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PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY (A Central University)

P ART-II

THE EVALUATIVE REPORT

Submitted to:

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL

C O N T E N T S

Pages

A. Executive Summary .. 1 - 18

B. Criterion-wise Evaluative Report

1. Criterion

I: Curricular Aspects .. 19 - 64 2. Criterion

II: Teaching

Learning and Evaluation .. 65 - 116 3. Criterion

III: Research, Consultancy & Extension .. 117 - 202 4. Criterion

IV: Infrastructure and Learning Resources .. 203 - 246 5. Criterion

V: Student Support and Progression .. 247 - 294 6. Criterion

VI: Governance and Leadership .. 295 - 330 7. Criterion

VII: Innovative Practices .. 331

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C. Evaluative Report of the Departments

i. Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & Literature 365 - 368 ii. Department of Management Studies .. 369 - 372

iii. Department of Management Studies (Karaikal Campus) .. 373 - 375 iv. Department of Commerce .. 376 - 380 v. Department of Commerce (Karaikal Campus) .. 381 - 383

vi. Department of Economics .. 384 - 387 vii. Department of Tourism Studies .. 388 - 391

viii. Department of Banking Technology .. 392 - 395 ix. Department of International Business .. 396 - 398 x. Department of Mathematics .. 399 - 402

xi. Department of Statistics .. 403 - 406 xii. Department of Physics .. 407 - 411

xiii. Department of Chemistry .. 412 - 414 xiv. Department of Earth Sciences .. 415 - 418 xv. Department of Applied Psychology .. 419 - 422

xvi. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology .. 423 - 426 xvii. Department of Biotechnology .. 427 - 430

xviii. Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences .. 431 - 434 xix. Department of Ocean Studies & Marine Biology .. 435 - 437 xx. Department of Coastal Disaster Management .. 438 - 440

xxi. Department of Food Science & Technology .. 441 - 444 xxii. Centre for Bioinformatics .. 445 - 449

xxiii. Department of English .. 450 - 453

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xxiv. Department of French .. 454 - 456 xxv. Department of Hindi .. 457

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xxvi. Department of Sanskrit .. 461

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xxvii. Department of Philosophy .. 464

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xxviii. Department of Physical Education & Sports .. 467

469 xxix. School of Performing Arts .. 470

473 xxx. Department of Anthropology .. 474 - 476

xxxi. Department of History .. 477

480 xxxii. Department of Politics & International Studies .. 481

483 xxxiii. Department of Social Work .. 484

487 xxxiv. Department of Sociology .. 488

492 xxxv. Centre for Women s Studies .. 493

495 xxxvi. UNSECO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia .. 496 - 499

Regional Co-operation xxxvii. Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy 500

502 xxxviii. School of Education .. 503

506 xxxix. Department of Library & Information Science .. 507

510 xl. Department of Mass Communication .. 511

513 xli. Centre for Electronic Media .. 514

515 xlii. Department of Computer Science .. 518

522 xliii. Department of Computer Science (Karaikal Campus) .. 523

524 xliv. Department of Electronics Engineering .. 525

527 xlv. Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering 528

531 xlvi. Center for Green Energy Technology .. 532

535 xlvii. Centre for Nano Science & Technology .. 536 - 539

Declaration by the Head of the Institution .. 540

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NAAC Self Study Report

Part II

Pondicherry University

Introduction

During the past five years, Pondicherry University made unprecedented strides forward through all-round development at all fronts of Academic Excellence, Infrastructure, Laboratory and Library Facilities, Student Amenities, Sports, Extra Curricular activities, Health-care, inclusive growth accompanied by affirmative actions, Academic freedom, ICT applications and good governance.

It was a coincidence that the beginning of these five years more or less coincided with the beginning of XI Plan period with a change of administrative leadership. With the excellent inputs from the previous Accreditation and suggestions by the NAAC team and several brain-storming discussions, the University chalked out a well defined action plan for the next five years. The new vision statement which emerged for the University s growth was:

Summary

The following few pages summarize the objectives set to realize the vision during the XI Five Year Plan beginning 2007 and the accomplishments of the University since the last accreditation in October, 2006.

I. The University had 8 Schools, 27 Departments, 4 Centres & 2 Chairs, offering 85 programmes during the year 2006-07 with a student population of 1818. It was realized that the University would not be complete unless programmes in all the important disciplines of Science, Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, Management and Education were offered. This would, not only create interdisciplinary teaching and research but also openup opportunities to students in areas of prime, contemporary importance.

A target of 16 new Departments, 6 new Schools and 71 new programmes was set. The student strength was targeted to reach 5500 to 6000 by the end of 2012.

The new schools added were:

School of Education

School of Medical Sciences

School of Engineering & Technology

School of Performing Arts

School of Media & Communications

Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies

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The new subjects added during last five years are:

Education, Mass Communication, Electronic Media, South Asian Studies, Applied Psychology, Coastal Disaster Management, Computational Biology, Network & Internet Engineering, Food Science & Technology, Food Science & Nutrition, Microbiology, Exploration Geosciences, Nanoscience & Technology, Electronic Engineering, Green Energy Technology, Environmental Engineering & Management, Library & Information Sciences, Social Work, Accounting & Taxation, Social Inclusion & Exclusive Policy.

No. of Schools, Departments, Centres & Chairs

No. of Teaching Programmes

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No. of Students on Roll

With increase in Departments and Centres and also enhancement of intake (including OBC increase of 54%) the total strength of students increased by nearly 300%

The total number of Faculty in 2006-07 was 181 (37 Women). In the XI Plan, a total 245 more faculty were sanctioned for the post graduate departments and till March 2011, 177 (50 Women) have been recruited through stringent selection process. The present faculty strength is 358 (37 Professors, 105 Readers / Associate Professors and 216 Assistant Professors) out of whom 87 are women and 13 are physically challenged including 4 visually challenged.

The curricula of all the programmes have been revised and for framing the syllabi of all the new programmes, curriculum development workshops were held. The CBCS system has certain inbuilt mechanisms of curriculum review, every year through the BOS and School Boards, which are closely monitored by respective Deans. The Choice Based Credit System also allows flexibility of learning and freedom to students to choose Softcore programmes from other Departments which enables them to bridge the gaps and deficiencies which they may have, in order to meet the requirements of Hardcore courses.

Some of the best practices have been (a) Involvement of Student representatives in the Programme Committee, (b) Student Feedback on the performance of Teachers and (c) informing the teachers about their performance score.

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II. An effective Teaching

Learning

Evaluation System depends on several factors, which

begin with the stringent and competitive student enrollment process, a planned Academic Calendar and adherence to the time frame, high quality teaching with emphasis on skill development, intensive laboratory training, good facilities, transparent examination and

evaluation system. Some of the salient features of the several steps taken by the University during the past five years are:

Introduction of Computer aided training in all subjects with establishment of Computer Laboratories with licensed software in every School / Department. 23 Computer Laboratories have been established with over 1500 computers.

The entire Campus has been networked with 28 kms long OFC cabling and the entire 780 acres made Wi-Fi enabled.

Maintaining a Teacher Student Ratio of 1:12 and constantly encouraging teachers to go for higher training, attend national and international conferences.

III. Strong Research Base and Research Culture constitute the essential parameter which directly impacts the quality of teaching and learning in an University. State of the Art Library, access to information through books & Journals, Excellent Laboratories, modern & sophisticated analytical facility are the key to success in innovative and high quality research. The following steps have been taken: -

Library

The entire Library has been automated and modernized with digital library services.

Library Collection

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Due emphasis has been given to digital & electronic resources including online journals. In total, we have access to 31,000 plus e-resources, of which 23,928 are e-journals and 31 e-databases.

E-usage has also steadily increased to about 7.5 lakhs, in 2010.

The Library has 24 hours remote access via password, to all digital resources through its Library portal. The students and faculty can access the Library Portal from Desktops / Laptops and homes not only in Pondicherry but also on travel, from all over the world. This facility has also benefitted the faculty and students of Port Blair, Andamans and Karaikal Campuses.

Internet access has been provided through 150 computers and the Library works from 8.30 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. However it may be highlighted that Wi-Fi connectivity enables the users to access e-resources 24x7.

The gate statistics is steadily rising to over 5000 a week. To meet this demand one more annexe building is under construction.

Gate Statistics

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E-Resource - Usage

Laboratories & Instrumentation

The University has increased the Computer Laboratories from 2 to 23 during the last five years with addition of over 1500 Computers on the Campus.

Exclusive buildings have been provided to most of the Science Departments. This has provided enormous space for development of teaching and research laboratories. The several sophisticated instruments added during last 5 years are:

Procured & Functional

Electron Probe Micro Analyser Spectrometer

400 MHz NMR Spectrometer

Broad Band Dielectric Spectrometer

Thermal Analyser System (DTA-TGA-DSC)

HPLC & LCMS

Wave Length Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (WD-XRF)

HPLC Systems

Triad multimode Reader

Chef Mapper XA System

PFGE & IEF with 2D Gel Electrophoresis

ICP Mass Spectrometer

CHNS Analyser

FT-Mid Infrared Spectrometer

Emission Spectrofluorometer

Electrochemical Workstation

Gel Documentation & Image Analysis System

Planetary Micro Mill-Pulverisette7

Ion Source and Sample Turret

UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

Laser Particle Size Analyser

Elisa Plate Reader & Washer

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Flash Chromatography System

Gel Documentation System

Single Shelf Auto Stopper Freeze Drying System

Flow Cytometer

Nano Drop Spectrophotometer

Analytical cum Semi Preparative HPLC

High Performance Research grad FTIR Spectrometer

Automated Flash Chromatography System

Fully Automated Charged Couple Device (CCD) Detector based single crystal X-ray diffractometer system

High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge

Trinocular Inverted Microscope

Trinocular Inverted Microscope

Multiwave 3000 Digestion System

UV-VIS Automated Flash Chromatography System

Food Texture Analyzer cum Extensograph

Amylograph

Hyderolab Sea water analysis

Total Organic Carbon analyser

Digital Sidescan Sonar

Marine Magnetometer

Petrological Microscope

16 Nos.

Under Ground Seismic Imaging System

Electromagnetic Sounder

Total Station for Cartographic Survey

Ultra Sonic Systems

Impedance Analyzer

High Temperature Electrical Conductivity Setup

Electron Probe Micro Analyser Spectrometer

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In the process of procurement

Spectrofluorometer for Liquid and Solid samples

UV-Vis Spectrometer with Universial Reflectance assessor

Electrochemical Workstation

Automatic Hydraulic Press

Nanoindenter

X-ray Powder Diffractometer

Microwave Synthesizer

Photoelectrochemical Cell potentiostat, Galvanostat

BET Surface Area Analyzer

Solar Simulator

Vector Network Analyzer

Terrameter SAS 1000

Atomic Force Microscope Multimode

8AM

Nd YAG Lazer System Kit

Ultra Low Temperature Freezer

2D Electrophoresis System

TG Electrophoresis

Root Scanner

Plant Growth Chamber

Tyrone Janus Worksation with Navidia Tesla 2050 card

Bench Top Freeze Dryer

Ultrasonic Homogenizer

Cold Cabinet

Rock Cutting Machine

Hydrolab

The progressive increases in the quality of research output are illustrated: -

Research Publications (2006

2011)

Source: SCOPUS

235 225 225 278

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Research Publications and Citations in Indexed Journals (2006-2011)

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Citations 48 218 483 812 1489

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Writing projects has been made mandatory and mobilization of extramural funding has greatly contributed to the quality of research.

No. of Projects

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Project Funds

(*including DST FIST-PURSE)

Scholars Admission (M.Phil & Ph.D.)

Research Scholars on Roll

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The number of Departments covered under SAP, FIST and Special Funding have increased phenomenally.

SAP Funds

SAP Departments

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FIST Fund

FIST Departments

Special funding was received by Department of Biotechnology (Rs.3.5 Crores) as National Centre, Rs.9.0 Crores from DBT for interdisciplinary research by select Science Department, Rs.9.5 Crores from DST under FIST-PURSE Programme based on Research output of the University evaluated through SCOPUS.

Consultancy, extension work and patents have also been increasing. Today the Faculty has over 46 registered patents.

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IV. Infrastructure

The University is gifted with 780 acres of sprawling campus with lush green tropical vegetation. The master plan has a clear zonation for Science Departments, Social Sciences & Humanities, Management School, Girls & Boys Hostels and Sports facilities.

During the past five years, the University had added over 1.3 million sq. ft. of built area for Academic activity, sports, hostels, residences and quarters and administration.

Built in area in sq. meters

New Cricket Stadium, Exclusive Gyms for Boys & Girls, Play fields for Basket Ball, Tennis Courts, 8 New Hostels, exclusive mega mess for boys & girls (500 capacities each) are worth mentioning.

No. of Hostels

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Strength of Hostel Students (Boys & Girls)

The entire campus of 780 acres has been networked with OFC and Wi-Fi.

100% power backup to Departments, Campus lighting and Students Hostels with 18 Generators and 14 Transformers producing over 3000 KVA power.

Free transport to day students from Town to University.

Free on campus commutation by Battery operated Cars & Bicycles.

24 hour Health Centre with fully equipped modern Ambulance.

Most Modern furnishing provided to all Departments.

Student Profile

A countrywide publicity, high standards of teaching and research, the printing of detailed prospectus, the posting of prospectus on website, online application facility and entrance test in 38 centres across the country and the nominal application fee of Rs.100/- & Rs.50/- have resulted in huge rush for admission.

The number of applications received has shown in sharp rise from 8000 to more than 46,000 in five years. Thus the quality of students is high and they represent 33 states of the country. In addition, there is a steady increase of students from SC, ST, OBC, Minorities and women.

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Students Profile (last 5 years)

SC Students Admission

ST Students Admission

OBC Students Admission

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Minorities Students Admission

Women Students Admission

Some of the best practices that the University has adopted which has increased its performance and visibility are:

Flexibility to choose courses from other disciplines

CBCS System

Teacher evaluation by students

Feedback from parents and employees

Establishment of highly sophisticated Laboratories

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State of the Art Library, Digital & Electronic Resources (31,000 plus e-resources of which 23,928 e-journals and 31 e-databases) which are remotely accessable.

Food subsidy to hostellers whose parental income is less than Rs.4.50 lakhs per annum

Rent free hostel accommodation to girl students

Free transport to all students from town

Free campus commutation by battery cars and bi-cycles

Free Day Care Centre for infants and Kindergarten for young children of staff

Free Education to physically challenged students including boarding and lodging.

Excellent sports and physical fitness facilities

Five Cafeterias on the Campus

Mandatory conferences and symposia by every department

Student counseling facility

Literary Clubs, Music Clubs, Film Clubs and Cultural Clubs on the campus

Student Journal PRERENA introduced.

Effective and transparent administrative machinery

The University for the first time decided to launch national & international level Journals through duly registered national level societies. In two years, the following Journals have been launched: -

1) International Journal of South Asian Studies

2) International Research Journal of Social Sciences

3) Indian Journal of Philosophy, Religion and Culture

4) International Journal of Microfinance

5) International Journal of Economics and Management Science

6) Visvabharathi

7) Yatra

A Publication Division is being established and the Faculty has been encouraged to write books and seed money of Rs.25,000/- is sanctioned. The University would publish the book & market it and a 20% royalty will be paid to author.

Abstract check on plagiarism has been introduced and the software TURNITIN has been installed for verification of all theses.

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In short, we are proud to inform the NAAC team that Pondicherry University during the last 5 years has emerged as India s fastest expanding Central University with 300% growth at all fronts viz, Students intake, Faculty, Research Performances, Infra-structure development, programmes, scholars and publication output. It is set with very high standards of Teaching

Learning

Research and evaluation process and would be soon

comparable to any of the world class universities.

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Curricular Aspects

1.1 Curriculum Design and Development

1.1.1 State the vision and mission of the institution

Vision: To create a world class University with a broad spectrum of disciplines covering Science, Technology, Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, which opens up access to higher education with excellence and equity. The vision is to create such learning ambience, infrastructure, laboratories, libraries and sports facilities that it becomes an irresistible global destination for higher studies. The vision is also to make Pondicherry University a melting pot for convergence of cross - country and - cross global ideas of innovations, cultural integration and ultimately the emergence of a young global society, which becomes the pride of the country.

Mission:

To produce responsible and enlightened citizens who not only shoulder the responsibility of the nation s needs but stand firm in all testing times with unity, integrity and secular values. The mission is to produce such competent Human Resource that will sustain the country s growth and meet global challenges.

Objectives:

To keep abreast of the country s needs and global challenges and prepare Human Resource to meet them.

To create higher education opportunity for students interested in the Faculties of Science, Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, Management and Media etc.

Promote inter-disciplinary teaching and research programmes.

To encourage collaborative research.

To encourage multidisciplinary learning by broadening the base.

To foresee the future and the gap that may arise in the demand and supply of human resources and prepare the manpower accordingly.

To direct the University Departments to contribute towards the social cause in terms of extensive research for the benefit of the society.

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1.1.2 What are the major considerations addressed by the goals and objectives of the

institution? (Intellectual, Academic, Training, Access to the Disadvantaged, Equity, Self development, Community & National Development, Ecology and environment, Value orientation, Employment, ICT introduction, Global demands, etc.)

The goals and objectives of the University addressed all the major considerations.

Intellectual & Academic

The University believes in intellectual growth coupled with overall growth of personalities.

Hence the University paid importance to the following;

Creating conducive atmosphere for research and studies with best possible infrastructure and system.

Opportunity of selection of courses provided under CBCS and encourage interdisciplinary learning.

Through vigorously following self-learning, field & case studies, extensive use of library, mandatory seminars, providing advisors to every student.

Encouraging extracurricular activities, student journals, library use and literary and cultural activities which forms a part of life in campus.

Insisting updation of curriculum with workshops, adoption of experts from Industry outside the University system and mandatory Board of Studies meetings each year have contributed to the academic excellence.

Extending unhindered support to faculty to participate in conferences and seminars in India or abroad has exposed the Faculty to recent developments.

Mandatory holding of atleast one National Conference by every Department each year has also promoted enormous interaction with teachers and scholars from across the country. On an average 1.5 National Conferences are held each week on the campus.

Maintaining and administering all the units of the academic, administrative constituents most effectively with the emphasis on equity, expansion and excellence.

Recognizing the merits of students and awarding various prizes, medals and certificates of commendation and scholarships.

Awarding certificate of merit to meritorious teachers on Teachers Day after evaluating them on the basis of feedback of his students.

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Ecology and Environment

Ecological & Environmental concern has been catered to by attempting to make the campus green. The University has planted saplings of 250 varieties of species. In this effort, the University has developed a lush green forest. It is a habitat for many insects, birds and reptiles. The University s Fauna and Flora has been documented and brought in to print form.

Access to the Disadvantaged and Equity

Access to the disadvantaged and equity is the cardinal principle on which the University has worked. Offering extra coaching, extending concessions in fee and hostels to female candidates, SC/ST, OBC and Minorities has enhanced their enrolment by over 200% on the campus.

To encourage the underprivileged and disadvantaged by providing free hostels, freeship, subsidies in mess bill etc.,

Special care is taken for visually challenged students and Faculty in terms of their library accessibility and providing exclusive facility for scanning and reading books on par with normal students.

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All the establishments in the University have ramps to enable physically challenged persons to have easy access, besides motorized wheel chairs.

Women students are provided with free hostel accommodation.

Others

Day-scholars are given free transport facility for commutation.

Providing well equipped accommodation in term of hostels to students and quarters for Faculty.

Strict implementation of anti-ragging laws.

Providing bicycles, battery cars and University bus service to commute within the Campus.

Maintaining strict discipline in this Campus, security deployment all over, monitoring of hostels by 19 wardens headed by two Chief Wardens keep the Campus both vibrant and peaceful.

Providing the feel-good environment to all stake holders of the University.

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Self Development

Providing wide range of e-resources in the library for better access to information, with remote access through Library Portal.

Starting Add-on Diploma / Certificate Courses for the benefit of the students in the evenings (5.30

8 p.m.).

Encouraging Faculty to write projects.

Encouraging publications and seminars presentations by Faculty and research scholars.

Community and National Development

Adopting villages, conducting awareness camps, training the villages, conducting literary campaign and organizing blood donation camps in form of extensive activities.

Honoring personalities of eminence with honorary degree within the ambits statutes.

Encouraging Departments to invite eminent scholars as guest lecturers or visiting Faculty to Campus.

Encouraging conduct of seminars, conferences and workshops for exchange of ideas and expertise.

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ICT Introduction

The University has made a giant leap in promoting usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products / servces in areas of teaching / learning, research and administration. Equipped with network centric ICT infrastructure, modern teaching adis (Interactive Boards), access to Online Journals, databases and homegrown e-learning systems, this young University has made great strides in teaching / learning, research and administration.

Global Demands

The University is able to access the global demand by training students in the area of relevance like sectoral MBAs, Media, Mass Communication, Computer Science & Engineering, Nanoscience & Technology, Green Energy Technology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Food Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and many other Science subjects and Foreign Languages.

Having a Wi-Fi campus facilitating internet usage and information access.

Encouraging adoption of technology in all spheres of academic and administrative activities.

1.1.3 How are the institutional goals translated into the academic programmes, research and extension activities of the institution?

Academic programmes have been revitalized:-

Enriching the academic contribution to the society in the form of introducing Interdisciplinary and Innovative Programmes.

All these teaching programmes are collectively geared up to contribute towards the objective of the University in term of imparting knowledge, enhancing research, catering to manpower demands of industry in particular and society at large. The Add-on Courses

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are offered to add value to the existing degrees and also to provide opportunity to the excluded lot by distance education. To impart more effective teaching through the Distance mode of learning, various management programmes are monitored by Twining Programme centres opened in major cities of the country. This is a new concept of PPP (Public-Private Partnership) Model for Distance Education where established and reputed Institutions partner with University on fee sharing basis.

During the past 5 years the entire academic system has been reviewed and revamped to meet the challenges in the emerging societal requirement.

15 Schools have been formed with 34 Departments, Centres and Chairs offering 151 programmes.

Reforming CBCS system, evaluation system and Ph.D. admission.

Research has been strengthened by

Induction of highly qualified and experienced Faculty with enormous international level performance.

Providing substantial grant for establishment of state-of-the-art research facilities, strengthening the CIF and modernizing the existing facilities.


Providing independent buildings to all Departments of Science, Management, Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Department of Physics

Department of Biotechnology

Department of Chemistry

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Department of Mathematics & Statistics

School of Management (new building)

School of Social Science & Humanities

Extensive campus networking with OFC & Wi-Fi facility over the entire 780 Acres campus.

Modernizing main Library with total automation enhancing digital resources and remote access made possible.

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1.1.4 How does the University guide its colleges to develop programmes based on their

regional needs? (Not applicable for Unitary Universities)

The University has the College Development Council to guide the affiliated colleges in their functioning and develop programmes based on the regional requirements.

The University constitutes Board of Studies from time to time and holds meetings frequently to update the syllabus of affiliated colleges.

The University extends library and lab facilities to affiliated colleges for research.

The University helps Under Graduate students in placement through campus selection.

The College Development Council also provides supportive services to colleges by liaising between the college and UGC for developing and availing funding and other facilities for UGC.

The University also encourages permanent affiliated colleges of repute to go for autonomous status that facilitates more flexibility in designing curriculum, etc.,

The University also has a constituent Community College which floats the courses exclusively catering to the need of the society.

1.1.5 Specify the steps undertaken by the institution in the curriculum development process. (need-assessment, development of information database from faculty, students, alumni, employees and academic experts, and formalizing the decisions in statutory academic bodies).

The University has a well-organized system of curriculum development and up gradation. Curriculum Development Workshops are held particularly for launch of new programmes and subjects/frequently.

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Each department has a Programme Committee which includes all Faculty, one member from the sister Departments nominated by Vice-Chancellor and student members. Any new subject to be introduced or an existing subject to be revised, is first taken up in the Programme Committee, then, placed before the Board of Studies which consists of the Faculty of the Department, experts from other Universities and experts from Industry or relevant field as special invitees to develop the curriculum. The syllabus developed by the Board of Studies of the Departments are then placed in the School Board which contains senior Faculty from all the Sister Departments of the school, Dean of the School as chairperson and external experts for further scrutiny and improvement. After the approval of School Board it is placed before Academic Council, for its approval. All clarifications suggestions and modification offered by the Academic council are carried out in the curriculum so developed, by referring it back to the Chairman Board of Studies. All the approvals accorded by the Academic Council, become statute and regulations with the approval of M.H.R.D. and the Visitor.

The Departments are given flexibility to introduce courses of relevance with the approval of programme committee and the Chairman of the respective School Board without waiting for the meeting of the Board of Studies to incorporate changes in the syllabus and curriculum to avoid loss of time.

The same is later placed before the Board of Studies for sanctions. The most important inputs come from the experts from industry, employers and other institutions.

The suitability of the curriculum is tested from the placements the students get after course completion, particularly through campus selections.

1.1.6 How do the Boards of Studies ensure the currency and relevance of the programme offerings?

The Board of Studies meets whenever the Departments feel the need for revision or inclusion of new subjects of relevance in the curriculum.

Even otherwise the meeting of Board of Studies is called to revisit the contents of curriculum atleast once a year.

The constitution of Board of Studies is done according to the ordinance and it functions according to the regulations.

The Board of Studies of the department is constituted with the inclusion of senior Faculty of the Department, expert from other Universities and special invitees from industries and employing organizations.

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The Head of the Department serves as the Chairman of Board of Studies. Board of Studies takes care of developing the curriculum and drafting of the syllabus duly addressing the relevance, contemporary needs, aspiration of the students, expectations of the employers, scope for research future and prospects etc.

A separate Board of Studies is constituted for the PG and UG courses with HOD of University Department as the Chairperson.

1.1.7 How is employability ensured through Curriculum design and development?

Members from the Industry and organizations are inducted in the Board of Studies of each subject who become the part of curriculum design and contribute in form of expectation of the employer.

Feedback of the students alumni and employers are also taken into consideration while designing syllabus.

Employability is given the major attention in designing and developing the curriculum.

Developments of application oriented syllabus are another emphasis on curriculum development.

Practical orientations also are given appropriate weightage. Hence practical inputs are incorporated into the syllabus as far as possible.

Soft-skill development, communication skill, skill upgradation are given priority.

1.1.8 State specifically the curricular design and model adopted by the University in the organization of its curricula.

The University follows UGC model curriculum for UG & PG as the base of curriculum development as far as possible with about to 20 to 30% modification. Some courses are developed by the respective Board of Studies. The technical courses also adhere to the specification of respective councils like AICTE, MCI, NCT, Pharmacy Council, Bar Council etc.

1.1.9 How are the global trends in higher education reflected in the curriculum?

The Board of Studies during their meetings discuss recent trends in higher education to modify the syllabus suiting to the changing trends globally.

Some of the innovative courses are sectoral MBA like M.B.A, Banking Technology, International Business, Insurance, Tourism Studies, Coastal Disaster Management, Mass communication, Electronics and Engineering, M.Com (Accounts & Taxation), Green Energy Technology, M.Com (Finance), Earth Sciences, South Asian Studies,

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Bioinformatics, Nanoscience & Technology, Electronic Media, Applied Psychology, Food Science & Technology and Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering.

Certificate courses on foreign languages like French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Spanish.

T.V. Production, Media & Communication, Diplomas like Functional Hindi & Translation, Women s Studies, Library Automation & Networking, Industrial Psychology, Planning and Evaluation, Biotechnology, Health Fitness and Lifestyle Management, Investment Management, Rural Development, Statistical & Research Methods, Human Rights, Industrial Relations & Labour Law, Teaching Skills, Computer Applications, Simulation and Modeling, Theatre Arts, Event Management, Professional Communication in English, Advanced Analytical Techniques to cope with the recent advancements and the demands of society and time.

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1.1.10 How does the institution ensure that the curriculum bears some thrust on national

development?

Pondicherry University has been a pioneer in initiating courses on Green Energy Technology, Nano-Science & Technology, Food Science Nutrition & Technology, Banking Technology which are the areas of great practical relevance for the society, industry and national development. These courses are introduced taking into account the future needs of the society in the country, where the performance of energy source is going to be more non polluting energy and where banking service is going to be more technology based and Food processing and Food Security has been an issue of national priority.

Apart from this M.B.A. in International Business, Insurance, Tourism have been introduced taking the contemporary thrust of Internationalization, Globalization and promotion of Tourism. Courses like Ecology and Environmental Study evinces environment concern. At the same time subjects like Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Oceanography Coastal Disaster Management cater to the contemporary needs of the society. Importance of Language, Art and Culture are of anytime relevance for the society. The University offers PG & Research Programmes in all major languages Tamil, English, French, Sanskrit, Hindi and Certificate courses in major foreign languages, a School of Performing Arts and the Department of Physical Education. The Department of Mass Communication, Library & Information Science, Electronic Media, Social Work are Centres / Departments are of great practical importance.

The University cater to the needs of nation and aspirations of the youth by providing higher education on varied areas of application oriented subjects which is evident from the popularity of the courses with the application to intake ratio exponentially increasing. The University is also the first to start courses like Ecology and Environmental Sciences. All the courses show the social commitment of the University catering to both the requirement of the society as well as to the aspiring student community.

1.1.11 What is the composition of the Board of Studies? Specify PG and UG representation in the BOS if there is only one BOS for both?

A separate Board of Studies is constituted for each Department of teaching. The constitution of Board of Studies is as per the statute of this University. The PG Board of Studies constitutes all the senior Faculty of the Department, 2 experts from other Universities and special invitees from the Industry. UG Board of Studies include not more than 4 Faculty from the affiliated college not more than 6 Faculty from University Department and not more than 2 experts from other University and industry or institutions experts.

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The Board of Studies is constituted under different categories.

1. Board of Studies for professional programmes including Under Graduate, Post Graduate as well as Doctoral Degree.

2. Board of Studies for Post Graduate Programmes offered both at University as well as Affiliated Colleges.

3. Board of Studies for Under Graduate Programmes other than professional courses.

Constitution of Board of Studies

The Chairman of the Board of Studies is the Head of the PG Department of the respective course. In case the Department of a particular course does not exist in the University the senior most Head of the Department amongst the affiliated college acts as the Chairman Board of Studies.

Board of Under-Graduate Studies

Each Board shall comprise not less than nine members. The constitution of Board is follows:

The Head of the University Department teaching the subject is ex-officio Chairman.

All Professors in the Department

One Reader in the Department by rotation as per seniority

One Lecturer in the Department by rotation as per seniority

Not more than six teachers teaching the subject at Under Graduate level in the affiliated colleges / institutions, to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, ensuring due representation to the Heads of Departments and other senior teachers of the Departments by turn.

Two outside experts nominated by the Vice-Chancellor in consultation with the Head of the Department:

For the subjects / discipline not offered in the University Departments / Schools, e.g. Engineering, Medicine, Law, Education, etc., the Board of Studies shall consists of the following:

The Principal or the Head of the Department of the concerned discipline, as the case may be, is the ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Studies.

Not more than six teachers teaching the subject in affiliated colleges / institutions, are nominated by the Vice-Chancellor ensuring due representation to various branches of studies.

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Not more than three outside experts who have special knowledge in the discipline, are nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Board of Post-Graduate Studies

The Board of Post-graduate Studies shall consist of the following members:

Head of the Department

All Professors of the Department

Two Readers and two Lectures, by rotation according to seniority, being appointed by the Vice-Chancellor.

One teacher each from other departments within the School having common courses with the department concerned.

Not more than four teachers teaching the subject at Post Graduate Level in the affiliated colleges / institutions, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor. Due representation is given to the Heads of Departments and other senior teachers of the Departments by turn.

Not more than two persons, nominated by the Board of the School, who have special knowledge in the discipline of the concerned department and who are not employees of the University or of any of the affiliated colleges / institutions.

In respect of the professional colleges, the Principal or the Head of the Department of the concerned discipline, as the case may be, become the ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Studies.

The Chairman has the power to co-opt experts to attend as observers at its specific meetings, as and when necessary, with the prior permission of the Vice-Chancellor.

1.1.12 Does the institution use the UGC/AICTE guidelines for developing or restructuring the curricula?

Yes. The University follows UGC model curriculum wherever available for most of the courses at PG and UG level. Professional courses follow AICTE guidelines for developing and restructuring the curricula, particularly the Technology programmes in under graduate affiliated colleges.

1.1.13 What percentage of the courses focus on experiential learning including practical and work experience? For overall development of students, what measures have been taken in the Curriculum design?

90% of the courses focus on experiential learning including practical, field work, projects, industrial training etc.

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All Science, Medical & Engineering and Educational Courses focus on experiential learning including practical, work experience and hands on training, Law courses have practical exposure in courts, Course like M.B.A., M.Com, Social Work, Anthropology, Psychology involve industry training and field work and internships.

Project work is compulsory for all the PG courses. Hence courses not having lab or field work do the project work.

1.1.14 What are the courses aiming to promote value education or social citizenship roles?

Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering offers M.Phil and Ph.D. programme where in Pollution concern of the society is addressed to.

Courses like Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology and the Diploma Courses of community college promote the value education and Social citizenship role.

Awarness programmes also are effectively arranged with community concern like cleanliness, adult education, awareness course etc.,

The Education Department also runs an extension programme of Pre-Primary Teachers training where the teachers are trained to start their own Schools in the villages after the training.

To promote theatre arts the School of Performing Arts offers several courses. Yoga classes are held in the morning and evening.

Centre for Gandhian Study promotes the Gandhian Ideology, through seminars, lectures and meetings.

Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy takes care of the studies for socially excluded groups and marginalized communities and offers diploma programme.

Centre for Women Studies takes up women s issues and creates awareness of women problems.

Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences takesup project of environmental issues.

1.1.15 Is there a provision for computer skills to be incorporated in the curriculum for all students?

Yes. Computer skilled based curriculum is encouraged in most of the Departments.

Computer education is made a part of curriculum whereever necessary like all Science, Mathematics and computational courses.

Computer courses are a part of all courses in School of Management

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Community College offers computer application courses.

Directorate of Distance Education also offers Computer Application courses.

There is a centralized Computer Centre for the students apart from well-equipped Computer Laboratories in Departments and in Schools.

During the last 4 years, the University has established 23 computer laboratories with over 1500 computers with LAN.

The University has spent over 1.5 crores on original software purchases and licenses. Software has been purchased with campus license as well as specialized departmental use.

The list of the software available in the campus are

MS Windows Platform

MS Windows 2008 Enterprise Server/Windows 2003 Advanced Server, MS Windows Vista Business / XP Professional Client, Visual Basic, Access and SQL Server, MS Project.

Adobe

Acrobat Editor, Macromedia Suite (Director / Flash / Fireworks / Dream Weaver

Statistical Package

SPSS 19.0 (Networked)

Database Subscription

CMIE database subscription

Solaris / Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0/4.0, Solaris 10.0/11.0, Postgress SQL, C++, JAVA 1.1, Squid Proxy Server, Apache Web Server, Lynx, star Office Suite, Oracle 10g Suite.

Network Management

Cisco workgroup for Windows, SNMPCs. Cisco Network Assistant.

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1.1.16 Are women s issues incorporated in the curriculum? If yes, what are the initiatives

taken to introduce woman related courses/topics in the curriculum?

Yes. The University has a Centre for Women Studies which takes an active part in sensitizing gender issues and women problems. The Centre organizes seminar workshops etc., involving students across the Departments and from outside the University to deliberate on specific women problems. The centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy also takes into consideration the women issues. Other than this, literature Departments also include gender issues and topics in their curriculum.

The Management and Commerce Departments also take the issues of women entrepreneurs, women managers and women leaders in their curriculum.

The Centre for Women Studies offer softcore courses in women issues which are widely chosen by students from other disciplines.

1.1.17 What programmes are developed for differently-abled students and how the same is implemented?

The University is committed to empower the differently-abled students by giving equal opportunity and has provided all the facilities mandated in publicly funded institutions.

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Facility for Visually challenged students

at Library

University Library with Ramp Facility

The Library is equipped with specialized facility for visually challenged students to access information like screen reading software provisions etc. The new annex building of the Library will have a full-fledged section for visually challenged with most modern Hardware & Software.

All the establishments are made freely accessible to physically challenged students with the provision of wheel chairs. Wheel Chairs are available to students in the campus to move around without anybody s help. All buildings have Lifts and Ramps.

University follows the Reservation Policy to admit students with physical disability.

The University provides total exemption of fee for physically challenged and provides free hostel facilities to all the physically challenged students which include free boarding & lodging.

While updating or modifying equipment or building, the University has ensured that changes improve the level of services to the physically challenged.

Facility for the Visually challenged students

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1.1.18 What are the programmes developed for distance education?

Directorate of Distance Education offers Five MBA progrmames

MBA (Marketing)

MBA (Finance)

MBA (International Business)

MBA (Human Resource Management)

MBA (General)

There are under an uniquely conceived Twinning Programme. This is a joint venture of the Directorate of Distance Education and select leading institutions of management across the country where 120 hours of regular teaching in evenings and weekends is carried out and the University shares the revenue with the participating institutions. The Directorate of Distance Education provides teaching materials, lessons and also books, and holds annual examination at select centres of cities. 47 such institutions have entered into an MOU with the University representing almost all major cities of India.

1.2 Academic Flexibility

1.2.1 What is the range of programme options available to learners in terms of Degrees, Certificates and Diplomas? Give the cut off percentage for admission at the entry level.

Minimum cut off mark for general candidates in respect of M.Phil / Ph.D is half of the average marks of entrance examination marks scored by all candidates. Minimum cut off for SC/ST/OBC/PH is 10% below the cut off for general category.

The candidates are selected on the basis of their performance in the entrance test conducted by the University all over India in 37 centres. However to be eligible for admission the minimum aggregate mark is 50% in the qualifying examination for

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Humanities & Social Sciences and 55% for Physical Sciences. All SC/ST candidates who have passed the qualifying examination are eligible to apply for admission irrespective of the percentage of marks obtained in the qualifying examination. The admission to M.B.A (Business Administration) is based on the CAT score and for Biotechnology, the admission is given based on rank list of common entrance test conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University for all reputed institutions offering the subject.

The inherent flexibility of choice is built into the CBCS system with students having a wide choice of softcore options of over 100. Besides, this is the only University which runs 22 add-on diplomas in evening for value addition courses, 9 foreign languages. A student can carry one degree and two diplomas is 2 years time.

1.2.2 What programmes are offered for employees / professionals in terms of training for career advancement?

Hindi training programme by Hindi cell.

Compulsory training programme to nonteaching staff and officers.

Sectoral M.B.A programmes are offered to the employees of the University by Directorate of Distance Education with fee conessions.

Training programme conducted by IQAC.

Refreshers courses specially designed for the Group-D employees.

English speaking classes all Group C & D employees.

Regular trainings to all Group C staff for improving efficiency.

1.2.3 Give the inventory of programmes offered by the University for the Colleges to choose from

Under Graduate Programmes

Sl. No Name of the Programmes

1 B.A.TAMIL

2 B.A.FUNCTIONAL TAMIL

3 B.A.ENGLISH

4 B.A.ENGLISH LITERATURE & ENGLISH FOR CAREERS

5 B.A.FRENCH

6 B.A.HINDI

7 B.A.MALAYALAM

8 B.A.BENGALI

9 B.A.ECONOMICS

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10 B.A.SOCIOLOGY

11 B.A.SOCIAL WORK

12 B.A.HISTORICAL STUDIES

13 B.A.POLITICAL SCIENCE

14 B.A.PHILOSOPHY, YOGA AND CULTURAL TOURISM

15 B.A.PHILOSOPHY, YOGA AND INDIAN CULTURE

16 B.A.PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH

17 B.Sc.MATHEMATICS

18 B.Sc.STATISTICS

19 B.Sc.PHYSICS

20 B.Sc.CHEMISTRY

21 B.Sc.APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

22 B.Sc.PLANT SCIENCE

23 B.Sc.BIO-CHEMISTRY

24 B.Sc.GEOGRAPHY

25 B.Sc.BIOINFORMATICS

26 B.Sc.BIO-TECHNOLOGY

27 B.Sc.ZOOLOGY

28 B.Sc.NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

29 B.Sc.HOME SCIENCE

30 B.Sc.CATERING SCIENCE & HOTEL MANAGEMENT

31 B.Sc.PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH

32 B.Sc.Ed.MATHEMATICS

33 B.Sc.Ed.COMPUTER SCIENCE

34 B.Sc.NURSING

35 B.Sc.MEDICAL LAB TECHNOLOGY

36 B.Sc.INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

37 B.Sc.COMPUTER SCIENCE

38 POST BASIC B.Sc. NURSING

39 B.Sc.ELECTRONICS

40 B.P.T.PHYSIOTHERAPHY

41 B.Tech.CIVIL ENGINEERING

42 B.Tech.MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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43 B.Tech.INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

44 B.Tech.COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

45 B.C.A.COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

46 B.Tech.ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

47 B.Tech.ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

48 B.Tech.ELECTRONICS & INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING

49 B.Tech.CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

50 B.Tech.BIO-MEDICAL ENGINEERING

51 B.Tech.INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL ENGINEERING

52 L.L.B. (3 Yrs)

53 BACHELOR OF ACADEMIC LAWS

54 LL.M.II - CRIME AND TORT

55 L.L.B (5 Yrs)

56 B.B.A.TOURISM

57 B.B.A.

58 B.B.M.

59 B.Com.COMMERCE

60 B.Com.FOREIGN TRADE

61 B.Com.CORPORATE SECRETARYSHIP

62 B.Com.CO-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT

63 B.P.A.DANCE

64 B.P.A.MUSIC (VEENA)

65 B.P.A.MUSIC (VIOLIN)

66 B.P.A.MUSIC (MRUDANGAM)

67 B.V.ASCULPTURE

68 B.V.APAINTING

69 B.V.AAPPLIED ARTS

70 B.Ed.

71 B.Com.Ed.

72 B.A.Ed.ENGLISH

73 M.B.B.S

74 B.D.S.

75 B.V.Sc. & A.H.

76 B.Pharm.

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P.G. Diploma Programmes


1 P.G.DIPLOMA IN FRENCH LAW

2 P.G.DIPLOMA IN CHILD HEALTH

3 P.G.DIPLOMA IN GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS

4 P.G.DIPLOMA IN LEPROSY

5 P.G.DIPLOMA IN OPHTHALMOLOGY

6 P.G.DIPLOMA IN ORTHOPAEDICS

7 P.G.DIPLOMA IN MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

8 P.G.DIPLOMA IN TB & CHEST DISEASES

Post Graduate Programmes

Sl.No Name of the Programmes

1 M.A.TAMIL

2 M.A.ENGLISH

3 M.A.HINDI

4 M.A.ECONOMICS

5 M.A.HISTORICAL STUDIES

6 M.A.POLITICAL SCIENCE

7 M.A.PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

8 MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK

9 M.Sc.PHYSICS

10 M.Sc.CHEMISTRY

11 M.Sc.MATHEMATICS

12 M.Sc.PLANT SCIENCE

13 M.Sc.GEOGRAPHY

14 M.Sc.MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

15 M.Sc.COMPUTER SCIENCE

16 M.B.A.

17 M.Com.COMMERCE

18 M.Ed.

19 M.Tech.ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY

20 M.Tech.MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

21 M.Tech.INFORMATION SECURITY

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Sl.No Name of the Programmes

22 M.Tech.COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

23 M.Tech.DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM

24 M.C.A.

25 M.Tech.ELECTRICAL DRIVES AND CONTROL

26 M.Tech.ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

27 M.Tech.ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

28 M.Tech.PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

29 M.Tech.WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

30 M.Tech.ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

31 M.D.I - GENERAL MEDICINE

32 M.S.II - OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

33 M.D.VII - PAEDIATRIC MEDICINE

34 M.D.XII - DERMATOLOGY, LEPROSY & VENEREOLOGY

35 M.D.XVIII PSYCHIATRY

36 M.D.XVII T.B. AND RESP. DESEASES

37 M.S.I - GENERAL SURGERY

38 M.S.II - ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

39 M.S.III - OPHTHALMOLOGY

40 M.S.IV - E.N.T

41 M.D.SPROSTHODONTICS

42 M.D.SORAL PATHOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY

43 M.D.SORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

44 M.D.SORAL MEDICINE & RADIOLOGY

45 M.D.SPEDODONTICS & PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY

46 M.V.Sc.LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY

47 M.V.Sc.VETERINARY & ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTENSION

48 M.V.Sc.VETERINARY BIOCHEMISTRY

49 M.V.Sc.VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

50 M.V.Sc.VETERINARY PATHOLOGY

51 M.PharmPHARMACEUTICS

52 M.PharmPHARMACEUTICS CHEMISTRY

53 M.PharmPHARMACOGNOSY

54 M.PharmPHARMACOLOGY

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Ph.D Programmes


1 Ph.D. in Law (F.T. & P.T. Internal only) 2 Ph.D. (Taxonomy) 3 Ph.D. (Ecology)

4 Ph.D. (Micro Biology)

5 Ph.D. (Entomology) 6 Ph.D. (Zoology)

7 Ph.D. (Microbiology) 8 Ph.D. (Chemistry) 9 Ph.D (Epidemiology) 10 Ph.D. (Indology) 11 Ph.D. (Ecology) 12 Ph.D (Geomatics)

1.2.4 What are the programmes available for foreign students?

Programme for international students

Specific programme under Study India Progrmame

Programme under South Asian Studies

Ex-change programmes based on MOUs

All PG Courses open for admission to foreign students subject to fulfillment of eligibility criteria.

Ph.D registration for foreign students under External Registration.

1.2.5 Does the University provide twinning programmes? Give details

Yes. The University offers Distance Education courses under Twinning Programme. The programmes are effected based on the MOU signed by the University and the College / Institutions offering the courses on behalf of University.

Twinning programme under MOU:

Sl. No

Name of the Institution Name of the Place 1. Loyolla College Chennai 2. Andhra Loyolla College, (Autonomous) Vijayawada

3. Helen Kellers' Institute of Research & Rehabilitation for the Disabled Children Bank colony

Secunderabad

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Name of the Institution Name of the Place

4. Princeton Degree & PG College Hyderabad 5. Samata College Visakhapatnam

6. Mancherial Institute of Planning & Mgt. Studies

Mancherial (Andrah Pradesh)

7. St. Joseph's College Pilathara (Kannur Dist) 8. St. Xavier's College Thiruvananthapuram 9. Jamal Mohamed College Trichy 10. Arul Anandar College (Autonomous) Madurai

11. Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College Centre for Management Studies

Bangalore

12. Capital College - Garden City Group of Institutions

Bangalore

13. Bangalore Management Academy Bangalore

14. Sr. Joyce Teresian College

Mysore

15. Sri Sai Ram College Kolkata 16. Institute of Environment and Management Lucknow 17. Grey Matters Educationals Pvt. Ltd Chandigarh 18. Asia Pacific Institute of Management Jaipur 19. Gujarat Institute of Hotel Management Vadodara 20. Regional Institute of Science & Technology Patna

21. M.S. Panwar Institute of Communication & Management

Solan

22. Sri Balaji HRD Trust FOSTIIMA Business School

New Delhi

23. Asia Pacific Institute of Management Studies(AIMS)

New Delhi

24. NIIM School of Business Administration New Delhi

25. Alpha Degree College

Hyderabad

26. Parishkar College of Global Excellence Jaipur

27. Academic & Research (Al Hikma IAGS) International Academy for Graduate Studies

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

28. Alagappa Institute of Technology Chennai 29. SIET Institute of Management Bangalore 30. GBS:Global Business School Hubli 31. Adept Foundation Dharwad 32. Pooja hagvat Mahajana Post Graduate Centre Mysore 33. Karrox Technologies Mumbai 34. Stevens Business Academy Gandhinagar

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Name of the Institution Name of the Place

35. UEI Global School of Service Management New Delhi

36. NSHM Centre of Management & Development Studies

Gurgaon

37. Swami Vivekananda Business School Chandigarh 38. Rai Business School Chennai 39. Al Ameen Arts & Science College Thiruvannamalai 40. Dayananda Sagar Institutions Bangalore 41. Nalanda Degree College Vijayawada 42. RIMS B Bhubaneswar 43. Princess College Raipur

44. International Institute Of Management Sciences

Howrah

45. Institute of Business Management & Research Hubli 46. Indus World School Of Business Noida

All the Twinning Programmes under Distance Education have been arranged in line with the MOU signed with the respective institutions.

The University is now drafting new regulations for starting of Twin Degrees and Twinning Programmes with overseas universities with whom MOUs have been signed.

1.2.6 Does the institution offer any self-financing programmes in the institution? If yes, list them

Yes, University offers few self financing courses

Biotechnology

Green Energy Technology

Banking Technology (till 2009)

All the Add-on PG Diploma Programmes & Certificate Courses.

Self Financing Courses List

Add-on Evening Post Graduate Diploma Courses

Sl. No.

Name of the Programmes

1.

Functional Hindi & Translation 2.

T.V. Production 3.

Journalism & Mass Communication 4.

Women s Studies 5.

Library Automation & Networking

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6.

Industrial Psychology

7.

Planning and Evaluation

8.

Biotechnology

9.

Health Fitness and Life Style Management

10.

Investment Management

11.

Rural Development

12.

Statistical & Research Methods 13.

Human Rights 14.

Industrial Relations & Labour Law 15.

Teaching Skills 16.

Computer Applications 17.

Simulation and Modelling 18.

Theatre Arts 19.

Event Management 20.

Professional Communication in English 21.

Advanced Analytical Techniques 22.

Foreign Trade

Add-on Evening Certificate Courses

Sl. No

Name of the Programmes

1. Tamil 2. French 3. Japanese 4. Russian 5. Korean 6. Chinese 7. German 8. Spanish 9. Italian 10. Sanskrit

1.2.7 What is the procedure adopted to extend additional programmes of studies to affiliated institutions?

The Autonomous affiliated colleges are at liberty to start courses of their choice and the University if required, assists in curriculum development. The Government colleges take permission from State Council of Higher Education before applying to the University, for recognition of new programmes. The University insists for feasibility report and justification before considering new programmes which are not already existing in University.

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In case the programme is not offered by other affiliated colleges, a Board of Studies is constituted for the same, after evaluating the feasibility report and payment of required fees. After the process begins the Dean, College Development Council, initiates the process of inspection. The inspection team as constituted by the Vice-Chancellor visits the institution and ensures the availability of required Faculty and infrastructure. On ensuring the feasibility, the inspection team recommends the starting of the course.

1.2.8 Does the institution follow Annual System, Semester System, Trimester System and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)?

All the courses offered in the University follow semester patter under CBCS system. The marks obtained are converted in to grades under relative grading system. Where the students are less than 20 absolute grading method is adopted. Even the courses under Distance Education also follows the semester pattern. But the grading systems is not followed in Distance Education and is based on the absolute marks and divisions are awarded.

The practice of final grading is on CGPA calculated as the weighted average of the grades awarded in the semester examination and the number of credit the course prescribes. The grades in the semester examination is awarded based on relative grading. All diploma courses also follow the semester pattern but this final marks are taken into consideration, not the grade.

1.2.9 Does the institution provide flexibility to pursue the programme with reference to the time frame (flexible time for completion)?

The normal period to complete a PG course is 4 semesters; the student can plan it between 3 to 8 semesters. The semester system allows the flexibility to complete the course earlier to the prescribed duration provided the stipulated credits are earned. The system is such that a bright student can complete the course earlier than prescribed duration by planning and registering the courses accordingly. The students have the flexibility to spread the completion of required credits upto 8 semesters.

1.2.10 Does the institution have any provision for slow and disadvantaged learners? If yes, for what courses?

Remedial classes are taken by the faculty for the slow and disadvantaged learners. The tutorials also serve this purpose. Apart from this, special coaching classes are undertaken for SC/ST and Minorities, to prepare them for competitive and NET examination.

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1.2.11 How does the institution identify slow and advanced learners? How are the

advanced learners facilitated to meet the challenges?

The University follows a continuous assessment of the students, in terms of internal assessment carrying 40% marks, wherein tests, seminar, assignments quizzes etc., are conducted. The slow learners are identified by the concerned teacher in the class as well as the Faculty advisors, based on the performance in the internal assessments.

The slow and advanced learners are identified by the teachers in the courses through continued evaluation in form of internal assessment. While remedial classes are taken for slow learners, the fast learners are encouraged to study the latest developments. Seminar presentations as a part of internal assessment help the students in presentation skills.

1.2.12 Does the institution provide flexibility to the students to move from one discipline to another? Give details.

The flexibility is subject to availability of seats and before a stipulated time. However there is flexibility to drop certain softcore courses and take other softcore courses of the student s choice, under CBCS system followed in the University.

1.2.13 Does the institution provide facilities for credit transfer, if the students migrate from one institution to another institution in or outside the country?

The institutions provide facilities for the students who migrate from other Universities to this University to transfer the credit. The candidates need not repeat the course subject to the equivalency of the subject to be approved by Board of Studies for the undergraduate courses. But for PG courses such a flexibility does not exist as the thrust of the subjects are different in different institutions, unless there is a specific MOU between the Universities. The CBCS system is yet to be completely implemented in many Universities which alone can pave the way for credit transfer. With some overseas Universities, we have arrangements for credit transfer. Under Study India Programme students spend one semester at Pondicherry University and the credits are transferred.

1.2.14 Does the institution provide a) Core options b) Elective options c) Enrichment courses?

Yes the University offers options in form of soft core courses. The students also are given opportunity to take courses from other department but not more than a limited number of credits. The PG Diploma and Certificate Courses are offered as Add-on for enriching the students further with relevant specializations and Foreign Languages. Under this system the University provides an opportunity to get one PG degree and 2 PG Diploma / Certificates within a period of two years of stay at the University.

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1.2.15 Does the institution provide the flexibility of combining the conventional and

distance mode of education for students to make use of the combination of courses they are interested in?

A student in regular programme is allowed to take another programme through distance mode.

1.3 Feedback on Curriculum

1.3.1 How does the University obtain feedback from

a) Students : Feedback every semester b) Alumni : Feedback through annual meets c) Employer : During the placement interview (informal) d) Community : From parents on options e) Academic Peers : Systems evolved for peer assessment f) Industry : University-Industry interface meetings g) Parents : Through questionnaire

The University gets feedback from the alumni, employers, community, Academics, peers & industry during their interaction in various progrmames like Alumni Meet, seminars, conferences, Industry-Academic interface, Board of Studies and alike wherein these groups are called as special invitees to contribute their opinion and initiate changes required. The feedback from students and parents are collected through questionnaires. Feedback from employers are appraised during Campus placements. Feedback from all these groups form the basis of starting new programmes and making changes in the curriculum. A student representative in the Programme Committee represents the opinions of the students and can suggest introduction / improvement of a course which is required for their placement. Representatives from peer-group and industry being a part of Board of Studies contribute constructively in incorporating changes and bringing in new subjects into curriculum.

1.3.2 How is the feedback used for significant changes in the curriculum?

The University continuously strives to keep itself updated with the changes of times, focus and relevance. New courses continuously are being introduced and existing courses are revised from time to time to incorporate the changes and make them more contemporary. The University lays emphasis in industry and academic interaction in designing the curriculum to make the course more practical and job oriented.

During last five years, the following new programmes have been introduced:

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2007

2008

Sl. No Name of the Course Department

1. M.A. South Asian Studies Centre for South Asian Studies 2. M.A. Mass Communication Dept. of Mass Communication 3. M.Sc. Electronic Media Centre for Electronic Media 4. M.Sc. Applied Psychology Dept. of Applied Psychology 5. M.Sc. Food Science & Nutrition Dept. of Food Science & Tech. 6. M.Sc. (Five Year Integrated) Dept. of Mathematics 7. M.Sc. (Five Year Integrated) Dept. of Computer Science 8. M.Sc. (Five Year Integrated) Dept. of Statistics 9. M.Sc (Bioinformatics) Centre for Bioinformatics

10. M.Sc Coastal Disaster Management

Dept. of Coastal Disaster Management

11. Master of Social Work Master of Social Work

12. Master of Library & Information Science

Dept. of Library & Information Science

13. M.Tech. Environmental Engineering & Management

Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering

14. M.Tech. Network and Internet Engineering

Dept. of Computer Science

15. M.Phil (Anthropology) Dept. of Anthropology 16. M.Phil (Sociology) Dept. of Sociology 17. M.Phil (History) Dept. of History 18. Ph.D. (Tourism) Dept. of Tourism

19. Ph.D. (Asian Christian Studies) Escande Chair in Asian Christian Studies

20. PG Diploma in Functional Hindi & Translation

Dept. of Hindi

2008 - 2009

1. Tamil (Religious Literature) Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Languages & Literature

2009

2010

1. Ph.D. Banking Technology Dept. of Banking Technology

2. Ph.D. International Business Dept. of International Business

3. Ph.D. Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy Centre for Social Exclusion &

Inclusive Policy 4.

M.Phil. Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy)

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5.

Ph.D. Coastal Disaster Management

Dept. of Coastal Disaster Management

5. M.B.A. (Insurance) Dept. of Management Studies (Karaikal)

7. M.Sc (Food Science & Technology)

Dept. of Food Science & Technology

Add on Diploma Courses (Evening Classes) 2009 - 2010

8. Functional Hindi & Translation Dept. of Hindi 9. T.V. Production Centre for Electronic Media 10. Media & Communication Centre for Electronic Media 11. Women s Studies Centre for Women s Studies

12. Library Automation & Networking

Dept. of Library Information & Sciences

13. Industrial Psychology Dept. of Applied Psychology 14. Planning and Evolution Dept. of Economics 15. Biotechnology Dept. of Biotechnology

16. Health Fitness and Life Style Management

Dept. of Physical Education & Sports

17. Investment Management Dept. of Commerce

18. Rural Development Dept. of Sociology 19. Statistical & Research Methods Dept. of Statistics

20. Human Rights Dept. of Politics & International Studies

21. Industrial Relations & Labour Law

Dept. of Politics & International Studies

22. Teaching Skills School of Education 23. Computer Applications Dept. of Computer Science 24. Simulation and Modeling Dept. of Computer Science 25. Theatre Arts School of Performing Arts 26. Event Management Dept. of Tourism Studies

27. Professional Communication in English

Dept. of English

28. Advanced Analytical Techniques

Department of Earth Sciences

Add on Certificate Courses (Evening Classes) 2009 - 2010

29. Tamil Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & Literature

30. Chinese Centre for Foreign Languages 31. French Centre for Foreign Languages

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32. German Centre for Foreign Languages 33. Italian Centre for Foreign Languages 34. Japanese Centre for Foreign Languages

2010

2011

1. M.Sc (Microbiology) Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

2. M.Sc (Integrated Economics) Dept. of Economics 3. M.Sc. (Computational Biology) Centre for Bioinformatics 4.

M.Tech. (Electronics)

Dept. of Electronic Engineering

5. M.Tech (Nano Sciences & Technology)

Centre for Nano Sciences & Technology

6. M.Tech (Green Energy Technology)

Centre for Green Energy Technology

7. Ph.D. (Education) School of Education 8. Ph.D. (Social Work) Dept. of Social Work 9. Ph.D. (South Asian Studies) Centre for South Asian Studies 10. Ph.D (Statistics) Dept. of Statistics 11. Ph.D (Food Science & Nutrition) Dept. of Food Science & Tech.

12. Ph.D (Food Science & Technology)

Dept. of Food Science & Technology

13. Ph.D. (Electronic Media) Centre for Electronic Media 14. Ph.D. (Mass Communication) Dept. of Mass Communication

15. Ph.D (Library & Information Science)

Dept. of Library & Information Science

16. Ph.D (Applied Psychology) Dept. of Applied Psychology

Add on Certificate Courses

2010 - 2011

17. Korean Centre for Foreign Languages 18. Russian Centre for Foreign Languages 19. Spanish Centre for Foreign Languages 20. Sanskrit Centre for Foreign Languages

2011

2012

1. M.Tech (Nano Science & Technology)

Centre for Nano Science & Technology

2. M.Tech (Green Energy Technology)


3. M.Com. (Accounting & Taxation)

Dept. of Commerce

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1.3.3 Which courses had major syllabus revision during the last five years? (with change

in title and content)

The following departments have revised their curriculum on introduced new course during last 5 years.

Sl. No Name of the Department Syllabus Revision

1. Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & Literature

Revised

2. Banking Technology Revised 3. Commerce Revised 4. Commerce (Karaikal Centre) New Course Introduced 5. Economics Revised 6. International Business Revised 7. Management Studies(Karaikal Centre) New Course Introduced 8. Management Studies Revised 9. Tourism Studies Revised 10. Mathematics Revised 11. Statistics Revised 12. Computer Science Revised 13. Computer Science (Karaikal Centre) New Course Introduced

14. Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering

Revised

15. Electronics Engineering New Course Introduced 16. Applied Psychology New Course Introduced 17. Chemistry Revised 18. Earth Sciences Revised 19. Physics Revised 20. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Revised 21. Biotechnology Revised 22. Bioinformatics Revised 23. Coastal Disaster Management New Course Introduced 24. Ecology & Environmental Sciences Revised 25. Food Science & Technology New Course Introduced 26. Ocean Studies and Marine Biology Revised 27. English Revised 28. Escande Chair in Asian Christian Studies New Course Introduced 29. French Revised 30. Hindi Revised 31. Philosophy Revised 32. Physical Education & Sports Revised 33. Sanskrit Revised 34. Performing Arts Revised

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35. Anthropology Revised

36. Centre for Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy

New Course Introduced

37. Centre for Women Studies Revised 38. History Revised 39. MISAAR & Centre for South Asian Studies New Course Introduced 40. Politics & International Studies Revised 41. Sociology Revised 42. Social Work New Course Introduced 43. Education Revised 44. Centre for Electronic Media New Course Introduced 45. Library & Information Science New Course Introduced 46. Mass Communication New Course Introduced 47. Centre for Green Energy Technology New Course Introduced 48. Centre for Nano Science & Technology New Course Introduced

1.3.4 By what mechanism do the institutions affiliated to the University give feedback and interact?

The members of BOS / BOES from affiliated colleges give their feedback on the curricula in the meeting. The University regularly conducts meetings with principals of affiliated colleges organized by Dean, College Development Council, with members of Academic Advisory Committee to get the feedback from principals on curriculum, examination systems, academic calendar etc. The representatives from the affiliated colleges being the members of Academic Council and various higher bodies approving curricula of different courses, contribute in the decision making process in curriculum designing.

