Cultural Committee

Cultural committee

To provide a smooth and suitable platform for organizing the cultural events and showcasing the hidden talents Sri Siddhartha Medical College has framed a cultural committee. This will in help in overall development of the students including personality, as goal of education and also provide rich cultural experiences so that the students appreciate our cultural diversity.

Main Objectives:

• To promote cultural activities and bring out the hidden talents of students in the performing arts.
• To identify, recognize, encourage, develop the artistic talents of the students..
• To encourage, guide & prepare the talented students to take part in the various inter-collegiate/University cultural events.
• To organize various intra and inter collegiate cultural events like Fresher’s day, Teachers day, College fest etc in the college.

Cultural activities comprise of:

• The students can take part in various cultural competition/events.
• Like dance, singing, playing musical instruments, Dramas, Skits, Fashion shows, fine arts etc

(NOTE: literary events such as essay writing, poetry writing, creative writing etc will not fall under the purview of cultural activities.) Constitution of Committee:

The proposed Cultural Committee comprises of:

Duties & Responsibilities of Cultural Committee:

• Member Secretary should conduct quarterly meeting & also record the minutes of the meeting. Member Secretary should submit the action taken report to the Chairman about the points discussed in the meeting within 10 days of the meeting.
• To promote and encourage students participation/involvements at various inter collegiate intra/inter college cultural fests/events.
• Member Secretary to prepare and maintain records of all cultural activities.
• Member secretary to submit quarterly cultural activities report highlighting the performance & achievements of the students who took part in various cultural fests.
• Member Secretary to prepare and submit annual budget required for the cultural activities to the Principal/Chairman to incorporate the same in the college annual budget, to obtain necessary approval from the JSS University.
• To evolve regulations & procedure for the students to take part in the various cultural fests /events.
• To select eligible candidates or team towards participation in any inter collegiate events if many students intend to participate. The decision of the committee would be considered to be final.
• The Member Secretary cultural committee will ensure that they will provide proper information to the magazine committee to bring out the college magazine in a befitting manner.

Procedure to organize cultural events:

• To obtain formal permission from the College authorities to arrange program.
• To decide the date, time and agenda of the program
• To prepare the Budget for the cultural event and obtain necessary approval.
• To prepare complete program list and obtain necessary approval.
• To display on the Notice Board/Website information about festivals to be celebrated.
• To invite the Chief Guest and other dignitaries
• To arrange the venue with audio/video system, dais, podium etc.

Procedure to be followed by students to take part in cultural activities.

• The interested students should submit the requisition/ request letter to the member secretary/ joint secretary to take part in the various cultural activities with or without financial assistance 15 days in advance. Only after obtaining permission on producing document, the student should take part in the events.
• Only in exigency cases, the permission will be granted to the student by the Chairperson/Head of the institution with the recommendation of the member secretary to take part in external competition/events.
• Only after obtaining the approval from the member secretary, the concerned student will be given attendance for the period of participation & travel.
• After taking part in the cultural fests/events, the student should submit within 2 days, the relevant original bills with supporting documents of the expenses incurred, along with brief report with related photo, to the member secretary, to enable to verify& submit the duly certified bills to the college authorities for settlement of the bills.
• Each student will be permitted to attend external cultural fests /events once in a year or maximum 3 during the entire course with or without financial assistance. The student who will be attending the external cultural events shall submit an undertaking & ensure that the institutional interest will be protected.