Government College of Engineering, Salem was registered in National Youth Parliament Scheme (NYPS) Tarun Sabha, Ministry of Parliament affairs. The main aim of NYPS is to enable the student community to know about practices and procedures of the parliament. The National Youth Parliament sitting of our institute was conducted on 27.05.2022 in the seminar hall of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. The event was organised by Principal Dr. R. Malayalamurthy, Coordinators Dr.K.T.Thilagam AP/Mett and Prof K.Jayanthi AP/ECE. Totally 55 students from various departments have participated in the event. The photos and full video of the event is available in NYPS web portal https://nyps.mpa.gov.in/. The Ministry of Parliament Affairs, Government of India, sent the Coordinator Certificate and participation certificates. The certificates were handed out by Principal Dr. R. Malayalamurthy and Head of the Department Dr.A.M.Kalpana on 22.11.2022 to the students.

English Literary Association (ELA) of Government College of Engineering, Salem helps students to enhance their English Communication and Writing Skills.

"The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages" - Roger Bacon.

During the club sessions, events and games are conducted to help students to improve their communication skills and vocabulary knowledge. On-spot speaking, Puzzle solving, General speaking, JAM, Shipwreck and Group discussion are also held which help the students to face the interview with confidence.

ELA also has an initiative named “Reader’s realm.” It is a book club where students come together and we pick a book each month, read it and have a discussion at the end of the book. There are read-along sessions conducted online where students who wish to read together come along and discuss. These sessions aim to improve the vocabulary and language skills of students and provide them a warm place through books.

Few more interesting competitions like story writing/completing, poem writing and vlogging are held during special occasions. The winners of each contest are selected and encouraged with prizes.  Every year ELA conducts an inter-departmental literary fest titled ‘Xperia’ and encourages students to participate in on-stage competition to build their confidence

ELA plays an active role in enhancing and developing the communicational, writing and vocabulary knowledge among young engineering students.