Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

IQAC – Vision

To promote quality culture as the prime concern of Higher Education Institutions through institutionalizing and internalizing all the quality-enhancing and sustaining initiatives taken with internal and external support.

Objectives

The primary aim of the IQAC is

• To develop a mechanism to promote conscious, consistent, and catalytic action plans to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
• To promote institutional quality enhancement and sustenance through the internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of the best practices.

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve a mechanism and procedures 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.
• Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

Functions

Following functions are expected from the IQAC:

• 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.
• Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of NAAC.