INVESTITURE CEREMONY OF STUDENTS’ BAR ASSOCIATION

The Arts, Culture and Theatre Committee organised the Investiture Ceremony of Students Bar Association on 5 December 2022 with the purpose of inculcating a sense of responsibility to the student convenors of various committees of the Students’ Bar Association. The faculty coordinators and student convenor of the Arts, Culture and Theatre Committee proposed to the Head of Department that the investiture ceremony would be introduced in the department so that it may be held every academic year wherein at first the faculty coordinators would give the respective student convenors of their committees their badges, and in the coming years the previous student convenor would pass on their responsibilities to the current convenors along with the handing over of the badges. This activity would be followed by a pledge of the convenors. The event was proposed to be organised every academic year with the aim to encourage and motivate the convenors to involve themselves and the committee members in future events and programmes proactively. It was decided that following events of the Investiture Ceremony should include activities that encourage the student convenors and the OC members to have effective communication and team building skills. A volunteering  team was selected to ensure the smooth and efficient conduct of the current event.

The Investiture Ceremony of Students Bar Association organised in AY: 2022-23 began with the emcee welcoming the faculty members and students to the event. The emcee requested the faculty members to come to the stage to handover the badges to their respective committee’s student convenors. The badges were given to the following student convenors of their respective committees: Mr. Arjun Philip George to Chhavi Pathak of Cyber Law Committee, followed by, Mr. Gyandeep Chaudhary to Soumya Dendukari of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Ms. Aditi Nidhi to Reema Koshi of Criminal Law Studies, Ms. Shivani Jadhav to Shreejee Choudary of Environmental Law and Animal Rights Committee, Mr. Ravi Yadav to Monalisha Rao of Constitutional Law Committee, Ms. Shraddha Yadav to Theresa Ann Jacob of Research and Publication Committee, Mr. Sadanand Anandrao to Thakur Rashi of Legal Aid Committee, Dr. Sahil Gurudev to Nishan V Gopal of International Law Studies Committee, Ms. Kalyani Abhyankar to Reonia Mathew of Human Rights and Gender Justice Committee, Ms. Christine Samuel and Ms. Shivani Jadhav to Sakshi Verma of Arts, Culture and Theatre Committee, Mr. Suraj Karande to Prateek Singh of Sports Committee, Ms. Mehak Vohra in absence of Ms. Shilpa Rajagopal to Shreyaa D R of Law and Management Committee, Mr. Chetan Dixit to Jaya of Moot Court Committee, Ms. Mehak Vohra to Nirmit Jawani of Corporate Law Committee, and Ms. Kalyani Abhyankar to Kritika Shrivastava of Internship Committee. 

All convenors were asked to stay back and repeat the pledge after the Head of the Department, Ms. Mehak Vohra. As the event concluded, the faculty members and student convenors stayed back for a group photo which was followed by the vote of thanks by the emcee. 

The event was organised with the purpose of achieving the following outcomes of transparency between student body and convenors, receiving badges for their respective committees, accepting roles and responsibilities of each committee,  and to kickstart the academic year of 2022-2023.  

Conclusion :

• Knowledge about the roles and duties of each convenor 
• Transparency between student body and convenors 
• Receiving badges and accepting roles and demands of each committee 
• Kickstart to the academic year 2022-23