SRM University hosted one of the biggest Model United Nations in the country. The event saw a huge participation from national and international students. Over the three days the campus reverberated with phenomenal debate and amazing oratory.
Model United Nations being an academic simulation of the real United Nations, the organising committee and the secretariat left no stone unturned in assembling the best Executive Board for chairing the councils.
The participants showed a wide variation in the age group and MUN experience. Most of them being first timers, it was a great event for them as they competed with the veterans of MUN's in India.
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“I have attended SRMMUN 2011 and SRMMUN 2012, and this year it has grown bigger and better in terms of debate, their organising and logistics,” said Anubhav Srivastav, a student of VIT University who was representing India in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He added that SRMMUN is the only MUN which has very good debates in every single committee.
Experience
Chairperson of ASEAN, Prerna Banga, a student from DU, who came to Chennai to chair this committee, said that she was seeing such a superb quality debate after a long time.
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Also, Dibjyoti Mainaak from Bengaluru, president of United Nations Security Council (UNSC), agreed that he loved the experience of being a part of the MUN with an opportunity to chair the UNSC.
SRM MUN 2012 simulated 13 councils including three special committees and thus paved their way for innovation, creativity and substantive debating.
Over three days, the event witnessed more than 500 delegates and 45 executive board members with an organising team of over 300 people. To make the event as close as it can to the real thing, an International Press was also simulated which managed a blog and released newsletters.
Gaurav is a student of SRM University.