Date: 26^th January 2021

Guest Speaker: Mr. Sriram Panchu, Senior Advocate, Distinguished Mediator

Keeping up with the tradition of holding student-centric webinars that would provide them with a professional edge over others, ADR Cell of University School of law and legal studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University organised a National Webinar on the 72^nd Republic Day on 26^th January 2021 focusing majorly on “Why is Constitution important?” via virtual meeting platform, Zoom.

The event was inaugurated by Prof. (Dr.) AP Singh, Dean, USLLS. The guest speaker of the event was Mr. Sriram Panchu, Senior Advocate, Distinguished Mediator. Mr. Panchu has mediated a large number of complex and high value disputes The Supreme Court of India has referred to him as a “distinguished mediator”, an “eminent trainer” and “one of the foremost mediators in the country”. 

In a comprehensive session that lasted for 90 minutes, the importance of basic rights and their obligations highlighted in the constitution was discussed in detail. To keep the webinar lively and to answer any questions that the students may have had, the last few minutes of the webinar were devoted by the speaker to a live question-answer session, wherein a lot of creative questions were answered. Mr. Sriram Panchu shared his vast knowledge with the students.

The event ended with the kind words of Dr. Vandana Singh and a formal vote of thanks offered by Dr. Zubair Ahmed Khan.

The webinar attracted the participation of over 200 students, making it well received and successful.

Students Coordinators: Mr. Mohit Tanwar, Batch of 2020 and Mr. Shivang Verma, Batch of 2022.

Reported by: Ms. Archi Aggarwal, Batch of 2024.