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ANNUAL REPORT

12^th September 2024 to 30 April 2025

CULTURAL EDUCATION CENTRE (CEC)

KENNEDY COMPLEX, AMU

The Cultural Education Centre (CEC) started its activities for the academic session 2024-2025 from 12^th of September 2024 with event “Campus Wide” which was its annual membership drive. Around 2000 students applied for membership of 11 clubs that run under the CEC. In all around 22 events were organized in various clubs of CEC.

(1) Club for Short Evening Courses

(2) Debating & Literary Club

(3) Drama Club

(4) Eco Club

(5) Film Club

(6) Fine art Club

(7) Folk & Traditional Music section

(8) Fusion Music Club

(9) Hobbies Workshop

(10) Hindustani Music Club

(11) Western Music Club

Major Achievements of Students Members of the CEC:

Mr. Mohd Shams Uddoha Khan, Secretary, University Debating and Literary Club was awarded Sushma Swaraj Best Interjector Award with a cash prize of Rs. 5,000/- at National Youth Parliament, PGDAV College, University of Delhi.
Mr. Mohd Shams Uddoha Khan, Secretary, University Debating and Literary Club was declared the Second Runner-up at Graduate Scholars’ Talk Series (GSTS) (among 200 speakers) organised by Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi.
Ms. Rufaa Fatima received Best Speaker (Urdu) at Janak Kapoor Memorial Debate organised by Satyawati College, University of Delhi.
Ms. Zainab Faiza Islam and Ms Maryam Khan won the Paper Presentation Competition organised by English Literary Society, Miranda House, University of Delhi.
Ms. Amna Asim won the Best Paper Prize at Maazinama, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi and also got published in Maazinama Vol. 4, the college magazine.
Ms. Madiha Naaz Durrani bagged the First Position in poetry writing competition Word Weave held during Tarang’25 the annual event of Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

One of the major events of the CEC was the University Literature Festival 2025 organised from 23^rd to 25^th February 2025. The event had guests both from India and abroad. Prof. Sam North (United Kingdom), Dr. Alexander Phillips (Germany) and Christopher Flakus (Virtually from United States) participated. The AMULF-25 was graced by Prof. Emeritus Irfan Habib as the Inaugural Speaker. Other dignitaries included Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi (Political Thinker), Mr. Tariq Hasan (Veteran Journalist), Prof. Raashid Nehal (Dept of English, AMU), Dr. Areeba Shabbir (Fulbright Fellow), Dr Fauzia Faridi (Womens College, AMU) Achingliu Kamei (Award-winning Poet from Delhi), Arnab Jan Deka (Assamese Poet), Siddhartha Chakraborti (Dept of English, AMU), Geetanjali Singh Chanda (Ashoka University), Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar (Kashmiri Writer), Kamalanand Jha (Dept of Hindi, AMU), Mridula Garg (Sahitya Akademi Winner), Nasera Sharma (Sahitya Akademi winner), Shagufta Niyaz (Womens College, AMU), Nitoo Das (award winning poet from Delhi), Prof Sami Rafiq (Dept of English, AMU), Anuradha Marwah (Novelist), Dr Asma Parveen (Dept of Psychology, AMU) Yogesh Yadav (Dept of History, AMU), Imrana Khatoon (Womens College, AMU), Azra Naqvi (Urdu Poet), Dr Ahmad Mujtaba (Dept of Geography), Syed Zaighem Murtuza (Journalist), Lubna Irfan (Dept of History, AMU).

The details of all the events organised by the CEC are appended in tabular form:

Detail of all programmes CEC, AMU

S.NO.	Name of the Club	Programme Name	Programme Date
1	University Debating & Literary Club	Participation Representing Aligarh Muslim University, University Debating & Literary Club 15^th National Parliamentary Debate Competition Chanakya National Law University at Patna (Bihar)	12^th to 15^th September 24
2	University Debating & Literary Club	Round Table Symposium on Climate Change	28^th December 2024
3	University Eco Club	Eco Fox Run	21^st January 2025
4	Club For Short Evening Courses	Communicaraft Series (3days)	22^nd to 24^th Jan 2025
5	Club For Short Evening Courses	Workshop on Right to Information – Truth at your fingertips	08 February 2025
6	Club For Short Evening Courses	Excel Mastery 2.0 Basic Advance Integrated with Artificial Intelligence (5days)	24^th to 28^Th February 2025
7	University Film Club	A Workshop on Mastering the Art of Filmmaking and movie screening	28^th February 2025
8	University Western Music Club	Acoustica-2025 An Acoustic Session	13^th February 2025
9	University Hindustani Music Club	Surood-E-Hind Inaugural Concert of the club	11^th February 2025
10	University Fine Arts Club	Two-day Workshop on the technique of Resin Art	13^th to 14^th February 2025
11	University Fine Arts Club	Two-day Workshop Art Utopia- 2025	27^th to 28^th February 2025
12	University Fine Arts Club	Visited Indian Art Fair at NSIC Ground. New Delhi	08^th February 2025
13	University Debating & Literary Club	AMU Literature Festival- 2025	23^rd, 24^th & 25^th February 2025
14	University Hobbies Workshop	Legacy of Sacrifice A martyr commemoration event a movie screening of “SHERSHAH”	30^th January 2025
15	Fusion Music Club	Prelude 2025 opening Concert	27^th February 2025
16	University Debating & Literary Club	Young Scholars Symposium	21^st April 2025
17	University Debating & Literary Club	Women’s Day Debate Competition	22^nd March 2025
18	University Debating & Literary Club	In-house Discussion on Munshi Premchand	07^th April 2025
19	University Debating & Literary Club	Republic Day Debate Competition	28^th January 2025
20	University Eco Club	Eco Fiesta an Environmental Awareness Festival	24^th April to 25^th,2025
21	University Hindustani Music Club	Sur-2k25	24^th April to 26^th,2025
22	University Film Club	Flimsaaz 2025	29^th to 30^th 2025