Co-curricular Activities

A wide range of extra-curricular activities and support services enrich the life in the campus. They promote the all-round development of the students. The college encourages students’ participation in such activities and talent development pursuits available to them. There are many clubs and forums functioning in the campus serving almost every possible student interest.

Athmabodha – TSM Book Club
Athmabodha, the book review club of TSM is set up with a main objective of improving the reading habits of TSM students. The students as well as the faculty can review a book which will have more relevance to the academics, self development and considered to be an important literary work. Books of eminent authors are reviewed in the session which would be followed by discussions by the participants. The book review session is conducted every Monday of the week.

Candhai – TSM Marketing Club
The mission of - The Marketing Club of TSM is to make the club the most valuable resource for aspiring marketers at TSM through coordination of its members, officers, and third-party contacts (e.g., faculty, speakers, other TSM clubs, and the marketing clubs of other MBA schools in Tamilnadu & elsewhere).

H.E.D.G.E- The Finance Club
Investment Avenues at Mutual Funds and Insurance Products was conducted by our Prof. M. Subramanian. The resource persons were Mr. S. Senthil Kumar, Regional Training Manager, HDFC Life Insurance, Madurai. Mr. S. Gokulnath, Cluster Head, HDFC AMC for the second MBA students.

The objective of this club is to keep track of the latest developments in capital markets and financial management discipline. The Finance Club of TSM was named as HEDGE. . Hedge also has its newsletter named “Hermes”, which carries discussions on hot financial issues.

HEDGE successfully conducted Finance Parliament on the Topic Direct Taxes Code on 16/09/2010. The parliament was moderated by two eminent auditors Mr. Rajarajeswaran, Mr.NallaKrishnan. The parliament witnessed intense arguments on topics like personal tax slabs, levy of tax on SEZ's, Wealth Tax, MAT tax on the companies and the deductions in sec 80cn^ach

Mercury’s Court – the Economics & Entrepreneurship Forum
The activities under Economic Times Club are also on line with the Business Line Club. The ET club facilitates exchange of business news and supplement reading on business information by students. The Economics Forum is an intellectual platform for students and faculties to exchange their views on economic issues of relevance. It is a forum to discuss real time economic issues and their implications at the micro and macro level. Social implications of the current economic development would be debated.

Sans Popcorn – TSM Movie Club
It motivates the students to develop the right critical attitude towards the cine medium. The objective is to provide thought provoking entertainment. Also it inculcates the human values through electronic media. Every week Friday evening the club screens a movie with English subtitles. Award winners, historical films, documentaries of social importance and sci-fi films are given preference.

The Enablers – TSM Communication Club
We define us as persons, who choose the right means, time, mode and rare ventures to us and our goals by knowledge, firmness and manlines. This is to develop us in all spears to become a complete EXECUTIVE. The activities of this club includes Group Discussion, Presentation, Mock Stress interview, Aptitute test, Quiz, Extempore, Debate, Personality development classes and soon.

Zero Gravity – TSM Fine Arts Club
Zero Gravity is a Fine Arts Club. Students who are interested in cultural activities and other fine arts are identified and encouraged to be the members of this club. Students participate in the intercollegiate competitions such as classical vocal, classical dance, instrumental music, mono acting, mime shows etc.

CONFERENCES
TSM organized an International Conference on “Information and Communication Technology (ICICT-2010) on 16 - 17 December 2010.

A National Conference “ARETE” in the field of Human Resource was organized at TSM on 22nd October 2010.The main objective of the conference was to explore emerging issues and to optimise the Human Resource function by looking beyond the barriers.

TSM organized a National Conference on, “Recent Trends in Database Systems, RDBMS, OODBMS Technologies” on Friday, September 03, 2010. Prof. Jayant R. Haritsa, Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) and Supercomputing Education and Research Centre (SERC), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore was the chief guest of the conference.

TSM organized International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT-2010) on December 16-17, 2010. Dr. Asoke K Talukder, Director, Geschickten Solutions, Bangalore was the chief guest of the conference. It attracted 210 entries from all over the world which were reviewed by the experts and 66 papers were presented in the conference.

ANTARPRERANA 2011: The Second Annual Convention on Entrepreneurship was held on February 18, 2011 on the TSM campus, Madurai. Hundreds of under graduate students thronged the campus. Well known business personalities like Mr. R. G. Chandramogan, Director, Hatsun Agro Private Ltd, Chennai; Mrs. Parvathy Palaniappan, Managing Director, Chona Financial Services Limited, Chennai; Mr. Kathir A Kamanathan , Founder and CEO, Chella Software Private Limited, Madurai shared their experiences with the students.






ANTARPRERANA 2010 : The First Annual Convention on Entrepreneurship was held on February 5, 2010. The Convention on Entrepreneurship is a program designed to motivate and facilitate the budding entrepreneurs to start a business. In the present scenario of recession and uncertainty, the need for entrepreneurs has been increased. This program has been arranged to cater the current market scenario. More than 1000 final year under graduate students of Arts, Science, or Engineering streams aspiring to become entrepreneurs participated in the convention. Well-known business personalities Mr.V.R.Muthu, Director, V.V.V.& Sons’ Edible Oils Ltd., Mr.K.S.Bharath, Managing Director, Aparajitha Corporate Services Ltd., Mr. Shankar Swamy, Managing Director, Harmony Musical Instruments Ltd., have consented to share their experiences.

WORKSHOPS
TSM community was privileged to host the Strategic Marketing Workshop conducted by IIMC Alumni Association, Chennai Chapter on 4 December 2010 on the TSM Campus. The Workshop faculty consisted of Messrs. Ravi Santhanam, K. Mahalingam, Dr. P. V. R. Murthy, R. D. Thulasiraj and Mohan Eddy, all illustrious alumni of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) and who together represented nearly 120 man-years of top management and/or consulting experience.

