5.3.2 – Institution facilitates students’ representation and engagement in various administrative, co-curricular and extracurricular activities following duly established processes and norms.

Activities of Students Union

We believe that the overall development and growth of a student happens outside the classroom as well. For this the college promotes a wide variety of activities, which will help in the improvement of their cultural, artistic, athletic and social development. The College Students Union is an elected body of  the students of the College for the promotion of the practice of democracy and leadership qualities among the students of the College. The union  functions under the guidance of a Staff Adviser appointed by the Principal. The objectives of the Student’s Union are to promote and coordinate social and cultural activities of students, and to create in them an awareness of civil duties and rights.
The College Union Council consists of the following members:

1. The President of the union - College Principal

2. The staff Advisor

3. The Chairperson

4. The vice-Chairperson

5. The General Secretary

6. The Joint Secretary

7. Two Councillors to the Calicut University Union of the College Union

8. Fine Arts Secretary

9. Chief Student Editor of the College magazine

10. General Captain (Sports & Games)

11. The Secretary of each of the various (main subject-wise) Subject Association of the college.

12. One representative each of I D.C., II D.C. and III D.C elected by the students of the respective classes and one representative elected by all the post
graduate students.
Out of these the Principal and staff advisor cannot vote. Each year the College Student’s Union members are elected according to the parliamentary mode. At the first level two student representatives are elected from each class. The students of the department elect 2 class representatives from the nominated list of students. 2 representatives from each class then attend a parliamentary mode of election. Nominees for the various posts can talk about themselves, the principles that they stand for, or the activities that they wish to do if elected in the “Meet the candidate” program held a few days before the actual election. The College Union elections are conducted only by orders of the University of Calicut. The dates for these are given only after the first year students are admitted into the college so that they can also participate in the election process. As the University of Calicut follows the Centralised Admission Process under the Single window system, the first year students arrive a lot later than the start of the academic year on 1 st June. For this reason the activities of the Students Union are organised by the students of the College Union of the previous academic year. After the union elections, the New College Union of that academic year takes over.
During the academic year 2020 – 21 because of the Covid pandemic, classes were being conducted online and the University of Calicut did not give the colleges affiliated to it any instructions regarding the conduct of the Student’s Union elections. However it was found that the teachers and management of the college were unable to connect with all the students for any activity of the college. For this purpose the Principal asked the teacher in charge to form a group for 1 leader from each class so instructions and feedback from the students could be collected through them instead of asking each student individually.

The Students Union are actively involved in several administrative bodies of the college. They are present for the meetings whose agendas are related to students and their grievances. Students are members of the following cells.