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Niyatang Kuru Karma Perform Your Duties, For Action is Superior to Inaction Vision To develop human resource by integrating knowledge and skill, human values and compassion for a better world. Mission To impart value oriented education and skill based training that foster leadership traits of the learners, thus generating sustainable development, social harmony and peace. Goals To inculcate the spirit of enquiry in the teaching learning process through appropriate pedagogy and ICT To provide the students with an environment for critical thinking, for negotiating multiple perspectives and for creative problem solving To promote teaching, learning and research with multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches in the existing courses and to explore for offering new programmes with such perspectives To enable the students in appreciating and understanding the social perspectives through engagement in extension services, cultural activities and action research To forge alliance with the industries for enhancing Industry Academia interfacing To undertake such programmes and activities which instil in the young minds deep sense of respect for the national heritage, culture and humanism To promote women education and women studies To consolidate the collegial structure for effective imparting of higher education in the upper Assam through dialogue and consultative process with the stake holders To attract international students and to promote international collaborations for teaching, learning and research To promote innovation and entrepreneurship amongst the students TABLE OF CONTENT VOLUME – 1 A. Preface from the Head of the Institution B. Executive Summary ------ 1 Dibrugarh University in 2009-10 and 2014-15 (Comparative data) ------ 16 The SWOC analysis of the University ------ 19 Action taken reports on Peer Team Recommendations (2010) ------ 22 General Recommendations ------ 22 Major Recommendations ------ 30 C. Profile of the University ----- 38 D. Criteria-wise analytical report Criterion I : Curricular Aspects ----- 48 Criterion II : Teaching –learning and Evaluation ----- 69 Criterion III : Research, Consultancy and Extension ----- 92 Criterion IV : Infrastructure and Learning Extension ----- 151 Criterion V : Student Support and Progression ----- 169 Criterion VI : Governance, Learning and Management ----- 185 Criterion VII : Innovations and Best Practices ----- 207 E. Declaration by the Head of the Institution F. Enclosure DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY Rajabheta, Dibrugarh-786004, Dibrugarh, Assam Dibrugarh University is the second oldest University in Assam and in the North East. It is also the easternmost University of the country. The University was established in 1965 as a State University by an Act of the Assam State Legislative Assembly with an objective focus on developing it as a Science and Technology University. The rationale was premised on the perspective of creating human resources for harnessing the rich natural resources of the state, viz., oil, coal, mineral and tea. As the University developed over the period of years, it was realised that the overall development of the state requires not only human resources in the fields of Science and Technology, but also from Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts. Dibrugarh University today has academic programmes in as many as thirty five subjects offered under Five Schools of Studies. As an affiliating University with 175 Colleges affiliated to it, the University has a mandate to strengthen the Collegial Management system for effective maintenance of the academic standard at the Under Graduate level. The College development Council has been geared up with induction of twenty four members, each with specific portfolios relating to effective governance of the various aspects of academic governance. While the Semester system have been already introduced in affiliated Colleges since 2011-12, the CBCS will be introduced from 2017. Two of the affiliated Colleges have been elevated to Autonomous Colleges by the UGC during the last three years where the CBCS is already is in vogue. In order to maintain the academic and administrative governance of the University, the process of Academic and Administrative Audit has been put in place. The first Academic and Administrative Audit was conducted in 2014 by expert members from outside the University. Most of the recommendations of the Audit Committees have been implemented. Application of ICT in teaching, learning, research and governance has been constantly emphasised and the facilities have been gradually augmented. Research and Innovation are considered as cardinal to the academic progression of the University. A Technology Innovation and Incubation Centre has been set up which functions in tandem with the IPR Cell and the Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Cell of the University. There is already a partnership arrangement with the National Skill Developing Council for introducing Skill based courses in the affiliated Colleges. The Publication Cell of the University has been publishing selected, peer reviewed and edited books ever since it was established in 2012. The University has taken certain important moves towards forging Industry- Academia interfacing in a meaningful manner. One very senior retired Technical Executive from the Oil Industry has been appointed as an Emeritus Professor in the DU Institute of Engineering Technology and the Centre for Management Science. Moreover, active academic collaboration with the Oil, Coal, Tea and the Pharmaceutical industries are in process. A full Professor is serving in the Oil India Limited (OIL) instituted KDM Chair in the Department of Applied Geology. Academic collaborations with Universities and Institutes of repute from within and outside the country has been encouraged. Active collaboration is there with a few such Universities from the US, UK and China. Two of the important major research projects under the Indo-US Twenty First Century Knowledge Initiative and the UK- India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), are in progress with active collaboration with the University of Louisiana, US and the King's College, London. We have also attracted a considerable number of international students who are studying various courses from the UG to the PhD level. The University actively promotes Extension Services by the students and the faculty members. A remarkable development is the introduction of Health and Sanitation Clubs along with a small Teaching Module for the UG students in the affiliated Colleges through partnership with the UNICEF and the State Government of Assam under the Swacch Bharat Mission (Gramin) - a flagship national mission of the Government of India. The University was accredited by the NAAC in 2009 and it is with much pleasure that I am forwarding the Report of the University for the next assessment and accreditation by the NAAC. During the interim period, the University mounted all out effort to meet the challenges of higher education in this part of the country. I sincerely believe that there is much to be done by the University in fulfilling the changing demands and needs in the vital sector of higher education. The ensuing NAAC assessment and accreditation shall provide us an important opportunity to introspect our strength and weakness in our endeavours. Alak K Buragohain Vice Chancellor EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dibrugarh University was established in 1965 by an Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly as the second State University of erstwhile Assam which included the present states of Meghalaya and Mizoram within its jurisdiction. The establishment of this University was a strong move towards extending the benefit of higher education to seven of the relatively remote and isolated districts of Upper Assam which has a strong ethnic diversity. Secondly, Dibrugarh where the University was formed is located in a region which has rich and unique natural endowments in the form of biodiversity, mineral resources and hydro resources. Therefore, the sustainable use of these valuable natural resources necessitated setting up of an institution of higher learning where appropriate human resources in the field of science and technology can be generated. The University which entered into its Golden Jubilee year for completing 50 (fifty) years in July, 2014 witnesses remarkable expansion of its activities in the main campus in the outskirt of Dibrugarh and also significant spread in terms of its collegial structure within its statutory jurisdiction of the 7 (seven) districts of Upper Assam. The total number of affiliated colleges of Dibrugarh University today stands at 175 (one hundred seventy five) with 2 (two) autonomous colleges, the North Lakhimpur College in the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra and Jagannath Barooah College located in Jorhat. The total number of students pursuing various academic programmes offered by the 5 (five) Schools of Studies through 17 (seventeen) Academic Departments and 18 (eighteen) Centres for Studies on the main campus of Dibrugarh University is 4,500. The University also extends various academic programmes in the Distance and Open Learning modes to about 17,000 students. Academic distinction of the post graduate programmes of the University is reflected in most of the Departments being selected by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its Special Assistance Programmes (SAP) at various levels from DRS-I to DRS-III upto the Centre for Advance Studies (CAS) in one department. A number of departments in the School