ANNUAL REPORT - Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of ...

ANNUALREPORT2019-20

SRIGURUGOBINDSINGHCOLLEGEOFCOMMERCE(UNIVERSITY OF DELHI)

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(By Guru’s Grace, contemplate spiritual knowledge; read it and study it, and you shall be honored. Within the self, the self is revealed, when one is blessed with the Ambrosial

Naam, the Name of the Lord)

SRI GURU GOBIND SINGH COLLEGE OF COMMERCE ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 1

Message from the Chairman

S. Harmanjit SinghChairman, Governing Body

Established in 1984 by Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, admirably continues to stride towards excellence in all spheres. It is a matter of great pride that in the pursuit of excellence the college continues to stress on imbibing the spirit of humanity.

Innovative teaching methodologies help stimulate young inquiring minds, providing a con-ducive enabling environment for acquiring requisite skills to earn decent livelihoods. State of art physical infrastructure along with existence of a variety of societies and clubs also cater to diverse learning needs of students. All of these together have help evolve an ambi-ence in which new ideas and knowledge flourish. There is also an emphasis on understand-ing the challenges faced by the nation so that the students make meaningful contribution towards research and education ecosystem of the country. In the process, it is heartening to see the students win laurels and accolades at various academic, cultural and sporting forums.

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate all members of this team led by the Principal, Dr. Jatinder Bir Singh on a job well done. I commend the faculty members, students and the non-teaching staff on their efforts. I hope we continue to uphold our strong commitment to foster merit and quality at every level.


From the Principal’s Desk

Dr. Jatinder Bir SinghPrincipal

Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce takes pride in being a premier institution of the University of Delhi. We continue to strive to forge ahead in the pursuit of excellence in all walks of life.

Our accomplishments bear testimony to the fact that our persistent strives have helped build a conducive environment for our students to achieve soaring heights. We continue to hold the belief that the role of an educational institute is to nurture young minds who are the assets of our nation. This nourishment is to be provided by exposing them to avenues of attaining academic excellence along with exposure to wholesome cultural experiences, ensuing a physically enriching environment with opportunities to intelligently demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

Every year, we take stock of our achievements and shortcomings as well as our challenges and aspirations through the compilation of our year book. In chronicling all academic and cultural achievements of our students and faculty we learn useful lessons for the path ahead. We also find great satisfaction in presenting our laurels and acknowledging the ef-forts. This year given the present pandemic situation the possibility of a physical meeting and presentation being unviable, we present our proud accomplishments in the form of this report for the session 2019-20.

Needless to say, our ever-supportive governing body, able and experienced faculty, bright and brilliant students and a capable team of non-teaching staff have all played an import-ant role in all our achievements.


STUDENT RECOGNITIONSTUDENT OF THE YEAR

Aaryaman Pal Singh Duggal

AARYAMAN PAL SINGH DUGGAL, a final year student of B.Com. (Hons.) has been adjudged as the Best Student of the College for the year 2019-20.

An elocutionist having a knack for sports, he stands out from the crowd. He is a nation-al-level debater, state-level tennis-player, a swimmer and a keen team player with excep-tional management and leadership skills, demonstrated by the efficient manner in which he organised the Commerce Department Fest- Comfluenica’20, in the capacity of the President of the Commerce Society, URJA. He launched the very first-edition of Vismit, the annual-magazine of the commerce society as editor-in-chief to help disseminate knowl-edge about the complex happenings of the commerce world in a lucid manner. In addition to this, he was also one of the principal organisers of the BIL-Conference. An all-rounder, he performed well academically as well and managed to clear CFA-Level 1.

He believes that a well laid out vision plays a very important role in achieving success, and apart from hard work, it is equally important to have patience and humility. Moving forward with caution and taking everyone along for wholesome and sustainable growth is something he follows devotedly. With a motive to serve the society, he founded an NGO- Cancer Prevention and Detection Foundation, partnering with Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, working nation-wide, propagating wellness, spreading awareness about can-cer. He has an avid interest in finance and has undertaken multiple internships in distinct branches of finance, the most prominent one being at Tata Motors. His diligence and his persistent urge to become a better version of himself have led him to be admitted to the prestigious London Business School for his Masters.


ACHIEVERS OF THE YEARDEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

DEPARTMENT OF ECO-NOMICS

DHRUV JEEWANI, a student of B.Com. (Hons.) final year has exhibited a strong grip on aca-demics- with an av-erage GPA of more than 9.2, along with

active participation in extracurricular activ-ities, throughout his three years of gradua-tion. This year he played a key role in organ-ising various events in the College including Achievers United ’20 and Mettle’20, which had our Honourable Transport Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari as the Chief Guest. He was elected as the General Secretary of URJA, was a senior executive member, SOI at EM-INENCE’20, the annual cultural fest of the College and was an active member of the Commerce Department Cricket Team.

He gave the Common Admission Test (CAT) and secured a percentile of 91.02, receiving a call from IRMA- the best institute for rural management in Asia. He has also received placement offers from Ernst & Young and Deloitte. He has previously interned at Coca Cola India and Birla Corporation ltd. He also completed a certification course conducted by Bombay Stock Exchange and received a

ARJUN ARORA, a student of B.A. (Hons.) Economics final year has con-sistently exceled in extracurriculars, while maintaining a decent academic record. He was the Senior Director of Ro-taract Club of the College and helped set up project Sankalp- a centre for comput-er education to empower unskilled labour and housewives. He has been the General Secretary of Enactus, working on project Tabeer, a sanitation package for rural India. He was part of the team that participated in the Enactus World Cup in San Jose in 2019, where the project was selected as one of the top 12 projects worldwide. He was an executive member and Cultural Advisor of the Student’s Union of the College and played an important role in organising the Annual Cultural Fest.

He has interned with Teach for India Foun-dation, heading a project- Rubaroo, aimed at inculcating cognitive and motor skills in the budding minds of under-privileged kids. He has been associated with the NGO- Meri Umeed and has been involved in containing


high levels of pollution by planting saplings. He undertook an internship at Harvard Uni-versity, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute (LMSAI), working on empirical and on ground research on the catastroph-ic effects of partition on both sides of the border. He worked with SAIL India, as a fi-nance intern and analysed data for ongoing projects. He also participated in the ener-gy and environment sustainability panel at Harvard College Project for Asian and Inter-national Relations Conference organised by Harvard University in Boston, USA in Febru-ary, 2020.

ARUSHI SINGH, a final year stu-dent of B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics, held the positions of Joint Secretary, Cross Swords – the Debating So-

ciety of the College and Advisory, Rotaract Club. She was a co-founder of the girls’ bas-ketball team and has been an active mem-ber of the same for the past three years. In fact, she has been a part of several victo-ries of the team. She has also been an ac-tive participant in athletics and participat-ed and won several races and relays at the inter college level. She attended a Summer School Programme in Public Economics at

GORISHA PURI, a student of B.Sc. (Hons.) Comput-er Science final year was the President of the Seminar Com-mittee of the Col-lege for the year 2019-20 and made important contributions in organising the Fifth Biennial International Conference held in March, 2020. She played a vital role in the development of the Website for the International Conference and also authored and presented a research paper at the same. She is a part of the student research team for two Innovation Research Projects, funded by the Centre of Excellence of the College. Besides this, she has also been a part of several College Societies including Association of Computer Enthusiasts, Infin-ity, Training and Placement Cell, Saaransh and International Cell. She has interned at

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Sciences Po, Paris in June, 2018 followed by another Summer School Programme in Be-havioural Economics at University of War-wick, London in July- August, 2018. She has worked as an intern, at Ernst & Young, been an ambassador for International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Centre for UN and worked as a research intern, Harvard University South Asia Institute.


DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF PUNJABI

Valencea working as a full stack developer working on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX for the front end, and PHP for back-end programming. She has also interned as a graphic designer at Yoddhas, a UNESCO award-winning Cancer support NGO. She is a frequent participant in coding compe-titions and a member of ‘WiLDMS_Delhi’, a developer community supporting gender minorities practicing or interested in the fields of machine learning and data science, and ML Nerdie- a developer community that focuses on core challenges in areas like deep learning, evolutionary computation and symbolic artificial intelligence.

JYOTBIR LAM-BA, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics was the President of Quest - the Quiz Society, and the Marketing Head of the Finance

and Investment Cell of the College. He has been involved in various international lev-el events organised in the College through TEDxSGGSCC, BIL, FIC, Insights (ASBEMS) and the International Cell. He was a part of the College quiz contingent to St. Xavier’s, Kolkata where the team won the Best Con-tingent Award and he secured the second

position in the Business Quiz. He was in fact recognised as “Star of the College” in his first year of graduation. He has also been involved in two academic research proj-ects- Impact of Reliance Jio on the Private Telecom Industry in India and Sharekhan Mutual Funds and the HDFC AMC IPO. He has interned at several organisations, like Cashify as a project assistant, DU Express for business development and operations, Sharekhan Ltd. for finance and marketing profile, Highway Connect as a marketing intern and Alue India Ltd. He has also vol-unteered with organizations like UMEED NGO, Josh Talks and Youth Ki Awaaz to or-ganise summits on a global level and been a part of the dialogue with UN Deputy Secre-tary-General Amina J Mohammed. He has been placed as a financial analyst at Tres-Vista Financial Services.

D A M A N D E E P SINGH, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Punjabi was the President of Gyaan- Punjabi Sa-hit Sabha and suc-cessfully organised a seminar, lohri mela

and Punjabi Virasat Mela in this capacity. He was also an office bearer of the Gatka Society of the College- Khalsa Warriors and


played an integral role in organising the in-ter school Gatka competition as a part of the Founder’s Day celebrations in January, 2020 and the fourth inter college Gatka competition as a part of the Cultural Festi-val- Eminence’20. Academically, he secured third position in first as well as second year. He secured the first position in declamation competition held at Guru Tegh Bhadur Insti-tute of Technology and the second position in the speech competition organised by DSGM in collaboration with Virasat Sikhisim trust on the occasion of 550th Prakash Pur-ab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He secured the third position at Guru Nanak Paper Reading Competition held at Mata Sundri College, University of Delhi and also participated in Delhi-NCR Gatka Competition. He previous-ly has successfully contributed to creating a new world record for maximum players playing Gatka simultaneously.

MEGHNA BAID, a student of the Post Graduate Diploma in International Market-ing programme is a team player and ac-tively participated in all endeavours of the

course throughout the year. Her contribu-tion as a content creator, using SEO analy-

PG DIPLOMA IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

PG DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS JOURNALISM AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

sis to increases footfalls and increase visi-tor duration, on Marketing Mavericks- the social media marketing channel webpage of the programme, stands out. She played an important role in the placement activ-ities- pitching for internships as well as fi-nal placements and increasing the overall outreach of the placement activities for the course. She got shortlisted for the Global Goals MUN 2020. She played an active role in planning and managing Maadhyam’20- the PGDIM Festival and along with her team won the second position at the Ad Mad event of the same. She also together with her team bagged the third position in Best Out of Waste Competition in the de-partmental fest of the commerce depart-ment. She has been placed as the brand marketing manager at Big Buns India Pvt. Ltd., where she is looking after four brands including Wat a Burger!

ANUSHKA JAIN, a student of the post graduate course Diploma in Business Jour-nalism and Corporate Communication is a diligent student having nearly 100 percent attendance in all subjects. She secured the second position in the first semester of the course (losing the first position by just one mark) and was a Placement Coordinator as well and has played a key role in connecting


with the alumni of the course. She has been an active participant in all activities of the course and secured the first position in the Intra-Departmental Debate Competition and was recognised as the Best Interject-ing Reporter in the Mock Press Conference

Event. She has played a key role in putting together the current edition of Newsline- a publication of the Department. She was also a part of the live panel discussion or-ganised by the news channel India Ahead for the 8 PM BULLETIN DEBATE.

BEST SPORTS PERSONPAARTH MAKHIJA a first year student of B.Com has been continuously doing the college and coun-try proud through his outstanding achievements in shooting competitions.

He won a silver medal in the junior men’s 10m air rifle (team) at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany in July, 2019. His team’s combined score of 1877.4 was just 0.4 less than the gold-winning

Chinese team’s score. He was part of the team that won the gold in youth men’s 10m air rifle team at the 14th Asian Shooting Champi-onship in November 2019 in Doha, Qatar. He won the individual gold as well as the mixed team gold in the All-India Inter-Uni-versity Shooting Competition in 2019. He won the Bronze Medal in Youth Men’s 10m Air Rifle at the 63rd National Shooting Championship in Bhopal in December, 2019.

In January 2020, he topped the qualifications at the 3rd Khelo India Youth Games held in Guwahati with an excellent score of 630.6 in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle event for U-21 cate-gory and was in the top five in the final event.


BEST CADET NCC GIRLSSUO JIGMET DOL-MA is a bright and talented cadet. She has participated in “SOLDIERATHON” 2019 and 2020 held at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Delhi. She helped

organise the event “No Single Use Plastic” in the College along with the NCC Team

and other societies. She played an import-ant role in managing and coordinating the event on “Surgical Strike” in College in the presence of NCC Officers from the Unit. She played a key role coordinating the “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” in the Premises of Muni Maya Ram Hospital and the College prem-ises. She participated in “International Yoga Day” at 7DGBN Kirti Nagar. She was select-ed for the National Camp I.E.“Combined An-nual Training Camp”. As a versatile officer

HARSIMAR KAUR of B.A. (Hons.) Econom-ics played a pioneering role in initiating the Girls’ Basketball Team of the college. Over the past two years the team has won several accolades under her captainship. In 2019-20 the Girls’ Basketball team under Harsimar’s captainship won the Gold Med-al in RDIAS intercollege basketball tourna-ment (hosted by Rukmini Devi Institute), the Silver medal in Converge tournament

OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONS

(hosted by Jaypee institute) and the Gold medal in Aahvaan’20 (DTU Intercollege Bas-ketball Tournament).

