SELF STUDY REPORT SETH ANANDRAM JAIPURIA COLLEGE KOLKATA Vidya Amritam Bhava 69 years of education in Science, Arts and Commerce First Cycle Accreditation 2014 SETH ANANDRAM JAIPURIA COLLEGE [Three - Shift] Morning (Girls’), Day (Co-ed), Evening (Boys’) (Estd. – 1945) Padma Bhushan Seth Mangturam Jaipuria (Founded the College in memory of his father Seth Anandram Jaipuria) 2 SETH ANANDRAM JAIPURIA COLLEGE ~an inside view 10 Raja Nabakrishna Street, Kolkata- 700005 Phone Number – 033-2555 3647/4722/4117 Website :www.sajaipuriacollege.in, www.jaipuriacollegeadmission.com E-mail : [email protected] 3 4 Preface 2014 is a watershed year in the history of Seth Anandram Jaipuria College. After much endeavor, the institution is all set to go for the first cycle assessment and accreditation by NAAC. It was quite a task to comprehend, grasp and fulfill all the parameters of the SSR; especially so, because the College is spread over three shifts at three different timings. Connecting to and co-ordinating with 213 teachers and 76 non-teaching staff were difficult, but in the long run, fruitful. In between full session classes and with the trepidation of a nervous first- timer, keeping the deadline intact was a sweating struggle with time. All segments of the College were made to sit up and contribute their bit. Ms. Piyasa Bhowal and Sri Saumen Maity assisted us all the way through with their diligent typing. The Report published in the prescribed format, processes data in the following order: a) Preface, b) Executive Summary c) Profile of the Institution d) Criterion wise Analytical Report e) Departmental Evaluative Reports. Preparing the report was an arduous but rewarding task - a learning process by itself. Self study is also self- policing and soul searching. We submit this to the NAAC Peer Team for their valuable appraisal and evaluation. Principal Dated: Dr. Asok Mukhopadhyay 11 September, 2014 Prepared by: Dr. Prof. Srimanti Chowdhuri Prof. Nandita Sen Chakrabarty Prof. Barnali Pain. Steering Committee Members. Seth Anandram Jaipuria College 10, Raja Naba Krishna Street Kolkata- 700005. 5 CONTENTS Pages Executive Summary 8 Profile of the College 16 Criterion wise Evaluative Report : 1. Curricular Aspects 29 2. Teaching-Learning and Evaluation 42 3. Research Consultancy and Extension 65 4. Infrastructure and Learning Resources 68 5. Student Support and Progression 84 6. Governance, Leadership and Management 88 7. Innovations and Best Practices 98 Profile of the Departments : SCIENCE : 1. Botany 112 2. Chemistry 116 3. Computer science 122 4. Economics and Statistics 127 5. Electronics 133 6. Food and Nutrition 137 7. Psychology 143 8. Geography 148 9. Mathematics 152 10. Physics 156 11. Zoology 162 6 ARTS : 13. Bengali (Morning) 167 14. Bengali (Day) 173 15. English (Morning) 178 16. English (Day) 183 17. Hindi 189 18. Education 193 19. History 197 20. Journalism and Mass Communication 201 21. Political Science (Morning) 205 22. Political Science (Day) 211 23. Philosophy (Day and Morning) 216 COMMERCE : 24. Commerce (Morning) 220 25. Commerce (Day) 225 26. Commerce (Evening) 230 Declaration by the Head of the Institution: 236 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Seth Anandram Jaipuria College was founded by Seth Mangturamji Jaipuria, in memory of his father, on 22 December 1945. The small College, once housed in the famous ‘Shovabazar Rajbari’ in North Calcutta, has travelled a long way to become a renowned institution of higher education today. Behind this success story lie the munificence of the founder’s family, the constructive role of the Trustees and the successive Governing Bodies of the College, and above all the contribution, love and sacrifice of generations of students, teachers and non-teaching members of the institution. An Educational Institution is, to its learners, like their affectionate mother – the Alma Mater. To the community around, such an institution is an invaluable social resource - an inspiration for development. To every literate person, an educational institution is like the shining sun, the spectrum which is never confined within a limited area but radiates in all possible directions. Advancement of education therefore is a reflection of the progress of civilization; sixty-nine (1945-2014) years of an educational institution are probably an indicator of such progress. The past of Jaipuria College is inevitably associated with the name of Maharaja Nabakrishna in whose house (now defunct) the College was first located. Born in 1732, Nabakrishna was one of those ‘fortunate few’, who emerged as prominent Indians after the Battle of Plassey. Lord Clive arranged for him the title of ‘Raja’ and then ‘Maharaja’ from the Badshah of Delhi. Blessed with the generosity of the English Company, Nabakrishna became the ‘Samajpati’ of ‘Sutanuti’ of North Calcutta. He established and patronized the ‘tols’ and ‘chatuspathis’ of Sanskrit learning in Hatibagan, North