North-Eastern Hill University Shillong Thirty-Ninth Annual Report 2012 – 2013 From the Vice-Chancellor’s Desk A prominent event during the year was the Twentieth Convocation held on the 6th November ’12 where Shri Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India was the Chief Guest. The research performance of individual members of the faculty can be glimpsed from their publications during the course of the year. One can safely say that, even though some departments need to catch up in their research activities, the overall performance has been quite satisfactory. This is corroborated by the fact that the science departments of the University have also been included in the DST sponsored PURSE (Promotion of University Research & Scientific Excellence) programmes based on the overall index of their publications. The Friday Extension Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research in research oriented academic activities Greetings from North-Eastern Hill contributed significantly in the overall academic University! environment of the University. s I look back at our perfromance during All things considered, we have not done 2012-13, I have good reason to think so badly during the year under report. However, Athat it has been farily satisfactory we should avoid complacency and strive to do in several areas. Our normal academic better next year. life continued without any interruption; distinguished academics from other universities and institutions visited our University and gave lectures, seminars and interacted with our students. The University organized several P. Shukla seminars and conferences, both national and international and with better facilities available on our campus, these seminars and conferences had a visibly more professional look. I have no hesitation to mention that the organizational professionalism was matched by the high quality of the deliberations. Executive Summary he Annual Report is a compilation of the activities and achievements of the North-Eastern Hill University during April, 2012 to March, 2013. The University comprises of eight Schools Tthat include 40 Departments and 2 Centres of Studies spread over two campuses in Shillong and Tura. Nine new Departments were added during the year. There are a number of affiliated colleges running both undergraduate and post graduate courses in various disciplines. In addition to the conventional degree courses, many colleges are also running vocational courses in the form of certificate courses. An important affiliating college is the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences servicing MBBS and MS/MD programmes. The University was identified by the Government of India for affiliating minority educational institutions located in various parts of the country. Consequently, University has provided this facility to such institutions in places like Surat, Guwahati, etc. In addition to this, the University has Academic Staff College, Bioinformatics Centre, Central Libraries both at Shillong and Tura campuses, Computer Centre, Placement Cell, Equal Opportunity Cell, Data and Voice Networks both at Shillong and Tura campuses, Hindi Cell, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, National Service Scheme, Publication Unit, Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility, Sports Department, Students’ Welfare Cell, Women’s Cell and Health Centre providing services for research, education, health, sports and general welfare of the University community. During the period under report, the Faculty of the University was involved in 140 research projects funded by agencies other than the University. Of these projects, 31 projects were completed during the year, while 22 new projects were sanctioned. The University was able to attract Rs 19.5 crores by way of research funding during the year. Over 155 research papers were published in International Journals while 257 were published in Indian Journals. Fourteen books were authored by the Faculty while 12 edited books were published during the period. The Faculty contributed 176 chapters in edited books. Fifty seven Conferences were organized by the University. The Faculty members presented research papers in 394 National and International Conferences. The details of Faculty composition is provided in Table 1. Table 1: Teachers in the University Sl. No. Name of the post Gen. OBC SC ST PWD Total 1. Assistant Professor 133 17 15 13 Nil 178 2. Associate Professor 93 - 1 5 Nil 99 3. Professor 57 - 1 1 Nil 59 vii During the period, 822 students secured their PG, 99 B.Tech., 19 M.Phil. and 111 Ph.D. de- grees. Detailed classification of various categories of students is presented inTable 2. Table 2: Number of students of various categories awarded Degrees/ Diplomas Degree Category SC ST Gen Male Female Total P. G. 08 729 85 269 553 822 B. Tech. 31 30 49 75 24 99 PG Dip. (Music) 00 12 01 04 09 13 PG Dip. (Painting) 00 09 00 06 03 09 M.Phil. 00 12 07 03 16 19 Ph.D. 03 64 42 57 54 111 During the same