2016-2017

 

•  Prof .Tmt.K. Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture on “Where does India stand after 70 Years of Independence” on27th August 2016 by Mrs.VahidhaNizim, National Secretary, AITUC, Convenor, All India Working Women Forum.
• Workshop on Stress Management on 12th Sep 2016 by Dr. Lakshmi T Rajan, Psychotherapist & Counselor Masterminds, Dr.K.B.Edison, Founder, Edi Builders, Dr.VijiSwaminathan, Counselor & Director, Woodpecker &Dr. Mini Rao, Psychotherapist &Counsellor.

• Prof.Tmt. Yasodha Shanmugasundaram Endowment Lecture on Recent Developments in Indian monetary policy on 16th Dec 2016.
• Know Your Economy on 6th Jan 2017

 

International Conference 

 

International Conference on Development Economics on 16th & 17th Feb 2017

Resource Persons and Sessions:

Inagural Programme:

• Prof. S. Nakkiran, Ambo University, Ethiopia
• Dr. Anil Kumar Thakur, General Secretary, IEA
• Dr. Ruth Kattumuri, Co-Director India Observatory Associate, London School of

Economics, UK

• Mr. C. SaiLokesh, IIM, Lucknow, Integrated Finance of analytics Professional, Paypal,

Singapore

Special Lecture Delivered by:

• Dr. K. Amirthalingam, Professor in Economics, University of Colombo, Srilanka
• Dr. T. Velnampy, Dean, University of Jaffna, Srilanka

Technical Session I:

•  Prof.Kamaiah, Dean, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad
• Dr. N. Palani Raj, Associate Professor, Pachaiyappa College for Men

Technical Session II:

• Dr. M. Ramachandran, Registrar, Professor & Head, Department of Economics, Pondichery University
• Dr. P. Anbalagan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Presidency College, Chennai

Technical Session III:

• Dr.Bhuden Kumar Saikia, Head, Department of Economics, Morigon College
• Dr. K. Ramesh, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Presidency College, Chennai.

Technical Session IV:

•  Dr. B. Mathavan, Professor & Head, Department of Economics, Annamalai University, Chidambaram
•  Dr. K. Malathy, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Madras Panel Discussion on

 Development Issues

• Dr.Vargheese A. Manaloor, University of Alberta, Canada
•  Dr. S. Ramaswamy, Professor & Head, Department of Economics, Gandhigram Rural University
• Prof. K. Shivasubramaniyan, Associate Professor, Institute of Development Studies
• Dr. A. Duraisamy, Associate Professor & Head, Madras Christian College
• Dr. G. Sathis Kumar, Faculty, Great Lakes Institute of Management

Valedictory:

• Prof.Tmt. YasodhaShanmugasundaram, Former Vice Chancellor, Mother Teressa Women’s University
• Prof.Tapan Kumar Shandilya, President, IEA, Former Vice Chancellor, VKS University, Ara
• Dr. R. Karunakaran, Associate Professor, Department of Cooperatives, College of Business & Economics, Hawassa University, Ethiopia.
• ECOLADES – on stage and off stage association events on 1st March 2017.

 

 2017-2018

 

•  Prof.Tmt.K.Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture on 28th September 2017, by Dr.L.S.Ganesh, Professor, Department of management studies, Indian Institute of Technology, expressed his opinion regarding “Women and Water”.
• ‘Know Your Economy ‘test on 15th December 2017
•  Dr.Tmt. Yasodha Shanmugasundaram Endowment Lecture on “Challenges to Global Economy in near future” on 18th December 2017 by Prof. Kishore G Kulkarni, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Metro State Denver, Department of Economics.

Symposium

• State level Symposium on Demonetization in India on 31st Jan 2018 

Resource Persons

• Thiru.S.Nagarajan, General Secretary, All India Bank Officers Association
•  Thiru.A.Bhaskar , Engineer, Central Public Works Department
•  Thiru.G.Dhamanjayan, Indian Film Producer, Distributor, Founder-Dean of “BOFTA Film Institute “
•  Thiru.PC.Balasubramanian, Writer, Executive Director and President , Matrix Business Services India Pvt, Ltd
•  Thiru.J.Murali, Charted Accountant, Chairman, GST Committee, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce
•  Thiru.N.Muthuraman, Co-Founder & Director, River Bridge Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd.
• Thiru.ElangoKallanai, Consultant – Organic Farming & IT

•  Eco-Bazaar – Youth Economic Society – Annual event conducted on 7th September 2017.
•  ECOLADES – on stage and off stage association events on 20th September & 30th September 2017.

 

2018-2019

 

•  ECOLADES’18 on stage and off stage association events on 20th August 2018
•  Prof.Tmt.K.Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture on “Nature and Significance of health

measurement” on 30th August 2018

•  Dr.Tmt.Yasodha Shanmuganaram Endowment Lecture on “Tamil Nadu Economy &Government Finances” on 31st August 2018.

National Conference

• National Conferenceon Economic Development of India in Global Perspective in collaboration with Indian Economic Association And Tamil Nadu Economic Association on 27th & 28th September 2018.

