IQAC

IQAC Vision

To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for the Higher Education Institutions through institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.

IQAC Mission

• To channelize and systematize the efforts and measures of an institution towards academic excellence.
• Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices.
• To encourage departments to establish student Learning-centric environment to use ICT tools for teaching and learning process and to inculcate value–based education system.
• To develop an Institutional data base and documentation of the various activities leading to quality improvement.
• Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
• Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement.
• To encourage Departments to organize Seminars, Workshops, Orientation and Faculty Development Program.
• To ensure an effective and transparent operations to achieve excellence in Academic, Administrative and Financial activities.
• To encourage self-evaluation, accountability, autonomy and innovations.
• Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.

Objective the primary aim of IQAC is

• To develop and progress a heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards creation, sustenance and enhancement of quality and facilitate internalization of the quality culture permeating every sphere of the Institution.
• To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
• Emphasize faculty expertise to adopt the knowledge, technology and innovations for participatory teaching and learning process.
• To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
• To play a vital role in the Institute for coordinating various activities ensuring quality including adoption and dissemination of best methods and practices.
• Conduct periodic audits of academic, administrative and research activities for quality assessment.
• To coordinate and improve internal communication to facilitate greater policy implementation and quality assurance towards its stakeholders.

Goals of IQAC

The primary goals of IQAC are:

• Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) , is to build and ensure a quality culture at the institutional level.
• The IQAC is meant to plan, guide and monitor Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Enhancement (QE) activities of the institute.
• The IQAC shall not be a record-keeping cell but shall channelize and systematize the effort to pull the institute in the path of academic excellence.
• The IQAC should become a driving force for ushering in quality by working out intervention strategies to remove deficiencies and enhance quality.

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

• Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks;
• Relevant and quality academic/ research programmes;
• Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society;
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
• The credibility of assessment and evaluation process;
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services;
• Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

Functions

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

• Development and application of quality benchmarks
• Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
• Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process;
• Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
• Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders;
• Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
• Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
• Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
• Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
• Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up
• Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC.

Benefits

IQAC will facilitate / contribute to

• Ensure clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement;
• Ensure internalization of the quality culture;
• Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices;
• Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning;
• Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs;
• Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication.

Role of the Coordinator

The following are the roles and responsibilities carried by coordinator IQAC:

• To coordinate the dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education
• To coordinate the documentation of the various programmes / activities leading to quality improvement
• To coordinate the quality-related activities of the institution
• To coordinate in preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) to be submitted to NAAC based on the quality parameters.
• To coordinate the timely and efficient execution of the decisions of IQAC committee.

Routine Activities of IQAC

• Preparing of the Annual Quality Assessment Report(AQAR) and submitting it to NAAC.
• Participating in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and sending necessary after compiling those collected from the departments and sections.
• Presenting before all stakeholders of the institute the area where the institute needs improvement following the release of NIRF ranking every year.
• Collection of annual Performance Based Appraisal(PBAS)of faculties and Feedback on Curriculum from students
• Preparing of National Board of Accreditation Report (NBA) and sending necessary after compiling those collected from the departments and sections.
• Feedback of Students on curriculum is made online and the entire activity goes paperless.