Students’ Gymkhana Council
The Students’ Gymkhana is managed by a Students' Gymkhana Council to promote various co-curricular activities. This Council fosters and promotes technical, cultural, sports and welfare activities in the Institute. The Students' Gymkhana Council comprises four boards: Technical Board, Cultural Board, Sports Board and Welfare Board. Each Board promotes activities related to each student's overall well-being through various co-curricular activities and by ensuring the constant grooming of professional, communication, soft, and relevant life skills. Each Board has a faculty co-ordinator and a General Secretary, who is a student. Each Board has under it a number of clubs. Activities take place through these clubs.
Clubs
The name of the various clubs under these four boards are given below.
Sports Board
- Outdoor Club
- Indoor Club
The office bearers of the Student Gymkhana Council are elected by students every year. The current office bearers are:
President | Sai Yashwant Gantasala |
Vice President | Siddharth Singh |
General Secretary, Technical Board | Naman Jain |
General Secretary, Cultural Board | Madhur Jain |
General Secretary, Sports Board | Prasoon Joshi |
General Secretary, Welfare Board | Manjusha Kausik Duarah |
Email to reach the Students’ Gymkhana: gymkhana@iiitg.ac.in
The Constitution of the Students’ Gymkhana is here.The Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Cell is a body within IIIT Guwahati formed of students and faculty to systematically foster the culture of innovation and the start-up ecosystem in IIIT Guwahati. I&E's role is to engage a large number of faculty, students, and staff within IIIT Guwahati in various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities such as ideation, problem-solving, proof of concept development, design thinking, IPR, project handling, and management at pre-incubation. The I&E cell is currently working towards establishing the first incubation centre at IIIT Guwahati to accommodate budding student entrepreneurs. The I&E cell, as part of its social and scientific responsibility, organizes regular workshops, speaker-led talk sessions (TEDx), case study competitions, and hackathons. The flagship event of the I&E cell is Inizio, which is an annual E-Summit organized as a two-to-three-day event that serves as the biggest platform for students to see what innovation and entrepreneurship have in store for them. The I&E cell works in close cooperation with the MoE's IIC and NISP to promote start-ups and SMEs at HEIs.