AAKASH VERMA a third year student of B.Com is an out-standing shooter with several accolades to his credit. He won a Bronze Medal in the Haryana State Shoot-

ing Championship in 2017 as well as in 2019. He also qualified for the All India In-ter University Championship in 2018 as well


BEST CADET NCC BOYS

STARS OF THE COLLEGE

JUO VISHAL DA-LAL is a dynamic and exceptional cadet, who has been much ap-preciated as he got selected for the online na-tional camp “Ek Bharat Shreshtha

Bharat”. In the camp, he gave a presenta-tion to Andhra Pradesh cadets on leader-ship traits and was acknowledged for the same. He successfully organised the “Go-Green Drive” and the campaign for the

ban of “single-use plastic” in the College and around Dilli Haat area. He participated in “International Yoga Day” at 6 DBN Kirti Nagar and also participated in TAFFI Run 2018 held in Delhi Cantonment. and East Delhi Marathon 2019 in which he stood third in the 10 km run. He also got selected for the ‘Combined Annual Training Camp’. He has also been an active member of NSS in the College. He participated the “Fit India Cycle Run” organised by the DGNCC from 6DBN Kirti Nagar to India Gate flagged by our Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, promoting the importance of fitness among citizens.

ADITI CHAUHAN, a final year student of B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science, has been a mem-ber and then Gen-eral Secretary of the Training and Placement Cell.

Research, pitching companies and coordi-nating with the HR to conduct the recruit-ment drives has been an essential part of her contribution to the Cell. She has been a part of ACE – Association of Computer Enthusiasts, first as its Joint Secretary and later as the Vice President of the society. She has been part of the student techni-cal teams for various events including the

she has performed in Guard of Honour and Piloting in many College events. She played an important role in arranging the College

NCC fest Arjuna, 2018 and ‘National Unity Day’ celebrations.


Annual Day and the College Orientation and also played a key role in designing bro-chures of the Add-on Courses run by the College as well as the web content for Na-tional and International Conferences. She has also undertaken a few free-lancing proj-ects of designing and printing, for a hotel and restaurant group and a tour and travel company. She has participated in numer-ous workshops and conferences at Univer-sity and National level including India Mo-bile Conference and Artificial Intelligence Show by CII. She has worked with the NGO Yoddhas as a Graphic Designer and also worked with the NSS unit of the College.

AMANNEET KAUR, a final year student of Bachelor of Management Studies has been a consistent performer aca-demically and has been ranked amongst the top three perform-ers of the De-partment in all semesters. She has been an in-tegral part of college Chess Society since its inception and was the Vice-Captain of the Girls Chess Society in the year 2019-20. The team under her leadership won the third prize in the Women Chess tournaments at both SRCC and LSR. She represented the College as a finalist in ASPIRE, a Manage-ment Case Study Competition organised

by SPJIMR, Mumbai. She was a part of the organising committee of Josh Talks event organised by the Marketing Society of the College. She has interned at Zomato Feed-ing India (an NGO) with the designation of associate member in national expansions team and also has worked as a marketing intern at Asmi, a social entrepreneurship organisation.

DHAIRYA KHATRI, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Eco-nomics has a Grade Point Ag-gregate of 8.82 (for the first four semesters) and an exceptional attendance re-cord in all sub-jects. In the ses-sion 2019-20, she has been

the Senior Coordinator and Training Head of Training and Placement Cell of the Col-lege and played a key role in organising the Internship Fair, 2020. She was also the Vice President of Republic, the political science wing and successfully organised the Voter ID Campaign and the Self Defence Work-shop in this capacity. She was also a core team member of the Seminar Committee and an executive member of Arthashastra- the Economics Society. She has successful-ly completed internships from the Smart-Tree, GLinks International, FIC, Uneako and


Evelyn Learning Systems pvt. ltd. She has also completed research projects on Com-parison of Indian and Ethiopian Economy, Study of South Korean Economy and Study on Non- Performing Assets. She has been part of the student team of two Centre of Excellence sponsored projects.

JYOTI SHARMA, a final year student of B.Sc. (Hons.) Comput-er Science was awarded the Best NCC (Girl) Cadet award last year. She has pre-viously been se-lected for the na-tional ‘Combined Annual Train-

ing Camp’, was instrumental in organising ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ campaign in Muni Maya Ram Hospital and the College premis-es, participated in ‘International Yoga Day’ at 7 DGBN Kirti Nagar and Soldierathon 2017 and 2018 held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. As a versatile officer she has per-formed in Guard of Honour and Piloting in many college events. She is an all-rounder with an excellent average CGPA of 9. She has also been an executive member of ACE- the Association of Computer Enthusiasts and has undertaken several internships at MedTourEasy, Unmaad, Quark, BITS Pilani, Goa, Inventrom Private Limited amongst others. She completed 6 weeks live Project Industrial training in Java conducted by CPD

Technology, did an advanced Diploma in Big Hadoop and also completed training in AI from the Data Center to the Edge -An Op-timized Path Using Intel® Architecture. She has also done two projects- Data Ingestion and ETL.

NANDINI JAIN, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Econom-ics has been a consistent per-former in stud-ies as well as ex t ra - c u r r i c u -lar activities. As General Secre-tary of NSS she worked on Proj-ect Zameer, an

entrepreneurial venture undertaken to improve menstrual hygiene in slums of the city. She has been a part of Inner Wheel Club of Women and worked on Project Shakti, a platform for elementary school girls, fuel-ling creativity and aspirations, through an expressive art-based environment. She has also been a part of Teach for India and Proj-ect Rubaroo. She has been involved with Antaran, an initiative of TATA Trusts work-ing on sustaining livelihood through crafts. She has done an internship at Harvard Uni-versity, LMSAI, working on empirical and on ground research on the catastrophic effects of partition on both sides of the border. She has also interned at PwC India in the tax de-partment. She represented India in the en-


ergy and environment sustainability panel at HPAIR conference organised by Harvard University in Boston, USA in February, 2020.

SAMYAK JAIN, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics has held several important positions of respon-sibility in the College. These include being Head Organiser, BIL, Delhi Conference,

Advisory in Finance and Investment Cell, General Secretary – Association of Business Economics and Management Society and Core Position in Mercatique- the Marketing Society of the College. He has also been a member of Enactus and helped in manag-ing the two Social Entrepreneurship Plans undertaken by the team- Tabeer, Liquid

Handwash by Widows and Book–A–Plant. He has undertaken internships in different domains, finance at IIFM, market research at Ken Research and in investment banking at a startup True Coin Capital Advisory. Cur-rently he is working on his own Brainchild BizzCure a digital-security platform for cy-ber risk quantification and mitigation. SIMRANJEET KAUR, a final year student

of B.A. (Hons.) Pun-jabi is a conscien-tious student who secured the first position in first year and second position in the second year. A gifted writer and

poet, she has been continuously contribut-ing to the College magazine as well as other publications.

Special Recognition

SHIVAM ARORA, presently a second-year student of B.A. (Hons.) Busi-ness Economics secured the first position in the University securing a CGPA of 9.23 based on scores attained in Semester I and Semester II.

DIVYANSH SHARMA, a final year student of B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science, has interned at DRDO- and worked on the project- “Fluorescence Spectrum of Chemicals using Ma-chine Learning”. The project was selected by ISRO for their GAGANYAAN MISSION 2022.


ACADEMIC TOPPERSB.Com. (Hons.)

First YearDevdutt Khatri First Position 9.09Chanpreet SinghLakshay Middha Second Position 9.00

Bandhanpreet KaurGarvitHardika GuptaKanikaMandeep Singh

Third Position 8.86

Second YearPanav Khanna First Position 9.79Heena GuptaMansi AggarwalSugandh JainVidhi Jain

Second Position 9.46

Shrey DhingraRaghav MaheshwariDhruv Jeewani

Third Position 9.36

Third YearAnshul Goel First Position 9.25Ashmeet Singh Second Position 9.20Divya KaushikManya Soni Third Position 9.00

B.ComFirst Year

Muskan Saxsena First Position 8.86Parineeka Singh Second Position 8.77Riya Thapar Third Position 8.73

Second YearVrishan Batra First Position 9Garv Dua Second Position 8.95Vanshaj Batra Third Position 8.91


Third YearAkshay Chopra First Position 8.87Ishdeep Kaur Sudan Second Position 8.83Komal Garg Third Position 8.68

B.A. (Hons.) EconomicsFirst Year

Kritika Chawla First Position 9.50Keshav Aggarwal Second Position 9.27Khushboo Madaan Third Position 9.14

Second YearLavisha Chawla First Position 9.50Mandeep Kaur Second Position 9.39Garima Mittal Third Position 9.18

Third YearSarvansh Sachdeva First Position 9.068Mahima Rana Second Position 8.892Pallavi Grover Third Position 8.716

B.A. (Hons.) Business EconomicsFirst Year

Shivam Arora First Position 9.23Nikita Bansal Second Position 9.09Pryasha Madaan Third Position 8.95

Second YearJapneet Kaur First Position 9.07Deshna Jain Second Position 8.86Arushi SinghAntra Goyal

Third Position 8.54

Third YearUrvi Midha First Position 8.85Rabpreet Singh Second Position 8.59Ishita Dutt Third Position 8.51


B.A. (Hons.) PunjabiCGPA

First YearSonam First Position 8.23Yashpreet Kaur Second Position 8.00

Bachelor of Management StudiesCGPA

First YearDivyansh ChawlaJagmeet SinghPaarth Khursija

First Position 9.23

Shaurya Gupta Second Position 9.14Sahajpreet Kaur Third Position 9.09

Second YearAmanneet Kaur First Position 8.93Muskaan Dutta Second Position 8.79Himanshi Jindal Third Position 8.71

B.Sc. (H) Computer ScienceFirst Year

Avleen Kaur BakshiPrafful Gupta

First Position 9.77

Avani Jain Second Position 9.73Diksha Mehra Third Position 9.64

Second YearNenika First Position 9.61Prachi Gahlot Second Position 9.46Kiran KaurMeghna ShekharMehak JainPuneet Kaur

Third Position 9.36

Third YearDevender Gupta First Position 9.63Pulkit Aggarwal Second Position 9.39Dipneet Kaur Third Position 9.17


Mahima Jain Third Position 7.86Second Year

Amarpreet KaurSimranjeet Kaur

First Position 8.36

Jasleen Kaur Second Position 8.00Damandeep Singh Third Position 7.89

M.ComFirst Year

Ashima Garg First Position 76.1Sumishtha Arora Second Position 75.3

Second YearPrachi Jain First Position 82.1Hasgun Kaur Second Position 81.65

Post Graduate Diploma in International MarketingPercentage

Shreya Gupta First Position 84.9Shivangi Bakshi Second Position 83.3Anjali Singhal Third Position 82.2

Diploma in Business Journalism & Corporate CommunicationJatin Patial First Position 82Prerna Gupta Second Position 79.8Aastha Guliani Third Position 79

Certificate Course in FrenchDiksha Mehra First Position 86.3

Certificate Course in GermanPercentage

Aashima Grover Payal

First Position 62


SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERSDr. S.S. Gulshan ScholarshipAnshul Goel B. Com. (Hons.) IIIrd YearSarvansh Sachdeva B.A. (Hons.) Economics IIIrd YearPrabhsimran Kaur B.Com IInd YearGarv Dua B.Com IInd Year

Shri Sultan Chand ScholarshipPanav Khanna B. Com. (Hons.) IInd YearDevdutt Khatri B. Com. (Hons.) Ist Year

Dr. Usha Aggarwal Tejaswani ScholarshipVrishan Batra B.Com IInd YearMuskan Saxena B.Com Ist Year

Shri Sultan Chand Memorial Scholarship B. Com (Hons.)Kanika B.Com (Hons) First Year Semester IChanpreet Singh B.Com (Hons) First Year Semester IIDevdutt Khatri B.Com (Hons) First Year Semester IIPanav Khanna B.Com (Hons) Second Year Semester IIIMansi Aggarwal B.Com (Hons) Second Year Semester IVDivya Kaushik B.Com (Hons) Third Year Semester VAshmeet Singh Gulati B.Com (Hons) Third Year Semester VI

Shri Sultan Chand Memorial Scholarship B. ComIshdeep Kaur Sudan B.Com Third Year Semester VSavneet Kaur B.Com Third Year Semester VIHarpreet Kaur B.Com Third Year Semester VI

Sankhdhar Trophy and ScholarshipDhariya Khatri B.A. (Hons.) Economics IIIrd Year

Prof. Jaswant Singh Phull Memorial ScholarshipSahejdeep Singh B.A. (Hons.) Economics IIIrd YearRanjana B.A. (Hons.) Punjabi


Mata Raj Kaur Jolly ScholarshipMandeep Kaur B.A. (Hons.) Economics IIIrd Year

Shri J.P. Gupta Memorial Scholarship (Best Sportsperson of the Year)Parth Makhija

Shri J.P. Gupta Memorial Scholarship (Outstanding Sportsperson of the Year)Harsimran Kaur B.A. (Hons. ) Economics IIIrd YearAakash Verma B.Com IIIrd Year

Shri H.S. Nag ScholarshipLavisha Chawla B.A. (Hons.) Economics IInd YearKritika Chawla B.A. (Hons.) Economics Ist YearUrvi Medha B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics IIIrd YearJapneet Kaur B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics IInd YearShivam Arora B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics Ist YearDevender Gupta B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science IIIrd YearNenika B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science IInd YearAvleen Kaur Bakshi B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science Ist YearPraful Gupta B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science Ist Year

Shri Amar Nath Garg Memorial Scholarship Aaryaman Pal Singh B. Com. (Hons.) IIIrd Year

Shrimati Imarti Devi Memorial ScholarshipAngad Pental B.A. (Hons.) EconomicsDivyanshu B.Com. (Hons.)Gursimran BMS

Dr. Mohinder Kaur Gill Memorial ScholarshipDamandeep Singh B.A.(Hons.) Punjabi IIIrd Year

Shri Darshan Lal Ahuja ScholarshipHarneet Kaur B.Com. (Hons.) IIIrd YearJapneet Kaur B.Com. Third Year

Prof. Joginder Singh ScholarshipSonam B.A.(Hons.) Punjabi

Shri Harcharn Singh Memorial Scholarship (Commerce Department Achiever)Dhruv Jeevani B.Com. (Hons.) IIIrd Year


FACULTY RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDr. Sangeeta Dodraj-ka, Associate Profes-sor, received a grant of 1 Lakh Rupees from the College for the research project titled, ‘Impact of So-cial Media on School Going Children of Delhi’. She also published a research arti-cle titled ‘Online Marketing: Measuring In-dian Urban Customer Perception towards Online Shopping Sites’ in the International Journal of Management & Business Stud-ies, Vol. 10.

Dr. Harvinder Kaur, Associate Professor, published two research articles titled “Per-formance of NVIX during High Market Vol-

atility: The Case of In-dia” and “Does Foreign Portfolio Investment Increase Stock Market Volatility? – Recent Ev-idence from India” in two separate volumes

of NICE Journal of Business.

