Our student Nithin Shetty (F.Y.B.Com.) was selected for participation in the 47th A.D. Shroff Memorial Elocution Contest and won the First prize in the same.

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Our student Shweta Padwal (T.Y.B.Com.) performing in Sangeet Sammelan and won Shringar Mani Award.

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Heartiest congratulations to Gavrang Ambre our student of F.Y.J.C., an athelete has secured the First position in the 100m running at 57th National School Atheletics Championship held at Ludhiana.

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Our student Miss. Hankare Shruti Dilip has been awarded a National Merit Award of Rs. 60000/- under the "Dr. Ambedkar National Merit Awards scheme" for securing Ist position, among the eligible students (Commerce stream) in the Senior Secondary school (XIIth Class) Examination - 2010 conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education.

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Our student Miss. Hankare Shruti Dilip has been awarded a National Merit Award of Rs. 60000/- under the "Dr. Ambedkar National Merit Awards scheme" for securing Ist position, among the eligible students (Commerce stream) in the Senior Secondary school (XIIth Class) Examination - 2010 conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education.

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Mumbai University Badminton Tteam Championships "GOLD" Medalist team of R.A.Podar College held between 22nd august to 26th august 2011-  

From Left :
1) Shreyas Krishnamurthy - F.Y.B.Com
2) Vishesh Naidu (Captain) - T.Y.B.Com
3) Mihir Kulkarni - S.Y.B.Com
4) Shrishail Mitkari - S.Y.B.Com
5) Pujan Shah - S.Y.B.Com

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We are pleased to inform you that the following students of our college have secured ranks within the first ten in the order of merit at the M.Com and T.Y.B.Com Examinations held in March 2011 conducted by University of Mumbai.  

M.Com	Ms Shriya Bailur	FIRST RANK   640/800 ( 80% )
T.Y.B.Com	Ms Radhika Subramaniam	FIRST RANK  628/700 (89.71%)
	Ms Bhumika Shah	SECOND RANK 625/700 (89.29%)
	Mr Keshav Thakkar	SECOND RANK 625/700 (89.29%)
	Ms Priyanka Mahadevan	THIRD RANK   621/700 (88.71%)
	Ms Venu Gupta	SIXTH RANK    617/700 (88.14%)

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We are happy to announce that “The Shri.M.A. Master Memorial Gold Medal Jointly With The University of Mumbai” for the year 2011,has been awarded to Kum. Bailur Shriya Sharad Shruti for securing the highest number of marks on the aggregate  from amongst the successful candidate at the M.Com. Degree examination held in April, 2011.
We are happy to announce yet another  award, “The  Sydenham College  Of Commerce & Economics Golden Jubilee Trust Gold Medal Jointly With the University Of Mumbai” for the year 2011, has been awarded to him for securing the highest number of marks on the aggregate from amongst the successful candidates at the M.com. Degree examination held in April, 2011.  

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Ebullient Rhythmic Gymnast Akshata Shetye, a 20-year-old collegian from Poddar College, is India's queen in the field of Rhythmic Gymnastics.She was crowned by the Best Sportsman of the State Award ie, Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Award by Maharashtra Govt.With her countless efforts &hardworking for more than a decade she reached on a top of achievements. Along with her sportive body & attitude her pation & involvement in the game made her ideal.

Recently with her celebrity status she lead the State team in National Games, Ranchi & bring glory to Maharashtra by 4 gold & 1 bronze medal. Within a months' time she was honored twice by the honorary chief minister of the State in person; once for getting Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Award & second time with cash reward of Rs.21.5 lakhs for the success at National Games, Ranchi. With her successful career as a player Akshata is now ready to a challenge of coaching & officiating in the field of Rhythmic Gymnastics.


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Swar Vira of SYJC and Jay Pradhan of FYJC represented Podar College in Inter-Collegiate Team Chess Tournament held by Junior College Sports Association of Mumbai. Around 50 Colleges of Mumbai participated in the event. With immense hard work and college support Podar college defended its 'Title' and became the 'CHAMPION' for the Third year in a row.


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Umang 2011.

