Internal Quality Assurance Cell

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

• Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks.
• Ensure relevance and quality of academic and 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.
• Setup credibility of evaluation procedures.
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services.
• Research sharing 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 the various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
• Dissemination of information on the various quality parameters of higher education.
• Organization of workshops, seminars on quality related themes.
• Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement.
• Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for quality-related activities.
• Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) to be submitted to NAAC based on the quality parameters.

  Benefits: IQAC will facilitate/contribute:

• To a heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement and facilitate internalization of the quality culture for Quality and Excellence in Higher Education.
• Enhancement and integration among the various activities of the institution and institutionalize of many good practices.
• To provide a sound basis for decision making to improve institutional functioning.
• To act as a change agent in the institution.
• For better internal communication.

Goals & Objectives Staff Development

• To organise a minimum of two pedagogical training programmes per year for new teaching Faculty.
• To organize at least one common skill-development programme per year for the supporting staff.

Teaching–Learning Process

• To review student performance in Midterm & End term tests for all departments within one week of completion of the tests.
• To register and complete at least two relevant MOOC/NPTEL/Swayam/Coursera Courses/one MOOC course and one FDP/industrial training (not less than 5 days) by all teaching faculty per year.

Co-Curricular Activities

• To organise one international conference every two years such that major disciplines have a conference once in 5 years.
• To conduct coaching classes for national level competitive exams like UPSC, MPSC, GRE/TOFEL, CAT, GATE etc and to ensure that at least 2 students from each department clear the exams successfully.

Research & Development

• To collaborate with leading research institutes at national and international levels. Initiatives like joint international conference, workshops and research papers can also be undertaken to improve overall research culture at Institute.
• To Improve quality of publications
• To Fetch R&D grants and revenue generation through consultancy, training and testing services etc.

Industry- Institute Interaction

• Establishment of Industry-Institute Partnership/interaction Cell.
• To Sign MoU’s or enter into collaborations with a minimum total of 5 industries of each program for mutually beneficial interaction and organize at least 5 joint programmes.
• Participation of experts from industry in curriculum development.
• R&D Laboratories sponsored by industries & development of consultancy at the Institute.
• To initiate Incubation Centre

Placement

• To achieve 90% campus placement of eligible & job aspiring candidates.

Extracurricular Activities

• To Periodically carryout extra-curricular activities through NSS and Student activity clubs.
• To be within the top three ranks of VTU, Belagavi in sports and to achieve at least 3 medals at the national/international level.

Future Plans

• To get permanent affiliation for existing programmes by affiliating university.
• To become an Autonomous institute in 2024-25.
• To get NBA accreditation of all programmes in 2023-24
• To set Incubation Centre in 2022-23
• To get accreditation of NAAC for institute in 2023-24

The following staffs have been nominated for the Internal Quality Audit Committee. They have been instructed to act in their respective roles and responsibilities.

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Profession	Mobile No.
1	Dr. J. Shivakumar	Chairman	Principal & Director	8085789651
2	Dr. Raghavendra Bakale	Coordinator	Assoc. Professor	9008044448
3	Dr. Praveen Y. Chitti	Member	Professor, Dean Examination & Vtu Affairs	9481375190
4	Dr. Sachin M Kulkarni	Member	Professor & Dean Academics.	9448036365
5	Dr. Krupa Rasane	Member	Professor & HOD	9341107810
6	Dr. B. V. Hubballi	Member	Professor & HOD	9448342032
7	Dr. Vinod Patil	Member	Assoc. Professor & HOD	9880998964
8	Dr. Sanjeev Sangami	Member	Professor & HOD	9945754311
9	Dr. Uttam Patil	Member	Professor & HOD	9164316462
10	Dr. S. Rohitraj	Member	Assoc. Professor & HOD	9535256217
11	Dr. Vidya S Dandagi	Member	Assistant Professor & HOD	9480737502
12	Dr. H. P. Rajani	Member	Professor	9449861310
13	Dr. Rajashekhargouda Patil	Member	Professor & NBA Coordinator	8971454722
14	Dr. Sreedhar Babu	Member	Assoc. Professor & Dean R & D	9923946805
15	Col. Melville A. Dsouza	Member	Administrator JCE	9008934988
16	Mr. Santosh Khatwate	Member	Industrialist	9900766322