Dr. Manju Bhatia, Associ-ate Professor, was select-ed and appointed by the Board of Research Stud-ies, Faculty of Commerce and Business, as a Re-search Supervisor for an M. Phil. Study. She has also been appointed a member of the Research Advisory Com-mittee for two Ph. D. students by the Board of Research Studies.

Dr. Satvinder Kaur, Assistant Professor, pre-sented a co-authored paper ‘Study of Del-hi University colleges ranked in top 100 by NIRF’ at the ICSSR sponsored XXIst Interna-tional Conference jointly organised by Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research

(DSPSR), Deen Day-al Upadhyaya College and Shyam Lal College (Evening), University of Delhi. The paper was also adjudged as the Best Paper. She participated in the one-day workshop on


scale development organised by the Col-lege in collaboration with Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics. She also participated in the Faculty Develop-ment Programme organised by the College on Case Study development. She has been selected and appointed as Research Super-visor by Board of Research Studies, Facul-ty of Commerce and Business, University of Delhi for a Ph. D. student. She has also joined IGNOU centre in the capacity of an academic counsellor for post graduate stu-dents.

Ms. Meenu Gupta, Assistant Professor, was invited for a talk on ‘Forensic Account-ing and Auditing’ as part of a training programme on ‘Doc-ument Examination for Criminal Justice Functionaries and Fo-rensic scientists’ by Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science. She has co-authored the second edition of the book ‘Financial Reporting and Analysis’ published by JSR publishing house.

Capt. (Dr.) Baldev Singh, Assistant Pro-fessor, authored a book titled ‘Compa-ny Law’ published by Kitab Mahal.

Dr. Renu Gupta, Assistant Professor, pub-lished papers titled ‘Analysing conduct of banking segments in India with special reference to priority sector lending’ and ‘Conduct of banking industry in India: In-vestment policy and asset structure’ re-spectively in in two separate volumes of the Journal Aayam. She also contributed two chapters titled, ‘The entrepreneurial acumen of women in beauty and wellness sector of India: A case study approach’ and ‘Successful women entrepreneurs in the so-called male bastion: Examining factors and lessons drawn’ jointly authored with Dr. Gurdeep Kaur in the book ‘Role of wom-en entrepreneurship in socio- economic development’, edited by Saloni Gupta, Net-Shop18 Publishers and Distributors. Prior to publication, the same were presented in the Conference on the theme of ‘Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Socio-Economic Development of India’ organised by Bharati College. She presented a paper titled ‘Role of Industrial Visits in Enhancing Learning Quality of Commerce and Business Stu-dents’ at the ICSSR sponsored XXIst Inter-national Conference jointly organised by Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research (DSPSR), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College and Shyam Lal College (Evening), University of Delhi. She received the Om Prakash Award for best paper presentation


for the same. She also presented a paper titled ‘Entropy in Indian banking: Measur-ing competition via Bodenhorn measure of rivalry’ at the Vth Biennial International Conference on the theme ‘Ensuring a Sus-tainable Future: Role of entrepreneurship, Innovation in management practices and circular economy’, organised by SGGSCC in association with Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Ms. Rasleen Kaur, Assis-tant Professor, authored a book, titled ‘Goods and Services Tax and Customs Law’. She is also a co -in-vestigator along with Dr. Sangeeta Dodrajka (Prin-cipal -Investigator) for the Project titled ‘Impact of Social Media on School Going Children of Delhi-NCR’ accepted under the aegis of BSE-Centre of Excellence, SGGSCC.

Ms. Gurveen Kaur, Assistant Professor, authored a book, ‘Entrepreneurship’ published by Shree Kala Prakashan, Del-hi. She contributed a research paper on ‘Indian entrepreneurial landscape: The role of start-ups’ in MAIMS Journal of Management. She also co-au-thored a background paper on ‘A synopsis of best practices of different colleges from University of Delhi’ in the book ‘Accredita-

tion and Ranking: A Pathway to Excellence’ released by IQAC, SGGSCC at the National Symposium on accreditation and ranking.

Dr. Jappanjyot Kaur Kalra, Assistant Professor, was awarded Ph. D. by the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Del-hi on thesis titled ‘Predic-ament of Capital Account Liberalization: Origin of Crises or Growth A Study of Emerging Economies’ under the supervision of Dr. Anjala Kalsie.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICSDr. Rekha Sharma, As-sociate Professor, was appointed as a mem-ber of Departmental Research Council, De-partment of Econom-ics for a period of two years i.e. 02.08.2018 to 01.08.2020.

Dr. Aradhana Nanda, Assistant Professor, delivered a lecture for Project UNNATI – or-ganised by North West Delhi Legal Services Au-thority in September, 2019. Her research paper titled ‘Linking Geriatric Empowerment with Sustainable


Development’ was selected for presenta-tion at International Conference on Sustain-able Development, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Harvard University held in Decem-ber, 2019. She published a research article titled ‘Towards A Sustainable Old Age: How Far?’ in the International Journal of Re-search and Analytical Reviews, March, 2020.

Dr. Harpreet Kaur, As-sistant Professor, took thirty training sessions on basic econometrics and the econometric software Stata for tax officials at the Tax Pol-icy Research Unit, New Delhi over the period March, 2019 to No-vember, 2019. She contributed two mod-ules titled ‘Changing Contours of India’s Economic Policies’ and ‘Research Writing and Book Review’, co-authored with Prof. Simrit Kaur, to the online refresher course for the discipline ‘Economics’ conducted by the National Resource Centre, Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Del-hi under ARPIT 2019, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). She also worked as a statistical and econometric expert on the project titled ‘Competition and Regulatory Issues Related to the Taxi and Cab Aggregator Industry with Special Reference to Surge Pricing and Algorith-mic Collusion in the Indian Context’, re-search project commissioned to Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi

by the Competition Commission of India.

Dr. Kajleen Kaur, As-sistant Professor, mentored a team of students from B.A. (Hons) Economics who participated in the RBI Policy Chal-lenge 2020 and won the Best Paper award in the Delhi Region. The team also stood second in the Zon-al round held at the RBI regional office.

Dr. Gurleen Kaur, As-sistant Professor, suc-cessfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Fiscal deficit and Infla-tion in India and China: A Comparative Analysis’ and has been awarded the degree of Doc-tor of Philosophy (Economics) at the 33rd convocation ceremony of Indira Gandhi Na-tional Open University. She also authored two modules on Inflation to be taught un-der Introductory Macroeconomics for B.A. (Honours) Economics programme, IGNOU.

Mr. Vaibhav Puri, Assistant Profes-sor, presented a paper jointly au-thored with Prof. Simrit Kaur and Ms. Sanchita Joshi ti-


DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Ms. Jasmit Kaur, Assis-tant Professor, was a core committee mem-ber of the learning outcomes curriculum framework, course re-vision committee for B.A (Hons) Business Economics for the academic year 2019-2020 and onwards. Her work involved su-

tled ‘Is Infrastructure the ‘Missing Block’ in much debated Gender Puzzle? A Prescrip-tive Approach for measuring Sustainable Development in India’ in the Vth Biannual International Conference, ‘Ensuring a Sus-tainable Future: Role of entrepreneurship, Innovation in management practices and circular economy’, organised by SGGSCC in association with Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia. He won the Best Paper award for the same. He also presented two more papers titled ‘Infrastructure and Climate Change Adap-tation in Nepal: An Assessment’ and ‘Fi-nancial Inclusion and Climate Change Ad-aptation among Rice Farmers in Nepal: A Gendered Perspective’ respectively, at the 3rd International Conference on Econom-ics and Finance organised by Nepal Rash-tra Bank, Nepal. The papers were jointly authored with Ms. Sanchita Joshi and Dr. Niranjan Devkota.

pervising the convenors of subject paper committees. She was also the convenor of the subject development committee for the papers: - corporate finance, security anal-ysis and portfolio management and new ventures planning and development.

Ms. Riyanka Jain, Assistant Professor, pre-sented a co-authored research paper in the ICSSR sponsored XXIst International Con-ference jointly organised by Delhi School of Professional Studies and Re-search (DSPSR), Deen Dayal U p a d h y a y a College and Shyam Lal Col-lege (Evening), University of Delhi. interna-tional conference organised by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi. The paper titled ‘Achieving academic excellence in higher education’, was adjudged the Best Paper.

Ms. Ushveen Kaur, As-sistant Professor, pub-lished a research paper entitled ‘Digi Locker –Indian Digital Locker, how much the youth is


actually using it?’ in the Elsevier Scopus list-ed journal, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering.

Dr. Megha Ummat, Assistant Professor, was awarded her doctoral degree from Department of Com-puter Science and En-gineering, Delhi Tech-nological University. Her thesis was titled ‘Design and Develop-ment of Models for Analyzing Software Evo-lution’. She co-authored a research paper titled ‘Dynamic Selection of Fitness Func-tion for Software Change Prediction using Particle Swarm Optimization’, which was published in the reputed journal Informa-tion and Software Technology. She has also received ‘Commendable Research Award’ for the aforesaid paper by Delhi Techno-logical University. She co-authored another paper titled ‘Software Change Prediction: A Systematic Review and Future Guidelines’, which was published in e-Informatica Soft-ware Engineering Journal. She also attend-ed a faculty development programme on “Data Science for Web and Social Media”.

magazine. She pub-lished a story ‘Ki Mein Yug Nu Jandi Si’ in ‘Aabru’ – a Punja-bi quarterly literary magazine published from Jammu. She also contributed a background paper ‘Accreditation of higher educational insti-tutions: Need and importance’ in the book ‘Accreditation and Ranking: A Pathway to Excellence’ released by IQAC, SGGSCC at the National symposium on Accreditation and Ranking. She presented a paper titled ‘Guru Nanak Dev Ji di Bani vich Jeevan ate Maut da Sankalp’ in the International Con-ference on Teaching and Legacy of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji organised by Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, University of Delhi. Her research paper titled “Bal Sahit da Manovi-gyanak Pakh” was published in the UGC Care listed Journal- Sheeraza.

Ms. Deepa Kumar, Assistant Professor, contributed a chapter titled ‘Pagdandiyan: Nari Sangharsh da Pravachan’ in the book ‘Pun-jabi Sahit de Vibhin Roopakar ate Viharak Sa-mikhiya’ edited by Dr. Ravinder Singh. She contributed an-

DEPARTMENT OF PUNJABIDr. Tarvinder Kaur, Assistant Professor, re-ceived the Writer Award, 2019-20, from Sachche Paatshah – a religious monthly


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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

other chapter titled ‘Parvez Sandhu Rachit Kahani Sangrah ‘Tahnio Tutte: Manovish-leshni Paraht’ in a book edited by Dr. Ka-maljeet Singh titled ‘Punjabi Sahit de Sama-jik Sarokar ate Sandarbh’.

Dr. Gurdeep Kaur, Assistant Professor, au-

thored a research

paper titled ‘Bhai

Gurdas: A Literary

Genius and a Par-

agon of Humility,

Sincerity and Loy-

alty’ in Abstracts of

Sikh Thought. She

also contributed two chapters titled, ‘The

entrepreneurial acumen of women in beau-

ty and wellness sector of India: A case study

approach’ and ‘Successful women entre-

preneurs in the so-called male bastion: Ex-

amining factors and lessons drawn’ jointly

authored with Dr. Renu Gupta in the book

‘Role of women entrepreneurship in socio-

economic development’, edited by Saloni

Gupta, NetShop18 Publishers and Distrib-

utors. The same were earlier presented in

the Conference on the theme of ‘Role of

Women Entrepreneurs in Socio-Economic

Development of India’ organised by Bhara-

ti College. She contributed a chapter titled

‘Guru Tegh Bhadur ji di bani atte vihaar vich

shanti da sankalp’ in the book ‘Sri Guru Tegh

Bhadur: Jeevan, Yatrava atte Shadat’ edited

by Daljeet Singh. She also contributed two

chapters titled ‘Guru Nanak: An Advocate of

Distributive Justice’ and ‘Guru Nanak’s Ex-

position and Approach on Gender Inequal-

ity: The Continuing Relevance’ respectively,

in the book ‘Socio-Political Ethics in Guru

Nanak’s Bani’ (Publication Bureau, Punjabi)

edited by Jagroop Kaur. Another Chapter

by her titled ‘World Bank’ is a part of the

study material of B.A. (Hons.) English Stu-

dents School of Open Learning, University

of Delhi for the Generic Paper: Politics of

Globalisation.

Dr. Harinderjit Kaur, Assistant Professor,

has been selected as the member of M.Phil.

and Departmental Research Committees in

the Department of Mathematics, Universi-

ty of Delhi.


Dr. Neha Goyal, Assistant Professor, pub-

lished a research article, ‘Unveiling cryptic

ecological functions: prospects in plant in-

vasions in Tropical Ecology’.

In pursuant with our objective to encourage good quality research work in different areas, SGGSCC, Centre of Excellence, acknowledges faculty members whose manuscripts are published in any Scopus or web of science listed journal, and presents them with ₹ 10,000 per article. In the current academic session, the recipients of research incentive award are:Ms. Ushveen Kaur, Department of Computer Science, (Rs 10,000)Dr. Neha Goyal, Department of Environmental Studies (Rs 10,000)Dr. Megha Ummat, Department of Computer Science (Rs 20,000)Ms. Ushveen Kaur, Department of Computer Science published the following research paper in Scopus indexed journal of international repute: - Digi Locker –Indian Digital Locker, how much the youth is actually using it? International

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL

STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY SCIENCEDr. Gurdev Singh, Li-brarian (Associate Professor) published a book ‘Hidden Trea-sures: An Extensive collection of Quota-tions by well-known Personalities’, Manakin Press, New Delhi.

Dr. Saranjit Kaur, Pro-fessional Assistant, Library, authored a research paper titled ‘Green Library: An Overview’ in World Journal of Engineering Research and Technol-ogy.

RESEARCH INCENTIVE


ACCEPTING WHAT TIME UNFOLDS

Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-8 Issue-4, November 2019. Dr. Neha Goyal, Department of Environmental Studies published the following research article in peer-reviewed journal of international repute: -Unveiling cryptic ecological functions: prospects in plant invasions. Tropical Ecology, 60, 1-5, ISSN Number: 0564-3295; Impact Factor:1.12. Dr.Megha Ummat, Department of Computer Science published the following articles in Scopus/ Web of Sciences indexed journals of International repute:-Dynamic Selection of Fitness Function for Software Change Prediction using Particle Swarm Optimization, Information and Software Technology, vol. 112, pp. 51-67, ISSN: 0950-5849, August 2019. Software Change Prediction: A Systematic Review and Future Guidelines, E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 227-259, ISSN: 2084-4840, November 2019.

