North-Eastern Hill University Shillong Forty-Fifth Annual Report 2018 - 2019 From the Vice-Chancellor’s Desk It gives me immense pleasure to place before you this 45th Annual Report on the activities and achievements of NEHU for the year 2018-19. This Annual Report depicts the continuous growth and development of the University in its pursuit towards excellence and shows that we have passed another milestone towards excellence. There has been much that NEHU has achieved for 45 years of its existence and what had been accomplished in 2018-19 is in concurrence with the University’s motto - RISE UP AND BUILD. NEHU is committed to achieving what it Innovative ASEAN-India Academic has been set up as objectives with a Cooperation". The research output has vision to develop academic leadership, been satisfactory with approximately 600 keeping in consonance with the national research papers published in reputed and global perspective that values national and international journals. diversity and inclusion. It mission is, During the period under reference, therefore, to achieve excellence in different departments of the University teaching learning and research, capacity organized around 50 National and building, social outreach, skill International Conferences/Seminars. development and innovative academic Also many of our Faculty members were programmes. actively involved in 92 research projects supported by various Government The eight Schools of the University have funding agencies, 32 research projects 44 teaching departments and one Centre were completed during the year 2018-19 located in the Shillong and Tura Campus. and some consultancy work were also The total of 310 teachers and 5235 undertaken. students give rise to a favourable teacher student ratio of 1:17. In addition, there My heartfelt gratitude goes to all the are 77 colleges offering under-graduate students, teaching and non-teaching staff, and post-graduate courses which are and other stakeholders for their tireless affiliated to the University. As many as contribution towards this end. I would 1485 students of different departments of like to place on record my thanks to the the University were awarded members of the Editorial Board for degrees/diplomas. bringing out this Annual Report which is a source of valuable information to our On 10th January, 2019 the University has readers. signed a MoU with the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand to promote Academic cooperation between Thai & Indian Educational Institutes and scholars from both Chulalongkorn University and NEHU will embark upon Prof. S.K. Srivastava the research project entitled "CU-NEHU Vice-Chancellor Executive Summary North-Eastern Hill University, is a Central University established on 26 May,1973, by an act of Indian Parliamentand became functional on 19th July with the appointment of Dr. Chandran D. S. Devanesen as its first founder Vice-Chancellor, is a teaching and affiliating University for the hill areas of the North-Eastern region. At present the jurisdiction of NEHU is the state of Meghalaya having one campus at Tura in Garo Hills. This 45th annual report presents the activities and achievements of the University for the period from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019. The information incorporated in this annual report is based on the report provided by the Academic departments/Centre, administrative departments and Central services of the University. Background The University has eight schools of study: (i) School of Economics, Management and Information Sciences (SEMIS) (ii) School of Education (SE) (iii) School of Humanities (SH) (iv) School of Human and Environmental Science (SHES) (v) School of Life Sciences (SLS) (vi) School of Physical Sciences (SPS) (vii) School of Social Sciences (SSS) and (viii) School of Technology (SOT), consisting of 44 Departments and 1 Centre. The number of Departments and Centre in each school of study are shown in the following fig.1 Fig. 1: Number of Departments in each School of Studies Total number of Departments at Shillong and Tura campuses are 35 and 9 respectively. Only one Centre named Distance Education is located in Bijni campus of NEHU, Shillong. Many Departments of the University offer Postgraduate teaching and Ph.D. programme. Some Departments offer M.Phil. programme also. Some Departments also offer undergraduate degrees but almost all the Departments of the University are involved in the research activities. Many Departments are supported by the central Governments funding agencies like v Special Assistance Programme(SAP) and Fund for Improvement of S&T infrastructure in universities & higher educational institutions (FIST) Department of Science and Technology. Two departments Botany and Chemistry are recognized by the UGC as the Centre for