To conduct various departmental activities student committee was constituted. Committee represents students of political science from undergraduate and post graduate courses.
Vision
Association of Political Science Students (APSS) is an open forum in which students and fellow members of the academic community can share their opinions and ideas, while promoting a thoughtful and constructive discourse. Apart from representing the interests of students in the Political Science department, APSS actively engaged in hosting a variety of events that are geared at enhancing the learning experience for students in political science at the D.A.V. College Bathinda. Events include discussions, guest lecturers, academic seminars where renowned scholars, academicians and social activists are invited.
Association Members :-
Session 2024-2025
| POST | NAME | ROLL NO. | CLASS |
| PRESIDENT | Gurjant Singh | 7524 | M.A 1st |
| VICE PRESIDENT | Rimpy Kaur | 7610 | M.A.2nd |
| SECRETARY | Harleen Kaur | 5065 | B.A.3rd |
| VICE SECRETARY | Suhana | 4824 | B.A.2nd |
| FINANCE SECRETARY | Harpreet Singh | 4889 | B.A 2nd |
Session 2023-2024
| Post | Name | Class | Rollno |
| President | Rimpy Kaur | M.A.-I | 6812 |
| Vice- President | Harleen Kaur | B.A.-II | 4410 |
| Secretary | Suhana | B.A.-I | 3245 |
| Joint Secretary | Harpreet Singh | B.A.-I | 3210 |
| Finance Secretary | Rajandeep Kaur | M.A.-I | 6810 |
Session 2022-2023
| Post | Name | Class | Rollno |
| President | Gurjeet Singh | M.A.-I | 6406 |
| Vice-President | Kuljeet Kaur | M.A.-I | 6410 |
| Secretary | Harshit Goyal | M.A.-I | 6411 |
| Joint Secretary | Rajdeep Singh | M.A.-I | 6404 |
| Finance Secretary | Tridev | M.A.-I | 6407 |
Session 2021-2022
| Post | Name | Class | Rollno |
| President | Manpreet Kaur | M.A.-II | 6704 |
| Vice-President | Ishika Sharma | M.A.-II | 6706 |
| Secretary | Gurjeet Singh | M.A.-II | 6701 |
| Joint Secretary | Tridev | M.A.-II | 6707 |
| Finance Secretary | Hrishit | M.A.-II | 6711 |
Session 2020-2021
| Post | Name | Class | Rollno |
| President | Gurpinder Singh | M.A.-II | 6710 |
| Vice-President | Anjali | B.A.-III | 4503 |
| Secretary | Gaurav | B.A.-II | 4014 |
| Joint Secretary | Gurpyar Singh | B.A.-I | 3582 |
| Finance Secretary | Jyoti | M.A.-I | 6612 |
Session 2019-2020
| Post | Name | Class | Rollno |
| President | Jaswinder Singh | M.A.-I | 6704 |
| Vice President | Paramjeet kaur | M.A.-I | 6712 |
| Secretary | Anjali | B.A.-III | 4503 |
| Joint Secretary | Kamaljeet Kaur | M.A.-I | 6701 |
| Finance secretary | Harjot Singh | M.A.-I | 6720 |
Academic Activities :
Electoral literacy club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office,Bathinda organized Voter Awareness Programme on 4 March 2025.
Electoral literacy club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office,Bathinda organized Voter Awareness Programme. The Awareness Programme included new voter registration, speech and Poster making competition. Principal Dr Rajeev Sharma, Registrar Prof Satish Grover and SVEEP incharge Prof. Pawanpreet Singh welcomed the District Election office representatives Sh Gurbaksh Lal and Sh. Summit.
Prof.Pawanpreet Singh , SVEEP Nodal Officer introduced the theme and relevance of the awareness programme in his inaugural address.
Sh. Gurbaksh Lal informed the audience about the role of the SVEEP and how such awareness activities are some steps to mobilize voters and ensure maximum participation in elections.