RETIREMENT

Dr. Kanwaljit Kaur retired as Associate Professor, Department of Hindi, on 31st October 2019 after more than 33 years of devoted service to the College. She has been a motivator and quintessential role model not just for the students but also her younger colleagues.

Ms. Dipavali Debroy retired as Associate Professor, Department of Economics, on 31st October 2019. She had joined the in-stitution slightly more than 24 years ago. Her dedication, sincerity, commitment and hard work have always been exemplary.

The management, faculty and the non-teaching staff acknowledge and appreciate the contribution and exceptional services of Dr. Kanwaljit Kaur and Ms. Dipavali Debroy to the institution.


REMEMBRANCE

It is with a heavy heart that the College pays tribute to Ms. Man-mohan Kaur former Section Officer, Administration who left for her heavenly abode this year. The SGGSCC Family will always remember her for her selfless contribution and services to the College.

STRIDES TOWARDS REACHING NEW ACADEMIC HEIGHTS

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)A three-day event, Common Orientation Session was organised in July, 2019 to give an insight to the first-year students about the college societies and other offerings of the institution. As a social cause initiative, a career coun-selling session was organised on 30th Au-gust, 2019 for the students of Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Pitampura. Two workshops for the non-teaching staff of the college were organised on August 30, 2019, and September 6, 2019, respective-ly, keeping in mind the growing digitization in every field and the need to stay abreast with the usage of computers. College fac-ulty Ms. Neha Aggarwal and Ms. Mussart Ahmed from the Department of Comput-er Science were the resource persons for these workshops.A National Symposium on “Accreditation

and Ranking: A Pathway to Excellence”, in association with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was or-ganised on 26th September, 2019. Eminent dignitaries, faculty members from central and private universities, industry profes-sionals including Prof. C. Raj Kumar, Vice


BSE-SGGSCC Centre of Excellence

Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Prof. Kavita Sharma, President, South Asian

University, and Prof. Alok Pandey, Director IMS, Ghaziabad attended the event. Prof. Sanjay Dhamija presented a technical seminar on, “How to Write a Case Study” for faculty on September, 16, 2019. A seminar was organised with the Associa-tion of Computer Enthusiasts (ACE) for stu-dents on October 21, 2019, in collaboration with Microsoft. A Faculty Development Workshop was or-ganised with BSE-SGGSCC Centre of Excel-lence (COE) on Safety in Cyber Space, on 3rd January, 2020, for the teaching and non-teaching staff of the college with Advo-cate Neeraj Arora and Dr. Sunaina Kanojia, OSD, Institute of Cyber Security and Law, University of Delhi as the resource persons. A session on “Effective Stress Management in Modern Times” was also organised on January 15, 2020, with Dr. Ishita Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychol-ogy, University of Delhi as the resource per-son.The new college website was launched in association with the website committee.

An information centre has been created for collection and dissemination of the infor-mation. The internal assessment and issue of clearance and admit cards have all been made online through development of a mo-bile application- smartprof. Community initiatives have been enhanced by applying to “Unnat Bharat” scheme of Government of India where the college will adopt five villages.Dr. Sangeeta Dodrajka, Director IQAC

BSE-SGGSCC Centre of Excellence came in inception in May, 2019 to work towards ca-pacity building of research-aspiring faculty members and college students. The centre commenced its functioning with a project on Solid Waste Management that aims to understand households’ waste dis-posal habits and to generate awareness of environmental effects of segregation of solid waste between biodegradable and non-biodegradables. Under the able guid-ance of Dr. Paramjeet Kaur and Dr. Harpreet Kaur, a team of 12 students surveyed about 750 households from 77 societies at Rohini with two sets of exhaustive questionnaires.The conceptualisation and the execution of the project was a learning and enriching experience and received public acclaim as well, with coverage in the prestigious na-tional daily the Hindustan Times.The CoE organised a one-day workshop ti-tled “Scale Development” in collaboration


with the Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, under the aegis of Department-College Interface on July 20, 2019. Renowned professors from the De-partment of Commerce and the Depart-ment of Economics shared their knowledge and expertise concerning the intricacies of

research using qualitative data. The Centre organised a Lecture Series by its faculty members on September 4, 2019, wherein the college faculty teams who have successfully completed University of Delhi sponsored innovation projects gave presentations on their respective projects. The objective was to motivate other faculty members towards research and learn from the shared experiences of colleagues. Three teams -Dr. Kawal Gill and Dr. Renu Gupta; Dr. Simmarpreet Kaur and Ms. Vandana Kalra; Dr. Aradhana Nanda and Ms. Rasleen Kaur presented their respective projects. On January 3, 2020, a Workshop titled “Safety in Cyber Space” was organised by the Centre in association with IQAC. Both the teaching and the non-teaching staff of the college benefited with the shared information by the resource persons- Ad-vocate Neeraj Arora, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court, and Dr. Sunaina Kanojia, Associate Professor, Department of Com-merce, and OSD, Institute of Cyber Security and Law, University of Delhi.Understanding the fact that increased com-petition has led to many psychological and behavioural issues that need to be neces-sarily addressed, the Centre organised an interactive session in collaboration with IQAC titled “Effective Stress Management in Modern Times” on January 15, 2020. Dr. Ishita Bhardwaj, Department of Psychology, University of Delhi conducted the session and discussed ways and means to over-come stress and anxiety.

Article Published in Hindustan Times Au-gust 2, 2019


Journal of Business Thought With the objective of encouraging research scholars and academicians to share con-temporary thoughts in related fields of business and economics, our college pub-lishes (in print as well as online) an annual refereed journal titled “Journal of Business Thought”. The focus of the Journal is on

quality research and publication of original research papers and contemporary updates on policy changes at national and global levels. The college published the tenth vol-ume (April 2019-March 2020) of its Journal that included six original research articles, of which two were authored by foreign uni-versity authors, namely; Prof. Daniel Bro-by from Scotland, United Kingdom and Dr. Harminder Singh, Associate Professor from Deakin Business School, Melbourne, Aus-tralia.

The Journal also published two abstracts of doctoral dissertations, recently completed by members of our teaching staff, name-ly Dr. Harpreet Kaur and Dr. Kajleen Kaur, both from the Department of Economics.

In pursuit of facilitating research and fac-ulty-student collaboration, CoE, along with external faculty expert Prof. Sunil Sharma, Professor, Faculty of Manage-ment Studies, University of Delhi and the Principal approved the following inno-vation projects for a research grant of ₹ One Lakh each on September 16, 2019. 1. Financial Inclusion of Urban Poor-How Inclusive- A case of Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, Principal Investigator- Dr. Kawal Gill2. lmpact of Social Media Applications on Young Children in Delhi, Principal Investi-gator- Dr. Sangeeta Dodrajka.3. Exploring Challenges faced by the in-ternational Students Community and Devising a Web-Based solution- An Em-pirical Study Based on University of Delhi, Principal Investigator- Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur.4. Stress Management for Students with the Help of Yoga- Principal Investigator- Dr. Harpreet Singh.


Further, the visibility of the Journal has in-creased with its indexation in various plat-forms including, I-scholar, J-gate and Indian Citation Index (ICI). The Journal of Business Thought has passed the evaluation process and is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2018. Its picture also ap-peared in the University of Delhi Informa-tion Bulletin, 2019-20, published annually. Efforts are also being made to index our Journal in Scopus.Convener: Dr. Paramjeet Kaur

In a fast-changing world, every student wants to go beyond the classroom cur-riculum and hone their skills so that one becomes better equipped to deal with demands of challenging life. To impart com-petencies and fulfilling career aspirations of students, the Centre for Professional Devel-opment collaborated with many reputed institutions and offered add-on certificate courses, conducted training sessions and workshops. Students were trained and up-dated by the professionals and got an op-portunity for experiential learning. The Centre provided opportunities for learning data science, machine learning analysis and modelling tools by offering add-on courses in EXCEL, R, Python and Ma-chine Learning in collaboration with Week-endr and BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Advanced Excel training was imparted to 149 students enrolled in 6

Centre for Professional Development

batches over the year. 48 students entered world of Data Sciences using R and Python language. These hands-on training sessions have helped the students in understanding the processes and systems that are used to extract information, analyse data, forecast-ing and predictive analysis.The Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd, one of the premier institutes in the field of capital market, trained 64 students en-rolled in the Course on Financial Modelling and Course on Mastering the Stock Mar-ket. Competent professionals shared their knowledge on wide range of emerging is-sues and challenges covering stock market, financial derivatives, commodity markets and risk analysis. The students had an op-portunity for experiential learning with ex-posure to real time stock trading with the BSE Stock Broker, other financial market instruments and simulation exercises over the sessions. CPD in collaboration with Delhi Legal Ser-vices Authority, North West District, started Certificate Course on Legal Awareness on 9th September, 2019. 41 students benefitted from this course. It created legal awareness among them regarding cybercrimes, forensic sciences, domestic violence, RTI, drug abuse, traffic rules and welfare of parents. The students also visited Rohini Court on October 16, 2020, and observed proceed-ings of Civil, Criminal and Family Courts and Front Office to appreciate the functioning and the environment.


Seminar Committee: 5th Biennial International Conference

Training for TALLYACE Programme was also initiated on 29 January, 2020, by the Cen-tre in collaboration with Tally Education Pvt Ltd. 18 students were trained and guided by professionals on Computerised Account-ing and Tally which will increase multiple career options across banking and financial institutions, retail, manufacturing, trade and insurance. CA Divya Bansal, the faculty of ICAI deliv-ered a Special Lecture, “Concept of GST and its Implementation”, to enrich the students about the major indirect tax reform in the country on February 10, 2020. A mentoring session was organised in col-laboration with Arthashashtra Society for the students regarding- How to Crack MA Entrance, on 15th January, 2020. Rav-it Thukral, Nihal Kumar, Radhika Goyal, Gurkirat Singh, Mrigakshi Tandon, Adarsh, Mayank Mathur were the mentors from various reputed universities such as DSE, JNU, Ashoka University, TERI and IP Univer-sity.Another mentoring session, “Want to Pur-sue Higher Studies Abroad”, was organised in collaboration with the Arthashashtra

Society on 2nd March, 2020. Jessica Chad-ha, Research Scholar at University of Sie-gen, Germany updated the students about the process and requirements of studying abroad.

A Workshop on Tally Accounting was con-ducted by Dinesh Khatri, Tally Expert for the non-teaching Staff on 2nd March, 2020, to give updates about Tally Software.Convener: Dr. Rekha Sharma

The 5th Biennial International Conference on “Ensuring a Sustainable Future: Role of Entrepreneurship, Innovation in Man-agement Practices, and Circular Economy” was organised in collaboration with Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia on 6th and 7th March, 2020. The conference witnessed participation of dignitaries, research scholars and faculty members from various universities of the country and abroad.


The conference convener, Dr. Kawal Gill, introduced the conference’s vision in the

inaugural session emphasising the necessi-ty to explore new business models to en-sure a sustainable world. Professor Grace McCarthy, Dean, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia, ex-pressed her regret for her absence through a video and congratulated the organising team along with appreciating the relevance of the conference’s theme. Principal, Dr. Jatinder Bir Singh in his inaugural address, extended gratitude to the participants and pointed out that sustainability is an urgent international issue, emphasizing on the need to analyse the accountability of vari-ous stakeholders.The event was graced by the presence of several eminent personalities including the chief guest, Dr. Arvind Virmani (Chairman, EGROW Foundation); Guest of Honor, Ms. Bindu Dalmia (Chairperson, National Com-mittee on Financial Inclusion and Literacy, Niti Aayog) and Dr. D.K. Aggarwal (Presi-dent, PHDCCI). All respected dignitaries utilised their keynote speeches to passion-ately deliberate over multivariate agendas

ranging from the current state of economy to the path of improved economic rates. They also indicated the existing shortcom-ings and stringent measures required to curb them accordingly.

The plenary session focused on sustain-able future from the practitioners’ per-spective with renowned speakers such as Ms. Anubha Prasad (National Coordinator, PAGE, UNEP); Ms. Gayatri Raghwa (Environ-ment Education Consultant, UNEP) and Mr. Manoj Kumar Keshwar (an entrepreneur and motorcycle explorer) leading it. They centered around the ideas of taking col-laborative efforts to achieve the essence of sustainable development and familiarized the gathering with existing business models put into play.After the plenary sessions, nine parallel technical sessions, spread over two days, witnessed presentations of eighty-one re-search papers, including two student ses-sions. The best paper from each of the sessions was respectively awarded. These sessions witnessed deliberations on various dimensions of entrepreneurship and man-agement practices to ensure a sustainable


future with each of them having a definite theme assigned. Each session was chaired by dignitaries having ample amount of ex-perience in their respective fields- Prof Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, RIS, Prof. Shyamala Mani, National Institute of Urban Affairs, Prof K.V. Bhanumurthy, Pro-fessor, School of Management and Entre-preneurship, DTU, Prof. Harsh V. Verma, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Prof N. Chadha, Dean and Chair-person, Doctoral Programs, MRIIRS, Prof. Kavita Sharma, Department of Commerce, University of Delhi, Dr. Akash Sondhi, Asso-ciate Professor, Department of Energy and Environment, TERI University, Dr. S.P. Shar-ma, Chief Economist, PHDCCI, Dr. Kusum Lata, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Dr. Anjali Tandon, Associate Professor, ISID, Dr. H.K. Dangi, Associate Professor, Department of Com-merce, University of Delhi, Dr. Niti Bhasin, Associate Professor, Department of Com-merce, University of Delhi, Dr. Anand Sax-ena, Associate Professor, Deen Dayal Upad-hyaya College, University of Delhi, Dr. Robin

Singhal, Assistant Professor, Economics, School of Liberal Studies, AUD, and and Dr. Anjala Kalsie, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.

