GDC Kathua organized webinar on “Financial Literacy for You (FLY)

 GDC Kathua organized webinar on “Financial Literacy for You (FLY)

Career Counseling and Placement Cell, GDC Kathua in Collaboration with Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) organized a webinar on “Financial Literacy for You (FLY)”. A large number of students and faculty members participated in the event. Webinar was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Prof. Seema Mir, Principal, GDC Kathua in presence of revered resource person Dr. Sanjay Kr Agarwal, Data Scientist and Trainer PFRDA, Prof. Anirudh Sharma, Head, Department of Physics, Prof. Jaswinder Singh, IQAC Coordinator, Prof. Rakesh Singh, Convener, Career Counselling Cell & Head, Department of Chemistry, Prof. Romilla Gulleria, Head, Department of Music, Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Prof. Neha Mahajan, Head Department of Biotechnology.

Prof. Seema Mir, Chief Guest of the event in her deliberations stressed on the need of such type of webinars for the faculty as well as students. He appreciated the efforts of Speaker, Convener, members of organizing committee for taking this initiative of organizing this interactive webinar for students and faculty of GDC Kathua. Moreover, she encouraged all the faculty members to organize more such events for shaping the career of students.

Prof. Rakesh Singh, Convener of the webinar welcomed the Chief Guest, Resource person and all the participants. He said that Career Counselling and Placement Cell of the college is continuously involved in organizing such type of awareness programs for students for helping them in deciding better future. He said that after attending this webinar participants shall become more responsible savers and investors. Moreover, they shall be ready for the real-life situations and shall be able to take decisions more independently.

Revered resource person of the event, Dr. Sanjay Kr. Agarwal, Data Scientist and trainer PFRDA in her deliberations highlighted various investment schemes during the webinar. In the interactive session he made the participants aware of various pension schemes of the Govt of India such as Atal Pension Yojana, National Pension System etc. He further said that the foyndation of financial awareness should be laid down early in the student life for secure future.

At the outset, Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Assistant Professor in Chemistry and event coordinator emphasized that the main objective of this awareness program was to inculcate skills among the young minds so that they can become financially literate. He further said that such type of awareness sessions is very much required at the time when NEP-2020 is implemented in the UT and the “Financial Literacy” is projected as one of the subjects to be taught at School/UG level as per NEP-2020.

The webinar ended with an impressive vote of thanks by Professor Neha Mahajan, Head Deptt of Biotechnology. Others who have contributed in the successful organization of the event were Prof. Bharat, Prof. Renu, Dr. Anupama, Dr. Roshan Lal, Prof. Rahul Sharma, Prof. Himani, Prof. Kanchan, Dr. Varinder, Prof. Shiv Kumar, Prof. Natasha, Dr. Kamaldeep Singh and Dr. Jasvinder Singh. Among others, who attended the webinar included Dr. Kailash Sharma, Dr. Surya Partap Singh, Prof. Rajesh Chalotra, Dr. Nisha Chaudhary, Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, Dr. Chetna Gupta, Dr. Seema Devi, Dr. Ritu Bhagat, Prof. Poonam Kumar, Dr. Rachna Devi, Dr. Ram Krishan and Prof Kaurab Singh