B. Profile of the Affiliated College

1. Name and address of the college:

2. For communication:

3. Status of the of Institution :

4. Type of Institution:

a. By Gender

i. For Men

PPP/PPP

ii. For Women

iii. Co-education

b. By shift

i. Regular

ii. Day

iii. Evening

5. Is it a recognized minority institution?

If yes specify the minority status (Religious/linguistic/ any other) and provide documentary evidence.

6. Source of funding:

7. a. Date of establishment of the college: …20-12-1984………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

b. University to which the college is affiliated /or which governs the college (If it is a constituent college)

c. Details of UGC recognition:

(Enclose the Certificate of recognition u/s 2 (f) and 12 (B) of the UGC Act)

d. Details of recognition/approval by statutory/regulatory bodies other than UGC

(AICTE, NCTE, MCI, DCI, PCI, RCI etc.)

(Enclose the recognition/approval letter)

8. Does the affiliating university Act provide for conferment of autonomy (as recognized by the UGC), on its affiliated colleges?

Yes No

If yes, has the College applied for availing the autonomous status?

Yes No

9. Is the college recognized

a. by UGC as a College with Potential for Excellence (CPE)?

Yes No

If yes, date of recognition: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

b. for its performance by any other governmental agency?

Yes No

If yes, Name of the agency …………………… and

Date of recognition: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

10. Location of the campus and area in sq.mts:

(* Urban, Semi-urban, Rural, Tribal, Hilly Area, Any others specify)

11. Facilities available on the campus (Tick the available facility and provide numbers or other details at appropriate places) or in case the institute has an agreement with other agencies in using any of the listed facilities provide information on the facilities covered under the agreement.

· Auditorium/seminar complex with infrastructural facilities P

• Sports facilities P

* play ground P

* swimming pool ×

* gymnasium P

• Hostel

* Boys’ hostel

i. Number of hostels ×

ii. Number of inmates ×

iii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

* Girls’ hostel ---Under Construction with the financial assistance of the UGC

i. Number of hostels ×

ii. Number of inmates ×

iii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

* Working women’s hostel ×

i. Number of inmates ×

ii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

· Residential facilities for teaching and non-teaching staff (give numbers available -- cadre wise)×

• Cafeteria -- P
• Health centre – ×

First aid, Inpatient, Outpatient, Emergency care facility, Ambulance…….

Health centre staff –

Qualified doctor Full time Part-time

Qualified Nurse Full time Part-time

· Facilities like banking, post office, book shops ×

· Transport facilities to cater to the needs of students and staff ×

• Animal house ×
• Biological waste disposal

· Generator or other facility for management/regulation of electricity and voltage ---extended to Principal’s Room and Office only

· Solid waste management facility

• Waste water management
• Water harvesting

12. Details of programmes offered by the college (Give data for current academic year)

Total:

13. Does the college offer self-financed Programmes?

Yes * No

If yes, how many?

14. New programmes introduced in the college during the last five years if any?

15. List the departments: (respond if applicable only and do not list facilities like Library, Physical Education as departments, unless they are also offering academic degree awarding programmes. Similarly, do not list the departments offering common compulsory subjects for all the programmes like English, regional languages etc.)

16. Number of Programmes offered under (Programme means a degree course like BA, BSc, MA, and M.Com…)

a.

annual system

b.

semester system

c.

trimester system

17.

Number of Programmes with

a.

Choice Based Credit System

b. Inter/Multidisciplinary Approach

c. Any other ( specify and provide details)

18. Does the college offer UG and/or PG programmes in Teacher Education?

Yes No

If yes,

a. Year of Introduction of the programme(s)………………. (dd/mm/yyyy)

and number of batches that completed the programme

b. NCTE recognition details (if applicable)

Notification No.: ……………………………………

Date: …………………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

Validity:………………………..

c. Is the institution opting for assessment and accreditation of Teacher Education Programme separately?

Yes No

19. Does the college offer UG or PG programme in Physical Education?

Yes No

If yes,

a. Year of Introduction of the programme(s)………………. (dd/mm/yyyy)

and number of batches that completed the programme

b. NCTE recognition details (if applicable)

Notification No.: ……………………………………

Date: …………………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

Validity:……………………

c. Is the institution opting for assessment and accreditation of Physical Education Programme separately?

Yes No

20. Number of teaching and non-teaching positions in the Institution

*M-Male *F-Female

Three Guest Faculty members for Chemistry, Botany and Biotechnology posts for B.Sc. Self-financed Course are recruited every year on temporary basis.

Another Guest Faculty has been appointed on temporary basis for the year 2013-14 in the existing vacancy of Lecturer in Computer Science.

The subject of Computer Course is being imparted to by another Guest Faculty on temporary basis.

The Remuneration for the above staff is paid from the available College funds only.

21. Qualifications of the teaching staff:

22.

Number of Visiting Faculty /Guest Faculty engaged with the College.

23. Furnish the number of the students admitted to the college during the last four academic years.

24. Details on students enrolment in the college during the current academic year: 2013-14

25. Dropout rate in UG and PG (average of the last two batches)

UG PG

26. Unit Cost of Education

(a) Including the salary component

(b) Excluding the salary component

27. Does the college offer any programme/s in distance education mode (DEP)?

Yes No

If yes,

a) Is it a registered centre for offering distance education programmes of

another University

Yes No

b) Name of the University which has granted such registration.

c) Number of programmes offered

d)

Programmes carry the recognition of the Distance Education Council.

Yes No

28. Provide Teacher-student ratio for each of the programme/course offered

29. Is the college applying for

Accréditation : Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3 Cycle 4

Re-Assessment:

(Cycle 1refers to first accreditation and Cycle 2, Cycle 3 and Cycle 4 refers to re-accreditation)

30. Date of accreditation* (applicable for Cycle 2, Cycle 3, Cycle 4 and re-assessment only)

Cycle 1: 26-3-2006… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result B . Cycle 2: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result……..

Cycle 3: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result……..

* Kindly enclose copy of accreditation certificate(s) and peer team report(s) as an annexure.

31. Number of working days during the last academic year.

32. Number of teaching days during the last academic year

(Teaching days means days on which lectures were engaged excluding the examination days)

33. Date of establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

IQAC 01/06/2006 (dd/mm/yyyy)

34. Details regarding submission of Annual Quality Assurance Reports (AQAR) to NAAC.

AQAR (i) 30/11/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (ii) 30/11/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (iii) 30/11/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (iv) 30/11/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (v) 30/11/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (vi) 28/11/2012 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (vii) 15/5/2014 (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (viii) 15/5/2014 (dd/mm/yyyy)

35. Any other relevant data (not covered above) the college would like to include. (Do not include explanatory/descriptive information)

C. Criteria-Wise Inputs

Criterion I: Curricular Aspects

1.1 Curriculum Planning and Implementation

1.1.1 S tate the vision, mission and objectives of the institution, and describe how these are communicated to the students, teachers, staff and other stakeholders.

Vision:

To make the student physically, mentally and ethically healthy and to provide the student skills to acquire job in the present job market

Mission:

• To introduce new courses to meet the needs of the society.
• To empower faculty members with high qualifications along with research activity to address the needs of the students according to the new trends and developments.
• To provide infrastructure facilities like more number of class rooms, well equipped laboratories, good Library, e-class room and ICT for the introduction of new courses, using modern technologies.
• To impart essential latest computer knowledge and to promote ICT facilities to students to meet the challenges in real life.
• To encourage students to participate in the sports and games for their all round development.
• To organize programs to enhance employability of students through JKC and other Certificate Courses.
• To initiate students into various service–oriented programmes by organizing special camps through our college NSS units.
• To offer services to the students academically and administratively in a transparent, fast and fair manner.

The vision and mission of the institution is communicated to the students, teachers, staff and other stakeholders through Notice Board, Handbook, circulars, wall papers and meetings.

1.1.2 How d oes the institution develop and deploy action plans for effective implementation of the curriculum? Give details of the process and substantiate through specific example(s).

The curriculum is prepared by the affiliating university and the same is being implemented. We follow the Academic Calendar circulated by the Commissioner of Collegiate Education of the State. The Teaching Faculty prepares Annual Year Plan before the Commencement of the classes duly allotting hours for departmental activities and gets the approval of the Principal. Then the College Calendar is prepared duly taking into account various activities of all the departments by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of the college. The curriculum is communicated to the students.

The IQAC supervises the action plans for effective implementation of the curriculum in its own meetings and also in Staff Council Meetings held periodically.

1.1.3 What type of support (procedural and practical) do the teachers receive (from the University and/or institution) for effectively translating the curriculum and improving teaching practices?

The Institution provides all physical facilities like Class rooms, Laboratories, teaching materials, Computer systems, MANA TV Programmes, ICT& Internet facilities, News papers, periodicals, Journals, access to Library, Extension activities and Study tours for translating the curriculum and improving teaching practices.

The Faculty is sent for Orientation and Refresher Courses conducted by various Universities in the state for updating their knowledge. The Guest Lectures delivered by eminent and senior teachers of the subject from surrounding colleges also add to the horizon of knowledge of the Faculty.

The faculty is encouraged to participate in the Extension activities/Consultancies so as to acquire practical exposure of the subjects.

The faculty is also encouraged to participate in Seminars/ workshops organised by other Institutions in the state or outside the state. They are also offered full support and assistance for conducting Seminars and Workshops in the Campus.

The Faculty is also encouraged to pursue Ph. D. under FDP Programme or on part-time basis.

1.1.4 Specify the initiatives taken up or contribution made by the institution for effective curriculum delivery and transaction on the Curriculum provided by the affiliating University or other statutory agency .

The College discusses future plan for the next year before summer vacation and chalks out action plan.

The Institution communicates the change of syllabus and model papers to all Departments.

The Institution makes appointment of Teaching and Non- Teaching staff on temporary basis in the existing vacancies.

It also provides budget for various activities of the college after discussing the same in the Staff Council Meetings.

It provides space and tools to the departments for teaching process.

It also reviews periodical progress of syllabus completion in IQAC and Staff Meetings.

1.1.5 How does the institution network and interact with beneficiaries such as industry, research bodies and the university in effective operationalization of the curriculum?

A few Departments have collaborations with Government, Non-Government organizations, Private firms and small Scale Cottage Industries.

The Department of Commerce has linkages with Local Income-Tax firms & Computer Network Centres for data entry and with a few Mandal Development offices for study of implementation of Welfare Schemes for Tribal people.

The Department of Economics has conducted many surveys on Socio-economic conditions of the people in the area.

The Department of Computer Science has collaboration with local Computer Centres so that the practical knowledge/ exchange of softwares can be shared.

1.1. 6 What are the contributions of the institution and/or its staff members to the development of the curriculum by the University?(number of staff members/departments represented on the Board of Studies, student feedback, teacher feedback, stakeholder feedback provided, specific suggestions etc

The informal feedback of students, the opinions of a few parents and other stakeholders are also collected in the meetings held with them. Every Department submits representations to the Board of Studies of its respective subject of the Affiliating University for any change in the curriculum keeping in view of the needs of the day and the opinions expressed by the students and other stakeholders.

1.1.7 Does the institution develop curriculum for any of the courses offered (other than those under the purview of the affiliating university) by it? If ‘yes’, give details on the process (’Needs Assessment’, design, development and planning) and the courses for which the curriculum has been developed.

The College has started a Certificate Course on TALLY in the current Academic year for imparting practical skills of Accountancy for all students with a view that this can be useful in any job sector.

1.1.8 How does institution analyze/ensure that the stated objectives of curriculum are achieved in the course of implementation?

Academically, the Institution identifies weak students through formal and informal testing methods and guides them to focus their attention towards studies. Special attention is paid to them individually by taking remedial classes.

The bright students are given small projects, surveys and seminars to make them more creative.

Periodical tests, assignments, quizzes and other interactive methods are employed to make the students imbibe subject knowledge.

Unit tests, half- yearly and pre- final exams are held to make them exam-oriented.

The students are allowed to participate in all co-curricular and extra- curricular activities regularly to exhibit their talents and get practical exposure to the various aspects of the curriculum.

1.2 Academic Flexibility

1.2.1 Specifying the goals and objectives give details of the certificate/diploma/ skill development courses etc., offered by the institution.

Certificate Course on TALLY is being taught in the College and Certificate Courses in Computers and Yoga are being designed for injecting the concepts of Computers and Mind Energy as a part of our college Mission.

1.2.2 Does the institution offer programmes that facilitate twinning /dual degree? If ‘yes', give details.

Even though the college does not offer any dual degree program directly, the syllabus in B.Com blends Commerce with Computer application, Statistics and Information Technology, thanks to the Vision of the affiliating University.

1.2. 3 Give details on the various institutional provisions with reference to academic flexibility and how it has been helpful to students in terms of skills development, academic mobility, progression to higher studies and improved potential for employability

• Range of Core /Elective options offered by the University and those opted by the college — There is no academic flexibility for choosing optional subjects of a course as it is fixed by the University only. However, students have freedom to select elective paper as per their choice in Final year.
• Choice Based Credit System and range of subject options - Nil
• Courses offered in modular form - Nil
• Credit transfer and accumulation facility - Nil
• Lateral and vertical mobility within and across programmes and courses—Enrichment courses - Nil

1.2.4 Does the institution offer self-financed programmes? If ‘yes’, list them and indicate how they differ from other programmes, with reference to admission, curriculum, fee structure, teacher qualification, salary etc .

The College offers one self-financed programme – B.Sc. with Chemistry, Botany and Biotechnology as optional subjects. The admission procedure is same as that of any course. The curriculum is prepared by the affiliating University. The fee structure is the sum of university fee, government fee and CPDC fee. The total fee does not exceed Rs 7,000/- per annum. However, SC/ST students are exempted from payment of this fee at the time of admission as this amount will be reimbursed by the State Government.

The faculty is appointed on merit basis by the college with their salaries are paid from Course Fee. The departmental maintenance is met from the Government and College Budgets.

1.2.5 Does the college provide additional skill oriented programmes, relevant to regional and global employment markets? If ‘yes’ provide details of such programme and the beneficiaries.

Yes. It is done by the prestigious Government sponsored scheme of Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) which imparts knowledge of communication skills in English and analytical skills. A good number of students are selected for jobs in various companies every year.

1.2. 6 Does the University provide for the flexibility of combining the conventional face-to-face and Distance Mode of Education for students to choose the courses/combination of their choice” If ‘yes’, how does the institution take advantage of such provision for the benefit of students?

No. But the Institution motivates the students who discontinued the studies due to personal reasons to pursue studies through Distance Mode of Education and as a result many students have benefitted. In fact, our College is an Examination centre for Andhra University School of Distance Education for UG Courses.

1.3 Curriculum Enrichment

1.3.1 Describe the efforts made by the institution to supplement the University’s Curriculum to ensure that the academic programmes and Institution’s goals and objectives are integrated?

In addition to the traditional methods of teaching, Guest Lectures, Seminars and Workshops are conducted to add additional Knowledge of the students.

The students are imparted value of ethics in life by celebrating all important days like Teachers Day, National Integration day, National Education day, Human Rights Day, National Youth Day etc.

