i PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY (A Central University) THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT (1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016) R. Venkataraman Nagar Kalapet Puducherry - 605 014 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The efforts of Dr. C.K. Ramaiah, Dean, School of Media & Communication, Dr. K. Srikumar, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Dr. Clement S. Lourdes, Associate Professor & Head, Department of English of Pondicherry University in getting the Annual Report prepared are commendable and I thank them for their co-operation and help. I also thank the Administration including respective sections which have taken pains to meticulously collect the data. Vice-Chancellor iv v VISITOR Hon’ble Shri. PRANAB MUKHERJEE President of India CHANCELLOR Hon’ble Shri. MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI Vice-President of India CHIEF RECTOR Hon’ble Shri. A.K. SINGH Lt. Governor of Puducherry VICE-CHANCELLOR Prof. (Mrs.) CHANDRA KRISHNAMURTHY Vice-Chancellor (on compulsory wait) Prof. (Mrs.) ANISA BASHEER KHAN Vice-Chancellor (offi ciating) (from 18.08.2015) vi DIRECTOR OF STUDIES, EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AND RURAL RECONSTRUCTION Prof. V. INDUMATHI (i/c) (upto 30.06.2015) REGISTRAR Prof. S. PANNIRSELVAME (i/c) (upto 03.09.2015) Dr. J. SAMPATH (i/c) (from 03.09.2015 to 26.02.2016) Dr. M. RAMACHANDRAN (i/c) (from 26.02.2016) FINANCE OFFICER Shri. K. CHANDRAMOORTHI (i/c) (upto 14.05.2015) Dr. S. MANIVANNAN (i/c) (from 28.05.2015 to 30.06.2015) Dr. S. PANNIRSELVAME (i/c) (from 30.06.2015 to 03.07.2015) Dr. P. NATARAJAN (i/c) (from 03.07.2015 to 10.09.2015) Shri. S. SURESH KUMAR, IA & AS (from 10.09.2015) CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATIONS Dr. J. SAMPATH (upto 30.11.2015) Dr. J. SAMPATH (i/c) (01.12.2015 to 21.12.2015) Dr. K. THARANIKKARASU (i/c) (from 21.12.2015) LIBRARIAN Dr. R. SAMYUKTHA vii DEANS OF SCHOOLS Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & : Dr. Ilamathy Janakiraman Literature (upto 07.03.2016) Prof. Thirunagalingam (i/c) (from 08.03.2016) School of Management : Prof. R. Prabakara Raya (upto 06.03.2016) Prof. G. Anjaneyaswamy (from 07.03.2016) Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences : Prof. V. Indumathi (upto 30.06.2015) Prof. K. M. Tamizhmani (from 01.07.2015) Dr. H. P. Patil, Dean (i/c) (from 14.12.2015 to 31.03.2016) School of Physical, Chemical & Applied Sciences : Prof. N. Satyanarayana (upto 27.02.2016) Prof. G. Govindaraj (from 01.03.2016) School of Life Sciences : Dr. (Mrs.) Anisa Basheer Khan (upto 27.02.216) Prof. N. Parthasarathy (from 01.03.2016) School of Humanities : Dr. S. Pannirselvame (upto 27.02.2016) Dr. Nalini J. Thampi (from 01.03.2016) School of Social Sciences & International Studies : Dr. N.K. Jha Dean (i/c) viii School of Engineering & Technology : Dr. R. Subaramanian School of Education : Dr.M.S. Lalithamma (upto 28.01.2016) Prof. P. K. Subramanian, Dean (i/c) (from 29.01.2016) School of Medical Sciences : Dr. S. Mahadevan (Dean i/c) Professor (Academic), JIPMER School of Performing Arts : Dr. K.A. Gunasekaran (upto 16.01.2016) Prof. R. Raju (from 26.02.2016) School of Media & Communication : Dr. C.K. Ramaiah Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies : Dr. M. Anbalagan Dean (i/c) School of Law : Dr. K. Chandrasekara Rao Dean (i/c) (from 07.10.2015) ix HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS & CENTRES SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Department of Management Studies : Dr. T. Nambirajan (upto 25.06.2015) Dr. R. Panneerselvam (from 26.06.2015) Department of Management Studies : Dr. Lalitha Ramakrishnan (Karaikal Campus) Department of Commerce : Prof. P. Natarajan (upto 21.09.2015) Dr. Malabika Deo (from 22.09.2015) Department of Commerce (Karaikal Campus) : Dr. S. Amilan Department of Economics : Dr. V. Nirmala Department of Tourism Studies : Dr. Y. Venkata Rao Department of Banking Technology : Prof. K. Chandrasekhara Rao (upto 07.10.2015) Dr. V. Prasanna Venkatesan (from 08.10.2015) Department of International Business : Dr. P. Sridharan (upto 27.02.2016) RAMANUJAN SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Department of Mathematics : Prof. K. M. Tamizhmani (upto 08.03.2016) Dr. H.P. Patil (from 09.03.2016) Department of Statistics : Dr. P. Tirupathi Rao SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL & APPLIED SCIENCES Department of Physics : Dr. G. Chandrasekaran (upto 29.09.2015) Dr. Ramaswamy Murugan (from 30.09.2015) x Department of Chemistry : Dr. K. Anbalagan (upto 21.09.2015) Prof. K. Tharanikkarasu (from 22.09.2015) Department of Earth Sciences : Dr. M.S. Pandian Department of Applied Psychology : Dr. B. Rangaiah Department of Disaster Management : Dr. N. Ramanujam SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology : Dr. K. Jeevaratnam Department of Microbiology : Dr. Joseph Selvin Co-ordinator Department of Biotechnology : Dr. N. Arumugam Department of Food Science and Technology : Dr. S. John Don Bosco (upto 21.03.2016) Dr. H. Prathap Kumar Shetty (from 22.03.2016) Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences : Dr. K.V. Devi Prasad (upto 08.03.2016) Dr. Priya Davidar (from 09.03.2016) Department of Ocean Studies & Marine Biology : Dr. Jayant Kumar Mishra Centre for Bio Informatics : Dr. Basant K. Tiwary (upto 21.03.2016) Dr. H. Surya Prakash Rao, Head (i/c) (from 22.03.2016) SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES Department of English : Dr. N. Natarajan (upto 29.02.2016) Dr. Clement Sagayaradja Lourdes (from 29.02.2016) xi Department of French : Dr. S. Pannirselvame (upto 21.09.2015) Dr. Nalini J. Thampi (from 22.09.2015) Department of Hindi : Dr. S. Padmapriya Department of Sanskrit : Dr.C.S.Radhakrishnan (upto 09.03.2016) Dr. J. Krishnan (from 10.03.2016) Department of Philosophy : Dr. B.R. Shantha Kumari Directorate of Sports : Dr. D. Sultana Director (i/c) Centre for Foreign Languages : Dr. B. Krishnamurthy Escande Chair in Asian Christian Studies : Dr. N. Jonas SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Department of Anthropology : Dr. T. Subramaniam Naidu Department of Sociology : Dr. G. Ramathirtham Department of History : Dr.G. Chandhrika (upto 28.02.2016) Dr. Venkata Raghotham (from 29.02.2016) Department of Politics & International studies : Dr. P. Moorthy (upto 29.09.2015) Dr. P. Lazarus Samraj (from 30.09.2015) Department of Social Work : Dr. A. Shahin Sultana Centre for South Asian Studies / UNESCO- : Dr. V. Shivkumar Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia (upto 27.08.2015) Regional Cooperation Dr. A. Subramanyam Raju (from 28.08.2015) Centre for Women’s Studies : Dr. R. Nalini (Head i/c) xii Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and : Dr. T. Subramanyam Naidu Inclusive Policy Centre for European Studies : Dr. B. Krishnamurthy UGC Centre