1.4 Curriculum Update

1.4.1 Does the institution refer UGC/National/International models while updating curricula?

Before every new programme is started it is the practice in Pondicherry University to hold curriculum development workshops. Recently when the new progrmame M.Tech (Nano Science & Technology) and M.Tech (Green Energy Technology) was started an International workshop was held and 12 Scientists and Professors from leading institutions of USA, Korea, Japan and Canada, participated and helped in curriculum development.

The UGC Model syllabi is consulted wherever they exist. For inter disciplinary courses, even the curriculum of leading Overseas Universities are also referred. Some time the initiative for the curriculum designing starts on the sideline of the international conference where academics from different foreign University participate.

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1.4.2 What are the interdisciplinary courses introduced during the last five years?

Interdisciplinary Courses

M.Sc. Applied Psychology

M.Sc. Microbiology

M.Sc. Food Science & Nutrition

M.Sc. Food Science & Technology

M.Sc. Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering

M.Sc. Computational Biology

M.Sc. Bioinformatics

M.Sc. Biotechnology

M.Sc. Geo explorations

M.Sc. Net working

M.Sc. Electronics

M.Sc. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

M.Sc. Computer Science

M.Sc. Electronic Media

M.Tech. Nano Science & Technology

M.Tech. Green Energy Technology

M.A. Mass Communication

MBA Banking Technology

MBA Tourism etc.,

1.4.3 How are the existing courses modified to meet the emerging needs?

The Board of Studies meet regularly to discuss the latest developments and emerging trends in the concerned subject. Members from industry, other Universities and other experts as special invitees contribute towards making the syllabus suitable to emerging needs and also catering to the job potential of the course.

1.4.4 What value added courses are introduced which would

a) Develop skills

b) Offer career training

c) Promote community orientation?

The University offers to its students and outsiders, twenty two Add-on Evening Diploma courses for value addition and Certificate courses for 9 foreign languages, for skill developments. Apart from this, the School of Management also organizes special programmes for soft skill development.

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The Computer Science department organizes computer training programmes.

The Statistics Department organizes courses on Research Methodology. Regular summer schools in instrumentation techniques (CIF) & Teaching methodologies (Physics & Mathematics) are held.

1.4.5 Does the institution focus on multiskill development in its pogrammes? If yes, illustrate.

Multiskill development is imbibed in the CBCS systems. In addition to subject knowledge, attention is given to skill development like presentation skills in seminar, assignments, inducing awareness through quizzes. Besides, the add-on programmes are a boon for multi skill development. For example: A student of Journalism can take a diploma in English or a Literature student can take diploma in T.V. production or a student of MSW can take Diploma in Labour Laws and Human Rights, etc. 22 such diplomas offer wide scope for multi-skill development.

1.4.6 What thrust is given to Information Communication Technology in the curriculum for equipping the students for global demands?

All programmes in PG have Computer Application units in curriculum and all Departments have Computer Laboratories. The University is committed to give more thrust to Information Technology in the curriculum. Programmes such as Bio informatics, Computational Biology, M.Tech, M.Sc. & MCA in Computer Science, Programmes in Multimedia and Mass Communication are the examples. Other than these, most of the courses also are encouraged to use ICT for their instructional medium. ICT teaching is also in the designing stage for Distance Education Programmes. ICT has been made a part of curriculum where ever possible. This is perhaps one of the few Universities which has 780 acres of WiFi, campus and remote access, to library e-resources.

1.4.7 How often is the curriculum pertaining to the affiliated institutions updated and diversified?

Curriculum is reviewed every year. The curriculum for the affiliated Institutions are designed by the Board of Studies constituted specifically for it to have common courses for all affiliated colleges. This is mainly intended to facilitate inter-college transfer.

1.4.8 What were the initiatives to restructure the UG courses to make them socially relevant and / or job oriented?

The University has taken special efforts during last five years to structure the undergraduate course to make them more practical and job oriented. Instead of offering a generalized course the University prefers to make it more specialized and job oriented for example for B.Com course the University offers B.Com

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(Corporate Secretaryship), B.Com (Foreign Trade), B.com (Co-operative Management) and B.com (Vocational) etc., The University is committed to bring in socially relevant courses into the gamut of courses offered by affiliated colleges. The University goes a further step by offering job oriented courses through Community College, which is the first of its kind to be started in the country. The University also encourages colleges to apply for UGC vocational programmes and also for autonomous status so that the respective college can design their own curriculum suited to the local need and demands of time.

1.5 Best Practices in Curricular Aspects

1.5.1 What is the quality sustenance and quality enhancement measures undertaken by the institution during the last five years in curricular aspects with reference to curricular design and development / academic flexibility / feedback from stake holders / curriculum update?

This has been sufficiently elaborated in respective sections.

For Re-accreditation:

1.6.1 What were the evaluative observations made under Curricular Aspects in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon?

and

1.6.2 What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to Curricular Aspects?

Observations:

The most distinctive feature of the University s curricular innovation was the implementation of the Choice Based Credit System which allowed the students the freedom to choose courses across Departmental and disciplinary boundaries. The University has recently grouped Academic Departments and Centres under seven different Schools, each headed by a Dean. They are 1) Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language and Literature, 2) School of Management (including Economics and Commerce) 3) Ramanujam School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, 4) School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences, 5) School of Life Sciences, 6) School of Humanities, 7) School of Social Sciences and International Studies. This will promote interdisciplinary teaching and research programmes. The University is currently offering 99 programmes of regular teaching and research (PG-43, M.Phil.-24, Ph.D. -26, PG Diplma-2, Integrated M.Sc.

4), while the Distance Education Directorate offers 39 (UG-7, PG-16, PG Diploma

16) programmes and the Community College 14 programmes.

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All the Departments and Centres have academic autonomy with freedom to frame their own syllabi and to conduct examinations. For the Post graduate courses, teachers can design, review and update the courses as and when necessary with the approval of the Departmental Programme Committee. The curricular structure of University courses provides ample scope for practical training and fieldwork. New programmes may be initiated through proposals from the Head of the Department, which are then scrutinized by the Programme Committee, the Board of Studies and the Academic Council. This process takes six months to a year. Normally, syllabi are revised every three years. For undergraduate courses in the affiliated colleges, the views of the course teachers are submitted to the Boards of Studies for consideration. Several curricular reforms have been undertaken over the past three years and some conventional programmes were redesigned and renamed to suit emerging needs. The Departmental of Biological Sciences has been re-named as Bio-Chemistry and Molecular Biology, and the School of Ecology was re-named as the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. In response to the suggestion of the earlier NAAC Peer Team, new departments, such as Anthropology, Molecular Biology, Ocean Studies and Marine Biology have been established. The Mahe Centre for Economics has been discontinued due to the low intake of students.

In addition to the traditional Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Courses the University has introduced practical skill-oriented degrees such as MBA in Banking Technology, MBA International Business, MBA in Tourism, M.Com in Business Finance, MA Sustainable Development, M.Sc. in Applied Geology, and M.Sc. in Biotechnology, M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and the Advanced PG Diploma in Bioinformatics. Moreover, the University has introduced 115 ICT (Information and Computer Technology) based courses in different departments and centres. Some of the courses contain network modules. The University offers five year integrated courses in science subjects, leading to the award of the Master s Degree. The admission is open to +2 candidates.

In 1995, the University established the Directorate of Distance Education which provides continuing education through seven undergraduate and 16 postgraduate degree programmes as well as 16 postgraduate diploma programmes and two twinning programmes with colleges, with a total strength of 27,569 students from all over India. The DDE offers personal contact programmes in 30 cities in the country and students registration is also done at 30 centres country-wide. There are 25 examination centres all over the country.

Pondicherry University was the first University in India to establish a Community College (1994). This was aimed at equipping the socio-economically weaker sections of the society through skill-based, job-oriented, work-related, life-enriching education which will yield job placements as well as self-employment competency within the community. The College offers 14 self-financed courses and has a total enrolment of 962.

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Enhancement Measures:

NAAC Assessment Committee have commended on certain practices of this/the University such as, the Choice Based Credit System, the grouping of Departments into Schools (7 Schools), greater autonomy given to the Centers and Departments to frame their own syllabi and conduct the examinations, an introduction of Intra-disciplinary MBA programmes such as, Banking Technology, International Business, Tourism Studies, M.Com in Business Finance, Sustainable Development, M.Sc in Geology, Bio-Technology, Microbiology, Bio-Informatics and finally the introduction of 5 years Integrated programmes.

In the next 5 years, the University took forward the initiative by adding over 16 new subjects into the teaching programmes grouped into 15 Schools, thus resulting in a total of 61 Schools, Departments and Centers and offering 151 programmes on the campus. This brought a completeness in the total number of disciplines which is expected of any Central University.

The University gives ample opportunities to keep the academia abreast of the recent developments, the contemporary research in terms of giving due encouragement to conduct seminars workshops and send the faculty for training FDP, seminars and conferences within the country as well as abroad.

Emphasis is given to write projects and most of the Faculties are encouraged to write projects.

The Departments are encouraged to apply for SAP to develop their research capability and developing and strengthening themselves in a specific thrust area and to try for innovative and inter disciplinary programs. The University initiates the signing of MoUs with top Institutions, Research labs, Foreign Universities etc., to join hands in enhancing the research and academic capabilities of the University.

The University has revised its Ph.D. admission guidelines to bring in provisions for external Ph.D. registration even from foreign countries with guides from anywhere in the world, of course after satisfying the stringent reforms of the University. In order to promote research the University has admitted 296 scholars in the current year registering a phenomenal growth over a period of 5 years from more than 68 to 296.

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The M.Phil. students strength increased from 146 to 336 during last five years. At present, the University has 336 M.Phil. students and 655 Ph.D scholars on the rolls.

The University has a unique practice of involving students also in the curriculum development or introduction of a new course at its initial stage through the Programme Committee.

MoU s with various research organizations and foreign Universities have been signed to give better exposure to the academia and students in their academic and research persuit in term of exchange of Faculty.

`Know your University

is another programme wherein every Department showcases its facilities, capabilities, status and future plan of action to the rest of the University.

Involving experts from industry also is another unique feature of the curriculum development process of the University.

Another stand alone feature of the curriculum development is the placing of the approved syllabus in the School Board which constitutes faculty across the Departments under the School along with another set of external experts to make value additions where ever possible, before the curriculum is placed for final approval in Academic Council.

Skill development trainings like finishing school, communication skill etc are conducted to make students more employable.

Campus placements are undertaken by the individual Departments initiation as well as the Placement Cell s effort to facilitate more and more recruitments and to know the job specifications and requirement of the industry and bring in changes accordingly in the curriculum.

The University has made it mandatory for all Departments to hold at least one National / International Seminar / Conference each year. On an average 75 conferences are held each year, which is the highest in the country.

The University has completely modernized the Library with State of the Art online access facility and remote access to over 31,000 plus E-resources of which 23,928 are full text e-journals through libaray portal with digitatization of theses and huge additions of latest published books.

The entire campus has been networked with 28 km OFC Cables and has been connected with Telephones and Wi-Fi access.

23 Computer Laboratories have been established for Departments & Schools.

All the latest software needed for Teaching and Research and Data bases like CMIE have been subscribed at a cost of over 1.5 Crores.

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Increase in Faculty strength by 150%, established of 15 new Departments starting of additional 71 teaching programmes, enhancing the infrastructure by adding over 1.3 million sq. foot are all unprecedented measure of enhancement of quality and substances.

Computer Lab of the Dept. of Mathematics

Computer Lab of the Dept. of Tourism Studies

The establishment of State of the Art, CIF facilities and acquisition of the most modern Analytical and research instruments costing over 50 Crores was brought the University with International standards.

Thermal Analyser System (DTA-TGA)

DSC

The establishment of the Publication Division and starting of refereed Journals in various fields through duly registered societies is yet another innovative step to sustain quality and visibility.

Signing 24 MoUs during last 4 years with Institutions and Universities of repute, has greatly enhanced the connectivity of the Faculty & students with International Universities & Institutions.

Strengthening Board of Studies with industry representatives.

Encouraging guest lectures by professionals.

Revising all the PG courses to address the changing focus and contemporary development and to make courses more job orientated.

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Revising CBCS guideline to make it more student friendly, at the same time bringing more reforms for the benefit of students.

Obtaining feedback from parents, teacher, employees, alumni and accordingly revising the syllabus.

Revising the relative grading system to incorporate grades as per the nature of the subject rather than rigidly adopting a particular class internal for classifying the students grade.

Many Departments have been assisted under SAP, DST, DBT etc.,

Departments are encouraged to apply for UGC Grants under innovative schemes as well as for Centre of Excellence establishing their uniqueness and proving their strengths.

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2.1 Admission Process and Student Profile

2.1.1 How does the institution ensure wide publicity and transparency in the admission process?

The University prints the Pondicherry University Prospectus which has complete information of the Schools, Departments, Centres, Programmes offered, Faculty, Fees and facilities. Admissions to the University Departments are made on the basis of the rank list of the common entrance test conducted by the University throughout the country except for M.B.A., M.Sc. Biotechnology & M.Sc. Bioinformatics. The admissions for M.B.A. are based on All India CAT Score and for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Programmes, from the list of selected candidates in common admission test conducted by JNU. In the affiliated colleges other than professional courses like Medical and Engineering, the admissions are based on the basis of marks in qualifying exams. For professional courses it is based on state level common admission test conducted by the Government. The admission process in Pondicherry University is as follows:

The admission to Pondicherry University is on All India Basis. The calendar of admission process is decided well in advance and the admission notification is issued through the following channels;

All the National and some selected regional newspapers both in English and major Indian languages namely Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Kannada etc.,

Over 10,000 admission posters are printed and sent to all the 12F and 2B listed colleges by the UGC.

The University website where a student can apply online and download the entire prospectus. The applications can also be obtained from the University by postal delivery.

In order to facilitate a large number of students to apply, the University has reduced the application fee to a nominal Rs.100 and Rs.50 to General and SC/ST respectively. Application fee is waived in case of physically challenged applicants.

Entrance test is held in 38 centres throughout the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to West Bengal on a single day and University Faculty are posted to all centres for a transparent conduct of entrance examinations.

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The questions are of objective type with four choices of answers. The OMR answer sheets are evaluated at the University through an independent out sourced agency, who prepare the list of candidates with their score, classify them into categories (for reservation) and submit lists, subject-wise and category-wise in order of merit which is posted on the University website, together with the first list of selected candidates. Merit is strictly adhered to and admissions are carried out as per the notified list.

However for admission into M.Phil / Ph.D the minimum cut off marks for general candidates is half of the average of the entrance examination marks scored by all candidates in the respective subject. The minimum cut off marks for SC/ST/OBC/BC is 10% below the cut off applicable to General category. The merit list is also hosted in the website and admission is done accordingly.

The eligibility for admission to different courses is 50% marks in Humanities & Social Sciences and 55% marks for Science Courses in the qualifying examination. However the same is relaxed to 45% for OBCs and a simple pass for SC/ST and physically handicapped students.

The total number of seats, their category-wise distribution as per the University norms along with the rank list of result of the entrance test is displayed in the website to ensure full transparency of the admission process. The list of admitted candidates are also made public as soon admissions are over. If at any time seats remain vacant after the waiting list admission, spot admission is resorted to, to fill the vacant seats. All the admissions dates are displayed from time to time in the website for the information for the candidates.

2.1.2 How are the students selected for admission to the following courses?

All students are selected on the basis of merit observing the norms of reservation notified by Government of India.

a). General Admission to all Post Graduate, M.Phil and Ph.D courses are made based on the rank list obtained in the entrance test. Admission to add on PG Diploma courses are given based on first come first serve basis and subject to eligibility and total number of seats. Affiliated colleges give admission on the basis of marks in qualifying examination.

b). Professional

Admission to M.B.A programme is based on CAT Score.

c). Other professional courses like B.E., B.Tech Medical are made based on the basis of common entrance test conducted at state level for all affiliated colleges

d). Undergraduate

For all under graduate programmes in affiliated colleges admissions are made based on marks of qualifying examination.

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e). Vocational

for the vocational courses offered by affiliated colleges as well as

community college, the admission is based on marks obtained in the qualifying examinations.

2.1.3 What strategies are adopted to create access to

a) Disadvantaged community

b) SC

c) ST

d) Women

f) Differently

abled - PH

g) Economically weaker sections of the Society

h) OBC

i) Athletes and sports persons

The seat reservation for SC (15%), ST (7.5%), Differently abled (3%) and OBC (27%) is strictly followed for all admissions in the University.

Reservations are based on Government of India rules. But the relaxation of 5% marks to SC, ST and OBC in qualifying exams scores, wide publicity, increase in seats, offering Scholarships to students, special concessions elaborated in subsequent pages of the report, are the strategies to encourage access to all disadvantaged sections including women.

2.1.4 How many applications were received and how many were granted admissions for the following courses?

The following are the details of application received and admission granted to different courses in the University for last 5 years. The steep rise in the number of application is perhaps the highest in the country. In 2007, a total of 8000 applications were received and in 2010, it increased to 41,000 for 2,530 seats and this number has crossed 52,000 in 2011 for about 2,800 seats.

Post Graduate Admissions

PG MA / M.Sc / M.Tech / MCA Year Applied Admitted

2006-07 6405 648 2007-08 7687 787 2008-09 7490 1030 2009-10 18699 1375 2010-11 27108 1845

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Total 67389 5685

5 Year Integrated Year Applied Admitted

2006-07 346 53 2007-08 565 59 2008-09 991 70 2009-10 1694 83 2010-11 2187 168

Total 5783 433 M.Phil

Year Applied Admitted 2006-07 323 146 2007-08 1033 201 2008-09 1428 304 2009-10 2340 305 2010-11 2653 336

Total 7777 1292 Ph.D

Year Applied Admitted 2006-07 514 68 2007-08 665 219 2008-09 1192 170 2009-10 3829 182 2010-11 8541 296

Total 14741 935

Admissions to affiliated colleges: is done by respective colleges. For professional courses, admission is through the central body (CENTAC) approved by the Government of Puducherry. The following data is of the final admissions to the various programmes.

Students Admission in Affiliated Institution Discipline 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Engineering 8157 9957 10962 12759 Medical 1273 1123 1271 2057 Paramedical & Nursing 2423 1418 1181 1715 Education 3407 3932 3849 3096 General (Arts & Science)

12016 13933 12060 13226

Law 404 524 524 664 Total 27680 30887 29847 33517

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2.2 Catering to Diverse Needs

2.2.1 Is there a provision for assessing student s knowledge / needs and skills before the commencement of the teaching programme?

Entrance test scores are the measures of knowledge / needs and skills before the commencement of teaching programme. The admission to MBA has Personal Interview and Group Discussion as part of selection process. Before the commencement of classes, conduct of counseling greatly benefit in the planning of special tutorials based on the students need, requirement and level of knowledge.

2.2.2 Does the institution provide Bridge Courses to the educationally

disadvantaged students?

As such there is no Bridge Course for all the programmes offered. In some disciplines and Inter disciplinary courses like Banking Technology a Bridge Course is offered to equip the students from different background to cope with the completely new courses. Remedial classes, of course, are engaged for educationally disadvantaged students.

Bridge Courses are provided to students based on the requirement of the multi disciplinary departments, which are decided from time to time each year.

2.2.3 What programmes are offered to the students from the disadvantaged communities?

Special coaching classes are taken to coach SC/ST students for competitive examination including NET/JRF under the UGCs assistance.

However University does not offer separate programmes to disadvantaged communities. On the contrary, the University has the policy of intensive tutorials to all students who are slow learners or who exhibit certain deficiencies.

2.2.4 What specific strategies are adopted for facilitating

a) Advanced students?

By providing scholarships to meritorious students after each semester examinations based on the grades score and also encouraging them to access advanced learning materials from internet and library for advancement of knowledge.

b) Slow Learners

Intensive use of Tutorials for the slow learners and constant counseling by the faculty advisors helps the slow learners to cope with rest of the class.

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2.3 Teaching

Learning Process

2.3.1 How does the institution plan and organize the teaching learning evaluation schedule into the total scheme? Does the University have an academic calendar? How is it prepared?

The University plans & schedules the teaching, learning & evaluation process by preparing an academic calendar. The academic calendar is prepared by a high level committee constituting all the Deans with the Director of Studies as chairperson. The calendar is prepared much before the commencement of the academic year. The proforma of Academic Calendar (2010-11) is given below.

PROFORMA

Semester Descriptions Period of Session

ODD Semester (28.06.2010

to 27.11.2010)

COUNSELING AND REGISTRATION*

28.06.2010 to 02.07.2010

Commencement of Regular Classes 05.07.2010 Last date for payment of fees 16.07.2010 (Friday) Last date for dropping courses 23.07.2010 (Friday) Submission of Registration Cards to the Academic Section

30.07.2010 (Friday)

COUNSELING AND REGISTRATION*

05.11.2010 to 06.11.2010

End of Classes 12.11.2010 (Friday) Commencement of Examinations 15.11.2010 (Monday) Completion of Examinations 27.11.2010 (Friday) Last date for declaration of provisional results

30.11.2010 (Tuesday)

Winter Vacation 01.12.2010 to 12.12.2010 10.01.2011 to 16.01.2011

Semester Description Period of Session

EVEN SEMESTER (13.12.2010

to 05.05.2011)

Commencement of Regular Classes 13.12.2010 (Monday) Last date for payment of fees 20.12.2010 (Monday) Last date for dropping courses 27.12.2010 (Monday) Submission of Registration Cards to the Academic Section

29.12.2010 (Wednesday)

COUNSELLING AND REGISTRATION*

01.04.2011 to 02.04.2011

End of Classes 23.04.2011 (Friday) Commencement of Examinations 26.04.2011 (Monday) Completion of Examinations 05.05.2011 (Thursday) Last date for declaration of provisional results

06.05.2011 (Friday)

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2.3.2 What are the courses which predominantly use the lecture method? Apart from

classroom interactions, what are the other methods of learning experiences provided to students?

Courses offered in Humanities predominantly are lecture method. However active classroom interaction and seminar presentation are encouraged for such subjects.

Management courses mostly blend classroom lecture with case analysis

Computer Science, Technology based subjects and Science subjects predominantly use computer aided teaching, laboratory cum class sessions, D.V.D s and lectures recorded by Media Centre etc.,

Apart from classroom teaching and interactions, the curricula have the following components built-in for enhancing the learning experience.

1) Project Work 2) Internship and attachment to Industry (in Science and Professional Courses) 3) Educational Tour 4) Field work (like in Earth Science, Ecology) 5) Social Interaction Camps (in Sociology and Social Work) 6) Regular Seminars by students 7) Large number of special lectures organized by experts and visiting professors 8) Group discussion, etc.,

2.3.3 How is Learning made student-centered? Give a list of the participatory learning activities adopted by the institution, which contribute to self-management of knowledge development and skill formation?

The following participatory activities contribute to the student centric learning that contributes to self management of knowledge development and skill formation.

Group Discussion, Quiz, Elocution Debates

Internship, Organizing Industry Interface

Industrial visits, Field trips Student meets

Leadership Camps, encouragement for library visits

Seminar presentation, NCC/NSS participation

Mock exercises Project work etc ensures student s participation

Field visits

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Apart from the above assignments and student Seminars, remote Internet access through IP address and password, large e-resources in the library encourages students for user-friendly data search and self-management of knowledge.

2.3.4 What are the modern teaching aids used in classroom instruction? What are the other student learning experiences?

Computer, multimedia systems, LCD projectors in class rooms are the widely used teaching aids.

All the Departments are equipped with computers with internet facilities. Overhead projectors, Public address system, library with remote access etc are useful as modern teaching aids. All these facilities with well equipped library having remote access come handy for teachers to design their instructional methods.

Many class rooms have been provided with interactive digital boards for teaching.

Digital Board

Every Department and School has a dedicated Computer Laboratory with all the required licensed Software for not only teaching, but also to carry out project work by students and scholars.

2.3.5 Is there a practice of having tutorial classes for the students? If yes, for what courses?

Tutorials are a part of the timetable for each individual course offered. Tutorial is not counted for the number of credits of a subject, but is part and parcel of the course. Mostly the tutorials are devoted for problem solving and clearing doubts. Tutorials are also predominantly used as remedial classes for weak students.

2.3.6. Is there a provision for counselors / mentors / advisors for each class or group of students for academic and personal guidance? If yes, specify.

Yes. The University follows the Faculty advisor system. It is built into the system of CBCS to allocate Faculty advisors to a group of students. Every teacher has to mandatorily serve as an advisor. Each student is allotted to a Faculty advisor for all

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academic and professional guidance. The students are guided by the Faculty advisor to choose the soft-core courses and also receive guidance for projects etc. The attachment of the student to one Faculty continues till the end of the course.

2.3.7 How is the academic process of each student monitored by the faculty?

Academic program of the students are monitored through internal assessment which is of continuous nature. Internal assessment is a part of the examination system. This constitutes 40% of the total marks. However there are no passing minimum marks for internal assessment. The internal assessment constitutes tests, seminars, assignment quiz etc. The knowledge level is assessed through tests, communication skill is tested through seminar, writing skill is evaluated through assignment and quizzes are conducted to judge the sharpness of the students.

2.3.8 Give details of the courses by sessions of work assigned and implemented in the tutorial session?

There is no uniform pattern in organizing tutorials in the University. Each Faculty designs his own tutorial schedule depending on the requirement of students and the course. The common practice is that each subject has one tutorial class per weak assigned in the timetable. Depending on the nature of the paper, types of students and their learning level, the teacher decides the manner, the tutorial is be used. Mostly tutorials are used for problem solving and clearing doubts. Sometimes question papers are discussed in tutorials and on request some difficult topics also are repeated in the tutorial class.

2.3.9 How do the students and Faculty keep pace with the recent developments in the subjects?

There are various facilities provided by the University that help the students and Faculty to keep pace with the recent developments. They are computer based training, internet based information collection & internet facility, library access, seminars & conferences, workshops, guest lectures by experts, eminent academicians, peer-group interaction.

However it can be emphasized that the two major contributing factors that have helped extensively the Faculty and the students, to keep pace with recent developments within respective subjects are:

The enormous subscription to E-resources and their most user friendly access through Library Webportal from their homes, hostels and anywhere.

The policy of University to invite experts from their field as visiting Faculty, organizing special lectures and mandatory organization of seminars etc.,

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2.3.10 Are there departmental libraries for the use of faculty and students?

If yes, give details.

Traditionally Departmental library collections were maintained in about a few Departments. Since they were managed by the respective Departments the access for the students and Faculty was found a little difficult. Hence the University decided to establish School Libraries; rather than Department Libraries which will be open to both students and teachers. But these libraries are only for reference and not for borrowing of books. They would be managed by Library professionals. The ambience and reading facility at the libraries would facilitate reference to the students & Faculty of each school thus catering to their immediate information needs. However a major collection would be available at the Central Library. Beside this, the campus being Wi-Fi, a collection of 31,000 plus e-resources (full-text) can be accessed through the library portal.

2.3.11 On an average, how many students and faculty use the library per week?

In the light of the Wi-Fi campus since the e-resources are downloadable across and remotely (from homes and on travel) from the campus, the physical visits to the library would not be a exact parameter to measure the usage. (More than seven lakh downloads were made in just 2009). However because of the attractive and comfortable ambience of the library, on an average 4630 students and about 55 Faculty use the library per week. The Library also attracts visitors (students and faculty) of several other Universities, colleges and research institutions thronging for their information needs. For example, number of visitors also have increased from 1,010 in 2006 to 4,284 in 2010.

2.3.12 What are the initiatives taken to make optimum utilization of INFLIBNET / DELNET facility by the students and faculty?

The University has an access to about 7,000 journals and databases through the INFLIBNET s INFONET consortia. User awareness training programmes in collaboration with INFLIBNET was organized in 2008. Besides this periodically awareness and orientation is done by the library to train the users to hone skills to access the e-resources. This in turn has increased the usage which is reflected in the login statistics.

2.3.13 How does the library collect books and journals for all Departments?

Publisher catalogues of current and forthcoming titles received at the library are passed on to the respective Departments. Faculty of the Departments recommend titles such as new or textbooks/reference books required in consensus of the Departmental purchase committee to the Central Library. Duplication is checked before placing orders for the

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same. Book exhibitions were also held for display of large volume of books from several publishers/vendors of both print and e-resources. Brainstorming sessions were held for procuring/subscribing e-journals, or e-databases etc. It has been the practice of requesting every Department annually for renewal of subscription of journals or for addition of new journal titles.

2.3.14 How does the library manage to cater to the needs of teachers and student with access to books and journals and timings?

The library which is over twenty years of its existence has built a collection of about 1,82,075 of which 58,606 books were added in the last five years. E-resources of about 31,414 available of which 7000 only is provided by the INFONET consortia. Hence this has been a remarkable growth in the print and e-collection of the library. Besides this, journal articles are made available from other universities (free of cost) through the Journal Custom Content Consortia (JCCC) e-journal gateway. Pondicherry University is one of 22 Universities which provides this service to the researchers of the universities in rest of the country. The library have delivered 955 articles and received 338 articles for its users since its launch in 2008. Library working hours have been extended from 8.30 am

8.30 pm (12 hours) and till 10pm (14 hours) during examinations periods. A 24 reading facility is proposed to be provided once the new additional building which is under construction 25 completed. However, the e-resources are accessible 24 x 7 through the library portal since 2009.

2.4 Teachers Quality

2.4.1 What is the faculty strength of the University? How many positions are filled against the sanctioned strength? How many of them are from outside the States?

The following are the details of faculty positions (Sanctioned, filed in different categories)

Sanctioned upto X plan: Filled in X plan:

Particulars Professor Reader/Associate

Professors Assistant

Professors Total Vacancies

Sanctioned till X Plan

31 70 126 227

Actual on roll in 2007

23 57 101 181 41

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Sanctioned upto XI plan: Filled upto 2010.

Total sanctioned upto XI Plan (Excluding Community College)

Sanctioned under OBC (increase) Filled upto 2010.

Total Positions as on date sanctioned& filled (excluding the Assistant Professors and Associate Professors of Community College).

Vacancies not filled for want of suitable candidates as on March 2011.

The following are the number of positions to be filled which had remained vacant due to unavailability of suitable faculty. The positions are soon going to be advertised.

a. Professor : 28

b. Reader / Associate Professor : 33

c. Assistant Professor : 25

Particulars Professors

Reader/Associate

Professors Assistant

Professors Total Vacancies

Sanctioned 54 117 210 381 Filled as on 31.03.2011

34 93 192 319 62

Particulars Professors Reader/Associate Professors

Assistant Professors Total Vacancies

Sanctioned 10 21 31 62 Filled as on 31.03.2011

2 12 24 38 24

Particulars Professors Reader/Associate Professors

Assistant Professors Total

Sanctioned 64 138 241 443 Filled 36 105 216 357

Vacant Advertised 85

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State-wise Distribution of Present Faculty

The University Faculty are represented from 21 states.

S. No. Name of the State Professor Reader / Associate

Professor Assistant Professor Total

1. Andhra Pradesh 10 9 19 38 2. Assam 1 0 2 3 3. Bihar 1 0 1 2 4. Goa 0 1 0 1 5. Haryana 0 1 1 2 6. Jharkhand 0 0 2 2 7. Karnataka 3 4 6 13 8. Kerala 8 3 17 28 9. Lakshadweep 0 0 1 1 10. Maharashtra 3 1 2 6 11. Manipur 0 0 3 3 12. Meghalaya 0 0 1 1 13. Nagaland 0 0 2 2 14. New Delhi 3 0 2 5 15. Orissa 3 4 3 10 16. Puducherry 9 13 31 53 17. Rajasthan 0 2 1 3 18. Tamil Nadu 40 60 71 171 19. Tripura 1 0 0 1 20. Uttar Pradesh 1 1 3 5 21. West Bengal 0 1 7 8

Total 83 100 175 358

The State-wise data reveals that out of 358 Faculty 305 are from outside Pondicherry and number of Faculty from outside Pondicherry and Tamilnadu is 144 which is more than one third, i.e. 36%.

2.4.2 How are the members of the Faculty selected? Does the University have the required number of qualified and competent teachers to handle all the courses for all departments? If not, how does the University cope with the requirements?

The University follows the recruitment procedure strictly based on the eligibility criteria and experience specified by UGC and the rules laid down by the statute of the University. The vacant positions are advertised in the leading dailies and also hosted in the official websites. The applications are screened first by Screening Committees and shortlisted candidates to be called for interview. The applications are screened based on the required specialization and the post specification. In the event of a very large number of

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applications, the minimum qualification is enhanced in order to reduce the number of candidates. The average ratio of short listed candidates to number of vacancies is 20:1. The University does not provide any extra preference for local applicants or inside applicants. The appointments are purely based on open competition to recruit quality teachers. Selections are purely based on merit, academic qualifications, experience, publications, research output and performance in the interview. The recruitments hereafter will follow new UGC regulations with API criteria. Due care is taken to maintain the reservation quota. The selections are ratified in the Executive Council before appointment orders are communicated. The University has enough qualified and competent teachers to handle the courses in most of the Departments as the specialization for recruitment is being sought from the respective departments before advertisements are given.

Inspite of having sufficient Faculty, as a policy the University invites experts as visiting Faculty to deliver special lectures on selected topics in every Department.

2.4.3 Does the University appoint substitutes / additional Faculty to teach existing and new programmes? How many such appointments were made during the last years?

The University makes arrangement for substitute teachers by approving temporary or contract staff against the vacancy caused due to sanction of lein, sabbatical leave or study leave to the Faculty. The services of retired teachers or professional are also used for the vacant post.

2.4.4 What is the student teacher ratio?

It is currently 1: 12. With the recruitment of new Faculty against the vacancies it will be reduced to 1:10.

2.4.5 What percentage of the teachers have Ph.D. as the highest qualification?

Professor : 100%

Readers/Associate Professor : 100%

Assistant Professor : 66.28% (116/175)

2.4.6 What percentage of the teachers have M. Phil as the highest qualification?

Assistant Professor : 13.71% (24/175)

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2.4.7 What percentage of the teachers have completed UGC, NET and SLET exams?

(excluding those who have got Ph.D.)

NET/SLET : 12% (21/175)

2.4.8 What efforts are made by the management to promote teacher development? (eg: research grants, study leave, deputation to national/ international conferences/ seminars, in-service training, organizing national/ international conferences etc.)

The University encourages Faculty to write projects, attend conferences, seminars and workshops both in India and abroad financed to the extent admissible under UGC norms. For the past four years no Faculty has been denied deputation or financial assistance. Faculty also are permitted to go for FDP programmes to enhance their capability. Senior Faculty are granted sabbatical leave to pursue research or to write books, the progress and outcome of which, is reviewed at the end of the leave. The University also provides opportunity to the young Faculty to complete their Ph.D in reputed institutions or abroad, by granting study leave. Senior Faculty are granted leave to serve as visiting Faculty in different organizations in and outside the country.

The Faculty is given due encouragement to organize seminars and conferences at national and international level. During the last 5 years 72 members of the Faculty have availed financial support to visit abroad for research conferences. 14 members of Faculty have taken sabbatical leave, 90% members of faculty have attended seminars and conference, and 2 have availed study leave to complete their Ph.D or Post Doctoral degree.

Number of faculty availed sabbatical leave

Sl. No Post 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

1. Professor 2 3 1 4 - 2. Reader / Associate Professor

- - - - 3 3. Assistant Professor - - - - 1

The University has created a record of conducting the largest number of National and International Seminars. For the past four years on an average 30 National and International Conferences were held each year which workout to almost 1.5 conferences a week.

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Details of Seminar Conferences organized

Sl. No Period Seminar/Symposium/

Workshop / Conference Training

1. 2006 - 2007 65 06 2. 2007 - 2008 106 05 3. 2008 - 2009 84 07 4. 2009 - 2010 120 05 5. 2010 - 2011 67 06

Total 442 29

The money spent on conferences for the past 4 years is Rs. 52,11,176

Total Money spent on Conferences

Sl. No Year Amount (Rs. Lakh)

1. 2007-08 20,31,874 2. 2008-09 7,12,233 3. 2009-10 14,54,819 4. 2010-11 10,12,250

Total 52,11,176

The University sanctions startup grant against viable projects after due evaluation, to new Faculty

Professor/Associate Professor : Rs.10,00,000/-

Assistant Professor : Rs. 5,00,000/-

Over 260 projects are currently carried out and over 60 proposals are in the pipeline. Details of projects are given elsewhere in the report.

2.4.9 What are the teaching innovations made during the last five years? How are innovations rewarded?

The University adopted to a multi-strategy model to improve the overall teaching.

Filled up the vacant Faculty positions with the best of Faculty from across the country.

Provide good infrastructure like space, pleasant furnishing, good laboratories, in modern library, decentralization of powers to Deans and HODs, simplified purchase procedures and a host of the reforms have improved the visibility of the University globally.

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An excellent ambiance on the campus, good amenities, liberal granting policies and providing greater academic freedom.

More modern classrooms with digital projectors / interactive boards and Wi-Fi campus.

The University encourages and supports the innovative ideas put forth by the faculty to improve teaching methods.

The Departments are provided with at least one smart classroom equipped with LCD projector computer.

Use of computer in the classrooms for power point presentations, display of texts graphs etc.

Assignments and correcting problems through computer and internet and sending hand outs.

Teaching with the help of international educational CDs.

Using television for live telecasts of related interviews, budgets, discussions etc., are part of aid to teaching, peculiarly for Media & Mass Communication Students.

Use of interactive boards for better presentation and classroom teaching.

Use of audio visual models, over head projector, LCD projectors etc., are also provided.

The above measures have reflected in the following.

The exponential increase in demand for admission by the PG and Research Programmes of the University, which has increased fivefold.

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More and more Faculty with extensive international exposure have opted to join Pondicherry University, particularly during the recent recruitment drive.

Improved results / score and minimal student s complaints, total absence of students unrest.

Superior teaching faculties, infrastructure and laboratory faculties have resulted in exponential growth of projects and research output.

2.4.10 Does the institution have representation of women among the staff? If Yes, what percentage?

The proportion of women faculty out of the total faculty is 24.3% totaling 87 out of 358 faculty members, which includes 2 Deans, 10 Professor, 25 Associate Professor and 50 Assistant Professor.

Distribution of Faculty

Professors Reader / Associate Professor Assistant Professor Total

Male

Female Male Female Male Female Male

Female 71 12(14.45%) 75 25(25%) 125 50(28.6%) 271 87(24.3%)

Pondicherry University is perhaps the leader amongst all Central Universities and many of the state Universities in taking an affirmative action in encouraging women Faculty to join University.

2.4.11. List the Faculty who have been recognized for excellence in teaching during the last five years?

The University Faculty who have been recognized for their excellence in Teaching & Research:

1. Prof. M. Vijayan: Elcted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (F.N.A.Sc) in 1994.

2. P. Sambasiva Rao: Secretary of Electron Magnetic Resonance Society of India; Indian Representative to Asia Pacific EPR/ESR Society

2004- current.

3. Prof. S.A. Abbasai: Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, (F.N.A.Sc); Received National Hydrology Award (Government of India); National Design Award in Environmental Engineering (Institute of Engineers); Appointed as the Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee.

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4. Prof. K.M. Tamizhmani: Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,

India, (F.N.A.Sc) in 2004

5. Prof. N. Sakthivel: Robert S. McNamara Fellow, The World Bank, USA 1989.

6. Prof. S. Jayachandran: Elected Fellow Biotechnology Research Society of India, 2007.

7. Dr. Latha Shukla: Elected Fellow BOYSCAST, 2006-07

8. Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani : Elected Fellow BOYSCAST, 2006-07

9. Prof. Mathur: Elected International Fellow ICMR, 2008-09

The University awards Certificate of merit to Best Teacher based on student Feed Back score.

Teachers who received University Merit Award in 2010.

Sl. No

Name Designation & Department

1. Dr.M.Ramadass Professor, Department of Economics

2. Mr.S.Aravanan, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce

3. Dr. Bala Manimaran Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

4. Ms. Valerie Dkhar Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

5. Mr. V.Arulmuruganm Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce (PG Centre, Karaikal)

6. Dr. S. Sivaprakasam Associate Professor, Department of Physics

7. Mr. M. Leeladharan Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science

8. Dr. A. Arivunambi

Professor, Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & Literature

9. Dr. S. Victor Anand Kumar Reader, Department of Management Studies

10. Mr. D. Barani Ganth Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology

11. Dr. R. Mohanraju Reader, Department of Ocean Studies & Marine Biology, Port Blair

12. Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani Reader, Department of Earth Sciences

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13. Mr. K.S. Kuppusamy Assistant Professor,

Department of Computer Science

14. Dr. N. Parthasarathy Professor, Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences

15. Ms. Sarmila Acharif

Assistant Professor, Department of French

16. Dr. V. Senapathi Former Professor, Centre for Electronic Media

17. Dr. Amruth G. Kumar,

Assistant Professor, School of Education

18. Dr. T. Duraivel Reader, Department of Mathematics

19. Dr. Venkata Raghotham Professor, Department of History

20. Mr. L. Prema Shekara Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & International Studies

21. Dr. G. Ramathirtham Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

22. Mr. M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication

23. Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy Professor, Department of Tourism Studies

24. Dr. K. Srikumar Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

25. Dr. N. Sakthivel Professor, Department of Biotechnology

Fellowships Awards and Prizes

1. Dr. R. Panneerselvam: Best Selling Author Award PHI Learning Private Limited, 1998; Academic Excellence Award International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications , Jan 2010, Anna University, Chennai.

2. Prof. P.P. Mathur: Young Scientist s Award of the Indian Science Congress Association (1985); Rockefeller Foundation Special Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (1985-1987); Population Council Visiting Scientists Award (1990); Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career Award (1992-1994); INSA-German Academy (DFG) Exchange Award (1998); Member, Research Board of Advisors American Biographical Institute Inc., U.S.A. (1999); Member, National Academy of Medical Science, India (2000); Dr. P.N. Shah Memorial US Vitamin (India) Oration Award (2002); syndicate Bank Endowment Oration of Pondicherry

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Engineering College (2005); ICMR International Fellowship for Senior Biomedical Scientist (2009-10); Dr. Subhash Mukherjee Memorial Infar Oration Award (2020); Fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Science (India), New Delhi.

3. Prof. K. Jeevarathnam: Sakuntala Amirchand Prize from ICMR, 1992.

4. Prof. K. Srikumar: National Gold Medal Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists, 2003.

5. Prof. Arivunambi: Semmozhi Pulamiyaalar (Classical Tamil Man of Letters) confereed by Tamil Scholars Academy, Colombo, Srilanka on 12.10.2008.

6. Prof. R. Kichenamourthy: UGC Prof. of French, Chevalir des palmes (2005) and OFFICIER des Academiques (2010), awarded by French Government.

7. Prof. H. Suriya Prakash Rao: CSIR Bronze Medal 2008-09

8. Prof. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan : Man Asian Literary Prize 2007, long-listed.

9. Prof. K. Porsezian: INSA Young Scientist Award in 1995, Sathya Murthy Memorial Award for the Year 1997, Indian Physics Association (1998), Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award, Indian National Science Academy Young Scientists Medal (1995) (Highest young scientist award in India below 32 years), Junior Associateship Award, ICTP, Italy (May 1995- April 1997).

10. Prof.R. Raju, Kalaimamani Award, Government of Tamilnadu, in 2007

11. Dr. Uma Chandrasekaran: Doctoral Research Award (Rs. 1000), Aditya Birla Centre

London Business School, Sussex, UK & Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, April 2000.

12. Dr. B. Ravi Kumar: awarded First Prize (Rs. One Lakh) and gold medal for the Best Poem, World Tamil Conference 200 by the Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

13. Dr. S. Sivaprakasam: SET-2000 science, Engineering and Technology award in the year 2000, House of Commons, London, S. Sivaprakasam, P.S. Spencer, P. Rees and K.A Shore for the pioneering work on Secure optical Communications .

14. Dr. Clement S. Lourdes: Paventhar Pugazh Award, Government of Puducherry, 2010.

15. Dr. B. Charumathi: Career Award for Young Teacher from AICTE (Management) 2007-08.

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16. Dr. T. Nambirajan: Silver Medal, Best Case Study Industrial Engineering Journal

Vol.XXXV No.10, April 2006 to March 2007; 49th Annual Convention 13th

October 2007 at Trivandram, India.

17. Dr. S. Victor Anandkumar: Outstanding paper 2008, AIMS International Journal of Management (AIJM), Association of Indian Management Scholars; Best Research Paper (Marketing) International Conference on Management Research, Feb 15-16, 2008, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy, India; Runer-up, Doctoral Paper Competition, Association of Indian Management Scholars (AIMS) International Conference, Dec 28-30, 2006, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India; Group Study Exchange (GSE-1999) award.

18. Dr. Malabika Deo fellow of Indian Commerce Association 2010 (GSE-2000) award.

2.4.12 List the faculty who have undergone staff development programmes during the last five years (refresher courses, orientation programmes and staff training conducted by the university and other institutions)

List of faculty undergone staff development programme

Sl. No. Year Refresher Orientation FDI or (Others) 1. 2006-2007 3 5 1 2. 2007-2008 5 17 0 3. 2008-2009 9 17 1 4. 2009-2010 10 29 1 5. 2010-2011 17 26 1

Total 44 94 4

REFRESHER COURSES

Refresher Course - 2006-2007 S. No.

Name Designation Department 1 Shri. S.Anandavadivelou Assistant Professor French 2 Dr. M. Karunanidhi Assistant Professor Tamil

3 Shri. K. Vijayanand Assistant Professor Computer Science

Refresher Course - 2007-2008 Sl.No.

Name Designation Department 1 Dr. S. Sivasathya Reader Computer Science 2 Dr. S. Padma Priya Assistant Professor Hindi 3 Dr. P. Keasava Kumar Assistant Professor Philosophy 4 Dr. M. Karunanidhi Assistant Professor Tamil 5 Shri. A. Ramesh Naidu Assistant Professor Physics

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Refresher Course - 2008-2009

Sl.No.

Name Designation Department

1 Dr. S. Victor Anand Kumar Reader

Management Studies

2 Dr. G. Vasuki Associate Professor Chemistry 3 Dr. Alok Sharan Assistant Professor Physics 4 Shri. K.B. Nidheesh Assistant Professor Commerce 5 Dr. A. Joseph Kennedy Assistant Professor Maths 6 Dr. Navin Chandra Assistant Professor Statistics 7 Dr. Binu Zachariah Assistant Professor English 8 Srhi. Promod Meena Assistant Professor Hindi 9 Shri. C. Palaiah Assistant Professor Sanskrit

Refresher Course - 2009-2010 Sl. No. Name Designation Department

1 Dr. T. Chitralekha Reader Computer Science 2 Dr. C. Aruna Assistant Professor Sociology 3 Ms. Valerie Dkhar Assistant Professor Anthropology

4 Dr. Pradeep Kumar Paridha

Assistant Professor Sociology

5 Mrs. Pothula Sujatha Assistant Professor Computer Science 6 Shri. S.K.V. Jayakumar Assistant Professor Computer Science 7 Mrs. Lakhi Mai Mili Assistant Professor English 8 Dr. Binu Zachariah Assistant Professor English

9 Dr. S. Sudha Rani Assistant Professor Bio-Chemistry &

Molecular Biology

10 Dr. C. Thirunavukarasu Assistant Professor Bio-Chemistry &

Molecular Biology Refresher Course - 2010-2011

1 Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani Reader Earth Sciences 2 Dr. Balamurgan Reader Education 3 Dr. S. Padmapriya Assistant Professor Hindi 4 Shri. T. Sivakumar Assistant Professor Computer Science 5 Shri. T. Sivakumar Assistant Professor Tourism Studies 6 Mrs. R. Sunitha Assistant Professor Computer Science 7 Mrs. M. Sathya Assistant Professor Computer Science 8 Dr. C. Thirumurugan Assistant Professor French

9 Dr. K. Dharainirajan

Assistant Professor Coastal Disaster

Management

10 Dr. Gadi Padmavati

Assistant Professor Ocean Studies & Marine Biology

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11 Mrs. V. Uma Assistant Professor Computer Science 12 Shri. V. Arulmurugan Assistant Professor Commerce(KKL) 13 Ms. P. Santhi Bala Assistant Professor Computer Science 14 Mrs. M. Nandhini Assistant Professor Computer Science 15 Shri. A. Balakrishnan Assistant Professor Banking Technology 16 Shri. S. Riasudeen Assistant Professor Management Studies 17 Shri. G. Madhan Mohan Assistant Professor Management Studies

ORIENTATION COURSES

Orientation Course - 2006-2007 Sl. No. Name Designation Department

1 Shri. R.P. Seenivasan Assistant Professor Computer Science

2 Dr. Nareddula Dastagiri Reddy

Assistant Professor Chemistry

3 Dr. M.M. Balakrishna Rajan

Assistant Professor Chemistry

4 Mr. V. Arulmurugan Assistant Professor Commerce (Karaikal

Centre) 5 Mrs. M. Nandhini Assistant Professor Computer Science

Orientation Course - 2007-2008 Sl.No.

Name Designation Department 1 Dr. P. Kesava Kumar Assistant Professor Philosophy 2 Dr. C.R. Ramanathan Assistant Professor chemistry 3 Shri. T. Sivakumar Assistant Professor Computer Science 4 Ms. Valerie Dkhar Assistant Professor Anthropology 5 Shri. A. Ramesh Naidu Assistant Professor Physics 6 Dr. B. Ravi kuamr Assistant Professor Tamil 7 Dr. K. Prashanth Assistant Professor Bio-Technology

8 Dr. Jitendra Mohan Mishra

Assistant Professor Tourism Studies

9 Dr. Pradeep Kumar Paridha

Assistant Professor Sociology

10 Shri. K.B. Nidheesh Assistant Professor Commerce 11 Dr. Binoy Krishna Saha Assistant Professor Chemistry 12 Mrs. R. Sunitha Assistant Professor Computer Science 13 Mrs. Pothula Sujatha Assistant Professor Computer Science 14 Dr. A. Joseph Kennedy Assistant Professor Maths 15 Dr. Navin Chandra Assistant Professor Statistics

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16 Mrs. Lakhi Mai Mili Assistant Professor English 17 Dr. Amruth G. Kumar Assistant Professor Education

Orientation Course - 2008-2009

Sl.No.


1 Dr. Lata Shukla Assistant Professor Bio-Technology

2 Dr. S.V.M. Satyanarayana

Assistant Professor Physics

3 Dr. R.C. Anu Chandran Assistant Professor Tourism Studies 4 Shri. K. Suresh Joseph Assistant Professor Computer Science 5 Mrs. M. Sathya Assistant Professor Computer Science 6 Shri. K.S. Kuppusamy Assistant Professor Computer Science 7 Shri. S.K.V. Jayakumar Assistant Professor Computer Science 8 Dr. K.R. Rajaravivarma Assistant Professor Performing Arts

9 Dr. K. Dharaneerajan


Management

10 Dr. Gadi Padmavati Assistant Professor Ocean Studies & Marine Biology

11 Dr. M. Suresh Kumar Assistant Professor Bio-Informatics

12 Shri. S. Venu


Management 13 Ms. Sharmila Acharif Assistant Professor French 14 Shir. C. Palaiah Assistant Professor Sanskrit 15 Ms. Sibi P.S. Assistant Professor Tourism Studies

16 Dr. C. Thirunavukarasu Assistant Professor Bio-Chemistry &

Molecular Biology

17 Dr. T. Balasaravanan

Assistant Professor Centre for Electronic

Media Orientation Course - 2009-2010

Sl.No.


1 Dr. Rabindranath Bhowmik


2 Dr S.V.S.NageswaraRao


3 Dr. S. Gajalakshmi Assistant Professor Pollution Control & Energy Technology

4 Dr. R. Krishna Assistant Professor Bio-informatics

5 Dr. S. Balaji


Management

6 Dr. R. Rukkumani Assistant Professor Bio-Chemistry &

Molecular Biology

7 Dr. S. Sudha Rani Assistant Professor Bio-Chemistry &

Molecular Biology

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8 Dr. P. Latha Assistant Professor

Bio-Chemistry & Molecular Biology

9 Dr. Naryanaswamy Sangeetha

Assistant Professor Food Science

10 Ms. Tasneem Abbasi Assistant Professor Pollution Control & Energy Technology

11 Dr. C. Satheesh Kumar Assistant Professor Social Work 12 Shri.P.P.Sankaranarayan

Assistant Professor Social Work 13 Shri. Santhosh Mathew Assistant Professor South Asian Studies 14 Dr. S.I. Humayun Assistant Professor South Asian Studies 15 Shri. Iftekhar Alam Assistant Professor Social Work

16 Shri. S. Sudalai Assistant Professor Pollution Control & Energy Technology

17 Dr. D. Dhanalakshmi Assistant Professor Applied Psychology 18 Shri. D. Barani Ganth Assistant Professor Applied Psychology 19 Shri. G. Suresh Kumar Assistant Professor Computer Science(KKL)

20 Dr. Rekha Rani Varghese

Assistant Professor Library & Information

Sciences 21 Mrs. V. Uma Assistant Professor Computer Science 22 Ms. Santhisiri Assistant Professor Electronic Media 23 Shri. Rejoyson Thangal Assistant Professor Applied Psychology

24 Shri. M. Leeladharan

Assistant Professor Library & Information Sciences

25 Shri. K.V. Sunooj Assistant Professor Food Science

26 Shri. G, Kumaravelan

Assistant Professor Computer Science

(KKL) 27 Dr. G.Naresh Assistant Professor Commerce(KKL)

28 Dr. Byram Anand

Assistant Professor Management Studies(KKL)

29 Dr. Krishna Rao Estharla

Assistant Professor Centre for Study of

Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy

Orientation Course - 2010-2011 Sl. No. Name Designation Department

1 Shri. M. Shuaib Mohammed Haneef

Assistant Professor Mass

Communication 2 Dr. Arachana Pan Assistant Professor Bio-Informatics

3 Dr. V. Venkateswara Sarma

Assistant Professor Bio-Technology

4 Shri. Samarjit Kachari

Assistant Professor Mass

Communication

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5

Shri. A. Muthamil Assistant Professor

Centre for Electronic Media

6 Shri. R. Vijayakumar Assistant Professor Education

7 Mrs. K. Vaitheki

Assistant Professor Computer

Science(KKL)

8 Shri. Mangkhollen Singson

Assistant Professor Library &

Information Sciences

9 Mrs. Sheena Assistant Professor Commerce(KKL) 10 Dr. R. Amudha Assistant Professor Bio-Informatics

11 Mrs. R. Lakshmi

Assistant Professor Computer

Science(KKL)

12 Dr. Mrs. M. Thanuja Assistant Professor Centre for Study of


13 Shri. A. Chidambaram Assistant Professor Centre for Study of


14 Dr. R. Prasanth Assistant Professor Centre for Green

Energy Technology 15 Dr. Syeda Noor Fathima Assistant Professor Maths 16 Dr. S. Sabiah Assistant Professor Chemistry 17 Dr. S. Farancis Raj Assistant Professor Maths 18 Shri. C.P. Abdul Ghafoor Assistant Professor Banking Technology

19 Dr. Sudesh Pundir Assistant Professor Statistics 20 Dr. R.Vishnuvaradhan Assistant Professor Statistics 21 Dr. V. Syed Ibrahim Assistant Professor Bio-Informatics 22 Shri. S. Riasudeen Assistant Professor Management Studies

23 Mrs. B. Rajeswari Assistant Professor Management Studies

24 Dr. K. Lavanya Lata Assistant Professor Management Studies

25 Dr. Suja P. Devipriya Assistant Professor Ecology &

Environmental Sciences

26 Shri. G. Madan Mohan Assistant Professor Management Studies

OTHER COURSES

Other Course - 2006-2007 Sl.No. Name Designation Department

1 Dr. L. Mothilal Assistant Professor Management Studies Other Course - 2008-2009

1 Dr. Padma Priya Assistant Professor Hindi

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FDP in IIM - 2009-2010

Sl.No. Name Designation Department 1 Dr. L. Mothilal Assistant Professor Management Studies

FDP in IIM - 2010-2011 Sl.No. Name Designation Department

1 Dr. Sampad Kumar Swain

Assistant Professor Tourism Studies

2.4.13 What percentage of the Faculty served as resource persons in Workshops / Seminars / Conferences during the last five years? (average)

More than 50% of the Faculty of the University is invited to serve as resource person.

2.4.14 What percentage of teaching staff participated in workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences and presented papers during the last five years? (average)

All most all faculty participated in seminar conferences and workshop. There were 2323 seminar / conference presentation and participation in the workshop by the faculty over last five years.

Sl. No Year Seminar / Workshop

Total National International 1. 2006 2. 2007 233% 44% 277% 3. 2008 258% 48% 306% 4. 2009 222% 43% 265% 5. 2010 226% 43% 269%

The participation shows an impressive trend. The participation covered almost all Faculty. In a conservative estimate also it is more than 95% of the Faculty participating in all these above academic activities.

2.4.15 Has the Faculty been introduced and trained in the use of

a) Computers

All Faculty in the University are provided with personal computer with internet facility

b) Internet

All Faculty are computer literate and access the computer for academic and administrative purpose.

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c) Information Technology

Time to time various departments like Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Commerce organize training programmes for making the usages of the packages common in the University academia

All Department offices are provided with computers with internet connectivity

All the notifications are sent through e-circulars and the information are sought through internet mail transfer.

Hence almost all the faculty are familiar with basic information technology usage and computer aids in their routine activities.

d) Audio Visual Aids

Use of Audio Visuals (Public Address Systems) facility are also initiated for Class Room teaching and Seminar Halls.

e) Computer Aided Packages

Software such as SPSS, Adobe are also used by faculty as a routine.

Use of internet is mandatory as the administration has switched over to paperless administration for 1) Circulars 2) Sanctions 3) Policy notifications 4) Invitations 5) Leave applications and leave sanctions etc.

Most of the Faculty use the packages like SPSS, SYSTAT, TALLY

2.4.16 Does the university have an Academic Staff College? If yes, give the details of programmes it offers.

Yes, The University has an Academic Staff College since 1987. It organizes orientation courses and refresher courses regularly serving the faculty for their career development. Apart from routine programmes like Orientation, which is interdisciplinary in nature and refresher course which is a specialized ones, the Academic Staff College organizes programmes for Administrative Staff, Research scholars, Non teaching staff etc. Till date the numbers of courses conducted by Academic Staff College are;

Year Name of the Programme Total

2006

07

Orientation Courses 4

Refresher Courses 7

Workshops 1

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2007

08


Refresher Courses 11

Workshops 1

2008

09


Refresher Courses 8

Special Programmes 5

2009 - 2010


Refresher Courses 10

Workshops 3

2010

2011


Refresher Courses 8

Workshops

Total 75

Academic Staff College (New Building)

2.5 Evaluation Process and Reforms

2.5.1 Does the university evaluate teachers on teaching and research performance? How does the evaluation help in the improvement of Teaching and Research?

Yes, the University evaluates the teacher in terms of teaching and research performance. The teachers are evaluated by the students in terms of 20 parameters. The best performers are recognized and the under performers are encouraged and advised to improve their performance, at the same time stringent actions are taken for continuous indifferent performers. All the teachers at the end of the academic year are instructed to submit self appraisal report which evaluates the teachers interms of the teaching and research. Apart from this the IQAC collects the performance appraisal forms from each individual faculty regularly which comprises of all the details of academic and research activities of

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individual teachers. The IQAC has developed a proforma taking into account various parameters for quality assessment of teaching and research of extension activities the faculty. These indicators are quantified and the performance index is calculated. These performance index are used for teacher evaluation.

This is the first University that has not only introduced of Teacher evaluation by students, but also peer evaluation of Teachers by their own colleagues. This is in addition to their regular annual performance appraisal report.

2.5.2 Has the institution introduced evaluation of the teachers by the students? If yes, how is the feedback analyzed and implemented for the improvement of Teaching and Learning?

Yes. There exists a system of students evaluating the teacher in the University. The evaluation is carried out at the end of the year. However it is proposed to be carried out at the end of each semester. The IQAC has designed a proforma comprising punctuality, subject knowledge, evaluation, presentation, skill, inter personal relation etc., as the parameters of evaluation.

Following are the 20 points for Teacher evaluation by Students;

1. Personality appeal of teacher

2. Punctuality to class

3. Interactive teaching practice

4. Availability during working hours for discussion

5. Availability beyond working hours

6. Temperament

7. Preparations for the class

8. Continuity and Coherence of teaching

9. Depth of Knowledge

10. Utilizing the class hour only for teaching and not irrelevant talk

11. Unbiased and fairness in treatment to students

12. Is He / She enthusiastic?

13. Simplicity and humility

14. Effective planning for completion of syllabus

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15. Capacity to inspire students

16. Promptness in conducting tests

17. Communication skills in classes

18. Use of official medium

English

19. Patience in class and labs

20. Inspiration and Charisma

The data is analyzed statistically with mean and standard deviation. The teachers are evaluated in 5 point scale, the feedback performance score is communicated to the individual teachers and the low performing teachers are advised to improve their performance. The best performances are commended by the University on the teachers day with a certificate of merit. The cases of persistent poor performers are reported to the Executive Council for corrective action.