The valedictory session of the conference had Dr. R.K. Singh, Head and Dean, Depart-ment of Commerce, University of Delhi, as the Guest of Honour. Mr. Singh and other session chairs felicitated the winners of the respective best paper awards with certifi-cates of appreciation.The conference ended on a high note with a special mention of all the faculty members and the entire team of the seminar commit-tee for contributing to make the dream of a successful event into a wonderful reality.Convener: Dr. Kawal Gill

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS URJA - The Commerce Society Urja, the Commerce Society of the college had a commendable journey this academic year and earned appreciation from one and

all.The society initiated the organisation of Special Lecture Series with the focus on pertinent topics of the commerce field. The aim of the series was to provide first-hand information and insights from industry ex-


perts and professionals themselves. The initiative yielded successful results in the form of two speaker sessions organised on themes of Global Taxation Practices and Marketing respectively. Urja organised the Annual Commerce Fest- Comfluencia′20 in the month of February 2020. The two-day confluence witnessed participation of over two thousand students from various colleges and universities. The flagship programme of the fest- Achiev-er’s United ‘20, invited achievers from all walks of life. Honourable Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India was the Chief Guest for the event and the subsequent line up comprised of eminent personalities like Mr. Kumar Sha-radindu (MD and CEO SBI Pension Fund), Mr. Saurabh Jain (Vice President, Paytm), Mr. Atul Wassan (former Indian Cricketer) and Mr. Rahul Dua (Stand-up Comedian) amongst others. The distinct life journeys, conventional and contemporary success stories and multidimensional interactions with speakers provided students with a perfect balance of knowledge, inspiration

and entertainment.

Mettle involved various competitions such as Bazaar-e-Siyaasat, Crimen Organizado, Innovation-o-Fiasco and many more which encouraged the participants to brace up their skills and put their knowledge to use. They tested participants on various param-eters such as their creative thinking ability, decision making, technical know-how and problem-solving abilities. Additionally, the society published its news-letter- BizFeed and conducted informative series regularly throughout the year to pro-vide students with valuable understandings into myriad fields of commerce. Convener: Dr. Gurminder Kaur

ARTHASHASTRA - The Economics Society The society aims at building economic in-sights and inclination towards discerning important economic issues among the students. Quizonomics 4.0 was organised in October, 2019 which tested the partici-pants’ economic acumen.


The society also bid farewell to Ms. Dipavali Debroy, senior Economics faculty of the De-partment in October, 2019. A video eluci-dating upon her journey in the college was presented with gestures of love and grati-tude from the department.

With the introduction of “Economists in Making”, the students were able to share their college journey along with a message for the juniors in the form of a write-up. In January, 2020, a session on cracking M.A entrances was organised with our College alumni currently pursuing masters. The monthly newsletter, Economics Tribune further encouraged students to expand their conceptual learning and academic writing. Vartalaap: a conventional debate competition as well as an online Econom-ics based meme making competition under the banner of MEMEnomics was organised in February, 2020.

In order to help students delve deeper into the world of Economics, an academic visit to Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) was undertaken on 12th February, 2020 where-in a session on current economic issues was

conducted by Prof. Pravakar Sahoo.

To get a better understanding of the Union Budget 2020-21, an interactive session by Dr Anjali Tandon, Professor at ISID was or-ganised.

The annual academic fest, Zenith: The Influ-encers Summit saw personalities from var-ious walks of life and was a major accom-plishment. On 26th February, 2020 formal events like Brand Biz and Monesto: Mock-stock and fun events like Cartoon Net-WAR, Tug of War and Gol Gappa Challenge were organised as a part of Zest′20. A session on studying abroad was conducted by our alumni Ms. Jessica Chadha now a research scholar at University of Siegen, Germany.

Convener: Dr. D.D. Chaturvedi


SPECIAL MENTIONA team of students- Aanchal Khanna, Bavleen Kaur, Disha Kapahi and Khushboo Madaan from Semester Four, B.A. (Hons) Economics, mentored by Assistant Professor, Dr. Kajleen Kaur, participated in the RBI Policy Challenge 2020. The team won the Best Paper award in the Delhi Region and also stood second in the Zonal round held at the RBI regional office in New Del-hi in February, 2020.

ACE- Association of Computer EnthusiastsACE represents the Department of Com-puter Science and includes students from all three years of B.Sc. Computer Science. The society aims to provide a platform for students to nurture inquisitiveness and ex-pose them to plethora of learning opportu-nities and be industry-ready. The following events were conducted during the session 2019-20:India Mobile Congress, Aerocity: The India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2019, the biggest and most noteworthy telecom, inter meet and tech event in South Asia was a three-day live 5G demonstration of tech in ar-eas of disaster management, logistics and emerging medical services. Telecom service providers and stakeholders from across the globe participated where they discussed, deliberated and collaborated with Indian counterparts. Microsoft Seminar: More than 200 students attended the session including students

from other colleges. Mr. Sandeep Giyyan, Jethani, Director of ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd and founder of Mentorrbuddy.Com and his co-ordinator Mr. Parveen Badoni, Business De-velopment Manager, ATS Infotech Pvt Ltd. kept the students captivated.

Microsoft Workshop: ACE in association with ATS organised a four-day workshop on Business Analytics with Advanced Excel and R. This workshop came with Microsoft Cer-tification Examination conducted by a Mi-cro soft certified specialist, Mr. Azim. Smart India Hack-a-thon: Working as a team for the Smart India Hackathon 2020 exposed the students of ACE to varied ex-


ASBEMS- The Business Economics and Management Studies

periences including brainstorming innova-tive solutions to problems tackled by com-panies, ministries and industries.Zenith-Zest: ACE along with ARTHASHASTRA and ASBEMS organised ZENITH′20- “The Influencers Summit”. It was an interactive session with speakers sharing their inspir-ing stories. Some of the prominent present-ers were: Mr. Parvinder, a stand-up comedi-an; Mr. Rajat Soodh, a poet and comedian; Mr. Surmeet, an ethical hacker; Ms. Rash-mi, core committee member at Evaluation Committee of India; Ms. Mrinali, a singer by passion; Digital Gandhi, the rockstar of spiritual revolution and Mr. Omkar, a young singer turned YouTube sensation.

Googler: The Society’s flagship event for Zest′ 20 was an event testing brainstorming and deducing abilities. Other filler events included Pubg (the gaming event) and Re-lay – Beat or Retreat and Treasure Hunt.Convener: Dr. Satvinder Kaur

An orientation session for the students of the Department was organised on August 20, 2019 to introduce them to the College and the course.“EMPATHISERS: The Environment Crusad-ers”, a campaign against the use of sin-gle-use plastic was organised in association with NCC, NSS, Enactus, Virtuoso, Student Union and Alumni Association of the Col-lege. Youth Icon and Green Ambassador, Mr. Daler Mehndi launched the initiative on September 30, 2019 along with IAS Varsha Joshi (MCD, North Delhi Commissioner), IAS officer Ms. Ira Singhal (Deputy MCD North Delhi Commissioner), Mr. Avtar Singh (May-or of North Delhi) and Ms. Sanjam Cheema (Head of Clean Ganga Campaign). To car-ry on the yearlong drive, Empathisers 2.0 and 3.0 was organised at the end of each month.

10th Annual Inter-College Debating Com-petition, “Vaktavya 2019” was organised on 22nd October, 2019. The topic of delibera-tion this year was on “Economic Slowdown: An Opportunity for Radical Change”.

Society


A two-day annual academic fest- ZEST’20 was organised on February 25th and 26th, 2020 along with ACE and ARTHASHASTRA. An exciting speaker session was organised on the first day with speakers like Ms. Rash-mi Agarwal, Digital Gandhi, Mr. Surmeet Singh, Mr. Rajat Sood and performers like Omkar Singh, Mrinali Gulati and Parvinder Singh. The second day included various ac-ademic events which garnering large partic-ipation.Convener: Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur

An orientation programme for the post-graduate Departments-PGDIM and DBJCC was organised on July 31, 2019 to ac-quaint the students with the basic nature of the courses and to break the ice and build a bond amongst the new entrants. The fac-ulty members present introduced the vari-ous subjects under the programs. The new entrants were then broken into groups and were allotted tasks focusing on ‘creative smart work’ and ‘team building’.

PGDIM- Post Graduate Diploma in International Marketing

In September, 2019 a guest session was or-ganised with Ms. Indu Sabharwal a global marketing, sales and business transfor-mation leader-innovator associated with renowned conglomerate- Kingdom of Dreams. Her discussion on “Global Sales Success Enhancements with Smart Market-ing Automations” gave important acuities to the students on the importance of cus-tomer relationships and developing these relationships through online content and social media.

A Digital Marketing Workshop on February 15, 2020, was organised for both the PG Departments with Mr. Prerit Kohli, an alum-nus of IIM, Indore and NSIT with experience in analytics and marketing. The informative session helped the students gain import-ant insights related to search engine opti-mization and advertising, google analytics interface, referral marketing, social media strategy, programmatic marketing and con-versation optimisation and analytics. Another Workshop “Using SPSS for Analy-sis and Research” with Dr. Prabhat Mittal, Associate Professor, Satyawati College was also held on February 28, 2020. The Work-shop was extremely useful and acquainted


DBJCC- Diploma in Business Journalism and Corporate Communication

students with the basics of SPSS and its ap-plication in data analytics.

Guest sessions were also organised with PGDIM alumni to acquaint the students with current industry practices. Maadhyam′ 20 was organised on March 5, 2020. With enthralling events such as “Ad Mad”, “MIC-ON” and “BFF Test”, the festi-val was a befitting finale to the year-round activities of the department.

Convener: Dr. Harpreet Kaur

The session witnessed many educational and entertaining events throughout the

year. The beginning of the series of events was initiated by the formulation of core teams of Placement Cell, Newsline Depart-ment, Social Media Handlers and the Event Management Team. The teams were led by their respective office bearers Anushka Jain, Divya Rajora, Aanchal Kalra and Gou-ransh Aggarwal. Each team’s contribution to the college has been phenomenal with placement cell looking up to our respect-able alumni for holding workshops, guest lectures and offering industry exposure via internships, the Newsline department preparing the PG-DBJCC magazine combin-ing all the happenings of the session along with some creative pieces by students. The Social Media team managing the media cell pages, live over Facebook and Instagram updated on upcoming events with the event management team organising the events around the year.

The first step towards the podium was through the Debate Competition followed by workshops on Fashion Journalism, Swabhav- a personality development ses-sion and a digital marketing workshop. There was a guest lecture on News and Re-porting by Mr. Karunashankar Sharma- an


anchor and correspondent at TV9 Bharat-varsh news channel. A visit to the India Ahead News Channel was also organised for the students for a live debate discussion.

The students took an enthusiastic part in the Mock Press Conference which awarded the best team along with the best interjecting reporter, spokesperson, and spontaneity. There were interactive learning sessions of talk shows, news reporting, designing of the advertisement campaigns and Face-book marketing. The students were taught software SPSS and InDesign. Convener: Mrs. Meenu Gupta

Gyaan- the Punjabi Sahit Sabha of the De-partment of Punjabi, SGGSCC, came into existence with the major intent to promote Punjabi language. The doctrine of the soci-ety is unifying the people with their “Maa Boli”- Punjabi. The Society organised several academic and cultural programs throughout the year. On the 550th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the society successfully ar-ranged Lecture Series by inviting dignitaries

GYAAN Punjabi Sahit Sabha

to speak on various pertinent matters to increase better understanding of the stu-dents. The series consisted of lectures on –• “Nanak Bani vich Kudrat da Sankalp” by Prof. Pritam Singh from Oxford Universi-ty• “Guru Nanak Dev Ji diya Sikhyavan : Ajoke Prasang vich’ by Dr. Gurinder Mann, Director, Global Institute for Sikh Studies in New York City.The society also organised Lohri Mela to promote the rich culture of Punjab within the College premises which won the hearts of everyone.To acquaint the students with the heritage of Punjab, the society held a two-day annu-al fest “Punjabi Virasati Mela” on 29th and 30th January, 2020 with vast participation from other colleges. In this event, stalls were put up to showcase our rich culture and heritage. Several inter-college competi-tions like Direct Talk, Stand-up Comedy, Folk Dance, Folk singing competition and Rural Games like; Tug of War, Kho-Kho, Skipping and Kabaddi were carried out. On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, the society convened “Ru-ba-Ru” program with the eminent writer


MERAKI The English Literary Society

and poet Dr. Surjit Kaur from Canada on February 21, 2020. Dr. Jaspal Kaur, Head Department of Punjabi, University of Delhi chaired the program.The members of the Society actively partic-ipated in various competitions in different colleges of the University of Delhi and won several awards and positions. A few signifi-cant ones are: First Position in Declamation in GTBIT and Folk Singing at Ramanujan College, Second Position in Declamation at Gurudwara Rakabganj Sahib, Third Position in Paper Reading on Guru Nanak and Folk Singing at Mata Sundri College.

Convener: Dr. Manjeet Kaur

In an institution whose walls echo with the fundamentals of commerce and econom-ics, the English Literary Society sits proud, like a rainbow of creativity and expression in the clouds of finance and marketing. This society aims to create a platform for stu-dents to bring out their vibrance and cre-ativity, while producing eloquent speakers and impeccable writers, with the support of team members and fellow students.

Blind Date with Words is the flagship online event from the past four years of the soci-ety. The participants were given a set of four words to create a tale ranging between 50-100 words, that too in a limited time frame. With 1000+ registrations and heart-warm-ing stories, the event was a great success. Amidst knowledge and fun, the session on creative writing, presented by Chetanya Ka-poor, a writer and a spoken word poet, was quite wholesome. The fun filled activities entailing the core of the session were the cherry on the cake, indulging the whole au-dience deeply into the session. All the activ-ities focused around how to bring out the creativity of a writer and how to set your-self apart from mainstream poetry.Lights, Camera, Words 4.0 was an open mic afternoon, packed with poetry enthusiasts, writers, artists, musicians and performers. The event focused on giving a platform to new ideas, allowing artists to have a plat-form to showcase their creativity and also promote and instill an appreciation for lit-erature and all things creative.

Artists like Simar Singh, Suhasini Khattar, Blue Heart Beat, Apoorva Jain and Seep


Aggarwal captivated all with their beautiful works. It was an afternoon full of magical poetry, serenading music, and eloquent works, attended by around 300 people.

The third edition of Seshat- the Annual Fest of Meraki had two days of online events and a day full of offline events. A day not just of literary fun, but a treat for comic book fans, Bollywood enthusiasts and even spoken word artists. Seshat’20 showcased new and emerging talent in creative writing and storytelling, and provided a platform for like-minded people to come together for a truly spectacular literary showcase.Convener: Mrs. Jasjit Kaur Kochhar

Infinity- the Tech Society of SGGSCC is a consortium of tech mavericks from all the courses. Infinity organises several events and awareness programs to bridge the gap between in-demand tech skills and stu-dents. Continuing with this tradition the society published its weekly Techno News-letter -Reboot, to create awareness about recent technological developments and happenings. The society also published another weekly Tech Throwback Newslet-ter- #Throwback Thursday, based on the

Infinity- The Tech Society

principle of this date, that year, to refresh memories of historical technological devel-opments.