The Workshop Faculty
The workshop was conducted in the format of a case competition in which 8 TSM teams short listed earlier by TSM faculty participated.
IIMC Alumni Chennai Chapter has been conducting this Workshop at IIM Calcutta since 2003, and lately in other selected institutions. The unique features of the workshop include:

• The cases are real, live happenings from the field - they described events that actually took place, in the sequence that they did, and with the repercussions that actually accompanied every action
• The cases were presented by anchors who were actually the architects of the sequential developments that were described in each case. For example, a case describing the genesis and setting up of a chain of up market coffee parlors was presented by the COO who was actually responsible for the project.
• Each of these cases was based on an Indian company operating in the Indian market under typical Indian conditions. As a result students could expect to face very similar situations when they graduated and entered the world of real business.

Mr. Manikam Ramaswami (Chairman, TSM Board of Governors) who was present throughout the workshop presented certificates to the members of the winning teams. TSM faculty and students who were present in large numbers were greatly appreciative of the passion and commitment of the IIMC alumni and benefited greatly from the insights. The workshop faculty was effusive about the quality of the student presentations and the facilities at TSM.

TSM organized two days workshop on 23rd and 24th of September, 2010 on “Web Designing and Multimedia”. The purpose of the workshop was to provide hands-on practice of “Photoshop” software to develop image based applications. This will enable the participants to take up projects related to 3-D animations and web designing. The emphasis was given on “3D Anaglaph image”, the concept used in movies in the recent times and MCA department of TSM was the first to introduce this kind of concept in the workshop. Prof. V. Subburaj and Prof. S. Seethalakshmi, the resource persons of the workshop trained 230 students from various disciplines in and around Madurai district.

TSM organized a workshop on Friday, August 20, 2010 on “WAMP”. Mr. V. Subburaj and Ms. S. Seethalakshmi, Professors of MCA Department of TSM organized this workshop on “WAMP” (Windows Apache Mysql PHP). Besides theoretical sessions, practical exposure to the participants was also provided at TSM computer laboratory. Workshop attracted around 160 students from various colleges from vicinity of Madurai. The purpose of the workshop was to provide hands-on practice of PHP language to develop web applications. This will enable the participants to take up projects related to web designing on their own and will be definitely useful for their course.

INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET-‘YUKTI’
Yukti (meaning strategy) is an annual national level Management and IT meet conducted by the students of TSM every year. The primary aim of Yukti is to foster a good relationship between the students of various institutions, acquire & share knowledge among them. Yukti attempts to bring together the cream contemporary talent for a test of the best. This annual event also aims at the following:

• Learn the essence of event management
• Acquire & share knowledge
• Benchmark our college with others
• Promote TSM
• Enhance placement opportunities

Eminent personalities will be invited for inauguration and validation. We invite corporate managers, as judges for the various events. The first of its kind, YUKTI incorporates a spectrum of events in Management and IT in the same forum. It also acts as a testing ground to the students. YUKTI provides the aspiring managers and IT professionals an opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice.

SPORTS
Inferno is an inter-collegiate cricket tournament organized by Thiagarajar School of Management.

Inferno'11 was organized on 5th to 7th March, 2011, aimed at bringing together the students of the departments of MBA and MCA. It also aimed at discovering the best of sporting talents and enables to build team spirit among them.




CSR - GENESIS

GENESIS, 2011
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow. T. Wilson

Genesis 2011 was held on August 20, 2011.

This day is made special for the remembrance of TSM Alumni, Mr. Siva Rama Subramanian of 2004 - 2005 batch who passed away from us on August 14th few years ago.

It is our tradition that on this day to do some noble activities in remembrance of him.

Contribution received from all members of TSM community is spent for this occasion.

• Tree Plantation
  • 14 tree samplings were planted near TSM Annapoorna – Faculty mess.

Faculty members of TSM, I Year MBA Students(2011-2013), II Year MBA Students(2010-2012), II Year MCA Students(2010-2013) were present for this noble event

Professor. N. Venkiteswaran, Director, TSM, planting a sapling. MBA Students from TSM along with Mr.Sivasubramanian’s family members (On whose remembrance GENESIS is being organized)

Genesis’10
This day is made special in remembrance of our student Mr. Siva Subramaniam of 2005 batch who passed away from us on August 14th few years ago. It is our tradition that on this day, we do some noble activities in remembrance of him.

In the words of Tom Head, “Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope”

With this in mind the following activities were done on August 14, 2010.

Planting Saplings
Prof.Venkiteswaran, Director planted the first sapling followed by Principal, Dr.Mattapalli Nagaraju, faculty members and students. Fourteen tree saplings were planted.

Blood Donation
A team from Govt.Rajaji Hospital, Madurai – Blood Bank visited TSM campus for the blood donation camp. 43 units of blood were collected from faculty and student volunteers.

Certificate of Appreciation signed by the Govt.Medical Officer was given to all the blood donors and to the Principal, TSM for organizing the camp

Offering to Orphanage/Old Age Homes
Students organized a visit to Karunai Illam, Thirupparankundram, Old Age Home , Thirupparankundram and Inba Illam, Pasumalai and provided lunch to all the inmates.

Our Students also contributed Geometry Box, Pen and Biscuits to Karunai Illam,Thirupparankundram (18 children); Blankets, Mats, Mosquito Repellents and Washing Soaps to 6 and 50 unattended old aged people above 65 years at old age home located at Thirupparankundram and Inba Illam, Pasumalai, Madurai respectively.