The teachers also are evaluated by the peer group.

The peer evaluation of teachers by the following parameters;

1. Personality

2. Politeness

3. Sharing & Obliging

4. Supportive Attitude

5. Inter

Personnel Relationship

Each of the evaluation is statistically analyzed and the score is communicated to respective Faculty confidentially.

This practice has made teachers conscious of their teaching and their conduct in the classes and has contributed in the overall improvement in quality of teaching. The score is also used as criteria to extend probation of new teachers.

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Students Evaluation Report of the Department of Economics

N

ame

of

Tea

cher

s

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10

Q11

Q12

Q13

Q14

Q15

Q16

Q17

Q18

Q19

Q20

Ave

rage

A 4.89

4.95

4.89

4.63

4.32

4.37

4.74

4.79

4.79

4.47

4.32

4.68

4.79

4.84

4.68

4.68

4.84

4.95

4.63

4.74

4.70

B 3.54

3.38

3.50

3.64

3.48

3.64

3.86

3.62

4.02

3.96

3.58

3.34

3.90

3.46

3.52

3.56

3.64

3.90

3.70

3.70

3.65

C 3.26

3.48

3.68

3.55

3.05

3.00

3.92

3.63

4.45

3.65

2.52

3.16

3.08

3.29

3.19

3.47

3.95

4.03

3.29

3.32

3.45

D 2.98

2.63

2.75

2.90

2.88

2.98

3.05

3.10

2.75

2.93

3.13

3.05

3.18

2.88

2.98

3.13

3.45

3.38

3.08

3.03

3.01

E 3.55

3.74

3.71

3.92

3.58

3.55

3.61

3.42

3.34

3.55

3.50

3.24

3.58

3.74

3.45

3.53

3.50

3.63

3.45

3.53

3.56

F 3.21

4.02

2.91

3.35

3.47

3.07

3.14

3.12

2.88

3.44

3.14

2.95

3.42

3.47

2.79

3.60

3.02

3.21

3.40

3.00

3.23

G 4.13

4.40

4.05

4.10

3.40

3.73

4.23

3.88

4.33

3.98

4.03

3.90

3.95

3.93

3.85

4.10

3.95

4.00

3.90

4.00

3.99

H 3.65

3.48

3.35

3.43

3.20

3.38

3.33

3.28

3.68

3.48

3.75

3.31

3.70

3.05

3.23

3.43

3.48

3.50

3.60

3.50

3.44

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M.A. ECONOMICS

Name: xxx Designation: xxx

Q1 Personality Appeal of Teacher Q11 Unbiased and Fairness in Treatment to Students

Q2 Punctuality to Class Q12 Is He/She Enthusiastic Q3 Interactive Teaching Practice Q13 Simplicity and Humility Q4 Availability during working hours

for discussion Q14 Effective Planning for Completion of

Syllabus Q5 Availability beyond working hours Q15 Capacity to inspire students Q6 Temperament Q16 Promptness in conducting Tests Q7 Preparations for Class Q17 Communication Skills in Classes Q8 Continuity and Coherence of

Teaching Q18 Use of Official Medium English

Q9 Depth of Knowledge Q19 Patience in Class and Labs Q10 Utilizing the Class hour only for

teaching and not irrelevant talk Q20 Inspiration and Charisma

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2.5.3 Does the institution promote self-appraisal of teachers? If yes, how often?

Yes. The University obtains the self-appraisal form filled-in by the respective Faculty finally endorsed by the HOD at the end of each academic year. This also forms a part of the career promotion of the faculty.

2.5.4 Is the appraisal by the teachers reviewed by the head of the institution and used to improve the quality of teaching?

Yes, the self appraisal reports along with performance index are reported to the Vice-Chancellor. The self appraisal is personally reviewed by Vice-Chancellor and counseling meetings are held for improving quality of teaching and research. The personal motivation has a tremendous impact on the quality improvement.

2.5.5 Does the institution have an academic audit of the department? If yes, illustrate.

The University conducts independent audit in the following areas;

1. Academic Audit

Through an independent Academic Audit Committee as per the guidelines of NAAC.

2. Administrative Audit; Audit through a questionnaire and statistical analysis.

3. Instrumentation and its Functionality: A team of senior scientists conduct the audit of the several sophisticated instruments purchased and installed at the CIF and at Departments and offer several suggestions.

The observations of academic audit are communicated to the respective departments. The HODs are asked to submit the action plan to address the observations made and areas for improvement identified by the academic audit committee. In the next academic audit the steps taken by the Departments on the observations made are evaluated along with the new initiatives of the department for further development.

2.5.6 Based on the recommendations of academic audit what specific measures have been taken by the institution to improve the teaching, learning and evaluation?

Based on the academic audit report, the Departments are asked to prepare action plan which are discussed thread bear in the meeting of Deans and HODs.

The deficiencies interms of infrastructure, Faculty strength, library facility, laboratory space etc. are addressed by the administration whereever possible.

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The Departments are asked to look into the deficiencies interms of curriculum, teaching research and extension and placement of students and act suitably to overcome them.

The action taken in these regards are communicated to the audit committee and a peer group is invited to again review the action taken. The observations of this audit committee are addressed again. This process is a continuous one in the pursuit of the University for Progressive Quality Enhancement.

The University Academic Council and Executive Council are kept informed about the progress.

2.5.7 How does the institution monitor the performance of the students? (Annual / Semester exam, Tri-semester Exam, Midterm Exam, Continuous assessment, Final exam, etc.,)

The University follows Choice Based Credit System under semester pattern. The evaluation of the student is done, a part by continuous assessment through internal assessment and a part by end semester examinations. The proportion of internal and end semester tests is 40 : 60. The initial assessment comprises 2 test for 30 marks and seminar assignment and quiz for 10 marks. The respective teacher are given flexibility to allocate marks between different components in terms of seminar assignment and quiz etc.

2.5.8 Are the evaluation methods communicated to the students at the beginning of the year? If yes, how?

Yes, The University follows the Semester System with Choice Based Credit System. Continuous evaluation by the teacher is built into the system. The final examinations are held by setting the papers by external examiners and adopting a double evaluation system. At the beginning of the course, the Head of the Department briefs the student about the system in the induction meeting. Later the subject teachers inform the students at the beginning of each semester about the mode of assessment. The dates for the internal assignments are notified beforehand.

The performance of the students are evaluated for

i) Under Graduate, Post Graduate, Management, Computer Science, Law, and Integrated Courses

Semester System

ii) Medicine, Para Medical Courses - Semester System

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iii) B.Ed. - Annual

iv) Through continuous assessment and conduct of three tests, assignment, seminar, viva-voce for the students pursuing various PG courses and MPhil Programme in the University.

For the students of Affiliated Colleges, the procedure/evaluation method is informed to the students through their Principals/Heads of Departments/Teachers of the Class as the Teachers of the Affiliated Colleges are involved in the Boards of Studies and Valuation of Answer Scripts.

2.5.9 What is the method of evaluation followed? (Central, Door, Double evaluation etc.)

The evaluation of the semester end examinations is by double valuation, for all PG courses. The valuation is done immediately after the End semester examination by calling the paper setters for central valuation. The valuation by the internal examiner i.e the course teacher is carried out immediately after the examination is over and marks awarded are kept separately. As soon the external evaluation is over, the marks are tabulated. In case the difference between the evaluation is more than 15% of the total marks, an evaluation committee is constituted with HOD, internal examiner and another senior faculty from other sister department to review the marks and evaluate a fresh. The marks awarded by the committee is final. The evaluation for affiliated colleges is done by the controller of examination. But the evaluation of the University Departments is done by the respective Department to expedite the announcement of result.

For all UG and PG Courses, including Professional Courses only Central Evaluation is followed.

2.5.10 What is the mechanism for Redressal of grievances regarding evaluation?

In case the student has any grievance, the paper is reviewed by the evaluative committee constituted with HOD, concerned teachers and VC s nominee in the programme committee.

In the event of conspicuous error and genuine grievances represented by students, the School board conducts an enquiry and takes a appropriate decision to redress the grievance depending on the merit of the grievance.

Grievance Redressal Mechanism:

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(i) The grievance, if any received from the students on the question paper like out of

syllabus, tough nature, is referred to the concerned Chairman/Chief Examiner for taking appropriate decision;

ii) Moderation is allowed by the Moderation Board depending upon the nature of the valuation;

iii) Double valuation is done for PG Courses

iv) Grace marks up to 2 is allowed to all candidates for all subjects for candidates who are short of the marks and grace up to 5 marks is allowed to the candidates who are in the end-semester examination as per the decision of the Academic council.

v) Chances of Revaluation and Re-totalling is allowed for all courses;

vi) Re-valuation is allowed for M.B.B.S Courses for the first time in the University as per the decision of the Academic Council.

2.5.11 When are the examination results declared? Give the time frame.

In case of the University Departments the results are announced strictly as per the academic calendar i.e., within 2 days of the last examination. The delay if any will not be for more than a week. For the valuation undertaken by Controller of Examination for affiliated colleges, the time taken is 30 days.

2.5.12 Does the institution communicate to parents regarding the evaluation outcome?

The results are displayed in the notice board of the Department for University Departments and the results are hosted in the website for affiliated colleges.

The Institution does not communicate to the parents as the results are all posted on the University website.

The Examination results are published within one month from the date of completion of the Examination in respect of all UG & PG Courses; and within 45 days for Engineering courses due to voluminous answer scripts.

2.5.13 How long has the current system of evaluation been in practice?

The procedure of third valuation by a committee is introduced in the current academic year with the revision of Choice Based Credit System, whenever the difference between the two evaluators is beyond 15%.

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The current system of evaluation was revised in 2010. Initially the system was designed alongwith the implementation of Choice Based Credit System by the University the year 1992. The system was periodically reviewed and improved in order to introduce greater transparency.

With the introduction of Automation,

i) The students are allowed to register Online, for the courses that he has to take up for the Examination in a particular Semester;

ii) Time Table is hosted in the University website;

iii) The On-line Hall Ticket has the Subject-Code, Title of the Paper, QP Code and the Date and Session of the Examination;

iv) The Results of the Examination are hosted in the University Website.

2.5.14 Has the institution developed any evaluation reforms?

The system is revised from the academic year 2010-11 with the introduction of committee evaluation in case of more than 15% variation. The reforms brought in are to enhance transparency and reduce arbitrariness.

In case of the student s dissatisfaction with the marks awarded, the paper is shown to the students and the internal examiner clarifies the case in the presence of the HOD to the satisfaction of the student. The marks of examination are rectified under this process.

Students are given the chance to write the arrears in the subsequent semester even if it is not offered in that semester provided he / she has failed to secure required marks in the end semester examination. If the student has failed due to any other reason he has to repeat the course when it is offered. The reforms brought in are to enhance transparency and to reduce arbitrariness.

The Chairman/Chief Examiner of the concerned Board is briefed about the receipt of any representations received from students who in turn will decide on the course of action.

Time slot is given for valuation of papers both in the FN/AN Sessions; Mark Entry is done instantaneously and checking of marks is also done immediately.

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2.5.15 What are the reforms made with reference to evaluation? (Double evaluation, Open

book examination, Question Bank, Moderation and Internal Assessment)

Continuous evaluation through internal assessment in a part of the Choice Based Credit System. The weightage of internal assessment is 40%, of which tests are conducted to evaluate the subject knowledge, seminars for communication skill, assignment for presentation skill, quizzes for awareness.

However the concerned teachers are given flexibility in allocating 10 marks out of 40 marks for assessing various skills and awareness and 30 marks are devoted for knowledge assessment. The end semester examination evaluation is done by both internal and external examiners.

A committee of Deans review the evaluation process every year. During 2010 a major reform has been made in the reporting of both grading and absolute scoring in mark sheet.

Already in vogue in the University

Double evaluation is allowed in respect of all PG Courses; All PG Courses and Professional Courses has Internal Assessment Marks and Moderation is allowed to cases wherever required

2.5.16 Is the evaluation procedure transparent, If yes, how? Illustrate the different stages of evaluation till the declaration of results?

Yes, the procedure for evaluation is informed to all the students beforehand. The marks obtained in the internal assessment are declared immediately and the students are shown the papers and the teacher needs to justify the marks allotted in case of students enquiry. For the end semester examination, the question papers are set by external examiners selected out of a panel of examiners suggested by the course teachers and the same examiner is called for evaluation also. The end semester papers are evaluated centrally. However the course teacher also evaluates the papers separately. After the external valuation, the marks awarded by both the examiners are tabulated and in case of discrepancy of more than 15%, the paper is evaluated by a committee of examiners for the final allotment by marks.

The students are allowed to see their papers in case of grievance brought in to the notice of HOD after these results are released (within one week). The internal examiner in the presence of HOD offers the justification for the marks awarded. The whole process is transparent as the student has the access to see the evaluated paper and get clarification.

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2.5.17 Does the University have continuous assessment, If yes, please specify the

weightage?

The University follows continuous assessment through internal assessment. The internal assessment is held for 40 marks out of total 100 marks. The internal assessment comprises tests, seminar assessment, quizzes etc. To reduce subjectivity the breakup of internal is 30 for test which evaluates subject knowledge and next 10 marks for others.

For the examination conducted by Controller of Examinations for the affiliated colleges, the evaluation process is totally different but secrecy and confidentiality is maintained in all respects.

i) The allotment of Dummy Number is done through automation which is the initial process.

ii) The Answer Scripts are valued carefully and the Section-wise and Question-wise marks are entered in the respective column.

iii) The Chief Examiner is allowed to re-check or re-evaluate the Answer Scripts and authenticates after satisfying himself.

iv) The marks entered manually by the Examiner are verified by the Chief Examiner after Data entry is made.

v) Under the System of automation, all the Affiliated Colleges have been instructed to upload the Internal Assessment Marks, Practical and Viva- voce marks and this is being adhered to.

2.5.18 What is the scheme / system of examination in practice for the affiliated institutions?

In affiliated colleges the semester pattern is followed, but they do not follow Choice Based Credit System nor do they have internal assessment component. The examination papers are subject to double valuation. In case of discrepancy of 20% marks between two examiners (both external) it is refereed to 3

rd examiner. The marks awarded by the third examiner are final. In case of dissatisfaction of the student interns of marks awarded the marks are re-totaled but the revaluation is not allowed. The Scheme/System is recommended by the respective Boards of Studies and approved by the Academic Council of the University.

i) The Question Papers are set by the External Examiners and the Examiners are sent a copy of the Scheme and Syllabus of the concerned

subjects.

ii) Question paper Review Board constituted.

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iii) The Examination Time Table is framed as per the Academic Calender

recommended by the University and Examination conducted as per schedule.

iv) Question Papers are sent to the respective Colleges well-in-advance for far off places and delivered in person to the affiliated institutions two days before the commencement of the examinations.

v) The Practical Examinations /Viva/are conducted well before the commencement of every semester and the hard copy of the mark list received and the marks are uploaded through on-line.

vi) Observers to the affiliated colleges are appointed by the University

vii) Flying Squad appointed by the University makes surprise checks on the colleges.

2.5.19 Give details of the number of question papers set, examinations conducted per year.

Sl. No.

Course / Discipline Number of Question Papers set

Under Graduate Arts & Science 1. B.A 811

2. B.Sc., 435

3. B.Com & BCA 118

Post Graduate Arts, Science, Commerce & Management 4. M.A., 238

5. M.Sc., 134

6. M.Com./M.B.A.,/M.C.A. 142

Engineering & Technology 7. B.Tech 413

8. M.Tech 081

Education 9. B.Ed., 032

10. UG. Ed., 166

11. M.Ed., 012

Law 12. Integrated Law 280

13. LLM and PG Diploma 076

Medicine & Para Medical 14. M.B.B.S. 037

15. M.D/M.S 084

16. B.D.S 029

17. M.D.S 024

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18. B.P.T/ B.Pharm 101

19. M.P.T 022

20. B.Sc., Nursing 058

21. M.Sc., Nursing 014

Veterinary & Animal Sciences

22. B.V.Sc., 029

23. M.V.Sc., 024

Distance Education 24. MBA(5 Disciplines) MA / M. Com / BA

/ B.Com / 376

Total 3736

2.5.20 Mention the number of malpractice cases reported and how they are dealt with.

Year UG PG Professional Total 2004-05 05 02 15 22 2005-06 04 0 18 22 2006-07 18 0 20 38 2007-08 05 04 24 33 2008-09 21 15 43 79 2009-10 21 03 96 120

Total 74 24 216 314

2.5.21 Does the University provide the photocopy of answer scripts to students? If yes, give details of the practice.

NO - As per the decision of the Academic Council

2.5.22 Give details regarding the computerization of the examination system?

Internal Assessment (I.A)

Online updation of I.A. marks by concerned sections of the college

College administration to have suitable control

College to generate I.A. marks secured report and display the same on notice board for students to verify

Strict adherence to time schedule

Easy monitoring by University.

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Practical / Viva-voce

Similar to the I.A. marks, Practical / Viva-voce marks are also updated with sufficient control both the College level and at University level

Students themselves can take print out the application from through web software

Filled in Application form is then submitted at college along with fee particulars

Exam Application Form

Issue of notification on examination process

Students themselves can take print out of the application form through web software

Filled in Application form is then submitted at college along with fee particulars.

Candidate List / Admission Card

Online Updation of application form with fee details by the colleges

Getting candidate list updated automatically

Issue of Admission card instantly

Printing of Admission card also by the student

Strict Adherence to examination schedule

No need to update candidate list

Student information should be 100% accurate

Accurate computation of QP requirement

Coding Preparation

Printing of code stickers, mark list (A forms)

Examination Centres

Identify Examination Centers

Tag Colleges to Examination Centers

QP dispatch documents

Exam centers can print the appearance report by themselves

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Officials Appointment

Appointment of Custodians

Appointment of Examiners

Appointment of other officials related to Examination

Examination Day

Online updation of absent / mal-practice particulars

Online updation of number of answer scripts / bundles dispatched

Print daily statement and enclose along with answer bundle

Variation Centers

Online updation of answer bundles / scripts received from colleges

Generating discrepancy report

Monitoring Overall valuation status

Answer Scrip Coding

Registering of the coding staff in the system

Issue of Answer Scripts for coding in multiples of 12/15 or as decided by the University

Online updation of coding process

Monitor coding process

Answer Script De-coding

Secure environment while decoding coded slips

Sorting out discrepancy in coding in time

Answer Script Valuation

Examiners coming for valuation are registered in the system

Examiners record the marks secure din A form

Online, double-entry updation of marks

Online updatation of mal-practice information

Tracking script to examiner is easy

Overall moniting of valuation process is easy

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Result Computation

Results should be computed/declared within half-a-day from the last date of valuation and hosted on Internet

Enable Students to take print out of their marks card

Printing of Marks cards / and dispatch to colleges

Totally Online

By these procedures, the entire examination process should have a positive shakeup

All transaction should take place online

Data should be 100% accurate

Provision for Post Examination

Revaluation

Online registration for Re-valuation at colleges

Strict adherence to time schedule

Identification of answer scripts for Re-valuation and their subsequent coding

Identification of scripts for 3rd Valuation

Similar process can be adopted for challenge valuation / Board valuation

Security / Audit Trail

Freezing of data after declaration of results

Record Printing of exceptional transaction

Central console to monitor activities of clients

Monitor / record logging details of users.

The software implemented for automation of Examination is designed by using a latest technology from Microsoft i.e., Visual Basic as Front-end and MY-SQL as back end. Simultaneously, web based modules are designed using open source technology i.e., PHP and MYSQL. The software is designed to suit for 2 tier architecture and can be installed on Windows 2000 onwards Server with any windows 2000 onwards clients.

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2.6 Best Practice in Teaching

Learning and Evaluation

2.6.1 Some of the important best practices that have given a boost to the University s visibility are: -

Transparency in admission process.

Practicing of CBCS System (Choice Based Credit System).

All India Character of Teachers and Students.

Students from 33 States.

Incentive to Girl Students and disadvantaged sections.

Usage of ICT, Internet Access, establishment of 23 Computer Laboratories.

Students participation in the Progamme Committee of the Department.

Remote Access to Library E-resources.

Free Analytical facility for all the students, scholars and faculties with very expensive sophisticated instruments.

Double evaluation of Answer scripts.

Practice of showing the script to students.

Prompt notification of Internal Score.

Constant review of course content

Large number of conferences, seminars and guest lectures, organized by all the Departments.

Encouragement to Faculty to publish, attend conferences and write projects.

State-wise students representation in 2010-11 admission

Abstract of State Wise Student Admission 2010-11

Sl. No.

Name of the State /

Country

PG Total

M. Phil Total

Ph. D Total

Grand Total

% M F M F M F

1. Andaman & Nicobar

9 12 21 1 2 3 3 2 5 29 1.13

2. Andhra Pradesh

253 52 305 18 2 20 17 4 21 346 13.5

3. Arunachal Pradesh

0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03

4. Assam 15 7 22 0 1 1 1 1 2 25 0.09 5. Bihar 102 10 112 4 1 5 3 1 4 121 4.72 6. Chandigarh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7. Chhattisgarh

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03 8. Goa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9. Gujarat 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 0.07 10.

Haryana 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.15

11.

Himachal Pradesh

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03

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Sl. No.

Name of the

State / Country

PG Total

M. Phil

Total Ph. D

Total

Grand Total

%

M F M F M F

12.

Jammu and Kashmir

5 0 5 26 0 26 13 1 14 45 1.75

13.

Jharkhand 24 3 27 1 0 1 0 1 1 29 1.13

14.

Karnataka 5 8 13 1 1 2 2 0 2 17 0.66

15.

Kerala 141 100 241 25 17 42 19 12 31 314 12.25

16.

Lakshadweep (Maldives)

2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.15

17.

Madhya Pradesh

5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.19

18.

Maharashtra 6 3 9 0 1 1 2 0 2 12 0.46 19.

Manipur 3 6 9 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 0.39 20.

Meghalaya 2 11 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 14 0.54 21.

Mizoram 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.23 22.

Nagaland 5 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0.39 23.

New Delhi 15 9 24 1 1 2 1 0 1 27 1.05 24.

Orissa 42 40 82 20 20 40 15 13 28 150 5.85 25.

Puducherry 340 403 743 42 39 81 29 24 53 877 34.23

26.

Punjab 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.11 27.

Rajasthan 6 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.35 28.

Sikkim 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 0.15 29.

Tamil Nadu 147 93 240 59 24 83 40 10 50 373 14.55

30.

Tripura 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.11 31.

Uttarakhand 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03 32.

Uttar Pradesh

46 6 52 15 0 15 7 0 7 74 2.88 33.

West Bengal

22 10 32 4 0 4 7 2 9 45 1.75

1208 792 2000 219 110 329 162 71 233 2562

The total strength in 2010-11 was 4647 and will cross 5000 in 2011-12 and target of 6000 will be reached in 2012-13.

The application to admission ratio is 1: 16 in 2010.

Male Female ratio in the University in 1 : 0.38 (38%)

Research scholars registration has gone up by about 300%

The University has revised the Ph.D guidelines to provide opportunity to students to choose recognized supervisors (after rigorous evaluation) from anywhere in the world. However the number is restricted to the number availability in the Department.

Foreign students registration, research scholars registering under the guides working in foreign country are some of the innovative reforms brought in.

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The performance of teachers is evaluated by the students and performance score on 5 point scale is communicated to teachers.

The Faculty is encouraged to undertake research, project, participate in seminars, conference, workshops for academic quality enhancement.

Start up grant is provided to newly recruited teachers to create the research facilities for their proposed research projects.

In addition to classrooms teaching alternative methods of teaching learning are encouraged and steps are taken to make learning more teaching oriented and participative.

Through continuous assessment the students progression is monitored.

Examination and evaluation process are made simple, transparent and comprehensive.

The responsibility of conducting all Post Graduate exams at the campus is vested with the respective departments and finalization of grades are also done by the department with the scrutiny and approval of the programme committee. The Programme Committee comprises of all the Department Faculty, one representative from a sister discipline nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Centralized valuation of end semester examinations helps an expedious completion of evaluation process.

Results are declared immediately after the completion of examination as far as the University Departments are concerned.

The results of affiliated colleges in declared within a 30 - 45 days time.

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Choice Based Credit System, relative grading (coupled with absolute marking) and internal assessment are the unique features of the University departments learning and evaluation system.


1. What were the evaluative observations made under Teaching

Learning and

Evaluation in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon? and

2. What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to Teaching

Learning and Evaluation?

Observations:-

The University follows the semester pattern. Students are admitted through an all-India entrance test, interviews, academic record or a combination of these according to University regulations for the different courses. Applications may be submitted online. Around 50% of the current students are from other states. Faculty recruitment is also made on an all-India basis and the University has been successful in attracting well-qualified faculty from all over India. The ratio of teachers to students 1:12. The University also has a provision to engage Guest Faculty in case of delay in filling up the regular posts. There are 203 working days in the year of which 189 are teaching days.

The CBCS System employs continuous evaluation culminating in the final end-semester examination. Marks are divided between internal assessment and end-semester examination in a ratio of 40:60. Several courses like Anthropology, Applied Geology, Tourism, Ecology, Earth Sciences, Social Work, Sociology and Management, make field trips, industrial visits and educational tours are mandatory. Students are required to submit project reports at the end of the fourth semester, for evaluation by external examiners.

Students are required to accumulate a minimum of 72 credits for the M.A., M.Sc. and M.Tech. degrees, 36 credits for the M.Phil. degree and 108 credits for the MCA degree. The students are assigned a faculty advisor to help them plan their courses, combining soft-core and hard-core options. The more advanced students may complete the postgraduate programme in fewer semesters, while weaker students can spread it over 8 semesters. They are also allowed to take a break from the programme or drop a course and rejoin. Part of the credit requirements may be completed from the Indira Gandhi National Open University. Those repeating a course are exempted from attendance. Evaluation is done at the departmental level, with the involvement of external examiners.

There is a faculty self-appraisal system and students feedback is taken. In the affiliated colleges a system of central evaluation by external examiners is followed.

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There are 700 computers distributed among the Departments and Centres, for use by teachers and students. All Departments have audio-visual aids and 20 departments/centres have LCD projection facilities. The science laboratories are well-provided with up-to-date equipment. Every member of the faculty is assigned a computer with internet connection.

Enhancement Measures:-

The Teaching-Learning-Evaluation is a continuous and seamless process whose uninterrupted sustenance and constant quality enhancement is dependent on an integrated and holistic approach. After the NAAC evaluation in 2006 and its critical recommendations, the University initiated holistic development programmes.

The sustenance of quality and development essentially depends on a constant updation and upgradation of the existing facilities and programmes. The series of steps which have been taken during the last 5 years after the previous accreditation are:

Increase in the heterogeneity of the Faculty and student to represent the entire country also enhanced the quality of students enrolled and Faculty recruited. This could be achieved substantially through a constant effort to increase the visibility of the University across the country.

High standards of teaching and research, high quality of infrastructure and students amenities.

Modernisation and enrichment of Library and facilities for internet access.

Modernisation of Laboratories and instrumentation facilities, a clean campus, good Hostel accommodation, good sports amenities and several other incentives, which are provided to both the students and the Faculty attracted a large number of students to the University, which ultimately increased the quality of students entering the University.

The University successfully achieved these targets and to-day, the number of application received by the University for admission have gone up by 8 times.

During the past 5 years, all the Faculty recruited have also been globally exposed to rich academic experience.

To summarize the steps taken to sustain and constant quality enhancement and the quality of Teaching - Learning

Evaluation process, the following measures were taken:-

Space for housing the Departments and laboratories has been more than doubled in 5 years with an addition of 1.3 million sq.ft.

The Library has been completely modernized with State of the Art facilities to access over 31,000 pls e-resources (including 23,928 e-journals, 7500 e-books and 31 e-databases) over 1,85,000 books.

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The unique feature is that the library is accessible remotely, for full text download of all electronic and digital resources.

Internet has been made available through structured OFC network across 780 acres and the campus is totally Wi-Fi enabled.

Every Department and School has been provided with independent Computer Laboratory supported with licensed software according to the requirements of each department.

All Laboratories have been modernized and equipments worth over Rs.30 cores have been added to these laboratories.

Conferences and seminars have been made mandatory in every department in order to promote interaction and networking with other teachers in the country and abroad.

Special encouragement was given to good researcher for their research projects and mobilizing Extra-Mural Fund.

The number of research projects and mobilization of Extra-Mural Fund has been tripled during the past 5 years.

The evaluation process related to the examination system has also been frequently reviewed and the Choice Based Credit System has been continuously improved upon.

The examination Section has now been completely automated, with a provision for online registration and online issue of hall tickets and results and many other operations related to the examination.

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3.1 Promotion of Research

3.1.1 Is there a research committee to facilitate and monitor research? If yes, give details.

The University has the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) which meets periodically as many times as needed to discuss all matters related to teaching, research, Faculty performance etc., This committee consists of all Deans and Director of Studies in chair.

Apart from advising and taking steps to enhance Faculty performance in terms of teaching and research, the research projects submitted by the faculty are also evaluated by this committee periodically with the help of external experts and suitable advises are offered to the University. University has recently created a position of Director of Research to exclusively monitor the research inputs of the University and facilitate smooth implementation of projects. The Ph.D. work of individual scholar also goes through scrutiny and suggestions of doctoral committees. The Ph.D theses at each stage of advancement, starting from finalization of topic to submission of theses, is carried out with the approval of Doctoral Committees which consists of 2 members of the Faculty, one from the Department (amongst the approved guides) and the other from outside the Department, in addition to the supervisor.

3.1.2 Is research a significant activity of the University, If yes, How does the institution promote Faculty participation in research?

Yes, the University considers research as the second most important activity of the faculty other than teaching. All the eligible Faculty is insisted upon to write projects and take doctoral students for guidance. In fact, the University tries to appoint as far as possible, the candidates with the Ph.D degree with sufficient publication at the entry level itself as Faculty. The non Ph.D holders are given encouragement and also the necessary institutional help like leave grant etc to complete their doctorate degree. The newly recruited faculty are provided with startup grants of Rs.10,00,000/- and Rs.5,00,000/- respectively for Professor, Associate Professor & Assistant Professor respectively on the basis of projects submitted. University also provides fellowships to Ph.D (Rs.5,000/- + Contingence) and M.Phil (Rs.3,000/- + Contingence) scholars. Further, the University also has recently revised the Ph.D admission guidelines which allow external supervisors in areas where specialization does not exist in the Department. Recognition of such supervisors from all over the world is based on stringent standards and scrutiny and the number is dislimited to not exceeding the number of the Faculty in the Department.

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This unique effort has been initiated to enhance the quality of research and make the expertise of learned Faculty available to deserving scholars from anywhere in the world. Apart from all the above, the Faculty is encouraged to attend seminars, conferences and publish research papers in reputed journal which enhances the research interest. All Ph.D Scholars should publish one research paper before submission of theses. To enhance the resource base of the University to facilitate research the University has spent Rs.24.0 Crores in acquiring sophisticated equipments, database, software etc. to the central facility and the Departments. The Faculty of the University were else to generate over Rs.66.0 Crores as extramural funding which adds to the research potential of the University. The equipments purchased during last 5 years are as follows:

Major Equipments

Central Instrumentation Facility

Sl. No

Name of the Equipment Cost of the Equipment

Year of Purchase

1 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer 1,13,06,750/-

2006-07 2 Polarizing microscope 44,02,616/-

2006-07

3 Real time PCR System-ABI 7500 21,99,600/-

2006-07

4 Planetary Micromill-model pulverisette 7 10,90,190/-

2006-07

5 Emission Spectrometer 40,71,600/-

2007-08

6 Thermal analyser system (DTA-TGA-DSC)

20,93,020/-

2007-08

7 Cathode luminscence attachment for SEM

9,01,350/-

2007-08 8 LCZ Meter 8,94,054/-

2007-08

9 Accessories & sample holders for uibrating sample magnatometer (USM)

4,88,707/-

2007-08

10 Wave length Dispersive X-Ray Flurescence Spectrometer (WD-XRF)

79,53,380/-

2007-08

11 Broad Band Dielectric Spectrometer 1,09,17,028/-

2008-09

12 HPLC System with accessories 23,50,010/-

2008-09

13 Grinding Bowls & Balls for Pulverisette 7 Micromill

3,12,410/-

2009-10

14 SX100 Electron probe Micro Analyser Spectrometer

3,95,01,000/-

2009-10

15 Surface Area Analyser 12,91,100/-

2010-11

16 Particle Size Analyzer 15,27,318/-

2010-11

Total 9,13,00,133/-

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Equipments purchased from Extra mural funding and University grants

by departments to the University

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology:

Sl. No Name of the Equipment Cost of the

Equipment Year of

Purchase

1 Trinocular Fluorescense digital microscope

3,97,595/-

2006-07

2 Table top centrifuge 3,21,540/-

2006-07

3 Fraction collector 98,210/-

2006-07

4 Rotavapor and accessories 6,28,518/-

2007-08

5 ICE Flake machine 1,32,365/-

2007-08

6 Manual rotary microtome 2,56,303/-

2007-08

7 Small II vertical electrophoresis system with Built in power system

1,91,458/-

2007-08

8 Fixed angle aluminium rotor SLC - 1500

2,95,681/-

2007-08

9 Column Chromatography 3,01,213/-

2008-09

10 Speed vacuum concentrat RVC 2-18 2,75,176/-

2008-09

11 High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge 4,28,658/-

2009-10

12 Elisa Reader

2 Nos. 14,81,280/-

2009-10

13 Gyro Assembly & Coupling (Spare for Sorvall Refrigerated Centrifuge )

1,38,192/-

2009-10

14 Mini Vertical Electrophoresis System with power supply Unit and Transblot Apparatus

1,50,690/-

2009-10


2009-10

16 Trinocular Inverted Microscope 4,65,015/-

2010-11

17 Fraction Collector 1,63,712/-

2010-11

18 Biosafety Cabinet

2 Nos. 3,98,388/-

2010-11

19 Ultra Low Temperature Frezer 6,50,817/-

2010-11

Total 77,11,571/-

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Centre for Bioinformatics

1 Refrigerated micro centrifuge 1,88,102/-

2006-07

2 Gradient PCR Machine 3,46,200/-

2006-07

3 Apple imac Computers (2 Nos) 1,26,958/-

2007-08

4 HPLC System with Accessories 23,40,000/-

2008-09

5 Gel Documentation System 4,57,254/-

2008-09 6 Elisa Reader 7,90,400/-

2008-09 7 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer 3,76,025/-

2008-09 8 High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge 4,11,038/-

2009-10 9 SYBL BASE & QSAR Software 15,09,000/-

2009-10 10 Bench Top Freeze Dryer 5,85,087/-

2009-10 11 Ultrosonic Homogenizer 2,95,681/-

2009-10 12 Cold Cabinet 5,91,312/-

2009-10 13 Bio-Safety Cabinet 2,03,744/-

2010-11

14 Tyrone Janus Workstation with Navidia Tesla 2050 card

4,83,976/-

2010-11

Total 87,04,777/-


1 Rotavapor and accessories 6,88,545/-

2006-07

2 Trinocular fluorecense digital microscope with camera

7,03,642/-

2006-07

3 Refrigerated centrifuge 6,32,233/-

2006-07 4 Accessories for HPLC 17,14,880/-

2007-08 5 Accessories for HPLC 7,22,100/-

2007-08

6 Accessories & consumbales for microscope

1,97,991/-

2007-08

7 Triad multimode reader & Accessories

11,64,590/-

2007-08

8 Refrigerated centrifuge model - sigma 6k 15

6,63,466/-

2007-08

9 HPLC & LCMS 34,29,944/-

2007-08 10 Stereo Zoom Binocular microscope 1,17,619/-

2007-08 11 High speed centrifuge 6,18,355/-

2007-08

12 Protein purification system - ultrafiltration system

8,73,090/-

2007-08

13 Nitrogen gas generator 6,21,742/-

2007-08

14 Chef mapper XA system-PFGE & IEF with 2D Gel electrophoresis

20,21,264/-

2008-09

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15 PCR Thermocycler Model-Veriti 3,19,634/-

2008-09

16 Refrigerated Centrifuge with Accessories

6,15,756/-

2008-09

17 Water Bath Sonicator 3,32,741/-

2008-09


2008-09

19 Co2 Incubator 2,69,424/-

2008-09

20 Flash Chromatography System 20,71,411/-

2008-09 21 Gas Generator Hydrogen & Zero Air 6,03,115/-

2008-09 22 Gel Documentation System 4,57,876/-

2008-09

23 Single Shelf Auto Stopper Freeze Drying System

18,20,700/-

2008-09

24 Dual cooler Tank style Vertical Units and its power supply

1,51,268/-

2009-10

25 High Speed Table Top Refrigerated Centrifuge

3,25,241/-

2009-10

26 Ultrafast Gradient PCR Machine 5,03,130/-

2009-10 27 Radio Active work station 1,44,304/-

2009-10

28 Power pack for Electrophoresis System

1,95,192/-

2009-10

29 i) Ultra Water Purification System, ii) Pre-Filtration Unit

5,64,525/-

2009-10

30 Flow Cytometer 40,86,000/-

2009-10

31 Accessories for Gas Chromatography

1,74,437/-

2009-10


2009-10 33 Rotary Evaporator With Accessories 6,87,632/-

2009-10 34 Hybridization Oven 1,81,560/-

2009-10 35 TG Electrophoresis 6,89,190/-

2009-10

36 Cooling Module 220/240v for TG Electrophoresis

3,20,766/-

2009-10


2010-11 38 CO2 Incubator 2,74,098/-

2010-11 39 Nano Drop Spectrophotometer 5,60,100/-

2010-11 40 2D Electrophoresis System 8,29,800/-

2010-11 41 Cooled Incubator 3,51,864/-

2010-11

42 Trinocular Stereoscopic Zoom Microscope (Model: SMZ 1000)

5.03,179/-

2010-11

Total 3,25,91,304/-

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1 Accessories for ESR Spectrometer 12,08,305/-

2006-07

2 HPLC System 11,52,534/-

2006-07

3 Rotary Evaporator with punp 1,94,055/-

2006-07

4 Analytical cum semi preparative HPLC system

11,52,534/-

2006-07

5 Hybridization Oven 1,61,155/-

2006-07

6 Micro processor controlled fully automatic auto clave

2,60,480/-

2006-07

7 High performance research grade ftir spectometer

20,35,800/-

2006-07

8 Immerssion Cooler 3,22,840/-

2007-08 9 CSD - Software 2,32,251/-

2007-08

10 ADF Software 1,89,268/-

2007-08

11 DFT Software VASP (Version 4.6) 1,16,000/-

2007-08 12 Immersion Cooler 3,09,960/-

2007-08 13 Glass oven 2,37,452/-

2007-08

14 Accessories for UV-VIS Spectrometer

2,14,675/-

2007-08

15 Accessories for UV-VIS Spectrometer

2,41,119/-

2007-08

16 Spares for oryogenic unit 1,70,192/-

2007-08 17 Glove box 1,74,765/-

2007-08 18 ICE Flake machine 1,29,838/-

2007-08 19 1 mm DTGS - KRS 5 Detector 68,145/-

2007-08 20 Rotary Evaporator with punp 1,92,337/-

2007-08

21 UV-VIS Spectometer with thermo cell holder of lap top Computer

4,86,319/-

2007-08

22 Spare for Electro Chemical System 2,05,791/-

2007-08

23 Rotary Evaporator with Vaccum Pump

2,11,255/-

2008-09

24 Castep in material studio (Software) 5,57,530/-

2008-09 25 Crystal maker (software) 18,446/-

2008-09 26 CRYSTAL 06 (Software) 66,100/-

2008-09 27 PQS (Software) 53,112/-

2008-09

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28

Rotary Evaporator with Vacuum Pump (Diaphragm)

2,65,680/-

2008-09

29 Molpro (Software) 1,26,316/-

2008-09

30 Photochemical Reactor 89,076/-

2008-09

31 Automated Flash Chromatography

13,97,250/-

2008-09

32 Parr Acid Digestion Vessels, Hook Spanner and Holding Fixture

1,35,330/-

2008-09

33 HPC Cluster (Master Node-1, Computer Node-3)

5,67,870/-

2008-09

35 Recirculating Cooler 2,02,166/-

2009-10

36 i) 2mm Dia Platinum working Electrode,

29,905/-

2009-10

37 Wide Range LCR Meter 3,73,650/-

2009-10

38

Fully Automated Charged Couple Device (CCD) Detector based single crystal X-ray diffractometer system with accessories

1,19,77,800/-

2009-10

39 Low Temperature Bath (Immersion Cooler)

3,87,016/-

2009-10

40 Mesh & Resins 3,87,016/-

2009-10 41 Copper Catalyst

5 kg 42,818/-

2009-10 42 Glass Oven 4,18,848/-

2009-10

43 Rotary Evaporator with Vacuum pump

3 Nos. 8,04,973/-

2009-10

44 Ice Flake Machine 8,42,866/-

2009-10

45 Medium Pressure Lamp & Accessories

1,26,241/-

2009-10

46 Cell Holder (Integrating sphere attachment for UV-Vi Spectrophotometer)

2,62,372/-

2009-10

47 UV-Visible Spectrometer 8,24,211/-

2009-10 48 CHNS Analyser 18,18,313/-

2009-10 49 FT-Mid Infrared Spectrometer 14,87,772/-

2009-10 50 Emission Spectrafluorometer 13,40,670/-

2009-10 51 Electrochemical work Station 14,18,625/-

2010-11

52 Dewar Adaptor for ESR Spectrometer

1,71,145/-

2010-11

Total 3,58,60,187/-

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DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES

1 Bio-Rad Resins 69,138/-

2006-07

2 Trinocular polarizing research microscope

5,62,132/-

2006-07

3 Chloride 500 GM 73,647/-

2006-07

4 H2O-CO2 Fluid inclusion 16,464/-

2006-07 5 Teflon FEP/PFA 1,07,170/-

2006-07 6 X - Ray tube for XRD System 2,27,545/-

2006-07 7 Vibrating cup mill 6,72,775/-

2007-08

8 Accessories for leica microscope, 1) Digital camera,2) C-mount adoptor & 3) Object guide

1,93,185/-

2007-08

9 Quartz Crucible for heating freezing stage

11,003/-

2007-08

10 Geological Reference material 55,667/-

2007-08

11 26 Nos. of Microscopes & accessories

68,07,045/-

2008-09

12 Semi Automatic Grinder Cum Polisher

13,33,537/-

2008-09

13 Rilbbon & Rhenium Annealed 3,64,950/-

2009-10

14 High Voltage Power Supply for Thermal Ionization mass Spectrometer

2,11,634/-

2009-10

15 Trinocular Stereomicroscope & Accessories

2,86,580/-

2009-10

16 Accessories for Linkam THMSG 600 Stage

5,39,164/-

2009-10

17 Polarising Microscope and Accessories

5,60,196/-

2009-10

18

Ion Source and Sample Turret (Spare for the Main Equipment Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer )

10,66,007/-

2009-10

19 ICP Mass Spectrometer (model : X-Series 2)

65,56,000/-

2009-10

20 Rock Cutting Machine 7,35,520/-

21 Laser Particle Size Analyzer 22,08,810/-

2010-11 22 Planetary Micro Mill-Pulverisette 7 15,45,003/-

2010-11

Total 2,42,03,172/-

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DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

1

4nos. of stereoscopic binocular microscope

3,04,640/-

2006-07

2 Multi gas detector 1,32,825/-

2006-07

3 Binocular stereoscopic zoom microscope

1,73,778/-

2007-08

4 Portable bioaerosal sampler 74,004/-

2007-08 5 FTIR Spectrophotometer 8,83,990/-

2007-08 6 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer UV2450

5,45,670/-

2008-09

7 i) Elisa Plate Reader & washer ii) Gel Documentation and Image analysis system

9,89,413/-

2008-09

8 UV-VIS Radiometer 1,54,156/-

2009-10 9 Master Cycler Validation System 5,58,804/-

2009-10 10 Phase Contrast Research Microscope

2,54,175/-

2009-10 11 Multiwave 3000 Digestion System 9,00,938/-

2009-10 12 Single Tube Luminometer 5,71,876/-

2009-10 13 Chlorophil Concentration meter 1,43,000/-

2009-10 14 CANOCO Software 22,142/-

2009-10 15 Micro Centrifugse 2,58,116/-

2009-10

16 UV-VIS Automated Flash chromatography System

12,73,650/-

2009-10

17 Rotary Evaporator 3,41,474/-

2009-10 18 Plant Growth Chamber 8,25,304/-

2010-11 19 TOG/TPH Analyzer (ModelL CVH) 3,88,202/-

2010-11 20 Root Scanner 5,25,834/-

2010-11

Total 93,21,991/-

DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1 Table top centrifuge 2,70,792/-

2007-08

2 Color Flex 45/0 Spectrophotometer 7,37,566/-

2009-10

3 Food Texture Analyzer Cum Extensograph

15,34,272/-

2009-10

4 Vacuum Packing Machine 5,58,778/-

2009-10 5 Trintometer 69,810/-

2010-11 6 Amylograph 13,63,643/-

2010-11 7 UV-VIS Spectrometer 5,05,948/-

2010-11 * 8 Head Space Gas Analyzer 7,45,360/-

2010-11 * 9 HPLC System 23,49,410/-

2010-11 *

Total 81,35,579/-

* In the process

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DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN STUDIES & MARINE BIOLOGY, PORTBLAIR

1

Sterio Microscope with Incident Model SM2-1500

3,57,248/-

2006-07

2 Inverted Plankton Microscope Model TS-100F

6,06,602/-

2006-07

3 Trinocular microscope with phase and fluorescence

7,07,138/-

2006-07

4 Hydrolab sea water analysis 5,32,778/-

2007-08 5 Portable Digital PH Meter 40,275/-

2007-08

6 EPI-F1 Filter block NUV-ZA (Accessories for nikon microscope)

28,605/-

2007-08

7 Current meter 3,62,682/-

2008-09 8 Total organic carbon analyzer 12,05,708/-

2008-09 9 Digital side scan sonar system 19,25,580/-

2008-09 10 Ecosounder - shallow water 5,97,400/-

2008-09 11 Marine magnetometer 18,48,313/-

2008-09

12 Petrological microscope for student level

12,55,568/-

2008-09

13 Under Ground Seismic imaging system

21,09,300/-

2008-09

14 Electromagnetic sounder 37,87,268/-

2008-09

15 Petrological Microscope for Research Level

6,27,328/-

2008-09

16 Total Station for cartographic Survey 2,62,649/-

2008-09

17 Trinocular Inverted Microscope (Model : AXIOVERT 40 CFL)

14,14,056/-

2009-10

18 Rotary Evaporator 2,96,227/-

2010-11 19 Deep Freezer 2 Nos. 2,83,994/-

2010-11 20 HPLC 18,58,905/-

2010-11 21 Hydrolab 9,99,552/-

2010-11 *

22 Trinocular Stereoscopic Zoom Microscope

5,00,848/-

2010-11 *

2,16,08,024/-

* In the process

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

1 Ultrasonic system 12,98,700/-

2006-07

2 Moisture Analyser 1,65,735/-

2006-07

3 Oxygen analyser 1,94,265/-

2006-07 4 High temperature attachment 14,81,785/-

2007-08 5 Furnace to TG/DTA System 1,03,687/-

2007-08

6 Audio analysing digital multi meter & Digital current source

3,58,528/-

2008-09

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7

Mechanical Milling Machine with Accessories

4,58,188/-

2008-09

8 Impedance Analyzer Model 7260 10,66,369/-

2008-09

9 LCZ meter Model : PSM 1735 4,67,556/-

2008-09

10 Ultrasonicator 1,89,083/-

2009-10

11 Battery Life Cycle Tester 5,70,576/-

2009-10

12 CW Laser (Diode) Red Color Model-SDL 671 120T Green Color model SDL 532120T

75,675/-

2009-10

13 LCZ Meter 3,20,387/-

2009-10 14 Nd YAG Laser System Kit 16,31,104/-

2009-10

15 High Temperature Electrical Conductivity Set up

26,25,687/-

2010-11

16 BET Surface Area Analyzer 10,37,666/-

2010-11 * 17 Atomic Force Microscope Multimode 56,26,640/-

2010-11 *

1,76,71,631

* In the process

CENTRE FOR ELECTRONIC MEDIA

1 Sony Tripod VCT-1170RM (2 Nos.), DVCAM Recorder

15,45,422/-

2007-08

2 Sony XDCAM Camcorder 10,13,682/-

2008-09 3 Sony XDCAM Recorder 7,48,669/-

2008-09 4 Leitch Velocity HD non-linear system 4,25,597/-

2008-09 5 Adobe Bundle Containing 30 User Licenses

(Photoshop C3, Pagemaker, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver & Director) 4,20,000/-

2008-09

6 HP Intellistation XW8400 3,91,500/-

2008-09 7 HCL Desktop Computer 3,32,502/-

2008-09 8 HCL Desktop Computers 3,27,750/-

2008-09 9 Sony DVCAM Portable Camera DSR-PD170P 2,70,006/-

2008-09 10 External Video Storage 2,60,656/-

2008-09 11 Expandore Vinten Vison Tripod 2,60,000/-

2008-09 12 HCL Infiniti Pro Desktop 2,30,000/-

2008-09 13 Expandore

Two Stage Tripod 2,18,697/-

2008-09 14 Audio Mixer (Yamaha) 2,18,025/-

2009-10 15 Audio Video mixer (Audio Video mixer) 1,92,000/-

2008-09 16 3CCD Mini DV Handy Camera 1,89,174/-

2009-10 17 Digital Video Mixer with 4-CH DV I/O &

SDI CG I/F and O/P 1,81,594/-

2008-09

18 Digital SLR Camera (Nikon) 1,70,775/-

2009-10

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19 Home Theatre System Sony Make 1,61,602/-

2008-09

20 10 KVA UPS 1,56,394/-

2008-09

21 Video Storage 1,22,807/-

2008-09

22 Cana Cool Light CC-655 with accessories 1,19,800/-

2008-09

23 Digital SLR Camera 1,14,655/-

2008-09

24 300 Watts Cana Flowslim Light 1,08,000/-

2008-09 25 Accessories for Leitch Velocity HD

External 8-Channel Audio Controller with motorized faders 1,03,664/-

2008-09

26 5 KVA UPS 1,01,920/-

2008-09 27 Backup recording unit up to 9 hours 95,844/-

2008-09 28 Break Out Box 95,728/-

2008-09 29 Nuendo 4.x Software 93,860/-

2009-10 30 Professional 3CCD Camera PANASONIC

NV-MD10000 4,24,166/-

2009-10

31 Avid work Station & Avid Mojo SDI 2,84,911/-

2009-10 32 Computer DesktopS: HCL INFINITI 2,72,000/-

2009-10 33 Computer DesktopS 1,83,160/-

2009-10 34 Avid Media Composer software 1,25,000/-

2009-10 35 M audio Delta 1010 86,757/-

2009-10 36 Broadcast CRT Monitor: Sony 79,695/-

2009-10 37 Imac 20 Macintosh 20-inch: 69,000/-

2009-10

1,70,89,517/-

CENTRE FOR NANOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1 Precision Spin Coater 2,08,431/-

2010-11 2 Dip Coater 2,30,421/-

2010-11 3 High Speed Centrifuge System 2,81,260/-

2010-11 *

4 Spectrofluorometer for Liquid and Solid Samples

13,93,248/-

2010-11 *

5 UV-Vis Spectrometer with Universal Reflectance accessory

12,50,316/-

2010-11 *

6 Ultra Sonicator 2,54,158/-

2010-11 * 7 LCZ Meter 2,75,190/-

2010-11 * 8 Electrochemical Workstation 32,11,539/-

2010-11 * 9 Automatic Hydraulic Press 7,15,267/-

2010-11 * 10 Milliquest (Millipore) Water Purifier 4,40,530/-

2010-11 * 11 Nanoindenter 40,88,353/-

2010-11 * 12 High Performance Computing Cluster

47,40,804/-

2010-11 *

Total 1,30,01,164/-

* In the process

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CENTRE FOR GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

1 Table Top Spin Coating Unit 1,00,800/-

2010-11

2 Chemical Refrigerator 67,500/-

2010-11

3 Fuel Cell 1,95,014/-

2010-11

4 Digital Balance 2,04,048/-

2010-11

5 Microwave Synthesizer 8,35,731/-

2010-11 *

6 Photoelectrochemical Cell potentiostat, Galvanostat

15,90,196/-

2010-11 *

7. BET Surface Area Analyser 11,39,085/-

2010-11 * 8. Solar Simulator 34,60,157/-

2010-11 *

Total 75,92,531/-

* In the process

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

1 10000 Count Handheld Multimeter -15 Nos.

1,38,715/-

2010-11

2. Function Generator - 15 Nos. 4,80,375/-

2010-11 3. Scientific Bench Top LCR Meter 21,131/-

2010-11

4. 0-30V/2A Variable 5V Multi Channel Power Supply

15 Nos. 84,375/-

2010-11

5. Vector Network Analyzer 9,22,262/-

2010-11 * 6 FPGA Kits & VHDL/Verilog 1,84,132/-

2010-11 *

Total 18,30,990/-

* In the process

3.1.3 What provision is made in the budget for research and development?

Being a Central University the grant for promoting research is incorporated in both Plan and Non plan budget. The University allocates a designated fund for research and research activities under Plan and Non Plan head. Over the years the allocation has kept increasing and during last five years the fund allocated has grown from Rs.52.56 Crores (under X Plan) to Rs.250.25 Crores (under XI Plan

including General Development, OBC, Merged Scheme and Fellowship) registering a 470% growth. The University also provides the start up grant to the newly recruited faculty against viable projects to develop research facilities and peruse research required for their ongoing research and projects. The startup grant is

Professor & Associate Professor Rs.10,00,000/- and for Assistant Professor Rs.5,00,000/-.

During the last five years, the University has spent substantial portion of Plan and Non

Plan allotment to promote Research and Development in the University. The amount

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spent towards purchase of equipments, provision of Laboratory facilities, Library facilities, Building with sufficient ambience to carry out research, and Start up grant to young scientists out of University Resources are given below. This includes amount spent out of grants given by UGC to SAP Departments also.

Expenditure during the last five years out of Plan, Non-Plan, OBC Grant, University Resources and SAP towards promoting research and development.

Equipment

(Rs. In lakhs)

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 422.44 992.36 1237.98 1701.05 925.28 5279.11

Laboratory

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 12.44 56.35 53.33 243.18 132.03 497.33

Library

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 171.08 136.96 266.09 283.23 294.75 1152.11

Building

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 1288.32 600.32 3130.44 5633.65 4156.78 14809.51

Start-up Grant

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 30.51 47.25 5.66 7.50 - 90.92

Amount Spent on Research Projects for Last five years (including SAP)

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 214.12 352.47 384.79 820.59 905.64 2677.61

Grant Total

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total 2138.91 2185.71 5078.29 8689.20 6414.48 24506.59

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3.1.4 Does the University promote participation of the students in research in the

academic programme?

Yes the entire course offered i.e., PG and M.Phil courses have a project or dissertation component PG students submit projects in the final semester. The students also are encouraged to participate in seminars and conferences as far as possible.

3.1.5 What are the major research facilities developed and are available to faculty and students on the campus?

Most of the members of faculty in University Departments handle major and minor research projects funded by various agencies. To facilitate these, Departments have built necessary research infrastructure needed.

To make the sophisticated and expensive instruments available to scholars and Faculty the University has established a Central Instrumentation Facility. This facility has been providing technical expertise to the departments in maintaining the equipments apart from managing equipments installed centrally. This facility provides research infrastructure to the Faculty and students doing research and is also being used by various other institutions other than the University.

The noteworthy instruments (for interdepartmental use) acquired by the Central Instrumentation Facility are:

Sl. No

Name of the Equipment Cost of the Equipment

Year of Purchase


2006-07

2 X-Ray Florescent Spectrometer

XRF 79,53,380/-

2007-08


2007-08


20,93,020/-

2007-08

5 Broad Band Dielectric Spectrometer

1,09,17,028/-

2008-09


3,95,01,000/-

2009-10

In addition to these instruments the University also spends a sizable fund for acquiring software such as in form of SPSS, SYSTAT and for data analysis.

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Pondicherry University is one among the very few universities in the country which has provided unique and adequate facilities for research. Wi-Fi internet access across the campus, including Hostels and Quarters, downloadable texts made available by Library and through UGC INFLIBNET consortia are the unique facilities available for enhancement of research in this University. It may be highlighted that Pondicherry University is the first in the country to subscribe to CMIE databases besides, several databases subscribed through the Library. Pondicherry University is also the first to offer Remote Access to Library digital resources through its portal.

In addition, the respective Departments have also developed specialized laboratories with support from funding agencies. For example

Details

Biotechnology - PCR, Real-time PCR, Flash Chromatography, Phase Contrast, Fluorescence s and Microscopes

Bio-Informatics - Discovery studio 3.0, Gromos 96, V-Life

Biochemistry & Ultracentrifuge, Ultra Sonicator, Phase Contrast Molecular Biology - Microscope

Chemistry - ESI-MS,X-ray Fluorescence, EPR(Q-band), X-Ray Diffractometer

Physics - AFM / STM, SEM with EDX

Earth Sciences - Mass Spectrometer

Food Science &Tech., - Food Processing Pilot Plants

Independent computing facility in each Department and School with Centralized multi license softwares installed have boosted quality of research.

3.1.6 Does the University subscribe research journals for reference as per the different departmental requirements?

The University spends over Rs.1.5 Crores every year for subscribing to both Print & Online E-journals. University also makes available the on line journals through INFLIBNET. Apart from these the faculty and departments also subscribe to some journals for their specific research needs. The students and scholar have access to 23928 e-journals 31000 e-resources along with 344 print Journals for Science, Humanities, Management, Engineering, Technology etc.,

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Journals 2006-2007 2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-211

1. Print 472 35 96 327 344 2. E-journals 8557 8557 13849 18341 23928

Total 9029 8592 13945 18668 24272

3.1.7 Does the University extend recognition to National institutions that provide research training leading to research degrees?

Yes, the University has extended recognition to a few national institutes of repute, under MoU to carryout research leading to Ph.D degree. The institutions recognized as research centres are:

Institute of Astro Physics, Bengaluru

Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry

Zoological Survey, Andaman

Frontline Heart Foundation, Chennai

Institute of Bioinformatics, Bengaluru

3.2 Research and Publication Output

3.2.1 Give details of the ongoing minor and major projects?

Details of ongoing minor and major projects, funded by external agencies are given below:-

DETAILS OF ONGOING MINOR & MAJOR PROJECTS

Sl. No

Title Principal

Investigator Dy.

Coordinator Agency

Amount

(Rs. Lakh)

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

1. Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

Prof. Sibnath Deb - Global Fund

0.5

2. UGC DRS project on Students Mental Health

- Prof. Sibnath

Deb UGC 20

3. ICMR Task Force Study on Male Circumcision

Prof. Sibnath Deb - ICMR 6

4.

The Effect of Displacement on Mental Health of Displaced Tribes in Mysore and Kodagu Districts of Karnataka.

Dr. B. Rangaiah - UGC

4.9

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5.

A Study of Psychological Control among University Employees

Dr.Surendra Kr. Sia

Nil UGC 0.99

DEPARTMENT OF BANKING TECHNOLOGY

1. SSE Secure and Smart Environment

Dr.V.Prasanna Venkatesan

Nil NTRO 100

DEPARTMENT OF BIOCEHMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

1.

To investigate the glutathione level discrimination between oxidative stress and transforming necrosis factor-

signaling in the progression from hepatic steatosis to steatohepatitis

Dr. C. Thirunavu kkarasu

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar

UGC-India

7.66

2. Structure base drug design for Acidic Sphingomyelinase

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar

Dr.C.Thirunavukkarasu

UGC-India

10.45

3.

Anticarcinogenic Effects of an analog of curcumin: Delineating the molecular targets in comparison with curcumin

Dr.R.Rukkumani

P.Latha UGC 11.01

4.

Anticarcinogenic Effects of an analog of curcumin: Delineating the molecular targets in comparison with curcumin

Dr.R.Rukkumani

P.Latha UGC 11

5.

Studies on the protective effects of ferulic acid and vitamin E on carbendazim induced testicular toxicity in rats.

Dr.P. Latha P.P.Mathur UGC 8.6

6.

Isolation, Purification, Characterization, Cloning and Expression of alpha-amylase from Opuntia vulgaris and Cereus pterogonous

Dr.K. Srikumar - UGC 9.5

7. Investigations on the role of selected Phytohormones in animal cell function

Dr.K. Srikumar - DST 20

8.

Purification & Characterization of a mosquitocidal protein from Pseudomonas fluorescence and it s biosafety

Dr.K. Srikumar Yes DST 19.7

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9.

Studies on the protective effect of Triginella fenum greecum on endoplasmic reticulum stress mediated damage in type II diabetic rats

Dr.K. Srikumar Yes UGC 7.5

10.

Effects of Trigonella foenum-graecum (fenugreek) seeds on the endoplasmic reticulum stress mediated damage in Type II diabetic rats

Dr.S.Sudha Rani Dr. K. Srikumar UGC 7.36

11.

Antioxidants as modulators of oxidative stress and oxidative signals in mammalian erythrocyte

Prof. Asha Devi,

Prof. K. Jeevaratnam

DBT, New Delhi

17.65

12.

Isolation and characterization of low MW antimicrobial substances from lactic acid bacteria

Dr.K.Jeevaratnam

- DRDO, ER&IPR

16.53

13.

Molecular characterization of antimicrobial substances from lactic acid bacteria and molecular typing of the producer strains

Dr.K.Jeevaratnam

- UGC, New Delhi

9.8

14.