Calcutta. He helped even the expansion of Ayurveda medical treatment at ‘Sutanuti’. He died in 1797 leaving behind him a new ‘Sutanuti’, where, the so called ‘Calcutta Culture’ sprang up. The foundation of a large number of educational institutions was the obvious corollary to this great social change. Individual attempts were made to establish schools in ‘Sutanuti’, but very few institutions of higher education were founded. It was at this stage, in 1900, that Seth Anandram Jaipuria, the grandfather of Dr. Raja Ram Jaipuria, the present Managing Trustee of the College, came to Calcutta from Jaipur to try his luck as Calcutta was then the capital of India and a great business centre. Seth Mangturam Jaipuria, son of Seth Anandram Jaipuria, helped his father in the expansion of business in different sectors. Mangturamji had no conventional degree from any school or college. But he had the God-gifted foresight to understand that the pre-requisites of independent India should be proper education. Obviously the above ideas of 8 Mangturamji found expression in the foundation of a college in North Calcutta. His family purchased the premises at 10 and 12 Raja Nabakrishna Street from the successors of Maharaja Nabakrishna. On 18 February, 1945 a meeting was held to discuss the appointment of a sub-committee to frame a constitution and arrange for the building and library of the proposed college. A sum of Rupees one lakh was deposited with the Hindusthan Mercantile Bank in Calcutta in the name of the College. A Principal was to be appointed provisionally for a year. It was also decided to hold Commerce classes in the evening. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the College on December 22, 1945. He delivered a brief lecture in which he expressed satisfaction at the expansion of higher education in the country. I The present massive building of the College was not built in a day. It took a long time to take the present shape. The building has three blocks – Central, North and South. The Central Block with a floor space of 16,462 sq. ft. was started in 1961 and completed in 1963. The North Block measuring about 25,316 sq.ft. was started in 1965. The 14,700 sq.ft. South Block took its final shape in 1975 with a total floor area of 56,478 sq.ft. The extension part of the College (built with the help from UGC grant) came up in 2013 to house a gymnasium, a conference room and the NAAC cum IQAC office. Towards the end of 1965, when the new building was nearing completion, Jaipuriaji became restless to do something tangible for women’s education. He prophesied that girls would one day excel boys and prove real assets to the nation. In July 1966, the Morning shift was opened for the girls with 36 students in the U.G and 150 students in the pre-university classes. Mangturamji had the vision to realise that the commerce stream would be a highly rewarding course for girls and therefore it should be immediately introduced. True to his dream, today there are about 420 girls in the Commerce Department of the Morning Shift and 195 in the Co-Ed section of the Day Shift. A great nationalist in spirit and activities, Mangturamji had realised that the setting up of an educational institution in Bengal by a Marwari industrialist like him, would be helpful to accomplish simultaneously three main objectives, viz. fulfillment of his social commitment to Bengal, advancement of learning and establishment of close coordination among all segments of the populace irrespective of parochial provincial identity. This in turn he knew would foster an attitude of national integration among all the stakeholders. It was in appreciation of such nationalist service that Mangturamji was honoured with ‘Padma Bhushan’ in 1970, by Sri V. V. Giri, the then President of India. 9 Before 1947, he had been offered ‘Knighthood’ by the British Government on three different occasions, but his nationalist feelings and affinity to the Indian National Congress made him turn down the offer each time. During the communal riot in Calcutta in 1946, he not only took an active part in restoring peace but also used a part of this College to give relief to the victims of the riot. Dr Raja Ram Jaipuria, educationist and industrialist, continued from where his father Mangturamji had left. II A glorious tradition which has developed in the College during the last sixty nine years is the close relationship between the students, teachers, non- teaching staff, members of the Governing Body and the Trustees. We consider ourselves to be the members of the same academic family and this feeling of oneness fosters a sense of belonging to the institution. These healthy interactions can take place in the context of a stable and enduring framework of affective concern for each other's welfare. The 40 year old Staff Recreation Club of the College is one such meeting ground of both the teaching and non-teaching staff with its yearly event of cultural carnival.