Students with age of 18 years are enrolled as Voters and they are given information about rights and responsibilities of a voter.

The students are made to cultivate the habit of rendering service to the Society in the extension activities organized by NSS.

The students are provided gymnasium and allowed to play games and sports to make them physically fit.

They are provided with job-oriented skills in English Language Laboratory and Jawahar Knowledge Centre.

They are taken to field trips to provide knowledge about environment, biodiversity and practical aspects of their subjects.

The students are encouraged to participate in Youth Festival and Yuvatarangam (Govt. Sponsored competitions in academic, cultural, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities) competitions to get acquainted with competitive spirit.

1.3.2 What are the efforts made by the institution to modify, enrich and organize the curriculum to explicitly reflect the experiences of the students and cater to needs of the dynamic employment market?

The students are allowed to interact with seniors who were successful in competitive examinations to learn tips for success. The College incorporates the latest trends in competitive Examinations while preparing the students in Jawahar Knowledge Centre and English Language Laboratory. The help of Career guidance Cell and Library is also taken in this regard.

1.3.3 Enumerate the efforts made by the institution to integrate the cross cutting issues such as Gender, Climate Change, Environmental Education, Human Rights, ICT etc., into the curriculum ?

The Women Empowerment Cell (WEC) imparts the knowledge of facing Gender discrimination and also provides required Health knowledge to overcome anaemia and problems related to gynaecology in respect of women students. The ECO Club provides the students the knowledge of soils, climate and environment and advises them to maintain ecological balance.

The College organizes Guest Lectures on World Human Rights day to keep the students abreast of their rights and responsibilities.

The Consumer Club organizes activities to make the students aware of consumer Rights.

The College encourages students to avail facilities like Internet and ICT so that they can learn knowledge about the cross cutting issues.

The Live and Interactive Programmes telecast by MANA TV are very useful for imparting students the knowledge of many other issues which are related to students like Human Values- Family relations, SC& ST atrocities, RTI Act, Applying for Studies in Foreign Countries, Career Opportunities, Communication Skills, Soft Skills, Yuvatarangam competitions.

1.3.4 What are the various value-added courses/enrichment programmes offered to

Ensure holistic development of students?

• moral and ethical values - conducting of meeting on Important Days for imparting moral values. Introduction of “Value Education” as a compulsory subject for all the students also drives the students towards ethical strength.
• employable and life skills —JKC, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
• better career options —Awareness Programmes and help rendered by Career Guidance Cell and Library.
• community orientation —Extension activities through NSS.

1.3.5 citing a few examples enumerate on the extent of use of the feedback from stakeholders in enriching the curriculum?

Many academic activities of the College have been undertaken due to Representations/ Feedback given by the students.

The introduction of B. Sc (Chemistry, Botany and Biotechnology) in the college has been done on the basis of persistent demands from students and parents of the area. Establishment of temporary Laboratories for Chemistry, Botany and Biotechnology subjects has the basis of student feedback.

JKC is another important wing which has been installed due to constant demand of the student community.

The use of ICT & Internet has also been extended to students.

Many periodicals have also been subscribed to due to student representations.

The appointment of Librarian and a Teacher for Computer Course on temporary basis during certain academic years has been done at the request of the students only.

1.3.6 How does the institution monitor and evaluate the quality of its enrichment programmes?

The quality of enrichment programmes can be assessed by the Student Progression in terms of higher Studies, Employment potentiality and morality. The Departments of the College record these aspects in students’ profiles even after their leaving the Institution.

1.4 Feedback System

1.4.1 What are the contributions of the institution in the design and development of the curriculum prepared by the University?

Even though the Institution is not directly responsible for any design and development of Curriculum, the introduction of Computer Course and Computer Skills in First and Second year syllabi may be due to the constant persuasions of representations of the feedback given by the College.

1.4.2 Is there a formal mechanism to obtain feedback from students and stakeholders on Curriculum? If ‘yes’, how is it communicated to the University and made use internally for curriculum enrichment and introducing changes/new programmes?

No. The College obtains informal feedback from students about quality of curriculum and any improvements on it. The College has a practice of representing the student feedback to the Boards of Studies of the affiliating University.

The College has introduced B.Sc. (C B BT) Course and Add on -Course in “TALLY”, as a result of such student feedback and parents representations. The Institution is trying to introduce new job-oriented Certificate Courses on this basis.

1.4.3 How many new programmes/courses were introduced by the institution during the last four years? What was the rationale for introducing new courses/programmes?)

The course of B.Sc. (Chemistry, Botany and Biotechnology) was started during 2007-08. There is a big demand for any B.Sc. Course for Biology students in this College. This course has the distinct advantage of allowing students to study Biotechnology at higher planes or pursuing higher studies in conventional subjects of Botany and Chemistry.

SWOT analysis

Strengths:

· Inflexible curriculum prepared by Board of Studies of the Affiliating University.

· Support of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to the curriculum.

· Inclusion of value education and cross cutting issues to play a supportive role to the curriculum.

· Jawahar Knowledge Centre.

· Adequate physical facilities like Laboratories, Library, MANA TV( e- Learning), Clubs, gymnasium.

· Effective feedback system.

Weaknesses:

· Local Community needs cannot be included in the curriculum.

· Inadequacy of effective skill-oriented Courses.

Opportunities:

· The curriculum is useful for acquiring a degree with sufficient levels of knowledge of Spoken English and Computers.

· The feedback system can go a long way in identifying the local needs and aspirations for different courses for the students.

Threat:

· There is no permanent teacher for Computer Course papers and the students are suffering a lot with the part time teacher.

Any other relevant information regarding curricular aspects which the college would like to include.

Criterion II: Teaching-Learning and Evaluation

2.1 Student Enrolment and Profile

2.1.1 How does the college ensure publicity and transparency in the admission process?

Ours is the only Government Degree College in the area and is known for academic excellence over the last 30 years. The college gives publicity about the courses, seats, fees and facilities in the college through College Handbook. The admission process is transparent as it is supervised by Admission Committee headed by the senior most Lecturer of the College.

2.1.2 Explain in detail the criteria adopted and process of admission (Ex. (i) merit (ii) common admission test conducted by state agencies and national agencies (iii) combination of merit and entrance test or merit, entrance test and interview (iv) any other) to various programmes of the Institution .

Admissions are made into various programs by adopting merit cum reservation basis as per the guidelines issued by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Affiliating University. The process is very transparent as the selection lists are placed in the notice board and is free from any criticism.

2.1.3 Give the minimum and maximum percentage of marks for admission at entry level for each of the programmes offered by the college and provide a comparison with other colleges of the affiliating university within the city/district.

*c stands for compartmental.

2.1.4 Is there a mechanism in the institution to review the admission process and student profiles annually? If ‘yes’ what is the outcome of such an effort and how has it contributed to the improvement of the process?

The Admission Committee supervises admission process which is very transparent. The class counsellors collect student profiles in the beginning of the academic year. This gives first-hand information about the admitted students in terms of their socio-economic and academic background. The staff discusses these aspects in the staff meetings and chalks out the academic and psychological support to be given to the students during the course.

2.1.5 Reflecting on the strategies adopted to increase/improve access for following categories of students, enumerate on how the admission policy of the institution and its student profiles demonstrate/reflect the National commitment to diversity and inclusion

* SC/ST –58.0%

* OBC –31.0

* Women –19.8

* Differently abled – Nil

* Economically weaker sections -

* Minority community -Nil

* Any other -11.0%

To maintain equity among various sections of society, reservation system is followed in the admission process.

.

* Students from disadvantaged community (SC-15%, ST-7.5%, BC-A-7%, BC-B-10%, BC-C- 1%, BC-D-7% )

* Women: 20%

* Differently-abled : Nil

* Economically-weaker sections : 14.35 %

* Sports: Nil %

* Any other : NCC: , N.S.S : , Ex-Service Man : Nil

2.1.6 Provide the following details for various programmes offered by the institution during the last four years and comment on the trends, i.e. reasons for increase / decrease and actions initiated for improvement.

There is a decrease in the admitted strength of students since 2008-09 as new Private Unaided Colleges have come up in a mushroom fashion in the town with many incentives which a Government College cannot offer. Also, admission into B. Tech course has been made easy with Fee Reimbursement policy of the State Government. There is a craze for Teacher Training Course (TTC) as job opportunities have become readily available. These factors adversely affected the admission strength in Government Degree Colleges.

2.2 Catering to Diverse Needs of Students

2.2.1 How does the institution cater to the needs of differently- abled students and ensure adherence to government policies in this regard?

The percentage of students reserved for differently-abled students is strictly followed in the admission process. The Institution helps such students in getting scholarships and allots convenient seating in the class room, Library and examination halls.

2.2.2 Does the institution assess the students’ needs in terms of knowledge and skills before the commencement of the programme? If ‘yes’, give details on the process.

Yes, the marks at Intermediate level and small question- answer session in the early days of admission give preliminary idea about the student’s academic standards. But the actual needs of knowledge of the students can be assessed only after conducting unit tests, assignments and student seminars.

2.2.3 What are the strategies drawn and deployed by the institution to bridge the knowledge gap of the enrolled students to enable them to cope with the programme of their choice? (Bridge/Remedial/Add-on/Enrichment Courses, etc----

After assessing the knowledge of the admitted students, Bridge Courses are organized for the following students:

· Students without commerce background for B. Com

· Science students from Vocational Courses and Telugu medium at +2 levels for B. Sc.

· After assessing their knowledge from the marks obtained in unit tests, formal and informal testing, Remedial Classes are conducted for academically weaker students

· Computer knowledge for all students in the English Language Laboratory.

· MANA TV Live, Recorded and Cassettes for quick grasping.

2.2.4 How does the college sensitize its staff and students on issues such as gender, inclusion, environment etc.?

· The very admission process which is based on roaster system speaks of social equanimity.

· Immediately after admissions, students are convened to make them aware of the Anti-ragging acts and thereby teasing of juniors by seniors is prevented.

· The Women Empowerment Cell tries to protect the rights of women staff and girl students against the much said atrocities and also provides knowledge about general health and hygiene.

· The eco club takes measures to see that campus is kept clean and green.

· The Consumer Club and Heritage Club offer sensitization in their own spheres.

· Important Days are celebrated with all students to give them oneness.

· The knowledge of Legal Literacy is given to the students in Legal Awareness programmes.

· The students with 18 years of age are encouraged to enrol them as voters.

· The staff are also sensitized to interact with students and make them aware of the cross cutting issues.

· The Live and interactive programmes telecast by MANA TV about many problems faced by students are wonderful sources of sensitization for staff and students.

2.2.5 How does the institution identify and respond to special educational/learning needs of advanced learners?

The advanced learners are encouraged to participate in study projects and class seminars. Such students are also allowed to help their Teachers in collecting data, sample surveys and analysis work for their Research works.

2.2.6 How does the institute collect, analyze and use the data and information on the academic performance (through the programme duration) of the students at risk of drop out (students from the disadvantaged sections of society, physically challenged, slow learners, economically weaker sections etc.

The Class Counsellors take care of such students and give proper advice so that they continue their studies. There are instances in which class teachers concerned helped the students financially also.

2.3 Teaching-Learning Process

2.3.1 How does the college plan and organize the teaching, learning and evaluation schedules? (Academic calendar, teaching plan, evaluation blue print etc.

Academic Calendar of the college is prepared by the IQAC of the college in consultation with of all departments. Each department has its own academic plan and conducts its activities independently.

Each department conducts Unit Tests, Assignments, Quizzes and all co-curricular activities and evaluates performance of the students.

The entire process is reviewed in Staff meetings and is monitored by the IQAC.

2.3.2 How does IQAC contribute to improve the teaching –learning process?

The IQAC plays a key role as it initiates the process of preparation of academic calendar, advises the departments on implementation of already fixed programmes and ultimately evaluates the performance of the college for that academic year.

2.3.3. How is learning made more student-centric? Give details on the support structures and systems available for teachers to develop skills like interactive learning, collaborative learning and independent learning among the students?

The Learning process is student-Centric. The students are classified into “fast Learners” and “Slow Learners”.

The Fast Learners are assigned Small Study Projects, Student Seminars and tough Assignments. The Slow Learners are offered additional coaching and given easy Assignments.

All the students are tested by Unit Tests, Half-yearly and pre-final examinations to assess their memory power and depth of the subjects.

All the students are encouraged to participate in academic competitions like elocution, essay writing, quiz and group discussion for collaborative learning.

They also have access to Library, Internet, ICT (occasionally), Laboratories and JKC English Language Library to imbibe knowledge which allows them to have independent learning modes.

2.3.4 How does the institution nurture critical thinking, creativity and scientific temper among the students to transform them into life-long learners and innovators?

The students are allowed to participate in all extra-curricular activities where the hidden talents of the students are brought out. By conducting Group - discussions and quizzes, the creativity and critical thinking of the students can be enhanced.

The students are injected scientific temper by removing superstitions among them in class rooms and student meetings and also in important science day functions.

The students are encouraged to study books on various topics so that their general knowledge is broadened.

2.3.5 What are the technologies and facilities available and used by the faculty for effective teaching? Eg: Virtual laboratories, e-learning - resources from National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) and National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) , open educational resources, mobile education, etc

Apart from the usual class room teaching methods, the faculty uses MANA TV Programmes, MANA TV CDs, power point presentation materials, Internet Information and Paper clippings. However, ICT based teaching facility is occasionally used for effective teaching and the Institution are trying to extend the facility to all Departments for regular use.

2.3.6 How are the students and faculty exposed to advanced level of knowledge and skills (blended learning, expert lectures, seminars, workshops etc.)?

By organizing Seminars, Workshops and Guest Lectures in the College and by providing internet access, the staff and students are exposed to advanced horizons of knowledge.

The e- classes telecast by the Government on MANA TV daily in two slots, e- Books, e- journals, JKC, Software packages and ICT also provide knowledge through advanced techniques.

2.3.7 Detail (process and the number of students \benefitted) on the academic, personal and psycho-social support and guidance services (professional counselling/mentoring/academic advise) provided to students?

The activities like Elocution, Quizzes, and Group Discussions with the Teacher as Moderator and ICT classes make the Teacher Student- friendly.

The student counselling system helps most of the students to ventilate their grievances- academic, personal and psychological. This enables the management of the college to take suitable steps to mitigate their grievances.

2.3.8 Provide details of innovative teaching approaches/methods adopted by the faculty during the last four years? What are the efforts made by the institution to encourage the faulty to adopt new and innovative approaches and the impact of such innovative practices on student learning?

The Group discussions, Quizzes, interactive, demonstrative and student- centric teaching methods adopted by the teachers have made students understand the subjects in a lucid way. The college management provides all required facilities for these methods.

The study tours, small study projects and surveys undertaken by the students also help the students to blend theory and practice. The e- learning through Mana TV programes and the use of ICT by students are also innovative as they can learn the subjects of their own with the adding of animation techniques.