Development of low glycemic noodle from sweet potato and low caloric sago from cassava as anti-diabetic foods

Co-PI

G. Padmaja, CTCRI,

Prof. K. Jeevaratnam

ICMR, New Delhi

12.66 lakhs

15.

Evaluation of Oxidative stress in Inducing Sub-fertility in male rats by Environmental contaminants; 2003-06.

Dr.P. P. Mathur -

DST, New

Delhi.

14.4

16. Effect of environmental contaminants on male reproduction; 2003-2008

Dr.P. P. Mathur - ICMR, New Delhi

3.5

17. Functional studies on the effects of xenoestrogens on pancreatic cells; 2007-09

Dr.P. P. Mathur - UGC, New Delhi

9.2

18.

Evaluation of stress response on the susceptibility of testis to environmental toxicants; 2009-2012

Dr.P. P. Mathur - ICMR, New

Delhi. 18.0

19. Development of E-learning modules in Bioinformatics; 2007-2010

Dr.P. P. Mathur - DBT, New Delhi

7.0

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20.

Development of Database and Software Tools for Identifying Zinc Finger Binding Motifs in Mammalian Genomes; 2007-2010

Dr.P. P. Mathur - DIT, New Delhi

37.07

21.

Functional studies on effects of low doses of Bisphenol A on pancreatic and testicular functions of adult rats;2009-11.

Dr.P. P. Mathur - ICMR, New Delhi

5.5

22.

NK Cell Receptor Diversity and Cytokine/ Transcription Factor Profile in SLE and RA South Indian Patients; 2009-11(co-investigator)

Dr.P. P. Mathur -

Multicentric

ICMR-INSERM

53.0

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

1.

Development of plant transformation vectors with lipid transfer proteins (20032006)

Dr.N. Sakthivel S.Jayachandran DST 14.00

2.

Biochemical and molecular characterization of novel

fluorescent pseudomonad

strains and genetic analysis of antifungal metabolite production (2005 2008)

Dr.N. Sakthivel S.Jayachandran DBT 34.00

3.

Molecular diversity of fluorescent pseudomonads that degrade agricultural chemical pesticides (2006 2009)

Dr.N. Sakthivel S.Jayachandran UGC 7.20

4.

Identification of novel functional genes that encode antifungal metabolites from metagenome of soil (20072010)

Dr.N. Sakthivel S.Jayachandran DBT 58.00

5.

Biological control of sugarcane borer employing Dr.S. Jayachandran

Transgenic endophytic Acetobacter diazotrophicus containing PCF genes from Bacillus thuringiensis (2005-2008)

Dr. S. Jayachandran

- DBT 26.50

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6.

Purification, characterization & synthesis of bioactive molecules produced by marine Pseudomonas strains PS03 and PS07 as antiviral and nticancer agents (2005-2008)

Dr. S. Jayachandran

- DBT 44.30

7.

Development of a Hospital Infection Surveillance System using advanced molecular diagnostic methods and DNA fingerprinting techniques

Dr. Prashanth. K - DST 11.41

8. Product and process optimization of insecticide through fermentation (2005-2008)

Dr.V. V. Sarma - CFL,

Hyderabad

29.0

9.

Pulp and paper making through microbial process using agricultural waste and usufructs, (2005-2007)

Dr.V. V. Sarma - CUMI, Chennai

5.00

10.

Isolation, Identification and characterization of Methanogen for in-situ generation of methane from oil reservoirs (2007-2010)

Dr.V.V. Sarma - ONGC 25.06

11. Lyophilized diazotrophs for

liquid biofertilizers (2006-2008 Prof.P.N. Raju Dr.V.V. Sarma DBT 5.0

12.

Scientific Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy Profile of an Ayurvedic Polyherbal Formulation in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus (2005-2008)

Dr.Hannah R. Vasanthi

Dr. S. Thanikachalam

Dr. D.Chamundees

hwari

Drugs & Pharmaceutical DST,

Govt.of India

119.902

13.

Scientific Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy Profile of an Ayurvedic Polyherbal Formulation in the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis(2006-2009)

Dr.Hannah Rachel Vasanthi

R. Vasanthi

Dr.Rajasekhar

Drugs & Pharmaceutical

Division. DST, GOI

118.673

14.

Preclinical Studies of a Polyherbal And a Herbomineral Drug in the management of Urolithiasis

A Comparative Study (2008-2011)

Dr.Hannah Rachel Vasanthi

R. Vasanthi Dr.P.Soundaraj

an

CCRAS (EMR)

Dept, of AYUSH

GOI

22.89

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CENTRE FOR BIOINFORMATICS

1.


Prof. P. P. Mathur -

DST, New

Delhi.

14.4

2. Effect of environmental contaminants on male reproduction; 2003-2008


ICMR, New Delhi

3.5

3. Development of E-learning modules in Bioinformatics; 2007-2010


DBT, New Delhi

7.0

4.

Searching for potential therapeutic targets in human pathogens (food-& water-borne) using comparative genomics approach: Molecular modeling, docking and simulation studies

Dr.Archana Pan - UGC 7.81

5.

Isolation and molecular characterization of lipoxygenease (Lox) gene(s) from finger millet (Elusine coracana L.)

Dr.Dinakara Rao

P. Ramachandra Reddy and L.V.

Reddy, YVU

DBT 38.90

6.

Molecular cloning, characterization and functional analysis of lipoxygease (lox) gene from horse gram (Dolichos biflorus) germinating seedlings

Dr.A.Dinakara Rao

Nil

DST-

SERC

Fast

Track

17.39

7. X-ray Crystallographic Studies on Protein Crystal

Dr.R. Krishna - UGC 10.66

8.

A Probablistic Approach to Interact the Substrate- Aloe emodin with proteins targeting for Neuro ectodermal Tumor.

Dr. P.T.V. Lakshmi

- UGC

9. 66

9.

Insilico screening and comparision of Phyto-chemicals to target Angiotensinogen (AGT) of hypertension attributing to heart failure

Dr. P.T.V. Lakshmi

- DST 14.32

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10.

Structure based drug design for Acidic Sphingomyelinase UGC- Major Project.

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar

- UGC 10.45

11.

To investigate the glutathione level discrimination between oxidative stress and transforming necrosis factor-

signaling in the progression from hepatic steatosis to steatohepatitis

- Dr. M. Suresh Kumar

UGC 7.66

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

1.

Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics in the Photoreduction of Cobalt(III) Complexes Anchored on Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Particles

, 25.04.2007-24.04.2010

Dr.K. Anbalagan

NA DST 18.0

2.

Reduction of Toxic Metal Ions in the form of Complexes in Aqueous Media using Polycrystalline Semiconductor Particles , 10.8.2007-09.08.2010

(Completed)

Dr.K. Anbalagan

NA CSIR 9.0

3.

Bonds and Bands of Aromatic systems with exo-pi-ineractions: Insights and Implications

Dr.Musiri M. Balalrkishnarajan

- DST 35.0

4.

Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Based Supramolecules and Molecular Recognition Studies.

Dr. Bala. Manimaran

- DST 8.0

5.

Transition Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Metalloprismatic Supramolecules and Host-Guest Interaction Studies.

Dr. Bala. Manimaran

- CSIR 9.74

6.

Crystal Engineering with Sulfinic Acid, Sulfinamide Groups and Network Structures - DST project

Dr.B.K. Saha -- DST 15.48

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7.

Cyclocarbaalumazenes, a New Class of Carbon Containing Metallacycles: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity

Dr.N. Dastagiri Reddy

-- DST 25.33

8.

Homogeneous Copolymerization of Polar Olefins and Ethylene: Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Pd& Ni Complexes of Tripodal (Pyrazolyl)borate, Anionic (Pyrazolyl)methane and N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands


- CSIR 18.30

9.

Homogeneous Copolymerization of Olefins and

Polar Olefins: Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Phosphine Substituted -Diketimine Based Heterobimetallic Complexes


- DST 45.00

10.

Quantum wavepacket dynamics of the H+CH4

reaction: Coriolis coupling effects on the reaction rate

Dr.R.

Padmanaban -

University Startup Grant (under

consideration

5.00

11. Multifunctional Chiral Molecules for Asymmetric Organic Transformations

Dr.C. R. Ramanathan - DST

39.20

12.

Brønsted Acid Assisted Construction of Biologically Active Isoquinoline Alkaloids

Dr.C. R. Ramanathan

- CSIR 25.79

13.

Palladium - biarylcarbene complexes: Synthesis, Structure and their applications

Dr.S. Sabiah - DST 25.95

14.

Single crystal EPR studies on paramagnetic hosts doped with paramagnetic transition metal ions

2008 to 2011

On going

Dr.P. Sambasiva Rao

- CSIR 6.35

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15.

Single crystal EPR studies of transition metal ions in dia and paramagnetic host lattices

2008 to 2011

On

going

Dr.P. Sambasiva Rao

G. Vasuki UGC 2.79+

Project Fellow

16.

Single crystal EPR and X-ray studies of asymmetric dicopper(II) Complexes having chemically distinct coordination

2008 to 2012

On going.

Dr.P. Sambasiva Rao

R. Venkatesan DST 27.96 + JRF

17.

EPR spectroscopic studies of Quartz

significance in understanding the process and environment of mineral formation

2008-2011

On going.

Dr.M.S. Pandian P. Sambasiva Rao

DST 25.37 + JRF

18.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopic investigation on gamma-radiation effects on seeds

Co-PI, 2010-2013

On going

Dr.Lata Shukla P. Sambasiva Rao

UGC

19.

Design and synthesis of homogeneous transition metal catalysts for the activation and functionalization of dinitrogen via direct reaction with molecular hydrogen

Dr.C. Sivasankar

- DST 20.00

20.

Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrophilic-b-Hydrophobic-b-Hydrophilic Tri-Block Copolymers through Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Dr.K. Tharanikkarasu

- CSIR 12.31

21.

An Investigation chiral salen transition metal catalyzed arerobic enantioselective oxidation of 2-naphthol to BINOL- Investigation of mechanism of by EPR

Dr.G. Vasuki - UGC 7.40

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22.

Multi-Component reactions in aqueous medium Synthesis of medicinal scaffolds Azoles

Dr.G. Vasuki - DST-Green

Chemistry

21.30

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

1. Derivatives and Risk Management

Dr. P.S. Velmurugan

Dr. P. Palanichamy

UGC 36.5

2.

Drug Policies & their impact

on small scale drug industry

in India

Dr.G.Shanmuga sundaram

- ICSSR 3.71

3. A study of costing methodology for Indian Higher Education

Dr. D. Lazer Dr. K. Chandra Sekara Rao

UGC 5.68

4. Project exports from India D. P. Natarajan - UGC 5.14

5. Socio-economic development of small scale industry in Pondicherry.

Dr.G.Shanmuga-sundaram

- UGC 0.65

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

1. Multi-Model Approach for Adaptive Web Service Selection

Dr.P. Dhavachelvan

- DST 27.00

2.

Bio-inspired Intrusion Response System through Feature Relevance Analysis on Attack Classification

Dr.S.Siva Sathya

T.Chithralekha

R.Geetharamani AICTE 4.80


1. Setting up of National Facility for Geochronology and Isotope Geosciences

Prof.S.Bala krishnan

M. S. Pandian R. Bhutani P. Singh

H.S.P. Rao V. Venkatesan

DST 376.00

2. Geo-chronological Studies on Uranium Mineralization using 233U-236U tracer solution

Prof.S.Bala krishnan

R. Bhutani BRNS /

DAE 17.00

3.

Measurement of cosmogenic 10Be and 26AI abundances in quartz to determine exposure ages of granulites and gneisses from Southern India

Prof.S.Bala

krishnan - IUAC 7.00

4. Co-ordinator for the UGC-Special Assistant Programme.

- - UGC 70.00

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Emplacement mechanism and post-emplacement evolution of the massif-type anorthosite at Bolangir, Eastern Ghats Belt India.

Dr. Subhadip Bhadra

- DST, New Delhi

3.24

6.

Modelling of fluid processes in the unconformity type uranium mineralization in Srisailam and Painad sub-basins od Cuddapah basin, Andhra Pradesh

Prof. M.S. Pandian

Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani

BRNS 19.50

7.

Geochronological studies on uranium mineralization and host granitoids in parts of south India using 233U/236U isotope tracer solution

Prof.S. Balakrishnan


BRNS 16.90

8.

Volcanological, chronological, geochemical and petrogenetic evolution of the Barren Island volcano, India

Dr. J.S. Ray; (Physical Research

Laboratory, Ahmedabad)

Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani, Prof. S.Balakrishnan Dr. Hetu Sheth (IIT Bomabay)

DST 42.00

9.

146Sm-142Nd isotopicstudies of meteorites and Earth materials: Early chemical differentiation of bulk silicate part of planetary bodies (2007 to 2010)


Prof. S. Balakrishnan

PLANEX

40.00

10. Geochemical tectonics across

Cauvery Shear Zone, South India (2005-2009)


- DST 11.40

11.

Jurassic Ostracoda from the southern part of Mainland Kachchh, India with respect to their systematic, age, biostratigraphy, paleozoogeography and paleoenvironments

Dr.Manisha Kumari

- DST, New Delhi

17.10

12.

EPR spectroscopic study of quartz from hydrothermal ore deposits: Significance in mineral exploration

Dr.M.S. Pandian

Dr..P.S.Rao

Dr.S.Bala krishnan

DST 25.37

13.

Indo-Russian Collaborative project on Comparison of fluid circulation processes in granite intrusion-related environments: development of models for economic evaluation of granite-related hydrothermal processes

Dr.M.S. Pandian

- DST 7.40

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Modeling of fluid processes in the unconformity-type uranium mineralization in Srisailam and Palnad Sub-basins of Cuddapah Basin, Andhra Pradesh

Dr.M.S. Pandian

Dr.R.Bhutani BRNS-DAE

18.45

15.

Drill core Sampling of the Quaternary Sediments of the Cauvery Delta between Mannargudi and Pennar River for geochemical and paleo environmental studies

Dr.Pramod Singh

- DST 136.89

16.

Be-10 measurements using AMS on sediment core samples from Indian Ocean and Inland water bodies to determine rate of sedimentation: Significance to paleoclimate studies

Dr.Pramod Singh

S. Balakrishnan IUAC New Delhi

5.00

17.

Pollen Analysis of Quaternary sediments: reconstructing vegetational and environmental history in the Cauvery floodplain . DST funded

Anupama K. Pramod Singh DST 26.40

18.

Drill core sampling of subsurface sediments for geochemical and paleoenvironmental studies as a component of the Mega project A Multidisciplinary study of the shallow subsurface and the Quaternary geology of Cauvery Delta region

Dr.Pramod Singh

Dr.D.Senthil Nathan

DST 136.00

19.

Stable isotope based dedroclimatological investigations of tees from Indian Region

Dr. Shreyas

Managave

Prof. R. Ramesh

Dr. R.R. Yadav ISRO 34.79

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

1.

The genetic structure and reproductive ecology of wild brinjal (Solanum species) in India: Phase I

Dr.Priya

Davidar Allison Snow Ohio State University,

USA 6.97

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2.

Elephant habitats of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: Location, threats and management.

Dr.Priya Davidar

J. P. Puyravaud

US Fish and

Wildlife Service

17.15

3.

Assessment of plant diveristy, and impact of invasive species in the Mukurthi National Park, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

Dr.Priya Davidar

Rajiv Srivastava UGC 6.35

4.

Species diversity, distribution and abundance of macro benthic invertebrates of mangroves, Pondicherry

Dr. Anisa B Khan

- UGC 11.27

5.

Health Risk assessment studies on the impact of heavy metal contamination with special reference to cadmium and lead.

Dr. Anisa B Khan

- UGC 4.45

6. The role of Earthworms ..pollutants

Dr. M. Vikram Reddy

UGC (New Delhi)

7.29

7. High precision CO2

concentration sink of carbon

- Dr. M. Vikram

Reddy

DST (New Delhi)

8.50

8. Quantitative assessment and mapping of plant resources of Eastern Ghats (2005-2009).

Dr. N. Parthasarathy

- DBT 16.40

9.

Bio monitoring of permanent plots for biodiversity changes and aspects of tree biology and forest ecology in tropical dry evergreen forest on Coromandel coast, south India (2002-2006)


- DST

Project 12.00

10. Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Development

- Yes UGC 22.95

11.

Hertergeneous photocatalytic treatment of chemical and bacterial pollutants from wastewater

Dr. Suja P. Devipriya

- DST 16.08

12.

Role of high-resolution satellite data with GIS in integrated resource analysis at mini-watershed level

(2005-2007)

Dr.S. Jayakumar

- DST, 12.27

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Influence of anthropogenic pressure on the structure and functional attributes of sacred groves in Sivagangai District of Tamil Nadu, South India

Dr.SM.Sudara pandian

- UGC 3.58

14.



- DST 16.08

15.

Epidemiological assessment studies on the impact of environmental degradation on human health in Pondicherry .

Dr Anisa B Khan

- DSTE,

Puducherry

0.40

16.

Indigenous knowledge on the medicinal plant resources of Coromandel coast forests of peninsular India in the modern period (2006-2008)


- INSA

Project 0.75

17.

Evolving and implementing LEISA based agro-ecological technologies for sustainable rice production in salt affected soils of Pondicherry coastal region

Dr. G. Poyyamoli -

DSTE,

Pudu-cherry

0.60

18. Status of Biomedical waste management in the UT of Puducherry

Dr. G. Poyyamoli -

DSTE, Pudu-cherry

2.00

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

1. A study on Educated Unemployment in the Union Territory of Puducherry ,

Dr.P Muthaian

- UGC New Delhi

2.99

2.

An Evaluate Study on the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme in the Union Territory of Puducherry

Dr.P Muthaian

- Education

Dept., Puducherry

2.83

3. The Divisia monetary indices as leading indicators of Inflation

M.Rama chandran

- Reserve Bank of

India 1.00

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

1.

A study of impact of In-service Teacher Training under SSA on classroom transaction

Tamilnadu State (collaborating with a National Study)

State Coordinator

- MHRD

& NCERT

9.80

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2.

Random sampling of District Information System of Education Data (DISE)

5%

Dr. M.S. Lalithamma

Dr. Amruth G. Kumar

SSA

Puduche

rry 0.36

DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.

Reduction of Mycotoxin Exposure in Human Gastro Intestinal Tract using Pre-and Probiotic Microorganisms.

Dr.H.Prathap Kumar Shetty

Prof N Sakthivel.


CSIR 24.00

2. Development of functional starter culture for idli.

Dr H Prathap Kumar Shetty

Dr S J D Bosco UGC 11.00

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH

1. UGC SAP Project, coordinated by Prof. S. Pannirselvame

All the Faculty

Members

Deputy Coordinator : Prof.Nalini J.

Thampi

UGC 44.00

CENTRE FOR GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

1.

Realization of crack free Thickfilm PZT for the application to piezo cantilever fabrication

Dr. Gridharan,

Co-Principal Investigator DST,

India

17.00

2. Investigation of NLO behaviour of KDP crystal

Dr.S. Kalainathan

Co-Principal Investigator

DRDO, India 12.00

DEPARTMENT OF HINDI

1.

Vartaman Sandarbh Me Hindi Nirgunia Sant Sahitya Aur Kannada Vachana Sahitya Ki Prasangikata

Prof.V.Vizialakshmi

NIL UGC 6.34

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

1. Excavations of a Sangam Age Site

Porunthal Dr.K.Rajan --

Central Institute of Classical

Tamil

5.00

2. Early Historic Archaeology: A Study on Cultural Transformation (Tamil Nadu)

Dr.K.Rajan - UGC 5.90

3.

Documentation of Build Heritage and Sites and Documentation of Antiquities

Dr.K.Rajan -

Archaeological

Survey of India

12.47

4.

Demarcation of Protected Monuments as per Ancient Monuments &Archaeological Sites and Remains Act

2010 - A Pilot Study of Koranganathar Temple, Srinivasanallur, Tiruchirapalli Dt.

Dr.K.Rajan Prof.S.Aru

chamy

Archaeological

Survey of India

5.00

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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

1.

Strategic Human Resource Management-A study of the Retention strategies of Technical employees in the IT industry in India

Dr.M. Basheer

Ahmed Khan -

UGC, New Delhi

-

2. Financial Engineering in Financial Services Industry

Dr. B. Charumathi

- AICTE 10.5

3. Problems And Prospects In Entrepreneurship For Disabled In Karaikal

Madan Mohan

-

SERO of UGC,

vide letter No. F. MRP-

3279/09

0.80

4. Problems And Prospects in Entrepreneurship for Disabled In Karaikal

Madan Mohan

- - do - 0.80

MANAGEMENT STUDIES - KARAIKAL

1. Pricing strategies in Indian telecom sector

Dr.Byram Anand

- UGC 0.75

CENTRE FOR NANOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.

Development of thin film lithium batteries using nanomaterials as power sources for devices based on nanotechnology: synthesis, fabrication and charateristic studies

Prof.N.Satyanarayana

- DST- Nano

Mission

60.62

2.

Development of surface engineered nanocrystalline cathode materials for high energy density secondary lithium battery applications


- AICTE 13.00

3.

Development of modified and surface engineered nanocrystalline LiFePO4

cathode materials for enhanced energy density lithium battery applications


- UGC 9.93

4.

Development of nanocomposite polymer solid electrolytes using solid super acid fillers for lithium based rechargeable thin film micro batteries


- CSIR 16.30

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5.

Synthesis and characterization of nano - crystalline cation substituted rare earth oxide for potential transformation toughening & oxygen ion conducting applications


- DRDO 17.90

6.

Development of nanofibrous polymer electrolyte membranes by electrospinning technique for high performance dye sensitized solar cells

Dr.A.Subramania

- CSIR, New Delhi

20.00

7.

Development of nanofibrous cubic spinel metal oxides and composite electrolyte membranes by electrospinning technique for asymmetric supercapacitors

Dr.A.Subramania

- DST-

Nanomission

41.00

8.

Development and characterization of alternative to chromate based primers for aerospace steel and aluminium alloys

- Dr.A.Subra

mania DRDL,

Hyderabad

10.00

9.

Development of PVdF-HFP based nano-composite polymer electrolytes for advanced Li

Batteries

Dr.A.Subramania

- UGC, New Delhi

6.00

10.

Development of Micro-porous PVdF-HFP based blend polymer electrolyte membranes for advanced Li

Battery Application

Dr.A.Subramania

- DST, New Delhi

9.50

11.

Sethu Samudram Ship Channel Project Environmental Monitoring (SSCP) -

Dr.A.Subra mania

DCI, Vizag

27.00

DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN STUDIES & MARINE BIOLOGY, PORT BLAIR

1.

Biodiversity of Benthic Community and their Environment Characteristics off Port Blair, Andaman Islands

Dr.P.M. Mohan

Jayant Kumar Mishra

CMLRE - MoES

30.00

2. Metagenomics of the Andaman Sea: the under-explored Rare Bioshohere

S. Jayachandran

and P. Gunasekaran

P.M. Mohan DBT 59.55

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3.

Induced breeding and development of hatchery technology for growing juvenile sea urchins under controlled conditions and possibility of Aquaculture for Island economy development.

Dr.Jayant Kumar Mishra

-

UGC

Major

Research Project

8.12

4.

Biodiversity of Benthic Community and their Environment Characteristics off Port Blair, Andaman Islands

Dr.P.M.

Mohan Jayant Kumar

Mishra CMLRE - MoES

30.00

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS

1. Authentic Analytical Documentation Ethno Cultural Programme of Theru-K-Koothu

Dr.V.Aru- mugham

- UGC 3.86

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Consciousness Studies Coordinator

Prof. K.Srinivas

Dy. Coordinator

Dr.B.R.Shantha Kumari

UGC-SAP DRSI

(2009-14)

36.50


1.

Development of thin film lithium batteries using nanomaterials as power sources for devices based on nanotechnology: synthesis, fabrication and charateristic studies

Prof. N. Satyanarayana

- DST-

NanoMission

60.62

2.



- AICTE 13.00

3.




- UGC 9.93

4.



- CSIR 16.30

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- DRDO 17.90

6. Theoretical analysis of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

Dr.K. Porsezian - DST 31.46

7.

Investigation of soliton and modulation instability in nonlinear couplers and birefringent fibers

Dr.K. Porsezian - DAE-BRNS

12.65

8. Theoretical investigation of soliton in nonlinear optics

Dr.K. Porsezian R. Sivakumar UGC 7.97

9. Investigation of soliton and modulation instability in various nonlinear media

Dr.K. Porsezian DST

10.

Synthesis, properties and Sensor performance of Vanadium doped Zinc Oxide Nanograins

Dr.G.Chandra sekaran

- U.G.C 9.98

11. Development of 3DOM electrolyte material for all solid state lithium ion batteries

Dr. R. Murugan - CSIR 19.00

12. Development of All Solid State Lithium Battery for Electric Vehicle

Dr. R. Murugan - DRDO 26.60

13. Nanostructured Materials for Lithium Battery application

Dr. R. Murugan Dr. B.

Palanivel AICTE 8.90

14. Crystallisation kinetics of oxyfluoride glass-ceramics

Dr. V.V. Ravi Kanth Kumar

- UGC 9.26

15.

Development of higher order accurate solvers to solve nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations.

Dr.R. Sivakumar - UGC 8.85

16. Orthogonalization Strategies in a multi-disciplinary perspective

Dr. A Ramesh Naidu

- UGC 1.50

17. Study of Mechanical Alloyed Magnetic Heterogeneous systems

Dr.R.N. Bhowmik

- UGC 11.56

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18.

Magnetic Ordering in Nano Sized Ferrite Particles: Role of Core-Shell Spin Structure

- R.N.Bhowmik

DST 11.72

19. Development of new nanomaterials for sensor applications.

Dr.R. Sivakumar - Pondicher

ry University

6.00

20.

Luminous efficacy enhancements of micro discharge-cells for a plasma display by modifying sustain waveform*

Dr.S.K.Sinha CSIR 25.00

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

1. European Common Foreign and Security Policy- Implications for India

Dr. B.

Krishnamurthy - UGC 4.96

2. Jawaharlal Nehru and the Freedom Movements in India

Dr. B. Krishnamurthy

- ICHR 75.00

3. Women Law and Public Domain: A Study with Special Reference to Kerala

Prof. B.

Mohanan UGC - 6.50

4. Civil Society and Social Capital in South Asia

Prof. B. Mohanan

ICSSR - 9.00

5.

Indian Parliament and Foreign Policy Making : A Case Study on the Attitude of the Indian Parliament Towards China 1952-2010

Dr. P. Lazarus Samraj

- UGC 7.07

6. Indian Parliament and India s Nuclear and missile policymaking

Dr. P. Lazarus Samraj

- UGC 7.32

CENTRE FOR POLLUTION CONTROL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

1.

Towards opening a new frontier in bioprocess technology: development of termite-based systems for resource recovery from ligneous and other difficult-to-biodegrade solid wastes

Prof. S.A. Abbasi

Dr.S. Gaja lakshmi and

Dr.A.Tasneem Abbasi

DBT, GoI

36.25

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2.

R&D-cum-action and awareness project on rainwater harvesting, ground water recharge and wastewater reuse.

Prof. S.A. Abbasi

Dr. S. Gajalakshmi

and Dr.A. Tasneem Abbasi

MoWR GoI

30.35

3.

Status of Industrial Pollution Control (Large, Medium and Small) in the U.T. of Puducherry

Prof. S.A. Abbasi

Dr. Tasneem Abbasi

PPCC, GoP

3.00

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

1.

Participatory Irrigation Management in Cumbum Valley: A Sociological Appraisal

Dr. K. Gulam Dasthagir

University Grants

Commission (UGC)

- 1.00

2.

Gender participation in Water user Association of Sathanur Irrigation System: An Appraisal of Exclusion Vs Empowerment of Women-Farmers in the Management of Irrigation System


Indian Council of Social Science

Research (ICSSR New

Delhi)

- 3.00

CENTRE FOR SOCIAL EXCLUSION & INCLUSIVE POLICY

1. Computerisation of 75 PTG s in multimedia programmes

Prof.T.Subra manyam Naidu

- UGC 9.81

2

Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme in Puducherry UT.

Prof.T.SubramanyamNaidu

-

Social Justice & Empower

ment

2.28

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK

1.

Emotional violence against women in the workplace

(A Study of Academicians in select Indian Universities)

Dr.R. Nalini - UGC 6.04

2. A National Evaluation Study of Indira Awaas Yojana

Dr. A. Shahin Sultana

- Planning Commiss

ion 29.32

3.

Social work practice in industry (A Study of Select Industrial Organizations in Tata Group)

Dr.R. Nalini - UGC 53.00

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CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

1. Human Security Dimensions of South Asia

Dr.A.Subramanyam Raju

- 5.64

2.

Parliament in the Making of India s Foreign Policy: A Case of India s US Policy since the 1990 s . Effect since February 2011 (two years).

Dr.D.Purusho thaman

-

UGC- Major

Research Project,

3.84

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

1. Forecasting Crop Prospects of Tamil Nadu and Modelling Yield Instability

Dr.P.Dhana vanthan

- UGC 3. 90

2.

A Statistical Study on the Nature and Extent of Violence Against Women in Puducherry

Dr.Kiruthika - UGC 1.15

SUBRAMANIA BHARATHI SCHOOL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

1.

The Contribution of Puducherry to the Development of Tamil Literature

Dr. S. Arokianathan

Dr. M. Mathialagan

UGC-SAP

35.00

2. The Prosody of Tamil Literature Ages

Dr. S. Arokianathan

Dr. M. Mathialagan

UGC-SAP

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM STUDIES

1. Thrust Areas of Research: -Entrepreneurship in Tourism - Sustainable Tourism

Dr.G. Anjaneya Swamy

Dr.Y.Venkata Rao

UGC 50.00

2. Social Networks in Tourism Entrepreneurship

Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy

Dr.Y. Venkata Rao

UGC 5.35

3. Social Networks in Tourism Entrepreneurship

- Dr.Y. Venkata

Rao UGC 5.35

4. Sustainable Tourism Development in Puducherry

Dr. Sampad Kumar Swain

- UGC 0.50

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Sustainable Tourism Development in Puducherry


- UGC 0.50

LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES

1. A study of school libraries in the schools of Puducherry District of Pondicherry UT.

Dr. C.K. Ramaiah - EducationPondicher

ry 0.80

2. Production of Betacam Video Film on ISWAMANDIRAM in 3 versions. 2007

Dr. C.K. Ramaiah - VIMS 0.75

3. Production of Betacam film on DIVICA YATRALU. 2006

Dr C.K. Ramaiah Harsha VIMS 0.50

No.of Research Projects

Extramural Funding

(*including DST FIST

PURSE)

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3.2.2 Does the University have research funding from the Government, Industry, NGO

or International agencies? Gide details

The University gets substantial funding from various government agencies in the form of major research projects. Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Department of Science & Technology (DST) Council of Science & Industrial Research (CSIR), University Grant Commission (UGC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Food, Various Governments, Ministries etc have funded the University for the Research Activities of the Faculty.

The International Funding of 2 Million Dollars for 5 years has been received from South Asian Foundation for establishment of (i) UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asian Regional Co-operation (MISARC) and (ii) Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies.

3.2.3 Does the University have research students currently registered for Ph.D?

The member of research scholars in the University registered for M.Phil & Ph.D. has already increased and this last three years it has increased three-fold Ph.D., registration is available in three forms: full time, part-time (internal) and part time external. Totally 1375 research students have registered of which M.Phil 336 and Ph.D. 296 during 2010-11.

M.Phil. & Ph.D. Scholars Admission during the last 5 years

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3.2.4 Does the University provide fellowship/scholarship to research scholars?

Yes, the University provides fellowship to all the students registered for Ph.D to the extent of Rs. 5000/- each and Rs. 3000/- to M.Phil scholar. The students also get fellowship sponsored by UGC, JRF, CSIR, DBT, DST and other agencies.

3.2.5 Does the University have post-doctoral fellows currently working in the institution?

Yes, there are few post doctoral fellows currently working in various Departments.

3.2.6 Give the highlights of the collaborative research done by the faculty

Collaborative Research Faculty

The University has a policy to promote inter and intra departmental collaboration for inter/disciplinary research; particularly between the following Departments. Besides, the Departments also have collaboration with other Institutions in India and abroad.


Sl. No.

Name of the faculty Name of collaborator

Institution

1. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. K. Mezger University of Bern, Switzerland

2. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. Y. Gunnel University of Lyon 2, France

3. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. H. S. Pandalai IIT-Bombay

4. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Dr. Kaushik Das Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah

5. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Dr. Prasanta Sanyal IIT- Kharagpur

6. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Dr. S. Chopra IUAC, New Delhi

7. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. Jayananda Bangalore University

8. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. T. Ahamad Delhi Univeristy

9. Prof. S. Balakrishnan Prof. G. Chandraseakaran

Department of Physics, Pondicherry University

10. Prof. M. S. Pandian Prof.N.S.Bortnikov, IGEM, Moscow, Russia

11. Prof. M. S. Pandian Dr.V.I. Gonevchuk, FEGI, Vladivostok, Russia

12. Prof. M. S. Pandian Prof. A. K. Singhvi PRL, Ahmedabad

13. Prof. M. S. Pandian Prof. P. Sambasiva Rao

Department of Chemistry, Pondicherry University

14. Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani Prof.F.Podosek Washington University, USA

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15. Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani Dr. J. S. Ray

Principal,

Ahmedabad

16. Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani Prof. G. Chandraseakaran

Department of Physics, Pondicherry University

17. Dr. Pramod Singh Dr. Anupama French Institute, Pondicherry

ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Sl. No.

Name of the faculty Name of collaborator

Institution

1. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Asad Rahmani Bombay Natural History Society

2. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Parthiba Basu University of Calcutta

3. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Rajiv Srivastava Forest Department of Tamil Nadu

4. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Allison Snow Ohio State University, USA

5. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Egbert Leigh Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

6. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

7. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Navjot Sodhi National University of Singapore

8. Prof. Priya Davidar Dr. Bill Laurance James Cook University, Australia

9. Prof. Anisa B. Khan Dr. Arumugam, Reader

Dept. of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University

10. Prof. N. Parthasarathy Dr. S.A Schnitzer &

Team University of California,

Global Liana Research

FOOD SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

Sl. No. Name of the faculty

Name of collaborator Institution

1. Dr Prathap Kumar Shetty

Prof N Sakthivel Pondicherry University


Dr Brigitte Sebastia

Scientist French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry


Dr .Usha Antony Anna University, Chennai


Dr Bhanuprakash Reddy, Scientist E-2

National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad


Dr Edmond Rock

Scientist INRA France


Dr Birte Boelt

Research Leader

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Aarhus University, Denmark

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BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Sl. No. Name of the faculty Name of

collaborator Institution

1. Dr. N. Sakthivel Dr. Venkateswralu Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

2. Dr. S. Jayachandran Dr. Subba Rao Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

3. Dr. S. Jayachandran Dr. Mukundan Sugarcane Breeding Institute

POLLUTION CONTROL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

1. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Prof. H. J. Pasman Centre for Pollution Control and

Environmental Engineering

2. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Prof. D. Rashtchian Department of Chemical

Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

3. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Dr. F. Al-Juhaimi King Saud University, Saudi

Arabia

4. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Dr. P. A. Azeez Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology

and Natural History, Coimbatore

5. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Tasneem Abbasi Centre for Pollution Control and

Environmental Engineering

6. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Prof. H. J. Pasman Department of Chemical

Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

7. Prof.S. A. Abbasi Prof. D. Rashtchian Department of Chemical

Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

PHYSICS

1. Prof. G. Govindaraj Prof. Odile Bohnke (UMR 6010 CNRS), Université

du Maine. Le Mans, France

2. Prof. G. Govindaraj Prof. A. Narayanaswamy

University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai 600 025

3. Prof. G. Govindaraj Dr. R. Jayaprakash Sri Ramakrishna Mission

Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore

4. Prof. G. Govindaraj DR. A.P. Gnana Prakash

Department of Physics studies, Mysore University

5. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof. Akira Hasegawa

Himeji Dokkyo University and Soliton Communications, 43, 19-1 Awataguchi, Sanjobocho, Higashiyama, Japan

6. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof.V.N.Serkin Universidad Autonoma de

Puebla,Pue.,Puebla, 72000, Mexico

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Prof. P.T. Dinda, C.Finot & B.Kibler

Laboratoire de Physique

de l Universite de Bourgogne

21078 Dijon, France

8. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof. B. Malomed

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering,

Tel Aviv University

Ramat Aviv 69978 , ISRAEL

9. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof. A. Biswas,

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Delaware State University, Dover, USA

10. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof.Jie-Fang Zhang,

Institute of Nonlinear Physics,

Zhejiang Normal University,

Zhejiang, P.R.China

11. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof.Miki Wadati

Department of Physics,

Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science,1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601

Japan

12. Prof. K. Porsezian Timoleon C. Kofane

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I, P.O. Box. 812, Cameroon

13. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof. V. C. Kuriakose


Cochin University of Science & Technology

Kochi

682 022

14. Prof. K. Porsezian Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

JD Block, Sector III Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 098

15. Prof. K. Porsezian Dr.A.Mahalingam


Anna University

Chennai

600 025

16. Prof. K. Porsezian Dr.P.Muruganandam


Bharathidasan University

Tiruchirapalli

620 024

17. Prof. K. Porsezian Dr.R.Radha


Government Women s College

Kumbakonam

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18. Prof.G.Chandrasekaran

Prof.S.Balakrishnan

Department of Earth Sciences,



Prof.N Basawaiah

Indian Institute of Geomagnetism

Mumbai


Prof.B.Vasanth naidu

SETU Institute of Technology

Kariapatti

Madurai


Prof.P.SambasivaRao

Department of Chemistry,



Prof.V.R.K.Murthy Department of Physics,

I.I.T., Chennai.


Dr.A.Aaravazhi, Department of Physics

Govt. Arts & Science College, Villupuram

24. Prof. Ramaswamy Murugan Prof. Goodenough

Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

25. Prof. Ramaswamy Murugan

Prof. Werner Weppner

Faculty of Engineering, University of Kiel, Kaiserstrasse 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany

26. Prof. Ramaswamy Murugan Prof. V. Thangadurai

Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 university Drive NW, Calgary Canada


Prof. Yasutoshi Iriyama

Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan


Prof. Ki-Hyun Kim Japan Fine Ceramics Center, 2-4-1 Mutsuno, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya 456-8587, Japan


Prof. Zempachi Ogumi

Office of Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto,615-8520, Japan


Prof. Peter Schmid-Beurman

Mineralogisches Institute der westf, Wilhelms universitat Munster, 48149-Munster, Germany

31. Prof. Ramaswamy Murugan Prof. Hua Kun Liu

ARC centre of excellence for Electromaterials Science, University of Wollongong, N.S.W. -2522, Australia

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32. Dr. D. Bharathi Mohan Prof S. H. Ko

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

33. Dr. D. Bharathi Mohan Prof. Albano

Cavaleiro

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

34. Dr. Suraj K Sinha Dr. S. Mukherjee

Facilitation Center for Industrial Plasma Technology,

Institute for Plasma Research,

Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

35. Dr. Suraj K Sinha P. Bharathi Institute for Plasma Research,

Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

36. Dr. Suraj K Sinha Dr. Ramprakash Birla Institute of Technology (Mesra), Jaipur center,

Jaipur, India

37. Dr Alok Sharan Dr Senthil Kumar JIPMER Pondicherry

38. Dr Alok Sharan Dr R Venkatesan Department of Chemistry


39. Dr Alok Sharan Dr S Balakrishnan Department of Physics


40. Dr Alok Sharan Dr SVM Satyanarayana

Department of Earth Sciences


41. Dr G. Ramesh Babu Prof. Alain Schul and Dr. Claire Baraduc

SPINTEC/CEA/CNRS Grenoble, France

42. Dr.V V R Kumar Dr. RPS Chakradhar CGCRI, Kolkata

43. Dr.V V R Kumar Dr. S V Rao Univ. of Hyderabad

44. Dr. K.V.P.Latha Dr. Chung-Hou Chung

National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

45. Dr. K.V.P.Latha Dr. Yu-Chang Chen National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

46. Dr. S.V.M. Satyanarayana Dr. M. Ponmurugan

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

47. Dr. S.V.M. Satyanarayana

Dr. Alok Sharan Department of Physics


48. Dr. Rabindra Nath Bhowmik

Prof. V. V. Meriakri Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russia.

49. Dr. Rabindra Nath Bhowmik Prof. R. Ranganathan

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

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50. Dr. Rabindra Nath

Bhowmik Prof. V. R. Reddy UGC-DAE Indore Centre, Indore

51. Dr. Rabindra Nath Bhowmik Prof. C. Mazumdar

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Considering the outstanding contribution, of some of the science departments obtained on the basis of H index and citation index DST has selected this University as one of the 16 Universities in the country for FIST-PURSE programme and invited the University to submit a interdisciplinary research programme at a cost of Rs.9.0 Crores.

The MoUs signed between Overseas and National Institutions have given a great boost to interdisciplinary Research.

3.2.7 What research awards and patents were received by the faculty during the last five

years?

Research awards received by the Faculty

Faculty Received the Research Award

ANTHROPOLOGY

Sl. No.

Name of the Faculty Research Awards & Recognitions

1. Dr. Ajeet Jaiswal

Best Title Award on Paper A Study Of The Lung Function Among Male Textile Workers Of Uttar Pradesh in 98th Indian Science Congress at SRM University, Chennai, Tamilnadu.

2. Mr.Rajesh

G.Kundargi

Awarded Junior Research Fellow under the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi with effect from 30th December, 2006 after having qualified in the ICMR-JRF Examination held on 16 th July, 2006.

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

1. Prof. Sibnath Deb

Endeavour Executive Award 2009 from the Australian Government.

2. Prof. Sibnath Deb ISPCAN Executive Councilor Award 2008 from the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, USA

3. Prof. Sibnath Deb Best Book Award 2009 for the book entitled Styles of

Parenting Adolescents: The Indian Scenario .

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Prof. B. Viswanatham Best Paper Award 2008 for the paper entitled Prevention of Violence against Children: Role of Teachers and Psychologists


Received Best Book Award 2007 for the book entitled Children in Agony

6. Prof. Sibnath Deb Endeavour Executive Award 2009 from the Australian

Government.

7. Dr. B. Rangaiah Prof. B. Viswanatham Best Paper Award in 2010

8. Dr. Surendra Kumar Sia

Best Paper Award in the Psychological Well-Being section of the 45th National & International Conference of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.

9. Dr. Surendra Kumar Sia

Sourya Pattnaik Award for Paper Presentation in the XXth Annual Convention at JNU New Delhi

10. Dr.D.Dhanalakshmi Best Poster Award 2007 in a International Conference on Mental Health , organized by NIMHANS

11. Mr.D. Barani Kanth ICQESMS Excellence Award ,2007

BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

1. Dr.C.Thirunavukarasu

Awarded Young Scientist Travel Award by American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics,

in Experimental Biology 2005, San Diego, April 2-6, USA.


American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics


Awarded best paper/poster presentation in 13th

annual pathology research day presentations, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.


Awarded Mrs. Indra Vasudevan Award, Gold Medal for the best paper in Cancer Research, In 21st Annual conference of the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists.

5. Dr.R.Rukkumani Best Project Award for an M.Sc project by Scientific Solutions, 2010.

6. Dr.P.P. Mathur ICMR International Fellowship Award for Senior Indian

Biomedical Scientist. Fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), New Delhi

7. Dr.P.P. Mathur Subhash Mukherjee Memorial Infar India Oration Award.

BIOTECHNOLOGY

1. Dr.N. Sakthivel

Council of Scientific and Industrial Researchs Pool Scientist Award (1988), New Delhi.

Robert S. McNamara Fellow, (1989) The World Bank, Washington, USA.

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2. Dr.N. Sakthivel

Guest Scientist Award, (1995) Danish Government Institute, Denmark.

Biotechnology Career Fellow, (1997) The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA.

3. Dr.N. Sakthivel

Biotechnology Overseas Associateship Award, (1998) DBT, New Delhi.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, (1990) The International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines.

4. Dr.N. Sakthivel

Life Member, Biotechnology Research Society of India (BRSI).

Rice Biotechnology Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, (1991) Rockefeller Foundation, USA.

5. Dr. Jayachandran Fellow of BRSI - 2004 awarded by Biotechnology Research Society of India, Trivandrum, India.

6. Dr. Arul INSA-JSPS Visiting scientist.

ABBOS Fellowship.

7. Dr.Hannah Rachel Vasanthi

Tamil Nadu Young Women Scientist Award (2009) in the field of Medical Sciences and Native Medicine.

BOYSCAST Fellowship by the DST, Govt.of India (2007-2008).


Best Poster Award- Cardioprotection with Dioscorea bulbifera (Yam) and Diosgenin via Amelioration of Ischemic Reperfusion Injury: Possible Role of PPAR family at the International Conference on Molecular Medicine (MOLMED 2009) organized by Laila Pharmaceuticals and held at IIT M, Chennai, January 18th-20th 2009.

Fellow of the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientist (FABMS), 2009.


Best Paper Award- Free Radical Scavenging and Antioxidant Activity of red algae Acanthophora spicifera

Relation to its Chemical Composition in the National Symposium on Marine Plants- Chemistry and Utilisation, 22-25 June, 2005.

US Gramm Travel Fellowship (2002).

10. Dr. B. Sudhakar US Breast Cancer Fellowship (2001)

11. Dr. B. Sudhakar CSIR-UGC Fellowship (2000)

12. Dr. B. Sudhakar Senior Research Specialist Fellowship (2001)

13. Dr. Latha Shukla DST

Fast track Young Scientist.

BOYSCOST fellowship from Department of Science and Technology.

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14. Dr.K.Prashanth DST

Fast Track - 2006

15. Dr.K.Prashanth FEMS Young Scientist Award - 2003

16. Dr.K.Prashanth JIPMER Junior Research Fellowship

1996

17. Dr.K.Prashanth NII Research Associateship

18. Dr.K.Prashanth Life Member of Indian Association Medical Microbiologist

19. Dr.V.Venkateshwara Sharma

Fellow of Mycological Society of India

20. Dr.V.Venkateshwara Sharma

Member Editorial Board, Kavaka (2007-2010)

21. Dr.Arunkumar Dhayalan

Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, DBT, New Delhi

BIO-INFORMATICS

1. Dr.Basant Kumar Tiwary

Awarded Overseas Associateship in niche areas of biotechnology: 2006-07 by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Visiting Associate Professor in the Li Lab of Molecular Evolution, The University of Chicago, USA for one year (2007-2008).

2. Dr.R.Amutha Awarded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by DBT, Govt. of India in the year 2006.

CHEMISTRY

1. Dr.Balamanimaran Awarded a Fast Track Project by the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Council under, Young Scientist

Scheme.

2. Dr.R. Padmanaban Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences(2009). Alexander von Humboldt fellowship

3. Dr. R.Padmanaban Elected among the best 20% reviewers in Cryst. Growth Design, an American Chemical Society journal (Binoy Saha)

4. Dr.S. Sabhia AvH postdoctoral fellow

5. Dr. S.Sabhia Member in Catalysis Society of India

6. Dr.K.Tharanikarasu Brief bio-data appeared in Marquis Whos Who in the World, 2010 issue.

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Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Selected for Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship by United States India Educational Foundation

COMMERCE

1. Prof. Malabika Deo

Asian Tiger Best Paper Award in Asian School of Business

BBSR.

Best Teacher & Research in Commerce & Management Fellow Indian Commerce Association

2. Prof. Malabika Deo Manubhaishah Memorial Gold Medal for Best Paper in ICA India, 63rd All India Commerce Conferences.

3. Dr. P.S.Velmurugan ICSSR 2 year General Fellowship.

General Fellowship

COMPUTER SCIENCE

1. Dr.G. Aghila

Best Schrodinger Poster Award.

DST-DFG Sponsored Indo-German Conference on Modeling Chemical and Biological (Re)activity at Indian

Institute of Chemical Technology Hyderabad.

2. Mrs. S.Sivasathya

Best paper of the conference award International conference on Information Processing, Bangalore, India.

Society of Information Processing, Bangalore & Viswesvaraya College, Bangalore University.

3. Mrs. S.Sivasathya Shiksha Rattan Puraskar. India International Friendship Society(IIFS), Delhi.

4. Shri.S.K.V.Jayakumar Best Online Course Content Award.

Vellore Institute of Technology,Vellore

5. Ms.V.Uma Best Paper Award. International Conference on Digital Factory

EARTH SCIENCES

1. Dr.Amit Member of the Geochemical Society for calendar years 2011 and 2012

2. Prof.S. Balakrishnan Khosla Research Award-1996 of University of Roorkee Fellow, Geochemical Society

3. Prof.S. Balakrishnan Fellow, Geological Society of India

4. Prof.S. Balakrishnan Life Fellow, Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry

5. Prof.S. Balakrishnan Life Fellow, Indian Geophysical Union.

6. Dr.Subhadip Badhra Prof. C. Naganna Gold Medal 2007 by the Mineralogical Society of India.

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7. Dr.Rajnessh Bhutani

Second best paper award to the paper Sr-Nd Isotopic Studies of Volcanics of Barren Island, Andaman, India by Smitha R.S., Rajneesh Bhutani , Jyotiranjan S. Ray, Hetu C. Sheth, Alok Ku,mar and S. Balakrishnan; 11th ISMAS Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry (11 th ISMAS TRICON-2009) during November 24

28,

2009.

8. Dr.Rajnessh Bhutani

BOYSCAST (Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology) fellowship 2007 awarded by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.

9 Dr.Nurul Absar Life fellow of Geological Society of India, Bangalore, LM-1336

10 Dr.Nurul Absar Life member of Indian Society of applied geochemists, Hyderabad

11 Dr.Nurul Absar Fellow of The Society of Earth Scientists, Lucknow. F/249

12 Dr.Nurul Absar Best Research Scholar award, at 11th

ISMAS Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry

13 Mr.Managave Shreyas Ramesh

Best paper presentation award in symposium, Planetary Science Research in India (2004), Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.

ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

1. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Member in Editorial Board: Asian Journal of Environmental Sciences.

2. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Life members: Advances in Plant Sciences (As Referee)

3. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Life member: Indian Science Congress, Association and Everyman Sciences

4. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Life member: Indian Journal of Weed Science,

5. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Life member: Crop & weed science Society, journal of crop and weed

6. Dr.D.Ramamoorthy Life member: International journal of Agriculture Science, Hind society

EDUCATION

1. Dr.M.S.Lalithamma Nominated standing committee member to review NCTE regulations, 2009

2. Dr.Amruth G. Kumar Certificate of Merit for teaching from Pondicherry University Post doctoral Research Fellowship of UGC

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

1. Dr.T.Balasaravanan

Received

Chaman Lal Memorial Award from Chaman Lal

Memorial Society for excellence in Stage Lighting Design on 16th April 2010

Chaman Lal Memorial Award for Designers is bestowed on Indians, who make outstanding contribution to the field of Stage Production Design.

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

1. Dr.T.Shanmuganatham Gold Medal in Ph.D. Degree

NIT, Trichy

2. Dr.T.Shanmuganatham Best Paper Award

National Conference

3. Dr.T.Shanmuganatham Biography is included in the 27th

Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World 2010, USA.

Research Contribution in the area of Antennas

ENGLISH

1. Dr.H.Kalpana

Awarded United States Fulbright award in the Study of Institute Program to attend a six week workshop on Contemporary United States Literature (June 15-July 29, 2007)

2. Dr.H.Kalpana Awarded Major Research Project grant by University Grants Commission (2007-10).

3. Prof.V.Sujatha Award for the best research paper 2006 of the Indian Chapter of Association for commonwealth Language and Literature Studies.

4. Prof.V.Sujatha International Recognition for Creative Writing: 2007-2008

5. Prof.V.Sujatha Citation from the Sahitya Akademi

6. Dr.S.Murali Fulbright Postdoctoral Research and Travel Fellowship 2006

7. Dr.S.Murali Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship for Creative Writer in Residence at the Chichester University, UK-- Runner up.

FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Dr.H.Pradap Kumar Shetty

Best poster award

Awarded for the poster presented during the National conference on Boundless prospects in grain processing and by-product utilization

organized by Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology & Ministry of food processing Industries GOI ,New Delhi held on 30 and 31 July 2008.

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2. Dr.H.Pradap Kumar

Shetty

Best poster award

Awarded for the poster presented during National conference Graintech 2008

organized by Paddy

Processing Research Centre, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu & Ministry of food processing Industries, GOI, New Delhi held on 25th and 26th January 2008.


Young scientist s award Awarded first prize (Junior Award

Community Nutrition) for the paper presented during the XXXIII Annual Meetings of the Nutrition Society of India held on 1st

2nd Dec 2000 at National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad

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Qualified in UGC

NET, Junior Research Fellowship award examination held on Dec 2000 in the subject Home Science.

NANO SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Dr.A.Vadivel Murugan

Received Clean Energy Award

from Nano Night 2008 with Austin Technology Incubator s Clean TX Innovation Showcase, Highlighting Nano- and Clean Energy Innovations, Earth Day, April 22, 2008, Centre for Nano- Molecular science (CNM), at the University of Texas at Austin, USA

Reviewer: American Chemical Society, USA, American Institute of Physics, USA, The Electrochemical Society, USA, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, Institute of Physics (IOP), UK, Elsevier Journals, Springer Journals.


Received US Department of Energy, NASA Fellowships: BATT Program, HARC & Jet Propulsion Lab.2007-2010

Member in the Electrochemical Society, USA & Life Active Member in the Society for Advancement of Electro-chemical Science & Technology (SAEST), Karaikudi.


Received Best Research Paper Presentation

Texas Society for Microscopy Spring 2008 Meeting, April 17

19, 2008, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Both awards are given for post-doctoral research on Phospho-Olivine nanorods & their nanohybids for energy storage for hybrid and plug-in-hybrid electric Vehicle (EV) applications

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Post-Doctoral work was Highlighted in Technology Review

NanoTech-Published from Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, 2008.


Post-Doctoral work Highlighted in Media News The Daily Texan

American Daily News Paper front page cover news August 4, 2008, Austin, TX, USA


Post-Doctoral work Highlighted in US department of Energy, BATT Program annual report 2008

2009, USA

7. Dr.A.Vadivel Murugan The Electrochemical Society Award, Hawaii, USA 2009.


Received Best Research Presentation Award

Development of nanowire- like meso-scale structure of regioregularpoly(3-hexylthiophene), P3HT for thin film transistor and organic electronics International Conference on Nanomaterials for Electronics, (ICNME)Nov. 2006, Pune.

GREEN ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY

1. Dr.P.Thilagan

IITA- Visiting Professorship (Institute of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communication, South Korea ITFSIP (IT Foreign Specialist Inviting Program)

2. Dr.P.Thilagan SRIJAN SHRI

awarded by Srijan Samman, Raipur (Chattisgarh) on 16th February, 2008.

HINDI 1 Dr.C.S.Jaya Sankara

Babu Sahityakar Samman Honoured by Pramod Verma Smriti

Sansthan, Raipur, Chattisgarh on 31st July, 2010

2. Prof.V.Viziyalakshmi Rashtra Bhasha Samman Viswa Hindi Sahitya Seva Sansthan, Allahabad, 2009.

3. Prof.V.Viziyalakshmi Award for the Propagation of Hindi by Rshtriya Hindi Academy, Culcutta, 2010.

MANAGEMENT STUDIES

1. Dr.R.Prabakara Raya Rajiv Gandhi Research Fellowship April 2009, UGC. Singson

2. Dr.R.Prabakara Raya Nominated to appear in Great Minds of the 21st

Century brought out by American Biographical Institute, Inc.

3. Dr.R.Prabakara Raya Short listed for the Award of Vijay Shree Award.

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4. Dr.R.Panneerselvam Bestselling author award from PHI Learning Private

Limited (2008).

5. Dr.R.Panneerselvam Academic Excellence Award during International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications 2010, Chennai, India.

6. Dr.R.Panneerselvam Awarded SILVER MEDAL for Best Case Study (Traditional Area)

7. Dr.T.Nambirajan

Received best research paper award for the research paper titled Supply Chain Design and Implementation in a Multinational Company manufacturing Automobile Servicing Equipments.

8. Dr.B.Charumathi Career Award for Young Teachers

9. Dr.B.Charumathi Young Researcher Award in Indian Accounting Association

10. Dr.B.Charumathi Young Commercists Award in Indian Commerce Association

11. Dr.B.Charumathi 5 Best Research Paper Award in International Conferences

12. Dr.S.Victor Anand Kumar

Second runner-up, Research Paper Competition, International Conference on Management Research, February 14-15, 2009, Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy, India

13. Dr.S.Victor Anand Kumar

Outstanding Paper of the year 2008

award, AIMS International Journal of Management (AIJM: ISSN: 1939-7011)

14. Dr.R.Venkatesakumar Best Research Paper Award by Annamalai University for the paper, Product Bundling, in the conference CHANGING PARADIGMS IN MANAGEMENT, 2007.

15. Dr.R.Venkatesakumar

Best Research Paper Award by IIM-K for the paper, Customer Complaining and Firms Servicing Strategies

A Study on Rural Consumers, in the conference Marketing to Rural Consumers

Tapping the Evolving Rural Markets, conducted on 6-8 April, 2009.

16. Dr.R.Venkatesakumar

Best Research Paper Award by BIM, Tiruchirappalli, for the paper, Segmenting the shoppers, in-store shopping experience and the role of personal interactions in evaluating store attributes - A Study on Indian retail industry, in the conference Athenaeum 2011 Towards Managerial Excellence: Challenges and Choices, conducted on February 12-13 at SRM Hotels, Tiruchirappalli.

ELECTRONIC MEDIA

1. M.Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

Asia Culture Fellow, 2006 at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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Haneef Selected for Summer Doctoral Programme (2009) by Oxford University

MATHEMATICS

1. Dr.K.M.Tamizhmani Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2004 (F. N. A. Sc.)

2. Dr.Rajeshwari Seshadri

For the research poster at International Conference on Frontiers in Fluid Mechanics held at Bangalore University during 26-28, October 2006

Best Poster Award

3. Dr.Rajeshwari Seshadri Awarded o work on a Research topic on Flow Instabilities

Visiting Research Fellowship of JNCASR in 2006

4. Dr.Rajeshwari Seshadri Appointed as Member of the Board of Examiners for MCA Board of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka for the year 2010-2011

5. Dr.Rajeshwari Seshadri

Management Committee Member of the SAE(Society for Automotive Engineers) Bangalore Section during 2008-2010.

PHILOSOPHY

1. Dr.K. Srinivas UGC-DAAD Sr. Scientist Award 2010

ECONOMICS

1. Dr.V.Nirmala IIAS, Shimla

Associate, Availed first spell of Associate ship in Sep.2010

PHYSICS

1. Dr.G.Govindaraj

11th August 2006-10 September 2006, , ICTP fellowship, Trieste, Italy, Full support for the visit, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Visiting Scientists.

2. Dr.G.Govindaraj

11th September 2006-10th May 2007, ,CNRS research fellow, Laboratoire des Oxydes et Fluorures, LE MANS, France.

Senior Researcher.

3. Dr.K.Porsezian Incoming Fellowship European Union to visit Gdansk University, Poland (2010)

4. Dr.K.Porsezian Member, FIST Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2009-Present)

5. Dr.K.Porsezian Member DST Planning Committee on Nonlinear Dynamics and Wave Guide Optics Activities in India (2010-2011)

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6. Dr.K.Porsezian INSA Exchange Fellowship to visit Germany (2008-2009)

7. Dr.K.Porsezian Ramanna Fellowship Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (July 2006

June 2009)

8. Dr.K.Porsezian Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) Member Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (July 2004 - Present).

9. Dr.K.Porsezian Research Award University Grants Commission ( May 2004- April 2007)

10. Dr.K.Porsezian INSA

DFG Exchange Fellowship Germany ( May-July 1995 & May- August 2004)

11. Dr.K.Porsezian INSA

JSPS Exchange Fellowship Japan (May-August 2000)

12. Dr.K.Porsezian Sathya Murthy Memorial Award1997, Indian Physics Association (1998)

13. Dr.K.Porsezian Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award Indian National Science Academy(1998)

14. Dr.K.Porsezian Regular Associateship Award ICTP, Italy (May 1997 - April 2004)

15. Dr.K.Porsezian AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers (February 1998- January 2000)

16. Dr. Ramasamy

Murugan Visiting Scientist (Toyota corporation, Japan); May-2009-June 2009

17. Dr. Ramasamy

Murugan Guest Researcher (German Science Foundation, Germany) ; May-2008-June 2008

18. Dr. Ramasamy

Murugan Guest Researcher (German Science Foundation, Germany); Sep-2005- May 2007

19. Dr.D.Bharathi Mohan Brain Korea 21 South Korea Research Foundation, South Korea

20. Dr.D.Bharathi Mohan European Project Post-doc Fellow University of Coimbra, Portugal

21. Dr.D.Bharathi Mohan University with Potential for Excellence University of Hyderabad

22. Dr.D.Bharathi Mohan Poster Award 55th DAE SSPS

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

1. Dr.P. Moorthy Biography Included in the Biographical Profile of Marquis's Who's Who in the World, Marquis's Who's Who in the World

2. Dr.P. Moorthy Member of the National Advisory Committee of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies, New Delhi from 15 November .

