PGDAV College

SATARK

The Consumer Club of PDGAV College

2017-18 has been a great and successfull year for the club. With the guidance of club’s Advisor, Dr Vandana Agrawal and Convener, Ms Sakshi Verma and dynamic team of students, the club organised several events. It kicked off with lively and interactive Knowldege Sharing Session, where Dr Sheetal Kapoor from Kamala Nehru College spoke on “GST and its impact on Consumers” on 8th September,2017.

On 25th September,2017 a quiz was held on Consumer Protection Act, GST and other basic consumer- related questions. Objective was to test the knowledge of students regarding the topics. A total of 40 people participated. Pragya Pandey emerged victorious and Sayash Aloney was the runner up.

A T-Shirt painting competition on “e-waste”. was held on 27th September, 2017. A total of 12 teams partipated. Yogeshwer Bajaj was selected as the winner followed by the team of

Niharika Kamboj and Anushree Basak as first runner up. The second runner up position was shared by Divya Aggarwal And Vinson Mathew Issac.

The club conducts E-Waste collection drive every year. This year after conducting awareness, the collection drive was held on 11th, 12th and 13th of October. It was a great success due to the combined effort of the Core members, the Faculty members and the team. Approximately 50 kgs of e-waste was collected which was disposed with e-parisara in the month of December 2017.

In January 2018, cover page designing competition was held. The theme was E-commerec on the lines of theme of World’s Consumer Rights Day 2018. Total of fourteen entries were received and Utsavi and Gunjan of B.com(H) III year were selected as the winners followed by Yogeshwar Bajaj.

An inter-college online photography competition was organised in the month of January 2018. Total 14 entries were received through which the creative young minds shared the cultural impact on consumer behaviour through their lens.

On 16^th Feb 2018, our members Ibtesham and Ekta made a presentation on “Consumer Protection Act: What it is and what it should be” where they discussed the current CPA and the proposed one. Such KSS enables peer learning as well as gives members chance to develop their communication skills.

On 22^nd February an inter-college debate was organised on the topic of 'Online transactions are safer’. Total 14 teams from different colleges participated and the event was judged by Dr. Shuchi Pahuja and Ms. Monika Saini, Professors Department of Commerce, PGDAV College. Tanvi Tharija and Madhur Mahajan from ARSD college were selected as the best team by the judges and Anshika Adhlakha and Arnima Ailawadhi were the runner ups. Pragya Pandey was awarded as the best speaker and Utkarsh Rastogi was selected as the best interjector.

Our students researched on ‘Energy Drinks:Reality or Myth’. The team made presentation which was followed by an open house discussion on 22^nd Feb 2018 from 1-2 p.m. Dr. Jayashree Gupta and Ms. Geeta Kumar from Consumers India were the Chief Guests. After presentation, the guests further enlightened the audience on the topic followed by interactive session with them.

Guests from Consumers India with Team Satark

The Research Team

The club also launched its annual newsletter in March 2018. At the end of this session, we can say we are little more Satark regarding e-waste, online transactions, Consumer Protection Act and energy drinks.

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Team 2017-18

Advisor- Dr. Vandana Agrawal

Convener- Sakshi Verma

President- Sayash Alone

VP- Arnima, Ayushi

Secretarty- Anshika Adhlakha

Treasurer- Ekta