R.A.Podar college of commerce and economics, were awarded the 1st runners up' trophy of Umang! UMANG the inter-college festival hosted by Narsee Moonjee College (N.M) which was organized from 14th August to 17th August wherein there were events ranging from performing arts ,literary arts, management, informal to crossovers.

Chaitanya Chande as the CL; Kruti Shah, Kajal Rathod and Jayesh Jain as the ACLs, spearheaded the event on behalf of the college.

120 students were selected for participation through various stages of auditions.The four days of the festival kept the excitement, the competitive streak and the adrenaline rush going among the participants and, made it possible to win all the major events. Our participants gave their best performance which gave them an edge over other colleges! It felt good to project the excellence of our college in front of 110 other participating colleges. Kudos to all the participants and winners.

Achievers of Umang 2011 were:

Sr. No.	Event	Participant’s name	Position
1.	Mr. Umang	Nihal Shetty	1st
2.	Ms. Umang	Sneha Shenoy	2nd
3.	War of VJs	Sudhir Bhalekar	2nd
4.	Actor Hunt	Sudhir Bhalekar	2nd
5.	Fifa 2010	Kartik Pai	2nd
6.	Handball	Kartik Pai, Kunal Shah,Sangeet Mukherjee,	2nd
7.	Solo Classical Instrument	Avadoot Phadke	1st
8.	Just for Gags	Dipesh Wagh,Akshay kakade,Swapnil subhedar, viren,chandresh	2nd
9.	Management Maestro	Rohan Dedhia	3rd
10.	Word Games	Pranav Advani, Nikhil Thakker	2nd
11.	Commodity and currency Trading	Anuj Daftery, Shantanu Patil	2nd
12.	Scarecrow Designing	Sarang Patil, Prajakta	3rd
13.	Western Solo Singing	Nihal shetty	3rd

Aavahan






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Hearty Congratulations!!!

Prof. CA Pradeep Dattatray Kamthekar, has won a GOLD MEDAL in AVISHKAR RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION in Ph.D. category at UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI LEVEL, for second time consecutively The Student contingent of Five members have also won a Gold Medal at Zonal level Mumbai District in Avishkar RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION at the University Graduate level and Silver Medal at Mumbai University

The STATE LEVEL COMPETITION of the same among different Universities in the STATE OF MAHARASHTRA is scheduled at NASHIK between 21st - 23rd January, 2011. We Wish the team all the best.

Prof. CA Pradeep D. Kamthekar, felicitated by Hon. Vice Chancellor, MUHS (Nashik), Dr. Arun Jamkar on winning the the 'Gold Medal' at the 'Maharashtra State Level' “Aavishkar” competition held at Nashik (Maharashtra University of Health Sciences), between 21st to 23rd January, 2011. The topic of his research was “Critical Analysis of Earnings on operation of Savings Bank Account v/s Overdraft against Fixed Deposit Account".

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Nithin shetty of our college who participated in the intra collegiate rounds of marrs international spelling bee, got qualified for the inter collegiate level, the district level & then the state level. He went on to win the national level of the marrs international spelling bee when he came first at the national level this october. He then not only made our college and our state but also our nation proud by winning the internationals. He came first at the international level of the marrs international spelling bee which was held in Kolkata. Now he is qualified for the international orals to be held either in Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok or Dubai, the coming year.


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Shri Shanshikant J. Khandekar

1)"Best Script Writer"-Aji - One Act Play for children in 4 languages

2) Second Rank - 'Aji' One Act Play, Vasai Kala Krida Mahotsav

Script Writing & Direction - Second Rank
Background Music - First Rank

Organised By
--Sahitya Sangh Mandir, Mumbai

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The ST. XAVIERS NATIONAL ECONOMICS FESTIVAL 2010 was held from 26th to 28th November 2010 at St. Xavier's College, CST. Our Colllege participated in "MONOPOLIZE-THIS"- THE QUIZ on Economics & Finance. We stood First in Eliminations( comprising of 19 teams) and stood over all first in the Finals(out of 6 teams that qualified).
The participants were

• KESHAV THAKKAR     T.Y.BCOM   DIV-E
• ASHUTOSH VATSA     S.Y.BCOM   DIV-E

who represented R.A. Podar College as one team.

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