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3. Dr.P. Moorthy

Commended for the academic accomplishments and qualified for inclusion of Bio-data as a distinguished, person in Asia Who s Who in Asia

4. Dr.P. Moorthy Biography Included in the Biographical Profile of Marquis's Who's Who in the World, Profile of Marquis's Who's Who in the World,

5. Dr.P. Moorthy Member of the National Advisory Committee of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies, Indian Society of Gandhian Studies

6. Dr.P. Moorthy Commended for the academic accomplishments and qualified for inclusion of Bio-data as a distinguished person in Asia Who s Who in Asia

SANSKRIT

1. Dr.C.S.Radhakrishnan Member, Consultative Committee, International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Paris, 2006 onwards

2. Dr.C.S.Radhakrishnan Life member, South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion

3. Dr.C.S.Radhakrishnan Title SAMSKRIT RATNA conferred in 2008

4. Dr.C.S.Radhakrishnan Ph.D. Adjudicator in University of Malay,2010 to 2015B

SOCIAL EXCLUSION & INCLUSIVE POLICY

1. Dr.T.Subramaniam Naidu

Sastri Indo

Canadian Award for Faculty Enrichment

2. Dr.M.Thanuja Mummuti

Nov 2006-Apr 2008 - awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute funded

Anthropology Fellowship for carrying out Postdoctoral Research in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, U.K.

Apr 2008-10- Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.

3. Dr.M.Thanuja

Mummuti

2009 - Awarded Best Paper of Session on Man-Nature relationship in the 4th Inter-Congress of the Indian National Academy and Confederation of Anthropologists orgainsed by the University of Hyderabad, India. 2010- Editorial Member for International Peer Reviewed Journal, History and Anthropology published by Routledge

SOCIAL WORK

1. Dr.R.Nalini

Associate, U.G. C. Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (IUC) functioning at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; awarded in June 2008. Duration: one month each for three years.

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Paper on Living Dangerously: Migrant Families with Young Children in India

The brunt of the economic upheavals of the

1990 s for International Conference was selected under peer review screening and funded by ICSSR, Delhi. Hon. Director, Centre for Children and Adolescent Well-being, Dept. of Social Work, University of Delhi (August 2010 till February 5th 2011)


Book on Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education: A Study of Chennai Corporation Nursery Schools was peer reviewed and funded by ICSSR, Delhi for manuscript publication. National Core Coordination Committee member of the Study

Indian Youth in a transforming world

Attitudes and Perceptions , CSDS and KAS, Sage Publications, 2009.


Was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship by UGC, Delhi for Ph.D Programme

Peer Reviewer, Indian Journal of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai 2009 onwards

5. Dr.Shakin Sultana Research Advisory Committee, NIPCCD, Delhi Child Care Services provided by Govt and NGO run homes: A Comparative Study , (2010-2011).

6. Dr.Shakin Sultana Project Advisory Committee member for a project on Quality

Early Childhood Education

A Handbook for Practitioners , Dept. of Elementary Education, NCERT, Delhi, (2009

2010).

7. Dr.Shakin Sultana Member, Committee Against Sexual Harassment, Dept. of Social Work, University of Delhi (2008-2009)

8. Dr.Shakin Sultana Editorial Board Member, Journal of School Social Work, Chennai from 2005 onwards

9. Dr.Shakin Sultana Core Committee Member, Sub-Committee for Pre-primary teacher education programme, NCTE for preparing model syllabi in the light of NCTFE 2009

10. Dr.Shakin Sultana Project Advisory Committee member for a project on Laws

related to Child Protection

An Information Booklet , NIPCCD, Delhi, (2009-2010).


Research and Ethics Advisory committee member of a study on Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in India

A Study of the Gaps, Quality and Cost of Care commissioned by Chronic Care Foundation, Delhi (2008-2009).

12. Dr.C.Satheesh Kumar

Awarded 1000 USD for participation and oral presentation in 22nd International Tsunami Symposium 2005 from 27th to 29th

June, 2005 organized by National Observatory of Athens, Greece.

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SOCIOLOGY

1. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy Most Able Star for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Social Research by TNHFCT and Need Trust, 2008.

2. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy

Best Research Paper Award in UGC National Seminar by Department of Sociology, Nagercoil, 28-08-2008

3. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy Best Research Paper Award in UGC National Seminar by Department of Sociology, Nagercoil, 29-08-2008

4. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy Quaid-E-Milleth Academic Achievement Award by Imaan Tamil Izhakiya Peravai, Chennai, 2007, Gulam Dasthagiri

5. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy Most Able Star for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Social Research by TNHFCT and Need Trust, 2008.



8. Dr.B.B. Mohanthy Quaid-E-Milleth Academic Achievement Award by Imaan Tamil Izhakiya Peravai, Chennai, 2007.

SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

1. Prof.N.K. Jha Leading Educator s of the World, 2008 award by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.

2. Prof.N.K. Jha Nominated for Inclusion in Great Minds of the 21st Century, by American Biographical Institute, Washington DC.

3. Prof.N.K. Jha

Received Fulbright award of the US Government for teaching a course on South Asia at the Center for South Asia Studies of the Pual H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC during the year 2006.

TAMIL

1. Dr.A.Arivunambi Paventhar Patraalar Award

2. Dr.A.Arivunambi THAMIIL MAA MANI

(Man of Tamil Verse) award

3. Dr.A.Arivunambi SEMMOZHI PULAMAIYAALAR

(Classical Tamil Man of Letters)

Faculty received the number of Patents

Sl. No Name of the Faculty Department No. of Patent

1. Dr. N. Sakthivel, Professor Biotechnology 2

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Sl. No Name of the Faculty Department No. of Patent

2.

Dr. A. Vadivel Murugan

Reader Nano Science & Technology 7

3. Dr. A. Subramania, Reader Nano Science & Technology 14

4. Dr. K. Suresh Babu, Reader Nano Science & Technology 3

5. Dr. R. Murugan, Professor Physics 2

6. Dr. Suraj Kumar Sinha Physics 6

7. Dr. P. Thilakan, Reader Green Energy Technology 1

8. Dr. R. Arun Prasath, Assistant Professor

Green Energy Technology 5

9. Dr. B.M. Jaffar Ali Green Energy Technology 1

10. Prof. S.A. Abbasi, Professor Pollution Control & Energy

Technology 3

Total 46

3.2.8 Are there Research papers published in refereed journals periodically, by the faculty, If yes, specify.

List of Refereed Journals with Impact Factor in which Research papers (Science) are published

Source: Journal Citation Report (JCR)

Science

Sl.No.

Journal Name

5 yr. Impact

Factor 1 ACS Nano 7.5

2 Acta Biomaterialia 4.4

3 Acta Crystallographica 0.7

4 Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications 0.7

5 Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online 0.4

6 Acta Geophysica 0.9

7 Acta Oecologica 1.9

8 Acta Crystallographica F 0.6

9 Advance Fundamental Materials 8.5

10 Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies for High performance Applications NA

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11 Advanced Engineering Materials 2.0

12 Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 6.4

13 Advances in Difference Equations 0.9

14 AEU: International Journal of Electronics and Communications 0.6

15 African Journal of Biotechnology 0.6

16 Aligarh Journal of Statistics NA

17 American Mineralogist 2.2

18 Angewandte Chemie International Edition 11.8

19 Animal Reproduction: New Research Development 2.1

20 ANU Journal of Physical Sciences NA

21 Apoptosis. 3.8

22 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 1.7

23 Applied Magnetic Resonance 0.9

24 Applied Mathematical Modelling 1.4

25 Applied Optics 1.5

26 Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 1.8

27 Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 2.2

28 Applied Physics Letters 3.8

29 Applied Soft Computing Journal 2.5

30 Applied Surface Science 1.7

31 Aquaculture 2.3

32 Aquaculture International 1.1

33 Aquaculture Research 1.4

34 Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 1.7

35 Archives of Toxicology 2.6

36 Ars Combinatoria 0.4

37 Artificial Intelligence Review 1.2

38 Asian Journal of Chemistry 0.2

39 Auk 2.5

40 BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 2.5

41 Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 1.0

42 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 3.5

43 Biodiversity and Conservation 2.3

44 Bioinformation 6.3

45 Biologia Plantarum 1.6

46 Biological Conservation 3.9

47 Biological Trace Element Research 1.1

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48 Biology of Reproduction 3.6

49 Biomass and Bioenergy 4.1

50 Biomaterials 8.2

51 Biomedical Chromatography 1.7

52 Biomedicine 1.8

53 Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy 2.5

54 Bioresource Technology 4.7

55 Biotropica 2.4

56 BMC Microbiology 3.3

57 BMC Ophthalmology NA

58 BMC Structural Biology NA

59 BMC Virology NA

60 Bulletin of Materials Science 0.8

61 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1.9

62 Bulletin of Volcanology 3.1

63 Carbohydrate Polymers 0.6

64 Cell and Tissue Research 2.7

65 Cell Biochemistry and Function 1.5

66 Ceramics International 1.8

67 Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 3.8

68 Chemical and Physics 2.1

69 Chemical Communications 5.4

70 Chemical Geology 4.1

71 Chemical Physics Letters 2.4

72 Chemico-Biological Interactions 3.0

73 Chemistry - A European Journal 5.6

74 Chemistry and Biology 6.4

75 Chemistry and Ecology 0.6

76 Chemistry Letters 1.5

77 Chemistry of Materials 6.1

78 Chemistry of Natural Compounds 0.6

79 Climate Dynamics 4.5

80 Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2.6

81 Colloid and Polymer Science 1.8

82 Communications in Algebra 0.5

83 Communications in Computer and Information Science NA

84 Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation 0.4

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85 Comparative Clinical Pathology 0.3

86 Computer Communications 1.0

87 Computers in Biology and Medicine 1.5

88 Contribution to Algebra and Geomety (Beitrage zur algebra und Geometrie) NA

89 Corrosion Science 2.8

90 Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 8.1

91 CrystEngComm 4.1

92 Crystal Growth and Design 4.6

93 Crystal Research and Technology 1.0

94 Current Microbiology 1.4

95 Current Organic Chemistry 3.8

96 Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 3.0

97 Current Science 1.1

98 Dalton Transactions 3.9

99 Discrete Mathematics 0.7

100 Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory NA

101 Drug Metab. PharmacokINET 2.5

102 Electro - chimica Acta 3.6

103 Electrochemistry Communications 4.6

104 Electronic Letters 1.0

105 Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics NA

106 Environmental Management 2.7

107 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 1.4

108 Environmental Monotoring and Assessment 1.4

109 Environmental Pollution 3.9

110 Environmental Research 3.3

111 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 1.4

112 Epigenetics 4.8

113 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2.4

114 European Journal of Cell Biology 3.5

115 European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 3.1

116 European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 3.4

117 European Journal of Mineralogy 1.5

118 European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 3.4

119 European Journal of Physics- Special Topics 0.7

120 European Physical Journal D 1.6

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121 Expert Systems with Applications 3.2

122 Express Polymer Letters 1.5

123 Extracta Mathematicae NA

124 Eye 2.0

125 Faraday Discussions 4.1

126 FEBS Letter 3.3

127 Ferroelectrics 0.5

128 Flora 1.6

129 Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 1.6

130 Fluid Dynamics Research 1.0

131 Food and Chemical Toxicology 2.6

132 Frontiers in Bioscience 3.1

133 Fuel 3.1

134 Fuel Cell 2.6

135 Genes and Nutrition 1.1

136 Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta 4.9

137 Geochronometria 0.7

138 Geophysical Research Letters 3.3

139 Global Ecology and Biogeography 5.9

140 Green Chemistry 6.0

141 Helgoland Marine Research 1.8

142 Hepatology 10.9

143 Heteroatom Chemistry 1.1

144 Human and Experimental Toxicology 1.7

145 IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 2.0

146 IEEE Quantum Electronics 2.0

147 IETE Journal of Research 0.1

148 IJCS, III NA

149 In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology 1.0

150 Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 0.1

151 Indian Journal of Chemical Technology 0.3

152 Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section A Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical and Analytical Chemistry 0.6

153 Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section B Organic and Medicinal Chemistry 0.6

154 Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 0.6

155 Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 0.4

156 Indian Journal of Marine Sciences (IJMS) 0.2

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157 Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 1.5

158 Indian Journal of Medical Research 1.9

159 Indian Journal of Nephrology NA

160 Indian Journal of Physics 0.2

161 Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 0.4

162 Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics 0.3

163 Infection, Genetics and Evolution 3.2

164 Inorganica Chimica Acta 2.2

165 Inorganic Chemistry 4.8

166 Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2.1

167 International Journal of Phytomedicine NA

168 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 1.1

169 International Journal of Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems 1.1

170 International Journal of Applied Management and Technology NA

171 International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Informatics NA

172 International Journal of Computational Cognition NA

173 International Journal of Computer Applications NA

174 International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security NA

175 International Journal of Electrochemical Science 2.2

176 International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology NA

177 International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research NA

178 International Journal of Food Microbiology 3.5

179 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 4.5

180 International Journal of Imaging Science and Engineering NA

181 International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics NA

182 International Journal of Neural Network NA

183 International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 1.7

184 International Journal of Numerical Methods in Heat & Fluid Flow 1.1

185 International Journal of Pure & Applied Physics NA

186 International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering NA

187 International Journal of Remote Sensing 1.6

188 International Journal of Statistics and Systems NA

189 International Journal of the Japanese Agriculture Systems Society NA

190 International Journal on Expert Systems with Applications 3.2

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191 International Review of Pure and Applied Mathematics NA

192 Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 3.8

193 Ionics 0.9

194 The Journal of gene Medicine 3.3

195 Journal of Cellular Physiology 4.2

196 Journal of Chem. Phys. 3.2

197 Journal of Chemical Science 1.2

198 Journal of Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2.9

199 Journal of Physics and Chemistry A 3.0

200 Journal of Theo. Comp. Chem. 0.9

201 Japan Journal of Applied Physics 1.1

202 Journal of Advances in Fuzzy Sets And Systems NA

203 Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2.0

204 Journal of Applied Geochemistry 1.5

205 Journal of Applied Geochemistry 1.5

206 Journal of Applied Microbiology 2.7

207 Journal of Applied Physics 2.3

208 Journal of Applied Polymer Science 1.4

209 Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences NA

210 Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine NA

211 Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2.3

212 Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology 1.8

213 Journal of Biological Chemistry 5.4

214 Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A 3.3

215 Journal of biomedical materials research part b-applied biomaterials 2.5

216 Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering NA

217 Journal of Biomolecular screening : the official journal of the Society for Biomolecular Screening 2.6

218 Journal of Carcinogenesis 2.3

219 Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology 2.1

220 Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 1.7

221 Journal of Chemical Crystallography 0.6

222 Journal of Clinical Microbiology 4.1

223 Journal of Coastal Research 1.0

224 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 1.4

225 Journal of Convex Analysis 1.0

226 Journal of Crystal Growth 1.8

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227 Journal of Earth System Science 0.9

228 Journal of Electro - analytical Chemistry 2.5

229 Journal of Electrochemical Society 2.7

230 Journal of Environmental Biology 1.4

231 Journal of Environmental Health 0.8

232 Journal of Environmental Management 2.7

233 Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry 1.7

234 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 3.9

235 Journal of Food Engineering 2.5

236 Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 0.7

237 Journal of Food Science and Technology 0.3

238 Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans 3.5

239 Journal of Hazardous Materials 4.4

240 Journal of Hepatology 6.6

241 Journal of High Energy Physics 4.8

242 Journal of Human Ecology NA

243 Journal of Indian Geophysical Union NA

244 Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics NA

245 Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 3.7

246 Journal of Interpersonal Violence NA

247 Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies 1.0

248 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 1.0

249 Journal of Luminescence 1.8

250 Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry 0.8

251 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 1.4

252 Journal of Mammalogy 2.0

253 Journal of Manufacturing Engineering NA

254 Journal of Material Science: Materials in Electronics 1.1

255 Journal of Materials Chemistry 5.3

256 Journal of Materials Research 2.2

257 Journal of Materials Science 1.5

258 Journal of Materials Science and Technology 0.6

259 Journal of Medical Microbiology 2.6

260 Journal of Medical Systems 0.9

261 Journal of Membrane Science 3.8

262 Journal of Microbiology 1.7

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263 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2.8

264 Journal of Microscopy 1.9

265 Journal of Modern Optics 0.9

266 Journal of Molecular Biology 4.3

267 Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 2.5

268 Journal of Molecular Modeling 2.0

269 Journal of Molecular Structure 1.7

270 Journal of Nano Research 0.6

271 Journal of Nano Science and Nanotechnology 1.8

272 Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy 1.2

273 Journal of Network and Computer Applications 1.3

274 Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 1.4

275 Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics 0.6

276 Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 0.5

277 Journal of Optics 1.3

278 Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 1.3

279 Journal of Organic Chemistry 4.0

280 Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2.5

281 Journal of Petrology 4.9

282 Journal of Physical Chemistry 3.0

283 Journal of Physical Chemistry A 3.0

284 Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 1.7

285 Journal of Physical Society of Japan 2.0

286 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 1.6

287 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 1.6

288 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics 1.6

289 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 1.3

290 Journal of Physics B : Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics 1.9

291 Journal of Physics Chemistry B 4.6

292 Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2.3

293 Journal of Phytopathology 1.1

294 Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 0.5

295 Journal of Plant Physiology 2.7

296 Journal of Polymer Engineering 0.4

297 Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 3.6

298 Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics 2.0

299 Journal of Power Sources 4.2

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300 Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 1.5

301 Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 1.8

302 Journal of Statistics and Applications NA

303 Journal of Systems and Software 1.3

304 Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2.2

305 Journal of the American Chemical Society 8.8

306 Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2.7

307 Journal of the Geological Society of India 0.4

308 Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 0.2

309 Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 2.0

310 Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 2.0

311 Journal of Tropical Ecology 1.7

312 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2.6

313 Journal of Wavelet Theory and its Applications NA

314 Journalof Polymer Materials 0.4

315 Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii 0.3

316 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 0.8

317 Langmuir 4.4

318 Letters in Drug Design and Discovery 0.8

319 Letters in Organic Chemistry 0.9

320 Lithos 4.4

321 Liver Transplant 4.2

322 Marine Ecology Progress Series 3.0

323 Marine Geology 3.2

324 Marine Pollution Bulletin 3.1

325 Materials and Manufacturing Processes 0.9

326 Materials Characterization 1.5

327 Materials Chemistry and Physics 2.3

328 Materials Letters 2.1

329 Materials Research Bulletin 2.0

330 Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology 1.6

331 Materials Science and Engineering: A 2.2

332 Mathematical and Computational Models: Recent Trends 1.2

333 Meteoritics and Planetary Science 2.8

334 Microbial Ecology 3.4

335 Microelectronic Engineering 1.5

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336 Microelectronics Reliability 1.2

337 Microscopy research and technique 1.9

338 Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 0.6

339 Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 3.2

340 Model Assisted Statistics and Applications NA

341 Modern Physics Letters-B 0.6

342 Molecular and cellular Biochemistry 2.0

343 Molecular Biology & Evolution 8.2

344 Molecular BioSystems 4.4

345 Molecular Reproduction and Development 2.2

346 Nano 1.2

347 Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 5.4

348 Nanotechnology 3.6

349

Nanotechnology 2009: Fabrication, Particles, Characterization, MEMS, Electronics and Photonics - Technical Proceedings of the 2009 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2009 3.6

350 NATO Science Series II NA

351 Natural Product Research 0.9

352 Nature Chemical Biology 16.7

353 Nature Environment and Pollution Technology 0.2

354 New Journal of chemistry 2.9

355 New Phytologist 6.1

356 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1.2

357 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 1.1

358 Nucleic Acids Research 7.3

359 Numerical Heat Transfer, Part-A 1.4

360 Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica B 0.3

361 Ocean Engineering 1.1

362 Oncogene 6.7

363 Optics Communications 1.3

364 Optics Express 3.5

365 Optics Letters 3.3

366 Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Rapid Communications 0.5

367 Optoelectronics Letters 1.0

368 Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 3.3

369 Organometallics 4.0

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370 Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 1.7

371 Philosophical Magazine 1.4

372 Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 2.1

373 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 1.6

374 Physica B: Condensed Matter 3.3

375 Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 2.2

376 Physica Scripta 0.8

377 Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research 1.1

378 Physica Status Solidi B: Basic Solid State Physics 1.1

379 Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 2.9

380 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 3.3

381 Physical Review Letters 7.1

382 Physics and Chemistry of Glasses

European Journal of Glass science and Technology Part B 0.6

383 Physics Letter A 2.0

384 Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics 2.9

385 Physics of Plasmas 2.2

386 Physics Review 2.9

387 Plant Ecology and Diversity 2.2

388 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2.7

389 Plasma Process and Polymers 3.6

390 Polymer Bulletin 1.2

391 Polymer Engineering and Science 1.6

392 Polymer International 2.0

393 Polymer Journal 1.3

394 Polymers for Advanced Technologies 1.9

395 Powder Technology 2.0

396 Pramana - Journal of Physics 0.4

397 Precambrian Research 4.1

398 Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology 0.8

399 Process saftey and Environmental Protection 1.0

400 Protein Expression and Purification 1.8

401 Protein Journal 1.1

402 Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioformatics 3.4

403 Quaternary Geochronology 3.0

404 Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 0.5

405 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 5.3

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406 Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2.1

407 Research in Microbiology 2.7

408 Research Journal of Biotechnology 0.2

409 Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment 0.3

410 Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2.2

411 Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 0.4

412 Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry 0.6

413 Scripta Materialia 3.1

414 Semiconductor Science and Technology 1.4

415 Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 3.2

416 Set-Valued Analysis 0.9

417 Soft Computing NA

418 Solid State Communications 1.7

419 Solid State Ionics 2.7

420 Solid State Sciences 2.0

421 Solid-State Electronics 1.5

422 South East Asian Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences NA

423 Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 1.7

424 Statistics & Probability Letters 0.5

425 Surface & Coatings Technology 2.1

426 Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA) 0.8

427 Synthetic Communications 1.1

428 Systematics and Biodiversity 1.9

429 Tectonophysics 2.8

430 Tetrahedron Asymmetry 2.4

431 Tetrahedron Letters 2.5

432 The American Journal of Pathology 6.0

433 The Journal of Biological Chemistry 5.4

434 The Journal of the Indian Academy of Mathematics NA

435 Theoretical and Applied Genetics 3.9

436 Thin Solid Films 1.9

437 Toxicology 3.3

438 Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods 0.6

439 Transgenic Research 2.6

440 Transition Metal Chemistry 1.3

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441 Trends of Food Science and Technology 5.6

442 Turkish Journal of Biochemistry 0.3

443 Vacuum 1.1

444 Virus Genes 1.6

445 Water Resources Management 2.2

446 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 1.2

447 Z. Phys. Chem. 1.3

448 Z.Naturforsch C 1.0

Social Science and Humanities

Sl.No.

Journal Name

5 yr. Impact

Factor

1 Applied Economics Letters 0.5

2 Economics Letters 0.6

3 Electronic Library and Information Systems 0.5

4 Indian Journal of Gender Studies 0.2

5 Indian Journal of Social Work 0.0

6 Journal of Applied Economic Research 0.2

7 Journal of Asian Studies 0.5

8 Journal of Economics 0.8

9 Journal of Peasant Studies 2.7

10 Journal of Policy Modeling 0.9

11 Modern Asian Studies 0.4

12 Oxford Economic Papers 2.0

13 Synthesis 0.8

3.2.9 Give the list of publications of the Faculty

List of Publications of Faculty (2006 to 2011)

Sl.No.

Publications Science Social Sc. & Humanities Total

a Books 23 160 183 a 1 Book Chapters 40 231 271

b Research Papers 1483 907 2390 c Abstracts 191 43 234 d Proceedings 331 253 584 e Others 69 95 164

Grand Total 2137 1689 3826

Detailed list of Publications are available in the: Annexure I

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3.3 Consultancy

3.3.1 List the broad areas of consultancy services provided by the institution during the last 5 years

The Faculty of various Departments undertake consultancy to reach out the industry & society and extend their expertise for the cause of society. List under 3.3.3.

3.3.2 Does the institution publish the expertise available for consultancy services?

Yes.

3.3.3 Give details regarding the nature of consultancy services and revenue generated?

Consultancies Offered

FOOD SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

Name of the Faculty Department Beneficiary / Organization

Total amount charged

Dr Prathap Kumar Shetty

Food Science and Technology

Oriens Biocare Chennai* 5,00,000

Dr Prathap Kumar Shetty

Food Science and Technology

Department of Industry, Govt. of Puducherry

Not charged

Dr S Hariprieya Food Science

and Technology Oriens Biocare Chennai** 5,00,000

Dr S Hariprieya Food Science

and Technology Department of Woman and Child Welfare

Not Charged

EARTH SCIENCES

S. Balakrishnan Earth Sciences Trimex Indusries, Chennai 59,600

S. Balakrishnan Earth Sciences Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Limited, Chennai

2,33,949

S. Balakrishnan Earth Sciences Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC)

89,000

Dr. M. S. Pandian Earth Sciences Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai

1,30,000

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PHYSICS

Prof. Ramaswamy MURUGAN

Physics

M/s Hindustan Lever Limited, Pondicherry, (July 1997- August 1997), Coordinator- Institute-Industrial consultancy service on Non-destructive testing of Steel plates by Ultrasonic flaw detection technique.

90,000

Prof. Ramaswamy MURUGAN

Physics

M/s Hindustan Lever Limited, Pondicherry, (August 1998), Delivered solution to avoid the frequent failure of soap cake-delivering lever.

Fellowship was

provided to a Scholar

LIBRARY INFORMATION & SCIENCES

M.Leeladharan Library

Information & Sciences

SOS Village for Childrens, Pondicherry, Establishing a Village Library (accessioning & Classifying)

Honorary

Job

C.K.Ramaiah Library


Sri Vidyaniketan Engineering College, Rajempet, Chittor (DT),AP.,

Honorary Job

C.K.Ramaiah Library


MJCET, Hyderabad Honorary

Job

C.K.Ramaiah

Library Information &

Sciences FOSAPAH, Hyderabad

Honorary Job

C.K.Ramaiah

Library Information &

Sciences

North East Hill University, Shillong

Honorary Job

So far the University has earned Rs. 20, 00, 0000/- by providing consultancy services.

3.4 Extension Activities

3.4.1 What outreach programmes are organized by the institution? How are they integrated with the academic curricula?

The outreach programmes are conducted in two modes

a. Conducting programmes for the community

b. Offering curriculum based programmes to needy and aspirants

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Teachers training for promoting enterprising girls from neighboring villages to start their own schools and financially helping them to setup schools, Community Radio broadcast, Anthropological surveys of tribes, Adoption of villages awareness programmes on consumer rights, organizing Product Expos for Self Help Groups, Training for Financial literacy. NSS camps in rural areas, various outreach programmes organized by various departments like Sociology, Social Welfare, Centre for Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy etc., and the Centre for Women Studies are some of the programmes for the community.

The curriculum based programmes include programmes like

Awareness programmes of derivatives

Sensitization programmes on women issues

Research methodology workshops

Capacity building workshops

Soft skill workshops etc.,

Akansha, Synapse, Banquest etc are as some of outreach activities of the departments, involving the Alumni.

3.4.2 How does the University promote University-neighborhood network in which students acquire training, which contribute to sustained community development?

The University organizes NSS Camp which links the neighboring societies with the university. Training enterprising women folk to start schools in the neighborhood to educate children, to promote university neighborhood network is another effort Students also carry out projects and internship, field work in various institutions, industry, and nearby localities to understand the realities and also bring out their problems and projects for a wider and better understanding.

3.4.3 How does the institution promote the participation of the students and faculty in extension activities of NSS, NCC, YRC and other NGOs? How often and in what roles are they involved?

The University to fulfill its social responsibility has taken up various programme like campus cleaning drive by NSS volunteers in neighborhood villages, educating and entertain in the nearby society through Community Radio, organizing exhibition for Self Help Groups products etc., University also organizes blood donation camp in villages. Adoption of Villages by Social Work Department, taking up the cause of excluded and deprived communities by Centre for Exclusion and Inclusive Policy growth are some other efforts of University fulfilling its social responsibility involving the students participation. Providing food and shelter during Tsunami and torrential rain also are

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efforts in the direction of the social responsibility and community concern of the University.

3.4.4 Is there any research or extension work to ensure social justice and to empower under-privileged sections in particular, women and children?

The Departments of Commerce organizes International Conferences in Micro-finance where in research is encouraged to study the underprivileged. Training for financial literacy also is another extension work of the Department of Commerce, to make self help group members mostly unprivileged women, aware of facilities available and the way to access them. Similarly Sociology and Social work department, do extensive research and extension activities to ensure social justice and empower unprivileged. The Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy also undertakes activities in this direction. The Centre for Adult and Continuing Education organizes free eye screening camp. The University also has instituted a Day Care Centre, and Pre-Primary School for the children of University staff as well as the nearby community.

3.4.5 What is the impact of extension on the community? Specify.

The awareness programmes by various departments helps the neighboring community to be benefited hugely. Exhibition conducted helps the Self Help Groups to showcase their product which serves as advertisement and also effect sales. Training programmes like inancial literacy helps the poor SHG members to be aware of the facilities available. Sensitization on women s issues also helps the women to know about their rights and make them conscious of their plight and vulnerability and help them to assert themselves.

3.5 Collaborations

3.5.1 How many linkages does the institution have, for research and extension?

and

3.5.2 List the organizations and the nature of linkage and expected outcomes.

LIST OF MOUs SIGNED DURING 2006 - 2011

Sl. No

Name of Foreign University / Institution

Purpose Date of Signing

Name of the Coordinator

1 University of Paris

13, France Exchange of Faculty and students

17.02.2006

Dean, School of Social Sciences and International Studies

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Name of Foreign

University / Institution



2 Grenoble Universities, France

Exchange of Faculty and students

Exchange of

Research scholars for joint research activities -

proposal is under process

27.02.2007

Dr. V.C. Thomas, Professor of Philosophy

3

University of Colonge, Germany


Proposal submitted under German Academic Exchange Programme for joint research

20.11.2008

Dr. T.S. Naidu, Director, Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy

4 University of Arkansas, USA


08.12.2008

Principal, Pondicherry Engineering College

5

University of Sienna, Italy


Exchange of Research scholars for carrying out common research programmes

26.02.2009

Dr. R. Suresh Kumar, Dept. of Bioinformatics

6 Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Research Collaboration with starting of joint Ph.D. Programme

28.04.2009

Dr. S. Balakrishnan, Dept. of Earth Sciences

7 Dalhousie University, Canada


Proposal submitted to Indo Canadian Research Centre for joint research

06.05.2009

Dr. T.S. Naidu, Director, Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy

8 Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore

Research Collaboration with starting of joint Ph.D. programme

25.05.2009

Dr. P.P. Mathur, Centre for Bioinformatics

9 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Mumbai

Placement activities 29.05.2009

The Placement Coordinator, Pondicherry University

10 South Asia Foundation , New Delhi

Establishment of Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technology

22.11.2009

Dean i/c, Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technology

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Sl. No

Name of Foreign




11

University of Reunion, France


Exchange of Research scholars for joint research activities - proposal is under process

22.01.2010

Dr. R. Panneerselvam, Department. of French

12 South Asian Foundation, New Delhi

Scholarship and Establishment of MISARC

27.03.2010

Dr. N.K. Jha, Director, MISARC

13 Sungkynkwan University, Korea

Academic Co-operation 13.07.2010

Dr.P.P.Mathur, Centre for Bioinformatics

14 National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities, New Delhi

To implement the documentation of Archaeological sites built heritage and Antiquities

21.06.2010

Prof. K. Rajan, Dept. of History

15 University of Bradford, UK


16.07.2010

Dr. N. Sakthivel, Dept. of Biotechnology

16 UGC INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad

Digitization of Theses and Dissertations and uploading on etd National Repository `Shodhganga

30.08.2010

Dr.R.Samyuktha, University Librarian

17 CMMAcs, Bangalore

Setting up of Co2 monitoring station

20.09.2010

Dr. S. Balakrishnan, Earth Sciences

18 Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia

Exchange of Faculty and Students

11.01.2011

Prof. K. Chandrasekhara Rao, Professor of Banking Technology

19 Integrated Headquarters Of Ministry Of Defence (Army)

Admission of army personnal in various courses in Pondicherry university

13.01.2011

Dr. M. Ramadass, Director (SEI & RR) and Dean School of Management

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Name of Foreign




20 Frontier Lifeline Hospital & Dr.K.M. Cherian Foundation, Chennai

For Recognizing the Hospital as a Research Centre of Pondicherry University

01.03.2011

Dr. K. Srikumar, Head Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

21 University of Picardie Jules Verne, Cedex, France


02.03.2011

Dr. S. Haripriya, Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition

22 Joliet Junior College, USA

Study Abroad Programme

14.03.2011

Dr. P.P. Mathur, Bioinformatics

23 University of Lumiere Lyon 2,Cedex


21.03.2011

Dr. Nalini J. Thampi, Department of French

24 Maharishi Solar Technologies Ltd., Andra Pradesh

Joint Research Actitivies and exchange of students for project work.

18.04.2011

Dr.H.S.P.Rao, Dean, SPCAS

In addition linkages are established with industry by Department of Computer Science, Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering, Management, Anthropology, Earth Sciences, Food Sciences & Technology, Chemistry and Physics.

3.5.3 How does the linkage promote

a) Curriculum development

The linkage with other Universities and institutes give a chance to our University to analyse the curriculum available with other Universities and accordingly develop its own curriculum. This provides better scope for bringing in innovative course curriculum.

b) Internship

It helps the students going for internship in industry and institutes of repute and to get practical exposure, enhance their outlook and to understand the need of the industry.

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c) On-the-job training

The linkage with industry is capitalized by sending students for `On the Job Training

for

practical exposure. Linkage with industry also increases the scope for consultancy and getting projects which enhances research capability with practical utility.

d) Faculty exchange and development

The linkage with the institution helps the University faculty to use the infrastructure facilities of collaborating institution in more productive research work.

e) Research

The outcome of such linkage comes out in form of research output and publication. Such linkages help the University to understand the requirement of industry in terms of training exposure, knowledge which in tern helps the departments to design curriculum accordingly. The best benefits of the linkages is the placement of students.

f) Consultancy

The linkage helps the Faculty to render their services by providing consultancy or solving real life problems or advice for better functioning etc.

g) Extension

The linkage helps in expanding the services of the departments for the welfare of the community at large.

h) Publication

The outcome of the linkage also turns out in term of publication, preparation of case studies etc.

i) Student Placement

The linkage with external agency with the University helps the students placement in a very big way.

3.6 Best Practices in Research, Consultancy and Extension

3.6.1 Describe the best practices in research, consultancy and extension with reference to promotion of research / publication output / consultancy and extension activities / collaborations?

The University has a system of doctoral committee for each scholar to monitor the research activity at departmental level and academic advisory committee to guide and

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monitor the entire research activities including research projects of the whole University. The University also is shortly going to appoint Director Research exclusively for the enhancement of research.

All research scholars get financial assistance

New Faculty get Start-up Grant to create the facilities required for the research and project works undertaken

All the Ph.D scholars are insisted to publish articles in Peer Reviewed Journals which is a pre condition for submitting the theses.

The University encourages linkages of the faculty with industry and institution of repute to expand their scope of research, consultancy.

The University always preferred appointments of eminent scholars with good research credentials in terms of publication, Ph.D produced, patents & inventions, etc.,

Research methodology workshops are convened by various departments to incalculate research culture and facilitates data analyses capability of researchers.

Research forums of certain Departments regularly organize meetings to discuss contemporary research


1. What were the evaluative observations made under Research, Consultancy and Extension in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon?

and

3.7.2 What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to Research, Consultancy and Extension?

Observations: -

The research culture of the University is strong, with 86 percent of the Faculty having PhD degrees and actively engaging in research supervision as well as in independent and collaborative research projects. During 1999-2005 teachers have participated in 127 seminars/workshops and 93 conferences, presenting 1116 papers at the national and 350 papers at the international level, while 60 served as resource persons. They have published 548 papers in international journals and 611 in national journals. The Faculty has organized 77 workshops/seminars and 128 endowment lectures. During the same period,730 scholars registered for the M.Phil (680 full-time, 50 part-time) and 322 for the PhD programmes (241 full-time, 81 part-time). In the University as a whole with its affiliated colleges, 871 M.Phil and 234 PhD scholars successfully completed their research over the past five years. There has been a steady increase in research admission during this period. The Doctoral Committee monitors the quality and progress of PhD students, who are required to present their work twice a year.

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Each Department has recently been granted two Research Fellowships instituted by the University. For the past three years, the University has been encouraging research by newly-appointed Faculty members through awarding seed money of Rs.5 lakhs to Lecturers, 10 lakhs to Readers and 15 lakhs to Professors to set up and run a research project.

Faculty members are involved in around 80 ongoing research projects, in fields ranging from Tamil Literature, Pollution Control, Earth Science, Ecology and Environment, Anthropology, and Performing Arts, Tourism Studies, Management, Ocean Studies and Bioinformatics, while a total of 167 projects were taken up over the past five years, from funding agencies like UGC, DBT, DOEN, DST, ICMR, AICTE etc. The total current outlay is around Rs.14 crores, and 43 scholars are associated in various capacities such as RA, SRF, JRF and Project Fellows. The University offers consultancy services to industry, especially through its Management, Computer Science and Biotechnology Departments and the Centre for Pollution Control and Energy Technology. The School of Tamil Language and Literature as well as the Chemistry Department have gained recognition under SAP as DRS phase I. The Departments of Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have DST sponsored FIST programmes. The work of the Anthropology Department in identifying the primitive tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been recognized and commended by the Government of India. A member of the Centre for Bioinformatics has received the national Young Scientist and Innovative Biotechnologist awards. The Department of Performing Arts has produced significant creative work.

The University has an Academic Staff College with a Director, Staff, Permanent Building and attached Hostels. The major extension activity is the conducting of Orientation and Referesher Courses for University and college teachers, as well as workshops for college principals and short-term courses for University staff. The activities of the Community College may be considered an important extension of the University s influence into the life of the society. The students are active in performing cultural programmes.

Enhancement Measures: -

Research has been recognized as the most significant factor to enhance the visibility of the Departments in the last five years. High quality publications by the scholars and Faculty of the University have been continuously on the increase.

The University brings out 7 research journals and 4 are in pipeline. The University has encouraged Departments to register independent societies for this purpose.

The total research funding for Research Projects, SAP, FIST Programmes has increased. At present there 14 SAP Departments. 6 FIST Departments and two advance / national facilities. The projects has increased to 262 with total extramural funding of above Rs.75.0 Crores.

The University has launched Community Radio, adopted villages and has Social interactive programmes with local bodies, NGOs and the local communities.

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The number of International & National Institutions and Universities collaborating with University has increased to 27.

The University believes that research consultancy and extension are essential components of the Teaching-Learning process. Further, without a good research base, the quality of teaching cannot be enhanced. Hence, enormous attention has been paid to enhancement and modernization of the facilities for research, which in turn also improved the potential to enhance the number of research projects, quality of research publications and offering of consultancy & extension work.

There is a close monitoring of research activities through Academic Advisory Committees and Research Monitoring Committees.

Strengthening of the Central Instrumentation Facility and Department Laboratories with a number of sophisticated instruments costing over Rs.30 crores, has also added to the increase in number of research projects and quality of research output.

Establishment of Interdisciplinary departments like Nanoscience & technology, Green Energy Technology, Electronics Engineering, Food Science & Technology, Microbiology, Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering, School of Management with five programmes, Social Work and Applied Psychology and many other subjects has opened up enormous scope for inter and intra Departmental co-operation / collaboration both in teaching and research.

Hence, there is a phenomenal progress in the Research output of the University which is indicated through exponential increase in research projects, SAP, FIST Departments and National Centres and a significant rise in the Citation Index to 6.16 and H-Index of 33.

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4.1 Physical Facilities

4.1.1 How well endowed is the University in terms of physical infrastructure? (classroom, administrative buildings, transport, water, power supply, etc., to run the academic programme) Enclose the master plan of the University campus indicating the existing building and the projected expansion in the future.

and

4.1.2 What are the infrastructure facilities available for

a) Academic Activities b) Co-curricular Activities c) Sports

The campus is spread over a lush green area of 780 acres of land cut through major and small ravines, inhabited by 197 Species of birds, insects and reptiles and amphibians and 537 Species of Flora. The University was documented both Fauna & Flora of the Campus and published it.

Pondicherry Location Map

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79 .86

12.03

79.83

12.03

12.00

79.86

12.00

79.83

AuditoriumPondicherryEngineering college Campus

Earth Science DeptBio Chem Dept

Management Dept

DMS SOM

University Post Office

Computer Science Dept

Health Centre

Kaveri Hostel

Saraswathi Hostel Ganga Hostel

Yamuna Hostel

Kalidas Hostel

Hostel

Kamban HostelTagore Hostel

Kendriya Vidhyalaya

Sports complex

Pondicherry University Google Image

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During the past five years, the University has progressively added built space to accommodate the increasing students and faculty strength.

In the XI Plan period, the physical infrastructure has been doubled. The total built space has increased from 95,000 sq. mtrs. to 1,98,496 sq. mtrs. 10 New Hostels for Boys and Girls have been constructed.

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Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Mathematics and Statistics have been provided with independent buildings. Sixteen Departments of Social Sciences and Humanities have been provided with Independent accommodation in exclusive School buildings.




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Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Subramania Bharathiar School of Tamil Language & Literature

School of Social Science & Humanities

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Six Departments of Management, Tourism Studies, International Business, Commerce, Economics and Banking Technology under the School of Management entered an exclusive School complex. This complex has the old building, the new school building and a common facility Lecture Hall Complex II.

School of Management

Lecture Hall Complex - II

Old School of Management Building

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UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Co-operation

The construction of the following buildings is in progress:

Annexe to Library

School of Media & Communications

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Department of Earth Science

Centre for Bioinformatics

School of Green Energy Technologies & Nanosciences

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International Convention Centre

Transport

The University provides free transport by bus to day students to the University and back.

The Staff and Faculty also use this facility on nominal payment.

The University has acquired 4 Battery Operated Carts to commute within the campus which is free to all students from 6.30 a.m.

10 p.m.

The University has provided 300 Bi-cycles at the campus for use of the students within the campus.

Water

There is adequate ground water to meet the needs of the campus and landscaping. The water supply network is conserved through Overhead tanks and Central Storage tanks.

The University has installed about 100 aqua guards / water purifiers and water coolers/filters connected to the main tap covering each and every building and hostels of the University.

Power Supply

This is the only University in the country which has reached 100% power backup with 18 generators and 14 transformers for 3000 KVA capacity which cover all the Departments, Street Lights and Hostels. The coverage to quarters is being planned. Entire campus has Street Lights and High Mast Lights, making the campus to secure to students.

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Guest House

The University has a decent Guest House with 20 Rooms and 4 Suites (Airconditioned) with Fridge, T.V., etc.

In addition, the Academic Staff College has also a Guest House attached with Sixty Rooms for Male and Female Guests.

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Auditoriums

The University has two main auditoriums: (1) Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium with 600 seating in the Administrative building and (2) A 300 seating capacity auditorium in the Cultural Complex cum Guest House.

Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium in the Administrative Building

Auditorium in the Guest House

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Auditorium in the School of Management

In addition smaller Auditoriums have been developed in

Department of Earth Science

200 capacity


200 capacity

School of Social Sciences

200 capacity

School of Humanities - 200 capacity

The contemplated Silver Jubilee International Convention Centre will have a seating of 2,500

seating.

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Sports

The University has two major stadiums:

1) Thiruvalluvar Stadium for Foot Ball & Athletics track

2000 capacity.

2) The newly constructed Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium with tent pitch with international standards

1000 capacity (to be increased to 3000)

3) Exclusive play fields for Tennis, Volley Ball and Basket Ball.

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4) Exclusive Gym for Girls

5) Exclusive Gym for Boys

Staff Quarters

The University added 16 Nos. of Single Bed Apartments and 40 Nos. of Double Bed Apartments during last 5 years and at present one more 20 units Double Bed Apartment is under construction.

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4.1.3 Has the institution augmented the infrastructure to keep pace with academic

growth? If yes, specify the facilities and the amount spent during the last five years.

The details in the sections above bear testimony to the unprecedented enhancement of infrastructure.

4.1.4. Has the institution provided facilities like Common Room, Wash / Rest Room for Women students and staff?

Yes.

4.2 Maintenance of Infrastructure

4.2.1 What is the budget allocation for the maintenance of

BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR MAINTENANCE

Campus Development including Landscaping

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Plan

XI Plan 49.70

38.94

121.41

118.36

24.84

353.25

Plan

OBC - - - 220.75

13.13

233.88

Non-Plan 65.53

17.42

9.93

15.73

6.36

114.97

Total

115.23

56.36

131.34

354.84

44.33

702.10

Building Maintenance / Minor Construction / Modification

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Plan

XI Plan - 29.79

23.12

116.76

8.33

178.00

Plan

OBC - - - 0.51

19.78

20.29

Non-Plan

Civil 76.36

129.17

73.33

111.07

73.58

463.51

Non-Plan

Electrical 34.09

36.09

46.69

49.18

47.00

213.05

Total

110.45

195.05

143.14

277.52

148.69

874.85

Furniture Maintenance & Acquisition

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Plan

XI Plan (Purchase)

68.27

122.92

73.27

139.71

194.29

598.46

Plan

OBC (Purchase) - - 157.69

144.95

34.53

337.17

Non-Plan (Repairs) 5.55

12.82

0.27

0.68

0.10

19.42

Total

73.82

135.74

231.23

285.34

228.92

955.05

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Equipment Maintenance

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Non-Plan 17.52

50.52

49.19

52.40

80.92

250.55

Computer Maintenance & Upgradation

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Plan - 24.00

- - - 24.00

Non-Plan 4.86

14.77

9.10

1.42

13.55

43.70

Total

4.86

38.77

9.10

1.42

13.55

67.70

Transport

06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 Total Plan

XI Plan * - - - 13.40

6.14

19.54

Plan

OBC * - - - 7.33

- 7.33

Non-Plan ** 27.45

51.31

54.72

79.25

108.78

321.51

Total

27.45

51.31

54.72

99.98

114.92

348.38

* Includes expenditure on 3 Battery Cars Rs.16,38,000/- and Cycles Rs.5,31,000/- ** Includes expenditure on Ambulance Rs.67,678/- per month

4.2.2 How is the budget optimally allocated and utilized?

Being a fully funded Central University, the University has normally it has been the best planner of expenditure and has been completing the work always before the scheduled time. The XI Plan has also been completed one year before the plan period completes. Obviously, the budget allocation is optionally utilized.

4.2.3 Are there staff appointed for maintenance and repair? If not, how are the infrastructure facilities, services and equipment maintained?

The University has an Engineering Wing headed by Superintending Engineer, one Executive Engineer and two Assistant Engineers. The Electrical Engineer looks after the electrical works.

They continuously monitor and maintain the Electrical & Civil Works. The generator maintenance and service is outsourced for 24 hours attention.

The landscaping, aforestation and garden maintenance is monitored by the Horticulture Department headed by the Horticulturist.

The entire cleaning services are outsourced on contract.

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4.2.4 How is the infrastructure optimally used?

The infrastructure is very optimally used as 15 new Departments which were started four years ago were managed without waiting for the completion of new buildings. It is only now, during the last 2 years they have been moving to new space and buildings.

4.3. Library as a learning resource

4.3.1. How does the library ensure access, use and security of materials?

Library has open access enabling the user to browse the collection. Appropriate placement of the documents with necessary Bay guides and Shelf guides; Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) accessible through Library Portal across campus help the user to locate documents in the library and check their availability. Increase in users visits and usage statistics of print documents is illustrated in the graph and bar diagram below.

User Visits (Gate Statistics)

107826

174747201168

10338391533

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Gate Statistics 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Library Users 91533 103383 107826 174747 201168

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Usage Statistics - Print

3637

2

4490

1

5231

8

6358

9

8230

9

3688

7

4094

1

5247

8 6445

5

7927

5

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Issue & Return

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Issue 36372

44901

52318

63589

82309

Return 36887

40941

52478

64455

79275

Total

73259

85842

104796

128044

161584

Apart from the traditional library services, value added services such as Referral service, e-alerts, Institutional Repository of research output, Citation Analysis, Article Delivery Service, access to Digital Sources through library portal, OPAC, online Tutorials, Orientation Programmes, Workshops, Exhibitions, Conferences, Computing Facility for the Visually Challenged and student support Earn while you learn scheme are provided. The latest initiative is the University Bookshop as student support service to cater to the requirements of Books, Stationery and Souvenirs.

Presently security check of the documents borrowed/issued is done at the library entrance. Proposal for establishing security check by RFID and CCTV is in process. Downloads of online resources through library portal can be monitored by the usage details from respective publishers. Security of unauthorized access is ensured by the login ID of the user and systematic downloading of articles in bulk is put on check on intimation received from the concerned publisher.

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4.3.2. What are the facilities available in the library? (Computers, Internet, reprographic

facilities etc.)

Library is fully automated and operated on LIBSYS, library management software. 120 computers are provided for information retrieval via internet, besides the campus being Wi-Fi. Reprographic facility with network printing is outsourced and available within the library premises. Approximately about 4,36,000 copies are done per year.

4.3.3. How do the library collections cater to the needs of the users ?

Attention is paid to build up the e-resource collection, besides the print to keep pace with current literature to enhance learning and research. The print collection is about 1,82,075 of which 58,606 books have been added in the last five years. E-resources have reached an all time high of 31,414 comprising of about 23,928 full text journals, 7,455 e-books and 31 databases.

Library Collection

134764

186728167097

149840

128605

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

200000

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Books and Theses

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Books 125061

130879

145745

162641

181589

Theses Ph. D. 443

505

547

593

657

M. Phil 3101

3380

3548

3863

4482

Total

128605

134764

149840

167097

186728

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Print & Online Journals Subscription

1024

3

9311

9080

9456

9019

1384

9

1834

1 2392

8

8557

8557

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

30000

35000

40000

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

E-Journals-PU Subscription

E-Journals-Back Files

E-Journals-UGC Infonet

Total

Print Journals Back Volumes

Journals 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Print Journals-National

193

35

31

103

152

Print Journals-International

279

-

65

224

192

Total

472

35

96

327

344

Print Journals Back Volumes

8984

8984

8984

8984

9899

Print Journals Total

9456

9019

9080

9311

10243

E-Journals-UGC Infonet

4053

4053

5500

6000

7600

E-Journals-PU Subscription

3944

3944

7783

11775

15720

E-Journals-Back Files

560

560

566

566

608

E-Journals Total

8557

8557

13849

18341

23928

4.3.4. How does the library ensure purchase and use of current titles, important journals and other reading materials ?

Purchases of books are by recommendations by the respective Departmental Committees (catalogues and e-mails are periodically sent for their selection of current titles). Prior to renewal of journals every year, Departments are requested for their consent and also recommendations for new titles. Brainstorming sessions are also held to consider subscription of new databases journals. The titles thus recommended are placed finally before the Library Committee for negotiation of subscription costs and approval to proceed for subscription.

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4.3.5. If the library has an archived section to what extent it is used by the readers and researchers?

Both print archives as well as extensive e archive collection is also used. For example, JSTOR is most popularly used for retrieving archival literature with 1,12,453 downloads in 2009.

4.3.6. How are Online and Internet services in the library used by students & faculty ? Specify the hours and frequencies of use.

Wi-Fi campus enables the students and faculty to have a ubiquitous environment with access to online library services available 24X7 at desktops/laptops. Frequency or usage statistics gradually increasing in downloads every year from 2,54,544 in 2006 to 7,30,531 downloads in 2010 is illustrated in the graph.

Usage Statistics - E-Resources

211808

136946

351364

9312567469

227522158161

405136

385844

187075

597652

756500

295107254544320647

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

800000

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

UGC-Infonet Subscription

University Subscription

Total

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Usage Statistic of

E-Resources 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

UGC-Infonet Subscription 67469

93125

136946

211808

351364

University Subscription 187075

227522

158161

385844

405136

Total 254544

320647

295107

597652

756500

4.3.7. Are the library services computerized? Does the institution make use of INFLIBNET/DELNET/IUC facilities? If yes, give details.

Library is fully automated and operated on LIBSYS.

150 computers are provided for information retrieval via internet besides the campus being Wi-Fi.

955 articles were delivered to rest of the Universities and 338 articles were received for our faculty and scholars since the e-launch of UGC INFONET JCCC in August 2008. (data furnished as on 15/03/2011).

Information resource sharing across the globe is also in vogue.

Pondicherry University is a phase I member of the UGC INFLIBNET and has access to all the INFONET consortia e-resources.

It is second in the country to sign MOU with UGC INFLIBNET for submission of Theses to the National Repository of ietd Shodhganga and our entire theses collection is available in open access both at the INFLIBNET site as well as on our Institutional Repository accessible through our Library Portal.

Identified by INFLIBNET as one of the 22 Universities for e-journals article delivery across the country through Journal Custom Content Consortia (JCCC) interface.

User awareness orientation workshops are periodically organized to train the users to access the consortium and subscribed e-resources of the University.

4.3.8. For how many days is the library kept open in an academic year? How many hours is the library open per day?

Library functions throughout the year except for seven holidays. Working hours have been extended from 8.30 a.m.

8.30 p.m. (12 hours) and till 10.00 p.m. (14 hours) during examination period. It is proposed to have 24 hours reading facility in the additional new library building under construction (likely to be ready by December 2011).

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4.3.9. Does the library have an advisory committee? What are its functions.

Library Advisory Committee consists of the Registrar, Finance Officer, Deans of Schools and Librarian. Committee meets periodically to deliberate, take decisions and make recommendations on Library development issues. The highlight of this year was that the Committee had done negotiation of e-resources with respective publishers through video conferencing in the Library. We are the first University in the country to have done this exercise, thereby saving a lot of time and money.

4.3.10. Amount of money spent for new books journals during the last five years?

Expenditure for Books & Journals

135.56171.68

172.98

104.91 136.31

111.55

121.77

66.17

0.65

130.53

294.75283.23266.09

171.08 136.96

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

in L

akh

s

Books (Plan)

Journals (Non-Plan)

Total

Expenditure (in lakhs)

2006-07 2007-08

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Books (Plan) 104.91

136.31

135.56

171.68

172.98

Journals (Non-Plan) 66.17

0.65

130.53

111.55

121.77

Total 171.08

136.96

266.09

283.23

294.75

4.3.11 How does the library motivate students/teachers to read existing and new arrivals?

The jackets of the new arrival of books are scanned and displayed to roll in a Plasma TV at the entrance of the library, which catches the eye of the entrant (first of its kind in any University library). Secondly, the library software Libsys has a provision to check the latest arrivals for the last one month. Besides e-circulars/e-alerts are posted and flash news on the library portal indicate the latest additions of e-resources to the library. Periodic Orientation and Training programmes for honing skills in usage of database, Quizzes, Posters and promo material create awareness of latest additions.

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4.3.12 What are the special facilities offered by the library to the Visually Challenged

persons? How are they used?

Computers and scanner with the essential software to convert print into audio files are provided. The visually challenged scan the essential print books and store it as audio books for use. They are also savvy in using our library portal to access all the e-resources of our digital library, internet to access their e-mails or in preparing powerpoint presentations.

4.3.13 List the infrastructural development of the library over the last five years?

An independent Library building with a beautiful inspiring ambience of greenery around, is focused in developing with technology. The spaces have been revamped and modernized with modular furniture, large number of computers to access e-resources with high speed bandwidth facility, comparable to any world class library. An additional new building with 50,000 sq. ft. is planned to offer 24 hour reading facility, a special section for the visually challenged, a children s library etc. There has been a major revamp in the Library infrastructure. The Science stack for Sciences which was at the ground floor was shifted to first floor in the eastern wing. The Journal archives stack from the first floor in west was shifted to the second floor. Reference collection was brought down to first floor in the west. The ground floor was completely modernized with current print journals, browsing faculty co existing with reading area. About 65 computers were placed for e-resource browsing at the ground floor. 20 computers were placed at the training hall. In all, 95 computers were procured with high configuration addition to existing 35 computers. An exclusive encyclopedia section with a large print collection and terminals to browse e-reference / e-books are provided. The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), Circulation Section, Acquisition and Technical Processing, Library office, Baggage Counter, Librarian and Deputy Librarian s office space etc. were

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furnished with modular furniture and wears a strikingly modern corporate look when one enters the Library. Computing facility is provided for the Visually Challenged.

A University Bookshop was inaugurated in February 2011 at the library premises as a student support service. Books and stationery required by the students and souvenirs of the University are available on sale.

Currently construction of a new additional library building is in vogue which is expected to be completed by December 2011. It would have a 24 hour reading facility, a state of the art section for the visually challenged and a children s library.

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4.4 ICT as Learning Resources

4.4.1 How is the computer facility extended to all Faculty and students?

A personal computer with connectivity to Campus Network and Internet is provided to all Faculty of the University.

The specialized and dedicated computer labs in various departments facilitate computer access to all the students.

Functioning of the computer labs apart from the office hours makes the students to use them effectively in terms of regular academic and research purposes.

Each Faculty, officer, teaching school/department/centre offices, library and administrative sections are provided necessary servers, workstations, desktops, laptops and peripherals (printers, scanners, UPS, etc) in adequate number depending upon their curricular/research/administrative needs.

Almost all the teaching Departments are provided computer laboratories. Class rooms, Auditoriums, Seminar Halls and Conference Centres are equipped with computers, LCD projectors and are connected to campus network. Entire campus is networked through Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) and also by Wi Fi.

4.4.2 How is the Faculty facilitated to prepare computer aided teaching/learning materials? What are the facilities available in the University for such efforts?

The internet access with accelerated speed is provided to faculty which can be used to utilize the references available on the internet.

The rich set of e-learning resources subscribed by the University Library can be accessed using the online portal.

The entire campus of the University is Wi-Fi enabled. This makes the access to e-resources quicker and efficient even outside of the Classrooms.

Extension of the online portal access to prepare learning materials, from anywhere in the world through login based access.

In-housing training by Computer Centre and also through Orientation programmes conducted by the Academic Staff College.

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4.4.3 Is there a central computing facility, If yes, how favorable are its timings, access and

cost to both students and faculty?

The University Computer Centre has centralized computing facility which can be accessed by all Faculty and Departments.

The Computer Centre functions even beyond the working hours and during the holidays as well.

Access to computer centre is provided at free of cost to all the faculty and students.

Yes, the Computer Centre is a central facility and is located in the main administrative building and hence it is easily accessible. The Centre functions on all days of the year and their timings are given below:

9.30 am to 8.30 pm on regular working days

9.30 am to 5.30 on holidays

No extra charges are levied on the students and faculty.

4.4.4 How are the computers and its accessories maintained in the department?

The computational facilities are under various AMC schemes for professional and perfect maintenance.

The details of computers available in the department are recorded in the stock register for easy verification and management.

The usage of consumable accessories is recorded in a separate usage register.

Technical personnel of the vendors/manufacturers of the systems and who are stationed on the campus during the working hours (this is the practice followed by the University) to provide maintenance support during the warranty period soon after the installation (which is about 3 to 5 years for the desktops and 1 year for the printers/scanners).

After warranty period, maintenance is provided (as done during warranty) through Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC). Computer Centre renders Service Co-ordination.

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4.4.5 What is the output of the various departments in developing packages for their

discipline?

School/Dept/Centre Details of packages

Centre for Electronic Media Learning Management System (LMS) using Moodle, Video Lessons

Mass Communications Web Journal

The Inquirer Chemistry LMS Library Web portal, Dspace

Computer Centre

Web portal, Web Mail Server, Complaint Tracking System, e-circulars, Online Admission System developed using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

Several other departments Web portals

Some of the Departments maintain their own web blogs to assist efficient dissemination of information to the students.

Departments are sustained enough to implement the educational online micro-blogging tools in the Departments which enriches the faculty-students interaction.

E-learning Management System tools are customized to the needs of the department and utilized in an efficient manner in providing learning resources to the students.

Online examination tools are developed by the Departments for having proper and transparent schemes in continuous assessment systems.

4.5 Other Facilities

4.5.1 How many students stay in the hostel? How many rooms are there in the hostel? Is the accommodation sufficient to meet the demand?

Pondicherry University has nineteen hostels in the campus of which twelve are for men, six are for women and one for foreign students. Of the twelve gents hostels, nine are for PG students and two are for Research Scholars. Out of the six ladies hostels, five are for PG students and one is for Research Scholars. The foreign students hostels can accommodate 32 students in 16 rooms which are air-conditioned with attached bathrooms.

Total No. of Students : 2609

Male : 1767

Female : 842

The number will cross 3000 in 2011.

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Men s Hostels

Sl. No Name of the Hostels

Year of Establishment

Type of

Accommodation Capacity

Occupied

1.

Pavendar Bharathidasan Hostel

1990-91 Single Room 62 61

2. Subramania Bharathi Hostel

1990-91 Single Room 62 66

3. Kamban Hostel 1994-95 Double Room 126 154 4. Tagore Hostel 2001-02 Double Room 126 170 5. Kalidas Hostel 2002-03 Double Room 90 120 6. Ilango Adigal Hostel 2006-07 Double Room 96 134 7. Valmiki Hostel 2007-08 Double Room 148 211 8. Kannadasan Hostel 2007-08 Double Room 148 205 9. Kabirdas Hostel 2008-09 Double Room 148 219

10. S. Radhakrishnan Hostel

2010-11 Double Room 148 190

11. MAK. Azad Hostel 2010-11 Double Room 148 209

12. Foreign Students Hostel

2006-07 Double Room 32 28

Total 1334 1767

Women s Hostels

Sl. No

Name of the Hostels

Year of Establishment

Type of Accommodation Capacity

Occupied

1. Cauvery Hostel 1994-95 Double Room 154 233

2. Ganga Hostel 2006-07 Double Room 96 161

3. Saraswathy Hostel 1999-00 Single Room 72 84

4. Yamuna Hostel 2002-03 Double Room 84 138

5. Kalpana Chawla Hostel

2010-11 Double Room 148 226

Total 554 842

* The two Scholars Hostels are yet to be occupied.

The University has provided supporting staff to maintain the hostels. The activities of the hostel administration is being carried out under the direction of the Chief Warden who heads the management of boys and girls hostels, supported by a team of Wardens, Assistant Registrar (Hostels) and office staff.

