Self Study Report Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women Sector 36-A, Chandigarh (UT) (Re-Accreditation Cycle – II) Submitted to National Assessment and Accreditation Council Bangalore – 560 072 Contents Particulars- Page No. Foreword A. i College at a Glance B. iii Committees C. vi Executive Summary 1 a. Criterion-wise Summary D. 1 b. SWOC Analysis 7 E. Profile of the College 10 F. Criterion-wise Inputs 1 a. Criterion I 22 b. Criterion II 44 c. Criterion III 80 d. Criterion IV 114 e. Criterion V 134 f. Criterion VI 171 g. Criterion VII 197 G. Post Accreditation Initiatives H. Declaration by the Head of the Institution I. Annexure Annexure I Affiliation Letter (Courses) Annexure I(a) UGC 2(f)/12(B) Letter Annexure I(b) Star College Status Letter Annexure I(c) Institutional Site Plan Annexure I(d) NAAC Accreditation Certificate Annexure I(e) Peer Review Report 2006 Annexure I(f) Upgradation from UG to PG Annexure II(a) Subject Combinations Annexure II(b) Skill Development Activities Annexure III (a) (i) Research Projects Assigned to Students Annexure III (a) (ii) Seminars / Conferences / Panel Discussions held in the College Annexure III (a)(iii) Areas of Research and Expertise of the Faculty Annexure III (a)(iv) Eminent Visitors and Scientists Annexure III (b) Laboratory Equipment Acquired Annexure III (c) Contribution of Research towards Product Improvement Annexure III (d) Institute-Industry Interface Annexure III (e)(i) Budgetary Details of Outreach Programmes Annexure III (e)(ii) Awards/Recognitions Received by the Institute Annexure III (f) Eminent Speakers in National/ International Seminars /Conferences Annexure IV Equipment Acquired Under Star College Scheme Annexure V Illustrious Alumni Annexure VI (a) Departments and Functional Committees Annexure VI (b) Audit Reports Annexure VI (c) Grants Received from UGC Annexure VI (d) IQAC 2015-17 J. Certificate of Compliance K. Evaluative Report of Departments 1-340 A. FOREWORD With a deep sense of gratification and accomplishment, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh presents its SSR to NAAC, Bangalore for Reaccreditation (Cycle 2). I also take this opportune moment to express my sincerest thanks to all those people of light and learning who have been a part of this phenomenal journey, right from the founding fathers, to the faculty members and the stakeholders who have worked tirelessly to bring the institution to this splendid pedestal. The current global educational scenario has seen tremendous technological advancements which have taken the world by storm and there is certainly no room for complacency. Today's students are well-informed, ambitious and highly competitive and expect nothing short of the superlative from education. At Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College (hereafter referred to as MCM), this has resulted in our consistent endeavours to accord the best possible systems for growth to the faculty and students. Doors have been held wide open for ushering in the virtual world into classrooms and laboratories. The prime focus is on sharpening the edges of pedagogy through the increased use of ICT and turning it into a tool that would enable the learners to carve their names in the highest echelons of the society. We have a sustained pursuit, ready adoption and continual adaptation of those academic programmes which ensure quality enrichment and maximum exposure, and result in honing the creative and expressive skills of the students as much as the assimilation of knowledge. Ours is an institution where the students are assured of the highest parameters of excellence to look up to. This makes our college the preferred destination of the toppers of the region. During the three or five years of the students' stay (as the case maybe for Graduation or Post graduation) we ceaselessly strive to execute our vision of chiseling out achievers and motivating them to broaden their intellectual spectrum. Thus, in our march from vision to action, excellence in academics remains our forte. Our outstanding results, year after year, speak volumes on the tireless and dedicated efforts put in by the faculty as well as the students. To enhance quality-management in the complete work-culture, the institution has an ambience of constant self-evaluation and total accountability. We work towards meaningful and optimum utilization of our human, infrastructural and financial resources to provide ample opportunities to our students for learning governance, leadership, policy- making and team-ethics. This goes a long way in fostering social responsibility and nationalism among them. The suggestions given by the previous NAAC team worked as beacon lights for us on this path. Accreditation by NAAC is an opportunity for an objective introspection which helps us take an account of our accomplishments along with expanding the horizons of our future goals. All the constituents of the institution have been zealously engaged in a dogged pursuit