The Department of Economics is as old as the college which was established in 1948. It is a four member department. The department has been catering to students in the Commerce stream along with the Humanities stream since 1980. The first head of the department was Mr. Gajra followed by Mrs. Maya Mirapuri, Dr. Harver and Mrs. Adarsh Suri. The department is currently headed by Dr Anuradha Kalhan Siddique. The department offers a full majors program in the final year to the cream of students enrolled in the BA program which enhances their theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject and equips them for further specialization in the field. It also increases their employability. The department has a record of a hundred percent passing at the University examinations for the Economics majors besides a majority passing with a first division.

 

About the Department

The Department of Economics caters to students of both the Commerce and Humanities streams. It offers a full majors program in the final year of BA only to the best. The syllabus taught by the faculty includes nine papers of Economics at the BA level and three papers of Business Economics at the B Com level. The department proposes to start catering to the MCom students as well from the current academic year.

 

Current Achievements of the Department

A vibrant Economics Association, which is almost twenty years old now, is the chief source of the department’s pride. It organizes seminars, book reviews, film shows, talks and lectures by scholars, industry experts, bankers, ex-students etc. It ensures active participation by students in Inter College Festivals - both at local and national level, with outstanding performances by the students.

The association organized its first intra-college Economics festival – Arthanomics in 2013-14 and it is now actively working towards turning this event into an Inter-college National Economics festival from the year 2014-15. The association also comes out with its annual magazine The Contrarian which consists of articles and trivia written by the students on a variety of topics. The latest edition of the magazine can be found here – http://issuu.com/thecontrarianjhc/docs/the_contrarian_2013-14

The Economics department has also been sending their contingent for The International Economics Convention organized by the HSNC Board annually which gives the students the unique opportunity to undertake research at Under-graduate level. The students of our college were the proud winners of the coveted trophy for the year 2012-13.

Many of our students secure admission at prestigious institutions like Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Warwick, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and pursue further studies in Economics, Finance, and Management.

On the placements front, our students have been picked up by companies like Google, RBI, Ernst & Young, KPMG, JLL, Zomato, Crisil, Royal Bank of Scotland and successful NGOs like Teach for India from campus and have thus made entry into the diverse fields of finance, research, social work, banking, startups, teaching, civil services at the professional level. In the year 2013-14, 48% of the aspiring students from the department were successfully placed in aforementioned companies.

 

Activities of the department

Economic Association

Objectives:

• Make the subject interesting by taking learning out of the classrooms
• Develop the overall personality and confidence of the students
• Build organizational skills and other soft skills
• Inculcate team work

Annual Activities:

• Intra department seminars
• Book review
• Guest lectures
• Movie / Documentary viewing
• Paper presentation
• Debates
• Essay writing competition
• Field trip

Structure:

• Democratic - run by students, for the students and of the students of various faculties – BA, BCom, BMS etc.
• Office bearers, selected from each year, have a one year term
• Certificates given to office bearers on successful completion of term
• Nominal membership fee charged from members which makes it self-financed

Future objective:

• To increase the scope and reach of the activities
• Greater student participation through constant motivation

 

Our USP

"Add economic value in everything we do"

Faculty - Dept. of Economics - Senior College

• Sarita Jai Shankar – Assistant Professor
  MA, Delhi School of Economics
  
  
• Vaidehi S Dhamankar - Assistant Professor
  M A, MPhil, School of Social Sciences, Gujarat University
  
  
• Mousumi Mazumdar - Assistant Professor
  MA, Mumbai University
  
  

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