2.3.9 How are library resources used to augment the teaching-learning process?

Our college has a rich collection of Text and Reference books. A good number of Journals, periodicals and competitive books are also available. The internet access with printer in library also gives an easy way of collecting data on any subject. News papers and Wall papers constitute another knowledge base of our library.

The curriculum and previous university question papers furnish information about the course and examination pattern. This is in addition to these facilities provided by the teaching Departments.

The employment notifications, awareness programmes and allowing Library Internet for applying for Jobs is the contribution of the Library.

The facilities help staff and students to acquire knowledge for improving teaching-learning process.

2.3.10 Does the institution face any challenges in completing the curriculum within the planned time frame and calendar? If ‘yes’, elaborate on the challenges encountered and the institutional approaches to overcome these.

Yes. Most of the departments are single-manned and whenever a teacher is sent for Orientation/ Refresher Course during course period, the curriculum is left unfinished for 3 to 4 weeks and to overcome this challenge, the Faculty arranges special classes for completing the syllabus in such exigencies.

2.3.11 How does the institute monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching learning?

The IQAC monitors and evaluates the quality of teaching- learning process. Of course, the pass percentage and progression is the ultimate yard stick of the procedure.

2.4 Teacher Quality

2.4.1 Provide the following details and elaborate on the strategies adopted by the college in planning and management (recruitment and retention) of its human resource (qualified and competent teachers) to meet the changing requirements of the curriculum

2.4.2 How does the institution cope with the growing demand/ scarcity of qualified senior faculty to teach new programmes/ modern areas (emerging areas) of study being introduced (Biotechnology, IT, Bioinformatics etc.)? Provide details on the efforts made by the institution in this direction and the outcome during the last three years.

Biotechnology, Botany and Chemistry subjects in B.Sc. self-finance course are taught by Guest Faculties as there are no sanctioned posts for that Group.

The subjects like Computer Science and Computer Skills were handled by the department of Computer Science only till last year. Due to the transfer of the Lecturer in that Department the same subjects are being taught by a Guest Faculty.

The subject of Computer Course for First and Second year students is dealt by another Guest Faculty.

Initially the paper on Fundamentals of Information Technology was taught by a Special Guest Teacher for a couple of years. Later a permanent Teacher in Commerce Department has mastered the subject and he himself is dealing it. This speaks of the commitment of that teacher.

The Guest Faculties are also qualified and are selected by the College. Their remuneration is being paid from the College funds.

2.4.3 Providing details on staff development programmes during the last four years elaborate on the strategies adopted by the institution in enhancing the teacher quality.

a) Nomination to staff development programmes

b ) Faculty Training programmes organized by the institution to empower and enable the use of various tools and technology for improved teaching-learning

v Teaching learning methods/approaches: Senior members and Staff with expertise in ICT technology impart training in teaching methods.

v Handling new curriculum: The teachers among themselves in the Departments and eminent staff from neighbouring colleges and retired teachers help the staff learn difficult and new aspects of the curriculum.

v Content/knowledge management: The staff is allowed to use text books, reference books, journals and use Internet facilities available in the Library for getting knowledge.

v Selection, development and use of enrichment materials: It is left to the Departments in consultation with IQAC of the college.

v Assessment—Feedback is collected from staff expressed in Staff Meetings.

v Cross cutting issues: These issues can be discussed in Faculty forum.

v Audio Visual Aids/multimedia—The MANA TV in-charge, the Department of physics and Library provide the staff the required knowledge in operating Audio Visuals Aids and ICT facility.

v OER’s--- Knowledgeable persons in the area provide the required skill for using OERs.

v Teaching learning material development, selection and use –The staff are encouraged to prepare teaching material in different methods using Books and Internet.

c) Percentage of faculty

* invited as resource persons in Workshops / Seminars / Conferences organized by external professional agencies – 2/15

* participated in external Workshops / Seminars / Conferences recognized by national/ international professional bodies---5/15 persons

* presented papers in Workshops / Seminars / Conferences conducted or recognized by professional agencies---- 5/15 persons

2.4.4 What policies/systems are in place to recharge teachers? (eg: providing research grants, study leave, support for research and academic publications teaching experience in other national institutions and specialized programmes industrial engagement etc.)

The teachers are encouraged to participate in research, publications of papers and to attend seminars and workshops conducted by other institutions.

The staff is also encouraged to organize seminars and workshop in the campus.

Sri V. Chittabbai, Lecturer in Commerce has submitted his Ph.D. Dissertation very recently. Sri K.V. Vidyasagar, Lecturer in Mathematics, Sri C. V. S. Ravindranath, Lecturer in English, Sri G.V.V.S.V. Prasad Babu, Lecturer in Commerce, Sri S.P. Naidu, Lecturer in History, Smt. K. Usha Jyothi, Lecturer in English and Sri M.V.D.V. Prasad, Physical Director of this college have been pursuing their Ph.D. on part-time basis.

Sri Ch. Kesavarao, Lecturer in Politics has availed FDP during 2009-2011 for pursuing Ph.D. and he too submitted his Ph. D. Dissertation. Two Lecturers have applied for FDP for pursuing Ph.D during UGC XII plan.

2.4.5 Give the number of faculty who received awards / recognition at the state, national and international level for excellence in teaching during the last four years. Enunciate how the institutional culture and environment contributed to such performance/achievement of the faculty.

Not yet. The staff is encouraged for achieving recognition at national level.

2.4.6 Has the institution introduced evaluation of teachers by the students and external Peers? If yes, how is the evaluation used for improving the quality of the teaching-learning process?

Student feedback is annually collected by all the departments and the same is analyzed in the IQAC Meetings. If adverse remarks are found against any teacher, it is brought to the notice of the teacher concerned and necessary advice is given for rectification.

2.5 Evaluation Process and Reforms

2.5.1 How does the institution ensure that the stakeholders of the institution especially students and faculty are aware of the evaluation processes?

In the commencement of the academic year, all Departments inform the students about the model question papers and previous university papers which give information about the academic evaluation process. Also, the valuation of the House Exams by the teacher also reflects the evaluation pattern at the university level.

Apart from academic evaluation, the students are kept informed that their overall performance will be assessed by conducting co-curricular activities like seminars, quizzes, group discussions, projects and behavioural aspects.

2.5. 2 What are the major evaluation reforms of the university that the institution has adopted and what are the reforms initiated by the institution on its own?

Of late, the Affiliating University initiated practical examinations in Economics and many Commerce papers which are intended to test the students’ practical knowledge. Our college is following the same evaluation reforms.

In addition to the above reforms, the institution has initiated its own methods of evaluating the students- formal and informal. These include question-answer method, quizzes, assignments, group discussions, student projects and unit tests keeping in view the standards of the students.

2.5.3 How does the institution ensure effective implementation of the evaluation reforms of the university and those initiated by the institution on its own?

The Examination Committee takes suitable steps for implementation of evaluation methods of the university and those of the institution. The same are monitored by the Principal.

2.5.4 Provide details on the formative and summative evaluation approaches adapted to measure student achievement. Cite a few examples which have positively impacted the system.

The students are given marks for House Examinations, assignments, quizzes, group discussions, student projects, other competitions and behavioural aspects with weightage. This gives the overall performance of the students during the year.

After the academic year is over, the students’ performance is compared with the progress achieved by them.

In most cases, this analysis has proven to be correct.

2.5.5 Enumerate on how the institution monitors and communicates the progress and performance of students through the duration of the course/programme? Provide an analysis of the students results/achievements (Programme/course wise for last four years) and explain the differences if any and patterns of achievement across the programmes/courses offered.

The answer papers of unit tests, half yearly and pre final exams are shown to the students and the marks are thus communicated to them. The rectifications in the papers are also suggested and impositions are given for wrong answers. This has greatly improved the performance of the students over years.

The results in quizzes and other departmental competitions make them more confident and prepare them for their future efforts for higher studies and employment.

The department-wise analysis of the performance of the students is also made.

2.5.6 Detail on the significant improvements made in ensuring rigor and transparency in the internal assessment during the last four years and weightages assigned for the overall development of students (weightage for behavioural aspects, independent learning, communication skills etc.

Weightage is given to the students in the following aspects of internal assessment:

· The students are assessed in terms of academic matters by conducting House Examinations with a weightage of 50%

· Their behavioural aspects are observed by their behaviour in the class room, laboratory and college campus with a weightage of 10%

· Their communication skills are tested by activities like elocution, essay writing and quiz competitions with a weightage of 20%

· Their analytical skill is assessed by Group Discussion and question- answer method of evaluation with a weightage of 10%

· Their critical thinking is observed by their performance in presenting seminar papers with a weightage of 10%

This analysis gave the correct picture of the student in all aspects of personality in many cases.

2.5.7 Does the institution and individual teachers use assessment/evaluation as an indicator for evaluating student performance, achievement of learning objectives and planning? If ‘yes’ provide details on the process and cite a few examples.

Yes. The assessment method adopted by teachers gives correct picture of student’s abilities for striving for his bright future. This has proven correct in majority cases in terms of progression and settlement in life.

2.5.8 What are the mechanisms for redressal of grievances with reference to evaluation both at the college and University level?

The student has every liberty to approach the teacher if the evaluation by the teacher falls short of his expectation.

With regards to any grievance in the university examinations, he/she can apply for revaluation. The college office helps the student for necessary procedural help in this regard.

2.6 Student performance and Learning Outcomes

2.6.1 Does the college have clearly stated learning outcomes? If ‘yes’ give details on how the students and staff are made aware of these?

Yes. The learning outcomes of the college are incorporated in the very Vision of the College which is written at the entrance of the college building.

2.6.2 How are the teaching, learning and assessment strategies of the institution structured to facilitate the achievement of the intended learning outcomes?

The IQAC of the college blends all the aspects relating to teaching, learning and assessment and gives directions to all the departments periodically for achieving the intended objectives of the college.

2.6.3 What are the measures/initiatives taken up by the institution to enhance the social and economic relevance (quality Jobs, entrepreneurship, innovation and research aptitude) of the courses offered?

• T he English Language Laboratory acts as a good source of imparting spoken English as a tool of communication skills.
• The JKC facility imparts soft and analytical skills for future jobs.
• The student projects and surveys undertaken by Economics, Politics and Commerce Departments give scientific temper among the students.
• The collaboration with Service Organizations by the Commerce Department allows the students to “earn while learn” scheme.
• The theoretical knowledge of Electricity and Magnetism goes hand in hand for students interested in Electrical wiring job works which also comes under “earn while learn” scheme.
• Many students use their computer knowledge for undertaking projects in Banks, Revenue Offices and computer centres on a part-time basis out of college hours.
• Students with Biology background avail their knowledge for working in private hospitals and Clinical Laboratories during evenings.

2.6.4 How does the institution collect and analyze data on student learning outcomes and use it for planning and overcoming barriers of learning?

The student Feedback on learning outcome is collected from exam data, his/her performance in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, and his /her abilities to participate in extension activities and his/her efforts to get vertical progression.

The college analyses the data for all courses offered by the college and takes necessary steps to overcome the shortcomings.

2.6.5 How does the institution monitor and ensure the achievement of learning outcomes

The IQAC and Staff Council monitor the achievement of learning outcomes and chalk out next year plans.

2.6.6 What is the graduate attributes specified by the college/affiliating university? How does the college ensure the attainment of these by the students?

The University and the College expect a graduate to be knowledgeable in terms of his subjects and also in other related areas required for job earning with strong ethical background.

The college uses all its organs to the optimum level to achieve the graduate attributes.

SWOT analysis

Strengths :

• Transparent admission process with reservations and fee exemptions for socially and economically backward students.
• Maintenance of Student profile.
• Identification of slow learners and fast learners.
• Conducting of Bridge courses for students in the beginning of the academic year.
• Assignment of work to students as per their mental capabilities.
• Class Counsellor system
• Encouragement for updating of knowledge for the teachers.

Weaknesses:

• Inability to retain students up to the final year of Degree Course due to various practical reasons.
• Inadequacies of efforts to improve pass percentage of the students due to the running of many departments by Guest Lecturers.
• Lack of motivation for teachers to organize seminars/workshops.

Opportunities:

• The research culture can be injected into staff so that they can take up Research/Collaboration activities.
• The facilities offered by various funding agencies.
• Live MANA TV programmes transmitted by the State Government.
• Use of ICT facility regularly, if it is extended to all Departments.

Threats:

• A gradual decline of quality of students’ intake over years.
• High drop-out rate.

Any other relevant information regarding Teaching-Learning and Evaluation which the college would like to include.

Criterion III: Research, Consultancy and Extension

3.1 Promotion of Research

3.1.1 Does the institution have recognized research centre/s of the affiliating University or any other agency/organization?

No. The Institution has been striving for promotion of research with other Institutions and Agencies over the last few years.

3.1.2 Does the Institution have a research committee to monitor and address the issues of research? If so, what is its composition? Mention a few recommendations made by the committee for implementation and their impact.

Yes. The Research & Consultancy Committee (R&C Committee) of the College is headed by the Principal with all Department Heads being other members on the committee.

· It encourages faculty to take up Minor Research projects with the financial assistance from various funding agencies.

· It encourages faculty to pursue Individual Research, conduct National, Regional and Local seminars and workshops.

· It provides information to all Departments on Seminars and Workshop organized by other Institution and encourages the teachers to participate in these activities.

· It provides all basic amenities like Library, Journals, Internet and ICT for Research activities.

· It also encourages teachers to avail faculty Development Program (Study Leave) sponsored by the UGC.

· It also encourages Departments to conduct student projects to inject scientific and research temper among the students.

3.1.3 What are the measures taken by the institution to facilitate smooth progress and implementation of research schemes/projects?

Only one Minor Research project was carried out by Dr D. Narayanarao, Lecturer in Economics during 2009-2011 and during that time:

§ autonomy to the principal investigator --given

§ timely availability or release of resources –funds were released in a single instalment.

§ adequate infrastructure and human resources – He availed College facilities in addition to the facilities given by the project. He took the help of students for data collection during holidays.

§ time-off, reduced teaching load, special leave etc. to teachers --- did not arise as he was a single Lecturer and completed his project outside the college hours only.

§ support in terms of technology and information needs—He took the support of Mathematics and Computer Science Departments.

§ facilitate timely auditing and submission of utilization certificate to the funding authorities – Submission of Project Report and Audit Report were done on time with the co-operation of the Principal and Office.

3.1.4 What are the efforts made by the institution in developing scientific temper and research culture and aptitude among students?

The students are allowed to undertake small study projects related to their curriculum and Surveys on socio-economic conditions of people of selected places by Arts & Commerce departments. Students are taken to field trips and study trips organized by the Departments to get first hand information of the gross root realities of the society. Some of the bright students assist their teachers in data collection and analysis for the research work undertaken by them. All these efforts inject scientific temper among students.

3.1. 5 Give details of the faculty involvement in active research (Guiding student research, leading Research Projects, engaged in individual/collaborative research activity, etc.

A Minor Research Project entitled “Factors Influencing People’s Participation in Forest Management- A Study in Visakhapatnam District” was undertaken during 2009 -11 with Dr D. Narayana Rao, Lecturer in Economics of the College as the Principal Investigator. Students of the college, Forest department and Integrated Tribal Development Area ( ITDA), Paderu were also involved in the project work.