period, 1113 students for PG, 115 for B.Tech., 40 for M.Phil. and 253 for Ph.D. programmes were admitted in various Departments/ Centres. Detailed classification of admit- ted students is presented in Table 3. Table 3: Number of students of various categories admitted to Degrees/ Diplomas Degree Category SC ST Gen Male Female Total P. G. 15 948 150 371 742 1113 B. Tech. 14 42 58 88 27 115 PG Dip. (Music) 00 12 01 04 09 13 PG Dip. (Painting) 00 09 01 08 02 10 M.Phil. 00 30 10 20 20 40 Ph.D. 06 151 96 115 138 253 Research students were provided 60 Research Fellowships in the form of UGC/CSIR JRF/ NET, 05 as Maulana Azad National Fellowships, 137 Rajeev Gandhi Fellowships and 254 NEHU non-NET Fellowships. Besides this 223 research students were provided Fellowships through vari- ous Research Projects. Seventy three P.G. Students (including ST/SC) were awarded NEHU Post- graduate Merit Scholarships and 88 students (including ST/SC) were supported from the Students’ Aid Fund. A number of infrastructure development programmes were undertaken. These included con- struction of two lecture halls and laboratory complexes, hostels for research scholars and extension of building for Department of Law. These projects are at various stages of completion. The UGC released a sum of Rs. 1132 lakhs as first instalment under XII plan grant and this amount was utilised for various schemes of the University. A large number of students were provided hostel accommodation on campus (Table 4). viii Table 4: Number of students provided Hostel accommodation on campus Category ST SC GEN OBC Total Men 25 nil 23 4 52 Research Scholars Women 97 7 52 36 192 Men 298 4 31 9 342 P.G. students Women 363 6 46 12 427 Men 158 47 137 35 377 U.G. students Women 102 17 38 12 169 Men NA NA 10 10 Foreign Students Women NA NA 02 2 TOTAL 1043 81 327 108 1571 A number of sports and other group activities were organized including Inter College Tournament in Badminton, Table Tennis, Chess, Basket Ball, Foot Ball and Cricket, awareness rallies on “Save Wah Umkhrah”, a Seminar on “Fresh Water Crisis, a challenge of the 21st Century”, “Climate change, the role of Christianity”, a street show on HIV/ AIDS programme, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and a three day training programme on Disaster Management. The University organized 4 Orientation courses and 11 Refresher courses during the period under report. Hindi Training Programme for the employees of this University was conducted under the aegis of the Government of India, Hindi Teaching Scheme. One employee completed Hindi Praveen course and 08 employees completed Hindi Pragya course. All of them were awarded cash incentives as per the Government of India Scheme. ix Officers of North-Eastern Hill University Visitor HE Pratibha Devi Singh Patil Chancellor Prof. M. G. K. Menon Chief Rector HE Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary Vice-Chancellor Prof. A. N. Rai Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Tura Campus) Prof. Eugene D. Thomas Registrar Shri Lambha Roy Finance Officer Shri Taliremba Controller of Examinations Professor K. Ismail Librarian Dr. I. Majaw Dean Students’ Welfare Prof. R. N. Sharan Dean, School of Economics, Management & Prof. N. M. Panda Information Sciences Dean, School of Education Prof. P. K. Gupta Dean, School of Human and Environmental Sciences Prof. H. Lamin Dean, School of Humanities Prof. J. War Dean, School of Life Sciences Prof. B. K. Sharma (upto 14/1/2012) Prof. A. K. Misra (w.e.f. 15/1/2012) Dean, School of Physical Sciences Prof. H. K. Mukerjee Dean, School of Social Sciences Prof. L. S. Gassah Dean, School of Technology Prof. S. Choudhury x Members of the Editorial Board A. K. Misra, Chairman Nirankar Srivastav, Member R. H. Duncan Lyngdoh, Member F. A. Qadri, Member Esther Syiem, Member P. K. Gupta, Member B. K. Tiwari, Member L. J. Singh, Member B. Shylla, Member xi CONTENTS FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S DESK iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY iv Officers of North-Eastern Hill University vii Members of the Editorial Board viii I. School of Economics, Management & Information Sciences Department of Commerce 1 Department of Economics 6 Department of Library & Information Science 15 Department of Management 19 Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 27 Department of Tourism and Hotel Management 28 II. School of Education Department of Education 32 Department of Education (Tura) 50 Centre for Distance Education 54 Centre for Science Centre 59 Department of Adult and Continuing Education 62 III. School of Human and Environmental Sciences Department of Anthropology 69 Department of Environmental Studies 78 Department of Geography 87 Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Production 95 IV. School of Humanities Department of English 101 Department of English (Tura) 108 Department of Garo 113 Department of Hindi 116 xii Department of Khasi 121 Department of Linguistics 129 Department of Philosophy 137 V.