Students were actively involved in speech and poster making competition by touching many themes of importance of vote in democracy. In speech competion First Postion was held by Suhana of BA 3, Second by Rampy Kaur of MA and poster making First postion was held by Rajandeep Kaurof MA and second by Suhana of BA 3
Certificates were given to students by Principal Dr Rajeev Kumar Shrama, Dr. Anupam Garg (DM) Gastro and Dr Kajal
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma, appealed the students to participate actively in the electoral process. He appreciated the efforts of District election office Bathinda for mobilizing and encouraging students for maximum electoral participation
National Voters Day Celebrated at DAV College Bathinda on 25 Januarary 2025
DAV College Bathinda under SVEEP initiative celebrated National Voters Day in the college by observing oath taking ceremony. The oath was administered by Prof. Pawanpreet Singh, SVEEP initiative in-charge.
The Principal of the College Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma, the staff members and the students took the oath to uphold the democratic traditions of the country and cast vote without any fear or prejudice.
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma appreciated this initiative of Election Commission of India for making the voters aware of importance of their voting rights and encouraged the new eligible Voters to get registered and become part of the electoral process of India. Prof. Pawanpreet Singh, SVEEP initiative in-charge arranged for the ceremony. Mr. Kanwarjeet Singh, BLO and his team members also graced the occasion
DAV College Bathinda celebrates National Constitution Day on 27 November 2024
The events main purpose is to generate constitutional values among the citizens. Prof Pawanpreet Singh , Head, Department of Political Science stated the importance of celebrating Constitution Day. Harleen Kaur of BA 3 student inform the audience regarding constitutional values of liberty, equality, justice and fraternity and how we practice these values in our daily life. It promotes national unity among the citizens. The event was concluded with oath taking ceremony administered by Harleen Kaur of BA 3 Student. Dr Satish Grover, Prof Gursewak Singh, Prof Varinder Singh, Prof Karamjeet Kaur, Prof Gurwinder Kaur, Prof Manjeet Kaur grace the occasion.
Electoral literacy club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office,Bathinda organized Voter Awareness Programme on 3 May 2024
Electoral literacy club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office,Bathinda organized Voter Awareness Programme. The Awareness Programme included Voter awareness songs, Speeches, One act play and Gidha.The participants from the various educational institutions of the vicinity naming:DAV College Bathinda, DAV School Bathinda ,Adarsh Senior Secondary School Bathinda and Arya Girls School spread the message of casting vote judiciously through various art forms.
The Principal of the College Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma honoured the eminent guests of the awareness programme ; SDM Smt. Inayat,DDF Sh.Sujeet Kishan, Principal of DAV School Dr. Anuradha Bhatia, ELC Incharge Adarsh Senior Secondary School Smt.Navneet, SVEEP Nodal officer Urban Bathinda Smt.Meena Bharti and her team.
Prof.Pawanpreet Singh , SVEEP Nodal Officer introduced the theme and relevance of the awareness programme in his inaugural address. Stage was conducted by Sh. Gurbaksh Lal, Team Member SVEEP ,Urban Bathinda.
Smt. Meena Bharti SVEEP Nodal officer Urban Bathinda informed the audience about the role of the SVEEP and how such awareness activities are some steps to mobilize voters and ensure maximum participation in elections.
SDM Smt. Inayat was thankful to Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma for arranging the awareness programme.Smt.Inayat encouraged the first time voters to participate wisely.She also appreciated the students for their artistic expressions and enthusiasm during their participation in the voter awareness event.
Khushman Kaur and Farhana Khatun of Arya School Bathinda, Daljeet Singh Avneet Kaur and Gidha team of Govt.Adarsh Senior Secondary school,One Act Play team of DAV School Bathinda,Sukhpreet and Harleem Kaur of DAV College Bathinda were encouraged by Smt.Inayat during the Certificate Distribution Ceremony.
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma, appealed the students to participate actively in the electoral process.He said the Students must be aware of the candidates and their manifestos.Also the Students need to ask questions to their represtantives regarding their ideology, their anticipated policies ,programs and map for development.The programme concluded with oath taking ceremony for vote.
