NAAC SSR December, 2015

287 Pages·2016·2.86 MB·English

Self Study Report

Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women

Sector 36-A, Chandigarh (UT)

(Re-Accreditation Cycle – II)

Submitted to
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
Bangalore – 560 072
Contents
Particulars- Page No.
Foreword
A. i

College at a Glance
B. iii

Committees
C. vi

Executive Summary
1
a. Criterion-wise Summary
D. 1
b. SWOC Analysis
7

E. Profile of the College 10

F. Criterion-wise Inputs 1
a. Criterion I 22
b. Criterion II 44
c. Criterion III 80
d. Criterion IV 114
e. Criterion V 134
f. Criterion VI 171
g. Criterion VII 197

G. Post Accreditation Initiatives
H. Declaration by the Head of the Institu tion
I. Annexure
Annexure I Affiliation Letter (Courses)
Annexure I(a) UGC 2(f)/12(B) Letter
Annexure I(b) Star College Status Letter
Annexure I(c) Institutional Site Plan
Annexure I(d) NAAC Accreditation Certificate
Annexure I(e) Peer Review Report 2006
Annexure I(f) Upgradation from UG to PG
Annexure II(a) Subject Combinations
Annexure II(b) Skill Development Activities
Annexure III (a) (i) Research Projects Assigned to
Students

Annexure III (a) (ii) Seminars / Conferences / Panel
Discussions held in the College
Annexure III (a)(iii) Areas of Research and Expertise
of the Faculty

Annexure III (a)(iv) Eminent Visitors and Scientists

Annexure III (b) Laboratory Equipment Acquired

Annexure III (c) Contribution of Research towards
Product Improvement
Annexure III (d) Institute-Industry Interface

Annexure III (e)(i) Budgetary Details of Outreach
Programmes
Annexure III (e)(ii) Awards/Recognitions Received

by the Institute
Annexure III (f) Eminent Speakers in National/
International Seminars
/Conferences

Annexure IV Equipment Acquired Under Star
College Scheme
Annexure V Illustrious Alumni

Annexure VI (a) Departments and Functional
Committees
Annexure VI (b) Audit Reports

Annexure VI (c) Grants Received from UGC

Annexure VI (d) IQAC 2015-17

J. Certificate of Compliance
K. Evaluative Report of Departments 1-340
A. FOREWORD

With a deep sense of gratification and accomplishment, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV
College for Women, Chandigarh presents its SSR to NAAC, Bangalore for
Reaccreditation (Cycle 2). I also take this opportune moment to express my sincerest
thanks to all those people of light and learning who have been a part of this
phenomenal journey, right from the founding fathers, to the faculty members and the
stakeholders who have worked tirelessly to bring the institution to this splendid
pedestal.

The current global educational scenario has seen tremendous technological
advancements which have taken the world by storm and there is certainly no room for
complacency. Today's students are well-informed, ambitious and highly competitive
and expect nothing short of the superlative from education. At Mehr Chand Mahajan
DAV College (hereafter referred to as MCM), this has resulted in our consistent
endeavours to accord the best possible systems for growth to the faculty and students.
Doors have been held wide open for ushering in the virtual world into classrooms and
laboratories. The prime focus is on sharpening the edges of pedagogy through the
increased use of ICT and turning it into a tool that would enable the learners to carve
their names in the highest echelons of the society.

We have a sustained pursuit, ready adoption and continual adaptation of those
academic programmes which ensure quality enrichment and maximum exposure, and
result in honing the creative and expressive skills of the students as much as the
assimilation of knowledge. Ours is an institution where the students are assured of the
highest parameters of excellence to look up to. This makes our college the preferred
destination of the toppers of the region. During the three or five years of the students'
stay (as the case maybe for Graduation or Post graduation) we ceaselessly strive to
execute our vision of chiseling out achievers and motivating them to broaden their
intellectual spectrum. Thus, in our march from vision to action, excellence in
academics remains our forte. Our outstanding results, year after year, speak volumes
on the tireless and dedicated efforts put in by the faculty as well as the students.

To enhance quality-management in the complete work-culture, the institution has an
ambience of constant self-evaluation and total accountability. We work towards
meaningful and optimum utilization of our human, infrastructural and financial
resources to provide ample opportunities to our students for learning governance,
leadership, policy- making and team-ethics. This goes a long way in fostering social
responsibility and nationalism among them. The suggestions given by the previous
NAAC team worked as beacon lights for us on this path.