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Students who are admitted to the hostel are provided with mess facilities. All the messes, except the research scholars, have been outsourced with effect from July, 2006.

4.5.2 What facilities are provided in the hostel?

Each hostel has a separate recreation hall, equipped with a colour television set, audio system and facilities for indoor games such as Table Tennis, Chess and Carom.

Volley Ball courts, Ball Badminton courts and Badminton courts near the vicinity of hostels provide outdoor games.

Important newspapers and magazines are supplied to each hostel.

Separate gymnasiums are available for both boys and girls.

Sodium vapour lamps are installed near all the hostels for the convenience of hostel inmates.

Horticultural landscaping and gardening are under process surrounding all hostels.

A mega mess called Amudham Mess is constructed with a seating capacity of about 500 students with modern kitchen equipments and solar water heating system. The Mess is equipped with high class steel tables fitted with stools.

The University Health Centre offers medical facilities round the clock to the students residing in the hostels.

For the mobility of the students from Hostels to Departments, Library, Computer Centre etc., bus facility is provided within the campus at regular intervals during working days. In addition to University buses and vans, two battery-operated vehicles are also plying in the campus throughout the day covering all hostels.

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Wi-Fi connectivity is also provided to all hostels to enable the students to have 24 hours internet access.

Students who are admitted to the hostel are provided with mess facilities. All the messes, except the research scholars , have been outsourced with effect from July, 2006.

The hostel messes are run by experienced and qualified caterers. The messes offer meals at moderate rates. The mess committee consisting of students representatives is constituted to monitoring the smooth functioning of the hostel messes.

The University has exempted all the SC/ST students and girls students from the payment of room rent for the hostels.

The University provides a Mess Subsidy Grant of Rs.400/- per month to the inmates of the hostels whose parents annual income does not exceed Rs.4.5 lakhs p.a. (the limit prescribed for creamy layer) with the approval by the Vice-Chancellor (subject to production of Annual Income Certificate issued by Revenue Officials duly attested by a Gazette Officer)

4.5.3 What are the facilities provided by the health centre?

The University Dispensary started functioning since August, 1989 with a view to give the medical cover to University students, staff and their dependants.

The University Dispensary was converted into Health Centre in December, 2002 with facilities for investigation. It functions 24 hours.

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The Health Centre is situated near the Residential and Hostel areas. It is handling all routine out-patients. Medical examinations followed by injections, dressing and minor surgical procedure are carried out here. The necessary medicines are issued free of cost.

The Heal Centre is equipped with all emergency medicines and injections. Emergency cases are attended to and after providing first line of treatment they are referred to Government Hospital / JIPMER or any of the recognized hospitals for further treatment, if required.

A well equipped air-conditions ambulance facility is available in the Health Centre, round the clock.

For the in-patients, major surgical intervention and expert opinion, patients are referred to Government Hospital / JIPMER or any of the recognized hospitals, Puducherry. The necessary laboratory investigations to be done are carried out by referring patients to Government Hospital or Private laboratories and follow up of the cases are done by the Medical Officers in the Health Centre.

The medical examination of the University employees at the time of appointment and medical examination of the students, whenever found necessary, is carried out by the Medical Officer.

Medicines are procured from Government companies and medicines which are not available in government companies are procured from Private sector by calling quotations through purchase and store section.

4.5.4 What are the physical and infrastructure facilities available for the sports and physical education centre?

Already given at 4.1.1. However, it may be mentioned that 20% of the 780 acres is allocated for Sports Grounds which are maintained with high standard specifications.

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4.5.5 How does the institution ensure participation of women in intra and inter institution

sports competitions?

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Women)-2008-2009

S.No. Games Place Secured 1. Handball (Women) WINNER 2. Kabbadi (Women) WINNER 3. Volleyball (Women) WINNER 4. Ball Badminton (Women) WINNER 5. Basketball (Women) WINNER

The Pondicherry University Table Tennis (Women) Team players

S. No. Name Class College 1. Miss.G.Devika I M.P.Ed. Pondicherry University 2. Miss.S.Kalpana III B.Tech. RIT, Yanam

3. Miss.R.Sudharshana I B.Tech. Pondicherry Engg.

College

4. Miss.M.Amala

Sherine II B.Tech.

Pondicherry Engg. College

5. Miss. R.Dhivya III B.Tech. Pondicherry Engg.

College


Sl.No.

Games Place Secured 1. Handball (Women) WINNER 2. Ball Badminton (Women) WINNER 3. Basketball (Women) WINNER 4. Cricket (Women) WINNER 5. Football (Women) RUNNERS-UP 6. Kabbadi (Women) RUNNERS-UP 7. Volleyball (Women) Third Place

South West Zone inter-university Football Women Tournament- 2009-2010

The Department of Physical Education and Sports, Pondicherry University organized the South West Zone Inter-University Football Women Tournament for the academic year 2009-2010 from 4th to 8th January 2010. The tournament was conducted a grand success in which

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25 Universities out of 36 entries from various states such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry participated in this tournament. The tournament was conducted on knock out

cum- league basis from 4th to 8th

January 2010 in the University s Sports complex football fields.

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Women) 2010-2011

Sl.No. Name of the Game / Sport Place Secured

1. Athletics (Women) Overall Championship 2. Ball Badminton (Women) Winners 3. Handball (Women) Winners 4. Cricket (Women) Winners 5. Football (Women) Runners-up 6. Kabbadi (Women) Runners-up 7. Basketball (Women) Third Place

4.5.6 Does the institution have a workshop / instrumentation centre? If yes, what are the physical and infrastructure facilities available in the centre?

The University Science Instrumentation Centre established under the Special Assistance Programme (SAP) of UGC has been renamed as Central Instrumentation Facility during the year 2004-05 to bring the sophisticated analytical instruments to a common pool and to provide analytical services to all Departments / Centres of the University and also to the affiliated Institutions and Industries in Puducherry region.

The prime activity of Central Instrumentation Facility is focused to offer design, fabrication of customized instrumentation modules, repair and service to instruments available, to provide analytical services to all research groups of Schools / Departments / Centres of the University, in order to maximize the usage of the costly sophisticated instruments purchased against huge investment and to facilitate advanced scientific research.

In addition to the above, the CIF is equipped with several sophisticated analytical instruments to provide analytical service to various research groups of the University, affiliate institutions and neighboring educational institutions, research organizations and industry in its analytical instrumentation section.

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Sophisticated Equipments:

Electron Probe Micro Analyser (EPMA)


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Broadband Dielectric Spectrometer

UV-VIS NIR Spectrophotometer

WD

XRF Spectrometer

Micromill

Thermal Analyser System (DTA-TGA)

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Equipments purchased for Central Instrumentation Facility during the last 5 years

Sl. No

Name of the Equipment

Cost of the Equipment

Year of Purchase


2006-07

2 Polarizing microscope 44,02,616/-

2006-07

3 Real time PCR System-ABI 7500 21,99,600/-

2006-07

4 Planetary Micromill-model pulverisette 7 10,90,190/-

2006-07


2007-08


20,93,020/-

2007-08

7 Cathode luminscence attachment for SEM

9,01,350/-

2007-08 8 LCZ Meter 8,94,054/-

2007-08

9 Accessories & sample holders for uibrating sample magnatometer (USM)

4,88,707/-

2007-08

10 Wave length Dispersive X-Ray Flurescence Spectrometer (WD-XRF)

79,53,380/-

2007-08

11 Broad Band Dielectric Spectrometer 1,09,17,028/-

2008-09

12 HPLC System with accessories 23,50,010/-

2008-09

13 Grinding Bowls & Balls for Pulverisette 7 Micromill

3,12,410/-

2009-10


3,95,01,000/-

2009-10

15 Surface Area Analyser 12,91,100/-

2010-11

16 Particle Size Analyzer 15,27,318/-

2010-11

Total 9,13,00,133/-

The Central Maintenance Workshop has the following well-equipped service shops to undertake any type of repair, service, reconditioning, up-gradation, and maintenance of scientific instruments / equipments / appliances available in the university and also to fabricate mechanical / electronic modules / special glassware required for research works.

a. Electronics shop

b. Mechanical shop

c. Glass

blowing shop (attached with the Department of Chemistry)

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Facilities Available and Augmented in the Service Shops and Analytical Services Section

A. Electronic Shop

The electronics shop of CIF has necessary instruments to test and service electronic instruments, equipments and appliances available in the University. The test, measuring instruments and working tools required to undertake the repair, service and maintenance of all types of scientific instruments, appliances, equipments, computer systems, audio visual equipments etc., have been augmented with the one-time block grant received from the UGC SAP for level-I USIC and also from the fund sanctioned by the University.

The electronics shop has acquired 8051 and PIC micro controller development system with simulation softwares for writing programming with an integrated development environment and advanced flash programmer for designing and development of micro controller based low cost instruments for scientific research.

The electronics shop of CIF has designed and fabricated several special instruments and modules required for the project and research works of faculties and students during the year 2009-10.

The electronics shop has received various types of jobs during the year 2009-10 and most of them were successfully completed and promptly delivered in time. Number of jobs received & completed during 2009-10 was 70.

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B. Mechanical Shop

The mechanical shop of CIF is equipped with cone pulley heavy duty lathe, vertical drilling machine, hydraulic power hacksaw, sheet cutter, all geared shearing machine, arc-welding machine, gas-welding equipments, heavy duty universal milling machine, various types of portable cutting / grinding machines, measuring gauges, and essential working tools required for an engineering work shop.

The mechanical shop has received various types of jobs during the year 2009-10 and most of them were successfully completed and promptly delivered to the users. Number of jobs received & completed during 2009-10 were 83.

C. Glass blowing shop

The glass blowing shop offers service support to the Science Departments of the University and affiliated institutions in the repair of laboratory glasswares and fabrication of special glass wares complying with the design given by the faculties and students.

Number of jobs received & completed during the year 2000-10 were 112.

Out-reach Programmes Organized

As a part of the Science Day programme, the Faculty organized an Open-House programme to bring awareness among students and scholars of the University and affiliated institutions on 27.02.10. Details about the sophisticated instruments

their principle of operation, applications etc., were explained to the participants and it was well received and appreciated.

Future Plan

An Electron Probe Micro Analyser (EPMA) with three simultaneous Wavelength Dispersive Analyser units and one Energy Dispersive Analyser will be added shortly to the facility, it can be used to analyse chemical composition of a variety of sample types synthesized by the research scholars of the University at a relatively shorter time and with lesser quantity of samples. Few more sophisticated instruments such as Particle Analyser, Surface area Analyser, High Temperature attachments etc., are also to be added to the facility shortly.

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4.6 Best Practices in the Development of Infrastructure and Learning Resources

4.6.1 Describe the best practices for the development of infrastructure and learning resource adopted by the university with reference to physical facilities and its maintenance / library as a learning resource / ICT as learning resource and other facilities to create learning ambience?

Anticipating the projected growth and advance planning and timely implementation is the secret of success of Pondicherry University in bringing a U-turn in its rating and visibility.

All development has been wholistically planned to ensure the maximum yield out of the efforts. Physical facilities, Laboratories, Automation, Library, accommodation, Networking, Campus Development, ICT use have all been planned and implemented simultaneously, and hence the unprecedented growth results.

The increase in built space by 1.30 million sq. ft. addition of 10 Hostels, total Wi-Fi Campus, addition of 200 Faculties, total modernization of Library, online access to Library resources, State of the Art, Sports Facilities, establishment of 23 Computer Laboratories. 100% power backup are just a few of the major developments.

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For Re-accreditation:-

1. What were the evaluative observations made under infrastructure and Learning

Resources in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon? and

2. What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to infrastructure and learning Resources?

Observations:-

The University has a beautiful and well-planned campus of 780 acres on the western side of the East Coast Road. It has eighteen buildings with a covered area of approximately 53,468.52 sq. metres. There are two air-conditioned seminar/conference halls, two air-conditioned auditoriums, a Central Library, a Computer Centre, eleven hostels including one for foreign students and also a transit hostel for Faculty, residential quarters for both teaching and non-teaching staff, a Primary Health Centre, a Central Instrumentation Facility, well-equipped laboratories in the various Departments and Centres, a guest house and convention centre, and an outdoor, stadium with sports facilities. The Department of Physical Education has its own premises, as do a number of other Schools and Departments. The sports stadium has an area of 15 acres and the infrastructure necessary to conduct athletics as well as outdoor sports events.

The Central Instrumentation Facility has a Glass Blowing Shop, Mechanical Shop and Electrical Shop. It also has, among other equipment, a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer and a Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive X-Ray Analyser. The Department of Earth Sciences has acquired sophisticated and advanced instruments such as the Inductive Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer and the Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometer (as a National Research Facility). The Department of Anthropology has setup a Visual Anthropology lab with non-linear editing and film production equipment in order to record ethnographic material in digital form, and the English Department has taken the lead to establish a Computer Aided Language Laboratory for the teaching of English, as a facility housed in the Central Library. The infrastructure is maintained with help of UGC grants by the CPWD, as well as the University s own engineering wing and estate maintenance section supervised by the Executive Engineer. There are three generators providing 532 KVA to ensure uninterrupted power supply.

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The Central Library functions from 9.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. and books are issued upto 5 p.m. It has 1,19,305 books and subscribes to 538 Indian and Foreign print journals. It has access to the 4053 online full-text journals, 10,000 abstracts, 8 databases and 1 encyclopedia subscribed to by UGC-INFONET and also subscribes to 763 current and 525 archival journals provided by Elsevier Science Direct and 2119 full-text and 3181 abstracts supplied by EBSCO, as well as 29 annual review archives, all of which can be accessed in the University campus via INTRANET. The ratio of books to students is 78:1. The Library is fully automated and the reading hall has been air-conditioned. The University Computer Centre functions from 9.30 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. There is campus-wide INTRANET and internet access through 4 Mbps radio link. The University is linked with UGC INFONET through VSAT.

There are eleven hostels providing accommodation for 593 male and 245 female students, residential quarters for the staff, guest house, post office, bank and two canteens. The Primary Health Centre is provided for the benefit of the University community. Medicines are supplied free of cost. The University provides a bus service to students, staff and Faculty who commute from Pondicherry town 11 km away.

Enhancement Measures: -

The University attained unprecedented growth in the infrastructure and in the learning resources developments during these past 5 years. While at the time of NAAC Reaccredidation, all the Departments of the University were housed in two buildings to-day, every Department has been provided independent accommodation and a building. The total infrastructure added in terms of buildings crosses 1.3 million sq.ft.

School of Social Sciences, School of Humanities, School of Tamil, School of Media, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics, Department of Bio-Technology have all been provided with independent building and separate buildings are under construction for the new programmes such as Nano Science & Technology, Green Energy Technology, Earth Sciences and Bio-Informatics.

The number of Hostels have been increased from 9 to 19.

The University has been given 100% power back-up for Laboratories, Departments, Hostels and Campus lighting.

State of Art sports facilities have been created with new Auditorium, Stadium and Play-pitch.

The numbers of Computer Laboratories added are 23 with required Software installed new for teaching purposes and huge subscription to e-journal and print journal has

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enormously added to the quality of infrastructure and learning environment. As already indicated elsewhere, over 23,928 E-Journals are accessible online for full text, even remotely.

The research output is amply visible from the recent citation index of 6.16 and H-index of 33 which is a measure of quality of research.

The sophisticated instruments added to the University Laboratories have tremendously increased the quality of research.

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5.1 Student Progression

5.1.1 What is the student strength of the institution for the current academic year? Give the data, gender

wise, state-wise and nationality wise, along with analysis and

comments.

One of vision statements was Expansion in XI Plan and the University set a target of atlteast 300% growth in students and has been successful in achieving the targets and it may touch 400% by 2012.

The total strength of Students & Scholars is 4647 on the rolls out of which 2881 are male and 1766 are female. In M.Phil, 336 students are admitted, out of which 221 are male and 115 female. Out of 655 admitted for Ph.D, 437 are male and 218 are female. The admission for the current academic year (2010-11) is 2645.

Students Admission (Boys & Girls) during the last 5 years

Gender

wise Students Particulars 2010-11

Abstract Statement of Students Enrolment 2010-11

Course Total

General OBC SC ST PH FS

M F M F M F M F M F M F M F

Ph.D 199

97 296 114

62 50 24

30 4 9 1 0 0 1 1

M.Phil 221

115 336 95 61 65 34

46 18 11 3 3 1 1 0

PG 1217

796 2013

477

362

415

267

236

117

64 43

16 3 9 4

Total 1637

1008

2645

686

485

530

325

312

139

84 47

19 4 11

5

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State-wise Students Particulars

2010-11

Abstract of State Wise Student Admission 2010-11

Sl. No.

Name of the

State / Country PG

Total M. Phil

Total

Ph. D

Total

Grand Total M F M F M F

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands

9 12 21 1 2 3 3 2 5 29

2. Andhra Pradesh 253 52 305 18 2 20 17 4 21 346

3. Arunachal Pradesh

0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

4. Assam 15 7 22 0 1 1 1 1 2 25 5. Bihar 102 10 112 4 1 5 3 1 4 121 6. Chandigarh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7. Chhattisgarh 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8. Goa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9. Gujarat 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 10.

Haryana 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

11.

Himachal Pradesh

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

12.

Jammu and Kashmir

5 0 5 26 0 26 13 1 14 45

13.

Jharkhand 24 3 27 1 0 1 0 1 1 29 14.

Karnataka 5 8 13 1 1 2 2 0 2 17 15.

Kerala 141 100

241 25 17 42 19 12

31 314

16.

Lakshadweep (Maldives)

2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

17.

Madhya Pradesh

5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

18.

Maharashtra 6 3 9 0 1 1 2 0 2 12 19.

Manipur 3 6 9 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 20.

Meghalaya 2 11 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 14 21.

Mizoram 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 22.

Nagaland 5 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 23.

New Delhi 15 9 24 1 1 2 1 0 1 27 24.

Orissa 42 40 82 20 20 40 15 13

28 150 25.

Puducherry 340 403

743 42 39 81 29 24

53 877 26.

Punjab 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 27.

Rajasthan 6 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 28.

Sikkim 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 29.

Tamil Nadu 147 93 240 59 24 83 40 10

50 373 30.

Tripura 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 31.

Uttarakhand 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 32.

Uttar Pradesh 46 6 52 15 0 15 7 0 7 74 33.

West Bengal 22 10 32 4 0 4 7 2 9 45

Indian Student's Total

1208

792

2000 219

110

329

162

71

233 2562

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Nationality wise Students Particulars

Abstract of Country Wise Student Admission 2010-11 1 Bhutan 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 Nepal 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 Srilanka 2 1 3 1 0 1 1 1 2 6 4 Canada 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 Bangaladesh 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 Afghanistan 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Total Foreign Students 9 4 13 1 0 1 1 1 2 16

5.1.2 Details of the last two batches of students and their profile (SC/ST, OBC, BC General etc.,) prefixing the Socio-economic profiles also.

Students Admitted During 2008-09 at a glance

Course Candidates Admitted

Gen

SC ST OBC Min. PH FS Total

Ph.D. 62 35 1 54 16 2 0 170 M.Phil. 67 72 12 119 29 4 1 304 M.Tech. 12 11 1 11 3 1 0 39

M.A. 66 80 12 129 37 6 5 335 M.Sc. 112 63 13 145 30 2 0 365

M.Sc.(Int) 39 13 3 14 0 1 0 70 M.B.A. 78 34 10 51 5 5 0 183 M.C.A. 14 4 4 16 3 2 0 43

Cert. & Diploma 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Others 4 11 0 35 10 3 0 63 Total 454 323 56 574 133 26 6 1572

Students Admitted During 2009-10 at a glance

Course

Candidates Admitted

Gen SC ST OBC PH FS Total Ph.D. 77 37 6 61 1 - 182

M.Phil. 98 65 13 126 3 - 305 M.Tech. 16 11 3 25 - - 55

M.A. 112 67 17 152 4 11 363 M.Sc. 197 76 12 178 1 1 465

M.Sc.(Int) 43 12 4 24 - - 83 M.B.A. 110 40 15 95 4 - 264 M.C.A. 23 11 1 34 1 - 70 Others 38 34 5 77 4 - 158 Total 714 353 76 772 18 12 1945

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5.1.3 What percentage of the students on an average progress to further studies? Give

details for the last five years.

It is very difficult to know the exact % of students progress to further studies as, after PG Programme many students opt for employment. Those who apply for further studies in the University might not necessarily qualify for M.Phil or Ph.D admission in the entrance examination. Some students get admission for further studies elsewhere. However on a conservative estimate about 10% are able to continue their further studies in the same University.

5.1.4 What is the dropout rate for the different years after admission?

The dropout rate is quite low. In most of the cases the reason for students drop out is due to failing in the qualifying exams, marriage of girl students and getting admission elsewhere in the subject of their choice. However the dropout is minimal because of the efforts taken by the admission and the facilities provided in this University. Of late the visibility and reputation of University is the main reason that prevents the students going elsewhere for studies, hence the dropout is minimal unless these is an unavoidable reason.

5.1.5 What proportions of the graduating students have been employed for the last three years? Provide placement record for the last three years.

5-10% of the students after their P.G. course do not opt for employment which includes female students getting married, about 5 - 10% students opt for self employment, 60-70% students on average get placement and 10 - 20% students go for further studies like M.Phil & Ph.D. Most of the Management Departments and Computer Science department get 90-100% placement. Other Departments with 40-50% placements averages out of to 60% placement in all.

5.1.6 How many students appeared/ qualified in UGC-CSIR-NET, SLET, IAS, GATE/CAT/GRE/TOFEL/GMAT/Central/State services, etc. through Competitive Examinations.

Details of UGC/ NET/ CSIR/GATE etc., (2008

2009 & 2009 - 2010)

2008

2009

UGC/NET/ C.S.I.R./ SLET/ GATE/ CAT/GRE TOFEL., EXAMS

Departments Appeared Qualified

School of Mathematics & Computer Science

Mathematics 4 3

Statistics 6 4

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Management Studies No data 1

Commerce

4

Economics

1

Tourism Studies

1

School of Life Science

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

No data 13

Biotechnology

15

Ecology and Environmental Science

2

Ocean Studies and Marine Biology

1

Bioinformatics

1

School of Social Science and International Studies

Sociology No data 2

History

3

Politics & International Studies

2

Women Studies

4

School of Humanities

English No data 3

French

2

School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Science

Physics No data 2

Chemistry

45

Earth Sciences

20

Electronic Media

1

School of Education

Education No data 1

Total 131

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2009

2010

Departments Appeared Qualified

School of Tamil

Tamil 90 20

School of Mathematics & Computer Science

Mathematics 12 7


Management Studies 7 1

Commerce 17 2

Economics 15 4

Tourism Studies 9 5

International Business 5 3

School of Life Science

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

44 14

Biotechnology 38 6

Bioinformatics 40 8

Pollution Control & Energy Technology

1 1

School of Social Science and International Studies

Anthropology 2 -

Women Studies 7 4

School of Humanities

English No Data 8

French 10 5

Physical Education & Sports 30 4

School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Science

Physics 25 2

Chemistry 80 39

Earth Sciences 105 16

Applied Psychology 9 1

Electronic Media 5 1

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School of Education

Education No Data 9

School of Performing Arts

Performing Arts 12 3

Total 163

5.2 Student Support

5.2.1 Does the institution publish its updated prospectus and handbooks annually? If yes, what are the information contents disseminated to students?

Yes, the University publishes its vital information in a very elegant and illustrative prospectus every year before the commencement of the academic year. It contains all the details of the Schools, Departments Faculty, programmes offered etc along with admission procedure, fee structure, facilities and financial assistance, code of conduct and even the academic calendar. The prospectus is also hosted on the University website.

5.2.2 Does the institution provide financial aid to students? If yes, specify the type and number of scholarships / free ships given to the students last year?

The Scholarship and financial aids provided by the University are M.Phil, Ph.D

UGC Scholarship Rs. 3000/- & Rs. 5000/- per month to each student.

PG Merit Scholarship Rs. 500/- per month to the topper in each semester Merit Cum means Rs. 500 for one semester (20% of students of each PG Programme).

Free ship - Tuition Fee waiver for one year (20% students of each PG Programme)

M.Sc Marine Biology Rs.1000/- per month(all semester)

M.Sc Coastal Disaster Management to all students.

M.Sc Computational Biology Rs. 500/- per month to all students

M.Sc Integrated Rs. 750 for three years to all students

Presently the following scholarships are availed by the students apart from the scholarships given to all M.Phil & Ph.D students by the University.

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UGC - Junior Research Fellowship

The UGC-NET qualified JRFs are eligible to receive fellowships @ Rs.16,000/- p.m. for two years. This is enhanced to Rs.18,000/-p.m., on completion of two years and subject to fulfilling certain conditions laid down by the UGC. They are also eligible for a contingent grant as given below:

Arts Science

JRF Rs.10,000/- p.a. Rs.12,000/- p.a.

SRF Rs. 20,000/- p.a. Rs.25,000/- p.a.

CSIR

Junior Research Fellowship

The CSIR-NET qualified JRFs are eligible to receive fellowships @ Rs.16,000/- p.m. for two years. This is enhanced to Rs.18,000/- p.m. on completion of two years subject to fulfilling certain conditions laid down by the CSIR. They are also eligible for a contingent grant of Rs.20,000/- per year.

UGC Scholarship

M.Phil./Ph.D.

The University provides Scholarships of Rs.5,000/- p.m. to all Ph.D. scholars and Rs.3,000/- to M.Phil. students who are not in receipt of any Scholarships/Fellowships (as per UGC Scheme). Under this, 311 Ph.D. scholars and 284 M.Phil. students were awarded the scholarships and the actual expenditure under this scheme was Rs.2,00,75,472/- for the year 2009-10.

N.B.H.M. Scholarship

The National Board for Higher Mathematics, Mumbai (Department of Atomic Energy) allots two scholarships every year for the students admitted to the P.G. programmes being offered at the Department of Mathematics. Each scholarship carries a sum of Rs.3000/-p.m.

SC/ST Scholarships

Various State Governments and the Union Territory of Puducherry Government sanction scholarships to the candidates belonging to SC/ST community for doing post-graduate courses.

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Govt. of Pondicherry Scholarships

The Government of Puducherry awards Merit and Merit-cum-Means Scholarships for the students belonging to the Union Territory of Puducherry enrolled in various courses of the University.

The Government of Puducherry also provides two fellowships to the residents/natives of Puducherry @ Rs.800/- per month and an annual contingency of Rs.3,000/- for two candidates pursuing research leading to Ph.D. Degree in Tamil.

Two fellowships @ Rs.800/- per month are given to two students admitted in the M.Sc. programme of the Department of Biotechnology.

Pondicherry University Scholarships / Freeships

Merit Scholarship

(i) The candidate who secures the highest percentage of marks in P.G. admission entrance examination shall be eligible for the award of Merit Scholarship @ Rs.500/- p.m. for the first semester.

(ii) For the subsequent semesters the Merit scholarship at same rate of Rs.500/- p.m. shall be awarded to the candidates who have topped in the preceding semester and have no arrears.

Merit-cum-Means Scholarship (MCM)

20% of the students in each P.G. degree programme are eligible for the award of MCM Scholarship of the University. The scholarship at Rs.500 p.m. is based both on the merit in each semester and the parental income of the student. The annual income of the parents should not exceed Rs.1,10,000/-.

Freeships

20% of the students in each of the P.G. degree programme are eligible for the award of Freeship. The first six students who join the P.G. programme in Hindi and Sanskrit are eligible for the award of Freeship. The freeship would cover tuition fee for one academic year based on the annual income of the parents. The annual income of the parents should not exceed Rs.1,10,000/-.

Scholarships for M.Sc. Marine Biology & Coastal Disaster Management

All selected candidates are awarded a scholarship of Rs.1000/-p.m. to study these courses at Port Blair, Andamans.

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Scholarship for M.Sc. Integrated students

In order to encourage students to take up courses in various basic and applied sciences, the University awards a scholarship of Rs.750/-p.m. to all the students who are pursuing the 5 year M.Sc. Integrated Courses in Physics, Chemistry and Applied Geology in the School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences and in Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics. Students who have arrears and those CGPA is less than 5.0 are not eligible for this scholarship.

Award of Research Associateships, Fellowships & Scholarships during

2009

2010

Sl. No.

Name of the Award Total No. of Awardees

1. UGC-JRF 26 2. UGC-SRF 1 3. UGC-FIP NIL 4. CSIR-JRF 9 5. CSIR-SRF 5 6. CSIR-Research Associate ship NIL 7. CSIR-SRA 1 8. Pondicherry Govt. Fellowship under the scheme of

Tamil Language & Literature NIL

9. Award of Fellowship for Research Studies in French NIL 10. Pondicherry Govt. Post Matric Scholarship to PG

students (Merit) NIL

11. Scheme for the award of Fellowship to Scholars for pursuing higher studies on subjects relating to Arts & Culture

NIL

12. Govt. of India Scholarship sanctioned by the Director of Adi-Dravidar & Tribal Welfare, Madras

141

13. Govt. of India Scholarship sanctioned by the Adi- Dravidar Welfare Department,Govt. of Puducherry

178

14. Govt. of India Scholarship sanctioned by the Govt. Of Andhra Pradesh

40

15. Govt.of India Post Matric Scholarship

Kerala

Orissa

Guhathi

West Bengal

Ranchi

Arunachal Pradesh

Meghalaya

Bihar

06 01 11 01 07 01 03 01

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16. Govt. of India Post Matric BC students Scholarship

sanctioned by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh NIL

17. ICMR Fellowship sanctioned by New Delhi 3 18. ICHR-Fellowships sanctioned by New Delhi 1 19. NBHM Scholarship to M.Sc., (Maths) students NIL 20. ICCR Scholarship NIL 21. NCERT Fellowship, New Delhi NIL 22. Charitable Trust (GBCT) NIL 23. Physically handicapped scholarship sanctioned by

the Directorate of Social Welfare, Pondicherry 4

24. ICPR

Fellowship sanctioned by New Delhi 1 25. Financial assistance to all the students of Advanced

PG Diploma in Bioinformatics (Rs.5,000/-p.m.) sanctioned by DBT-MST, Govt. of India

20

26. Pondicherry Govt. Fellowship for Research Studies in M.Sc., Bio-Technology Programme

NIL

27. Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC/ST candidates

21

28. UGC-Meritorious Fellowship for Science Students 20 29. South Asian Foundation Fellowship 3 30. Madanjeet Singh Group Scholarship 23 31. PG-Indira Gandhi Single Girl Child Fellowship 8 32. UGC-PG Scholarship for Professional Courses for

SC/ST 14

5.2.3 What types of support services are available to overseas students?

Foreign students are accommodated in International Students Hostel with free access to library, Medical facilities and all other facilities available to the students of Pondicherry University. The Faculty coordination incharge of Study India Programme organizes all the activities related to foreign students and provides counseling in all academic and other matters.

5.2.4 What support services are available to SC/ST students?

There are various support services available to SC/ST students. 15% seats are reserved for SC and 7.5% for ST as per the policy of Govt. of India and guidelines of UGC. The criterion for admission is also relaxed. The eligibility criteria of qualifying marks are relaxed to the extent of 5% for OBC and mean pass for SC/ST students. Apart from these above for the welfare of SC/ST students the University has established a separate SC/ST cell.

The SC/ST students are exempted from payment of tuition fees.

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Separate training / coaching progrmames are arranged for the students who are preparing the IAS / IES / UGS

NET and other competitive examination.

Rajiv Gandhi fellowship in sanctioned by Govt. of India get admission round the year in Ph.D programme. The admission test on waived for SC/ST students who get Rajiv Gandhi fellowship SC/ST students get preference in hostel admission.

5.2.5 What are the support services made available to differently-abled students?

This is the only University in the country to take affirmative measures to support the physically disabled students. The major incentives are:

Reservation of 3% seats

Entrance fee exemption

Admission fee exemption

Tuition fee exemption

Free boarding and lodging in the hostel

Ramp and lift facility in all the buildings

Provision of motorized wheelchair

Separate section on the library with suitable software and hardware for library access.

5.2.6 Does the institution offer placement and counseling services to students?

Yes, the University has a Placement Cell monitored by placement co-ordinator looking after the placement of the entire University as well as affiliated college students. The Placement Cell also offers training and counseling services for placement facilitation. Apart from the placements organized by Central Placement Cell, the School of Management has voluntarily set up a Placement Cell which specifically looks after the placements of the School of Management. In Karaikal campus individual Departments carry out their placement activities. The Placement Cell of School of Management also organizes soft skill development programme.

List of Placement

2006

2007 (ENGINEERING & MCA)

Sl. No Name of the Company No. of Placement

1 TCS 68

2 CTS 6

3 INFOSYS 45

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4 HCL 31

5 CARITOR 37

6 SATYAM 25

7 IFLEX 15

8 IGATE 23

9 HP 6

10 PATNI 27

11 BIRLASOFT 21

12 SYNTEL 23

13 GLOBALSOFT 1

14 AMI 2

15 L&T INFOTECH 15

16 CYBERNET 5

17 PRODEX 4

18 HEXAWARE 15

19 SATYAM(06) 23

20 Accenture 22

21 Torry Harris 5

22 Honeywell 14

23 WIPRO 18

24 GE Healthcare 3

25 Zenith Computers 3

26 Servion 2

27 Data Patterns 4

TOTAL 463

ARTS & SCIENCE 1. INFOSYS 2

2. CTS 86

3. Wipro 29

4. Igate 9

5. TCS(06) 10

6. Accenture 8

7. TCS 24

8. Servion 1

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9. Wipro 35

10. TCS BPO 45

TOTAL 249

2007 - 2008 (ENGINEERING & MCA)

1. TCS 177

2. CTS 78

3. INFOSYS 48

4. Accenture 18

5. Caritor, Chennai 75

6. iflex, Bangalore 3

7. iGate, Bangalore 3

8. Syntel, Chennai 39

9. Multitech, Bangalore 4

10. LNT Infotech 11

11. Thorogood Associates 3

12. HP, Bangalore 9

13. Vestas, Chennai 2

14. ITC Infotech, Bangalore 7

15. Maytas, Chenna 4

16. Sapient, Gurgaon 1

17. SCM Microsystems, Chennai 2

18. Honeywell, Bangalore 3

19. IDEA, Chennai 3

TOTAL 490

ARTS & SCIENCES

1. TCS 37

2. TCS 15

3. Infosys Tech & BPO 74

4. Infosys BPO 70

5. Infosys Technologies 65

6. CTS, Chennai 32

7. Accenture, Bangalore 10

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8. Wipro, Bangalore 6

9. Sutherland, Chennai 18

10. Wipro Infotech, Chennai 45

11. OPI, Bangalore 32

12. Laxmi Vilas Bank 7

13. OPI, Bangalore 14

14. India Infoline 1

15. Kotak Securities 3

16. CTS, BPO 40

17. Hindustan Zinc, Udaipur 1

TOTAL 470

MBA

1. TCS, Chennai 5

2. HCL BPO, Guargoan 2

3. Caritor, Chennai 4

4. HCL, Bangalore 2

5. Sonata, Bangalore 3

6. American Express, Chennai

7. IDBI, Mumbai 10

8. HCL Peripherals, Chennai 2

9. Thomascook, Mumbai 1

10. GFK MODE, Chennai

11. STIC Travel Group, Delhi 3

12. SOTC, Chennai 2

13. Vijaya Travels, Pondicherry 1

14. Ascon Travels, Chennai 5

15. ICICIPrudential, Chennai 6

16. IL&FS, Bangalore 1

17. Reliance Life Insurance, Chennai 17

18. Vacationer Travels 1

19. Orbitz INT 1

20. Footprints, Chennai 1

21. CTS, Chennai

22. Satyam, Hyderabad 7

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23. Laxmi Vilas Bank 12

24. Berger Paints, Mumbai

25. India Infoline 10

26. Procon, Coimbatore 3

TOTAL 99

2008



1. Tata Consultancy Services 148

2. Infosys, Bangalore 16


4. iflex, Bangalore 22

5. ITC Infotech, Bangalore 9

6. Vestas, Chennai 2

7. Honeywell, Madurai 7

8. Cybernet SS, Chennai 6

TOTAL 226

ARTS & SCIENCES

1. Satyam 10

2. Wipro BPO (2007 & 2008) 8

3. Wipro 8


5. CTS, Chennai 3

6. Cybernet SS, Chennai 3

7. Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Karur 3

TOTAL 41

MBA

1. TCS, Chennai 1

2. ProdEx, Chennai 1

3. IDBI, Mumbai 11

4. ICICI Prudential 10

5. Elists, Chennai 1

6. City Union Bank, Kumbakonam 16

7. Bank of Maharashtra, Pune 14

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8. Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Karur 14

TOTAL 69

2009



1. Tata Consultancy Services 106

TOTAL 106

ARTS & SCIENCES


2. Infosys BPO 27

3. TOTAL 30

2010



1. Cognizant 154

2. Accenture 83

3. HCL Technologies 81

4. ITC Infotech 8

5. Patni Computers 51

TOTAL 377

ARTS & SCIENCES

1. Cognizant 35

2. Wipro 14

TOTAL 49

MBA

1. TCS, Chennai 11

2. Reserve Bank of India 1

3. Cognizant 2

TOTAL 14

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Current Year (2010-11) Placement Updates of School of Management

as on 08.04.2011

S. No.

Department No. of Students Placed

Percentage of Placement

1. Management Studies 39 72.3%

2. Tourism Studies 59 100%

3. Banking Technology 44 50%

4. International Business 43 91.8%

5. Insurance Management 12 44%

Total 171 75.9%

5.2.7 Is there a counseling service for women students?

The University has a Assistant Dean, Students Affairs, to look after the welfare of women students and a visiting counselor who is a qualified professional counselor. To help students adjust to changes and to University life in general, the Department of Social Work has established a Guidance and Counceling Centre. The Centre has developed among students an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of our University to cope effectively while operating outside their familiar and comfort zones

physical and psychological.

Centre for Women Studies also help in counseling the girls students, most of the departments have women faculty and they take care of the students of their respective department inters of counseling helping to solve problems etc.

5.2.8 Does the faculty participate in academic and personal counseling? If yes, how many have participated last year?

All faculty compulsorily participate in academic and personal counseling. In the University the academic system is such that each student is attached to a Faculty advisor who offers academic and personal counselling. The Faculty advisor also guides the project work as well as the dissertation. The project work guidance facilitates academic and personal counseling of the students. Apart from this, the Dean Students Affairs is accessible to students for academic and personal counseling.

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5.2.9 Has the employment cell encouraged students to be self-employed during the last

five years?

The University has an Placement Cell to coordinate placement. The placement cell activities also organizes programmes for self development which later on paves the way for self employment.

5.2.10 Does the institution have an alumni association? If yes, what are its activities?

The University has an Alumni Association which has a separate website. Even various Departments have their own alumni association. More specifically the departments under the School of Management, Computational Science etc., have very active alumni association which meet regularly once in a year. The alumni association brought together by Pondicherry University provides a platform to the old students to contribute towards taking the flag higher, by encouraging and enabling the existing students to get placements. The alumni supports as well as contributes financially or otherwise to assist the University towards achieving the aim of the University.

5.2.11 List the names of top 10 most renowned Alumni of the University along with their designation.

LIST OF TOP ALUMNI DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS


1. Mr.V.G.Shakthi Kumar COO, Schwing Stetter India Ltd., 2. Mr.E.Balaji, CEO & Director,

Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd. 3. Dr.Anil Menon Vice President,

Corporate Strategy, IBM Growth Markets 4. Mr.Bala Sundar, Founder, President,

SyApps LLC, Washington D.C. USA 5. Mr.Ramaki Sundaram, CFO, Air Deccan now Kingfisher Red 6. Mrs.Soundarya Rajesh Founder,

Avatar Career Creators 7. Mrs.Anuradha Sriram Co-founder and JMD Integra 8. Mr.Anand Subramaniam, VP, Mashreqbank, Dubai 9. Mr.Ashwin Mahesh, CEO, Mapunity 10. Mr.Ravi Kiran Director, Bfsi consulting, IBM 11. Mr.Chandramouli AVP & Head-Customer Feedback,

Feedback consulting 12. Mr.Venkatesh Subbraman Executive Director,

ACES, ABN AMRO 13. Mr.Narendra Kumar, HR Head-South India, Coke India

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14. Mr.Brij Raj, Asst. General Manager

Reserve Bank of India 15. Mr.Arun Kumar P.V. Business Manager

Global Major Accounts, Aricent Technologies

16 Mr.Rajesh V Head

Retail Solutions,

TCS 17 Mr.Clement Williams Territory Manager

South Kotak Mahindra

18 Mr.Ravi Subbiah, Chief Executive, SR International

19 Mr.Rajiv Sampath Project Manager & Consultant, HP 20 Mr.Suryakiran Bonta, Banking & Capital Markets,

Infosys Technologies 21 Ms.Anne Davies, Business Development Manager,

Steelcase Asia Pacific Holdings 22 Mr.Sourabh Banerjee Operations Manager

IBM 23 Dr.Latha Poonamallee, Asst. Professor,

School of Business & Economics, Michigan Technoligcal University, Houghton, USA

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

1. V.Anil Kumar Reddy CRM, ICICI Securities 2. Anil Kumar Samad Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 3. Ankit Singh Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 4. Arunkumar Parise Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 5. Bir Bahadur Bikram Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 6. Elangkavi.S Previlage Officer,

ICICI Bank 7. Indhupriya.R HR Manager, CTS 8. Jabed Zafer M.D. Assistant Business Manager,

HB Entertainment 9. Jayant R.Mohite Management Trainee

Thomas Cook 10. Kattepogu Nagarjuna Assistant Business Manager,

BH Entertainment 11. Kirubaker Prabu.D Assistant Manager

South Indian Bank

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12. Kuruva Daragaiah Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 13. Manisha Assistant Manager

South Indian Bank 14. Muthukumar.B Management Trainee

Thomas Cook 15. Muthuvel.S. Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 16. Nanthakumar.A. CRM, ICICI Securities 17. Nekhat Perveen Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 18. Raju Kumar Previlage Officer,

ICICI Bank 19 Rakesh Kumar Pandey Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 20. Ravi Prakash Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 21. Sankar.J Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 22. Saranya.P Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 23. Satya Vara Prasad.M.S. Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 24. Shravan Kumar Gupta Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 25. Siva Prasad.B Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 26. Sridhar.G. Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 27. Subhash Yadav Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 28. Sudheer Kumar.B CRM, ICICI Securities 29. Suman Kumar Singh Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 30. Vengadapathy.P Assistant Business Manager

HB Entertainment 31. Vivek Kavvam Management Trainee

TCS, 32. Anand Raj.A Sales Executive

SBI Life Insurance 33. Gayathri.T.A. Management Trainee

TCS 34. Gopinath.P Management Trainee

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35. Indira Bethapudi Management Trainee

HCL Infosystems 36. Mohamed Sabir Iqbal.M Management Trainee

TCS 37. Pawankumar Ram Associate, RBS 38. Udipta Datta Management Trainee, TCS 39 Premanadhan.R Sales Executive,

SBI Life Insurance DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK

1. Mr.Rufus Singh Asst. Professor, Muslim Arts College, Nagercoil, TN

2. Mr.Kishan Chakma Project Officer, Action Aid India, Assam 3. Ms.Shiwani Kumari HR Executive, New Delhi 4. Mr.Vijay Amirtharaj HR Executive, Asian Paints, Chennai, TN 5. Ms.Kumudavalli HR Executive,

TCS, Chennai 6. Ms.Elwina Kakhlari Project Officer,

NRHM, Assam CENTRE FOR POLLUTION CONTROL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGG.

1. Dr.F.I.Khan Professor & Chair Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, Memorial University of New foundland, Canada

2. Dr.D.S.Arya Associate Professor, Department of Hydrology, IIT, Roorkee

3. Dr.E.V. Ramasamy Director, School of Environmental Sciences Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM STUDIES 1. Dr.Babu George Asst. Professor,

University of Southern Missicipi, Missicicipi, USA

2. Dr.Maharaj Vijay Reddy Lecturer, Tourism Management, Bournemouth University, UK

3. Dr.B.George Reader, Dept. of Tourism, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

4. Dr.Devabalan Senior Lecturer, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry

5. Dr.Murugan Senior Lecturer, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry

6. Mr.Anu Chandran.R.C Asst. Professor, Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University

7. Dr.Jitendra Mohan Mishra Asst. Professor, Department of Tourism Studies

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8. Dr.Kadirvelu HOD,

Department of Tourism Studies, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Govt. College, Madagadipet, Puducherry

9. Dr.Nihamtullah Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Tourism Studies Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Govt. College, Madagadipet, Puducherry

10. Mr.Sanjeev Reddy, C.K. Dept. of Tourism Studies, IITTM, Gwalior 11. Mr.Ranjit Kumar Raman Dept. of Tourism Studies, IITTM, Gwalior 12. Mr.R.Narashimmaraj Assistant Professor, Dept. of Tourism Studies,

Govt. Arts College, Coimbatore 13. Mr.A.Saravanan Assistant Professor, Dept. of Tourism Studies,

Ooty, Govt. Arts College, Ooty. 14. Mr.Manish Bharathi Vice President, YATRA.Com 15. Mr.Saju Mathews Vice-President,

Intersight Travels, Cochi 16. Mr.Kesavan Sadanandan General Manager, King Fisher South India 17. Danian D Souza Vice President, SOTC, Mumbai 18. Mr.Janagavelu Manager, Thomas Cook, Coimbatore 19. Mr.Raja Ramalingam Manager, Thomas Cook, Chennai 20. Mr.Nandagopal Managing Director, Vijaya Travels Cook,

Chennai 21. Mr.Shanmuga Sundaram Managing Director,

Vacationers, Bangalore 22. Mr.Naveen Balaji Managing Director, Ocean Spray,

Pondicherry 23. Mr.Saji Manager, Indigo Airlines,

Coimbatore 24. Mr.Gnana Bharathi Manager, IDBI, Chennai 25. Mr.Partha Mithra Manager, IDBI, Delhi 26. Mr.Raghavan Training Manager, Royal Sundaram General

Insurance, Chennai 27. Mr.J.Jayamani Manager, TUI India, Chennai 28. Ms.Radhika Gopal Consultant, Chennai 29. Ms.Vidya C.K. Manager, Thomas Cook 30. Mr.Gopal Wahi Product Manager, Credit Cards,

ICICI Bank, Mumbai 31. Mr.C.R.Gugan Executive, Akshaya India Tours, Chennai 32. Ms.V.Sugunya Research Analyst,

Equiniti ICS, Chennai 33. Mr.K.Kannan Assistant Manager,

SOTC, Chennai 34. Mr.G.Shanmugam Assistant Manager,

Kotak Mahindra Bank

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1. Vijay Vincent Mathew Banking Verticle Lead, IBM, Bengaluru 2. Yuvaraj Wealth Mgt. Ltead, TCS 3. Prayas Shaini Offshore Banking Lead, HCL Tech 4. Ram Kumar Naik Credit Analyst, India Factoring 5. Nirmala Marketing Lead, Tech Mahendra 6. Fidal Castro Banking Lead, Ramco 7. Arun Kumar Information Security, Cap Gemini 8. Anand.B Sr Position, HCL 9. Gopi Krishna M. Business Analyst, TCS 10. Anuj Sarma Banking Div, HCL 11. Sri Harsa Sai Business Analyst, Keens 12. Vidya Lakshmi Business Analyst, Tech Mahendra 13. Manikandan Treasury, Bank of Maharastra 14. Kalesh Valli Manager, IDBI 15. Varun Officer, State Bank of India 16. Revathy Information Tech Officer, ICICI 17. Sailaja Officer, Bank of Maharastra 18. Deepa Business Analyst, HP 19. Parandaman Software Testing, Lasersoft 20. Siva Ramakrishna Verma Bank of America 21. Pranthika Officer, Rayal Bank of Scotland 22. Dhanalakshmi Officer, HSBC 23. Muralidharan Technology Officer, RBI 24. Salini Business Analyst, TCS 25. Kannan.D Information Security Lead, Quadit 26. Ajeeth Business Analyst, Sonata 27. Raja Babu.N Officer, ICICI Bank DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES

1. Deepak Mishra Faculty, Mississipi State University, USA 2. Jaiby Ann Jacob Research Scientist,

James Cook University, Australia 3. S.Prabhu Geologist,

Reliance Petroleum, Mumbai DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

1. Dr.Olei Sarkar, Post Doctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2. Dr.Sudha Ramiah Anand Asst. Professor, Bioinformatics Division, SBST, VIT University, Vellore

3. Dr.Lachoumycandane Post Doctoral Fellow, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

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4. Dr.Malarvizhi Research Associate

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

5. Dr.S.Muthu Asst. Professor, Aringar Anna Govt. Arts College, Karaikal, Pondicherry

6. Dr.S.Ravikumar Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Soon Ho Hong Lab, School of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering, University of Ulsan Republic of Korea

7. Dr.K.Kumaran Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

8. Dr.S.Sundar Asst. Professor, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

9. Dr.Arun Dakshinamurthy Research Associate, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

10. Dr.Govinda Lanka, Research Associate, North Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan

11. Dr.V.Muthuviveganandavel Asst. Professor Kanchi Mamunivar, PG Centre, Pondicherry

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH 1. K.Nandiny Team Leader, World Bank, Chennai 2. Sayan Ghosh Team Leader, Renault

Nissan, Chinglepet, Tamilnadu

3. Ms.Deepti Datla Team Leader, Swiss Re, Bangalore 4. Mr.Shafi Shariff Member of the DELF-DALF Jury & Head,

Department of French, MES Institutions, Qatar. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Dr.B.R.Shantha Kumari Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Pondicherry University

2. Dr.A.Durairangan Reader, Department of Philosophy, Tagore Arts College, Pondicherry

3. Dr.M.Venkatalakshmi Asst. Professor, Department of Philosophy Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Ananthapur

4. Dr.Sharada Subramanian Reader, Department of Philosophy Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Ananthapur

5. Dr.P.Krishnasamy Reader, Department of Philosophy Vivekananda College, Chennai

6. Dr.James Kurian Asst. Professor, Department of Philosophy Madras Christian College, Chennai

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7. Dr.P.Sudarshan Asst. Professor,

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

8. Dr.V.Prabhu Asst. Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati

9. Dr.S.Segar Asst. Professor, Department of Philosphy Madras Christian College, Chennai

10. Dr.L.Sindhu Asst. Professor, Govt. Arts College, Chenganacherry, Kerala

11. Mr.A.Parathasarathy Asst. Professor, Department of Philosophy Tagore Arts College, Pondicherry

12. M.Sampathkumar Asst. Professor, Department of Philosphy Tagore Arts College, Puducherry

13. Dr.E.P.Mathew Asst. Professor, Department of Philosphy Loyola College, Chennai

14. Mr.K.Anbu Asst. Municipal Courts, Puducherry

15. Mr.Tirujnanamoorthy Asst. Govt. of Puducherry DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN STUDIES & MARINE BIOLOGY, PORTBLAIR

1. Kevin Shimrone Moes Freelance diver in Australia 2. B.M.Praveen Kumar Senior Project Fellow in World Wild Life Fund,

Dehradun 3. Navin Kumar Fishery Inspector, Bihar State 4. Nisha Collette D souza NGO, Chennai 5. Sajan Johan Senior Project Fellow, World Wild Life Fund,

Dehradun 6. Samhita Acharya Business Women, Port Blair 7. Damodar.P.N Scientist,

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aqualculture (RGCA), MPEDA, Port Blair

8. Gopal.K Field Inspector, Fishery Department, Port Blair

9. Narayana Swamy.Y Scientist, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), MPEDA, Mayiladuthurai, Tamilnadu

10. Ngampam.A.S. NGO, Kolkata 11. Raghuraman.R Senior Research Fellow,

Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair 12. Shanmugam.K Field Inspector,

Fishery Department, Portblair 13. Sreeraj.C.R. Senior Research Fellow,

Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair 14. Nirdosh Tikka PG Teacher, Central School, Gowhathi, Assam

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15. Gobardhan Sahoo Project Fellow,

National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

16. Goutham Bharathi.M.P. Project Fellow, Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair

17. S.Srinivaasu Senior Research Fellow, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai

18. Titus Immanual Senior Research Fello, Zoological Survey of India

19. Snehashis Sahoo Assistant in FCI, Orissa

20. Jayati Mukherjee Project Fellow National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 1. Ravi.S. TCS-IT Company,

Sweden 2. Mahesh.B INFOSYS, Chennai 3. Praveen Kumar INFOSYS, Hyderabad 4. Shiva Shankar CTS-IT Company, Coimbatore 5. Nagaprasad CTS-IT Company, Coimbatore 6. Uma Devi CTS-IT Company, Coimbatore 7. Muneendra TCS-IT Company, Coimbatore 8. Abhilash TCS-IT Company, Coimbatore 9. Kalesh IDBI Bank, Chennai 10. Rammohan CTS-IT Company, Chennai 11. Praveen Kumar CTS-IT Company, Chennai 12. Kiran Kumar CTS-IT Company, Chennai 13. Akhilandeshwari CTS-IT Company, Chennai 14. Ashok Reddy CTS-IT Company, Chennai 15. Lakshmi Devi.K Society for Electronic Transaction and Security,

Chennai 16. Jothi Ramalingam.R Society for Electronic Transaction and Security,

Chennai CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

1. Amrita Limbu Research Officer Social Science Institute, Baha, Lalitpur, Kathmandu in Nepal

2. S.Loganathan Junior Research Fellow of UGC 3. Mr.Indrajee de Zoysa Lecturer,

University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

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1. Srikanth Bade JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 2. V.P. Binoy JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 3. S.Arun JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 4. A.Varadharajan JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Bombay 5. S.Bhavana Assistant Professor,

Acharya Arts & Science College, Puducherry 6. D.Gnanvel Assistant Professor,

Acharya Arts & Science College, Puducherry 7. A.Arthi Radio Jockey, BIG FM,

Puducherry 8. Damodharan JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 9. Naresh Kumar JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 10. Kiran Kumar B JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 11. Sarath.K JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 12. Sugil E.K. JRF, EMMRC, IIT, Roorkee 13. Ayyanarappan Assistant Professor,

Karunya University, Coimbatore 14. S.Sivashakthi Special Correspondent,

Channel 2, Pondicherry 15. Mohanraj Assistant Professor,

Acharya Arts & Science College, Puducherry 16 S.Pradeepa JRF, NPTEL, IIT, Chennai 17 Subash JRF, NPTEL, ITT, Chennai 18 Napolean Programme Executive,

CRS, SRM University, Chennai 19 Thiruppathi Production Assistant,

Doordharshan Kendra, Hyderabad 20 Mangayarkarasi RJ, All India Radio,

Puducherry DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION

1. G.Anandarasu Reporter, Channel 2 2. K.Anbarassi Rainbow FM 3. Arathi Krishnakumar Technical Writer, Oracle 4. V.Arivoucany Production Head, Channel 2 5. E.Iyappan Web Designer, TnQ Technologies 6. Jitendriya Jena Journalist, News Today 7. C.Kandan Journalist, Makkal TV 8. Monalisha Basumatary Content Writer, Internet Company 9. A.Munnadiayan Reporter, Dinamalar 10. V.Nathy Lecturer, Acharya College 11. Rinoy Basumatary Journalist

Television Channel

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12. M.Siva Sankara Rao IIT

Media Content Creator 13. G.Srinath Cameraman,

Channel 2 14. Suja Das Content Writer, Internet Company 15. K.Vasanthy Production

FM, FM Radio

16. V.Vasanth Web Designer, Web Designing Company 17. A.Vijayakumar Reporter, Dinamalar

DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT 1. Thothadri Nathan Assistant Professor

Sairam Ayurveda College, Selaiyur, Chennai

2. Anil Kumar Acharya Assistant Professor Tripura Public Service Commission, Agartala

3. Muralidhar Panda Asst. Professor Swami Omkaranandha College, Bhuvaneshwar

4. Sarveswaran Principal, Srikantha Veda Agama Pathashala, Karaikal

5. Pradeep Kumar Nayak Graduate Teacher Govt. Higher Secondary School, Bhadrak Orissa

6. Sathya Naranayanan Research Associate, EFEO, Puducherry 7. Sri Ramachandramurthy Vice Principal

Satyabhama Sanskrit College, Hyderabad 8. Debabrata Panda Assistant Professor

Rajiv Gandhi Ayurveda College, Mahe 9. Dharmendra Das Graduate Teacher,

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bhuvaneswar, Orissa

10. Dillip Kumar Mohantha Graduate Teacher Govt. High School, Bhuvaneshwar, Orissa

11. Haribrata Singha, Research Assistant New Catalogous Catalogorum, Dept. of Sanskrit, University of Madras, Chennai

12. Hrushikesh Dalai Assistant Professor, Kasvikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Nagpur

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 1. Merin Elsa John Consultant,

Abacus Consulting, New Delhi

2. Sruthi Ravindran Asst. Manager (Communications) Hidesign Ltd., Puducherry

3. Ms.Asha Sarah Thomas School Counsellor in Dubai

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1. Dr.John Bosco Lourdusamy Associate Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai

2. Dr.Pius Malekandathil Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

3. Dr.Mini Thomas Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shri Shankaracharya University, Kerala

4. Mrs.Leslie Jacobs Director, Primrose School, Puducherry

5. Shri.S.Jayakumar (IPS) Superintendent of Police, Amaravathy Rural Police, Maharastra

6. Mrs.N.Dhaivamasam Asst. Professor, Department of History, Government Arts College, Villupuram, Tamilnadu.

7. Mr.Nagarajan, Asst. Professor, Department of History, Govt. Arts College, Villupuram, Tamilnadu.

8. Dr.Palaichamy Asst. Professor, Department of History Govt. Arts College, Ariyalur, Tamilnadu

9. Mr.Vijayarangam Asst. Professor, Department of History, Govt. Arts College, Villianur, Puducherry

10. Mr.P.Sathish Asst. Professor, Department of History, Govt. Arts College, Villianur, Puducherry

11. Mr.Suresh Kumar Asst. Professor, Department of History, Daulat Ram College, New Delhi

12. Mr.P.Elango Programme Officer Foundation for Peace, Harmony and Good Governance, New Delhi

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY S. No.

Name Position

1. Ms.R.Uma Maheswari (IRS) Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax, Ministry of Finance, National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur, Maharastra

2. Ms.A.Padmavathy (IRS) Asst. Commissioner, Department of Customs and Central Excise, Hyderabad, A.P.

3. Dr.Vigneshwara Illavarasan Asst. Professor, IIT, New Delhi

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4. Dr.Debashish Patnaik Asst. Professor,

National Institute of Science Education & Training (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Orissa.

5. Ms.V.Vijayalakshmi Asst. Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnad

6. Mr.P.Prabu HR Executive, Rane Madras P Ltd., Thirubuvani, Puducherry

7. Mr.S.Sudarshan` Supervisor, Fragrance Selligie, Little India, Singapore

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 1. S.Arunagiri Assistant Librarian,

Sri Venkateswara Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Ariyur, Puducherry

2. N.Karunakar Assistant Professor & I/C University Librarian Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh

3. K.Ravi Area Supervisor, EID Parry India Ltd., Ariyur, Puducherry

4. Susanta Narzary Managing Director, Upendra National Academy, Kachugaon, Assam

5. Narayanan Basumatary Assistant Librarian UN Brahma College

6. Rajesh Assistant Librarian Sri Venkateswara Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Ariyur, Puducherry

7. Raju Brahma Junior Assistant, Revenue Department (Tahasheel), Govt. of Assam

8. Sanjeeb Kumar, Junior Assistant, Revenue Department (Tahasheel), Govt. of Assam.

9. Sansumwi Boro Librarian, Sub Divisional Library, Gossaigoan, Assam

10. Santhi.N Library Assistant, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Puducherry.

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 1. Dr.L.Arul Pragasan Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Ecology& Envi. Sci., Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore

2. Dr.L.Rasingam Scientist, BSI 3. Dr.S.Mani Research Associate (DST Young Scientist)

IIISc, Bangalore

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4. Dr.M.Sridhar Reddy Assistant Professor

Yogi Vamana University, Cuddappah, A.P. 5. Dr.R.Venkateswaran Kothari Fellow,

Centre for Forest Ecology & Biodiversity Research, Madurai Kamaraj University

6. Dr.A.Sathianarayanan Lecturer, P.S.G. College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore

7. Dr.K.R.Saravanan Senior Research Fellow, WII, Dehradun 8. Dr.Ramesh Environmental Engineer DST&E, Govt. of

Puducherry CENTRE FOR WOMEN STUDIES

1. R.M.Amruthraj Asst. Professor, RGNIYD, Sriperumbudur DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

1. Dr.Ch.Ravi Krishna Strategic Marketing, Agilent Technologies 2. Dr.K.Raj Kumar Deputy Director,

Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association, Mumbai

3. Dr.P.Thilagar Associate Professor, IISc, Bangalore

4. Dr.U.Deva Priya Kumar Associate Professor, IIIT, Hyderabad

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 1. Reno Isaac Philip Soft Skills Trainer, Bangalore 2. Shanthi.P Asst. Professor,

Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering 3. Swapna.B Assistant Lecturer, B.Ed. College,

Puducherry 4. Garima Mathur Assistant Professor,

Indira Gandhi College of Arts and Science 5. Kedar Kaushik Editor, The Hindu, Bangalore 6. Debayan Tewari Sub Editor, Statesman, Kolkata 7. Dr.Solomon Rees Asst.Professor, Buffalo,

N.Y., USA 8. Dr.Cheryl-Ann Shivan Principal, Rajiv Gandhi College of Arts &

Science, Pondicherry 9. Dr.Liss Marie Dass Officer, Syndicate Bank, Salem

DEPARTMENT OF HINDI 1. P.Sarada Gopala Krishnan Junior Hindi Translator,

Census Department, Puducherry 2. N.Selvam P.G. Teacher,

Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai

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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (PG CENTRE, KARAIKAL

1. Abhishek Kumar Chourasia Total Insurance Solutions, Bangalore

2. Arundas. Ck Total Insurance Solutions

3. B.Balasubramanian Total Insurance Solutions

4. R.Gunasekaran Total Insurance Solutions

5. Karthigayan.S Total Insurance Solutions

6. Pavan Rama Kumar Gvns Total Insurance Solutions

7. Prasad.uba Total Insurance Solutions

8. Ranjit Bepari Total Insurance Solutions

9. Venkata Varadharajan @ prasanna

Total Insurance Solutions

10. Jai Prakash Total Insurance Solutions

Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Co-operation

1. Ms.Trishna Jaishi Trainee Officer, Royal Institute of Management, Royal University of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan

2. Ms.Amrita Limu, Research Associate, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal

3. Ms.R.Ramiya School Teacher, Alpha School, Puducherry

4. Mr.S.Sivaraman, Assistant, Department of Civil Supply, Government of Pondicherry

5. Mr.Abu Salah Md. Yousuf Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka, Bangladesh

6. Mr.M.I.L.De.Zoysa, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

5.2.12 Are the alumni contributing to the development of the institution? If yes, Please specify how.

The University has initiated the process of consolidating the Alumni Association. The alumni deliver lectures in the Departments many a times. Alumni also have helped in placement of the students. The Alumni Association of the Department of Commerce has created an endowment fund for one lakh in the name of its founder Head. The alumni also help the University by sponsoring for seminar, workshops etc.