The society had organised a Gen Tech Quiz- Qtiapa, which saw participation of over 150 teams. Cython′ 20, the annual flagship event, was held on February 12, 2020 and saw the participation of over 600 students from all over Delhi-NCR. The highlights of the event were the PUBG Tournament and Brand Tambola which witnessed a foot-fall of almost 400 students. Other events conducted as a part of the fest were Co-deathon- a three round coding marathon, Graphista- the graphic designing competi-

tion, Bid on Droid- a commerce based bid-


Republic- The Political Science, Women’s Development Cell and Foreign Students SocietyThe society began its functioning with Cul-tural Extravaganza 2.0 providing a forum to the Foreign Students Wing of the society to acquaint the students with their distinct yet rich cultural heritage. Vibrant Nepalese cul-ture and traditions and the splendid beauty of Nepal was beautifully presented through a movie screening that was attended and enjoyed by the over 60 students. A crisp quiz as a follow up of the screening kept the enjoyment momentum high. To commemorate the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Lal Bahadur Shas-tri, a quizzing session was conducted by the society on 2nd October, 2019 that centred on their life, events and contributions. Voter I.D Campaign was organised by the students of Republic. More than 100 stu-dents registered as voters and filled the form for getting voter ID made and subse-quently several students benefited in terms of receiving their voter cards. An educa-tional trip to the most significant political national institution, the Parliament Houe was organised by the society to acquaint the students with the rich political heritage of the country.

ding event, along with fun fillers including Flip The Bottle and Beg Borrow Steal.Convener: Dr. Harpreet Kaur

A 5-day Self-Defence Workshop from 10th February to 14th February, 2020 was con-ducted in collaboration with Special Police Unit for Women and Children (SPUWAC) for girl students of the college by Women’s De-velopment Cell of Republic. As many as 60 girls participated in the workshop, on com-pletion of which they were awarded certif-icates by Ms. Vijayanta Arya (DCP- North West) and Principal Sir. Ms. Mansi Marwaha of PGDIM was adjudged the best performer of self-defence skills by the instructors.

On 19th February ,2020, Republic launched its annual flagship event Satta Ki Jung, a unique two round game of politics and fi-nance that had participants from various Delhi University colleges. The winners won attractive cash prizes. Giving opportunity to students to express their creative facul-ties, an Online Photography Competition and Samvaad an online Journal was also


initiated by Republic, the best entries were awarded attractive prizes. Women Development cell of Republic cel-ebrated Women’s Day by distributing gift

For the Entrepreneurship Development Cell, SGGSCC, the year kick started with the launch of SOCH 2.0 on August 2, 2019, marking the successful completion of 8 years of the Cell. With a new holistic ap-proach of “Entrepreneurship for Human-ity”, two separate start-up programs were also launched under SOCH 2.0.

This was followed up with the “Digital Mar-keting” course initiated for all the students of the college, by the Cell in collaboration with the Ministry of Small and Medium En-terprises. The initiative was extremely fruit-ful and widely appreciated. Then came HUSTLE′ 19, the flagship event of the Cell. It was one of the most successful

packages comprising of recyclable products and informative brochures pertaining to Women and Health.Convener: Dr. Gurdeep Kaur

PROFESSIONAL PURSUITS SOCH - The Entrepreneurial Cell

events to be organised by any society with-in the college. With a footfall of over 2000 people, the event witnessed the presence of many renowned faces: Anubhav Singh Bassi, Guneet Virdi, Kriti Singhal, Sam Bais-la, Sangeeta Yadhuvanshi, Vipin Sahu, Pra-tik Gaur and Vishal Kumar; from the fields of entrepreneurship and entertainment.

Last but not the least, the Cell ended the year with a bang with its annual entrepre-neurship fest: BIZHAWK’ 20. This year the fest saw both online and offline events, namely- Hogwarts Championship, Bolly Bid, IPL Auction and Game of Treasure. With a footfall of over 800 students and a prize pool worth Rs. 50, 000 BIZHAWK’ 20 was another feather in the cap for the cell.Convener: Mrs. Bhupinder Kaur


International CellInternational Cell is the only society of the College that provides students with much needed international exposure. The mem-bers of the Cell work persistently for the best of collaborations with international facets.The academic year began with a seminar on the topic “Innovation and the Global Patent System” by Paul H. Jensen (University of Melbourne). It was followed by an interac-tive session, with Dr. Paul, Principal Singh and members of the International Cell.A seminar on foreign education was subse-quently conducted by delegates of Global Opportunities Education consultants.The cell then organised an “EDU-EXPO- The Education Fair”. The fair saw participa-tion of delegates from various universities across the globe. Doubts and grievances of more than 300 students were taken care of.The academic year finally concluded with EDUNASH′20 - the flagship event of the Cell. Two sub events were held as a part of the fest -International Forum- A mini crisis MUN; and Comercio. The International Cell also had the privilege

of hosting the Afghan Faculty Forum for En-richment Program, (AFFECT) in collabora-tion with the Ball State University, Indiana, USA. It was a ten-week professional de-velopment program conducted in the Col-lege. The program provided the delegates with a unique opportunity to enhance their skills and be innovative. The intent was to present them with an interactive forum for course development, student engagement, student-centered teaching as well as curric-ulum development. It aimed at intensifying and broadening the professional skill sets of junior faculties in various fields of study, helping them adapt to the varying trends in the education sector, creating a smarter world.

Over the academic session the College also entered into various fruitful collaborations by signing MOU(s) with the University of Melbourne and Ball State University. Convener: Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur


Finance and Investment Cell

Training and Placement Cell

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excel-lence, then, is not an act but a habit!” Prov-ing this proverb to be true, the Finance and Investment Cell of SGGSCC has been ranked as the best FIC in University of Delhi by DU Assassins for the second consecutive year. They have also successfully released 20 is-sues of the FIC Weekly.

In the month of October 2019, FIC organ-ised the second edition of Monexus Jr, a one of its kind campus outreach program for school students. Along with this they also held the fourth edition of E-Monexus, an online finance extravaganza which saw participation from more than 1100 stu-dents. The society also organised an intern-

ship programme with over 250 students from various colleges, schools and profes-sional backgrounds.The perfect end to an eventful year was their flagship event Monexus. With over 500 participants in over 6 events, this two-day fest was the highlight of this year. It started off with a speaker session that saw notable speakers from various fields. Mr. Vijay Iyer, the partner and national leader of Transfer Pricing services in EY, Mr. Kan-ishk Gaur, founder of India Future Founda-tion and associate director in Deloitte India, Mrs. Bharti Mann, Digital Transformation and Information Advisory, SAP and Mr. Nis-hant Suri, a stand-up comedian were the guests who graced the occasion with their presence. The speakers talked about top-ics ranging from entrepreneurship, finance and the importance of “following one’s pas-sion”. The speaker session motivated all the attendees to follow their dreams and turn-ing them to reality. This was then followed by a rib-tickling act by Mr. Suri which left the whole auditorium laughing.Convener: Dr. Kawal Gill

The recruitment drives this academic year, witnessed a gratifying start with the arrival of tier one organisations like Bain and Com-pany, which offered the highest package of the session. The list of returning recruiters included companies like EY GDS, KPMG Global, KPMG India, Deloitte USI, Wipro and Oberoi Groups. With more than 510 applications and 227 packages offered, 196 students have been placed successfully with 27 firms till date


Cross Swords

and the upward trend continues. A simi-lar trend was witnessed in the number of offers made by two of the Big Four firms-EY GDS and Deloitte USI which showcased a whopping rise of 85 percent and 111.11 percent respectively. While the average package stood at INR 4.5 LPA, the highest package soared as high as INR 9 LPA.

Internship Wing also progressed in a posi-tive direction with more than forty intern-ship offerings in strong profiles such as global marketing, operations and business development. The recruiters included Bain and Company, EY India, OYO and alike.

With a view to equip students with the requisite skills in the current day dynamic corporate world, the Cell launched “The

Training Programme 2020” spread over six sessions covering dimensions like CV build-ing, public speaking and cracking interviews. To increase the general awareness level of the students, the Cell also introduced their newsletter- The World’s Timeline. Addition-ally, a web-based placement portal was launched this year to ease the application process which ensured higher transparency and data management efficiency. This year the flagship event, Internship Fair was spread over two days. Where day one focused on training activities such as ses-sions on PI, Case Studies, Guesstimates and Aptitude tests, day two hosted companies offering internships to the students. An overwhelming number of companies were on board this year including big names like Aditya Birla Capital, Zomato Feeding India, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation and many more. Convener: Dr. Satvinder Kaur

Cross Swords- the Debating Society of the college organised number of events during the academic year 2019-2020 that wit-nessed immense participation of students


from several colleges across University of Delhi and other Universities too.

Annual Fresher’s Parliamentary Debate Speak Up’ 19 was held on 14th-16th Sep-tember 2019. Over 300 college students, 56 teams and over 120+ adjudicators made the event a great success. Well thought and challenging motions made the competition intense and interesting. SBS(M) B bagged the best team title while the runner up was CBSC. Several adjudicators judged till the penultimate match ups and also earned the title of Best Adjudicators.Taqreer′20-the Annual Senior Asian Par-liamentary Debate was hosted by Cross Swords between 18th-20th January, 2020. The event was an enriching experience for as many as 32 teams, both inter college and cross institution teams and over 80 adju-dicators and for the organisers and partic-ipants too. Apart from the above, the students of the society have been regularly participating in tournaments both of Parliamentary and conventional nature and are recognised as debating enthusiasts in the debating circuit of Delhi-NCR.

Quest, the Quizzing Society of Sri Guru Go-bind Singh College of Commerce (Universi-ty of Delhi), was established in 2012 with the purpose to inculcate knowledge and the love for quizzing in young minds. Quest has reached new heights and is now known as one of the best quizzing societies in the Delhi Circuit.

For Quest, the academic year 2019-20, be-gan with the induction of new members through rigorous interview sessions and se-lection of students by conducting the Annu-al Induction Quiz.QTI-APA: The General-Technology quiz for the students of SGGSCC was organised by

Convener: Dr. Gurminder Kaur

Quest


Dreaming Tibet

Quest in collaboration with Infinity, the Tech Society.The society also collaborated with Jaipuria Institute of Management to organise the SGGSCC edition of the Jaipuria Quizzing League- the winners got a chance to rep-resent our college on the National Stage at the finals held in Jaipuria Institute of Man-agement, Noida. The society held its first ever Odd-Semester Quiz Fest featuring the following quizzes:• Trial Ball (The Cricket Quiz)• Pop It Off (The Pop Culture Quiz)• General and Business QuizThe overwhelming participation of over 350 undergraduate and postgraduate students

The team members seek to engage in acts of reaching out to showcase their rich and vibrant Tibetan Culture highlighting their aim of peace and prosperity for everyone in this world.Students of the Dreaming Tibet Society par-ticipated in promoting their Tibetan culture by organising a short film screening on geo-graphical beauty of their country, “Tibet - Beauty in the Sky”. They organised a work-shop on Mastering Mandala Art, a Tibetan art form used as a tool for gaining wisdom and compassion. The team members en-thusiastically presented a cultural dance at International Students Cultural Event held

from all across Delhi-NCR is a testimony of the success of the society.

The society has also organised various in-house quizzing sessions under the Quizzing League on various themes, to encourage the culture of quizzing amongst students of the college. Convener: Dr. Sarabpreet Kaur

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION at University of Delhi, and assisted in the cultural extravaganza of Tibetan Youth Hos-tel. During the session members worked dili-gently in organising Satta ki Jung event of Republic, and screening of films from other foreign countries. They were a part of the team for conducting a Self-Defence Work-shop to build confidence and enhance


fighting back skills amongst women. A visit to the Indian Parliament helped the members understand the core principles of democratic processes and their function-ing. The group participated in a peace march to mark global solidarity with Tibet on the An-niversary of Tibetan National Uprising. On The Losar Festival- the Tibetan New Year, students participated in the ceremonies with fervour.All members work with dedication and a focus on “individual enlightenment, the lib-eration of all beings, development of com-passion, and an insight into the nature of reality”.Convener: Mrs. Shelly Verma

A help desk was set up by the society for facilitating specially-abled students, seek-ing admission to the College. To enhance awareness among students and ensure inclusion of specially-abled in the main-stream, tenth annual seminar “Ensuring In-clusion of the Disabled in the Mainstream: Issues and Challenges” was organised in the College premises on 22 October, 2019. Mr. Pritam Sharma, Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Dr. (Ms.) Prem Singh, Professor (Retired), Department of Hindi, University of Delhi and Mr. Nipun Malhotra, Founder and CEO, Nipman Foun-dation were the resource persons for the seminar. A Youth Disability Dialogue in collabora-

Jaagriti-The Enabling Unit

tion with United Nations Volunteers and Nipman Foundation was also conducted. The dialogue provided 30 participants, an opportunity to interact with the different-ly-abled persons and the need for ensuring the inclusion of specially-abled in all the sectors of society was emphasized.

Annual fest, SAHARSH’20, an inter-college fest for disabled students was organised on 3 March, 2020. The event was inaugurated by Mr. J.L. Kaul, Secretary General, All India Confederation of the Blind, a recipient of prestigious Padma Shri and other National Awards. The event observed activities like debate, poetry, singing, and talent hunt along with exciting games, tug of war and lemon race. About hundred disabled students from dif-ferent universities in Delhi-NCR participat-ed in the event. Winners were awarded with attractive cash prizes.


NSS- National Service SchemeNSS-SGGSCC initiated the Year’s activities with the celebration of International Yoga Day on 21st June in collaboration with ICAI, wherein energising meditation and yoga sessions were conducted which saw an ac-tive participation of the college staff and students.

The NSS team on 14th August conducted a series of events as part of the observance of ‘Swachchta Pakhwada’. A cleanliness drive was conducted in the college prem-ises, where the team along with other Col-lege students zealously worked to ensure that the College was spotlessly clean. This was followed by a slogan writing competi-

The society envisions to uplift the special-ly-abled and bring them at par with all.

Convener: Dr. Renu Gupta

COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

tion. The day concluded with an oath taking ceremony where each and every member of the team undertook an oath to serve the society with utmost compassion, abiding by the motto of NSS – ‘Not me but you’. The annual Gratitude Day Celebration took place on 5th September. The team took this opportunity to acknowledge the contribu-tions that the ever-inspiring teachers make to our lives.

