Quality Assurance Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) Coordinator: Dr. Tarkeshwar Co-cordinator: Dr. Rakhee Chauhan Advisor: Dr. Ruchi Tyagi THE ANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT (AQAR) 2017‐18: As an accredited instuon, Kalindi College is obliged to submit the AQAR. IQAC also coordinated for various college rankings like Naonal Instuonal Ranking Framework (NIRF); All India Survey on Higher Educaon (AISHE); Atal Ranking for Innovave Achievements (ARIA) and Drish‐Outlook Ranking. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF STUDENTS was organized during Acvity Period in Sangam Parisar on 05 September 2018 and 06 March 2019 for III Year, 12 September 2018 and 13 March 2019 for II Year, 03 October 2018 and 13 March 2019 for I Year. All of these Assemblies were addressed by Madam Principal; students' response was recorded and submied to Principal, who further directed to all concerned to take necessary acon TWO IN‐HOUSE WORKSHOPS were organized to introduce new format and requirements of new AQAR on 01 October 2018 with Principal, IQAC Core Commiee & all Criteria Conveners and one on 06 October 2018 with Principal, IQAC Core Commiee and all the members of teaching staff of all departments. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING was signed on 10th September 2018 by IQAC, Kalindi College with IQACs of eight other colleges of the University of Delhi for mutual cooperaon and collaboraon for quality enhancement and to ensure joint organizaon of acvies. NAAC & UGC sponsored Seven-Day National Workshop on “Skill Enhancement at Institutions of Higher Learning: Training Today for Tomorrow” From 07th January to 13th January 2019. Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Kalindi College organized a Seven‐Day Naonal Workshop on “Skill Enhancement at Instuons of Higher Learning: Training Today for Tomorrow” from 07th January to 13th January 2019. To make it all inclusive, the workshop was divided into four categories as under: S.No. Category Dates 1 Faculty Development Programme 07‐13 Jan. 2019 2 Training Workshop for Library Professionals: Koha ‐ The Open 07‐13 Jan. 2019 Source Soware 3 Two‐Day Training Workshop for Administrave Staff 07‐08 Jan. 2019 4 One‐Day Training Workshop for Laboratory Staff 11 Jan. 2019 For the first me in any college of the University of Delhi such a Week‐long Naonal Workshop with four parallel sessions for faculty development and training of administrave, laboratory and library staff, was organized. Workshop recorded total 96 parcipants with 47 external and 49 college parcipants. The external parcipants represented (i) 10 colleges of University of Delhi; (ii) 07 Universies/Instuons including: Indira Gandhi Naonal Open University; IIIT Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, KBM School; Maghdh University Bodhgaya District‐Gaya State‐Bihar; Narmada College of Science and Commerce, Zadeshwar, Bharuch; Raj Kumar Goel Instute of Technology, Ghaziabad; (iii) 02 departments of the Government of India comprising Defence Research and Development Organisaon (DRDO) and Ministry of Earth Sciences. Prof. A.K. Bakshi, Founder Vice‐Chancellor, PDM University, Bahadurgarh, Haryana gave the Inaugural Address; Prof Devendra Pathak, Vice‐Chancellor, Indore, Madhya Pradesh presented the Valedictory Address. Prof Pathak offered to organize exchange programme with Kalindi College and assured to help to aain MoUs with other universies. 23 resource persons conducted various training sessions. They represented various departments of three universies namely, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Naonal Instute of Educaon Planning and Administraon (NIEPA); Maniben Nanava Women's College, Mumbai, Maharashtra; Instute of Secretariat Training & Management (ISIT); Founder, Nectar Factor Foundaon; Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi; Dev Jure and InProRi Intellectual Property Consultants; Krishna and Saurastri Associates, Delhi (Gurgaon) office; Patent Office, Delhi; Guru Nanak College of Educaon, New Delhi; Guru Nanak Instute of Higher Educaon, Sonipat and INMANTEC, Ghaziabad. Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Director, Naonal Tesng Agency (NTA); Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; and Deputy Adviser, North Region, Naonal Assessment & Accreditaon Council (NAAC) were also among the resource persons. Faculty Development Programme on DCE Optional Paper: Travel Writing Convener: Monica Zutshi A one‐day Faculty Development Programme on the newly introduced Discipline Centred Elecve oponal paper in the BA(H) English III year syllabus entled Travel Wring was organized by the English Department, Kalindi College, University of Delhi in associaon with the IQAC on 6th April 2019. There were five eminent speakers who spoke on various aspects of the paper, addressing a gathering of 55 parcipants, all teachers from different instuons. Of the parcipants, 14 were affiliated to Kalindi College, 31 to other colleges affiliated to University of Delhi, 2 were from Aligarh Muslim University, 2 from Kumaon University, 4 from Sharda University, and 1 parcipant each from IIT Delhi and Galgoa's University. All sessions were followed by perspicacious discussions about various aspects of Travel Wring in the texts under study, and how it intersected with diverse disciplines such as History, Historiography, Sociology, Philosophy, Religion, Cultural Studies, Post colonialism, Naonalism, Cartography, etc. The first session was on 'Wring Cies: Introducon to Travel Wring and Travelogy' where Dr. Arup K. Chaerjee poecally spoke about travel wring as a genre which looked at spaces within the consciousness as well as the spaces traversed outside. He also explained his hypothesis about travelogy. Dr. Antara Daa took up the second session with her presentaon entled 'Medieval Islamic Journeys: Al Biruni and Ibn Bauta', in which she contextualized the two medieval travel writers. She argued for their wrings being seen as part of a larger tradion of Islamic medieval wring of the Golden Era, characterized by the gathering knowledge within the medieval Islamic world of “Dar ul Islam” and the 'rihla' tradions, thus challenging the Western hegemonic perspecve of seeing the medieval era as part of the dark ages. In her presentaon on Rahul Sankrityayan, 'Of Maps, Migraons, Miscegenaon: Volga se Ganga as Travel Wring', Dr. Maya Joshi eloquently spoke of the independent, crical mind of the prolific, maverick writer who is best known as the Father of Travel Wring in Hindi Literature. She argued for the staunch cosmopolitan noons that Sankrityayan stood for, emphasizing the need to read the prescribed text within the larger context of his wrings. Dr. Anjana Sharma's paper 'A Woman of Observaon: Gender, Travel and Romancism in Mary Wollstonecra's Leers Wrien during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark' impressed upon the audience the need to examine the context of Wollstonecra's context, biographical as well as historical. She also encouraged teachers to adopt a more inquisive strain of pedagogy, rather than simply teaching texts in an examinaon‐oriented, instrumental manner. In the last session of the day, Dr. Anjana Neira Dev in her presentaon 'Traveling across Time and Space: William Dalrymple in The City of Djinns' offered a cross‐textual study of Dalrymple's early and later books on the theme of travel with the main focus on The City of Djinns as a fascinang and informave book on the history of Delhi, its various shiing capitals, myths, and legends. The Faculty Development Programme concluded with Dr. Anjana Neira Dev distribung cerficates to all the parcipants. Details regarding affiliaon of parcipants Kalindi College‐ 14 Parcipants Other DU Affiliated Colleges‐ 31, Jesus and Mary College (3), Shivaji College (3), Daulat Ram College (3), Deshbandhu College, Satyawa College Morning (4), Delhi College of Arts and Commerce (2), PGDAV College, ARSD College (2), Maharja Agrasen College (2), Zakir Husain Delhi College Morning, Rajdhani College, Dayal Singh Evening College, Laskhmi Bai College, Aryabhaa College, Maitreyi College, Shahid Bhagat Singh Evening College, Swami Shraddhanand College (2), Aryabhaa College NCWEB Centre (2), Shyam Lal College Aligarh Muslim University‐ 2, Kumaon University‐ 2, Galgoas University‐ 1, Sharda University‐ 4, IIT Delhi‐ 1 Research & Innovation Research Committee Convener Dr. Punita Verma Co-Convener Dr. Nivedita Giri A Research Commiee has been constuted by the college for the year 2018‐2019. The goals of the commiee are: To develop an atmosphere of research in every department of the college and to encourage the faculty members to organize and parcipate in Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops. To provide a Research Policy for the College and formulate guidelines to carry out various objecves of the Research Council. To consolidate informaon on faculty research projects funded by the University under various schemes and informaon on Research funded by sources outside the University To administer various grants and fellowships under schemes accepted by the University and to guide interested faculty members to write project proposals and encourage them to pursue such projects with the funding agencies like UGC, DST‐DBT, ICSSR, CSIR and ICHR etc. Research Projects In the academic session 2018‐19 Kalindi College has undertaken some important projects through its various departments. One such project expects to highlight the problems related to menstrual health and hygiene especially in the usage of Sanitary napkins. It also aims to provide awareness among the women about the benefits of using them. Also, some soluons would