Special Address by Dr.Anil Kumar Thakur, General Secretary and Treasurer, Indian Economic Association and Dr.B.Ramaswamy, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Oriental University & Professor R. Kanagaraj, Chairman, Jaya Group

Chairperson 

Prof. Tapan Kr.Shandilya,Former President,IEA , Former Vice Chancellor Nalanda Open University.

Special Lecture delivered by Dr. T.Ramasami, Former Secretary Indian Science and Technology.

 National Symposium

• National Symposium on Innovation Driven Inclusive Growth in India on 5th Feb 2019 Inaugural Address

Dr.Vipin Kumar, Director and Chief Innovation Officer, National Innovation Foundation Ahmedabad, an Autonomous Body of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Technical Session: I

Poverty Reduction and Job Creation in the Digital Economy by Dr.S.handrasekhar, Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research [IGIDR], Mumbai.

Technical Session: II

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems in India by Mr. Kumar Loganathan, Research Director, Muktha Laboratories Pvt Ltd (Muktha Foundations Group) Chennai, Research Head, The Elbow Engineers.

Panel Discussion

 

Unleashing India’s Innovation: Towards E-Agriculture for Inclusion by Dr. Dayakar Rao B, Principal Scientist, Indian 

Institute of Millets Research Hyderabad.

Human Capital Development in the Digitalization Era by Dr. G. Ravi, Professor & Head, Department Of Economics, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.

∙ E-Commerce and Financial Inclusion by Rob Peck, Director of Client Services, 03mDirectional Marketing

∙ Cyber Security: Threat, Protection and Digital Rights by Dr. Harish Ramani, CEO & CTO, Tevel Cyber Corps Private Limited, Chennai.

Overview of the Panel Discussion

 

Chairperson: Dr. BrindaViswanathan, Associate Professor, Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai, India.

 

∙ECO-BAZAAR’18 on 19th September 2018 organized by Youth Economic Society.

 

∙Know Your Economy test on 7th Feb 2019

 

2019-2020

ECOLADES’19 on stage and off stage association events on 13th and 14th September 2019.

∙ Prof.Tmt.K.Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture on “The Current Slowdown in the Indian Economy”. on13th September 2019.

∙ Dr.Tmt.Yasodha Shanmuganaram Endowment Lecture on “Women in Informal Sector”. on 14th September 2019.

∙ The Planning Forum Exhibition was initiated by the Postgraduate and Research Department of Economics and the Department of Business Economics on the 13th and 14th September 2019 during Ecolades. The topic given for the exhibition was “States and Union Territories of India”.

∙ Guest Lecture
Guest Lecture on‘Decoding The Shift In Global Economic Power’ On 28th September 2019. Resource Person: Dr. S. Subasha Associate Professor Department of Humanities and Social ScienceIIT Madras.

Resource Person: Dr. S. Subasha Associate Professor Department of Humanities and Social ScienceIIT Madras.

 

∙Eco -Bazaar’19was conducted on 29thNovember2019

∙The Youth Economic Society (YES) is an extension activity of the Department of Business Economics to emphasize on the improvement of the intellect and general knowledge among the students, by organizing various competitions such as quiz, debate and essay writing.

As a part of The Youth Economic Society the following programme were conducted

1. YES conducted Quiz on the topic “Current Economic issues and Nobel Laureates in Economics throughout history”.
2. YES organized Debate on the topic “Is India ready for a Cashless Economy”.
3. Essay writing competition was organized on the topic “Key Outtakes from the Nirmala Sitharamans’ Budget 2019-20”,

∙Destination Learning

On 17th & 24thFebruary 2020, Postgraduate and Research Department of Economics and Business Economics organized “Destination Learning” visit to Regional Meteorological Centre (RMU), Nungambakkam for I & II UG students.

 

2020 – 2021

 

∙Prof. Tmt. K. Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture“Raising women’s Labour Force Participation in India – What will it take?” on 10th December, 2020.

∙Dr. Tmt. Yasodha Shanmugasundaram Endowment Lecture, “Economics of Farm Laws”on 4thMarch, 2021.

∙ECOLADES – Poster Making Competition on 16th December, 2020. Topic was “The Elusive Green Consumer”

∙ECOLADES – Essay Writing Competition, on 16th December, 2020.Topic was “Is nature the biggest victim of Industrialisation?

∙ECOLADES – Intercollegiate Quiz Competition on 1st April, 2021.

∙ECOLADES – Intercollegiate Debate Competition on 1st April, 2021. Topic was “Will Technology Reduce Gender Inequality in a Pandemic Period”.

 

∙A National level Online Quiz on Indian Financial Reforms Fostering Economic Development was organised by the Department of Business Economics on 22nd May 2020.

 

∙The Department of Business Economics organised a Webinar on “Impact of Covid-19 on the labour market and the misery of migrant workers”, which was held on 03/07/2020. 

The resource person for the session was Dr. P. Anbalagan, Associate professor of Economics, Presidency College.