THE ANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT (AQAR) OF THE INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC) Name of the Institution: Shree Gokarnanatheshwara College, Gandhinagar, Mangalore-3. Year of Report: 2010-2011 PART A THE PLAN OF ACTION CHALKED OUT BY THE IQAC IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TOWARDS QUALITY ENHANCEMENT AND THE OUTCOME ACHIEVED BY THE END OF THE YEAR. Education in our land has to get quickened into a dynamic agency which will accelerate national advancement and promote happiness. While rooted in the genius of our ancient culture, it has to become responsive to the progressive trends of the present day transcending all narrowness in outlook and action. Education to serve the needs of our society, has to become transfigured, into a radiant instrument to impart purposeful knowledge which has relevance and holds out scope for creative activity by helping the young to grow in tune with their abilities- aptitudes and aspirations to promote patriotic fervour and to engender a holy passion for leading a good and disciplined life which finds fulfilment in the realisation of truth. In this connection the following necessary actions have been taken. 1. The necessary steps to start M.Com. and M.Ed. Course has been made. 2. The proposed new building is nearing its completion. 3. Organised a two days National Conference on the theme “Industry-Institution Partnership in Higher Education-New Directions and Paradigms”. 4. Organised Faculty development Programme for the Teachers. PART B 1. ACTIVITIES REFLECTING THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE INSTITUTION. Education is an important discipline which contributes to individual evaluation and National Progress. The institution was founded on the preaching’s of Brahma Shree Narayana Guru “Educate to be free and organise to be strong”. The primary objective of the institution is to provide quality education to the neglected and weaker sections of the society. In this direction the college has been imparting knowledge to the students coming from socially and economically backward families with the intension of enabling them to get a richest harvest of good to themselves and to the country at large. Vision of the college Provision of sound liberal education, to economically and socially backward and repressed sections of the society and contributing useful, intelligent, strong, confident, healthy and socially contributing youth. Mission of the College • To impart quality education to every willing mind irrespective of merit and means. • To kindle innate strength hidden within each student by encouraging them to unearth the potentialities through various activities. • To propagate the true idealism of humanity and brotherhood through value based education The vision of the college is to impart quality education to those who desire it, so that irrespective of their affordability, the younger generation can become quality citizens of civilized society. The college is managed by Shree Venkatesha Shiva Bhakthi Yoga Sangha, Mangalore a registered body. All the major decisions are taken and policies are formulated by the Governing Council of the College comprising of the following members: Sri. M. Seetharam President Sri. S. Jayavikram Correspondent Sri. B. Devadas Member Sri. M. Shekar Poojary Member Sri. M. Jagannath, B.A.B.L. Member Sri. Praveen Kumar Member Sri. K. Thejomaya, B.E. Member Sri. Dheeraj Member Sri. B.P. Harish Kumar Member Dr. B.G. Suvarna Member Smt. Sujaya Ashok Principal Smt. Renuka K. Lecturer Smt. Sabiha Tasneem Lecturer COLLEGE BUILDING The college building has spacious well ventilated classrooms, Principal’s chamber, staff rooms, ladies room, computerised office, stock room, computerised library with reading room, computer laboratory, N.C.C. room, N.S.S. room, Multi Gymnasium, Audio Visual room, Mini Auditorium, Canteen etc., COLLEGE LIBRARY There are sufficient numbers of books in the Library. Books Worth Total number of Books 19582 17,96,639.48 Book Bank Books 1603 1,19,336.25 UGC Books 4757 6,94,566.18 Many well wishers of our college have donated books etc. Central Institute of Indian Language Mysore has donated 17 books worth Rs. 1,935/- and P.T.A donate 254 books worth Rs. 25,000/-. The college library has a spacious Reading room, Reference section, Journal section, Newspaper section, U.G.C. Books section, Book Bank section, Periodical section with book issue counter. The college is subscribing 86 periodicals and 13 journals. Allocation of funds for the purpose of new books for all departments is done on an annual basis. Reference books, Text books and Periodicals are made available to students during this Academic year. COLLEGE FACULTY The Teaching faculty consists of Arts, Commerce, Management and Language lecturers for the B.A., B.Com. and B.B.M. Courses. There are 12 full time permanent lecturers drawing UGC scales of pay. Among them two are holding doctorate degree and five are in the process of submission. Six permanent faculty members drawing UGC scales