Economics

C-Future

We are pleased to announce that Department of Economics under Economica is starting C- Future Programme. C- Future is Career FutureProgramme for professional career development of Economics students.

Aim :

• Providing the career-oriented knowledge to the students

Objective :

• To create vision in the students’ mindset about their career in the field of Economics.

• To orient the students towards their goal through Lectures and Seminars on Higher Studies, Research oriented opportunities and jobs in private and public sector organizations.

C-Future will be working towards organizing interactive sessions from industry experts on the issue of probable upcoming career options. Experts from Banking, Finance, Data Analysis, Research field, Competitive Examinations, Students pursuing higher studies from Foreign Universities and much more. 

Book Review Club

• The aim of this Book Review Club is to inculcate the habit of reading while exploring economic interests of students.

• Session 1 of Book Review Club on the book titled “Great Economic Thinkers” held on 28th April 2022 

Educational Visits

• The Department of Economics arranges Institutional Visits every year to certain major financial institutions.

• Institutional Visit to Bombay stock Exchange and Monetary Museum on 22nd January,2019.

We Speak

• Guest Lectures:Talk on “India’s ranking by Moody’s and S&P’s” by Mr. Mangesh Soman, Joint President, Corporate Economics Cell, Aditya Birla Group on 16th December 2017.

• Talk on “The History and Background of Goods and Services Tax” by Ms. Vishakha Borse on 31st January, 2018.

• Talk on Cryptocurrencies by Dr. Indradeep Ghosh (Director, Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics) on 14th August, 2018

• Talk on “Monetary Policy: Its source and transmission” by Dr. Davinder Suri on 20th July, 2018.

• Guest lecture on “Data Analytics in Economics” by Ms. Sandhya Krishnan on 17th December, 2019.

• Talk on “Role of Finance Professionals in Nation Building” by Mr. Pankaj Bobade, Deputy General Manager, Axis Securities on 13th Feb 2020

• 5 guests invited under “We Speak”: Dr. Davinder Suri, Kimaya Nagrane, Poojan Bhatt, Vinay Wakhare and Shweta Soman.

• Ms. Manali Pathak (Alumni of London School of Economics) on 4th August, 2018.

• Lecture by Mr. Kedar Kelkar on “Intuition and Causality: Stories in Economics” on 4th September 2021

Workshops and Online Courses

Online Certificate short-term Course on “Data Analysis: An introduction to R Programming”

• Course duration: 50 hours ( 40 hours teaching and 10 hours project)

• Course structure: Twice in a week 2 sessions

Course objective: This course will introduce beginners to Basics of Data analysis and the best practices of coding and data analysis in the R programming.

• Benefits:Skill and professional development

• Certificate for completion of the course

• Connecting with industries for placement

• Expert guidance

• Workshop on “Self Defence” on 3rd February 2020 for the students. It was conducted by two professionally trained masters from Big Box Activity Centre