event turned out to be a huge success by the active participation of the audience and the improvisation of the Satark team.