The entire Faculty is advised for active individual or collaborative research and we expect positive response from them in future.

3.1.6 Give details of workshops/ training programmes/ sensitization programmes conducted/organized by the institution with focus on capacity building in terms of research and imbibing research culture among the staff and students.

The R&C Committee holds meetings often to induce scientific culture in the minds of the staff and students.

3.1.7 Provide details of prioritised research areas and the expertise available with the institution.

§ Mathematics “online internet Radio station” has been launched by the Department of Mathematics.

§ Social Networking Website Forum for Mathematics (SNFM) has been launched by Department of Mathematics.

§ Surveys made by Department of Economics helped the Fishermen in Visakhapatnam district.

§ Surveys made by the Department of politics threw light on the socio-economic conditions of Child Labour and Anganawadi workers in certain Mandals of Visakhapatnam District.

§ Surveys undertaken by the Department of Commerce provided important data on measures taken for Tribal Welfare under the purview of ITDA, Paderu.

3.1.8 Enumerate the efforts of the institution in attracting researchers of eminence to visit the campus and interact with teachers and students?

All kinds of efforts are being made by the institution to bring Eminent Researchers as Guest Lecturers and as Resource persons for Seminars and Workshops. The Department of Telugu organized National Seminar on 21^st & 22^nd Feb. 2013 and 30^th & 31^st July, 2013 and eminent Scholars graced the Occasions.

3.1.9 What percentage of the faculty has utilized Sabbatical Leave for research activities? How has the provision contributed to improve the quality of research and imbibe research culture on the campus?

As per the guidelines of the UGC, only one Lecturer (20% of 6 Regular Lecturers in 2009) is eligible for availing FDP and Sri Ch. Kesava Rao, Lecturer in politics went on Study Leave (FDP) during 2009-2011 under UGC XI plan.

3.1.10 Provide details of the initiatives taken up by the institution in creating awareness/advocating/transfer of relative findings of research of the institution and elsewhere to students and community (lab to land)

The Mathematics online Internet Radio Station & Social Networking Forum for Mathematics provides all Mathematics teachers and students to discuss issues relating to the subject.

The survey results conducted by Commerce, Economics and politics Departments have helped various Government and Non-Government Agencies.

3.2 Resource Mobilization for Research

3.2.1 What percentage of the total budget is earmarked for research? Give details of major heads of expenditure, financial allocation and actual utilization.

No budget is allotted for research. However, all the Departments are encouraged to undertake projects with the help of funding agencies like UGC, NAAC and APSHEC etc.

3.2.2 Is there a provision in the institution to provide seed money to the faculty for research? If so, specify the amount disbursed and the percentage of the faculty that has availed the facility in the last four years?

No. The Staff are allowed to use funds of other funding agencies only.

3.2.3 What are the financial provisions made available to support student research projects by students?

The surveys made by Students of the Departments of Economics and politics have been supported by Contingent amounts of Minor Research Project (Economics) and FDP (Politics).

All the other Surveys done by students have been financially supported by the staff only.

3.2.4 How does the various departments/units/staff of the institute interact in undertaking inter-disciplinary research? Cite examples of successful endeavours and challenges faced in organizing interdisciplinary research.

The Institution has been engaging inter-disciplinary research.

For instance, during finalizing Research findings of certain teachers of the College, the following Departments have worked together.

§ Commerce – Mathematics – Computer Science -- for the Research of Sri V. Chittabbai, Lecturer in Commerce.

§ Politics – Computer Science – For the Research of Sri Ch. Kesavarao, Lecturer in politics.

§ Economics – Mathematics – Computer Science –For the Minor Research Project of Dr. D. Narayanarao, Lecturer in Economics.

§ History – Computer Science – For the ongoing Ph. D. Work of Sri S.P. Naidu, Lecturer in History.

§ Telugu – Computer Science –For the Research work of Sri S. Ganapathirao, Contract Faculty in Telugu.

3.2.5 How does the institution ensure optimal use of various equipment and research facilities of the institution by its staff and students?

The Institution allows staff and students to use College Library, Journals, Reference Books, Internet and Printer for undertaking research in the college.

3.2.6 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facility? If ‘yes’ give details.

No. The Institution has been trying to establish MoUs with industry and other agencies for developing research.

3.2. 7 Enumerate the support provided to the faculty in securing research funds from various funding agencies, industry and other organisations. Provide details of ongoing and completed projects and grants received during the last four years.

3.3 Research Facilities

3.3.1 What are the research facilities available to the students and research scholars within the campus?

Well established Library with internet and printer facility, availability of Text Books, Reference Books, Laboratories and computers are the facilities available for research work for the staff and students.

3.3.2 What are the institutional strategies for planning, upgrading and creating infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of researchers especially in the new and emerging areas of research?

The CPDC and Staff Council identify the future infrastructural needs of the college and submit proposals to the funding agencies like the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

The College has been working for construction of well-equipped Biotechnology laboratory for providing infrastructural facilities in Biotechnology.

The Institution has put forward steps to have a Computer Laboratory with latest computers so that many advanced online and offline projects can be taken up.

3.3.3 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other beneficiary agency for developing research facilities?? If ‘yes’ what are the instruments/ facilities created during the last four years ?

No. However, the College is putting all efforts to get special grants from any beneficiary for developing research facilities.

3.3.4 What are the research facilities made available to the students and research scholars outside the campus / other research laboratories?

The Online Mathematical Radio station, The Social Networking Website Forum for Mathematics can be accessed to by any staff or student of Mathematics.

The data collected through surveys by various departments is made available in the College and Departmental Libraries.

3.3.5 Provide details on the library/ information resource centre or any other facilities available specifically for the researchers?

The Library provides information through Text Books, Reference Books, Periodicals and Internet browsing with printer for researchers.

3.3.6 What are the collaborative researches facilities developed / created by the research institutes in the college? For ex. Laboratories, library, instruments, computers, new technology etc.

Researchers of any department can avail any facility in the college free of cost. The R&C Committee of the college is extending all help in this regard.

3.4 Research Publications and Awards

3.4.1 Highlight the major research achievements of the staff and students in terms of

* Patents obtained and filed (process and product) -Nil

* Original research contributing to product improvement -Nil

* Research studies or surveys benefiting the community or improving the services -

The Surveys made by the Economics Department have benefitted Fishermen and tribal people.

The Surveys made by Commerce Department have benefitted Tribal people.

The research data collected by the Dept. of politics on “Child Labour and Anganawadi workers” has provided useful information to the Labour Department.

* Research inputs contributing to new initiatives and social development

-Nil

3.4.2 Does the Institute publish or partner in publication of research journal(s)? If ‘yes’, indicate the composition of the editorial board, publication policies and whether such publication is listed in any international database?

No

3.4.3 Give details of publications by the faculty and students:

* Publication per faculty --

* Number of papers published by faculty and students in peer reviewed journals (national / international)

* Number of publications listed in International Database (for Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc. ) -nil

* Monographs

* Chapter in Books -nil

* Books Edited -nil

* Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers -nil

* Citation Index -nil

* SNIP -nil

* SJR -nil

* Impact factor -nil

* h-index –nil

3.4.4 Provide details (if any) of

* research awards received by the faculty : NIL

* recognition received by the faculty from reputed professional bodies and agencies, nationally and internationally : NIL

* Incentives given to faculty for receiving state, national and international recognitions for research contributions : NIL

3.5 Consultancy

3.5.1 Give details of the systems and strategies for establishing institute-industry interface?

The Institution has placed eminent people in various fields on the CPDC and invites other Industry Representatives for Special Meetings on efforts for establishing Institute-industry interface.

3.5.2 What is the stated policy of the institution to promote consultancy? How is the available expertise advocated and publicized?

The College has a vision of blending teaching with practical applications so as to make the student competitive in the present job market. The College has also promoted consultancy on academic matters with other local colleges, Computer Institutions and some Non-Government Organizations.

3.5.3 How does the institution encourage the staff to utilize their expertise and available facilities for consultancy services?

The Research & Consultancy Committee is encouraging all the departments to have consultancy. As a result, many of the departments have consultancy with other Institutions, Agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations.

3.5.4 List the broad areas and major consultancy services provided by the institution and the revenue generated during the last four years.

Insurance Companies, Tax Consultants, Forest Department, Computer Companies, Non-Government Organizations, Literary and Cultural Organizations are the major consultancy service area of the college.

The services rendered by the departments are free of cost.

3.5. 5 What is the policy of the institution in sharing the income generated through consultancy (staff involved: Institution) and its use for institutional development?

The college is trying to establish consultancy services for income generation to the institution.

3.6 Extension Activities and Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR)

3.6.1 How does the institution promote institution-neighbourhood-community network and student engagement, contributing to good citizenship, service orientation and holistic development of students?

Since the college has almost 30 years of existence, it has reputation for its physical facilities, qualified staff, JKC, Gymnasium and extension activities. It has very good contacts with all surrounding agencies.

· The College allows Technical Education Department for conducting Common Entrance Examination for Polytechnic (CEEP) and Forest Department for conducting Recruitment Tests for Forest Officer in its campus.

· The College spares the services of our Physical Director as an Examiner for Physical Fitness Tests for Forest Department.

· Our College is used as a regular Examination centre for all kinds of A.P. Public Service Commission Examinations.

· The College invites the Police department to conduct Sensitizing programmes for the development of tribal people in our college campus.

· The College allows Government School Teachers and Integrated Child Development Schemes supervisors to watch Live Telecast of Rajeev Vidya Mission Programmes and Women & Child Welfare Schemes respectively.

· The College premises have been utilized as Election Reception and Counting Centre for many Elections.

· It allows our students to participate in the social awareness programmes in and around the town.

· It allows students to participate in extension activities in nearby villages with the cooperation of the villagers, Clubs and NGOs.

3.6.2 What is the Institutional mechanism to track students’ involvement in various social movements / activities which promote citizenship roles?

It allows students to participate in all social movements to promote citizenship roles through the two NSS units and Women Empowerment cell.

All these activities are recorded and Certificates of Appreciation are issued to the student participants on College Functions.

3.6.3 How does the institution solicit stakeholder perception on the overall performance and quality of the institution?

The student feedback, Alumni Meeting Resolutions, opinions expressed by parents in the parent- teacher meetings and feedback of other beneficiaries provide picture of overall performance of the Institution.

3.6.4 How does the institution plan and organize its extension and outreach programmes? Provide the budgetary details for last four years, list the major extension and outreach programmes and their impact on the overall development of students .

The NSS Programme Officers of the College plan their activities for an academic year and forward the same for approval of the Principal. Depending upon the activities, proposals will be submitted to the NSS Coordinator of the Affiliating University for sanction of Regular grants (Rs 15,000/- per annum) and Special Camp grants (Rs 22,500/- per camp). The activities include cleaning of the campus, blood donation camps and medical camps with the help of local Organisations, awareness programmes on hygiene, AIDS, Literacy etc. and conducting surveys.

The programmes are executed by the two NSS Units and with the cooperation of all the teachers of the college. The major activities of the NSS units are mentioned hereunder:

3.6.5 How does the institution promote the participation of students and faculty in extension activities including participation in NSS, NCC, YRC and other National/ International agencies?

The faculty and students are allowed to participate in the extension activities like blood donation, mass plantation, medical camps, veterinary camps, shramadan services, campaigning of measures against social evils through NSS units of the college.

The students are allowed to conduct surveys on socio-economic conditions of the adopted villages in the NSS programmes.

The Certificates of Participation are issued for the services are rendered by them. The students with Participation Certificates have reservation in admission for PG Courses.

3.6.6 Give details on social surveys, research or extension work (if any) undertaken by the college to ensure social justice and empower students from under-privileged and vulnerable sections of society?

Students undertake social surveys on socio-economic, hygienic conditions of the people in the adopted villages analyze the data and suggest the measures for their improvements as a part of NSS Special camps held almost annually by the college.

Girl Students also advise women of the villages on steps against gender discrimination, health, children etc.

3.6.7Reflecting on objectives and expected outcomes of the extension activities organized by the institution, comment on how they complement students’ academic learning experience and specify the values and skills inculcated.

By involving students in the extension activities, they are exposed to the ground realities of rural life. The students are allowed to participate in all social activities which inculcate the feeling of social responsibility, satisfaction, confidence and make the students ethically healthy—this reflects the vision of the college.

3.6.8 How does the institution ensure the involvement of the community in its reach out activities and contribute to the community development? Detail on the initiatives of the institution that encourage community participation in its activities?

While conducting Clean and Green programme in the adopted village and Special Camps in the nearby villages, local people are made to be involved. Thus a contact is established between the Institution and the Community with the help of which only the programs can be executed smoothly. It may be worth-mentioning that all these activities are aimed at the development of the people of these villages.

Also, Government organs concerned involve themselves in these activities.

3.6.9 Give details on the constructive relationships forged (if any) with other institutions of the locality for working on various outreach and extension activities.

The NSS units and Women Empowerment Cell (WEC) have cordial relations with the neighbouring community people.

The NSS units undertake all kinds of extension activities with the cooperation of Rotary Club, Narsipatnam and Rajanna Foundation, Visakhapatnam. The WEC undertake activities meant for women safety and women health.

3.6.10 Give details of awards received by the institution for extension activities and/contributions to the social/community development during the last four years.

The activities undertaken by the two NSS units are appreciated by the Panchayats of the respective villages, concerned Departments, Agencies and Foundations. It is a regular phenomenon.

3.7 Collaboration

3.7.1 How does the institution collaborate and interact with research laboratories, institutes and industry for research activities. Cite examples and benefits accrued of the initiatives - collaborative research, staff exchange, sharing facilities and equipment, research scholarships etc.

Even though, there is no formal MOU with research laboratories, efforts will be made for establishing collaboration with research laboratories.

3.7.2 Provide details on the MoUs/collaborative arrangements (if any) with institutions of national importance/other universities/ industries/Corporate (Corporate entities) etc. and how they have contributed to the development of the institution.

The Institution is trying to have collaborative arrangements with reputed Institution in near future.

3.7.3 Give details (if any) on the industry-institution-community interactions that have contributed to the establishment / creation/up-gradation of academic facilities, student and staff support, infrastructure facilities of the institution viz. laboratories / library/ new technology /placement services etc.

With Industry-institution-community interaction,

1. The college was established with the Corpus Fund provided by Etikoppaka Sugar Factory, Yetikoppaka and other local Philanthrapists.

2. Sri P. Narayana Rao, Tahsildar, Kotavuratla, Visakhapatnam district has donated Library Books worth Rs 10,000/- in 2010.

3. Sri K. Murali Krishna, D.C.T.O., Guntur has donated a good number of Books for Competitive Examinations.

4. The Chemical Factory at Chilakapalem, Srikakulam (dt.) has conducted Recruitment Drive and selected Chemists from our college.

5. Eurka Forbes Company and Suvarna Bhoomi Builders Pvt. Ltd have conducted Job Drives and selected our students for jobs in their firms.