Oath Taking Ceremony organised at DAV College Bathinda on 30 April 2024
DAV College Bathinda under SVEEP conducted National oath taking ceremony in the college.The oath was administered by Deepak Kumar of MA I.
The Principal of the College Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma and the staff members took the oath to uphold the democratic traditions of the country, and cast vote without any fear or prejudice.
Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma appreciated this initiative of Election commission of India for making the voters aware of importance of their voting rights and encouraged the new eligible Voters to get registered and become part of the electoral process of India.He appealed the eligible voters to cast votes without any sort of prejudices.Prof. Pawanpreet Singh, SVEEP initiative in-charge arranged for the ceremony.
Electoral Literacy Club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office organized Ballot Bistro on 24 April 2024
Electoral Literacy Club of DAV College Bathinda and District Election office organized Ballot Bistro, an initiative for voter awareness and maximum participation of young voters in upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Sh Suresh Gaur Assistant Nodal officer SVEEP, Bathinda host the program and talked about importance of youth in electoral participation. Topics of discussion consist of urban voter apathy, first time voters, issues concerning the voters etc.Sh. Suresh Gaur encouraged students for maximum participation in upcoming elections.Also, Students must ask questions to their representatitives regarding policies and programmes for their welfare. Sh. Gaur told the audience that boycott of elections is not a solution in democratic system.
Students asked various questions regarding the electoral process and actively participated in the discussion.
Prof.Pawanpreet Singh informed students regarding the importance of debate and discussion for voter awareness.He further added ,”If youth actively participates in the electoral process, their issues will be definitely become priorities in the elections.”
The Principal of the College Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma said,”Students must be aware of their candidates and they need to participate attentively in electoral process. He also thanked Sh. Suresh Gaur for organizing a healthy debate to increase the legitimacy of the electoral process.
DAV College Bathinda organises Voter Awareness Camp on 13 March 2024
Under SVEEP (Systematic Voter Education and Electoral Participation) initiative , Electoral Literacy Club of DAV College Bathinda organized Voter Awareness Camp. Various activities were included in this camp like Online Vote Making, Operationalization of EVM. Students adelivered influencing Speeches to promote the Electoral system of India and voter awareness lectures by the eminent guests were organised.
The Principal of the College Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma formally welcomed the SVEEP team member Smt. Meena Bharti Nodal officer Bathinda (Urban),Sh. Suresh Gaur Assistant Nodal Officer Bathinda, Sh. Gurbaksh Lal, Sh. Johnny Singla and other SVEEP members.Smt Meena Bharti detailed about the purpose of SVEEP and informed the students about various initiatives of Election Commission to mobilize young voter to actively particaipate in the election process. Sh.Gurbaksh Lal talked about the importance of Elections in democracy and informed students regarding the online vote making procedure. Sh. Jhonny Singla conducted an informative quiz;raising questions regarding political system of India and rewarded the winners.Sh. Suresh Gaur Assistant Nodal Officer Bathinda responded to various questions raised by new voters regarding EVM and a mock poll session was conducted . First time voters actively participate in this process.
Students actively participate in this awareness camp.Harleen Kaur , Deepak Kumar, Satinder Kaur, Lovejeet Singh, Rimpy Kaur delivered speeches about the electrol process of India.Many Sudents were also registed as new voters through mobile app.
Dr.Rajeev Kumar encouraged first time voters to activalely participate in upcoming Lok sabha elections and stressed on the idea that Elections are the most important mechanism to claim for the rights of the citizens.
Prof.Pawanpreet Singh, Head Department of Political Science and Nodal officer SVEEP of DAV College discussed about the level of trust about election process amongst the citizens of India. He recounted various periodic initiatives taken by Election Commssion of India since indepencedece such as Transparency about the Candidates and the sources of political funding, Electronic Voting Machines and how these initiatives aided in establishing faith in the system.He thanked the guests of the camp and the participants.Smt. Meena Bharti Nodal officer Bathinda Staff members of Department of Political Science Prof Karamjeet Kaur, Prof. Gurwinder Kaur, Prof Rupinder Singh also present.