advanced studies. There are 71 affiliated colleges in which 33 have got permanent affiliation and 38 are temporarily affiliated. The above figures include the Prestigious North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS)also. Several awards have been instituted by NEHU are awarded as follows-: President of India, Dr. Shankar Doyal Sharma Gold medal was awarded to Ms. Alka Blah of Commerce Department and Ms. Ristabell Marak of Garo Department. Srimati Sarada Krishna Iyer Memorial Award was given to Ms. Mapukala Jamir and Ms. Teresa C. Lalruatpuii of Political Science Department. U Tirot Sing Memorial Prize was given to Mr. Songachan H A S of Good Will College and Ms. Nerisita Shylla of Jaintia Eastern College. Prof. M. K. Khare Memorial Prize was given to Ms. Keleni-I Nagi and Ms. Riva Mary Rani of Zoology Department. Prof. M. N. Karna Young Sociologist Prize was given to Ms. Evangelyne Wahlang and Ms. Risalina Veema Syngkon of Sociology Department. Rajendra Kumar Sunaheri Devi Jain Charitable Endowment Book Grant award went to Ms. Mary Lalruatsangi and Ms. Rizhune. Dr. D. S. Babu Memorial Awards was given to Ms. Georgina Banylla Kharlukhiand Ms. Irilang Lyngdoh Mawlong of Education Department. Prof. S. S. Khare Promising Mathematician Award was given to Mr. Santosh Safi and Mr. Phyrnailang Warjri. Administrative Departments of the University consist of the College Development council, Examination Department, Finance Department and Planning Department. The Central services of the University comprises of Bioinformatics Centre, Campus Development Department, Career and Counselling Cell (Shillong) , Career Counseling Cell (Tura Campus), Central Library(Shillong) ,Central Library (Tura Campus), Computer Centre ,Equal Opportunity Cell, Health Centre, Hindi Cell, Internal Quality Insurance Cell, National Service Scheme (NSS)Cell, NEHU Data and Voice Network(NDVN),Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility( SAIF),Sports Department, Students’ Welfare Cell ,UGC- Human Resource Development Centre and Internal Complaint Cell etc. Teaching faculty and Non-teaching staff The University has 465 sanctioned posts of which 310 have been filled under five categories Gen., OBC, SC, ST and PWD. 155 teaching posts are lying vacant under different categories of teachers. Two additional post are there. The detail description of the sanctioned, filled and vacant posts of the faculties of the University are given in figure 2. vi Fig. 2: Teaching Staff Position Total sanctioned post of Non-teaching staff in the University are 1012 under which Group-A, Group-B, Group-C and Group-D are 64,185,451 and 312 respectively. Filled posts of Non- teaching staff are 527 and vacant posts are 485. The figure 3 describes the detail of the sanctioned, filled and vacant positions of the non-teaching staff. Fig. 3: Non-Teaching Staff Position Student Enrollment NEHU is a teaching cum affiliating University in Meghalaya and attracts students from different parts of the country and also from abroad. Students’ admission in the various Departments are done on the basis of rules laid down by the University as per guide line of the UGC. The University has adopted Choice Based Credit system(CBCS) at its post graduate Departments and in some undergraduate Departments. vii During the year 2018-2019, 5235 students have been enrolled in various courses of the University. Thus students –teacher ratio is about 12:1 Enrollments of the students in various courses of the University Departments are given in the figure 4 and also in the tabular form in table number 1. Fig. 4: Course-wise student enrollment status Table 1:Enrolment of Students for the Academic Year 2018-19 GEN ST SC OBC TOTAL Course M F M F M F M F M F BA LLB 7 14 123 142 0 4 0 0 130 160 (Honours) B Arch 49 43 32 20 4 1 0 2 85 66 B Tech 201 55 215 58 59 7 27 5 502 125 UG TOTAL 257 112 370 220 63 12 27 7 717 351 MA 30 80 392 967 2 5 8 20 432 1072 M Sc 53 57 211 307 3 6 6 4 273 374 M Com 5 16 42 36 1 1 0 0 48 53 M Lib Info Sc 1 0 22 36 0 0 0 0 23 36 M B A (GM) 12 17 15 5 3 3 0 0 30 25 M B A (SM) 4 6 3 1 1 1 0 0 8 8 MBA (ABFT) 2 1 13 11 0 0 0 0 15 12 M C A 16 1 15 15 1 0 0 0 32 16 MTTM 2 2 24 28 2 0 0 0 28 30 L L M 1 1 9 10 0 0 0 0 10 11 M Ed 0 4 5 55 0 0 0 0 5 59 PG TOTAL 126 185 751 1471 13 16 14 24 904 1696 M Tech 22 13 32 16 2 3 2 0 58 32 M Phil 1 21 16 36 3 3 7 7 27 67 PhD 156 159 299 435 40 21 33 33 528 648 PD Research 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 viii PG Diploma 0 3 14 20 0 0 0 0 14 23 FC SEDE 4 9 51 94 0 2 2 7 57 112 Grand Total 566 502 1534 2292 121 57 85 78 2306 2929 Table 2: Enrolment of Students from Different States for the Academic Year 2018-19 GEN ST SC OBC TOTAL ALL COURSES M F M F M F M F M F A & N Islands 1 1 Andhra Pradesh 4 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 Arunachal