URL of Alumni sites: http://alumni.pondiuni.edu.in

http://alumni.pondiuni.edu.in

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5.2.13 Does the institution have a grievance redressal cell? If yes, what are its functions?

Yes. The University has a Grievances Redressal Cell in the campus and it also has a Grievances Redressal Cell for the students of distance education. The Public Grievance Officer looks after all grievances of the students mainly relating to certificates and mark sheets. Internal grievances of Faculty and nonteaching staff are addressed immediately as the administrative set up is easily accessible to all. The Vice Chancellor and Registrar are accessible through e-mails. The students grievances are taken up immediately similarly with minimum loss of time.

5.2.14 List the Number of grievances redressed during the last two years.

The Public Grievances Cell has been receiving all grievances from the students through e-mail as well as in person or post. The grievances are resolved to the fullest satisfaction of the students in time. Further, separate grievances committee for the Faculty, Staff, and Students has been constituted to redress their grievances.

Number of grievances redressed during the year 2009-10 : 4212

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5.2.15 Is there a provision for welfare schemes for students? If yes, specify.

Pondicherry University is perhaps the only University in the country for having provided innovative welfare schemes.

Free Transport Facility for students commutes from the city.

On campus commutation by battery operated cars from morning till night.

300 free bicycle on campus

Food subsidy of Rs.400/- to all students staying in hostels whose parents are with incomes below creamy layer.

Exemption of all types of fees to physically challenged students.

Free boarding and lodging in hostels for physically challenged students.

24 hrs hospital with fully equipped ambulance

24 hrs power back up in the campus

Wi-Fi enabled Campus.

Rent free Hostels to all Girls

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5.2.16 What were the specific measures initiated by the institution to enhance the quality

of education with reference to student support and progression?

Evaluation of teachers by the students has brought drastic changes in the minds of teachers to provide quality education and to fare well in the their performance indicators. Award of best teachers also is an motivation for the Faculty to provide quality education, thereby helping the students progression.

The Students Council, the Committee for literary activities, cultural activities, extracurricular activities like sports, NSS etc, has directly helped in enhancing academic growth, personality development and the students progression.

5.2.17 Is there a cell to prevent Sexual Harassment? How effective is the cell?

Yes. The University has a Sexual Harassment Cell headed by a lady professor, with representatives from civil society, legal personnel, University teachers, representatives from non teaching staff and officers. The University is very serious with regard to the complaints of sexual harassment and takes strong actions wherever found true within the rules and regulations of the University. During last two years two teachers have been punished and even extreme action like removal from service also has been taken.

5.2.18 What are the efforts to provide legal literacy to women?

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5.3 Student Activities

5.3.1 What are the incentives given to students who are proficient in sports?

Incentive given to students where in proficient in sports:

Incentives:

Pondicherry University provides track-suit to the team players who enter the pre-quarter matches in the South-Zone Inter-University tournaments organized by various Universities affiliated to the Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi.

Pondicherry University provides Form III certificate to the players who participate in the South Zone / South West Zone / All India Inter-University tournaments.

The Department of Physical Education and Sports recommends incentives such as cash awards / training kit / uniform to the players who achieve First / Second /

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Third / Fourth position in the South Zone / South West Zone / All India Inter-University tournaments.

5.3.2 Give details of the participation of the students in sports and the outcome, at the state, regional, national and international levels, during the last five years.

Sports Activities from 2006 to 2011 Inter-University Tournaments for the Academic Year 2006-2007

Sl. No.

Games/ Sports Zone

Organizing University

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No. of Players Partici-pated

No. of the Team Manager

Result Entered into

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Wt. Lifting (W)

AI LNIPE Gwalior

13.10.2006 01 Mr. M. Mathiazhzgan

Wt. Lifting Coach

Miss. S.Suganya III B.A. BGCW Secured IV

Place in 53 kg category

2. Volleyball (M)

SZ Periyar University

21.11.2006 12 Mr. V. Suriyamurthy

Lecturer

IGCAS Pre-Quarter

3. Kho-Kho

(W) SWZ

University of Calicut

19.12.2006 11 Mr. A. Kamalacannan

Kho-Kho coach Pre-Quarter

4. Kho-Kho

(M) SWZ

Kuvempu University 28.12.2006

12 Mr. A. Kamalacannan Kho-Kho coach Pre-Quarter

5. Handball

(M) SWZ

Periyar University 14.2.2007

12

Mr. G. Sivanandham DPE-Loyala College

Mr.Enathinathan H.B. coach

Pre-Quarter

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments 2007-08

The University Department teams participated in that Tournaments and secured position

as follows

Sl.No. Games Secured place

1. Kabaddi (Men) WINNER

2. Volleyball (Men) Third place

3. Basketball (Men) Third place

4. Handball (Men) Third place

5. Cricket (Men) Fourth place

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Athletics Events

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Name Class Events Place

1. Shri. J. Senthilkumar II MPEd 100 mts. First 2. Shri. M. Muniyapillai II MPEd 800 mts. First 3. Shri. T. Shajan Varghese II MPEd Shot put First 4. Shri. T. Shajan Varghese II MPEd Discus First 5. Shri. K. Karthikeyan I MPEd Javelin First 6. Shri.K. Karthikeyan I MPEd Long Jump Second 7. Shri.K. Karthikeyan I MPEd Triple Jump Second 8. Shri.T. Renchu I MPEd 1500 mts. Second

9. Pondicherry University team

- 4X100 mts. First

Puducherry State Level Athletics Championship-2007-08

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1. Shri. Bafeer.P.P. II MPEd 100 mts First 2. Shri. Bafeer.P.P. II MPEd 200 mts First 3. Shri.J.Senthilkumar II MPEd. 200 mts. Second 4. Shri. M.Muniyapillai II MPEd. 400 mts First 5. Shri. K.Karthikeyan I MPEd. Javelin First 6. Shri. Winmon P. Varkey I MPED Discuss Second 7. Shri. Winmon P. Varkey I MPED Javelin Second 8. Shri. T.Shajan Va rghese II MPED Discuss First

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All India / South Zone/Inter-University Tournaments-2007-08

Pondicherry University Chess (Men) team participated in the All India

Inter-University Chess (Men) Championship 2007-2008 organized by CSJM University Kanpur and secured 14th place among 89 India n Universities. Shri. P. Iyyappan, Achariya College, secured First Board place (9 points out of 9 rounds) out of 89 Indian Universities.

Pondicherry University Cricket (Men) team participated in the Anandam Ammal Memorial All India Inter-University Cricket (Men) tournament held at Srivillipudur organized by Kalasalingam University and secured the third place (Bronze Medal) and awarded cash prizes Rs.30,000/-.

Inter-Physical Education Institution Tournaments 2007-08

Sl. No Name Class Events Place

1. Shri. M. Muniyapillai II MPEd 800 mts Second

2. Shri. K. Karthikeyan I MPEd Javelin Third

Asian-Indo-Nepal-Srilanka International 7-A Side Football Championship 2008

The following students of the Department of Physical Education and Sports, Pondicherry University represented in the Indian 7-A Side Football team which participated in the Asian-Indo-Nepal-Srilanka International 7-A Side Football Championship 2008 conducted from 4 to 6 February, 2008 organized by Nepal 7-A Side Football Federation and secured Second place (Runners-up)

Sl. No Name Class Place

1. Shri. T. Balaji II MPEd DPES, Pondicherry University

2. Shri. Prasanna Sundaraj II MPEd DPES, Pondicherry University

3. Shri. K. Ravikumar II MPEd DPES, Pondicherry University

4. Shri. E. Arulmurugan I MPEd DPES, Pondicherry University

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Men)-2008-2009

Our University Department teams participated in that Tournaments and secured position as follows.

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Sl. No.

Games Place Secured

1. Handball (Men) WINNER 2. Kabbadi (Men) WINNER 3. Volleyball (Men) WINNER 4. Table Tennis (Men) RUNNERS-UP 5. Cricket (Men) Third Place


Sl. No.

Games Place Secured

1. Handball (Women) WINNER 2. Kabbadi (Women) WINNER 3. Volleyball (Women) WINNER 4. Ball Badminton (Women) WINNER 5. Basketball (Women) WINNER

All India/South Zone/Inter-University Tournaments-2008-2009

Pondicherry University Table Tennis Women team participated in the South Zone Inter-University Table Tennis Women Tournament 2008-2009 organized by Kuvempu University, Shimoga (K.N.) from 2.10.2008 to 5.10.2008 and secured fourth place out of 42 Universities and eligible to participate in the All India Inter-University Table Tennis Women Tournament organized by BIT, Ranchi.

The Pondicherry University Table Tennis (Women) Team players

Sl. No.

Name Class College

1. Miss.G.Devika I M.P.Ed. Pondicherry University

2. Miss.S.Kalpana III B.Tech. RIT, Yanam

3. Miss.R.Sudharshana I B.Tech. Pondicherry Engg. College

4. Miss.M.Amala Sherine

II B.Tech. Pondicherry Engg. College

5. Miss. R.Dhivya III B.Tech. Pondicherry Engg. College

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Men)-2009-2010

Our University Department teams participated in that Tournaments and secured position as follows.

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Sl. No. Games Place Secured

1. Volleyball (Men) WINNER 2. Hockey (Men) WINNER 3. Kho-Kho (Men) WINNER 4. Badminton (Men) RUNNERS-UP 5. Cricket (Men) RUNNERS-UP 6. Handball (Men) RUNNERS-UP 7. Kabbadi (Men) Third Place


Sl. No. Games Place Secured

1. Handball (Women) WINNER

2. Ball Badminton (Women) WINNER

3. Basketball (Women) WINNER

4. Cricket (Women) WINNER

5. Football (Women) RUNNERS-UP

6. Kabbadi (Women) RUNNERS-UP

7. Volleyball (Women) Third Place

South West Zone inter-university Football Women Tournament- 2009-2010

The Department of Physical Education and Sports, Pondicherry University organized the South West Zone Inter-University Football Women Tournament for the academic year 2009-2010 from 4th to 8th January 2010. The tournament was conducted a grand success in which 25 Universities out of 36 entries from various states such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry participated in this tournament. The tournament was conducted on Knock out

cum- league basis from 4th to 8th January 2010 in our University s Sports complex football fields.

Tamilnadu & Puducherry State Inter Physical Education Tournament- 2009-10

The Physical Education Department M.P.Ed., M.Phil., students (Men & Women) and Staff Members Participated in the TamilNadu & Puducherry State Inter Physical Education Tournament organized by Annamalai University, Chidambaram from 27.2.2009 to 1.3.2009.

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The following students secured places in the above said Tournaments.

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1. Miss A.Suriya I M.P.Ed. Shot-put First

2. Mr.K.Karthikeyan II M.P.Ed. Javelin First

3. Mr.Manokar Chendur M.Phil., Pole-vault Second

4. Mr.S.Manivannan I M.P.Ed. Long Jump Second

5. Mr.Muniyapillai II M.P.Ed. 400 mtrs. Second

6. Relay 4X400m (M) team II M.P.Ed. Team Third

7. Kho-Kho (M)team II M.P.Ed. Team Second

8. Table Tennis (W) team II M.P.Ed. Team Second

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Men & Women) 2010-2011

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Men) 2010-2011

Sl.No. Name of the Game / Sport Place Secured 1. Athletics (Men) Overall Championship 2. Cricket (Men) Winners 3. Kho-Kho (Men) Winners 4. Ball Badminton (Men) Winners 5. Hockey (Men) Winners 6. Handball (Men) Winners 7. Volleyball (Men) Runners-up 8. Badminton (Men) Runners-up 9. Tennis (Men) Third Place 10. Kabaddi (Men) Third Place

Inter-Collegiate Tournaments (Women) 2010-2011

Sl.No. Name of the Game / Sport Place Secured 1. Athletics (Women) Overall Championship 2. Ball Badminton (Women) Winners 3. Handball (Women) Winners 4. Cricket (Women) Winners 5. Football (Women) Runners-up 6. Kabbadi (Women) Runners-up 7. Basketball (Women) Third Place

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All India/South Zone/Inter-University Tournaments 2010-2011

The performances of the University teams in tournaments are given below:-

Sl. No. Games Performance

1.

All India Inter-University Weight Lifting & Power Lifting Women Tournament 2010-11 organized by the Kannur University, Kerala

Miss. D. Suganthi, III B.A, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Bronze Medal, 56 Kg Power Lifting Category

2.

All India Inter-University Kho-Kho Women Tournament 2010-11 organized by the Andhra University, Vishakhapatinam, Andhra Pradesh

Quarter Finals

3.

All India Inter-University Ball Badminton Women Tournament 2010-11 organized by the S.R.M.University, Chennai.

Quarter Finals

4.

All India Inter-University Ball Badminton Men Tournament 2010-11 organized by the S.R.M.University, Chennai.

Pre-Quarter Finals

5.

All India Inter-University Table Tennis Men Tournament 2010-11 organized by the Viswesvaraya Techonology University, Belgaum.

Pre-Quarter Finals

6.

All India Inter-University Table Tennis Women Tournament 2010-11 organized by the Viswesvaraya Techonology University, Belgaum.

Quarter Finals

Inter-Physical Education Institutions Tournament 2010-2011 Organized by Annamalai University, Chidambaram:

Achievements of Students in Athletics:

Sl. No.

Name Class Event Medals achieved

1 Nayana Vinodh M. P. Ed. I Year Pole Vault Secured Gold

2 Nippy Joseph M. P. Ed. I Year High Jump Secured Gold

3 Manivannan M. Phil. Long jump Secured Gold

4 Francis Fernandes

M. P. Ed. II Year

High Jump Secured Silver

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5 Subitha Mathew M. P. Ed. II

Year Pole Vault Secured Silver

6 Nippy Joseph M. P. Ed. I Year 100 mts Hurdles

Secured Silver

7 Smitha M. P. Ed. II Year

100 mts Hurdles

Secured Bronze

8 Priya M. P. Ed. I Year Hammer Throw

Secured Bronze

9 Manivannan M. Phil. Tripple jump Secured Bronze

10 Sagar M. P. Ed. I Year Long jump Secured Bronze

11 Team Event -- 4 x 100 Relay Secured Bronze

Achievements of Faculty Members:

Sl. No.

Name Designation Game Medals Achieved

1. Dr. M. Elayaraja &

Dr. R. Ram Mohan Singh

Reader &

Asst. Professor Badminton

Doubles Gold

2. Dr. M. Elayaraja Reader Tennis Singles Silver

3. Dr. M. Elayaraja Reader

Badminton Singles

Silver

5.3.3 How does the institution collect feedback from students for improving the support services?

The University gets the feedback on the support system in the following ways;

Through questionnaires in case of Hostel, Mess and canteens etc

Through suggestion box that are kept in all facilities

Through student s council meetings.

5.3.4 Does the institution collect feedback from employers? If yes, how is the feedback used? Illustrate the outcome.

There is no formal feedback from employers. However during placement interviews the employers give their impressions and suggestions on the University curriculum and the standard of the students.

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5.3.5 Furnish information regarding the participation of students in extra curricular

activities and recreational activities?

The Dean, Students Affairs, looks after the extracurricular activities of the students in the campus other than sports and games. The cultural programmes are organized by the Dean, Students affaires. Besides, a large number of students are encouraged to participate in the youth festivals organized by other institutions and Universities. The University believes that the best way to bring out the potential talent of the students is to channelize their energy into extracurricular activities. NSS officer, Dean Student s affair, cultural co-ordinators collectively look after the extracurricular activities of the students in form of organizing functions, programmes etc. Sports events are organized by the Department of Physical Education and also it co-ordinates the participation of the University students in major sports events elsewhere. The University has all facilities like auditorium, cultural complex, stadium, gyms etc to facilitate the extracurricular activities of the students of the University. Yoga training class for the faculty and students also is taken regularly in the campus. Meritorious students of the campus also are deputed to participate in Republic day parade to Delhi.

5.4 Best Practices in Student Support and Progression

5.4.1 Describe the Best Practices in student support and progression practiced by the college in terms of student progression / student support / activities

Students academic and other needs have always been the base for all development of the University.

Increase in facility, Laboratories, Library Facilities, Sports Facilities, Hostels, Canteen, Internet and Wi-Fi, Transport are all major steps rather progression.

The support system has been properly improved. Student oriented activities such as Music Clubs, Literary Clubs, Sports Clubs and a host of programmes which keep the campus vibrant greatly contribute to the overall development of the students.

For

Re-accreditation

1. What were the evaluative observations made under Student Support and Progression in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon?

and 2. What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by

the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to Student Support and Progression?

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Observations: -

Pondicherry University maintains its character as a Central institution through its student

profile. Over half the students and the majority of the Faculty are from other states of the

Indian Union. Foreign students are also admitted to some of the courses, especially

through the Study India Programme, on a self-financed basis. Information about courses

and the academic schedule is provided through the prospects, and through the

information brochures and Academic Planner given to all students.

The University provides four types of scholarships to students: (a) Merit (b) Merit-cum-

Means (c) Freeship (d) University Fellowship for Ph.D. Scholars. In addition, SC/ST

students receive scholarships provided by the Government of India. The Earn-while-you-

learn scheme has been implemented. The rate of success of students in University

examinations is satisfactory. A number of them have qualified in UGC-NET/SLET, GRE,

GATE and other such examinations. Many of the Management and Computer Science

students are well-placed in various organizations.

Students receive academic and career guidance from their Faculty Advisor as well as

from the Placement Cell of the University, which has ensured placements not only to the

majority of University students but has also extended its services to the affiliated colleges

recently. There is a Grievance Redressal Cell. Students are given special assistance to

enable them to cope with language difficulties, especially in English. There is a Students

Welfare Fund, and health and accident insurance are provided to all. The students

participate in cultural programmes and sports. The drop out rate among students is

negligible.


The Student Support System includes recognizing merit for incentives, means-cum-merit scholarships, incentives for girl students, like rent free hostels, support to economically weaker section in the hostels accommodation, through 30% food subsidy, support for transport with free buses, affirmative action to support the disadvantaged sections of the Society like SC/ST/OBC and minorities and providing such amenities to physically challenged students and Faculty to make the atmosphere beneficial for them.

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The University for the last 5 years has taken certain exemplary steps in the above

directions.

It offers every student below creamy layer, 30% food subsidy.

Free transport to students by University buses and outsourced buses.

Free transport on the campus with Battery operated cars.

Free bi-cycles for commutation on the campus.

Free education for all physically challenged including free hostel

board and lodge.

With regard to the students progress, the curriculum and evaluation system has been constantly reviewed and upgraded to offer the best of the Choice Based Credit System to the Students.

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6.1 Institutional Vision and Leadership

6.1.1 Does the mission statement define the institution s distinctive characteristics in terms of addressing the needs of the society, the students it seeks to serve, institution s traditions and value orientations, vision for the future etc.?

The mission statement of the University. Excellence with Expansion and Equity fully reflects the commitment of the institution to address the needs of the society. The University is striving to achieve excellence in all its activities

Teaching, Research, Infrastructural facilities etc, and aims to become a world class institution with Indian ethos. This University has emerged as India s fastest expanding Central University crossing growth mark of 300% within last four years and has now about 5000 students representing 32 states of the country and abroad, and about 450 highly qualified Faculty from across the country. It has a State of Art Library with remote access to over 31,000 plus digital e-resources through dedicated web portal http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in.

Pondicherry University was the first University in India to adopt CBCS along with the Semester system which easily facilitates mobility of students with credit transfer both in India and abroad. It remains connected globally and so far 24 MoUs have been signed with leading International Universities and National institutions for exchanging faculty and students.

The University has modern laboratories equipped with sophisticated analytical instruments, facilities for sports and fitness. 24 hours medical facility and a host of other amenities that make the campus self contained and provide an ambience for academic pursuit.

6.1.2 What are the goals and objectives of the institution? How are they made known to the various stakeholders?

The objectives of the University are to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and by the example of its corporate life, and, in particular, to make special provisions for studies in French and for integrated courses for Humanities and Science in the educational programmes of the University and to take appropriate measures for promoting inter-disciplinary studies and research in the University.

The objectives of the University, as included in the Pondicherry University Act and Statutes, have been hosted in the University web site for information of all stakeholders as well as general public.

http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in

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6.1.3 Does the institution have a mission statement and goals reflecting quality? If yes,

give details.

The University is growing with the cardinal principle of `Expansion with Excellence and Equity

and remains connected globally. With a focus on access to a large number of aspiring students to undergo higher education with quality, Pondicherry University provides the ambience and the opportunity to grow professionally. With the constant aim to strive for excellence, our foundation is based on the rich cultural heritage that Pondicherry is so deeply rooted in.

6.1.4 What measures have the institution taken to translate quality to its various administrative and academic units?

The University has established the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in the year 1996 itself. It is one of the first Universities in the country which has fully implemented the system of confidential assessment of teachers by students. The best teachers in each Department are identified based on the assessment by students and honored in a public function each year. All teachers are kept informed of the assessment by students and their peers confidentially, so that wherever required corrective measures to improve the performance are taken by the teachers themselves.

The assessment by students is also taken into account as one of the important criteria for declaration of probation and confirmation.

On its own the University has initiated the Administrative and Academic Audit of all its Departments & offices last year. These audits were conducted in two spells covering all the activities and functions of the University. The assessment of the functioning of administrative sections by the Faculty and Departments was used to identify the deficiency and weak points and corrective measures are being taken on a continuous basis.

There is also continuous assessment of non-teaching staff and officers through a normal system of confidential reports. For providing incentives to the meritorious staff, awards have been instituted on the occasion of Silver Jubilee.

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6.1.5 What are the leadership functions of the Head of the Institution? How is the

leadership system established in the University?

Vice-Chancellor

The Vice-Chancellor is the principal executive and academic officer of the University, and shall exercise general supervision and control over the affairs of the University and gives effect to the decisions of all the authorities of the University.

The Vice-Chancellor is ex-officio Chairman of the Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council and the Finance Committee, and shall, in the absence of the Chancellor, preside over the convocations of the University.

It is the duty of the Vice-Chancellor to see that the Act, the Statutes, the Ordinances and the regulations are duly observed, and he shall have all powers necessary to ensure such observance.

The Vice-Chancellor has the powers to convene or cause to be convened meetings of the Court, the Executive Council , the Academic council and the Finance Committee

The Vice-Chancellor is assisted by the following Statutory officers in his administrative and academics functions.

1. Directors:

Directors are responsible for the functions defined in the Statutes as given below.

a) The Director of Studies, Educational Innovations and Rural Reconstruction

The Director of Studies, Educational Innovations and Rural Reconstruction shall be responsible for organizing studies, educational innovations and academic programmes of the University.

The Director of Studies, Educational Innovations and Rural Reconstruction shall have such powers and perform such functions in his field as may be determined or delegated to him by the Academic Council and the Vice-Chancellor.

b) The Director of Culture and Cultural Relations

Subject to the general supervision of the Vice- Chancellor, the Director of Culture and Cultural Relations shall

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i. Co-ordinate teaching and research on the Indian Culture and its relations with the

Cultures of other countries;

ii. organize dissemination through various media of the Cultural treasures in the fields of art, literature and music;

iii. be responsible for relationship with institutions and agencies of culture of India and abroad.

c) The Director of Physical Education, Sports, National Service and Students Welfare

The Director of Physical Education, Sports, National Service and Student Welfare will co-ordinate the activities of the University in respect of physical education, sports, national service and student welfare and other activities that involve student participation in community development.

The Director of Physical Education, Sports, National Service and Student Welfare will have such other powers and perform such other functions in his field as may be determined or delegated to him by the Executive Council and the Vice-Chancellor.

2. Registrar

The Registrar is the ex-officio Secretary of the Executive Council, the Academic Council and the Boards of Schools. He is also the ex-officio Member-Secretary of the Court.

The Registrar is the custodian of the records, the common seal and such other property of the University as the Executive Council shall commit to his charge;

He issues all notices convening meeting of the Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Boards of Schools, the Boards of Studies, the Boards of Examiners and of any committees appointed by the authorities of the University;

He keeps the minutes of all the meetings of the Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Boards of Schools, and of any committees appointed by the authorities of the University;

He conducts the official correspondence of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council;

He supplies to the Visitor, copies of the agenda of the meetings of the authorities of the University as soon as they are issued; and the minutes of such meetings;

He represents the University in suits or proceedings by or against the University, signs Powers of Attorney and verifies pleadings or deputes his representative for the purpose; and

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Performs such other duties as may be specified in the Statutes, the Ordinances or the Regulations or as may be required, from time to time, by the Executive Council or the Vice-Chancellor.

3. Finance Officer

Exercises general supervision over the funds of the University and shall advise it as regards its financial policy and

Performs such other financial functions as may be assigned to him by the Executive Council or as may be prescribed by the Statutes or the Ordinances

Holds and manages the property and investments of the University including trust and endowed property

He ensures that the limits fixed by the Executive Council for recurring and non-recurring expenditure for a year are not exceeded and that all moneys are expended on the purposes for which they are granted or allotted.

He is responsible for the preparation of annual accounts and the budget of the University and for their presentation to the Executive Council

He keeps a constant watch on the state of the cash and bank balances and on the state of investments

He watches the progress of the collection of revenue and advises on the methods of collection employed

He ensures that the registers of buildings, land, furniture and equipments are maintained up-to-date and that stock-checking is conducted, of equipment and other consumable materials in all Offices, Special Centres, Specialized Laboratories, Colleges and Institutions maintained by the University

He calls for explanation for unauthorized expenditure and for other financial irregularities and suggest disciplinary action against persons at fault;

He calls for from any Office, Centre, Laboratory, College or Institution maintained by the University any information or returns that he may consider necessary for the performance of his duties.

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The receipt of the Finance Officer or of the person or persons duly authorized in this behalf by the Executive Council for any money payable to the University shall be sufficient discharge for payment of such money.

4. Deans of Schools of Studies

Each school is chaired by a Dean. All the activities of the Departments and Centres of a School, their staff, scholars & students are supervised and monitored by its Dean.

For every programme, there is a Programme Advisory committee and for Ph.D. programmes, there is Doctoral Committee to monitor the progress.

5. Librarian

Librarian is responsible for all matters relating to the central library and coordination with all the School/Departmental libraries.

6. Controller of Examination:

The Controller of Examination is responsible for the superintendence and conduct of all examinations.

6.1.6 Is the Faculty involved in decision-making? If yes, how?

The Faculty is fully associated while taking all academic decisions and the administrative decisions which have a bearing on the academic activities of the University. The Faculty has a substantial and major representation of members in all the authorities of the University as indicated below: -

The Court

Two Deans of Schools to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation according to seniority.

Ten Heads of the Departments of the University to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation according to seniority.

Two Professors of the University who are not Deans of Schools, Two Readers, who are not Heads of Departments of the University and two Lecturer to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation according to seniority.

Two Professors of the University who are not Deans of Schools, Two Readers, who are not Heads of Departments of the University and two Lecturer to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation according to seniority.

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The Executive Council

One Director by rotation according to seniority to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor

Two Deans of schools by rotation according to seniority to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor.

One Head of the Department of the University who is not a Dean, to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation according to seniority.

One Professor, who is not a Dean or Head by rotation according to seniority to be appointed the Vice-Chancellor.

One Reader who is not a Head by rotation according to seniority to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor.

One Lecturer, by rotation according to seniority, to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor.

The Academic Council

One Director who is not a member of Executive Council by rotation and according to seniority to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Two Deans of Schools who are not members of Executive Council by rotation and according to seniority to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Six Heads of Departments of the University, who are not members of Executive Council by rotation and according to seniority to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor.

Six teachers of the University to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor by rotation

Two Professor

Three Associate Professor/Reader

One Assistant Professor

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6.2 Organizational Arrangements

6.2.1 Give the organizational structure and the details of the statutory bodies?

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

Visitor HE President of India

Chancellor HE Vice-President of India

Chief Rector HE Lt. Governor of Puducherry

Vice - Chancellor

Director (S.E.I. & R.R)

Director (C & C.R.)

Director (Sports)

Controller of Examinations Librarian Registrar

DR (Exams)

DR (Admin)

DR (Academics)

DR (Planning)

DR (SC & ST)

A.R. (Exam I)

A.R. (Exam

II.)

A.R. (Admin)

A.R. (Estt.)

A.R. (Acad -I)

A.R. (Acad -II)

A.R. (P&D)

A.R. (Purchase)

A.E. (Electrical)

Project Officer

Finance Officer

DR (DDE)

DR (Exam II)

Superintendent Engineer

A.E

A.E

A.R. (Accounts)

A.R. (Finance)

Deans of Schools

HODs DR (F&A)

Executive Engineer

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1. The following are the authorities/Statutory Bodies of the University

a. The Court

b. The Executive Council

c. The Academic Council

d. The Boards of Schools

e. The Planning Board and

f. Finance Committee

2. The Court reviews the broad policies and programmes of the University and suggests measures for the improvement and development of the University.

3. The Executive Council is the principal executive body of the University.

4. The Academic Council is the Principal academic body of the University and co-ordinates and exercises general supervision over the academic policies of the University.

5. The Planning Board is the principal planning body of the University and advises on the development of the University and reviews the progress of implementation of programmes.

6. Each Department has two Boards of Studies

one for Post-graduate Studies and the other for Under-graduate Studies. These Boards of Studies recommend the curriculum and regulations for all courses and programmes (including research programmes) offered by the University.

7. The Finance Committee meets at least twice every year to examine the accounts and to scrutinize proposals for expenditure. The annual accounts and the financial estimates of the University prepared by the Finance Officer are laid before the Finance Committee for consideration and comments and thereafter submitted to the Executive Council for approval. The Finance Committee recommends limits for the total recurring expenditure and the total non-recurring expenditure for the year, based on the income and resources of the University (which, in the case of productive works, may include the proceeds of loans).

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6.2.2 Give details of the meetings held, the decisions made, regarding finance,

infrastructure, faculty, academic research, extension, linkages and examinations hale during the last year.

Sl. No. Meeting of The Executive Council Date of Meeting

1 103rd 01.04.2010

2 104th 27.05.2010

3 105th 07.08.2010

4 106th 29.11.2010

5 107th 24.03.2011

Meeting of The Academic Council

1 63rd 28.01.2010

2 64th 15.05.2010

3 65th 22.09.2010

4 66th 12.01.2011

5 67th 22.03.2011

Meeting of The Court

1 25th 04.12.2010

Meeting of The Planning Board

1 16th 18.09.2010

Meeting of The Finance Committee

1 36th 21.05.2010

2 37th 20.11.2010

*Important Decisions made in the above meetings are given in the Annexure

6.2.3 How frequently are the meetings of the different statutory bodies held? What are the major outcomes?

The meetings of Executive Council and Academic Council are held three to four times in a year and the Finance Committee meetings take place twice a year. Other bodies like Court and Planning Board meet at least once in a year. Major outcomes are covered in the Annexure in which all important decisions are listed.

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6.2.4 What percentage of the Management Council s resolutions were

implemented during the last year?

All the recommendations of the Executive Council have been implemented during

the last year itself.

6.2.5 How is the administration decentralized? Illustrate the organization chart.

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

Vice - Chancellor

Director (S.E.I. & R.R)

Director (C & C.R.)

Director (Sports)

Controller of Examinations

Librarian Registrar Finance Officer

(Detailed organization chart is given under 6.2.1)

The Vice Chancellor is the principal Academic and Administrative head of the University and he is the Chairman of all the Authorities of the University.

As explained under item 6.1.5, the various administrative functions of the University are looked after by the respective Statutory officer under the directions of Vice-Chancellor.

For effective decentralization, the financial powers have been delegated to various officers as indicated below:

Officers Rs. Director 1,00,000

Registrar 50,000

Finance Officer 50,000

Deans of Schools 50,000

Heads of the Departments 30,000

Project Investigators 30,000

Librarian 30,000

Deans of Schools

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Controller of Examination 30,000

Deputy Registrar (Purchase & Stores) 20,000

Superintending Engineer 30,000

Executive Engineer 20,000

Assistant Engineer 10,000

Chief warden 20,000

Public Relation Officer 10,000

Chief Medical Officer 10,000

Deputy Registrar (Transport) 10,000

Deputy Registrar (Horticulture) 10,000

Deputy Registrar (Security) 10,000

The Finance officer of the University will exercise the power to approve and sanction on the following subjects as per the details given below:

S. No.

Name of the Subjects Finance Officer s

quantum of Sanctioning power

1 Salary and Salary Arrears Full Power 2 Deferred Salary Full Power 3 Pension, Gratuity , and Other Pensionary Benefits Full Power

4 Bonus and DA arrears Full Power 5 GPF And CPF advances/TA advance Full Power 6 HBA, MCA, Computer Advance, Festival Advance

and all other interest bearing advances Full Power

7 Purchase of Capital/Consumable items required for the course of the functioning of the Finance section.

Upto Rs. 30,000/-

6.2.6 Does the institution have an effective internal coordination monitoring mechanism? If yes, specify.

The internal coordination of all academic activities is looked after through the Academic Advisory Committee which consists of all Deans as members with Director (SEI & RR) as its Chairman. This Committee meets on regular basis to sort out all academics related issues.

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The following committees take care of coordination in respect of the respective functional areas;

1. Purchase Committees of the Department

Consists of all members of the

Faculty of the Department, and nominees of Vice-Chancellor, Finance officer and Registrar. External experts are also included wherever required.

2. Centralized Software Purchase Committee

Includes members from all University Departments, Computer Centre, Faculty from Computer Science and nominees of Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and Finance officer to coordinate all software purchases.

3. Building, Monitoring Committee

Includes Registrar, Finance Officer, Internal Audit Officer and representative of Engineering (Civil and Electrical), Purchase, stores, Planning and Development and the consultants (Civil & Electrical). It coordinates all construction projects related matters. Higher level decision are referred to Project-Management Board This has the following composition; Vice-Chancellor as the Chairman with Director, Registrar, Finance officer, Internal Audit officer, Superintending Engineer, two Deans nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, consultants and external experts as members.

4. MoU Evaluation Committee

This committee with Director as Chairman and having Deans and Professors, as members, coordinates all matters related to MoUs entered with other Institutions.

In addition, the meetings of HODs and Deans are held from time to time to discuss and decide all important issues of the University.

The functional heads like Registrar, Finance Officer, Controller of Examination and Librarian have regular coordination meetings to sort out common issues and ensure required coordination.

6.2.7 How many times does the management meet the staff in an academic year? What are the major issues discussed?

Atleast twice in a year, Vice-Chancellor meets all the faculty members in a general meeting and gives a brief report on various developmental activities of the University. All major issues are discussed over there. The meetings of HODs and Deans are held from time to time to decide all important issues of the University. The Vice-Chancellor also meets the newly joined Faculty at regular intervals and discusses various measures to be taken on teaching & research.

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The Registrar meets representatives of all recognized Associations at regular intervals. The non-teaching staff and officers also meet Registrar and Finance Officer quite frequently to sort out their grievance and problems.

a) What are the norms to extend affiliation to a new institution?

The detailed norms are available in the website (www.pondiuni.edu.in).

Salient features are listed below:

Management

The management should be either the Govternment itself or a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860(21 of 1860) or a Trust with Trustees being appointed and vested with legal powers and duties. The non-government bodies should create a non-transferable Endowment Fund in the name of the Society or Trust as the case may be. And they should have obtained NOC from the respective State Government.

Statutory body approval

(i) Approval of respective statutory bodies like AICTE, MCI, NCTE should have been obtained.

(ii) Wherever special status like Minorities etc is claimed approval of the respective statutory body like Minorities Commission should have been obtained.

Endowment Creation

The University may fix the quantum of endowment keeping in view the adequacy of the financial position of the college after taking into account the Government grant. The endowment should be created accordingly.

Own Land

The Society / Trust should own adequate land exclusively for the college. Documentary proof for ownership of lands exclusively earmarked for the college and Legal opinion from the Government pleader on the ownership of land and extent of coverage should be produced.

Financial Stability

Documents showing the financial viability of the college (details of budgeted revenue and expenses statement) should be produced.

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Specific norms have been prescribed for different categories of institutions as indicated below and these are available in the website (www.pondiuni.edu.in)

1. Arts & Science

2. Engineering 3. Medical 4. Para Medical & Nursing 5. Education 6. Physical Education 7. Pharmacy 8. Computer Application (MCA) & Management 9. Dental 10. Law

Procedure for getting affiliation status is given below

Affiliation is based course-wise

Application for affiliation for new college / course / seat increase in prescribed format to be submitted by the sponsoring Trust / Society on or before 1st October of the preceding year.

Applications to be accompanied by detailed report of the infrastructure and physical, financial and other facilities available for the proposed college / course.

Applications for affiliation are scrutinized by the Affiliation Committee appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and clarifications sought from the sponsoring body as required.

The Trust / Society is to submit the No Objection Certificate of the State Govt. for the proposed college / course before the cut off date (31st December of the preceding academic year).

Wherever necessary, the Trust / Society is to submit the permission / approval of the Statutory Council concerned for the proposed college / course before the cut off date (1st April of the current academic year).

The Inspection Committee constituted by the Vice-Chancellor for the purpose conducts inspection to verify the adequacy of the physical, financial, teaching, library, laboratory and other infrastructure and instructional facilities available for the proposed college / course.

The report of the Inspection Committee is examined and submitted to the Academic Council for its consideration.

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The recommendation of the Academic Council is submitted to the Executive Council for approval for grant of affiliation for the proposed college / course.

The Trust / Society is intimated of the payment requirements, creation of endowment and Inspection Committee observations / requirements for necessary compliance for considering affiliation.

On fulfillment of the affiliation requirements such as payment of affiliation fee, creation of endowment and submission of Undertaking etc. by the Trust / Society, provisional affiliation is granted for the proposed college / course.

Procedure to be followed by institution/trust/society etc. for starting new courses for which there is no existing syllabus and new syllabus has to be framed

Institutions/Trust/Society which propose to start new courses for which there is no syllabus existing in the University, are required to submit an expression of interest along with Feasibility Study Report before embarking on the formal procedure of affiliation. The last date for submission of expression of interest (with feasibility report) is 15th January. The requisite processing fee of Rs.2.00 lakhs per course should also be submitted along with the expression of interest.

The expression of interest and feasibility study will be then processed by the University and the decision of the University will be communicated to the institution/trust by 31st August of the same year. Only after a positive decision is taken by the University, the institution would be eligible to apply for affiliation by 1st

October in the prescribed proforma along with requisite documents to consider for affiliation for starting the course from the next academic year. In case of refusal by the University authorities for the reason of insufficient justification or otherwise, processing fee would be refunded to the extent of 75%.

b) What are the procedures for conferring permanent affiliation to a college?

Permanent affiliation is considered course-wise and the colleges intending for Permanent affiliation should submit their application in prescribed format by 1st October of the academic year for which permanent affiliation is sought.

Colleges / institutions can apply for permanent affiliation only for the courses in which three consecutive batches of students have passed out.

Application to be accompanied by evidence of fulfillment of norms prescribed for teaching, physical and infrastructure facility including land and building.

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Affiliation Committee scrutinizes the application for permanent affiliation received from the college / institution and verifies the following:

Appointment of at least 80% teachers on a regular basis in the concerned discipline and payment of salary as per the pay scales prescribed by the Government / statutory organizations with qualifications as prescribed by the UGC/ respective statutory organizations.

Proof of payment of all dues to the University.

Litigation pending, if any.

Whether admissions made in accordance with the guidelines issued by the University / Government.

Whether accounts audited at the end of each financial year by a registered chartered accountant.

Whether required registers, records and statistical details maintained.

On receipt of applications with above details, the Inspection Committee constituted for the purpose inspects the proposed college / institution with regard to fulfillment of various requirements of the above.

The observations of the Committee including the deficiencies noted are communicated to the college / institution concerned for necessary compliance / rectification.

The Compliance Report submitted by the college / institution is examined and placed before the Academic Council for consideration.

The recommendation of the Academic Council is placed before the Executive Council for consideration and approval for grant of permanent affiliation for the proposed college / course.

Permanent affiliation for the college / institution is granted for a period of five years subject to further review after five years.

6.2.8 Does the University have a College Development Council (CDC) or Board of College and University Development (BCUD)? If yes, give the details of its structure and functions.

Yes. The Composition of College Development Council is as under:

1) Vice-Chancellor

Chairman (Ex-officio) 2) Director, Studies, Educational

Member (Ex-officio) Innovations & Rural Reconstruction

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3) One Nominee of the Chief Rector

Member

4) Secretary, Department of Education,

Member

Govt. of Puducherry or his nominee 5) Secretary (Education),

Member or his nominee

Andaman & Nicobar Administration 6) Registrar

Member (Ex-officio)

7) Finance Officer

Member (Ex-officio) 8) Two Deans (One from Science &

Member One from Arts/Humanities) by rotation 9) Two Professors (One from Science &

Member One from Arts/Humanities) by rotation 10) One Principal of Medical Institution

Member by rotation 11) One Principal of Engineering College

Member by rotation 12) One Principal of Nursing/Paramedical

Member College by rotation 13) Two Principals of Arts & Science Colleges

Member by rotation

14) One Principal of B.Ed. college by rotation

Member

15) Principal, Govt. Law College

Member

16) Principal, Community College

Member

17) Dean, College Development Council

Member-Secretary(Ex-officio)

Functions of C.D.C. are as follows:

1) To interact with affiliated colleges in order to improve and maintain the academic standard envisaged in the Pondicherry University Act and Statutes (1985).

2) To ensure proper planning and integrated development of affiliated colleges and to provide the colleges necessary help and guidance for raising the standard of learning, teaching and research.

3) To serve as academic guide to the college system and to ensure closer interaction between the academics in the University Departments and the Faculty in the affiliated colleges.

4) To review the existing facilities and to identify the needs and gaps that need to be filled for the development of the colleges.

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6.2.9 How does the University promote autonomous status to the affiliated

institutions?

The University encourages the colleges to apply for permanent affiliation and thereby qualify for 2(f) and 12(b) status of UGC and subsequently for autonomous status.

Two affiliated Govt. colleges are presently granted autonomous status.

The private colleges are keen now-a-days more on getting deemed University Status rather than autonomous status. So far five private colleges which were earlier affiliated to the University have successfully acquired the deemed University Status.

The proposals of three more colleges for Deemed University status are pending with UGC.

One Medical college JIPMER has acquired the status of Institute of National Importance (which is on the lines of deemed University) along with the College of Nursing functioning in its Campus.

6.3 Strategy Development and Deployment

6.3.1 Does the institution have a perspective plan for institutional development? How are the various constituencies involved in the process of planning?

Perspective planning of Universities development is based on the cardinal principle of Expansion with Excellence and Equity. Expansion in the capacity and maintenance of excellence requires increase in Faculty strength, built space, Library, Laboratory, Hostels, Sports and student amenities and increase in technical and non-teaching support staff. The University realizes that the critical mass required for a National University located on a campus of 800 acres, is about 20,000.

The long term plan of the University projected a 300% growth in XI plan and 200% growth in XII plan and 100% growth in XIII plan. This would bring the total strength of Faculty to 2000 and students to 20,000.

The five year plan proposal is an instrument which facilitates the realization of such a perspective plan and it is prepared by the University by involving all the academic departments, within the parameters and guidelines prescribed by the UGC and Govt. of India. The proposals are placed before the Planning Board, Academic Council and Executive Council, for detailed deliberations, before sending to UGC.

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6.3.2 Does the institution follow an academic calendar? How effectively is it

prepared?

An Academic Calendar for University programmes is prepared every year by a duly constituted Academic Calendar Committee, which includes faculty representatives from various departments and affiliated institutions. The Calendar is strictly adhered to every year.

6.3.3 During the last five years, specify how many plan proposals were initiated / implemented? Give details

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

(a). New Departments / Centres Sanctioned and Started During XI Plan

1. Dept Of Applied Psychology

2. Dept Of Library & Information Sciences

3. Centre For Electronic Media

4. Dept Of Mass Communication & Media Studies

5. Dept Of Food Science

6. Dept Of Social Work

7. Centre For South Asian Studies

8. Dept Of Education - Pondicherry Campus

9. Dept Of Commerce - Karaikal Centre

10. Dept Of Computer Science - Karaikal Centre

11. Dept Of Management Studies -Karaikal Centre

12. Dept Of Electronic Engineering

13. Centre For Nano Science And Technology

14. Community College

which was functioning as a self financing Institution and has been approved as a constituent College of the University during the XI plan.

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(b). NEW TEACHING PROGRAMMES SANCTIONED AND STARTED

New Academic Programmes Sanctioned by UGC During XI Plan

SL. NO DEPARTMENTS / CENTRES PROGRAMMES

1 Computer Science- Pondicherry Centre

M.Tech (Network & Internet Engineering)

2 Applied Psychology M.Sc. (Applied Psychology) 3 Library And Information Science M.L.I.S

4 Electronic Media & Communication Research

M.Sc. (Electronic Media)

5 Centre For Pollution Control And Energy Technology

M.Tech (Environmental Engineering & Management)

6 Food Science M.SC (Food Science And Nutrition) 7 Social Work MSW ( Master Of Social Work)

8 Electronic Media And Communication Research

M.A (Mass Communication)

9 Centre For South Asian Studies M.A. (South Asian Studies)

10 Education M.Ed.

11 Management Studies - Karaikal Centre

MBA (Insurance)

12 Computer Science - Karaikal Centre MCA 14 Commerce - Karaikal Centre M.Com 16 Banking Technology MBA (Banking Technology) 17 International Business MBA (International Business) 18 Electronic Engineering M.Tech (Electronics)

19 Centre for Nano Science and Technology

M.Tech (Nano Science & Technology)

(c) ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMES STARTED IN THE EXISTING DEPARTMENTS

I. ADDITIONAL NEW P.G. DEGREE PROGRAMMES INTRODUCED, OVER AND ABOVE THE SANCTIONS IN XI PLAN USING THE EXISTING STAFF STRENGTH

DEPARTMENT/CENTRES PROGRAMMES

1 Centre for Bioinformatics M.Sc Computational Biology

2 Dept of Food Science M.Sc Food Science and Technology

3 Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

M.Sc Microbiology

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4 Dept of Earth Science M.Tech Exploration & Geosciences

5 Dept of Economics M.Sc (Economics)

Five year

Integrated

II. NEW CENTRE STARTED WITH A NEW INNOVATIVE PROGRAMME 1.

Centre for Green Energy Technology M.Tech Green Energy Technology

BUILDINGS APPROVED AND COMPLETED:

i. UNDER XI PLAN

SL. NO BUILDINGS APPROVED & COMPLETED

1 School of Management II-II floor 2 Construction of Statistics Department - I floor 3 Construction of Lecture Hall - I floor

4 Construction of balance portion for first floor in the department of chemistry

5 Construction of balance portion for first floor in the department of physics

6 Construction of 11 Nos. staff quarters

7 Construction of Coastal Disaster Management Department - 1 Floor

8 3 Nos. Roof Top Rain water harvesting Sumps 9 Godown Building 10 Shelter for Security 11 School of Humanities & Social Sciences 12 School of Tamil Language & Literature 13 Examination Wing 14 20 units Apartments 15 Department of library Science 16 Building for PG Centre, karaikal

ii. UNDER OBC GRANTS

Sl.No

BUILDINGS 1 Additional 1 No. Mess Block for women 2 Lecture Hall Complex - II 3 Women's - Kalpana Chawla Hostel 4 Dr.S. Radhakrishnan Hostel for Boys 5 Moulana Abul kalam Azad Hostel for Boys 6 Second Floor in the Ilango Adigal Hostel - Boys

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7 Second floor in the Ganga Hostel - Girls 8 20 units Apartments - II 9 Research Scholars Hostel Building for Gents 10 Research Scholars Hostel Building for Ladies 11 Vertical extension of Research Scholars Hostel for Gents 12 Vertical extension of Research Scholars Hostel for Ladies 13 Building For Electronic Media & Mass Communication 14 CIF vertical Extension 15 Bulk (external ) services at 110 acres 16 48 Nos. Boys & 42 Nos. girls Hostel at Port Blair

17 Additional Class Rooms for Mathematics (Under Construction)

Buildings under UGC Special Grants

1. Academic Staff College

ADDITIONAL PROPOSAL SUBMITTED UNDER PHASE II OF XI PLAN:

1. PROPOSAL FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

School/Departments Programmes

School of Law LLM (PG) & PG Dip.Course Dept. of Microbiology M.Sc Microbiology Dept. of Green Energy Technology M.Tech Green Energy Technology

Centre for Foreign Languages M.A. & Diploma courses in Japanese, German, Italian & Spanish

2. PROPOSAL FOR MORE BUILDINGS

Name of the Building

1. International Convention Centre with 2500 capacity

2. Community

College 3. Quarters For Statutory Officers 4. Quarters For Faculty & Staff 5. Overhead Tanks-2 6. Centre For Nano Science & Technology 7. Centre For Bioinformatics 8. Dept. Of Earth Science 9. Additional Floor For Karaikal Centre

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Name of the Building

10. Indoor Stadium 11. International Student Hostel Of 400 Capacity 12. Swimming Pool 13. Multipurpose Community Hall 14. Shopping Complex

The University completed the implementation of all the approved projects of XI plan one year ahead of the plan period, and spent over 230 crores with an effective growth of 300% by the University on all fronts of student strength, Faculty, infrastructure, Laboratories, library, research output and new Teaching and Research programmes.

In fact the University has approached the MHRD and UGC to sanction additional grant for implementation of a second phase of the XI plan which was kept by UGC in abeyance.

6.3.4 What are the mechanisms evolved by the University to meet the developmental needs of the affiliated institutions?

The College Development Council has convened meetings with the colleges apprising the colleges of the various schemes of the UGC and benefits of getting inclusion under 2(f) status of the UGC Act.

The various schemes of UGC communicated to the college from time to time for availing the benefit of such schemes. These are also put on the University Website.

Application from the qualified colleges are forwarded to the funding agencies like UGC with due recommendations.

The affiliated colleges are instructed to encourage teachers to attend Orientation and Refresher Courses conducted by the University Academic Staff College and to acquire UGC NET/SLET, Ph.D. The affiliated colleges are encouraged to use the Library and other facilities of the University.

Two members of the University Faculty are nominated to the Governing body (private colleges)/Advisory committee (Govt. Colleges) for guiding the management in respect of the development activities of the college.

The University also furnishes a list of candidates who have applied for Faculty positions in the University to the affiliated colleges, especially for those colleges

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in need of Faculty in Computer Science, Education and Arts and Science from the list available with the University after completion of University selection. This is a pro-active measure to help the college in finding qualified Faculty. The University does not charge any amount for this service.

The University organizes campus selection for students of affiliated colleges.

The University also sends nominees to help in the selection of qualified candidates for Principal/Faculty position in the colleges.

6.3.5 How often is the functioning of the affiliated institutions inspected and supervised? When was the exercise done last? Give details.

The inspection of colleges is being done at least once every year before the beginning of the academic year. If the Committee recommends re- inspection for verification of the compliance then a re-inspection is conducted. Further, surprise checks are conducted, if the need arises. Inspection of 87 colleges has been carried out during the last year. For the year 2011-12, inspection is in progress.

6.3.6 Has the University conducted an academic audit of its affiliated colleges? If yes, give details.

The Inspection of the College itself is based mostly on all academic parameters involving among others, students and faculty feedback by personal interview by the Inspection committee members.

6.4 Human Resource Management

6.4.1 How are the staffs recruited? Illustrate the process.

All appointments to teaching posts are made mainly by direct recruitment through All India advertisement, as recommended by duly constituted selection committee. A few posts on the basis of merit are also filled on deputation from Central/ State University/Academic/Research institutions.

Recruitment to non-teaching posts are being made by direct recruitment, promotion, transfer or by deputation from Government, other institutions through open advertisement following the recruitment rules.

6.4.2 How does the University assess the need for staff recruitment?

The requirements for faculty positions are being assessed based on the norms prescribed by UGC for teaching posts. The non-teaching posts requirements were earlier worked out through a duly constituted Manpower committee based on the

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number of programmes and students. Subsequent requirements are being assessed from time to time as per workload depending on increase in programmes, students, faculty strength, maintenance needs of buildings and other infrastructure etc. The guidelines of UGC regarding outsourcing of services like security, transport etc. are also taken into account while working out the staff requirements.

6.4.3 What percentage of Faculty is recruited from other institutions, other states and other countries? Give details.

About 85% of faculties are recruited from other institutions/other states (As on 31.03.11)

Number of teachers from same State - 53 (Puducherry)

Other States/Institutions - 305

Total - 358

6.4.4 What is the ratio of teachers to non-teaching staff?

Ratio: 1:1.35

6.4.5 Does the institution have a self-appraisal method to evaluate the performance of the Faculty in teaching, research and extension programmes? How far has it motivated the teachers?

Yes, the University has a Self Appraisal method, to evaluate the performance of the Faculty in teaching, research and extension programmes. In addition their performance is also evaluated through Peer Assessment and by Students assessment.

The institution has an open and participative mechanism for evaluation of teaching and promoting work satisfaction of the faculty. The teachers have opportunities for continued academic growth and professional development. The institution has sustainable good practices in teaching, learning and evaluation to achieve academic excellence. The AAAC evaluate these forms and suggests improvement possibilities.

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6.4.6 Does the institution appraise the performance of the teaching staff? If yes,

specify.

Yes, the University evaluates the performance of the Faculty in teaching, research and extension programme through Peer Assessment and by Students Assessment. The institution has an open and participative mechanism for evaluation of teaching and promoting work satisfaction of the faculty. The AAAC evaluate these forms and suggests improvement possibilities.

6.4.7 Does the institution appraise the performance of the non-teaching staff? If yes, specify.

Yes, every year the performance of the non-teaching staff is being assessed by way of Annual Performance Appraisal Report as per the instruction of the Government of India.

6.4.8 Has there been any study conducted during the last five years by the University / government or by any other external agencies on the functioning of any aspect of academic and administrative management? If yes, give the details of the reports.

An Academic and Administrative Audit committee was constituted in 2009, with the following members.

Prof.P.Venkataramaiah - Former Vice-Chancellor, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta) & Former Chairman, SRC-NCTE

Prof. Narasimhulu - Director

ASC, Hyderabad Central University

Prof. Maya Pandit Narkar - Pro Vice Chancellor, The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

Prof. A. K. Srivastava - Professor & Head , University of Mumbai

Y Rafeek Ahmed - Former Professor , University of Mysore

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The committee did comprehensive audit of the activities of the University twice during 19.02.2010 & 25.02.2011. The objective of AAAC is to evaluate the performance of the institution and to identify the issues that are to be attended in order to improve the quality of Teaching and Research. The recommendations of the committee have been implemented by concerned actions on the part of Departments/Sections.

6.4.9 Has the institution conducted any progrmame for skill upgradation and training of the non-teaching staff based on the performance appraisal? Give details.

The University has conducted various training programme for skill upgradation especially coaching for Spoken English and Training of Computer Operations for the non-teaching staff including group D staffs. Last year alone 23 training programmes were conducted and about 300 staff have been benefited during the last one year. Apart from this nearly 70 non-teaching staff are deputed to various training courses within India during last one year.

6.4.10 Does the institution conduct staff development programme for the teaching staff & non-teaching staff? Illustrate.

As per the recommendation of the AAAC and also to improve the performance of the teaching staff, the teachers are being deputed to various Orientation/Refresher courses and also other training courses under the Faculty Development Programme. The Academic Staff College has so far organized 104 Orientation courses, 151 Refresher Courses for the University teachers.

6.4.11 How are teaching staff encouraged to use the computers, Internet, audio-visual aids, computer aided packages etc.?

The entire University campus is Wi-Fi enabled and all the teaching Faculty have been provided with separate computers and internet facilities. Special computing facilities for the visually challenged Faculty have been provided in the central library. Every Faculty in the University is now computer, internet and IT savvy. All communication and circular to the faculty is sent by the administration only through website (no hard copies/papers is sent). Therefore all Faculty receive and send communication to the administration by mail.

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6.6 Best Practices in Governance and Leadership

6.6.1 Describe best practices in Governance and leadership adopted by the University in terms of institutional vision and leadership / organizational arrangements / strategies development / deployment/ human resource management / financial management and resource mobilization

There was a relook into the overall Governance, Policies, Institutional Vision, Organizational arrangement, Financial Management and Optimum use of Resource and Strategies to attain the targets of Expansion with Excellence and Equity.

The major decisions were:

Decentralization of administrative and academic responsibilities to the Deans of Schools and Heads of Departments.

Academic freedom to all Faculty in matters of teaching programmes and areas of research.

Collective decisions in matters of financial expenditure, following new purchase rules framed for greater transparency.

Decision to expand the size of the University in terms of Built Space (>150%), Students Strength (>300%) and Faculty strength (over 150%)

Creation of right ambience on the campus by modernizing the Library, equipping the Laboratories with latest available instruments and facilities, improving all the amenities on the Campus for comfort and quality for both teachers and students.

Establishing large number of Computer Laboratories and installing expensive software for the teaching and research purpose.

Promoting interdisciplinary research incentives to new Faculty as Sstart-up Grant, supporting conferences, etc.

Improving connectivity through telephone network, total and Wi-Fi Campus.

Students to be provided with excellent Hostels, Mess for Food, Sports Facilities, Transport System, opportunity to exhibit talent through Cultural Clubs, Literary Clubs, etc.

Redressal mechanism to both Faculty, non-teaching staff and students.

A constant feedback mechanism through (a) Student Evaluation of Teachers, (b) Feedback from Students on University Facilities and (c) Feedback from parents.

All the above and many more steps taken during last five years have yielded commendable results to make this University globally visible.

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ANNEXURE:

MAJOR DECISIONS TAKEN AT THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL

Approvals for

1. Framing/amendment of Ordinances and amendments to Statutes. 2. Regulation and syllabus recommended by School Board 3. Regulation and syllabus recommended by the Special Board of Studies 4. Launching of new courses 5. Establishment of Schools/Dept/Centres 6. Regulations for PhD and CBCS regulations 7. Provisional Affiliation 8. Permanent Affiliation 9. Disaffiliation 10. All examination related matters 11. All teaching related matters 12. Academic calendar 13. Intake in various courses. 14. Signing of MoUs 15. Supplication of graces for admittance and conferring of degrees to the

candidates, approval of Award of Honorary Degrees

Some Important Decision During Last year

63rd Academic Council Meeting 28.01.2010:

1. Amendment of Statute providing for representation for SC/ST, Minorities, Women and Persons with Disabilities in the Academic Council.

2. Amendment in the CBCS regulations regarding the publication of results of various courses based on the recommendation made by the Deans Committee.

3. Implementation of the revised Ph.D regulation from the academic year 09-10.

4. Review of the courses offered in Community College.

64th Academic Council 15.05.2010

1. Approval of the procedure for recognition of research institution/centre/laboratory of major institutions, existing affiliated college for offering doctoral programme under Pondicherry University.

2. Establishment of Madanjeet Singh Centre for Green Energy Technology and starting of M.Tech in Green Energy Technology from 2010-11.

3. Grant of recognition for Ph.D programme in Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair.

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4. Offering of Non Medical Post Graduate Programmes jointly by the University

and affiliated medical colleges.

5. Reservation to the wards of Kashmiri migrants in admissions based on the instruction of MHRD.

6. Establishment of new Schools, Departments and Centres.

School of Media & Communication

Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technology

Dept. of Mass Communication

Dept. of Electronics Engineering


Centre for Nano-Science Technology

7. Waiving of entrance examination for the foreign students who apply for PhD full time programme.

8. Approval of the procedure followed for analyzing of students and teachers feedback as part of the IQAC.

9. Approval of add-on course Sophisticated Analytical Instruments from the academic year 2010-11.

65 th Academic Council 22.09.2010

1. Approval of the UGC regulation on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers and other academic staff in Universities and Colleges.


1. Signing of MoU with

a. Maharishi Solar Technology Pvt Ltd, Andra Pradesh.

b. Joliet Junior College, Illinois USA for an yearly study abroad programme,

c. Ministry of Defense New Delhi for admission of army personnel in various courses of the University,

d. Frontier Life Line Research Centre, Chennai.

e. University of Picarde Jules Verne France.

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2. Merging of Centre for Electronic Media with Department of Mass

Communication under the School of Media and Communication of the University.