Operationalisation of EVM / VVPAT conducted at DAV College Bathinda on 4 march 2024
Under SVEEP initiative operationalisation of EVM/VVPAT was conducted at DAV College Bathinda.The team from Election Office detailed the various aspects of EVM/ VVPAT .The students and the faculty members witnessed and participated in the demonstration of the working of EVM/VVPAT.Mock Polling was held and the results were shown to the participants.New voters raised various technical queries.
The Principal of the College Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sharma appreciated the efforts of the Election Commission of India and conveyed that such initiatives can bring awareness and establish faith regarding the Electoral Process,amongst the citizens of the country.Also, he encouraged the new voters to participate with heart and zeal in the upcoming elections.He applauded Prof.Pawanpreet Singh,Nodal Officer,SWEEP for taking required initiatives in arranging the Electoral demonstration.
National Voters Day Celebrated at DAV College Bathinda on 25 January 2024
DAV College Bathinda under SVEEP initiative celebrated National Voters Day in the college by observing oath taking ceremony. The oath was administered by Jaspreet Kaur of BA I.
The Principal of the College Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma and the staff members took the oath to uphold the democratic traditions of the country, and cast vote without any fear or prejudice.
Dr.Rajeev Kumar Sharma appreciated this initiative of Election Commission of India for making the voters aware of importance of their voting rights and encouraged the new eligible Voters to get registered and become part of the electoral process of India.Prof. Pawanpreet Singh, SVEEP initiative in-charge arranged for the ceremony.
National Voters Day Celebrated at DAV College Bathinda 25 January 2023
DAV College Bathinda under SVEEP initiative celebrated National Voters Day in the college by observing oath taking ceremony.
The Officiating Principal Prof. Sandeep Bhatia and the staff members took the oath to uphold the democratic traditions of the country, and cast vote without any fear or prejudice. Prof. Sandeep Bhatia appreciated this initiative of Election Commission of India for making the voters aware of importance of their voting rights.
Prof. Pawanpreet Singh, SVEEP initiative in-charge administered the oath to the members present.
- The Student Association of Post Graduate Department of Political Science of DAV College Bathinda organized a quiz competition on “Indian Constitution” on Nov. 14, 2019 to commemorate the Constitution Day celebrated on 26 November every year.
- Under SVEEP initiative, training cum awareness programme on ethical voting and EVM/ VVPAT held on march 08, 2019
- International Women’s Day celebrated on March 08, 2019
- National Voter Day celebrated on Jan 25, 2019.
- Dr Ronki Ram, Professor, Deptt. Of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh delivered Keynote Address on National Seminar on “Institutions of Democracy: Challenges and Prospects in Present Scenario” Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi on October 30, 2018.
- Dr K.K Rattu, Former Director Doordarshan, Chandigarh and Dehradun delivered lecture on “Role of Media in Exposing Scams in India” on 15th March 2014 in ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar 15 March, 2014.
- Dr Jupka Madhavi, Senior consultant, Ministry of Women and Child Development delivered lecture on “Human Rights” in National debate on “Human Rights” in collaboration with International Human Rights observatory, 7-8 Feb 2014.
- Discussion on “Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Democratic ideals” on 14 November, 2013.
- Dr. Jamshid Ali Khan, Professor, Department of Political Science (correspondence) and Dean of Colleges, Punjabi University, Patiala delivered lecture on “Decline of Indian Political System” , Dec., 2011.
- Dr. Inderjit Singh Sethi, Former Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Punjabi University Patiala delivered lecture on “Judicial Activism” in National Seminar, 22nd Feb., 2008.
Academic Tours/ Trips :
- PG Dept. of Political Science organized an educational trip to Panchkula from 23rd March, 2019 to 25th March, 2019. 31 students benefited from this educational trip.
Farewell Parties :
- The Department organized a Farewell party for the Students of MA-II
- The Department organized a Farewell party for the Students of MA-II
- The Department organized a Farewell party for the Students of MA-II
