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
• Rural/Urban Poor
• banking 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
• Assistance to Senior Citizens in
• usage, passbook updates, mobile banking, and
• Banking Operations
• create simple guides for them.
• Students document informal credit systems
• Community Study on Informal
• like chit funds, local lenders, SHGs and
• Lending Practices
• compare them with bank alternatives.
• Students explain insurance schemes
• Awareness on Insurance for Low- (PMJJBY, PMSBY, Ayushman Bharat) and
• Income Families help 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
• Exporters/Artisans
• and 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
• Micro-Entrepreneurs
• needs and operational issues.
• Capacity Building Programme for Students train SHG members on savings,
• Women SHGs loans, bookkeeping and digital banking tools.
• Students organize an awareness camp
• Community Camp on Government highlighting Jan Dhan, Mudra Loans,
• Financial Schemes Stand-Up India, PMFBY and other
• schemes.
• Students document traditional
• Study of Indigenous Finance Practices community finance practices and
• in a Local Community identify their relevance to modern
• banking.
• Students interview merchant families to
• Hundi & Traditional Credit Practices understand hundi usage, types and its
• Documentation influence on modern financial
• instruments.
• Students conduct a session on fairness,
• Ethical Finance Awareness Based on trust, honesty and transparent lending
• IKS Principles inspired by Arthashastra and dharmic
• finance.
• Students educate residents about
• Community Workshop on Fraud
• banking frauds, cybercrime, fake calls,
• Detection & Prevention
• phishing and preventive actions.
• Students guide migrant workers in
• Assisting Migrant Workers in Opening
• completing KYC, filling account forms
• Bank Accounts
• and using digital payments securely.
• Students help families understand claim
• Insurance Claim Assistance Camp filing, required documents and guide
• them through the claim process.
• Students interview early-stage startups
• Survey on GST Compliance
• to identify GST filing concerns and
• Challenges Among Startups
• prepare a recommendation report.
• Students survey NRI families to
• Study of International Money understand remittance challenges and
• Transfers in Migrant Communities educate them about safer transfer
• modes.
• Students prepare and distribute a
• Creating a Community Disaster financial emergency kit checklist for
• Preparedness Financial Kit families (documents, insurance,
• contacts).
• Students teach families how to create
• Workshop on Wealth Protection &
• monthly budgets, emergency funds,
• Household Financial Planning
• insurance plans and safe investments.
• Students create a temporary desk that
• Setting Up a Financial Help Desk in a
• helps residents with financial queries
• Community Centre
• on banking, insurance and GST.