Nature and Extent of involvement of Faculty and students in academic affairs/ improvements

The vision of the Institute emphasizes on imparting quality education through active involvement of all of its stakeholders in the decision making process for producing human manpower with technological excellence through quality education.The established policies and procedures practiced by the Institute, evolved by autonomous governance since its inception which ensures the integrity and effectiveness in the governance and administration for high quality education. The Institute being fully autonomous has culture of decentralized governance system with well-defined hierarchical inter-relationships. Strategic plan is framed with goals in line with the Institute’s vision and mission statements and statutory committees and bodies are constituted within the Institute to monitor all the activities.

The Institute encourages the teachers to attend conferences and workshops, to become member of professional bodies with full financial support. Institute introduced a scheme PEEDA (Professional and Industrial Development Allowance) for teachers to improve the research and academic activities in the Institute through financial support of Rs 3.00 lakhs during the span of three year.  The teachers are members of Board of studies, Departmental Faculty Boards and Academic Council and help making and implementing policies to improve the quality of academics in the Institute. Faculty is the backbone of the Institute and hence provided with financial support and freedom in improving academics and research. Apart from teaching-learning and R&D activities faculty are involved in shouldering portfolios like Deans, HODs, COE etc. and contribute in the academic development of the Institute.  They are also involved in consultancy activities. Institute has framed a research policy which provides norms for various activities related to research and consultancy. Performance Appraisal System contributes to enhancing the professional competence of the teaching. Internal QualityAssurance Cell is established by the Institute for continuous improvement of quality and achieving academic excellence. IQAC has initiated several quality reforms to improve teaching-learning processes, brand building and adopting ICT enabled environment for smooth functioning of academic and administrative processes.

Institute prepares Academic Calendar in every semester and is strictly adhered. All faculty and students are involved in preparation of the calendar. Students’ Interface Committee (SIC) has been constituted under the leadership of Dean Students’ Affairs to improve the involvement of students in all kinds of activities which include teaching-learning, evaluation, sports, cultural etc. In this committee three students from each division are nominated. A proper representation to girl students and academically weak students is given in this committee. Very regular meetings (every fortnight) are conducted to discuss various issues and get the suggestions from the students. Students are involved in almost all activities of the Institute. 

Student involvement in campus clubs is an impetus for self-realization and help maintain a healthy balance between academic rigor and social life. Cultural activities include various performing and non-performing arts, which are run by different clubs like Gandharva Drama Club, Fetal String Dance Club,  Avaroh Music Club. In addition to clubs we conduct annual events such as “Prgaya” (National level technical fiesta),“Utsav” annual social gathering and “Zenith” (State level inter technical sports competitions). The vibrant club culture on campus is something unique and helps to nurture and develop talent. Our student council is also participating for social activities through NSS team such as blood donation camps, cleaning in the campus, visits to nearby villages for school education and social awareness programs, etc. We also have a strong students' team Dristhi Magazine activity of institute. Team “Dristhi” publishes “Purvarang” a monthly newsletter and also conducts various competitions round the year. Majority of students participates in the various events. Republic day and Independence Day are celebrated to increase patriotic emotions of citizens. Dance club and Music club students conduct various acts and patriotic songs for these national celebration days. Student council has a representation from every student class as well asevery cultural club, technical team and sport team of our students. The student council secretaries are groomed as leaders through short training meeting and make aware about roles and responsibilities of different portfolios. They prepare the annual activity calendar and propose the annual student activity budget with the help of Dean (Student Affairs). The student activity groups are required to plan, promote and organize activities well in advance, conduct it, prepare report and expenditure statement for each and every event. The Director along with Dean (Students Affairs) conduct meetings regularly with student council to discuss matters related to academics, curricula, remedial coaching, career guidance, evaluation system, grievances, suggestions etc. The director also briefs the students about various decisions related to stakeholders in various statutory bodies of the institution.