Accreditation by NAAC is an opportunity for an objective introspection which
helps us take an account of our accomplishments along with expanding the horizons
of our future goals. All the constituents of the institution have been zealously engaged
in a dogged pursuit of its cherished ideals and the outcome is impressively extensive.
The task of its compilation into the SSR was a mammoth one. A core-committee,
comprising members of the faculty from various disciplines, was constituted for the

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purpose, which deliberated upon and gleaned the relevant data from the copious
information gathered by the sub-committees and the criterion-wise committees, from
the Deans and Conveners of various clubs, Heads of different Departments and each
member of the faculty for their appraisal. Two separate e-mail IDs
[email protected] and [email protected] were especially created
for receiving the information.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Dr. Nisha Bhargava (Principal)
Dr. Renu Bedi (Chief Co-ordinator)

CORE COMMITTEE AQAR COMMITTEE

Dr. Vibha Sharma Co-ordinator Mrs. Baljeet Kaur Tiwana
Mrs. Bindu Sharma Member Dr. Neha Pandeya
Mrs. Vandana Syal Member Dr. Manjit Sidhu
Mrs. Sukhpreet Bhatia Member
Mrs. Raman Ghuman Member

Thereafter, over a series of meetings, several discussions were held in the light of
NAAC guidelines, to collate the collected material into the requisite format. The
support and services of the Administrative staff were employed to get necessary
information on documentation and official records.

The fruit of that invigorating exercise is the SSR prepared by the college which we
now present for the kind perusal of the NAAC Peer Team and we eagerly look
forward to their visit.

Principal
Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women
36-A, Chandigarh

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B. COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

The eighth principle of the Arya Samaj reads ―Ignorance should be dispelled and
knowledge infused.‖ Stressing upon the importance of education, Swami Dayanand
has written:

Blessed are those men and women whose mind is ever engaged in the
pleasures of knowledge. It is the chief business of the parents, the preceptor
and the relations that….they should decorate their children with the ornament
of higher education.

Education for Swami Dayanand was not an isolated thing but part of an organic whole
called social activity. To him, a system of education that did not take into account the
real state of the society was not true education. It was to commemorate the demise of
this great uplifter of the people that the first DAV school became a reality in 1886 and
became a college in 1889. That one stream that emanated from the fountainhead of
Arya Samaj has today grown into a vast ocean of 780 institutions.

At a time when not one girl in hundred received any education, Swami Dayanand, the
visionary said, ―It is a proof of your ignorance, selfishness and stupidity that you
prohibit women from studying.‖The Arya Samaj has been displaying commendable
zeal in the direction of women-education and has been the avant-coureur in
establishing educational institutions for women for about 127 years.

It was under the auspices of this mettlesome organization with a glorious history of
crusade for women education that the Mehr Chand Mahajan Dayanand Anglo Vedic
College for Women, Chandigarh was established by the DAV College Managing
Committee, New Delhi. The inception of the institution was dedicated to the
exemplary contribution of Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan, the former Chief Justice of
India, and it was named after him. Born in 1968, fed on the illustrious principles of
Arya Samaj, guided by the progressive vision of its dynamic administrators, nurtured
by the incessant dedication of the members of its faculty and moving by leaps and
bounds on the young and ebullient feet of its students, MCM has come a long way in
its journey of 47 years and has become a force to reckon with in any and every field.

Today, MCM is recognized as a landmark institution for innovative and ground
breaking advancements in the field of women‘s education in the region. The college
was awarded Grade ‗A‘ by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
in the year 2006. The academic brilliance of the college has brought to it a grant of
Rupees 80 lakhs (55+25 lakhs) under STAR College Scheme of Ministry of Science
and Technology, Department of Bio-Technology, Government of India. MCM DAV

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has been ranked amongst the topmost Colleges of the country and shortlisted as a
model College under this scheme. The college has been highly appreciated for its
excellent progress and awarded Star Status under the scheme and has been sanctioned
a further one-time grant of 10 lakhs and a recurring grant of 3 lakhs per year for a
period of three years for all applicable science departments.

MCM is a multi-faculty Postgraduate institution which has been striding forward,
aided by timely and need-based augmentation of its value-added facilities - be it
academic, infrastructural or its intellectual capital. The singular focus of the college
has been to contribute meaningfully to National development through providing a
steady stream of globally competent women who are the future policy-makers and
decision-takers, fully cognizant of their rightful place in the society. The values
instilled in them constantly spur them, to care for and repay the society with
maximum utilization of their skills, educational inputs and value-framework.

Since the millenium shift, the college has evolved exponentially and emerged as a
trendsetter in the area of education. The number of students in the college has
increased from 2,676 in the year 2002-03 to 4,900 in 2015-16. Similarly, the number
of teaching and non-teaching staff has also risen in these years. The number of faculty
members has gone up from 83 to 163 (regular and contractual), and the non-teaching
staff has increased from 65 to 100.