6. Sri J.V.A.N. Jogarao, Chartered Accountant offered the job of Tax Consultant to some of our students.

7. M/s Balaji Clinical Laboratory at Narsipatnam offered job of Lab. Technician to some of our students.

3.7.4 Highlight the names of eminent scientists/participants, who contributed to the events, provide details of national and international conferences organized by the college during the last four years.

3.7.5 How many of the linkages/collaborations have actually resulted in formal

MoUs and agreements? List out the activities and beneficiaries and cite examples (if any) of the established linkages that enhanced and/or facilitated -

a) Curriculum development/enrichment: Nil

b) Internship/ On-the-job training: Nil

c) Summer placement--- with many MNCs through the JKC.

d) Faculty exchange and professional development: Nil

e) Research: Nil

f) Consultancy---with many agencies in service sector.

g) Extension---with Rajanna Foundation, Visakhapatnam and Rotary Club, Narsipatnam.

h) Publication: Nil

i) Student Placement—through JKC, the department of Collegiate Education has MoU with many national and multi-national companies which allowed a good no of students find placements.

j) Twinning programmes: Nil

k) Introduction of new courses: Nil

l) Student exchange:Nil

m) Any other: Nil

3.7.6 Detail on the systemic efforts of the institution in planning, establishing and implementing the initiatives of the linkages/collaborations.

The Research & Consultancy Committee is making systematic efforts for proper implementation of linkages and collaborations with other agencies.

SWOT analysis

Strengths :

· Many of the Teachers are pursuing individual Research for ph. D. Degree.

• Encouragement to the staff for availing Faculty Development Programme.
• Provisions for staff to take up Minor Research Project with the financial assistance of many Funding Agencies.
• Inter-disciplinary Research activities are encouraged for research by staff which indirectly helps the students take up study projects.
• Permitting the staff and students to use college facilities for Research.
• Consultancy of certain Departments with local Business and Service Organizations.
• Students’ involvement in Extension activities helps them in becoming good citizens.
• Having good rapport with local community.

Weakenesses:

• The teachers have not shown interest in organizing Seminars/Workshops mainly due to lack of motivation.
• The number of Staff attending Seminars and Workshops is also to be improved.
• The Research Publications from the staff is far below the level of expectations.
• Linkages with Industry are yet to create considerable impact.
• Due to non-availability of Regular Lecturers in Biotechnology and Computer Science, Research in emerging areas could not be conducted beyond extending help for small projects.

Opportunities:

• The Research culture can be injected into the staff by encouraging them participate in more Seminars/Workshops conducted by other Educational Institutions and organizing the same at the Institutional Level.
• The Research attitude can be instilled in students by involving them in surveys, study projects and seminars.
• Consultancies with Industry and other Service Organizations can be made still more useful to the students in showing their entrepreneurial skills.

Threats:

• The Infrastructural facilities for Research are not adequate.
• The non-availability of Regular Lecturers in Biotechnology and Computer Science greatly hampers the Research activity in emerging areas.

Any other relevant information regarding Research, Consultancy and Extension which the college would like to include.

Criterion IV: Infrastructure and Learning Resources

4.1 Physical Facilities

4.1.1 What is the policy of the Institution for creation and enhancement of infrastructure that facilitate effective teaching and learning?

The Institution believes in the fact that for effective teaching – learning process, good infrastructure facilities are required. The college has good infrastructural facilities. However, it always tries to improve the infrastructure in tune with growing needs of the college and this is an ever-going process.

4.1.2 Detail the facilities available for

a) Curricular and co-curricular activities – classrooms, technology enabled learning spaces, seminar halls, tutorial spaces, laboratories, botanical garden, Animal house, specialized facilities and equipment for teaching, learning and research etc.

Classrooms -07

Library

Laboratory cum class Room -05

Botanical Garden

General ICT room/e- class room/ seminar Hall -01

English Language Laboratory

b) Extra –curricular activities – sports, outdoor and indoor games, gymnasium, auditorium, NSS, NCC, cultural activities, Public speaking, communication skills development, yoga, health and hygiene etc.

Sports room cum gymnasium

Table Tennis room

Courts for Volley Ball, Badminton, Shuttle Badminton, Parallel Bars and kho-kho

Ground for Cricket

NSS units -2 run from the Department of Program Officers

AVE facility – with Physics Department

Communication skills – in English Language Laboratory

Outdoor stadium – for all activities

Cultural Club – in the MANA TV room

4.1.3 How does the institution plan and ensure that the available infrastructure is in line with its academic growth and is optimally utilized? Give specific examples of the facilities developed/augmented and the amount spent during the last four years (Enclose the Master Plan of the Institution/ campus and indicate the existing physical infrastructure and the future planned expansions if any).

The institution has plans to improve infrastructure in consistent with requirements. The same is placed in the Staff Council and College Planning and Development Council for taking appropriate resolutions.

Basing on the resolutions, the issue will be taken up with State Government or any funding agency. The women’s hostel (estimated cost of Rs 40.00 Lakh), Laboratories for Botany, Biotechnology and Chemistry (estimated cost of Rs 18.00 Lakh) have been sanctioned in this way only.

4.1.4. How does the institution ensure that the infrastructure facilities meet the requirements of students with physical disabilities?

The physical facilities available in the college meet the requirements of students with physical disabilities also.

4.1.5. Give details on the residential facility and various provisions available within them:

• Hostel Facility – No hostel facility as on today. The construction of Women’s Hostel is in progress.

• Recreational facilities, gymnasium, yoga centre, etc.: Nil
• Computer facility including access to internet in hostel : Nil
• Facilities for medical emergencies : Nil
• Library facility in the hostels ; Nil
• Internet and Wi-Fi facility; Nil
• Recreational facility : Nil
• Available residential facility for the staff and occupancy Constant supply of safe drinking water : Nil
• Security : Nil

4.1.6. What are the provisions made available to students and staff in terms of health care on the campus and off the campus ?

No specific health care is provided to students and staff on the campus. However, a 100 bedded Govt. hospital is situated 1.5 km away from the college. Luckily, the facility of 108 Medical Ambulance provided by the state Govt. comes to rescue within 10 minutes, in case of emergency. This helped students on a number of occasions previously.

In some cases, the staff has escorted the sick students to the Govt. hospital when they suddenly fell sick.

• 4.1.7. Give details of the Common Facilities available on the campus –spaces for special units like IQAC, Grievance Redressal unit, Women’s Cell, Counseling and Career Guidance, Placement Unit, Health Centre, Canteen, recreational spaces for staff and students, safe drinking water facility, auditorium, etc.

Due to shortage of accommodation, most of the common facilities are situated in the rooms of the in-charges only. The college does not have auditorium, health centre and canteen. The IQAC Room is getting ready soon with the available funds. The ICT Room is also acting as a Seminar Hall. A common Waiting Hall for Women Students is also available.

4.2 Library as a Learning Resource

4.2.1 Does the library have an Advisory Committee? Specify the composition of such a committee. What significant initiatives have been implemented by the committee to render the library, student/user friendly?

Yes. The Library Committee Consists of 4 staff members with the Librarian as the Convener. It recommends requirements of the Library to the college Principal for necessary realization. It also reviews activities related to Library periodically.

4.2.2 Provide details of the following:

* Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.): 157.5 sq.mt.

* Total seating capacity : 80

* Working hours (on working days, on holidays, before examination days, during examination days, during vacation): 10am to 5 pm on all working days.

* Layout of the library (individual reading carrels, lounge area for browsing and relaxed reading, IT zone for accessing e-resources): 03 Computer systems with Internet facility with printer are available.

4.2.3 How does the library ensure purchase and use of current titles, print and e-journals and other reading materials? Specify the amount spent on procuring new books, journals and e-resources during the last four years.

The purchase of Books is limited as there are no budgetary provisions for it from the state Budget. Of course, the UGC Grants (Plan XI) for purchase of Books exhausted in 2008 itself.

4.2.4 Provide details on the ICT and other tools deployed to provide maximum

access to the library collection?

* OPAC : Available

* Electronic Resource Management package for e-journals : No

* Federated searching tools to search articles in multiple databases : No

* Library Website : Yes

* In-house/remote access to e-publications : No

* Library automation : Done

* Total number of computers for public access: 03 Computers

Total numbers of printers for public access : One

* Internet band width/ speed □ 2mbps □ 10 mbps □ 1 gb (GB): 256 Kbps

* Institutional Repository : Nil

* Content management system for e-learning : Available

* Participation in Resource sharing networks/consortia (like Inflibnet) : Nil

4.2.5 Provide details on the following items:

* Average number of walk-ins : 60

* Average number of books issued/returned : 40

* Ratio of library books to students enrolled: 1 :20

* Average number of books added during last three years: Nil

* Average number of login to opac (OPAC) : 40

* Average number of login to e-resources : 10

* Average number of e-resources downloaded/printed : 50

* Number of information literacy trainings organized : 10

* Details of “weeding out” of books and other materials : Nil

4.2.6 Give details of the specialized services provided by the library

* Manuscripts : Nil

* Reference : Available

* Reprography : Available

* ILL (Inter Library Loan Service): Nil

* Information deployment and notification (Information Deployment and Notification) : Available

* Download: Articles, notifications for higher studies & employment, previous PG admission papers and information on a number of subjects for seminars and workshops by staff and students.

* Printing : Available

* Reading list/ Bibliography compilation: Available

* In-house/remote access to e-resources; Nil

* User Orientation and awareness: Available

* Assistance in searching Databases: Available

* INFLIBNET/IUC facilities: Nil

4.2.7 Enumerate on the support provided by the Library staff to the students and teachers of the college.

Library is the biggest boon to the students and staff of the college in enhancement of knowledge in academic and research activities. The Librarian extends all help in providing all kinds of services in the Library.

· It issues Text books and Reference books to staff and students on all subjects periodically.

· It provides periodicals for enlarging their general knowledge.

· It provides information about employment notifications and guides the students about how to apply for different jobs.

· It guides the students about the sources of knowledge for the competitive examinations,

· It is a source of old question papers of previous University Examinations for the students.

· It allows the students and staff to use Reference books, news papers and periodicals during leisure hours.

· It allows the people in the college to use internet facility to get information about different subjects and take print outs, if necessary.

· The students can gather information about the college from the college web site and clippings available in the Library.

4.2.8 What are the special facilities offered by the library to the visually/physically challenged persons? Give details.

The physical facilities available in the Library are suitable to the physically disabled persons. However, no facilities are available for visually challenged persons as such situation has not arisen so far.

4.2.9 Does the library get the feedback from its users? If yes, how is it analysed and used for improving the library services. (What strategies are deployed by the Library to collect feedback from users? How is the feedback analysed and used for further improvement of the library services?)

The Librarian collects feedback on Library services every year and basing on them competitive books, ICT and Internet have been provided.

4.3 IT Infrastructure

4.3.1. Give details on the computing facility available (hardware and software) at the institution.

• Number of computers with Configuration (provide actual number with exact configuration of each available system)

English Language Laboratory—28 systems—Intel p1 600 m Hz speed 128 RAM CDROM ATX Cabinet with 14” CRT monitor&

Computer Science Laboratory—30 systems—Inter dual core 2.2 GHz RAM 512 ATX Cabinet with 15.6” LCD monitor

• Computer-student ratio—1:10
• Stand alone facility--nil
• LAN facility--available
• Licensed software—English Language Software
• Number of nodes/ computers with Internet facility--three
• Any other

4.3.2 Detail on the computer and internet facility made available to the faculty and students on the campus and off-campus?

There are 03 computers with internet facility in the Library and 02 systems with internet in the office at the service of the staff and students. Generally, this facility is made available during college working hours only. However, in special cases, it is made available out of the office hours also, with the permission of the Principal.

The computer ICT facility in MANA TV Room is a common facility for staff and students for teaching purpose.

Internet facility has been extended to all the Departments also.

4.3.3 What are the institutional plans and strategies for deploying and upgrading the IT infrastructure and associated facilities?

The College proposes to extend ICT and Internet facility to all departments with UGC and RUSA Grants.

4.3.4 Provide details on the provision made in the annual budget for procurement, upgradation, deployment and maintenance of the computers and their accessories in the institution (Year wise for last four years)

4.3.5 How does the institution facilitate extensive use of ICT resources including development and use of computer-aided teaching/ learning materials by its staff and students?

The use of ICT facility is now used on certain occasions only as there is one common ICT facility available in the college.

Internet facility has been extended to all the Departments also.

4.3.6 Elaborate giving suitable examples on how the learning activities and technologies deployed (access to on-line teaching - learning resources, independent learning, ICT enabled classrooms/learning spaces etc.) by the institution place the student at the centre of teaching-learning process and render the role of a facilitator for the teacher .

The students are encouraged to avail Internet facility to gather information for updating their subject knowledge for examinations and for preparing for class seminars and for small project works.

The students are also encouraged to use ICT facility on special occasions.

All these activities are done under the supervision the teacher in charge of English Language Laboratory and this is aimed at blending technology with traditional means of learning by students.

4.3.7 Does the Institution avail of the National Knowledge Network connectivity directly or through the affiliating university? If so, what are the services availed of?

No

4.4 Maintenance of Campus Facilities

4.4.1 How does the institution ensure optimal allocation and utilization of the available financial resources for maintenance and upkeep of the following facilities (substantiate your statements by providing details of budget allocated during last four years)?

4.4.2 What are the institutional mechanisms for maintenance and upkeep of the infrastructure facilities and equipment of the college?

The maintenance of the infrastructure facilities is done with Government budget and college funds to the extent of availability of funds only.

4.4.3 How and with what frequency does the institute take up calibration and other precision measures for the equipment/instruments?

Computer systems are maintained once every year and other instruments are maintained whenever they go out of working condition.

4.4.4 What are the major steps taken for location, upkeep and maintenance of sensitive equipment (voltage fluctuations, constant supply of water etc.)?

The Inverter facility is available for Principal’s Room and Office.

The voltage fluctuations have been smoothened by installing MCPs for different phases of current supply.

Constant water supply is provided to the college and plumbing work for pipes has done to cater to the needs of the college. Lights are provided for all class rooms, Laboratories and campus.

SWOT analysis

Strengths:

• The Infrastructure in the College is reasonably adequate for academic, Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activities.

Weaknesses:

• The Computers in the Laboratory are outdated and are to be replaced by latest ones.
• The toilet facilities are yet to be improved..
• No ICT facility to all the Teaching Departments.
• No National Knowledge network connectivity.
• More advanced Library facilities are not available.

Opportunities:

• The Computer Laboratory can be updated if special grants are sanctioned by the State Government.
• If permission for utilizing the Accumulated Special Fee fund of the College is accorded by the Commissioner of Collegiate Education, A.P., Hyderabad, toilets and other proposed additional rooms can be constructed.

Threats:

• Periodical maintenance of the College buildings is not done as there are no budgetary provisions for it.

Any other relevant information regarding Infrastructure and Learning Resources which the college would like to include.

