B.Com. (Banking and Insurance) Community Engagement Project Syllabus - Mumbai University

Indicative Topics for CEP

• Students visit small shops to explain GST
• GST Awareness Drive for Small Local
• basics, billing rules and registration process,
• Businesses
• and document challenges faced by them.
• Students conduct a camp teaching savings,
• Financial Literacy Camp for
• digital payments, UPI usage, and basic banking
• Rural/Urban Poor
• functions.
• Students assist street vendors, freelancers and
• Helping Local Vendors Understand
• home-run businesses in understanding proper
• GST Invoicing
• GST invoice format and tax rates.
• Students conduct door-to-door surveys to
• Survey on Tax Literacy Among
• measure people's awareness of indirect taxes
• Households
• and prepare a statistical report.
• Students hold a workshop for community
• Digital Payments Safety Workshop members about UPI safety, identifying fraud,
• secure transactions and cyber hygiene.
• Students help senior citizens with ATM usage,
• Assistance to Senior Citizens in
• passbook updates, mobile banking, and create
• Banking Operations
• simple guides for them.
• Students document informal credit systems like
• Community Study on Informal
• chit funds, local lenders, SHGs and compare
• Lending Practices
• them with bank alternatives.
• Students explain insurance schemes (PMJJBY,
• Awareness on Insurance for Low-
• PMSBY, Ayushman Bharat) and help families
• Income Families
• understand benefits and eligibility.
• Students interact with small traders to explain
• Financial Risk Awareness Drive for
• basic financial risks, market risks and safety
• Small Traders
• measures.
• Students educate artisans or small exporters
• EXIM Awareness for Small
• about export documentation, bank facilities and
• Exporters/Artisans
• remittance procedures.
• Students assist families receiving remittances
• SWIFT & International Remittances
• with understanding SWIFT, charges,
• Support Desk
• documentation and safe practices.
• Students visit micro-enterprises and prepare a
• Field Visit Report: Challenges of
• report on their financial structuring, loan needs
• Micro-Entrepreneurs
• and operational issues.
• Capacity Building Programme for Students train SHG members on savings, loans,
• Women SHGs bookkeeping and digital banking tools.
• Students organize an awareness camp
• Community Camp on Government
• highlighting Jan Dhan, Mudra Loans, Stand-Up
• Financial Schemes
• India, PMFBY and other schemes.
• Students document traditional community
• Study of Indigenous Finance Practices
• finance practices and identify their relevance to
• in a Local Community
• modern banking.
• Students interview merchant families to
• Hundi & Traditional Credit Practices
• understand hundi usage, types and its influence
• Documentation
• on modern financial instruments.
• Students conduct a session on fairness, trust,
• Ethical Finance Awareness Based on
• honesty and transparent lending inspired by
• IKS Principles
• Arthashastra and dharmic finance.
• Students educate residents about banking
• Community Workshop on Fraud
• frauds, cybercrime, fake calls, phishing and
• Detection & Prevention
• preventive actions.
• Students guide migrant workers in completing
• Assisting Migrant Workers in Opening
• KYC, filling account forms and using digital
• Bank Accounts
• payments securely.
• Students help families understand claim filing,
• Insurance Claim Assistance Camp required documents and guide them through the
• claim process.
• Students interview early-stage startups to
• Survey on GST Compliance
• identify GST filing concerns and prepare a
• Challenges Among Startups
• recommendation report.
• Students survey NRI families to understand
• Study of International Money
• remittance challenges and educate them about
• Transfers in Migrant Communities
• safer transfer modes.
• Students prepare and distribute a financial
• Creating a Community Disaster
• emergency kit checklist for families
• Preparedness Financial Kit
• (documents, insurance, contacts).
• Students teach families how to create monthly
• Workshop on Wealth Protection &
• budgets, emergency funds, insurance plans and
• Household Financial Planning
• safe investments.
• Students create a temporary desk that helps
• Setting Up a Financial Help Desk in a
• residents with financial queries on banking,
• Community Centre
• insurance and GST.