The students of the 46/16 batch were introduced to the Student Council comprising of members from their senior batch, in a batch-wide crasher held in L3 today.

The President, Kapidhwaja Singh introduced each member of the student council and outlined their roles and responsibilities. Primarily people introduced to the students included the Hostel Affairs Secretary, the Student Exchange Coord., the IT Rep, the PGP representatives and the placement representatives. The council has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that the batch faces little problems in acclimatization to the new conditions. This was especially true this year given the difficulties of accommodating an enlarged batch with the new infrastructure yet to come up. The college also faces challenges in terms of keeping up with growing demands from the IT infrastructure. The IT Rep. assured the students that the whole system would be upgraded within a couple of months. This comes as a relief to a number of students worried about the measures the college is taking to keep up with the pent-up numbers.

Students were also introduced to the ISG, the campus group that maintains all internal software systems and also backs this website. They were introduced to the variety of tools and applications the ISG has developed and encouraged the students to get to know and use them. Sunil Chandrasekhar a first year student said “It was great to know that there is this huge student team working to keep the show running in the background. It’s great that we have such a responsive and well-managed team. And it was nice getting to know the faces behind the ISG; they are so huge on campus!”

We at Jokatimes would encourage the batch of 46/16 to get to know their council better and participate in campus development activities. What they say about democracy is true after all – if you don’t speak up, nothing gets done!