SRI GURU GOBIND SINGH COLLEGE OF COMMERCE ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 1 STUDENT RECOGNITION STUDENT 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 national debater, state-level tennis-player, a swimmer and a keen team player with exceptional 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 as editor-in-chief to help disseminate knowledge 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, and working nation-wide, propagating wellness and prevention to spread awareness about cancer. 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 2 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 YEAR DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ECONOMICS DHRUV JEEWANI, a student of B.Com. ARJUN ARORA, a student of B.A. (Hons.) (Hons.) final year has exhibited a strong Economics final year has consistently grip on academics- with an average GPA of exceled in extracurriculars, while more than 9.2, along with active maintaining a decent academic record. He participation in extracurricular activities, throughout his three years of graduation. was the Senior Director of Rotaract Club of the College and helped set up project This year he played a key role in organising Sankalp- a centre for computer education various events in the College including to empower unskilled labour and Achievers United ’20 and Mettle’20, which housewives. He has been the General had our Honourable Transport Minister Secretary of Enactus, working on project Shri Nitin Gadkari as the Chief Guest. He Tabeer, a sanitation package for rural India. was elected as the General Secretary of He was part of the team that participated URJA, was a senior executive member, SOI in the Enactus World Cup in San Jose in at EMINENCE’20, the annual cultural fest of 2019, where the project was selected as the College and an active member of the one of the top 12 projects worldwide. He Commerce Department Cricket Team. He was an executive member and Cultural gave the Common Admission Test (CAT) and secured a percentile of 91.02, Advisor of the Student’s Union of the College and played an important role in receiving a call from IRMA- the best organising the Annual Cultural Fest. He has institute for rural management in Asia. He interned with Teach for India Foundation, has also received placements offers from heading a project- Rubaroo, aimed at Ernst & Young and Deloite. He has previously interned at Coca Cola India and inculcating cognitive and motor skills in the budding minds of under-privileged kids. He Birla Corporation ltd. He also completed a has been associated with the NGO- Meri certification course conducted by Bombay Umeed and has been involved in Stock Exchange and received a gold medal containing high levels of pollution by for the same. planting saplings. He undertook an internship at Harvard University, Lakshmi 3 Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and worked as a research intern, Harvard (LMSAI), working on empirical and on University South Asia Institute. ground research on the catastrophic effects of partition on both sides of the DEPARTMENT OF border. He also worked with SAIL India, as a finance intern and analysed data for COMPUTER SCIENCE ongoing projects. He also participated in GORISHA PURI, a student of B.Sc. (Hons.) the energy and environment sustainability Computer Science final year was the panel at Harvard College Project for Asian President of the Seminar Committee of the and International Relations Conference College for the year 2019-20 and made organised by Harvard University in Boston, important contributions in organising the USA in February, 2020. Fifth Biennial International Conference held in March, 2020. She played a vital role DEPARTMENT OF in the development of the Website for the BUSINESS ECONOMICS International Conference and also authored and presented a research paper ARUSHI SINGH, a final year student of B.A. at the same. She is a part of the student (Hons.) Business Economics held the research team for two Innovation Research positions of Joint Secretary, Cross Swords – Projects, funded by the Centre of the Debating Society of the College and Excellence of the College. Besides this, she Advisory, Rotaract Club. She was a co- has also been a part of several College founder of the girls’ basketball team and Societies including Association of has been an active member of the same for Computer Enthusiasts, Infinity, Training the past three years. In fact, she has been and Placement Cell, Saaransh and a part of several victories of the team. She International Cell. She has interned at has also been an active participant in Valencea working as a full stack developer athletics and participated and won several working on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, races and relays at the inter college level. AJAX for the front end, and PHP for back She attended a Summer School Program in end programming. She has also interned as Public Economics at Sciences Po, Paris in a graphic designer at Yoddhas, a UNESCO June, 2018 followed by another Summer award-winning Cancer support NGO. She is School Program in Behavioural Economics a frequent participant in coding at University of Warwick, London in July- competitions and a member of August, 2018. She has worked as an intern, ‘WiLDMS_Delhi’, a developer community at Ernst & Young, been an ambassador for supporting and gender minorities International Agency for Research on practicing or interested in the fields of Cancer (IARC), Centre for UN machine learning and data science, and ML 4 Nerdie- a developer community that level and been a part of the dialogue with focuses on core challenges in areas like UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J deep learning, evolutionary computation Mohammed. He has been placed as a or symbolic artificial intelligence. financial analyst at TresVista Financial Services. DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES PUNJABI JYOTBIR LAMBA, a final year student of B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics was the DAMANDEEP SINGH, a final year student President of Quest - the Quiz Society, and of B.A. (Hons.) Punjabi is the President of the Marketing Head of the Finance and Gyaan- Punjabi Sahit Sabha and Investment Cell of the College. He has been successfully organised a seminar, lohri involved in various international level mela and Punjabi virasat mela in this events organised in the College through capacity. He is also an office bearer of the TEDxSGGSCC, BIL, FIC, Insights (ASBEMS) Gatka Society of the College- Khalsa and the International Cell. He has Warriors and played an integral role in represented the College as part of the organising the inter school Gatka contingent to St. Xavier's, Kolkata where competition as a part of the Founder’s Day they won the Best Contingent Award and celebrations in January, 2020 and the he secured the second position in the fourth inter college Gatka competition as a Business Quiz. He was in fact recognised as part of the Cultural Festival- Eminence’20. “Star of the College” in his first year of Academically, he secured third position in graduation. He has also been involved in first as well as second year. He secured the two academic research projects- Impact of first position in declamation competition Reliance Jio on Pvt. Telecom Industry in held at Guru Tegh Bhadur Institute of India and Sharekhan Mutual Funds and the Technology and the second position in the HDFC AMC IPO. He has interned at several speech competition organised by DSGM in organisations, like Cashify as a project collaboration with Virasat Sikhisim trust on assistant, DU Express for business the occasion of 550th Prakash Purab of Sri development and operations, Sharekhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He secured the third Ltd. for finance and marketing profile, position at Guru Nanak Paper Reading Highway Connect as a marketing intern Competition held at Mata Sundri College, and Alue India Ltd. He has also University of Delhi and also participated in volunteered with organizations like Delhi-NCR Gatka Competition. He UMEED NGO, Josh Talks and Youth Ki previously has successfully contributed to Awaaz to organise summits on a global 5 creating a new world record for maximum POST GRADUATE players playing Gatka simultaneously. DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS POST GRADUATE JOURNALISM AND DIPLOMA IN CORPORATE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION MARKETING ANUSHKA JAIN, a student of the post MEGHNA BAID, a student of the Post graduate course Diploma in Business Graduate Diploma in International Journalism and Corporate Communication Marketing programme is a team player and is a diligent student having nearly 100 actively participated in all endeavours of percent attendance in all subjects.