Criterion V: Student Support and Progression

5.1 Student Mentoring and Support

5.1.1 Does the institution publish its updated prospectus/handbook annually? If ‘yes’, what is the information provided to students through these documents and how does the institution ensure its commitment and accountability?

Yes. The prospectus contains information on the objectives, basic facilities, courses, medium, seat strength, reservation, fee structure and extra -curricular facilities available in the college.

5.1.2 Specify the type, number and amount of institutional scholarships / freeships given to the students during the last four years and whether the financial aid was available and disbursed on time?

5.1.3 What percentage of students receives financial assistance from state government, central government and other national agencies?

About 65% of students receive for SC/ST/BC/EBC Welfare scholarship sanctioned by the State Government

5.1.4 What are the specific support services/facilities available for

ü Students from SC/ST, OBC and economically weaker sections---Reservations in admissions and Scholarships for all these categories. Also, SC & ST students are exempted from payment of all kinds of fees at the time of admissions and they are provided with books from Book Bank.

ü Students with physical disabilities – provided reservation in admissions and convenient seating in the examination room.

ü Overseas students – Haven’t been enrolled so far.

ü Students to participate in various competitions/National and International – Students are paid Travelling Allowance and provided lodging and boarding facilities from College funds whenever they go to other places for competitions.

ü Medical assistance to students: health centre, health insurance etc.- Nil

ü Organizing coaching classes for competitive exams – Yes, through Jawahar Knowledge Centre(JKC)

ü Skill development (spoken English, computer literacy, etc.,) – Yes, through JKC &English language Laboratory

ü Support for “slow learners”- Remedial coaching is given to them.

ü Exposures of students to other institution of higher learning/ corporate/business house etc. – field trips, Income Tax consultancy Offices, Insurance Offices and Computer Centres for having practical exposure of their subjects.

ü Publication of student magazines – Student Magazines and Wall Magazines.

5.1.5 Describe the efforts made by the institution to facilitate entrepreneurial skills among t he students and the impact of the efforts .

The students with enterprising nature are generally identified and they are given the tips of marketing by the class counsellors. In fact, many of our students are working as Insurance Agents, Computer Data Operators, Electricians, Plumbers, Carpenters, as Laboratory Assistants in Blood Banks and Private hospitals on Part- time basis.

The College uses the services of students with knowledge of electrical, plumbing and carpentry works on payment basis to encourage the policy of “Earn while learn”.

5.1.6 Enumerate the policies and strategies of the institution which promote participation of students in extracurricular and co-curricular activities such as sports, games, Quiz competitions, debate and discussions, cultural activities etc.

* additional academic support, flexibility in examinations

* special dietary requirements, sports uniform and materials

* any other

The co-curricular and extra-curricular activities have been made as integral part of the curriculum and they are executed by the college as per the Annual Calendar of the college.

The students who go outside on co-curricular and extra-curricular activities are given attendance and taught the subjects due to their absence by taking extra hours subsequently. There were occasions on which practical Time tables for the Final Examinations were rescheduled for such students.

Academic support for academic competitions is always given to students through Library and Class Teachers. Material is also provided to the extent possible to the students who participate in Games and Sports.

5.1.7 Enumerating on the support and guidance provided to the students in preparing for the competitive exams, give details on the number of students appeared and qualified in various competitive exams such as UGC-CSIR- NET, UGC-NET, SLET, ATE / CAT / GRE / TOFEL / GMAT / Central /State services, Defence, Civil Services, etc.

· The Career Guidance Cell and Library hangs Notifications for different jobs notified by different Recruiting Agencies.

· The college guides the students for applying for the notifications.

· It gives information about the sources of information for different job tests.

· It allows the students to use periodicals, competitive Books and Internet facility for preparing for competitive examinations.

· The staff of the college also offers valuable suggestions during their preparation.

· The college has been offering this kind of services to the students through Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) for non-conventional jobs like corporate and private sectors.

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5.1.8 What type of counselling services are made available to the students (academic, personal, career, psycho-social etc.)

· For students with a new background Bridge courses; for slow-learners remedial classes and for bright students class seminars and small study projects are assigned.

· Students with poor memory and home sick are given required nurturing.

· Students with risk of drop-out are properly advised to continue their studies. If they want to go for B. Tech./Teacher Training

Certificate (TTC), we do not object to their leaving.

· If students wish to discontinue their studies due to financial problems, such students are given financial help also by the staff personally.

· Career Guidance is given to all students and Special training is given to students through JKC for employment for attending Competitive Examinations. All these activities are counselling services and aimed at improving the standards of the students.

5.1.9 Does the institution have a structured mechanism for career guidance and placement of its students? If ‘yes’, detail on the services provided to help students identify job opportunities and prepare themselves for interview and the p ercentage of students selected during campus interviews by different employers (list the employers and the programmes).

Yes. The Career and Guidance Cell collects information through News papers and Internet, communicates the same to students, helps the interested students to apply, offer coaching and take them for interviews (for JKC appointments only). Thus a large numbers of students have found placements and the list is given below.

5.1.10 Does the institution have a student grievance redressal cell? If yes, list (if any) the grievances reported and redressed during the last four years

The Grievance Redressal Cell is headed by Sri V. Chittabbai, Lecturer in Commerce and the grievances are completely redressed or mitigated depending on the nature of the grievance. If the grievance is beyond the management of the college, the same is addressed to the higher authorities for solution.

Some of the grievances have been redressed as detailed below:

1. Pass percentage in Computer Course is low—A Guest Faculty has been appointed.

2. Difficulty in submitting Online Scholarship Applications—The services of College Computer Technician and Staff have been utilised.

3. The post of Librarian fell vacant—Services of Regular Staff used for rendering Library services.

4. No JKC Mentor—Appointed a Regular JKC Mentor by the Government.

5. Toilets require repairs—the repairs done and they are made ready for use.

6. Drinking water facility affected often due to frequent power cut—water has been provided by bringing from outside.

7. Difficulty in getting Bus passed at Bus stand—Bus passes are made to issue at the college itself.

8. Examination grievances like wrong postings, delay in issuing certificates – attended to such works very promptly by deputing Office staff to the University.

5.1.11 What are the institutional provisions for resolving issues pertaining to sexual harassment?

The Anti- ragging cell, Women Empowerment Cell and Disciplinary Committee take suitable steps for resolving sexual discrimination in the campus. Fortunately, not even a single case of this kind has been registered in the College so far.

5.1.12 Is there an anti-ragging committee? How many instances (if any) have been reported during the last four years and what action has been taken on these?

Yes. Not even a single case of this kind has been registered in the College so far.

5.1.13 Enumerate the welfare schemes made available to students by the institution .

· The SC/ST/OBC/EBC students are given scholarship on the basis of income of their parents.

· The eligible SC/ST students are exempted from payment of Tuition and Restricted Course fees at the time of admission. This amount is being reimbursed by the state government.

· The Physically challenged students are also given scholarship.

· The Coffee Board working under the purview of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Paderu offers Special Scholarship to ST students on the basis of merit, in addition to Government Scholarship.

· The students are given Bus pass facility to come to college from nearby villages on subsidized rates

· Ladies waiting hall with toilet facility & continuous drinking water supply for all students and staff are provided.

· The College is taking efforts for improving the infrastructural facilities with College Accumulated fund.

5.1.14 Does the institution have a registered Alumni Association? If ‘yes’, what are its activities and major contributions for institutional, academic and infrastructure development?

Yes. The Association meets often to review the academic matters and offers advice on developmental activities on the basis of student feedback. The Association helps the institution in purchasing certificates & Gifts on College Day celebrations and provided financial help in the maintenance of infrastructure on some occasions.

5.2 Student Progression

5.2.1 Providing the percentage of students progressing to higher education or employment (for the last four batches), highlight the trends observed .

5.2.2 Provide details of the programme wise pass percentage and completion rate for the last four years (course wise/batch wise as stipulated by the university)? Furnish programme-wise details in comparison with that of the previous performance of the same institution and that of the Colleges of the affiliating university within the city/district.

5.2.3 How does the institution facilitate student progression to higher level of education and/or towards employment?

· The Institution provides all facilities to the students in getting admission into PG courses through Library and Teachers concerned.

• The students are provided coaching for jobs through JKC.

5.2.4 Enumerate the special support provided to students who are at risk of failure and drop out?

· The students are given Remedial coaching, impositions and assignments based on previous University examination papers when they are at risk of failure.

· The students at risk of drop-out are given counselling by the Class teachers and the Principal and they are made to continue their courses in some cases.

5.3 Student Participation and Activities

5.3.1 List the range of sports, games, cultural and other extracurricular activities available to students. Provide details of participation and program calendar .

· Quiz, elocution, essay-writing, painting, rangoli, dance, classical & light music, mock action come under the purview of Cultural Wing of the college.

· The two NSS units execute all kinds of extension activities.

· The internal selections, Inter collegiate tournaments and Inter University tournaments come under the purview of Department of physical Education.

These programmes are implemented as per the annual plan chalked out by the College.

5.3.2 Furnish the details of major student achievements in co-curricular, extracurricular and cultural activities at different levels: University / State / Zonal / National / International, etc. for the previous four years.

Major Co-curricular activities :

Games & Sports:

5.3.3 How does the college seek and use data and feedback from its graduates and employers, to improve the performance and quality of the institutional provisions ?

The Institution collects feedback from the students, discusses the same in the Staff Council meetings and takes appropriate decisions to improve the quality of the Institutional provisions.

5.3.4 How does the college involve and encourage students to publish materials like catalogues, wall magazines, college magazine, and other material? List the publications/ materials brought out by the students during the previous four academic sessions.

The college always encourages the students to publish their views relating to current topics and poems in the College Magazine and Wall Magazines.

5.3.5. Does the college have a Student Council or any similar body? Give details on its selection, constitution, activities and funding.

As per the directions of the state Government, Elections to Student Council are banned. However, the college nominates students on various committees for conducting various academic and administrative activities. They are involved in decision making process in the Committee Meetings which helps the students to develop qualities of Leadership at that age.

5.3.5 Give details of various academic and administrative bodies that have student representatives on them.

Student Representatives are placed on almost all academic and administrative bodies of the college and the Resolutions are taken with the knowledge of the Student Representatives only. Thus the College adopts a highly democratic and transparent administration.

5.3.6 How does the institution network and collaborate with the Alumni and former faculty of the Institution.

There is regular contact between the college and the Alumni of the college. The Alumni has been helping the College in providing Merit Certificates and Prizes on College Day Celebrations & providing certain infrastructural facilities to the College.

The former faculty also visits the college very frequently and offers valuable advice to the present staff on academic matters.

SWOT analysis

Strengths:

• Post-Metric Scholarships to about 65% of students and exemption of Special and Admission Fee for economically weaker SC, ST and other Backward Classes.
• The Class Counsellor System.
• Remedial Coaching for slow learners.
• Grievance Cell
• No ragging cases so far.
• Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activities.
• JKC and English Language Laboratory for communication and soft skills.
• Involvement of students as Members on College Committees.

Weaknesses:

• The inability of the College to impart high level of entrepreneurial skills to the students.
• No training for Conventional jobs through JKC.
• The student progression is not highly satisfactory.

Opportunities:

• The student pass percentage can be increased by providing more remedial measures.
• The student progression can be raised by offering coaching for higher studies and conventional jobs.

Threats:

• The continuous decline in student admissions is a matter of deep concern due to migration to professional and job- fetching courses.
• The drop-out rate is high due to the above reason only.
• The decline in student progression is alarming.

Any other relevant information regarding Student Support and Progression which the college would like to include.

Criterion VI: Governance, Leadership and Management

6.1 Institutional Vision and Leadership

6.1.1 State the vision and mission of the Institution and enumerate on how the mission statement defines the institution’s distinctive characteristics in terms of addressing the needs of the society, the students it seeks to serve, institution’s traditions and value orientations, vision for the future, etc.?

The vision and mission are in tune with Higher Education Policies of the Nation. The challenges and demands of the modern global trends are definitely reflected in the vision of the institution.

Vision:

• To make the student physically, mentally and ethically healthy and to provide the student skills to acquire job in the present job market

Mission:

• To introduce new courses to meet the needs of the society.
• To empower faculty members with high qualifications along with Research activity to address the needs of the students according to the new trends and developments.
• To provide infrastructure facilities like more number of class rooms, well equipped laboratories, e-class rooms for the introduction of new courses, using modern technologies.
• To impart essential and latest knowledge and information technology to students to meet the challenges in real life.
• To encourage students to participate in the sports and games for their all round development.
• To organize programmes to enhance employability of students through JKC and other certificate courses.
• To initiate students into various service–oriented programmes by organizing special camps through our college NSS units.
• To offer services to the students academically and administratively in a transparent, fast and fair manner.

6.1.2 What is the role of top management, Principal and Faculty in design and implementation of its quality policy and plans?

· The administration hierarchy is fixed by the Government. The College Planning & Development Council (CPDC) plays the key role in fixing the priorities, exploring opportunities and constantly monitoring the policies of the institution for a particular academic period.

· The Principal and the Staff Council then design various activities in consultation with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) for the academic year and all the teaching departments implement academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities of the departments.

· There exists a committee System in the management hierarchy with each committee having 3 Lecturers and 2 Student Representatives. Each Committee looks after the implementation of that activity.

· The Staff Council meets once or twice every month to review the activities of the College and issues suitable instructions to the Staff on all activities.

· Feedback is collected from students, parents, Alumni and other stake holders of the college for the quality of implementation of the activities basing on which future plans will be chalked out.

Above all, the District Resource Centre (DRC) at Visakhapatnam and the Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education at Rajahmundry review all the activities of the College once in every month. The Commissioner of Collegiate Education of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad convenes a Review Meeting every month with the Regional Joint Directors in the state and necessary instructions and issues necessary instructions to the Principals of the Colleges in the state.

All the activities of the College are reviewed by the CPDC at the end of the academic year. In fact, all the Major decisions like New Courses, New infrastructural facilities and certain expenditure are to be taken with the consent of the CPDC only.

Thus the Management of the quality of the activities of the Institution is reviewed by the top hierarchy.

6.1.3 What is the involvement of the leadership in ensuring?

• The policy statements and action plans for fulfilment of the stated mission ---

1. To improve the Student progression in terms of higher education and job opportunities.

2. To provide all infrastructural facilities including ICT, Laboratories and Library.

3. To take steps for involving the students in Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

4. To organize various extension activities for making the student more active and dynamic.

5. To take steps for imparting the students the knowledge of value education and ethics.

6. To strengthen Research in the College and thereby injecting scientific temper in the students.

7. To open new courses in tune with the demands of the students.

8. To offer services to students and staff in a honest, fair and fast manner

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• Formulation of action plans for all operations and incorporation of the same into the institutional strategic plan .

1 . To implement student –centric learning techniques with more

2 . To strengthen JKC and Career Guidance Cell for increasing job opportunities

to the students.

3 . To extend the ICT to all Departments of the College.

4. To strengthen Research& Extension activities through Research & Consultancy Committee.

5 . To modernise Laboratories and Library.

6 . To encourage the NSS Units to take up more extension activities.

7 . To encourage all the interested students to participate in available Games &

Sports.