The theme of the event was TIFA – Teach-ers’ Inspiration Forum Awards, to appreci-ate the uniqueness of our beloved teachers and conferring them with suitable awards.On 24th September, 2019, NSS-SGGSCC celebrated NSS Day in the college campus. On 1st October, NSS-SGGSCC in association with ASBEMS, took a pledge against the use


of Single Use Plastics. The event saw wide participation with the legendary singer Mr. Daler Mehndi also participating in the event. A cleanliness march on the road out-side the College was also organised. On 2nd November, 2019, another cleanliness drive was organised as a part of a year-long project in collaboration with ASBEMS.

2020 commenced with great zeal as NSS in collaboration with NCC celebrated the Republic Day on 24th January 2020. The members of both the societies, alongside other students, teaching and non-teaching College staff, proudly stood saluting the Tri-colour, hoisted by Principal Sir. This was fol-lowed by an oath taking ceremony for the National Voter’s Day. Team NSS decorated a board in the College to mark the impor-tance of voting and to encourage students

to vote in great numbers.A donation drive was organised by NSS on 11th and 12th of February. The drive aimed at collecting books and clothes for the chil-dren at Bal Sahyog. The year concluded with a memorable visit to Bal Sahyog on 13th February 2020, where the members interacted with the children.

Convener: Dr. Nirmal Singh

The Rotaract Club of the college has been consistent in its efforts and commitment to work for the betterment of the society. Starting its calendar, the club organised Aagaaz′19, the official installation ceremo-ny of President Rtr. Namisha Batra and her

Rotaract Club


Enactus is an international non-profit organ-isation dedicated to inspiring students to improve the world through entrepreneurial action. Since its inception in 2012, Enactus SGGSCC, a team of 60 members, with the

Enactus

team on 29 September, 2019 in the college auditorium. The year also marked the com-pletion of ten glorious years of the Club’s existence.Various online awareness campaigns were organised. A week-long online awareness campaign Organ for Life was initiated in col-laboration with Organ for Life Foundation from 2 September to 9 September, 2019. A ten-day online awareness campaign Be the Light was initiated from 18 October-27 October, 2019 to celebrate the auspicious festival of Diwali. Another campaign Vira-go was carried out between 29 December, 2019 to 6 January, 2020, to spread aware-ness on harassment faced by women. The campaign also portrayed empowered wom-en in gendered society. In collaboration with Navjyoti India Foun-dation, the club organised the Convocation Ceremony for “Sankalp 2.0 Digital Literacy Centre” based in Shalimar Bagh on 24 Octo-ber, 2019. The Centre was set up to enable people from backward areas in overcoming the roadblock of digital illiteracy and help-ing them in becoming self-reliant.

The club also organised visits to Shiv Ashray Senior Citizen Home, a Government Co-Ed. School and Akhil Bhartiya Netrahin Sangh, a Blind School. Annual Blood Donation Camp was organ-ised on 30 January, 2020, in the College premises. Buses from Rotary Blood Bank, Tughlakabad and Shiv Shakti Charitable Trust, along with a team of professional doctors helped in the smooth functioning of the entire process. 144 blood units were collected to help over 400 lives.

Annual socio-cultural fest, Consortium′20 was organised on 24 February, 2020, in the College premises. Students from various colleges of the the university participated in the events. Mass participation, with an average footfall of around 1000 participants itself highlights the success of the event.Convener: Dr. Aradhana Nanda


support of the principal and the conveners has been able to achieve tremendous re-sults. The team finished amongst the top five teams at the Enactus National Sympo-sium and Competition 2019.

With the intent to benefit the world through social entrepreneurship, the team has col-laborated with various organisations, some of them being MAX foundation, Kangaroo, KPMG, Sulabh Sauchalya, Medows green and Walmart. They have also collaborated with various NGO’s like Hara Jeevan and Meri Umeed for various social causes. The team has scored major Grants from KPMG, Max and Kangaro.

The team has successfully been able to im-plement 6 projects till date of which 4 have been declared sustainable. The ongoing projects are- Project “Kashti” and Project “Book A Plant”. The team will soon launch another Project, “Dariya”-which aims to eradicate plastic pollution in water bodies.Project “Kashti” is a gambit undertaken by Enactus SGGSCC, an endeavour to uplift the rural masses, targeting all spheres and cov-ering the basic yet crucial problems in the society. It aims at turning its territories into smart villages.Project “Book A Plant” consists of an online platform for ordering plants which not only provides a variety of plants at affordable rates but also supports the local plant ven-dors and the hectic schedules of people. Apart from that, the team has represented its projects in various prestigious institu-tions like IIM Ahmedabad, ISB Mohali, IIT Bombay and Roorkee, and many more.The society has won most of the B-plan competitions held in the university circuit including KNC, Miranda House, ARSD etc.Convener: Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur

NCC-BoysNCC, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Com-merce has been fairly active during the ses-sion 2019-20. The organisation has been continuously growing since its inception in 2008-09 in the College. The objective of NCC is “Unity and Discipline”. It helps in de-veloping character, comradeship, discipline, leadership, secular outlook, spirit of adven-


NCC-GirlsNCC is a voluntary organization engaged in grooming the youth into disciplined and patriotic citizens. The NCC- Girls wing of

ture, and ideals of selfless service amongst the youth of the country.This year NCC, SGGSCC with a strength of 60 cadets undertook the following activities -• 6 cadets were selected for Army Attach-

ment Camp of 15 days in Meerut. • 5 cadets for selected for Shivalik Trek-

king of 8 days in Saharanpur.• 4 cadets were selected for Shivaji Trail

Trekking of 8 days in Maharashtra.• 1 cadet was selected for Advance Lead-

ership Camp of 12 days in Gujarat.• 1 cadet was selected for Advance Lead-

ership Camp of 12 days, Punjab.• 3 cadets were selected for Ranchi Trek-

king of 12 days in Jharkhand.• 3 cadets were selected for EBSB (Eak

Bharat Shreshta Bharat) of 12 days in Delhi.

• 6 cadets were selected for Narmada Trekking Gujarat of 12 days.

• 10 cadets were selected for Annual Training Camp of 10 days in Delhi. This year, 19 cadets appeared for B certifi-cate exam and 16 Cadets appeared for C certificate exam.

NCC helped organise Yoga Camp in the Col-lege and also as per past practice also or-ganises Swatch Bharat Abhiyan once in ev-ery 15 days. Convener: Cap. (Dr.) Baldev Singh

SGGSCC came into existence in 2013-14. During the current academic year, 23 cadets participated in the Combined Annual Train-ing Camp (Delhi Cantt) which took place from 1st to the 10th of August, 2019. One girl cadet was also selected for the Darjeel-ing Trekking Camp. Two cadets participated in Ajmer Trekking camp, one cadet in Thal Sena Camp. These camps help in enhancing the leader-ship qualities in cadets, learn trekking and overcoming obstacles in addition to provid-ing an opportunity to meet officers from the Armed Forces. 30 girl cadets participat-ed in the National Yoga Day Event held from 21st to 24th June, 2019.

The girls secured second position in poster making and third position in group dance at the CATC Camp. At the Ajmer training camp, the participants undertook piloting. 20 and 13 girl cadets appeared for “B Certif-icate Examination” and “C Certificate Exam-ination” respectively. Convener: Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur


The young environment enthusiasts of the college have consistently been aspiring to spread environmental consciousness in the society. ‘Green Good Deed’, a project run by the club throughout the odd-semester in the College premises, entailed encouraging each one to follow simple yet practical en-vironmentally sound initiatives in daily life. The initiates included ‘Bring Your Own Bot-tle’, ‘Bring Your Own Bag’, and ‘Bring Your Own Lunch-box During Langar’ to discour-age the use of single-use plastics. ‘Vertical Garden’, established by the club in October 2019 made best use of waste sin-gle-use plastic bottles with a rich collection of air purifying plants. In association with E-Waste Recyclers of India, two ‘E-waste Collection Bins’ were placed near the com-puter laboratories. Large-scale collection drives in and around the campus were con-ducted. ‘World Ozone Day’ was observed on 16 September 2019; a quiz was organized to educate students about the concerns on ozone layer depletion. In collaboration with The Animal Welfare Board of India, the club

Ecosperity- The Environmental Club

commemorated ‘World Animal Day’ on 1 October 2019. Intra-College Online Photog-raphy and Case Study Competitive Events were conducted. An interactive session on ‘Mother Earth’s Orchestra: Acoustic Diversi-ty of Insects from The Indian Subcontinent’ with Dr. Swati Diwakar was held.‘Paraspar – 550 Rukh, Guru de Naal’, a month-long plantation drive was led by the club in association with The Students’ Union, on the auspicious occasion of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s 550th Birth Anniversary. 550 saplings were planted within the col-lege premises, bringing in students, facul-ty members, non-teaching staff, and each stakeholder of the college to be a proud parent to a sapling.A field visit to ‘Common Effluent Treatment Plant, Mayapuri’ was organized on 7 Sep-tember 2019 to familiarize young learners about the wastewater treatment processes.

Environment enthusiasts participated in Delhi’s Big Butterfly Count at Yamuna Bio-diversity Park held on 22 September 2019. A field trip to Yamuna Biodiversity Park was organized on 2 February 2020 to observe World Wetlands Day. An online awareness campaign, #Did you Know? was carried out from 26 August-7 October 2019 to share


First Aid Committee

lesser-known facts on environment. Anoth-er awareness campaign, #Greenovations, initiated on 12 January 2019 and continu-ing till date educates masses about less-er-known start-ups making the best use of waste around us.

‘Ecothon’20: A Series of Online Events’ was held from 25 March-10 April 2020 to spread environmental consciousness while each one was at home in the lockdown pe-riod. The events, Haiku Competition, Green Quarantine Challenge, My Green Tale, and Shark Tank were open to students from schools and other colleges across the globe. An overwhelming response of over 200 en-tries was received. Ecosperity aims to take up similar projects in future, envisaging its motto ‘from attitude to action’.Convener: Dr. Neha Goyal

The first aid society of SGGSCC not just works as the provider of first aid, it also aims at enhancing social awareness as well as empathy amongst the student commu-nity. The society organised a Poster Making

Competition on September 11, 2019, spon-sored by the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre on the occasion of World Spinal Cord Injury Day observed on 5th September every year. The competition held at Beggars’ point in the College premises was on the Topic “Live Life to The Fullest”. The three prize winners, Sanya Jain, Vishal Dua and Shiri Aggarwal were felicitated with cash prizes on Octo-ber 11, 2019 at a function held at Thyagaraj Sports complex.

The Committee also organised another drawing competition, focusing on art as a medium to enhance awareness about re-sponsibility towards society in general. Stu-dents used art to express their respective thoughts on how to give back to society and to make the world more compassionate.Convener: Mrs. Ravneet Duggal


STUDENT SOCIETIES AND GROUPS

VISMAAD- The Divinity SocietySeveral events, including Sangrand Samag-am, Asa Di Vaar Samagam, Kirtan Samag-

am, Basant Samagam, Chet Samagam were organised throughout the academic year. To commemorate the Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, also celebrated as the Founder’s Day of the College, a two-day cultural event was organised. Apart from these events, the society also helped in organising talent shows, Khoj Heere Motiyan Di and Aao Baniye Gursikh

Pyara in the college. 550th Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji was celebrated and a question-answer session on Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s life along with Maoleyo was held.The society actively participated in various divinity competitions. The Kirtan Team won First prize in 15th Kirtan Competition organ-ised by Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, GK-II on 24 November, 2019. The team won Second prize in Kirtan Competition held at SGTB Khalsa College on 27 February, 2020. The students actively participated in Kirtan Competition organised by Mata Sundri Col-lege for Women on 6th November, 2019. Third position in Paper Reading Competi-tion was bagged at Mata Sundri College for Women in November, 2019. First position was secured in Declamation Competition at SGTB Khalsa College in February, 2020. First and Second positions were secured in Bani Kanth Competition held at SGTB Khalsa Col-lege.


SURVEEN- The Music Society

VIRTUOSO-The Fine Arts Society

Sahejdeep Singh of B.A. (Hons) Economics, IIIrd Year, won the Best Percussionist Award for the third consecutive year at the Kirtan Competition organised by Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, GK-II.Convener: Mrs. Navdeep Kaur

Virtuoso the fine arts society of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce has proved to be one of the best art societies of Delhi University. Interesting workshops like charcoal, string art, mandala, newspaper dressing and brushless painting were con-ducted by the society throughout the year 2019-20. Doodling and Origami workshops were also conducted in an NGO based in Rohini.

Virtuoso has always facilitated fellow Col-lege societies. The society was the creative partner of Gyaan Punjabi Sahit Sabha. The

students actively participated in drive and slogan writing competitions, organised in

Surveen is the music society of SGGSCC, and has the motto ‘Music in Every Pulse’.Founded in 2011, the society has always aimed at giving students an avenue to im-prove their skills in music, both as vocalists and instrumentalists.The society members regularly visit stu-dios or jam pads, to record music and often times, compose songs of their own. They also have a band ‘Broke’ and have won vari-ous accolades across and beyond University of Delhi.

The Annual Fest ‘Mizrab’ is held in February and is very popular amongst the Music So-cieties of all Colleges. The Society stands strong with over 30 members all being committed to one cause- MUSIC. Convener: Cap. (Dr.) Baldev Singh


the Cleanliness Drive, led by ASBEMS. The annual art exhibit event, MUSE was or-ganised on 8th November, 2019. The event provided a platform to exhibitions from different art societies of different colleges. Sketching and painting competitions were also organised alongside.All hard work put in by the society was showcased in the annual art fest, KALA-KARI, held on 19th February, 2020. Different competitions such as watercolor, charcoal, best out of waste, etc. were or-ganised witnessing huge participation from other colleges. The coordination and cre-ativity of the society amazed each specta-tor. Convener: Dr. Manjeet Kaur

The society aims to provide a common plat-form for all the dance enthusiasts to learn together as a team and gives an opportu-nity to experience, perform and compete across more than 60 stages every year. It was ranked as the top dance society by the famous media channel DU Beat in the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. The present team won a total of 50 positions last year. This year, Misba has won a total of 20 posi-tions till 23rd February, 2020 and looks for-ward to taking this figure even higher in the coming month. These include the national level competition held at IIT Bombay where Misba won the first position becoming the only society in Delhi University to have won

MISBA-The Dance Society

this prestigious competition. Misba had the fortune of performing at COMIC CON, the world-famous comic fest along with a showcase performance at MTV Roadies Au-ditions which was aired on MTV India. For the past 6 years, it has been affiliated with the best training centre all over Delhi i.e. BIG DANCE CENTRE and has been fortunate enough to be guided and mentored by Mr. Dheeraj Soni who is amongst the best cho-reographers in India.

