The Practice
To groom leadership at the student level there is a Students Council formed every year. It is formed every year with elected representatives of the students. It comprises the President, the Secretary, the Joint Secretary (reserved for women students), Class Representatives, Representatives from NCC, Sports, and Culture.
The Council election is conducted in the most democratic manner possible, just like all other general elections in India. The election process begins with the appointment of election officers, chosen among teachers, and then notification of the election. This is followed by submitting the nomination, scrutinizing the applications, and putting together the final list of candidates. The candidates are given considerable time in which to spread the message about their candidature and solicit support. Under the supervision of the returning officer, the necessary number of ballots are printed. Two polling officers are appointed to supervise voting in the classrooms that have been transformed into voting stations. On election day, election officials receive the necessary number of ballots from the returning officers, conduct voting in classrooms that have been converted into voting stations, and then hand the polled ballots back to the returning officers. The counting procedure is overseen by the table in-charges and the Counting Supervisors. After the counting process is complete, the principal uses the public address system to announce the list of winners to the students and posts notes on the notice board.
Under the supervision of the class adviser, class representatives are elected or selected. Elections are held in accordance with democratic norms, if necessary. The relevant in-charges, where applicable, choose additional representatives.
At the institutional level, every activity involving students and focused on improving student life is overseen and facilitated by the Students' Council. It organizes activities such as the Talents Day program, inter-faculty competitions, celebration of national festivals and national/international commemoration days, honoring the student achievers, blood donation camps in collaboration with the Red Cross and NGOs, helping the institutional administration in conducting college annual day, intercollegiate cultural competitions, fests, athletic meets and games championships, Leadership Training programs, and other extension and outreach programs. The council also arranges charitable initiatives to help financially strapped students and their families. To meet the financial requirement of the council there is a separate fund maintained out of fees collected from the students. In the case of need, additional funds are arranged by means of sponsorship and management grants.
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