for Southern Asia Studies : Dr. Nalini Kant Jha SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY Department of Computer Science : Dr. R. Subramanian Department of Computer Science (Karaikal Campus) : Dr. S. Bhuvaneswari (upto 04.02.2016) Dr. G. Suresh Kumar Head (i/c), (from 11.03.2016) Department of Electronics Engineering : Dr. R. Nakkeeran Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental : Dr. S.A. Abbasi Engineering (upto 25.06.2015) Dr. R. Subramanian (from 26.06.2015 to 25.02.2016) Dr. Prathap KumarShetty (from 26.02.2016 to 21.03.2016) Dr. Basant K. Tiwary (from 22.03.2016) SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS Department of Performing Arts : Dr. K.A. Gunasekaran (upto 02.08.2015) Prof. R. Raju (from 03.08.2015 to 25.02.2016) Prof. V. Arumugam (from 26.02.2016) SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Centre for Adult and Continuing Education : Dr. K. Devan SCHOOL OF MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication : Dr. S. Arulselvan Department of Library & Information Science : Dr. R. Sevukan xiii MADANJEET SCHOOL OF GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Department of Green Energy Technology : Dr. Periyasamy Thilagan Centre for Nano Sciences & Technology : Dr. N. Satyanarayana (upto 28.06.2015) Dr. A. Subramania (from 29.06.2015) EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH CENTRE Dr. M.S. Pandian COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Dr. S. Pannirselvame (upto 17.11.2015) Prof. K. Srinivas (Dean i/c) (from 31.12.2015) DIRECTOR UGC – HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Dr. S. Hariharan (upto 11.03.2016) Prof. Venkata Raghotham (from 16.03.2016) COMMUNITY COLLEGE – MAHE Dr. Mohanan B Pillai Centre Head (upto 21.01.2016) Dr. Prabhath Bhaskaran Centre Head (from 21.01.2016) DIRECTOR – DISTANCE EDUCATION Prof. Sibnath Deb Director (i/c) xiv ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS (As on 31.03.2016) VICE-CHANCELLOR’S SECRETARIAT Assistant Registrar : Smt. V. Raman Geetha (upto 08.09.2015 AN) : Smt. S. Alamelu (from 09.09.2015 AN) REGISTRAR’S SECRETARIAT Assistant Registrar : Shri. V. Parthasarathy (upto 09.09.2015) : Shri. P. Vaithianathan (from 10.09.2015 to 09.03.2016) : Shri. B. N. K. Radipe (from 10.03.2016 AN) OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR Deputy Registrar (Admn & Estt (T)) : Shri. P. Subramanian (upto 15.07.2015) : Shri. R. Segar (from 15.07.2015 to 09.09.2015) : Shri. P. Subramanian (from 09.09.2015) Joint Registrar (Special Reservation Cell) : Shri. K. Chandramoorthy (upto 14.05.2015) Assistant Registrar (Special Reservation Cell) : Shri. M. Sandirane Law Offi cer : Shri A. Balasubramanian (upto 11.03.2016) Assistant Registrar (Legal Cell) : Shri. L.R. Franklin Thomas (from 14.03.2016 FN) Assistant Registrar (Admn) : Shri. MPT Sagayaraja (upto 09.09.2015 FN) : Shri. N. Giridharan (from 09.09.2015 FN) xv Assistant Registrar (Estt) : Shri. B. Routtramourthy Joint Registrar (P&D) : Dr. J. Sampath (from 26.02.2016) Assistant Registrar (P&D) & PCR Cell : Smt. S. Alamelu (upto 09.09.2015 FN) Shri. S. Murugaiyan (from 09.09.2015 AN) Assistant Registrar (Purchase) : Shri. B.N.K. Radipe (upto 15.10.2015 FN) Dr. M. Vallathan (from 15.10.2015) Assistant Registrar (Stores) : Dr. M. Vallathan Deputy Registrar (Academic) : Smt. S. Punitha (from 06.01.2016) Assistant Registrar (Aca – Admissions) : Shri. P. Rajasekaran Assistant Registrar (Aca – General) : Shri.