Internal Quality Assurance Cell

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedure for:

• Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial units;
• Adoption of relevant and quality academic and research programmes;
• Ensuring equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of the society;
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
• Ensuring credible assessment and evaluation processes;
• Ensuring the proper allocation, adequacy and maintenance of support structure and services; and
• 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;
• Setting parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
• Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty development to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process;
• Collection and analysis of feedback from all the stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
• Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all the stakeholders;
• Organization of intra- and inter-institutional workshops and seminars on quality- related themes and promotion of quality circles;
• Documentation of 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 the best practices;
• Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing institutional quality;
• Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audits along with their follow-up activities; and
• Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of NAAC.