8 . To impart ethical values, awareness on environment and latest basic science

by teaching subjects like “ Value Education”, “Environmental Sciences”,

Foundation Course-I (Heritage and Culture) and Foundation

Course-II (Science & Technology).

• Interaction with stakeholders --- It is done often and Feedback from the students, parents, Alumni and other stake holders collected through meetings held by the college.
• Proper support for policy and planning through need analysis, research inputs and consultations with the stakeholders ----Basing on the feedback from all the stakeholders, the Staff Council and the IQAC take proper steps for planning of the policies.
• Reinforcing the culture of excellence ---The traditional and modern teaching methods are employed for imparting teaching. Proper evaluation of the student is done and he is given all kinds of skills to secure a decent job.
• Champion organizational change —Positive changes proposed by the Government or CPDC are always welcomed with appreciation and implemented to the extent possible.

6.1.4 What are the procedures adopted by the institution to monitor and evaluate policies and plans of the institution for effective implementation and improvement from time to time?

The monitoring of policies is carried out by various Committees comprising Lecturers and Student Representatives. It is further reviewed in the Staff Meetings and the CPDC Meetings. Another way of evaluating the plans of the college is the Feedback System.

6.1.5 Give details of the academic leadership provided to the faculty by the top management?

In the beginning of the academic year, each Department prepares it own Academic Activities and the College prepares Institutional Plan basing on the activities collected from all Department and the Academic Calendar given by the Affiliating University.

Each department works independently and executes all its academic activities pre- fixed by the College. Every teacher is present on various committees and he monitors the working of those committees. As a whole, each teacher is given academic leadership to a great extent.

The faculty can express their views in meetings and major decisions like construction of buildings, providing additional infrastructure, purchases etc. are taken only after long drawn discussions.

6.1.6 How does the college groom leadership at various levels?

All the activities are monitored by committees and new action plans are recommended to the Principal/ Staff Council by these committees only. In fact, without involvement of the committees no activity is possible in the college.

6.1.7 How does the college delegate authority and provide operational autonomy to the departments / units of the institution and work towards decentralized governance system?

The academic and other activities of any department are to be executed by the staff of that Department only. The Departments can submit proposals for organizing workshops, seminars, Guest Lecturers and for projects to the Funding Agencies through the Principal of the College. To that extent, operational autonomy is given to the Departments.

6.1.8 Does the college promote a culture of participative management? If ‘yes’, indicate the levels of participative management.

Yes. All the teachers of the college are placed on many committees and they are expected to monitor, execute and submit the compliance of the activities of the committees to the Principal of the college.

6.2 Strategy Development and Deployment

6.2.1 Does the Institution have a formally stated quality policy? How is it developed, driven, deployed and reviewed?

The Institution has its mission as the quality policy. It is evolved as a result of collective efforts of the staff members of the college basing on the feedback of all the stakeholders.

It is deployed by the departments of the college and is reviewed by the CPDC, IQAC, Staff Council and other stakeholders.

6.2.2 Does the Institute have a perspective plan for development? If so, give the aspects considered for inclusion in the plan.

The Institution always tries to include any welcome change in the policy. It may be academic, infrastructural, human resource managerial, financial etc. which is meant to elevate the overall image of the college.

6.2.3 Describe the internal organizational structure and decision making processes.

Various activities in the college are assigned to various committees consisting of 3 teachers and 2 students. These committees recommend decisions or submit proposals for financial sanction. The Staff Council meets with the Principal as the President and takes decisions for compliance.

6.2.4 Give a broad description of the quality improvement strategies of the institution for each of the following

• Teaching & Learning --- The staff is allowed to update them by attending Refresher Courses, Seminars and Workshops and also allowed access to the latest teaching tools. The learning process is made student-centric. Individual attention is paid to all students. The slow learners are given remedial coaching and the fast learners are given small study projects.

Research & Development --- The staff is encouraged to pursue individual research

for Ph. D. / M. Phil Degree. They are also advised to have consultancy services

with other Institutions and organisations.

• Community engagement ---Through Extension activities students are allowed to imbibe the culture of service to mankind.
• Human resource management --- The filling up of most of the posts of Regular Staff in the present academic year is a boost to the efforts of the College, as far as human resource management is concerned.
• Industry interaction ----The Institution is paying attention for forging interaction with Industry.

6.2.5 How does the Head of the institution ensure that adequate information (from feedback and personal contacts etc.) is available for the top management and the stakeholders, to review the activities of the institution?

The Principal collects information of the College through feedback, informal conversation with students, parents, staff, public and other stakeholders. . He places the same before the CPDC, Staff Council and Alumni for necessary review.

6.2.6 How does the management encourage and support involvement of the staff in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the institutional processes?

The Principal and the CPDC congratulate the staff when they succeed in getting Research Degrees, conducting workshops, seminars, Guest Lecturers and other extension activities.

This Word of Appreciation boosts their morale and they work with more interest and commitment.

The principal takes care of the staff in disposing of files relating to their personal grievances, loans, pay fixations etc. in a honest and fair way which also makes them hold the Principal in high esteem.

These steps naturally make the staff more dynamic and committed towards their duties of implementing the policies of the College.

6.2.7 Enumerate the resolutions made by the Management Council in the last year and the status of implementation of such resolutions .

Some important resolutions:

1. It is resolved to improve present infrastructural structure in view of student welfare with RUSA Funds and accumulated Special Fee Funds---in the process.

2. It is resolved to take steps to complete 3 class rooms at the earliest---in the process.

3. It is resolved to take steps to complete the Women’s Hostel with UGC funds of XI Plan.—requested the Executive Agency to expedite the work and the same is in progress.

4. To introduce new B.Sc. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) and B. Sc (Chemistry, Botany, Zoology) courses with effect from 2014-15.--B.Sc. (MPC) sanctioned but the process is not realised due to bifurcation of the state.

5. The CPDC resolved to appoint Guest Faculty for the Self-financed B.Sc.( Chemistry, Botany, Biotechnology) course—implemented.

6. It is resolved to continue certain non-teaching posts on temporary basis with their salary to be met internally-----Implemented.

6.2.9 Does the affiliating university make a provision for according the status of autonomy to an affiliated institution? If ‘yes’, what are the efforts made by the institution in obtaining autonomy ?

The Institution will go for autonomy in due course of time.

6.2.10 How does the Institution ensure that grievances / complaints are promptly attended to and resolved effectively? Is there a mechanism to analyze the nature of grievances for promoting better stakeholder relationship?

There is a Grievance Cell in the college headed by Sri V. Chittabbai, Lecturer in Commerce to receive complaints about academic or any other matters relating to students. The Cell takes up the complaints/ grievances with the Principal of the College for prompt action.

6.2.11 During the last four years, had there been any instances of court cases filed by and against the institute? Provide details on the issues and decisions of the courts on these?

No, not even one

6.2.12 Does the Institution have a mechanism for analyzing student feedback on institutional performance? If ‘yes’, what was the outcome and response of the institution to such an effort?

Yes. The feedback is collected from students formally and from other stakeholders informally in meetings. The IQAC analyses this feedback and tries to improve their performance of the College in all aspects.

The staff is advised to improve their performance, if the feedback score of any Lecturer is below 60%.

Basing on the student feedback many proposals are received for the betterment of the College. For instance, sanction of Women’s Hostel, strengthening of JKC & Library.

6.3 Faculty Empowerment Strategies

6.3.1 What are the efforts made by the institution to enhance the professional development of its teaching and non teaching staff?

The institution encourages teachers to attend Orientation courses, Refresher courses, Seminars and workshops. They are also encouraged to organize Seminars and Workshops in the College.

The non-teaching staff is provided with training on computers, Accounts and other administrative issues by non-teaching staff of other colleges and with teachers who have knowledge of these matters of this college.

All the staff members are encouraged to use internet for expanding their knowledge in their respective disciplines. They are advised to help the students in viewing results, submission of online scholarship & Job applications.

6.3.2 What are the strategies adopted by the institution for faculty empowerment through training, retraining and motivating the employees for the roles and responsibility they perform?

The Principal conducts meeting in groups and individually with all the employees and offers advice, directions and motivation. He appreciates the staff when they do their duties sincerely. This gives a moral boost to the employees. He is not hesitant to advise the staff for rectifications when they fall short of expectations as per the feedback reports.

6.3. 3 Provide details on the performance appraisal system of the staff to evaluate and ensure that information on multiple activities is appropriately captured and considered for better appraisal .

The Academic Performance Indicator (API) of a College Teacher system is in vogue in the state. Accordingly, every teacher is assessed in terms of

I—Teaching Learning and Evaluation related Activities

II—Co-curricular, Extension and Professional Development Activities

III—Research and Academic Contributions

This marks scored in this system in respect of all teachers of the College are to be communicated the Commissioner of Collegiate Education, AP, Hyderabad and this will be the basis for transfers of teachers in future.

6.3.4 What is the outcome of the review of the performance appraisal reports by the management and the major decisions taken? How are they communicated to the appropriate stakeholders?

This marks scored in the API system in respect of all teachers of the College are to be communicated the Commissioner of Collegiate Education, AP, Hyderabad and this will be the basis for transfers and sanction of periodical increments for the teachers.

6.3.5 What are the welfare schemes available for teaching and non teaching staff? What percentage of staff have availed the benefit of such schemes in the last four years?

The Staff have the following welfare measures for their benefits

• Encashment of Earned Leave --50%
• Encashment of Half Pay Leave --50

· Temporary Advance & Part-Final Withdrawal from General Provident Fund –70%

• Leave Travel Concession -nil
• Festival loan --20%
• Cloth loan --20%
• House loan through Banks –70%
• Computer loan --nil
• Medical Reimbursement --13%
• Maternity Leave --nil

· Special Casual Leave for Lady staff –7%

6.3.6 What are the measures taken by the Institution for attracting and retaining eminent faculty?

Since this is a Government organization, even eminent faculty in advanced subjects like Biotechnology are to be paid as per the Government norms and no special measures can be taken for retaining them.

6.4 Financial Management and Resource Mobilization

6.4.1 What is the institutional mechanism to monitor effective and efficient use of available financial resources?

The CPDC prepares action plan of the college with estimated income to the college for the academic year. The Principal and Staff Council also make planning of finances as per the available funds of the college from various sources during the course period.

6.4.2 What are the institutional mechanisms for internal and external audit? When was the last audit done and what are the major audit objections? Provide the details on compliance.

The College has external audit only and it is done by the Accountant-General, A.P., Hyderabad and the Regional joint Director of Collegiate, Education, Rajahmundry,

The last audit by the Regional Joint Director was conducted in July, 2013 and audit objections are yet to be communicated.

The last AG audit was conducted in 2006 and its Objections and Replies given by this Office are mentioned hereunder:

STATEMENT SHOWING THE REPLIES TO THE A.G.AUDIT REPORT FOR 2005-06

A.G.s Reference No. IAU (LA)III/EDN.III/2003-04/20 DATED 08.05.03

6.4.3 What are the major sources of institutional receipts/funding and how is the deficit managed? Provide audited income and expenditure statement of academic and administrative activities of the previous four years and the reserve fund/corpus available with Institutions, if any .

The State Govt. Budget is the main source of income to establishment, water & Electricity, Stamps & Telephone, Travelling Allowance, Machinery & Equipment, Repairs, Contract Faculty honorarium, JKC Mentors remuneration, Other Office Expenditure and Minor Repairs for buildings.

The UGC Grants for a Plan Period is another big source of income for various academic and progressive developmental activities.

The income from College Internal resources also counts for the smooth running of the Institution.

The expenditure is planned as per the tentative income of the College only.

6.4.4 Give details on the efforts made by the institution in securing additional funding and the utilization of the same (if any).

The College has been securing additional funds from the UGC only and they have been utilized to the extent possible only. The Institution assures that more UGC funds will be utilized in future years.

The Accumulated Special Fee Fund of the College is another additional source income which is being utilized for expansion of College buildings with the prior permission of the Commissioner of the Department.

The College has applied for sanction of RUSA Funds for expansion of facilities to the tune of Rs 2.00 Crore.

6.5 Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS)

6.5.1 Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

a. Has the institution established an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)? If ‘yes’, what is the institutional policy with regard to quality assurance and how has it contributed in institutionalizing the quality assurance processes?

Yes. This body coordinates all the academic activities and ensures quality in the performance of the college.

b. How many decisions of the IQAC have been approved by the management/ authorities for implementation and how many of them were actually implemented?

Most of the decisions taken by the IQAC have been approved and implemented.

c. Does the IQAC have external members on its committee? If so, mention any significant contribution made by them?

Yes. The external members are highly experienced and are respectable in the society. Their suggestions are very valuable to the functioning of the IQAC.

d. How do students and alumni contribute to the effective functioning of the IQAC?

The feedback of the students and Alumni gives scope for reviewing the priorities the IQAC.

e. How does the IQAC communicate and engage staff from different constituents of the institution?

The IQAC coordinates all the quality related activities, their financial commitments, management of human resources and optimization of the equipment.

6.5.2 Does the institution have an integrated framework for Quality assurance of the academic and administrative activities? If ‘yes’, give details on its operationalisation .

The chairperson of the IQAC is the Principal and the Office Administrative Head is another member. In addition, some teachers and external members are present on the body. The composition of the IQAC ensures a co-ordination between academic and administrative wings of the college.

6.5.3 Does the institution provide training to its staff for effective implementation of the Quality assurance procedures? If ‘yes’, give details enumerating its impact.

The institution does not provide any formal training for this. However, the senior members on the IQAC help the other members to know the procedures for effective implementation of quality assurance procedures.

6.5.4 Does the institution undertake Academic Audit or other external review of the academic provisions? If ‘yes’, how are the outcomes used to improve the institutional activities?

The CPDC in its meetings generally reviews the functioning of the IQAC. But from the year 2012-13, the state Govt. launched Academic Audit by external Academic Auditors. The Report is communicated to the College on the spot and the Institution has 10 days time for trying to rectify the drawbacks and submitting the Compliance Report.

This system has greatly helped the Institution to get itself ready for the Academic Audit whose norms are in tune with NAAC norms.

6.5.5 How is the internal quality assurance mechanisms aligned with the requirements of the relevant external quality assurance agencies/regulatory authorities?

The IQAC functioning is based on the requirements of NAAC and the same quality is expected to be present in the college by the Academic Audit also.

6.5. 6 What institutional mechanisms are in place to continuously review the teaching learning process? Give details of its structure, methodologies of operations and outcome?

The teaching process is enriched by the IQAC by making the teachers update their knowledge, attend seminars & workshops and encourage them organize seminars & workshops and go for the latest teaching methods.

The learning is made more student-centric by allowing the student get knowledge of the subject through a lot of learning techniques and all these activities are encouraged by the IQAC.

Thus the IQAC coordinates teaching and learning methods to derive optimum output.

6.5.7 How does the institution communicate its quality assurance policies, mechanisms and outcomes to the various internal and external stakeholders?

The institution communicates its achievements to students and parents by displaying the results in the college website.