Danza Suprema′ 20, one of the biggest dance festivals of Delhi University, was hosted by Misba Dance Society on 29th February, 2020 and saw participation from various university colleges including Col-lege of Vocational Studies, Venkateshwara, Sri Aurobindo, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sa-tyavati, Hansraj, Zakir Hussain (Morning), Gargi, PGDAV and Shivaji college. Ms. Yuk-ti Arora, a former Misba-ite and Roadies fame dancer, was the judge for the event. The event started with a grand entry of all the participants with Dhol and Ghodi ride. The teams performed according to their slots and were judged over various catego-


INVICTUS-The Film and Photography Society

ries like choreography, performance and so on. The event ended on a high note with a special performance by our home team along with a guest performance by veteran choreographer, Mr. Dheeraj Soni.

Convener: Dr. Satvinder Kaur

Invictus is a team of enthusiastic, hardwork-ing and passionate members. It consists of photographers, cinematographers, script writers and graphic designers- all contribut-ing to the creative talent of the College. The motto of team Invictus in 2019-20 was “Be Invictus, Be Unconquerable”. Invictus had a great year of hosting two successful events; over 15 photo-walks; and a winning streak in different competitions across Delhi Uni-versity circuit. The society hosted the second edition of “What the F Stop” on 30th September, 2019 observing two competitions – Flash an On-line Photography competition and Vistas the Offline Photography competition.Students from all over the DU circuit sent in

their entries to win against more than 100 competitors.The judges for the event were photogra-phers Mr. Soumesh Pandey and Ms. Arushi Bhal. The awe-inspiring work of Invictus photog-raphers was showcased during Septem-ber,2019 and February, 2020 at popular student spots through “Inayat: The Invictus Exhibition”. Inayat also attracted partici-pation across DU students, thus displaying not only a successful exhibition of artwork but also offering an educational and inspir-ing arena of creativity with a perspective. The various themes of the exhibition were Landscape, Astro, Architecture, Abstract, Culture, Street etc.The society hosted its annual flagship event “Frames Per Second” on 19th February, 2020 with two competitions – Negative: Online Photography Competition and Bat-tlefield: The Offline Team Photography Competition with a special Dark Room round to judge the participants’ skills under a time constraint.

Photographers Ms. Madhur Nangia and Mr. Fazil Khan were the judges for the event.The members of the Society actively partic-ipated in various competitions in colleges


of Delhi University and won several awards and positions. A few notable of these are: First Position at JDMC, First Position at Khal-sa College, Second Position at DTU, Second Position at Jesus and Mary College, and Third Position at St Stephens College.Convener: Dr. Manju Bhatia

The fashion society of the College has been ranked as the best fashion society for four consecutive years. The society participates in group fashion events and picks up social issues like humanity, breaking the stereo-types and support for LGBT as its themes.

In the session 2019-20, the Society secured the first position at prestigious events and competitions held at various organisations including IIFT, IIT (Delhi), MAIMS, Ramanu-jan College, CVS, KMC, Ramjas College, Sa-tyawati College, Delhi School of Arts and Commerce, Vivekananda Institute of Pro-fessional Studies, IMT Ghaziabad, Manav Rachna University amongst others. They secured the second position at the events organised by AIIMS, Lingayas University,

During the session 2019-20, Raunqan the Gidha society, organised Folk Fest “JHOOMAR” on 28th February, 2020. 12 popular teams of DU participated with full enthusiasm leading to a successful event. Response from audience added to the highlights as they enjoyed the different folk forms prevailing across the university. The team not only organised this event but participated and won prizes in different col-leges as well.The team secured 2nd position in St. Ste-phen’s College and 2nd Position in Dyal

IVOGUE-The Fashion Society

RAUNQANS-The Giddha Society

Maitreyi College, PGDAV College, Kamla Nehru College, NSIT, SBSC, Gargi College, Lady Harding Medical College, Dyal Singh College and Shaheed Rajguru College. They secured the third position at Zakir Hussain College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

I Vogue has been setting the stage on fire and concluded the last season as the best fashion society in the Delhi University Cir-cuit.Convener: Dr. Simmar Preet Kaur


Khalsa Warriors – the Gatka Society of SGGSCC came into existence in August 2013, with the main motive of teaching self-

KHALSA WARRIORS-The Gatka Society

Singh College.The Team was appreciated for the manner of presentation of Punjabi culture. Raun-qan’s also gave commendable performanc-es in several events of the College includ-ing the Orientation function, Teacher’s day, Fresher’s party and Lohri function.

A few other notable ventures undertaken by the team this year include a perfor-mance in Sohni Punjaban 2020, a video shoot with singer Ranjit Randhawa and a performance at ITO organised by Delhi Government.Convener: Dr. Gurdev Singh

defence to the youth of our college and to keep them rooted with our heritage. It was initiated under the guidance of our respect-ed Principal Dr. Jatinder Bir Singh and Late Dr. Avtar Singh (Ex-Convener).Gatka is a form of martial art, started by the 6th Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji. Khalsa Warriors have showcased their abili-ties and skills on various occasions.

The members of the society have won ac-colades in various inter-state, inter-college, inter -university and national level compe-titions. The members bagged 6 gold, 4 sil-ver and 1 bronze medal in Delhi State Lev-el Gatka Championship organised by Delhi Gatka Association, 5 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals in National Gatka Champi-onship held at Amritsar, 2 gold and 3 silver medals at National Sikh Games organised by Jap Jaap Sewa Trust and 4 gold, 3 silver


and 4 bronze medals at Inter College Gatka Competition organised by Khalsa Warriors at SGGSCC. They also won Best College Girls and Best College Boys award along with cash prizes at inter-college level.The society organised events like in-ter-school competition in January, 2020 in which approximately 90 students from various schools participated and inter-col-lege competition in February, 2020, which saw the participation of more than 70 stu-dents was witnessed. The students have performed demonstrations at various oc-casions like Fresher’s 2019, 550th Prakash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and Founder’s Day of the college.The students also actively participated in the local Nagar Kirtans from time to time. Khalsa Warriors has emerged as one of the best Gatka society’s in the Delhi University circuit and aspires to carry the legacy for-ward in the future.Convener: Dr. Gurdev Singh

FOLKING DESI-The Bhangra SocietyThe achievements and success journey of Folking Desi, the Bhagra society SGGSCC, started when this society emerged as the most appealing society during the fest sea-son and achieved greater heights all across Delhi University. The society bagged the first position in Jesus and Mary College, second position at JDMC followed by third position in PGDAV college. Apart from this, Folking Desi bagged the

second prize in the largest Bhangra compe-tition of India, BHANGRA ARENA. The society also performed with great art-ists like Huma Qureshi, the college romance team TIMELINERS, Stand-up Comedian Anubhav Singh Bassi, Punjabi sensation Jugraj Sandhu and the living legend, Daler Mehndi. The team members also show-cased their moves on a Colors TV show, In-dia Banega Manch.

Their Bhangra experience has exceeded University level competitions and fests and the team has performed at multiple nation-al and international gigs. These included


MANCHTANTRA-The Dramatics Society

BIL

Manchtantra - the dramatics society of SGGSCC is a proud and fortunate part of the Delhi Collegiate Theatre Circuit. Since the time of its formation, Manchtantra has taken its message to the audience in sever-al colleges and events each year. It has been performing at Oasis - the annual fest of BITS Pilani for past 8 years and at the National School of Drama every year. The determi-nation to perform is further catalysed when

BIL′ 20 (Brilliance-Innovation-Leadership) was organised on 4th February, 2020 in the college premises with an audience of more than 700 people. The event was hosted by Kanishk Priyadarshi, an actor and anchor from Scoopwhoop.

The event was an amalgamation of unique performances with speakers from varied backgrounds such as Rahul Kharbanda,

appearances for EXL services, Art of Learn-ing (AOL), American Embassy, Achievers and many other corporate. We have also showcased our mettle internationally in Thailand.Apart from their performances, the society proved their mettle in teaching bhangra as well. The team conducted the biggest bhangra workshop in Delhi, with over 200 attendees. This massive success was fol-lowed by two consecutive workshops in Pitampura and master classes covering var-ious parts of Delhi.Convener: Dr. Gurdev Singh

the team’s work is recognised and acknowl-edged by the judges.

Manchtantra bagged the first position at BITs Pilani and VIPS Pitampura and second position at Symbiosis Law School. In ad-dition, the third best writer and first best actor positions were also won by Prateek Bandhu at Noida Rang Mahotsav.Convener: Capt. (Dr) Baldev Singh


a renowned illusionist, Priyamvada Kant, winner of Splitsvilla- a famous MTV reali-ty show, Zain Anwar, director and actor at Mens XP, Shefali Bagga, journalist and Big Boss contestant, Sundeep Sharma, stand-up comedian, Ujjwal Kumar, a multi-instru-mentalist and percussionist and Adnan Ah-mad, singer, Coke studio.Convener: Dr. Satvinder Kaur

The Students Union of SGGSCC, had a busy year that witnessed several memorable events starting with Freshers′ 2019, which welcomed the new entrants. This was or-ganised in the month of October and was a huge success.

The Union was a part of various drives over the year. A few prominent ones are Em-pathisers- the anti-plastic drive, hosted by ASBEMS, the Paraspar plantation drive, in collaboration with Ecosperity as a part of which 550 saplings were planted on oc-casion of 550th Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji.The journey also included holding fun

STUDENT’S Union 2019-20

SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

events, such as the Power-Ade, energy drink, launch event in which several sports activities were carried out. The annual flagship cultural event- EMI-NENCE’ 20 was held with great panache and fanfare in March with stars performers Karan Aujla, Maninder Buttar, DJ NYK and DJ Sumit Sethi. The fest was a huge success with special LED setup and EDM night. The event witnessed stupendously large foot-falls.

Convener: Dr. Baldev Singh

Sports help build many skills in a student like teamwork, leadership and self- confidence. Sports competitions inculcate the spirit of facing positive challenges and sportsman-ship amongst the students. Other than these qualities these activities also help students imbibe the ability of thinking in critical situations. The students of SGGSCC are actively involved in sports like Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Football, Basketball, Shooting, Chess, and Athletics. A few of their remark-able achievements in the year 2019-20 are as follows:


Providing opportunities to the students to broaden their horizons, the college offers Certificate Courses in French, German and Japanese languages. On 8th March, 2020 the German Festival was organised in the Department of Ger-manic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi. Several competitions were held during the festival and students from various colleges participated in the event. Students from our college participated in the poster mak-

Parth Makhija, won the Gold Medal in 10 mtr. Air Rifle in the 14th Asian Shooting Championship held at Doha in November, 2019. Parth Makhija and Akash Verma won Gold Medals in inter University competitions in 10 mtr. Air Rifle Shooting. Parth Makhija, Akash Verma and Aditya Chauhan won the Gold Medal in the inter college 10 mtr. Air Rifle Shooting Competition. Vrinda Garg, Sheshta Gupta and Preeti Chaudhary won the Bronze Medal in the inter college 10 mtr. Air Pistol Shooting. Parveen Bhati won the Bronze Medal in the inter college Athletics-High Jump Competi-tion.Parth Makhija, Akash Verma, Aditya Singh

Rajawat and Aditya Chauhan participated in the Nationals in 10 mtr. Air Rifle Shoot-ing Championship. Preeti Chaudhary, Vrin-da Garg and Vineet Kaur participated in the Nationals in 10 mtr. Air Pistol Shooting. Sheshta Gupta participated in state level 10 mtr. Air Pistol Shooting competition. Dev Inder Singh Bagga participated in the Badminton Nationals. Vedant Bhardwaj and Shaurya Sarn rep-resented Haryana and Himachal Pradesh respectively in National level Cricket tour-naments. Sidhant Bansal, Yash Sherwat, Vedant Bhardwaj and Shushrut Kulshresht participated in State Level Cricket events. Convener: Mr. Hartaj Singh

FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES

ing and literary competitions. Aditi from SGGSCC won the first prize in the poetry segment of the Literature Competi-tion.Convener: Dr. Latika Singh


FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATIONS

The Divinity Society “Vismaad” celebrated the birth anniversary of Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji on the Founder’s Day with zeal.

The Founder’s Day was celebrated on 23rd and 24th January, 2020 this year. There were Bani Kanth, Declamation and Kirtan competitions on the first day. The Gatka Society, Khal-sa Warriors, also held inter school Gatka competitions.

The Gurupurub celebrations were also held on the second day, 24th January, 2020. The Vismaad team and the winning teams of Kirtan competition both school and college level, recited soulful Kirtan. It was followed by divine and mesmerizing Kirtan by Bhai Maninder Singh ji, Hazoori Ragi Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar.

The Gatka team of the college also showcased their talents. Samapti of the whole pro-gramme was with lavish Guru ka Langar.

Convener: Mrs. Navdeep Kaur


Every year the College organises the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Cricket Tournament in the month of December-January as a part of the Founder’s Day celebrations. This year 23 reputed teams of Delhi-NCR including Air India, Vidya Jain Academy, Collage Group, Telefunken, Rohtak Road Gymkhana participated in this tournament. The tournament was inaugurat-ed by S.Vikram Singh, executive member of DSGM on 24th December, 2019.

The final match of the tournament was played on 22nd January, 2020 between Collage Group and Pioneer Club. Pioneer Club lost to Collage Group in the thrilling final. S. M.P. Singh former international boxer was the chief guest at the Prize Distribution. He along with S. Harmanjit Singh, Chairman, Governing body, Principal, Dr. Jatinder Bir Singh and other members of the Governing Body presented the cash prizes of ₹1,00,000 and ₹51,000 to the winners and runners up teams, respectively. They also gave away prizes and trophies to outstanding performers of the tournament. The prize for Man of the Match was awarded to Ankit Dabas, Shantanu was declared Best Batsman, Ravi Tawatia was declared Best Bowler of the tournament and Shivan Singh was adjudged as Man of the Series.Convener: Dr. Gurdev Singh

XXIV Sahibzada Ajit Singh Cricket Tournament

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not a destination. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Report Edited & Compiled by

Dr. Harpreet Kaur

Dr. Tarvinder Kaur

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SGGSCC, Annual Day Committee, 2019-20

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