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Committee REPORTS

The Economics

Club The Economics club of Guru Nanak College

marked the beginning of the New Year with a
candid group discussion on the trending topic
of ‘The Bhima Koregaon conflict’. The group
discussion was held on 8 January 2018. The
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discussion was attended by around 40 students
from Commerce and Arts section. Students voiced
their opinions about the incident and succession
of events that followed over the first couple of days
of the year that had brought the entire state to a
standstill. It was heartening to hear from the youth
of tomorrow the views, opinions, possible reasons
and review of the incident. Students with their apt
The Economics Club is a club of the students, by the students and for
the students. The club was inaugurated on 10 October 2017, by our knowledge proposed their views and suggestions.
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very own college principal Dr Vijay Dabholkar. The aim of setting up the The club organised a ten day internship program
club was to arouse a sense of interest among students in the subject of at Bombay stock exchange from 17 January to
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Economics. The club hopes of reaching out and proving beneficial to a 2 February. 20 students were selected for the
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large group of students in our college. internship. The motive behind this initiative was
to make the students acquainted and familiarize
The first activity under the newly inaugurated Economics Club was movie screening
of the documentary ‘The Inside Job’ on 16 October 2017. A total of 30 students them with the stock market. The sessions at
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across Commerce and Arts sections attended the movie screening. The documentary the BSE were conducted by Dr. Aditya Srinivas
focussed upon the Global Financial Crisis that had rocked the world couple of years COO & chief economist at BSE Brokers’ forum.
ago. Students thoroughly enjoyed the educative movie screening session and gave a Students got an opportunity to interact with him,
positive feedback. gain valuable experience and knowledge and at
the same time solve their queries about stock
market.

2 groups from B.A and B.Com section participated
in the Avishkar Research Convention on topics
Financial Literacy and WASH.

The club organised a state level research paper
competition on 23 February 2018. Total 67
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research papers were presented by students from
various colleges across Maharashtra. Dr. Abhay
Pethe was the chief guest for the competition
& Ms. Tanushree Muzumdar and Ms. Suchitra
Kumar were the judges.

The club held a farewell party for all the final year
club members on 21 March 2018. A total 95
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students attended the function.

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