The same is communicated to the Alumni and the CPDC in the periodical meetings. The quality assurance policies are communicated in the college handbook also.

SWOT analysis

Strengths:

· Good Governance in implementing academic activities.

· Successful in providing job-oriented training for non-conventional jobs.

· Ability of the Administration in collecting feedback from the students, parents and other stakeholders.

· Collecting self-appraisal of the staff performance and analyzing with other records.

· Successful in implementing the Resolutions taken in the CPDC, IQAC and Staff Council Meetings.

· Successful in providing all welfare measures to the Students and the Teachers.

· Proud to be very fast and honest in clearing up issues relating to students in the Office

· Very successful in clearing financial matters relating to staff in a very short time.

Weaknesses:

· Sometimes inordinate delay takes place in getting plans prepared from Engineering Departments prepared which is leading to non completion of certain infrastructure works.

Opportunities:

· The Governance can be improved with more funds from the Government and support from the CPDC and the Stakeholders.

Threat:

· All Resolutions taken by the Committees cannot be implemented due to financial constraints and administrative bottlenecks.

Any other relevant information regarding Governance Leadership and Management which the college would like to include.

Criteria VII: Innovations and Best Practices

7.1 Environment Consciousness

7.1.1 Does the Institute conduct a Green Audit of its campus and facilities?

Yes. The Eco Club takes all steps to impart the knowledge of ecological balance in the campus to the staff and students. It conducts internal Green Audit of its campus and recommends eco-friendly measures to be taken by the college for making the campus greener.

7.1.2 What are the initiatives taken by the college to make the campus eco-friendly?

* Energy conservation –The College makes use of electricity very frugally as all the staff and students are advised to switch on lights and fans when required only.

* Use of renewable energy - Nil

* Water harvesting ---All the rain water on the slab of the campus is made to sink into the soil which enriches the water level of the soil.

* Check dam construction ---Nil

* Efforts for Carbon neutrality –The grooming of trees in the campus and mass plantation with the help of the Forest Department neutralize the effects of carbon dioxide.

* Plantation ---Mass plantation is taken up by the college to make the campus green. Medicinal plants are planted in the campus. A small botanical garden is also maintained in the campus.

* Hazardous waste management ---The use of plastic in the campus is prohibited.

* e-waste management -- Nil

7.2 Innovations

7.2.1 Give details of innovations introduced during the last four years which have created a positive impact on the functioning of the college.

1. The Youth Festival organized by the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education, A.P., Hyderabad brought out talents in academic, cultural, administrative and co-curricular activities of the staff and students of the college. It is FIRST of its kind.

2. The Academic Audit by External Auditors streamlined all the activities of the college under one roof which is the essence of the NAAC.

3. The job-oriented training imparted to all the final year students through JKC benefitted them either in fetching jobs immediately after graduation or in promoting their levels of confidence that they (mostly from rural areas) can also succeed in future.

7.3 Best Practices

7.3.1 Elaborate on any two best practices as per the annexed format (see page)

Which have contributed to the achievement of the Institutional Objectives and/or contributed to the Quality improvement of the core activities of the college?

Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

1. Name of the department

2. Year of Establishment

3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.)

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

9. Number of Teaching posts

10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

11. List of senior visiting faculty

12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by temporary faculty

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise)

14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil/PG.

16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received

17. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University

19. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) by faculty and students

* Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

* Monographs

* Chapter in Books

* Books Edited

* Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

* Citation Index

* SNIP

* SJR

* Impact factor

* h-index

20. Areas of consultancy and income generated

21. Faculty as members in

a) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards….

22. Student projects

a) Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental/programme

b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/other agencies

23. Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students

24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the department

25. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

a)National

b)International

26. Student profile programme/course wise:

*M=Male F=Female

27. Diversity of Students

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ?

29. Student progression

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities

a) Library

b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students

c) Class rooms with ICT facility

d) Laboratories

31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) with external experts

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities

35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

Annexure - …..

Format for Presentation of Practice

1. Title of the Practice

This title should capture the keywords that describe the Practice.

2. Goal

Describe the aim of the practice followed by the institution. Brief the underlying principles or concepts in about 100 words.

3. The Context

Describe any particular contextual feature or challenging issues that have had to be addressed in designing and implementing the Practice in about 150 words.

4. The Practice

Describe the Practice and its implementation. Include anything about this practice that may be unique in the Indian higher education. Please also identify constraints or limitations, if any, in about 400 words.

5. Evidence of Success

Provide evidence of success such as performance against targets and benchmarks and review results. What do these results indicate? Describe in about 200 words.

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

Please identify the problems encountered and resources required to implement the practice in about 150 words.

7. Notes (Optional)

Any other information that may be relevant and important to the reader for adopting/ implementing the Best Practice in their institution about 150 words.

8. Contact Details

Name of the Principal:

Name of the Institution:

City:

Pin Code:

Accredited Status:

Work Phone: Fax:

Website: E-mail:

Mobile:

Post-accreditation Initiatives

If the college has already undergone the accreditation process by NAAC, please highlight the significant quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken during the last four years. The narrative may not exceed five pages.

Glossary

Academic audit: An exercise which serves to provide assurance that the delegated responsibilities for quality and standards of academic provision are being appropriately discharged.

Academic calendar: The schedule of the institution for the academic year, giving details of all academic and administrative events.

Academic flexibility: Choice offered to the students in the curriculum offering and the curriculum transactions.

Accreditation: Certification of quality that is valid for a fixed period, which in the case of NAAC is five years.

Assessment: Performance evaluation of an institution or its units based on certain established criteria.

Assessors: Trained academics or experts who represent NAAC on peer teams.

# Benchmarks: An example of good performance that serves as a standard for comparison of one’s own performance. It is a technique in which an institution measures its performance against that of the best of others.

Beyond syllabus scholarly activities : Participation in academic activities beyond the minimum requirements of the syllabus.

Blended learning: A mixing of different learning environments such as traditional face-to-face classroom methods with modern computer-mediated activities.

Bridge course: A teaching module which helps to close the gap between two levels of competence.

Carbon neutral: A term used to describe fuels that neither contribute to nor reduce the amount of carbon (measured in the release of carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere.

Catering to diverse needs: The programs and the strategies adopted by institutions to satisfy the needs of students from varied backgrounds.

Choice based credit system: A mode of learning in higher education which facilitates a student to have some freedom in selecting his/her own choices, across various disciplines for completing a UG / PG programme. It is popularly known as the cafeteria model.

Citation index: The number of times a research papers it is referred to by other researchers in refereed journals and is a measure of validity of its contents.

Co-curricular activities: Activities, which support the curriculum such as field trips, display of academic achievements, quiz, debate, discussion, seminars, role-play, etc.

Collaboration: Formal agreement/ understanding between any two or more institutions for training, research, student/faculty exchange or extension support.

# Completion rates (course/programme): The ratio of the total number of learners successfully completing a course/ graduating from a programme in a given year to the total number of learners who initially enrolled on the course/programme.

Constituencies: All the academic, administrative and support units of the institution.

Counselling: Assisting and mentoring students individually or collectively for academic, career, personal and financial decision-making.

Course outlines: List of the course modules, similar to a table of contents in a book or the outline used for writing papers. The outline defines the scope and content of the course.

Course schedule: Details of classes being offered, its time, location, faculty, and its unique number which students must know in order to register. The course schedule is published prior to the commencement of registration for each semester / session.

Criteria: Pre-determined standards of functioning of an institution of higher education that form the basis of assessment and accreditation as identified / defined by NAAC.

Curriculum design and development: Process of defining the contents of units of study and usually obtained through needs assessment, feedback from stakeholders and expert groups. Curriculum design and curriculum development are procedures which are closely linked to the description of learning outcomes.

Cycles of Accreditation: An institution undergoing the accreditation process by NAAC for the first time is said to be in Cycle 1 and the consecutive five year periods as Cycle 2, 3, etc.

Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory: Provides access to world wide information on social science, peace, and human rights research and training institutes, social science specialists, and social science periodicals.

Dual degree: Pursuing two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions (sometimes in different countries), completing them in less time than it would take to earn them separately.

EBSCO host: Is an online reference resource with designed to cater to user needs and preferences at every level of research, with over 350 full text and secondary databases available.

Elective courses: A choice available to students to select from among a large number of subjects.

Emerging areas: New areas of study and research deemed important to pursue. These areas may have been identified by national agencies or international bodies.

Enrichment courses: Value added courses offered by institution for student empowerment. They enhance the curriculum by amplifying, supplementing and replacing such parts or features as have become ineffective or obsolete.

Evaluation process and reforms: Assessment of learning, teaching and evaluation process and reforms to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the system.

Extension activities: The aspect of education, which emphasizes neighbourhood services. These are often integrated with curricula as extended opportunities intended to help, serve reflect and learn. The curriculum-extension interface has educational values, especially in rural India.

Faculty development program: Programs aimed at updating the knowledge and pedagogical skills of faculty.

# Feedback: a) formative and evaluative comments given by tutors on the performance of individual learners.

b) evaluative comments made by stakeholders to the institution on the quality and effectiveness of a defined process.

c) response from students, academic peers and employers for review and design of curriculum.

Financial management: Budgeting and optimum utilization of financial resources.

Flexibility: A mechanism through which students have wider choices of programmes to choose from, as well as, multiple entry and exit points for programmes / courses.

Gender Audit: A tool and a process based on a methodology to promote organizational learning at the individual, work unit and organizational levels on how to practically and effectively mainstream gender.

Graduate Attributes: Qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution. These attributes include, but go beyond, the disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge that has traditionally formed the core of most university courses. They are qualities that also prepare graduates as agents for social good in an unknown future. [1]

Green Audit: The process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.

# Grievance redressal: Mechanisms for receiving, processing and addressing dissatisfaction expressed complaints and other formal requests made by learners, staff and other stakeholders on the institutional provisions promised and perceived.

H-index (Hirsch Index): An index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a group of scientists, such as a department or university or country.

Human Resource Management: The process of assessing the human power requirements, recruiting, monitoring the growth and appraising them periodically and plan the staff development programs for the professional development and provide the necessary incentives and feedback.

Humanities International Complete: A comprehensive database covering journals, books and reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.

ICT: Consists of the hardware, software, networks and media for the collection, storage, processing, transmission and presentation of information (voice, data, text, images) as well as related services. ^[2]

Impact factor (IF): A measure of the citations to science and social sciences journals. The impact factor for a journal is calculated based on a three-year period and can be considered to be the average number of times published papers are cited up to 2 years after publication.

Incinerator: Waste destruction in a furnace by controlled burning at high temperatures.

Infrastructure: Physical facilities like building, play fields, hostels etc. which help run an institutional program.

Institutional Eligibility for Quality Assessment (IEQA): Eligibility granted to an Affiliated / Constituent colleges which are seeking assessment and accreditation for the first time.

Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR): Focuses on the institution’s responsibilities to the public in terms of protection of public health, safety and the environment, the public ethical behaviour and the need to practice good citizenship.

# Interdisciplinary research: An integrative approach in which information from more than one discipline is used in interpreting the content of a subject, phenomenon, theory or principle.

Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS): Self regulated responsibilities of the higher education institutions aimed at continuous improvement of quality for achieving academic and administrative excellence.

Leadership: Term used for setting direction and create a student-focused, learning oriented climate, clear and visible values and high expectation by ensuring the creation of strategies, system and methods for achieving excellence, stimulating innovation and building knowledge and capabilities.

Learning outcomes: Specific intentions of a programme or module, written in clear terms. They describe what a student should know, understand, or be able to do at the end of that programme or module.

Library as a learning resource: The library holdings in terms of titles of books, journals and other learning materials and technology aided learning mechanism, which enable the students to acquire information, knowledge and skills required for their study.

# New technologies: Digital tools and resources (hardware and software) and their application in the field of education.

# Open educational resources: Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

Optimum utilization of infrastructure: The infrastructure facilities are made available to the student for their maximum utilization. e.g. Extended hours for computer centre and library, sharing of facilities for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs.

Organizational structure: The structure and functions of an institution to co-ordinate academic and administrative planning.

Outreach activities: Is the practice of conducting local public awareness activities through targeted community interaction. They are guided by a local needs assessment.

Participative management: Refers to an open form of management where employees are actively involved in the institution’s decision making process.

Perspective development: Is a blue print regarding the objectives and targets of long term growth.

Physical facilities: Infrastructure facilities of the institution to run the educational programs efficiently and the growth of the infrastructure to keep pace with the academic growth of the institution.

Program options: A range of courses offered to students to choose at various levels leading to degrees/ diplomas/ certificates.

Promotion of research and research support system: The process of promoting research culture among faculty and students by facilitating faculty and student participation in research budget allocation, research fellowship and other faculties.

Remedial courses: Courses offered to academically disadvantaged students in order to help them cope with academic requirements.

Research: Systematic intellectual investigations aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising human knowledge.

Research grant: Grant generated/ received from different agencies by the institution for conducting research projects.

Research output: Quality research outcome beneficial for the discipline, society, industry and dissemination of knowledge including theoretical and practical findings.

Resource mobilization: Generation of funds through internal and external sources such as donations, consultancy, self-financing courses and so on.

Scopus: The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

SJR (Sclmago Journal Rank): This takes three years of publication data into account to assign relative scores to all the sources (journal articles, conference proceedings, review articles, etc.) in a citation network (Journals in SCOPUS database).

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Person): Is the ratio of the source’s average citation count per paper in a three year citation window over the “citation potential” of its subject field.

Stakeholder relationship: Affiliation and interaction with groups or individuals who have an interest in the actions of the institutions and the ability to influence its actions, decisions, policies, practices or goals of the organization.

# Strategic Plan: A specific, action-oriented medium or long-term plan for making progress towards a set of institutional goals.

Strategy development: Formulation of objectives, directives and guidelines with specific plans for institutional development.

Student profile: The student community of the institution, their strength and the diversity in terms of economic and social strata, location and other demographic aspects such as gender, age, religion, caste, rural/ urban.

Student progression: Vertical movement of students from one level of education to the next higher level successfully or towards gainful employment.

Student support: Facilitating mechanism for access to information fee structure and refund policies and also guidance and placement cell with student welfare measures to give necessary learning support to the students.

Teacher quality: A composite term to indicate the qualification of the faculty, the adequacy meant for recruitment procedures, professional development, recognition and teachers characteristics.

Teaching-learning process: Learner-centred education through appropriate methodologies to facilitate effective teaching and learning.

Twinning programmes: An arrangement between two institutions where a provider in source country A collaborates with a provider in Country B to allow students to take course credits in Country B and/or in source Country A. Only one qualification is awarded by the provider in source Country A. Arrangements for twinning programs and awarding of degrees usually comply with national regulations of the provider in source Country A.

Web of Science: An online academic citation index designed for providing access to multiple databases, cross-disciplinary research, and in-depth exploration of specialized subfields within an academic or scientific discipline.

Weightages: Taking cognizance of the different types of educational institutions, differential scores are assigned to the criteria and key aspects.

# From Quality Assurance Toolkit for Distance Higher Education Institutions and Programmes.