of its cherished ideals and the outcome is impressively extensive. The task of its compilation into the SSR was a mammoth one. A core-committee, comprising members of the faculty from various disciplines, was constituted for the NAAC-SSR (Dec., 2015) Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh i purpose, which deliberated upon and gleaned the relevant data from the copious information gathered by the sub-committees and the criterion-wise committees, from the Deans and Conveners of various clubs, Heads of different Departments and each member of the faculty for their appraisal. Two separate e-mail IDs [email protected] and [email protected] were especially created for receiving the information. STEERING COMMITTEE Dr. Nisha Bhargava (Principal) Dr. Renu Bedi (Chief Co-ordinator) CORE COMMITTEE AQAR COMMITTEE Dr. Vibha Sharma Co-ordinator Mrs. Baljeet Kaur Tiwana Mrs. Bindu Sharma Member Dr. Neha Pandeya Mrs. Vandana Syal Member Dr. Manjit Sidhu Mrs. Sukhpreet Bhatia Member Mrs. Raman Ghuman Member Thereafter, over a series of meetings, several discussions were held in the light of NAAC guidelines, to collate the collected material into the requisite format. The support and services of the Administrative staff were employed to get necessary information on documentation and official records. The fruit of that invigorating exercise is the SSR prepared by the college which we now present for the kind perusal of the NAAC Peer Team and we eagerly look forward to their visit. Principal Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women 36-A, Chandigarh NAAC-SSR (Dec., 2015) Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh ii B. COLLEGE AT A GLANCE The eighth principle of the Arya Samaj reads ―Ignorance should be dispelled and knowledge infused.‖ Stressing upon the importance of education, Swami Dayanand has written: Blessed are those men and women whose mind is ever engaged in the pleasures of knowledge. It is the chief business of the parents, the preceptor and the relations that….they should decorate their children with the ornament of higher education. Education for Swami Dayanand was not an isolated thing but part of an organic whole called social activity. To him, a system of education that did not take into account the real state of the society was not true education. It was to commemorate the demise of this great uplifter of the people that the first DAV school became a reality in 1886 and became a college in 1889. That one stream that emanated from the fountainhead of Arya Samaj has today grown into a vast ocean of 780 institutions. At a time when not one girl in hundred received any education, Swami Dayanand, the visionary said, ―It is a proof of your ignorance, selfishness and stupidity that you prohibit women from studying.‖The Arya Samaj has been displaying commendable zeal in the direction of women-education and has been the avant-coureur in establishing educational institutions for women for about 127 years. It was under the auspices of this mettlesome organization with a glorious history of crusade for women education that the Mehr Chand Mahajan Dayanand Anglo Vedic College for Women, Chandigarh was established by the DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi. The inception of the institution was dedicated to the exemplary contribution of Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan, the former Chief Justice of India, and it was named after him. Born in 1968, fed on the illustrious principles of Arya Samaj, guided by the progressive vision of its dynamic administrators, nurtured by the incessant dedication of the members of its faculty and moving by leaps and bounds on the young and ebullient feet of its students, MCM has come a long way in its journey of 47 years and has become a force to reckon with in any and every field. Today, MCM is recognized as a landmark institution for innovative and ground breaking advancements in the field of women‘s education in the region. The college was awarded Grade ‗A‘ by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in the year 2006. The academic brilliance of the college has brought to it a grant of Rupees 80 lakhs (55+25 lakhs) under STAR College Scheme of Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Bio-Technology, Government of India. MCM DAV NAAC-SSR (Dec., 2015) Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh iii has been ranked amongst the topmost Colleges of the country and shortlisted as a model College under this scheme. The college has been highly appreciated for its excellent progress and awarded Star Status under the scheme and has been sanctioned a further one-time grant of 10 lakhs and a recurring grant of 3 lakhs per year for a period of three years for all applicable science departments. MCM is a multi-faculty Postgraduate institution which has been striding forward, aided by timely and need-based augmentation of its value-added facilities - be it academic, infrastructural or its intellectual capital.