The instruction strategy of the college blends academic know-how with research and
employability factors. Research culture has been introduced at every level in the
pedagogic methodology employed here. The College brings out a Multi-disciplinary
refereed research journal New Horizons (ISSN 2277-5218) which promotes research
among teachers and students from the country. Every year, the teaching faculty writes
a substantial number of research papers which are published and presented at national
and international forums. A large percentage of the teaching faculty also has
doctorates to its credit. The college has also been holding national and international
seminars, conferences and workshops on upcoming themes and topics of multi-
disciplinary relevance in which academicians and industry experts of international
repute are invited to enlighten students and faculty on contemporary research issues.
Students of MCM are also actively involved in writing and publishing research
papers.

The college has operationalized its curriculum and pedagogy to imbibe in students a
moral character and enhance their employability in addition to imparting specified
curriculum education. It also promotes entrepreneurial skills in its stakeholders.
Vocational self-employment oriented courses are also offered in the college to prepare
women students for a successful life ahead. PG Diploma courses, certificate courses

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and advanced courses are offered in the streams of Interior Decoration and Design,
Cosmetology and Beauty Care and Mass Communication to widen the choice of
careers available to women. To add to their employability quotient, the college has a
Placement Cell which holds Annual Placement Drives and Maha Job Fests that offer a
platform to job seekers and job providers both.

By providing the students ceaseless opportunities at a plethora of fora we develop the
students into well-balanced human beings with ignited souls. In the form of extra-
curricular activities, the students are given ample chance to unearth their latent talents
and allow those to blossom fully. An added dividend is a lifelong training of each one
of them in organizational skills, team-spirit and expertise in the chosen field.

The college, which has never been content with being conversant with the latest, has
rather always believed in being ahead of times by pioneering in innovative and
challenging programmes and the requisite infrastructural enhancement, sedulously
strives towards excellence in every sphere and keeps on creating and recreating its
own benchmarks.

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C. COMMITTEES FOR NAAC SELF-STUDY REPORT (SSR)

PROFILE OF THE COLLEGE

1. Mrs. Poonam Devasher
2. Dr. Praerna Sharma
3. Mrs. Ritika Bansal

CRITERIA-WISE INPUTS

I. Curricular Aspects

1. Dr. Neera Verma
2. Mrs. Poonam Jain
3. Dr. Prasoon Lata Prasad
4. Mrs. Madhvi Bajaj
5. Mrs. Nisha Devi
6. Mrs. Jyoti Soi
7. Dr. Gagandeep Kaur
8. Ms. Mandeep K. Chawla
9. Dr. Prakriti Renjen

II. Teaching- Learning & Evaluation

1. Mrs. Kamini Tayal
2. Mrs. Jyotsna
3. Dr. Neela Pawar
4. Mrs. Archana Bakshi
5. Dr. Sarabjeet Kaur
6. Dr. Pooja Sharma
7. Dr. Mamta Ratti
8. Ms. Sunaina Jain

III. Research, Consultancy & Extension

1. Mrs. Jatinder Gill
2. Dr. Sarita Chauhan
3. Mrs. Deepti Sharda
4. Dr. Vandana Sharma
5. Dr. Nitasha Khehra
6. Dr. Sagarika Dev
7. Mrs. Zeenat Khan
8. Mrs. Meenakshi Vashist

IV. Infrastructure and Learning Resources

1. Dr. Chander Mohini
2. Dr. Vini Arora
3. Mrs. Madhu Marwaha
4. Dr. Harpreet Gill
5. Mrs. Nidhi Sharma
6. Ms. Punam Dewgotra
7. Mrs. Deeksha Gupta

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V. Student Support & Progression

1. Mrs. Vinod Batra
2. Mrs. Raman Chadha
3. Dr. Mridula Sharma
4. Mrs. Anuradha Sehgal
5. Dr. Komil Tyagi
6. Dr. Neetu
7. Mrs. Vandita Kapoor
8. Mrs. Chris Bindra

VI. Governance, Leardership & Management

1. Dr. Gurvinder Kaur
2. Ms. Shelly Nanda
3. Dr. Bhavna Sood
4. Dr. Shefali Dhiman
5. Mrs. Ritu Khosla
6. Ms. Sukriti

VII. Innovation & Best Practices

1. Mrs. Sita Verma
2. Dr. M. Priyamwada
3. Mrs. Indu Arora
4. Dr. Anju Lata
5. Dr. Neha Soi
6. Dr. Bindu Dogra
7. Dr. Arshdeep
8. Dr. Seema Kanwar

EVALUATIVE REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTS

1. Dr. Renu Bedi
2. Dr. Geeta Mehra
3. Ms. Preeti Gambhir
4. Ms. Shaminder

LANGUAGE, EDITING AND PROOF READING

1. Mrs. Neena Sharma
2. Dr. Supriya Chowdhary
3. Ms. Jasmine Anand
4. Ms. Bhavneet Kang
5. Ms. Madhvi Sharma
6. Ms. Nitika Garg

ACADEMIC COUNCIL

1. Mrs. Neena Dhawan
2. Dr. Shashi A.K Sharda
3. Mrs. Ranjna Nath

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