of pay have been deputed to other institutions for want of required workload in the degree section as per the Government policy. In addition, there are 12 full time and 7 part-time Management paid faculty, one of them with doctorate degree, one with D.Lit. and another with M. Phil degree. Out of which 5 faculty are serving in the B. Ed section. STUDENT STRENGTH 483 students from the same State and 55 students from the other State were studying during the year. Out of this nearly 80% students belonged to SC/ST/OBC group and 75% students with poor economic status. COURSES OF STUDY The institution offers the following degree programmes: Course Degree Duration Graduation in Arts B.A. 3 year Graduation in Commerce B.Com. 3 year Graduation in Management B.B.M. 3 year Graduation in Education B.Ed. 1 year Degree programme in Management (B.B.M.) and in Education (B.Ed.) are the self-financed courses where Government grant is not available. STUDENT’S COUNCIL Student’s Council is considered as the main pillar of every Institution. To enable the students to develop leadership qualities, we a Student’s Council which comprises, elected President, Secretary, Joint Secretary, Class Representatives and nominated members of the various associations. It is under the guidance of Student’s Welfare Officer. Prof. Ummappa Poojary, Dept. of Commerce was the Welfare Officer. Dr. P.S. Yadapadithaya, Registrar Evaluation inaugurated the Council on 7 th July 2010 and enlightened the students. Independence day, Founder’s day, College Annual day were organised under the Student’s Council. A Sarva Dharma Samanvaya Programme was organised on 8 th October and a Leadership Training programme was conducted in association with Alumni Association on 29 th October 2010. FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION To give scope to exhibit the hidden talents of our students we have Fine Arts Association. It was inaugurated by Smt. Roopashri Nagaraj, Renowned singer. The students participated in various intercollegiate, State level competition held all over Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district and also won many prizes. Following are the list of the competitions participated by the students: 1. Mangalore University Level Inter-collegiate Folk Dance Competition held at St. Mary’s College, Shirva on 2 nd and 3 rd August 2010. There were more than 25 teams who participated in the competition. The students performed the Veeragase dance. 2. Mangalore University Level Inter collegiate Singing Competition GanaManjari 2010 held at Sacred Hearts College, Madanthyar on August 5 th and 6 th , 2010. Student’s participants are: Sharanappa and Nishan from I BA, Praveen, Preethi and Akshatha from II BCOM, Sauresh from II BBM and Mamatha from I BCOM. Students participated in Light vocal solo and group events. 3. Karavali sangeeta kalavidara okkuta, D.K and Udupi district organized inter collegiate singing competition at Pandeshawar Mangalore in Lyrics, Patriotic, Filmy songs. Our student’s participants for this competition were Sharanappa and Nishan from I BA, Preethi and Akshatha from II BCOM, Mamatha, Veena and Supriya from I BCOM and Zulfa from I BBM. Sharanaappa from I BA secured the III place in Filmy song category. 4. On the occasion of Jaycee Week 2010, an Intercollegiate Variety competition was organized in Town Hall Mangalore on 13 th September 2010. Our students presented a variety entertainment on ‘National Integration” Student participants are Sunil, Karunakara, Dheeraj from III BA, Pradeep II BA, Sauresh II BBM, Nishan, Jeevan, I BA, Avinash, Shirshith, Sachin from I BBM, Sachin, Preethi, Akshatha and Aarthi from II BCOM. Sunil was adjudged the BEST MC in the competition. He received a cash prize along with a trophy . 5. Adarsha College, Mangalore organized “Images” an inter-collegiate variety entertainment competition to encourage young talents of Dakshina Kannada on 1 st September 2010 at Town Hall Mangalore on the theme “ India and its rich cultural heritage”. Our students competed in this competition and performed on the theme “Tulunadu culture”. With great pride and honor, our students excelled in their performance and bagged the following prizes: Best M.C – Mr. Sunil of III BA (He was awarded cash prize along with trophy) Best dance - Kangilu Best Theme – “Tulunadu Culture” Best Overall performance – I Place (winners of the intercollegiate competition) Cash prize of Rs.4,000/- was received along with a trophy for Overall Championship. 6. Shree Niranjana Swamy First Grade College, Sunkadakatte Bajpe, Mangalore hosted the Inter collegiate Variety competition – “SAMRUDDHI-2011 ” on 14 th February 2011 at their campus. More than 15 colleges took part in this competition and our students were again able to show their mettle and proved to be victorious in the following events: Best M.C – Mr. Sunil of III BA (He was awarded cash prize along with trophy) Best Overall performance – II Place (runners up of the intercollegiate competition) Cash prize of Rs.3330/- was received along with a trophy for runner-up.