3. Approval for a new course M.Com (Accounting and Taxation) from the academic year 2011-12.

4. Approving the proposal for change of nomenclature of MISARC to UMISARC


1. Amendment to statute 16 relating to school of study/department/centres.

2. Approval for allowing the faculty members to be co-guide of other universities in exceptional cases.

3. Signing of MoU with

a. Ohio State University, USA. b. University of Paris 13 for the renewal of the MoU. c. University of Lumire Lyon 2, France.

4. Establishment of the following departments at PG Centre Karaikal

a. Dept of Commerce, b. Dept of Computer Science and c. Dept of Management

5. Amendment in the Administrative Ordinance governing the code of conduct and discipline for avoidance of sexual harassment and maintenance of equality of opportunity.

Executive Council Meeting:

Automation of Examination Section.

Approval of PG Diploma/Certificate programmes as Add on Courses.

Approved the norms for silver jubilee award.

Award of certificate of merit to teachers on the basis of student evaluation.

Establishment of Pre-Primary school in the university campus.

Sanction of Non-teaching posts under OBC grant.

Establishment of University Publication Division.

Exemption of differently abled students from payment of fees from the academic year 2010-11 in the University.

Creation of ladies pool for campus accommodation on preference.

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Amendment of statute 10(a),11,13 and 19 regarding representation from SC/ST, minorities, women and persons with disabilities in the court, Executive council, Academic Council and selection committee for the post of Director of the University.

Approval of the process of NAAC Re-accreditation process to Re-assess and Re-accredit the University.

Amendment to Administrative Ordinance No.8

ordinances governing the code of conduct and discipline for avoidance of sexual harassment and maintenance of equality of opportunity.

Providing of 24 hour medical facilities to our employees residing in Puducherry town through PIMS.

Sanction of start-up grant to 24 newly joined faculty members to encourage research.

Sanction of travel expenses to escort when a visually challenged Faculty is deputed to attend National/International Conferences.

Implementation of Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACP) to Pondicherry University Non-Teaching Employees.

Enhancement of remuneration paid under the Earn while you Learn scheme of Pondicherry University.

Meeting of the Court held on 04.12.2010

Approval for the 25th Annual Report.

Approval for the Annual Accounts for the year 2009-10.

Approval for the proposed revised estimate for the year 2010-11 and the Budget estimate for the year 2011-12.

Analysis of cost per student in various Departments.

Meeting of the Planning Board held on 18.09.2010

Approval for new programmes/completion of building/conduct of National and International seminars and workshop during 2009-10.

Utilization of allocation of Rs.4191.91 lakhs by UGC under XI plan General Development Scheme for the year 09-10.

Utilization of allocation of Rs.4000 lakhs by UGC for implementation of OBC reservation for the year 09-10.

Sanction of financial assistance by the UGC under SAP-DRS phase II.

Signing of MoUs with various foreign Universities.

Sanction of Rs.25 lakhs for Silver Jubilee celebration.

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View sought by the MHRD on the proposal of the Puducherry Government.

Constitution of Academic and Administrative Audit Committee.

Finance committee meeting held on 20.11.2010

Certification of Annual Accounts for the year 09-10.

Review of income and expenditure for the year 10-11 and utilization of grants and unspent balance as on 31.10.2010.

Revises estimate for the year 2010-11 and budget estimate 2011-12.

Approval for the proposal for additional grants required under XI plan.

Finance committee meeting held on 21.05.2010

Approving the minutes of the building committee meeting.

Utilization of funds under plan and Non-plan for the year 2009-10 and unspent balance as on 31.03.2010.

Filling up of additional posts to meet the urgent requirements of the University.


1) What were the evaluative observations made under Organization and Management in the previous assessment report and how have they been acted upon?

Observations:-

The University is headed by the Vice-Chancellor, assisted by the Deans, Heads of the Departments and Faculty on the academic side and by the Registrar, Finance Officer, Controller of Examinations and other staff on the administrative side. The statutory bodies of the University are the Court, Executive Council, Academic Council, Finance Committee, Planning Committee and Boards of Studies. There are also a number of other bodies and competent officers.

The UGC reservation policy is being implemented in the matter of staff recruitment. Confidential reports and performance appraisal systems are employed to check the performance of staff. Different training programmes have been organized (11 between 1999 and 2005) for training staff in areas like office automation and computer operation. Assistant and Deputy Registrars are deputed to undergo training outside the University. The ratio of teachers to non-teaching staff is 1:3:9. Examination, library and administrative work have been computerized. The University setup an Internal Quality Assurance Cell in 1996 to get feedback from students and Faculty with the aim of overall improvement and

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development. On the academic side, the University is constituted into seven Schools headed by their Deans who manage the academic affairs of the school. There are Boards of Studies for each subject. The Academic Calendar is prepared in consultation with the Principals of affiliated colleges.

The Pondicherry University Staff Co-operative Credit Society was established in 1987 with 631 members. Faculty and staff have formed a Housing Society, and can avail of housing and vehicle loans. The University encourages staff and faculty to participate in and organize professional development programmes. The University receives funds from the UGC and also generates substantial resources from the Distance Education programmes (Rs.6 Crores in 2004-2005) as well as from the Study India Programme ($ 50,000 in the same period) and from self-financing courses and from endowments. All budget allocations are fully utilized. There is an Internal Audit Officer, and the accounts are also being audited by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The University now enjoys a comfortable corpus fund of Rs.20 crores.

2) What are the other quality sustenance and enhancement measures undertaken by the institution since the previous Assessment and Accreditation with regard to Organization and Management?


During the past five years, a number of progressive steps have been taken to streamline the overall administration. The salient features are:

a. Speedy disposal of files with a time lime of 24 hours fixed for clearance of file at all Sections which includes the Vice Chancellor.

b. Introduction of Electronics messaging and E-Circulars through the University Server has reduced the time of communication and enormously saved on stationery consumption.

c. Decentralization of leave sanction and all academic issues of departments to the Deans Office has greatly helped in expediting the processes. This autonomy to Deans Office has also made their Office accountable.

d. Entire purchase procedures followed were revised and a new manual has been prepared and approved by the Council and Experts which has not only brought in substantial transparency but also standardized the procedure.

e. More frequent meetings of Academic Council, Executive Council, Planning Board and Finance Committee have helped in speedy decisions.

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f. The unprecedented volume of construction activities during XI Plan

necessitated a number of checks and balances to ensure speedy and transparent implementation of the projects. A number of subcommittees and consultants have been engaged to additionally monitor, through RITES were appointed as the Project Managers.

g. The affiliation committees have been revamped and an external chairman were inducted for all affiliation committees to ensure fare & strict inspection.

h. This has been an overall enhancement of the quality of work carried out including printing of Annual Reports.

i. The vacant Faculty positions have been filled up with a massive exercise. Over 4500 candidate were interviewed to fill about 200 positions, though still 100 are to be re-advertised.

j. The massive 300% expansion of the University has called for creation of large number of technical and other staff which has been done through creation on contract out of the University s own funds, though a limited posts were sanctioned by UGC.

k. The financial management has been one of the best amongst the Central Universities. The University spent the entire plan allocation of Rs.129 Crores and the Rs.100 Crores under OBC one year ahead of time and submitted the utilization certificate.

l. Advance planning and effective time management particularly in construction has not only saved on cost escalation, but saved upto Rs.15 Crores on the increase in Steel & Cement cost.

m. The automation of examination system has greatly reduced the time of evaluation after exam and announcement of results.

n. All important files pertaining to financial transactions and also service conditions are pre-audited. The annual audit is done by CAG.

o. The administrative reforms and streamlining of all sections of administration. Finance and Examination have greatly contributed to the exponential growth of the University during the last five years.

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7.1 Internal Quality Assurance System

7.1.1 What mechanisms have been developed by the institution for quality assurance within the Existing academic and administrative system?

Establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell.

Periodic meetings of the IQAC advisory Committee.

Strict adherence to the practices of annual Self appraisal reports by faculty.

Constitution of Academic Audit committee.

Constitution of Administrative Audit Committee.

Constitution of Instrumentation Audit Committee.

7.1.2 What are the functions carried out by the above mechanisms in the quality enhancement of the Institution?

All the Audit Committees visit each and every Department, hold discussions with all stake holders and make recommendations. The recommendations are again discussed in the Faculty meetings under the chairmanship of Vice Chancellor and then implemented.

The Committees again visit to verify the action taken by the University and again submit their report.

It is a continuous monitoring process which has sustained high quality of teaching and research.

7.1.3 What role is played by students in assuring quality of education imparted by the institution?

Student feedback on teachers, students participation in programme committees and suggestions obtained from students council ensure the student participation in maintenance of quality.

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7.1.4 What initiatives have been taken up by the institution to promote best

practices in the institution? How does the institution ensure that the best practices have been internalized?

At the beginning of XI plan in 2007, the University under the new leadership revisited the prevailing perceptions, vision, organization policies, strategies of development, financial management and resource mobilization and its optimal use. The reasons for under-utilization of the hidden talent of the Faculty both in teaching and research, was brainstormed and discussed within select senior stakeholders. Action plan for the set of targets of accomplishments in five years were clearly identified and defined for incorporation in the XI plan proposal. In addition the best practices to bring a turn around in the Ambiences of academic pursuit, induct high level of positive energy, maximum utilization of the existing potential amongst the teaching and from non teaching work force were identified. The strategies were evolved for use of maximum potential of the existing infrastructure, faculty and staff development that was already done at the university for the past 20 years under the previous plan periods. The Vision statement for the University was EXPANSION WITH EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY. The laid down strategies to accomplish the above vision statement were the following.

A University with 780 Acres of campus should have not less than 10,000 students and 800-1000 faculty members and about 1200-1500 support staff including Technical, non teaching and professional maintenance staff. It was there for decided to reach at least 50% of this target during the XI plan by enhancing the present strengths by 250 to 300% which is the minimum critical man for a university to bring many possible impact.

A Central University should offer programmes in all disciplines of Basic and Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Media and Law.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Departments should be given as much importance support and encouragement as given to science and technology programmes.

The new programmes chosen for launch should have contemporary relevance and should match the global trends in the developed world.

It was firmly believed that change in the work culture, motivation, accountability, enthusiasm and positive energy can not be brought by policing and punishment alone but more essentially by creating such a world class facility and opportunity that the very ambience of the campus brings in an irresistible and compelling attitudinal change and motivation among the men & women who work and study in the campus.

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Good ambience is of course created with good garden and landscape, a good state of Art laboratories and library, a good infrastructure and modern furnishing, a good sports and other amenities, good cafeterias and Hostels, good transport facility and host of welfare schemes, but there is something more than that. A good ambience is created with transparent, efficient and positive administrative set up, which believes that it is meant for academics and not the other way round. A sound financial management and optimum use of resources for growth of the institution is equally significant.

Honesty, transparency, integrity, clarity of thought and policies, courage of conviction, self discipline, dedication and commitment are some of the basic requirements for good governance and leadership which percolate down to the ground level, which ultimately manifest into the glowing, progressive character of an institution which over a period of time impacts upon the entire society, and upon the young minds who emerge as graduates.

Pondicherry University, right earnestly chartered the above strategies / principles of Healthy Governance for growth of the University into a world class institution for the past five years and has to day proved that Ambitious Expansion of 300% not scarifying the Excellence and not compromising on Equity could be accomplished just in five years. This has set the bench mark and the clear directions to reach the next target by this and of XII plan.

Dream Big, Aim Big, Act Big and perform fearlessly with trust in God and your own people, has been the guiding principle on which this University could redefine its goals, invent new avenues, penetrate through obstacles and reach its targets.

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Some of the good practices followed in the Pondicherry University are given below: -

Students Related:

1. Over 60% Residential accommodation in campus.

2. On-line application for admissions, country vide centres for entrance test, Transparency of admission, fast admission process.

3. Availability of syllabus and regulations on the website.

4. Add on Diploma courses in evening.

5. Recognizing Teachers based on Assessment of Students.

6. Academic Audit.

7. Free Hostel accommodation for Girls and SC/ST students.

8. Fully free education for Physically Challenged.

9. Free transport from the city for all students.

10. Food subsidy (30%) for Hostellers with annual family income below Rs.4.5 lakhs.

11. Eco friendly transport for in campus movement

Battery cars and free bicycles.

12. Gym facility for Boys and Girls and Yoga classes at subsidized rates.

13. 100% Power back up for all Hostels, Labs and Academic Departments.

14. Entire campus Wi-Fi enabled.

15. Fee concession for various categories in Distance Education.

16. Fee concession for Group C and D employees and their wards.

17. Providing funds for fresher party to eliminate ragging.

18. State of the Art sports facilities, multicousine cafeterias.

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Administration related

Well defined purchase procedures introduced.

Administrative Audit conducted by outside committee and recommendations completed.

All internal communications through e-circular (enormous saving of paper & time).

Reservation roster hosted on website.

24 hours Health Centre with fully loaded Ambulance.

Master Health check up to all the employees.

Treatment in recognized hospitals in Pondicherry and Chennai without a need for reference.

Free Day care centre.

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Pre-Primary School in the Campus.

Prompt disposal of all files relating to Faculty, students, purchases, Grievances.

Automation of Services matters and Finances.

Automation of examination system and online registration timely evaluation and announcement of results.

New non-teaching, technical positions sanctioned with UGC approval and some created with the University s own resources.

Faculty and Academics related:

Over 250 new positions were created in the XI plan and the OBC increase allocation.

Over 180 positions have been filled in the shortest possible time and over 5000 candidates were interviewed for recruitment.

All selections were based purely on merit and through duly constituted selection committee and free from any kind of political or other interferences.

To promote good teaching and research, all the laboratories have been modernized, Computer Labs were provided to every Department and schools, and individual computers were provided to all faculty.

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The State of the Art instrumentation and Analytical facility has been created in CIF and individual Departments at a cost of over 50 crores in just five years. Analysis cost has been exempted to all Faculty and Research scholars.

HPLC System

FTIR Spectrometer

The Library has been completely automated, and a large number of over 31,000 plus E-resources have been made available online with downloadable full text.

The Library has 24 hours remote access by password, to all digital resources through its Library portal. The students and faculty can access the Library Portal from Desktops / Laptops and homes not only in Pondicherry but also on travel, from all over the world. This facility has also benefitted the faculty and students of Port Blair, Andamans and Karaikal Campuses.

The entire 780 acres campus has been connected with OFC and has been made Wi-Fi enabled.

100% power backup with 18 generators and 14 transformers for 3000 KVA capacity installed on campus.

All Departments have been asked to hold at least one National level conference annually and in fact, an average of 75 conferences are held annually.

All Faculty has been encouraged to write books and incentive of Rs.25000 and responsibility of publishing has been taken by the University with a royalty of 20%.

All Faculty has been encouraged to write projects and all department DRS-SAP, FIST and other funding schemes.

All Faculty has been given the Academic freedom and opportunity to grow.

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Finally strict vigil has been kept on non performing faculty and who those indulge in activities detrimental to the University atmosphere.

7.1.5 In which way has the institution added value to students quality enhancement?

Adding quality to the students is related to several parameters of excellence in the University campus. One of the prime parameters is the heterogeneity of student and teacher representation from across the country, making the campus multicultural and multilingual. Interaction and exposure of students to this unique pluralistic environment influences the personality of a student. Pondicherry University is a model.

The quality of teachers, high standards of curriculum, flexibility of learning through CBCS system, good living condition at the campus together will add to the quality of student produced.

Modern laboratories, library, computer labs round the clock internet access to library, also add to the quality of students.

Excellent sports facilities, gyms, playfields help in this personality development.

Cultural meets and festivals, debates and competitions, quizzes and games widen the perceptions of students.

Student journal PRERNA is an outlet for students to exhibit their writing talents.

Finally the flexibility to take up specialized Diploma programmes in the evening concurrently with the main Masters programme greatly helps in the value addition to the training obtained by the students.

7.2 Inclusive practices

7.2.1 What practices have been taken up by the institution to provide access to students from the following sections of the society:

a) Socially-backward b) Economically weaker and c) Differently-abled

Reservation policy provides for appropriate representation to OBC/SC/ST students.

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Scholarships are provided by the University to economically weaker sections based on merit.

This University has championed the cause of physically disabled by taking a decision to completely exempt them from payment of any fee including the entrance exam fee, admission fee and examination fees. In addition, all physically challenged students get free accommodation in hostels and also get free mess.

The University has made special provision to subsidies the mess charges by 30% to all hostel residents who fall below the creamy layer as per GoI definition.

The physically challenged are also provided with motored wheel chairs in Mess and Library.

Exclusive arrangements are made in the library for visually challenged students with all the required Hardware & Software and scanners to scan and read the books like any normal student

7.2.2 What efforts have been made by the institution to recruit staff from the disadvantaged communities? Specify?

a) Teaching:

The University has strictly adhered to the reservation policy. At

present 13 Faculty appointed are physically challenged and out of them 4 are

visually challenged. The visually challenged are provided with special

attendant and are given rent free accommodation.

b) Non-teaching: Amongst the non teaching 13 are physically challenged.

7.2.3. What special efforts are made to achieve gender balance amongst students and staff?

Gender Equity was priority of this University. All efforts have been made to bring a balance in the staff particularly in the recent XI Plan recruitments. At present there are 87 female Faculty out of 359 which is over 24%.

The female student population has also steadily increased from 14% to 38% during the last 5 years. Special incentives like rent free hostels have been offered to all girl students. Exclusive hostels have been constructed for Girls and at present there are 7 hostels for Girls with a capacity of 842 including one scholars

hostel.

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7.2.4. Has the institution done a gender audit and/or any gender-related sensitizing

courses for the staff/students? Give details.

Gender Audit is contemplated now but the Centre for Women Studies periodically holds seminars panel discussions, student meetings to create gender sensitization.

7.2.5. What intervention strategies have been adopted by the institution to promote overall development of the students from rural/tribal background?

There is no specific programme for rural and tribal students. But they are covered under the special tutorials offered by Departments to all those students who are initially found weak. But the steady increase in ST students in the University during the last five years is a clear indication of the comfort level enjoyed by them:

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 28 36 61 75 131

7.2.6. Does the institution have a mechanism to record the incremental academic growth of the students admitted from the disadvantaged sections?

There is no direct mechanism to record the incremental academic growth of disadvantaged students. But in one experience in this University, with initial councilling and special tutorials, most of them fall into the main stream by the end of a semester.

7.3 Stakeholders relationships

7.3.1 How does the institution involve all its stake holders in planning, implementing and evaluating the academic programmes?

The main stake holders are the Teachers, the Students, the Administrative Staff and the Support Staff. In the academic matters, the teachers participate at different levels starting from Program Committees, Board of Studies, School Board and Academic Council.

The Students are involved in the Programme Committees.

The Academic Advisory Committee headed by Director of Studies meets frequently to discuss all Academic matters.

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The Examination Wing with Controller and his team of Officers participates in all examination related meetings

7.3.2. How does the institution develop new programmes to create an overall climate conducive to learning?

The creation of a climate conducive to learning is not just based on the programmes offered though that is the prime factor. The University expanded its number of programmes on the campus covering almost every discipline of Science, Technology, Management, Social Sciences & Humanities, Education, Media, Performing Arts which in turn created a feel of completeness. The other factors are excellent Faculty, infrastructure, amenities, library and an embience which in itself should be inspiring. This is what the Pondicherry University has attempted to create.

7.3.3. What are the key factors that attract students and stake holders resulting in stakeholder satisfaction?

The above are factors together with transparency of governance, policies, examination system attract the stakeholders and satisfy the stake holders.

7.3.4. How does the institution elicit the cooperation from all stakeholders to ensure overall development of the students considering the curricular and co-curricular activities, research, community orientation the personal/spiritual development of the students?

Eliciting cooperation from stake holders is related to the sense of belonging and pride that teachers and staff develop for their University. This again is driven by multiple factors and ultimate contentment of the stake holder. The University has taken several measures that motivate and inculcate that self pride and participation in institutional growth. Academic freedeom, flexibility of learning right ambience are the key to success. The success of the University in the recent past is the testimony to the right policies.

7.3.5. How does the University anticipate public concerns with current and future programme offerings and operations?

The University is a dynamic institution. Constant anticipation and updation of the requirements of the society and the country s economic and industrial growth is the prime factor which determines the types of programmes to be offered. Not only are new programmes launched, but also the existing programmes are

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reviewed for content. For example, launching of programmes in areas of Social work, Pollution control, Applied Psychology, Electronic Media, Nano Science, Green Energy Technology, Coastal Disaster management, Food Technology, etc. are good examples of the University s vigilant anticipation of future needs of the country.

7.3.6. How does the institution promote social responsibilities and citizenship roles among the students? Does it have any exclusive program for the same?

The Departments of Sociology, Social work, Applied Psychology, Centre for Social Exclusion & Inclusion Policy, have inclusive programmes of working with community, adoption of villages which finally results in producing students with strong perception and motivation of social responsibility. The University has also introduced recently, NCC for students of Integrated Programmes.

7.3.7. What are the institutional efforts to bring in community-orientation in its activities?

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7.3.8. How does the institution actively support and strengthen the neighborhood communities? How does the University identify community needs and determine areas of emphasis for organizational involvement and support? How do the Faculty and students contribute in these activities?

One of the unique programmes launched is the Popularizing of Pre-Primary Education in rural areas

Under this programme, the University offers a Diploma in pre-primary education and School Management for those girls who want to start their own schools.

Many of the Social Science programmes have projects to work with the community.

Establishment of Community Radio is one of the major efforts.

Electronic Media produce documentaries on issues related to the communities.

7.3.9. Describe how the institution determines student satisfaction, relative to academic benchmarks? Does the institution update the approach in view of the current and future educational needs and challenges.

Student feedback, Parent feedback, employers preferred choice for the Pondicherry University students are some of the yardsticks to gauge student satisfaction.

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7.3.10. How does the institution build relationships

- to attract and retain students; - to enhance students, performance and; - to meet their expectations of learning

Well, the best measure for all the three questions is to look at the number of students seeking admission in a university. The fact that the demand for admission has increased from 6000 in 2006 to 52,000 in 2011, and the students from 31 states study in Pondicherry University has built the best cross-country relationship amongst the students. This phenomenal increase in visibility of high standards of teaching, effective governance and world class facilities.

7.3.11. What is the institution s complaint management process? How does the institution ensure that these complaints are resolved promptly and effectively? How are complaints aggregated and analyzed for use in the improvement of the organization, and for better stakeholder-relationship and satisfaction?

There are several complaint management mechanisms. The key to minimize time for grievance redressal is decentralization. Complaints come through different channels from different domains, but they are addressed by appropriately authorized officers and committees.

The student complaints are channeled through student council to Deans of Student Welfare. The Hostel complaints go to the Chief Warden.

Academic issues raised by students and teachers are discussed in Academic Advisory Committee.

Women issues are dealt with by the Dean (Women Studies) and also the Sexual Harassment Committee.

There is also a Grievance Cell and Grievance Committee.

Professional Student Counselors are also engaged on visiting basis, particularly for girl students.

The Vice Chancellor, The Director of Studies, The Registrar, and the Deans of Schools and Wardens are actively involved in all complaint redressal process.

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For Re-accreditation

1. How are the Core Values of NAAC reflected in the various functions of

the institution?

Internal Quality Assurance has been given the top priority during the past five years while targeting a huge expansion. The IQAC has been strengthened and regular meetings were held. The internal audit and external audit by consisting of external experts committees has been carried out for

i. Administrative performance ii. Academic performance

iii. Faculty performance iv. Audit of Instrumentation, optimum use and maintenance v. Self Appraisal by Teachers

Teacher Evaluation.

Promoting women students and physically challenged students has been the new policy of the University. Many affirmative actions such as, rent free Hostels to Girls, totally free education to physically challenged students including the hostel and food showed very encouraging results. To help economically disadvantaged students, a Food subsidy of Rs.400/- per month to all Hostel Students has been introduced.

Physically disadvantaged and challenged members of the Facultyhave been encouraged.

Women Faculty has been increased to 25%.

Establishing of Departments such as, Social Work, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Community Radio Station have provided a direct liaison between the University and Community. Rural and Tribal oriented projects, adoption of villages, Community participation through Radio, NGO involvement in several conferences and joint exhibitions and seminars with NGOs, Bankers and other institutions are the various innovative actions taken.

Student assessment of teachers, student assessment of the Facility, parents opinions and suggestions, Faculty assessing the University performance, Peer Assessment of Faculty are some of the innovative mechanisms that have improved the process of Quality Assurance in Teaching, Learning and Governance.

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Students Feedback on Campus Facilities

1. The graph shown below represents school wise response by the students (Frequency, Percentage)

Total Number of respondents: 1452

2. Department wise students response

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3. Programme wise respondents on campus facilities

4. Staying in hostel

YES means Staying in Hostels, NO means Non Hostlers and No RESPONSE means they have not opted any of the option.

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The following graphs will give the Students overall rating to the departments. Each graph is drawn separately for every School

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Parents Feedback

Total number of respondents (Parents): 272

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The following four PIE charts give the information about the parent s reason for choosing


1. This pie chart gives the information about the parents response who opted only one reason for choosing Pondicherry University

a. 1 refers to General Reputation b. 2 refers to Placement Record c. 3 refers to Campus Atmosphere d. 4 refers to Location of University e. 5 refers to Recommendation of another student

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2. This pie chart gives the information about the parents response who opted

any two of the five reasons for choosing Pondicherry University

a. 1, 2 refers to General Reputation and Placement Record b. 1, 3 refers to General Reputation and Campus Atmosphere c. 1, 4 refers to General Reputation and Location of University d. 1, 5 refers to General Reputation and Recommendation of another

student e. 2, 3 refers to Placement Record and Campus Atmosphere f. 2, 4 refers to Placement Record and Location of University g. 2, 5 refers to Placement Record and Recommendation of another student h. 3, 4 refers to Campus Atmosphere and Location of University i. 3, 5 refers to Campus Atmosphere and Recommendation of another

student j. 4, 5 refers to Location of University and Recommendation of another

student

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3. This pie chart gives the information about the parents response who

opted any three of the five reasons for choosing Pondicherry University

a. 1, 2, 3 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record and Campus Atmosphere

b. 1, 2, 4 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record and Location of University

c. 1, 2, 5 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record and Recommendation of another student

d. 1, 3, 4 refers to General Reputation, Campus Atmosphere and Location of University

e. 1, 3, 5 refers to General Reputation, Campus Atmosphere and Recommendation of another student

f. 1, 4, 5 refers to General Reputation, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

g. 2, 3, 4 refers to Placement Record, Campus Atmosphere and Location of University

h. 2, 3, 5 refers to Placement Record, Campus Atmosphere and Recommendation of another student

i. 2, 4, 5 refers to Placement Record, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

j. 3, 4, 5 refers to Campus Atmosphere, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

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4. This pie chart gives the information about the parents response who

opted any four of the five reasons for choosing Pondicherry University

a. 1, 2, 3, 4 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record, Campus Atmosphere and Location of University

b. 1, 2, 3, 5 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record, Campus Atmosphere and Recommendation of another student

c. 1, 2, 4, 5 refers to General Reputation, Placement Record, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

d. 1, 3, 4, 5 refers to General Reputation, Campus Atmosphere, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

e. 2, 3, 4, 5 refers to Placement Record, Campus Atmosphere, Location of University and Recommendation of another student

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SUBRAMANIA BHARATHI SCHOOL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The school has adequate number of faculty to handle all the core courses. Presently there are Nine faculty (Professors : 7, Assistant Professors :2) in the School of Tamil who are sufficiently competent to teach the hard & soft courses offered by the School of Tamil.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Three courses, namely, M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D are offered by the department. The number of students in M.A is 107 (Male 19, Female 88) while 48 students (30 Male and 18 Female) are studying in M.Phil programme. Ph.D scholars number 33 (14 Male and 19 Female). The students hail from mostly Pondicherry and Tamil nadu and from rural areas.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The Syllabus of M.A. (Tamil), M.Phil (General), M.Phil (Modern Literature), M.Phil (Religious Literature) were revised in July 2010. Few additional soft courses are introduced. More concentration is given for learning another one Language like English at P.G. level.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is nearly 95% & the drop outs are very negligible. Only 2 dropped out outof 90 PG students in the current year.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources. The School library has more than 6000 books. 5 lakh was granted this year to develop School library in addition to the annual purchase of one lakh worth of books through UGC - SAP grant.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The School of Tamil was provided with a new building of its own where two smart class rooms, one Open Air Auditorium, one Seminar Hall & a Computer Lab with 34 computers are provided.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Apart from classroom teaching seminars and group discussions are the other methods of teaching adopted. Special lectures with subject experts are arranged for every hard course offered in the school.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students. All faculty members extend maximum help to the students in their learning with individual coaching, providing study materials, text books, etc. Personal attention is given to students deserving support in their learning. The faculty advisors attached to the students also counsel them in all academic affairs.

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9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited

during the past five years. The faculty periodically attend Faculty Development Programme (FDP) for their academic development.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research. All the professors in the school are serving as members of Board of Studies of various universities in and around Tamil Nadu. Dr. S. Arokianathan & Dr. A. Arivunambi are members in several academic & award giving committees of the Govt. of Pondicherry.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years. The School of Tamil had One day Celebration on Women & Tamil Literature in

collaboration with Centre for Women Studies, Pondicherry University on 10 March 2011. The School of Tamil had a National Seminar on The Contribution of the French to the Development of Tamil in collaboration with French Department, Pondicherry University on March 31st, 2011. This is the first of its kind in the history of the School of Tamil.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The forte of the school is its research activities in the area of Sangam Literature, Grammar,, Siddha Literature, Modern Literature and Folklore. Under its special Assistance programme the school has concentrated on the Contribution of Puducherry to the Development of Tamil.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The faculty of the school have completed 2 projects during the last 5 years and 1 projects is ongoing. The details are as follows; In 2006, Dr. Ilamathi Janakiraman has successfully completed a UGC project (2003-2006) A Dictionary of Siddha Literature

In 2008, Dr. A. Thirunagalingam submitted his UGC project (2005-2008) on A Dictionary of Tamil Folklore .

Dr. T. Gnanasundaram, has completed a research project A Study on the Text of Kamban & Valmiki s Ramayana & its Variations (1st & 2nd Parts) during 2009-2011. Ongoing Projects Dr. S. Arokianathan and Dr. M. Mathialagan, The Contribution of Puducherry to the Development of Tamil Literature, UGC-SAP ` 35.00 Lakhs

Dr. S. Arokianathan and Dr. M. Mathialagan, The Prosody of Tamil Literature Ages, UGC-SAP ` 35.00 Lakhs

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Only Ph.D programme

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15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation

index and impact factor analysis Nearly 28 books were published individually by our faculty members besides two

volumes of International Conference papers on Tamil Literature held on 2009, Six volumes of papers presented in the International Conference on Bhakthi Literature in 2010 and two volumes on the International Conference on Thirukkural held on February 2011 were also published by the school.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The school has planned for evening coaching classes for the poor children of the nearby fisherman villages around the campus.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Weekly assignments, monthly class tests, group discussions, and term examinations are conducted which are part of continuous assessment of the students and also serves as the internal assessment of the overall evaluation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Most of our students are employed as teachers in high schools, colleges, & Universities. Dr. R. Venkatesan, an old M.Phil student, is now working as Tamil teacher in the Education Dept., Govt. of Singapore. Many of our students are employed as Tamil teachers in Singapore. Dr. M. Pandi an old Ph.D student of our school is now the Dean, School of Languages, Alagappa University, karaikudi.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Dr. S. Arokianathan, Dean was invited for lectures on Translation for one week in SIM University, Singapore in January 2010 & Dr. A. Arivunambi is currently one of the members in the Board of Studies of the Tamil Programme, SIM University, Singapore.

Dr. A. Arivunambi has received best teacher award from our university besides two other awards for his literary contribution from Associations in Srilanka, Tamil Nadu, etc. Dr. M.S. Arivudai Nambi has received best Saivite award from Thiruvaduthurai Mutt, Tamil Nadu 2009.

Dr. S. Arokianathan has been invited as guest lecture in SIM University, Singapore on Jan. 2011

Faculty Name Significance of Research / Awards

Prof. Arivunambi

Paventhar Patraalar Award

Thamiil Maa Mani (Man of Tamil Verse) award

Semmozhi Pulamaiyaalar (Classical Tamil Man of Letters)

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The school was given under UGC SAP programme a grant of Rs. 12.5 lakhs for research on Literary Theories in Tamil during 2004-2009. Further UGC has granted for the 2nd phase Rs. 35 lakhs for research on The Contribution of Pondicherry to Tamil Language & Literature ; & The development of Prosody through Ages for 2009 to 2014.

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21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years

The school plans to introduce new teaching courses to attract foreign students to study Tamil and to improve its social interaction through various interactive programmes.

22. Any other highlights The School offers Spoken Tamil course to foreign students who are studying in our University under Study India programmes. Nearly 13 endowment lectures are conducted annually in various disciplines of Tamil. Research Scholars present their research papers in the weekly Research Circle conducted on every Wednesday. Fortnightly Literary club PG students to encourage creative writings are some innovative activities.

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1. Faculty Profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department, which is one of the oldest in the University, has 17 Faculty Members (11 Male and 6 Female). There are 14 Doctorates among them department is having the faculty with required competency to teach different functional areas in management such as Finance, Marketing, Operations, HR and Strategy besides general elective like Entrepreneurship.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc. The student profile of the department is quite heterogeneous and they represent 18 States of India. Out of 151 students, 110 are Male and 42 are female. Out of 26 Ph.D. Scholars, 7 are full-time and 19 are part time. There are 4 female and male full time scholars.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum is reviewed and revised once in two years by the Board of Studies which have representatives from academia and industry. A good number of new core as well as elective papers are being introduced in response to students aspirations and many times in a pro-active manner to cater to the market demand. Skill orientation papers such as communications skills workshop, computer skills lab are introduced. The courses introduced in the recent years include Business Ethics and Corporate Governance , HRM in KBO, Business Intelligence, Financial Engineering, Labour Laws and Administration, Service and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Strategies for Financial Services, Bank Financial Management, Strategic Human Resources Management, Cross Cultural Management, Export Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, Innovation and Product Development Marketing of Hightech Products, Fundamentals of Sig Sigma. The last revision was in December 2010.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate has always been high to the tune of 86% during the past five years. DMS is able to attract students with work experience and the employability of its students is very high. The drop-out rate of students has been decreasing year by year as they get better campus placements after their MBA.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources. The Department has two full-fledged computer lab with 100 systems (WAN & LAN) and the required software such as, Oracle, SPSS. The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Department. There are 4 LCD projectors and 1 LCD TV. The department has access to the multiuser licensed version of SPSS which is extensively used by the faculty and students of the department for various research analysis. It also has access to CMIE Data Base.

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6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years.

E-resources access, CMIE Information Centre, the proposed School Library are new additions to learning resources.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Role Plays, Case Study Method, Brain Storming Sessions, Simulation Exercises, Problem Solving Sessions, Management Games, Industrial Visits, Power point Presentations, Group Discussions, Focus Group Discussions, Field based assignments, Term projects, Internship and Experiential learning are some of the modern teaching methods used by faculty other than classroom teaching.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The department follows a system of faculty advisors wherein, each student is attached to a faculty and every faculty would be having on an average about 10 students in any semester. The faculty members are responsible for the overall development of the students assigned to them and they provide continuous support, counseling and the required coaching. Faculty advisors guide the students to select areas of specialization, industry in which they can take up projects and placements. The teachers fully devote themselves to teaching, learning and research pursuits of the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years. Two teachers took sabbatical leave and three teachers participated in 10 FDPs. One Refresher course in Business studies was co-ordinated by the department.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Each faculty is given individual responsibility and they include coordinating activities students admission to placement industry, institute interface. The faculty members also are in the executive council, academic council. School Board BOS, Doctoral Committee of other departments of School of Management. Responsibilities like Convener of Placement Committee of School of Management, Executive Council Members of School Journal, Executive Council Members of University, Academic Council & Court Members of University, Board of Studies member of Department and School Board Members are also carried out faculty member of the department.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years. Collaborated with FMS, University of Delhi for organizing an International Conference, Institute of Companies Secretaries of India for organizing a National Conference, Department of Police, Government of Puducherry for training the Sub-Inspectors of Police, Head Constables; District Industries Centre, Government of Pondicherry for Launching 3000 Information Centres Project and TCS MOU with conducting Student and Faculty Development programmes.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of department in research are Financial Engineering, Strategic HRM, KBOs, services marketing.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Department completed One AICTE Project, and one Minor UGC Project. 2 major projects one under UGC and the other under AICTE are in progress.

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The details of projects are:

Faculty Name Ongoing Projects

Dr.M. Basheer Ahmed Khan

Strategic Human Resource Management-A study of the Retention strategies of Technical employees in the IT industry in India

Dr. B. Charumathi

Financial Engineering in Financial Services Industry

Dr. Madan Mohan

Problems And Prospects In Entrepreneurship For Disabled In Karaikal

14. Programmes by research offered by the university The Department is offering Ph.D. on full time and part time basis.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years with details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis. The faculty of the department have published 183 research papers during last five years out of which 60 are international and 123 are national with are impact factor of 0.8.. The faculty have published 18 books during the five years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the university. The faculty members of the department extend their cooperation in conducting entrance test, examination and valuation of DDE in the capacity of observer, examiner, chairman of valuation board etc. They are also involved in carrying out activities like students welfare, conducting games & management meets.

The faculty participate as Chairman of MBA Boards, DDE Examiner of MBA Boards, DDE and observers for examination UG Board of Studies of BBA for community College, Pondicherry University , University Observers for conducting Entrance Examination for admission in various centres in India, MBA evaluation Board of affiliated colleges, Expert member for conducting comprehensive viva and project viva, Student Welfare, Assistant Dean (Women), Pondicherry University. Students take part in games and management meets.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Tests, assignments (both theoretical and practical) presentations by students to assess their communication ability, field based projects, practical assignments, role plays, Group Discussions, class participation and interaction are various methods of assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department to the student placements DMS has a record of 100% placement since inception, DMS alumni occupy very high and coveted positions both in industry and academic, among others, CEO of Companies, VPs of banks, Professors in Michigan State University and Trinity USA. The DMS has taken lead in terms of placement training and trained 200+ MBA students of School of Management in 2011. 80% of DMS students are placed even before the close of placement season. The recrutors include, TCS, RBI, Prodex Technologies, FLIP, Sonata Software, ICICI Securities, Coke, City Union Bank, South Indian Bank, Thomas Cook.

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19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past

five years The Department won Star News National Award for outstanding B-School based on their independent research. Our faculty won the bestselling author award from Prentice Hall of India, the Excellence Award from Industrial Engineering Society of India, Career Award for Young Teachers from AICTE and nine best paper awards. Our students have won many first prizes and champion awards in many management meets such as, among others, SRM University, Amirtha Institute, TNAU. Faculty wise achievements / recognitions are given below:


Dr. Prabakara Raya

Rajiv Gandhi Research Fellowship April 2009, UGC, Singson

Vijay Shree Award.

Dr. Panneerselvam

Bestselling Author Award from PHI Learning Private Limited (2008).

Academic Excellence Award at International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications, 2010, Chennai, India.

Dr. Nambirajan

Best Research Paper Award Supply Chain Design and Implementation in a Multinational Company manufacturing Automobile Servicing Equipments.

Dr. Charumathi

Career Award for Young Teachers (AICTE)

Young Researcher Award Indian Accounting Association, 2010

Dr. Victor Anand Kumar

Outstanding Paper of the year 2008 award, AIMS International Journal of Management (AIJM: ISSN: 1939-7011)

Second runner up in International Conference on Management Research, BIM, Trichy 2011.

Dr. Venkatesakumar

Best Research Paper Award by BIM, Tiruchirappalli, for the paper, Segmenting the shoppers, in-store shopping experience and the role of personal interactions in evaluating store attributes Tiruchirappalli, 2010.

Best Paper Award at IIM (K), 2009.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP / COHSSIP / SAPCAS / DSA / DRS / FIST etc. The department has applied for UGC SAP assistance.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department has proposed to launch an international journal, to conduct lot of FDPs on various areas, and to corner consultancy projects through CIIs collaboration.

22. Any other highlights Department has its own website. DMS News Flash is regularly uploaded for information to all concerned. Majority of DMS students are getting summer and final placements with stipend during the internship.

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(KARAIKAL CAMPUS)

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 6 faculty in the department. There is adequacy of the faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects in Insurance and Management. The specializations offered are Business Communication, Insurance Company Management, Strategic Management, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics, Health and General Insurance, Rural and Motor Insurance, Engineering Insurance, Principles of Insurance and Fire insurance.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student profile in the Department is quite heterogeneous. The Department offers a two year MBA programme in Insurance Management addition to Ph.D programme in Insurance and Management. There are 52 studnets in MBA programme of which 38 are Male and 14 Female drawn from four different states. Six scholars (4 Male and 2 Female) are registered for Ph.D Programme.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed once in two years. The department is new, it started with only MBA programme. The syllabus contains 100 credits with laboratories in Computer learning, soft skills, personality development and Career Management. The last curriculum revision was in December 2010. The Ph.D program in the department was launched in 2010.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The failures during the past two years has steadily decreased. Now, the success rate and placement in the IV semester is 100%

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department shares a full-fledged computer lab with the three departments at the Centre with 50 systems (LAN). The internet-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Pondicherry campus. The School Libraries supplement the main library and e-resources access. The Department has all the required teaching facilities, such as LCD projectors, furnished class rooms, video conferencing etc.,

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major addition that has been given as fillip to the learning resources is the e-resources access through library portal, installation of MS Office, Visual Basic, Java and HTML.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Group discussions, Case analysis, web assignments, role plays, seminars, problem solving, simulation, case collection, industrial visits, industry projects and online guidance when the students go to the industry projects.

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8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students

The University has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty. Besides, the Dean of Students Welfare also organizes for any personal counseling through Psychologists whenever needed. Teachers fully participate in the teaching, learning and extension activities of students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years The Department started functioning from August 2007. Since then two teachers have been deputed to undergo Orientation courses at Academic Staff Colleges at the University of Hyderabad and Pondicherry University.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Teachers have been accompanying students to various industrial trips and guiding them to get placed by arranging campus recruitments. Teachers are organisning several academic events like seminars and Conferences regularly. The faculty have also received two minor research projects from the UGC.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Department has collaborate a with Insurance Institute of India, Actuaries of India and Insurance Regulatory Development Agency. It has the top officials from the Insurance Industry on its Board of Studies like the Chairman of the public sector giant United India Insurance Company, President of Actuaries of India and the Ombudsman of IRDA. Such collaborations have enhanced academic interaction with focus, enriched syllabus and curriculum with practical aspects and increased the scope of placement of our students.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The Research activity have just begun Rural Insurance, Micro insurance, Services Marketing, Service quality measurement, Corporate Social Responsibility, Actuarial Mathematics etc., are the thrust area of research.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Two UGC minor research projects are going on and none are completed. Ongoing Project Dr.Byram Anand, Pricing strategies in Indian telecom sector , UGC ` 0.75 Lakhs

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D in Management studies with focus on Insurance Management

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis National research papers 70 and international research papers 5 and 9 books have been published by the faculty of the department with an impact factor of 0.8.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Contemplating to stat an NSS Unit at Karaikal campus.

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17. Method of continuous student assessment

Continuous internal assessment is done based on class room participation, attendance, case discussions, three internal test, reports on industrial visits, web assignments, seminar presentation, written assignments etc.,

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The students have got placements in reputed Insurance companies like ICICI Lombard, Birla Sun Life, MS Cholamandalam, Reliance Life, Total Insurance Brokers, Royal Sundaram as relationship Manager, administrative officers. During this year all the students have been placed.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Dr.Lalitha Ramakrishna received the AP State best teacher award during the year 2007. The faculty organized several academic events funded by AICTE, NCW, UGC, ICSSR and Fair and Lovely Foundation.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Applying for UGC SAP since the Department recently became eligible.


The department looks forward to emerge as a nodal centre of knowledge in the field of Insurance Management in the country with linkages across the globe and professional insurance regulatory and training organisations.

With a commitment to the promotion of knowledge and development of youth, the department pursues the following goals:

To establish a centre of knowledge creation in the insurance field and dissemination with the active involvement of students, teacher, researchers, consultants, corporate managers and community developers.

To promote research and disseminate knowledge in the insurance industry through research programmes, seminars, workshops, etc.

To strengthen industry-institute interaction through association, consultancy and participation in skill development programmes.

To engage in community service programmes individually as well as in association with social service organisations.

22. Any other highlights The Department has several innovative practices

The students go to the industry to carry out three projects one in an insured, another in an insurance company and the third project in the insurance verticals of consultancy firms.

Online guidance is given to the students doing projects considering the wide geographic spread.

Regular trips to the industries in the neighborhood to understand the management practices of insured and insurance companies.

Regular web assignments are given to students on industry practices, business GK etc to update them and gear them up for placement interviews.

Visit of industry experts to the department and student interaction with them.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The present faculty strength of the department is 10 (one on deputation to Banking Technology). The department has adequate faculty strength with optimum work load. All the faculties have expertise in finance and accounting which are the core subjects of the department. Eight of the ten faculty members are Ph.D holders. There is only one woman faculty in the department. Out of 10 faculty 8 are recognized guides. Therefore, the faculty is qualified and competent to teach and guide research in the department.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers M.Com (Business Finance), M. Phil (Commerce) and Ph. D programmes. A new PG course in M. Com (Accounting and Taxation) will be offered from the academic year 2011-2012. The department also offers an add on PG diploma course in Investment Management (PGDIM) attracting students from M.B.A (International Business), (Tourism), (General), (Banking Technology), Asian Studies, MSW etc. The student profiles of the department (course-wise) are as follows:

Courses Students Strength Male

Female States

M.Com (Business Finance)

132 79 60 Tamilnadu, Kerala, AP, Orissa, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and Puducherry.

M. Phil (Commerce)

31 19 12 Tamilnadu, Kerala, Orissa and Andaman and Puducherry.

Ph. D 31 24 07 Tamilnadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, UP and Puducherry.

PGDIM 29 26 03 Kerala, AP, Orissa, Bihar, UP, Delhi and Puducherry.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The Curriculum have been reviewed and revised regularly. The last revision was in September 2010. The PG Diploma course was launched in 2009. The Courses offered were approved by the duly constituted Board of Studies. In general, the courses offered by the department are based on UGC Model syllabus. After adopting the UGC Model syllabus in Board of Studies 2005, during last 5 years, the new papers introduced were Stock market investment, Forex management and Fund management in Commercial Banks. The M.Com (Business Finance) offered 19 hardcore and 17 softcore papers comprising 63 and 57 credits. With the enhancement of required number of credits from 72 to 90 from the academic year 2010

11, the new papers introduced in the last revision were ERP, Exports Finance, Commodity Derivatives, and Econometrics for Finance. The revised syllabus offered a total of 42 papers, of which 29 hardcore and 19 softcores having 90 and 57 credits respectively. M.Com (Accounting and Taxation) is going to start from the academic year 2011-2012. The curriculum was approved by the Board of Studies held in May 2011. The faculty members with rich teaching and research experience in contemporary issues, acting as Member of Board of Studies, contribute to evolution of new courses and their curricula.

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4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five

years The failure rate of the department is minimal. Except one year in last 5 years, the success rate was 99 to 100 per cent. At present, the employability of the students is very high and drop-out rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has full-fledged computer lab with 50 systems with LAN connectivity. The WiFi enabled campus provides the access to library e-resources from the department. The department has all required teaching resources, like, CMIE database, SPSS software package, LCD projectors.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major addition during the 5 years were 40 computers for computer lab, 1 LCD TV for live telecast of important economic activities and business discussions, Smart class room with LCD projector, e-resource access to library portal, software like SPSS, Eviews, CMIE database, WiFi internet facilities to enhance the teaching and research capability of the department. Books acquired for the department of Commerce during this period was about 2.5 lakhs. The School library, on the anvil, will be another addition.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Apart from traditional class room Lecture Method, case analysis, seminars, frequent use of OHP, extensive usage of internet are used for teaching in the department. Other than the above, group discussions, internships, project work are the other components of teaching efforts.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The department has the system of faculty advisor allotted to each individual student. A group of students are attached to one faculty for all academic advices and counseling which is done periodically. The Dean of students welfare also takes care of the students in terms of counseling, assistance and guidance. Teachers involve fully in teaching, learning and research activities of the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years In the last 5 years, 3 faculty members have attended 5 orientations and refresher courses conducted by the academic staff college, 8 have attended Faculty Development Programme (FDP) and 1 has attended advanced research methodology course. The department has also organized 3 FDP benefiting all the faculty members. Apart from this, the department has coordinated 3 refresher courses also organized by Academic Staff College of the University.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Most of the faculties have acted as resource persons and experts in different academic institutions and industry. They have participated in 14 national and 15 international conferences. The faculties have presented 123 papers in national conferences and 60 in international conferences. Besides being the resource persons delivering lectures, the faculties

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participate in different conferences, workshops, act as chairmen, key note speakers etc. The senior faculty members of the department are appointed to act as chairman (4 faculties) and Members in Board of Studies (5 faculties), Board of examiners (6 faculties), Member of selection committee (3 faculties), academic advisory committee (1 faculty), NAAC stearing committee (1 faculty) and grievance committee member (2 faculties). The faculty are also in the editorial boards of various journals as well as University Newsletter.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department is in the process of collaborating with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. to offer a course on financial market management. The department has a collaborative project with Banking and Technology department. The department also has sent a proposal under innovative courses to UGC in collaboration with Department of statistics, Pondicherry University. The department has a collaborative agreement with MCX for providing online simulated trading exposure to the students. The department has organized seminars and conference in collaboration with NABARD, SIDBI, MCX, RBI, IOB, Indian Bank etc.,

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas for research of the department are Finance, Capital market, Derivatives and Micro finance.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The department has 2 major projects supported by UGC and 1 major research project supported by CSIR and 1 collaborative consultancy project by a micro finance institution Hand in Hand. Ongoing Project

Faculty Name Title of Project Funding Agency

Amount (` in lakhs)

Dr. P. Natarajan Project exports from India Opportunities and Challenges

- 5.70

Dr. D. Lazer ABC Analysis and Estimation of cost per student in Higher Education

UGC 5.68

Dr. G. Shanmugasundaram

Drug Policies & their impact on small scale drug industry in India

ICSSR 3.71

Socio-economic development of small scale industry in Pondicherry

UGC 0.685

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The department offers Ph.D which is fully a programme by resource registration. It offers M.Phil which is partly research

with 6 areas of specializations for the submission of the thesis.

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15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years with details regarding

citation index and impact factor analysis The faculties of the department have published 127 papers in National journals, 42 papers in international journals, 99 edited volumes in conference proceedings, 49 abstracts, edited 7 books and published 1 book during last 5 years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The department is active in its extension activities. It has provided financial literature training to 150 SHG members during January 2010, provided marketing consultancy to SHGs during January 2008 - 09 and organized SHG Products Expo for last 3 years from 2008 - 10. The department has also organized commodity derivatives awareness programme for farmers in collaboration with MCX wherein 250 farmers were benefited. The department had organized consumer awareness programme in the nearby villages on the eve of world consumer day.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The student assessment is done for 40 marks on a continuous basis by conducting regular tests, seminars, assignments, quiz etc.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. On an average, 70 per cent of the students get placed immediately after their studies from the department. The department also conducts the alumni meets to take the help of alumni for placement. The students are placed in leading finance, stock broking company and banks. In the past product of the department have been placed in banks (ICICI, SBI, LVB, Indian Bank, HDFC), manufacturing companies like HLL, Ford India Ltd., Ponds India Ltd, software companies like TCS, Infosys, Integra, HCL, Mphasis, University(Madras, Alagappa, Annamalai, Madurai Kamaraj, Bharathidasan, Manonmaniam Sundaranar, SNDT University Mumbai, Christ University), institutes like IFMR, IIM Indore, IIM Calcutta, Tapmi, XLRI, IIT Mumbai, IIPE, NIBM, Nirma Institute etc,. 80 per cent of the M.Phils pass outs are lecturer s in different colleges.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. The faculty of the department have significant achievements to their credit as indicated below:

Faculty Name Significance of Research / Award

Prof. Malabika Deo

Best paper presentation in the 62nd

All India Commerce Conference of Indian Commerce Association organized as Maharshi Dayanand Sarawathi University, Ajmer-Rajasthan 2009.

Best paper in Asian Management Congress 09 organized by Asian School of Business Management Bhubaneswar from 3rd to 5th December 2009.

Best paper on the topic titled Investors Perception Towards Mutual Fund

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Investment: A Study with Special Reference to Indian Investors in Directorate of Distance Education (Commerce Wing) Annamalai University, from 28th to 29th December 2009.

Won Gold Medal for outstanding paper presentation at 63rd All India Commerce Association on 1-3 October 2010, Goa University, Goa.

Dr. Velmurugan

Full Bright Scholarship

The department has registered two societies to carry out academic research training and extension activities in the field of Derivatives and Micro Finance.

The department has brought out 1 International Journal on Micro Finance (bi-annual) and is in the process of bringing out National level journal on Financial Research.

The department has created an Endowment fund contributed by its alumni to organize academic programmes in the name of its founder Head of the Department Dr. D. Rajagopalan.

During the last 5 years, the department has conducted 1 Regional level seminar, 3 National level seminars, 5 International level conferences, 3 workshops, 3 FDPs, 3 awareness programmes.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The department has been awarded SAP DRS with the financial assistance of 36.5 lakhs in the thrust area of Derivatives and Risk Management.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Apart from Finance and Accounting, which are the core areas of the courses offered by the department, it plans to create a data centre for Micro Finance and to start courses in Micro Finance. A collaborative course with NSE is in the offing under Financial Market Management.

22. Any other highlights The Department contemplates to develop as a Center of Excellence in Capital Market Research. The Department strives to establish itself in the areas of Derivatives and Micro Finance research. The Department is preparing a question bank for the benefit of the students in the preparation of the competitive examinations. The Department has been selected by All India Commerce Association to conduct its Annual Conference for the year 2011-2012 at Pondicherry and Dr. Malabika Deo, the HOD of the Department is the President Elect of the Conferences.

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(KARAIKAL CAMPUS)

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are Five Faculty Members with required expertise to teach all the courses offered in the Department. The Faculty Members are specialized in the functional areas of commerce Viz. Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, International Business and E-Commerce.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers two-year M.Com - Business Finance and Ph.D programmes. There are 34 students in M.Com programme drawn from three states of which 18 are male and 16 are female. Two male and one female scholars drawn from two states are registered for Ph.D programme.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The department came into existence in 2007. The last revision of curriculum was in September 2010.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is 100 percent and the dropout rate is insignificant.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The students of the Department utilize a full-fledged centralized computer lab existing in the Karaikal Campus. The Campus Library supplements the main library. A full-fledged computer lab with 50 systems (LAN), internet access to the e-resources of Pondicherry University campus, LCD projectors, furnished classrooms, facilities for video conferencing are other learning resources of the department.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years During the last four years, the department has added the e-resources access through library portal, installation of MS Office, Visual Basic, Java and HTML.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Audio Visual Aids, Web Based Classes, Case Analysis with Group Discussions, Interactive Sessions, Internship Training & Industrial Visits covering practical aspects are the other modern teaching methods.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The Department has a system of counseling for every student. A group of students have been assigned to each faculty throughout the course. Teachers dedicated by participate in teaching, learning, evaluation and research activities of the students.

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during the past five years Faculty members attended training programmes on the usage of SPSS and Econometrics software s, Refresher Courses and Orientation Programmes.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are involved as wardens, Members of Purchase Committee, Members of Stock Verification Committee, Sports Activities and cultural activities.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Since it is a new department, efforts are being made to establish collaborations, now.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust areas of research in the Department: Finance & Related Areas of Commerce.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Nil

14. Programmes by research offered by the University None other than Ph.D.,

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 11 papers in the Journals of National and 15 International repute during the last 5 years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Extension Activities

Faculty Members are Invited as Resource Persons for Coaching UGC NET SET Aspirants, Career Guidance and counseling and Panel Member in Discussion on Union Budget aired by AIR.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The Students are continuously assessed through periodical Internal Tests, Assignments, Seminar Presentations, Quizzes and Group Discussions.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The students are placed in leading corporates at Chennai and Puducherry through On and Off Campus Placements.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. 1. The Students of the Department participated and presented papers in the International

& National Conferences and seminars. 2. A Faculty Member has been awarded with Certificate of Merit for the performance

and Three National level Awards.

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20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS

/FIST etc. Nil

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The vision of the department is to emerge as on strong Centre of Business Finance in India. Towards this end, the department plans to engage itself in the following activities, among others.

1. Update the curriculum and syllabi in consonance with the emerging national and global needs of business so as to enable students to handle modern challenges in business finance.

2. Organizing international and National level conferences, seminars and workshops. 3. Undertake Research Projects from funding agencies like UGC, ICSSR, DST etc.. 4. Engage in Corporate consultancies. 5. Offer innovative and career oriented courses in Quantitative Finance, Intellectual

Property Rights and Shipping and Logistics.

22. Any other highlights Nil

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has qualified and competent faculty. There is adequacy of the faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects (28 in numbers). The present faculty strength 11 of which 2 are female. All are Doctorate with specialization in Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics & Applied Econometrics(2), Health Economics(3), Economics of Education (2), Agricultural Economics(3) and Financial Economics(1).

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student profile in the Department is quite heterogeneous. The Department offers five-year integrated programme in M.Sc (Economics) in addition to two-year M.A programme and M.Phil & Ph.D programmes.

M.Sc 5 year Integrated Programme in Economics (only first year)

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Representing 4 states: Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, and Kerala. 12 22

M.A. in Applied Economics (Ist & IInd years) 66 42

Representing 13 states: Pondicherry, Kerala, Orissa, Tamil Nadu Andra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Assam, Karnataka, Nagaland, West Bengal, and Delhi

M.Phil. in Economics (2010-11 batch) 16 8

Representing 7 states: Pondicherry, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Orissa, Kerala and Jammu & Kashmir

Ph.D. in Economics (currently pursuing) 26 4

Representing 7 states: Pondicherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Orissa, Kerala and Jammu & Kashmir

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes

The curriculum has been reviewed and revised every year.

Five-year integrated program was launched in 2010.

In the last five years the syllabus of the programmes offered by the department was revised twice (2009 and 2010)

Five soft core courses have been introduced in the latest revision of course curriculum and syllabus

Department introduced a PG Diploma in Planning and Evaluation in 2009-10

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate on an average during the last five years is 93 percent. In addition the quality and employability has increased and is reflected in the increase in number of students clearing UGC NET/JRF and other national level competitive exams.

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5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories

and other such resources

The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 50 systems (WAN & LAN).

The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Departments.

The Department has access to CMIE database which was recently commissioned in the School of Management at a cost of ` 15 lakhs per annum.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years

The Classrooms are equipped with power point projector and Wi-Fi connections, which are effectively used to teach economic theories through online demonstration.

Telecast of important lectures in the class rooms providing opportunities to students to attend programmes.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Power point Presentations; Case discussions; Role Plays; and Field surveys

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University has a system of student counselling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty who is designated as faculty advisor. He renders useful counseling services to students at periodic intervals. Besides, all the faculty actively participate in teaching, learning, evaluation and research activities of the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years The faculty members have attended UGC-Refresher/ Orientation courses during last five years.

Dr. J Srinivasan

Dr. P. Muthaian

Dr. M Shankaran

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research

Faculty members are actively involved in :

Conducting workshops and training programmes in collaboration with institutions like IMF, The Indian Econometric Society, Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance - Government of India and Government of Puducherry

Coordinating P G Diploma Programme

Organizing Special Coaching for UGC NET/JRF

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has collaboration with, The Indian Econometric Society, International Monetary Fund, Reserve Bank of India, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Various colleges in Pondicherry for various academic activities.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Monetary economics; Open economy macroeconomics; Money and banking; Health economics; Migration; Gender studies; Rural development; Financial economics; Economics of education; Energy economics.

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13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five

years 1. A study on Educated Unemployment in the Union Territory of Puducherry ,

Principal Investigator: P Muthaian, Agency-UGC New Delhi , ` 2,99,700

2. An Evaluative Study on the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme in the Union Territory of Puducherry , Agency-Dept of Education Government of Puducherry,

Principal Investigator: P Muthaian, Agency- Education Dept ,Puducherry, ` 2,83,000.

3. An Analysis of Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants of Software Industries during the Financial Deregulation Principal Investigator: K Sham Bhat, Agency-UGC New Delhi, (terminated).

4. The Divisia Monetary Indices as leading indicators of Inflation, Agency-Reserve Bank of India, Principal Investigator: M Ramachandran, ` 1,00,000.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M. Phil. & Ph. D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published over 91 research articles in journals of national and international repute, 5 newspaper articles and 6 working papers during last 5 years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Discussion on Budget

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal Tests, Term projects, Seminar Presentations are the methods of continuous assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. In the process

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Dr. M Ramadass was awarded the best among the best teachers by the University in the year 2009-10

Students activities

Mr. Muhammed Rafeeque and Mr. Biswajit Pradhan have won first prize in inter university debate competition conducted by RBI staff College, Chennai, 2010

Ms. Minu Elza, MA (Applied Economics) Course has won a best participant award in the internship conducted by Human Rights Commission from 21 December 2010 to 22 January 2011.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Applied for UGC-SAP.

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To emerge as School of Economics

Strengthening the quality of research through publication of working paper

Enabling the research scholars to publish their research output in reputed international journals

Introducing more Post Graduate Programmes

Organizing workshops, conferences, seminars etc.

Introducing innovative teaching and learning methods

22. Any other highlights

Four students of the department have cleared UGC-NET/JRF in 2010

Faculty members of the Department are on expert committees, Board of studies and faculty selection committees of several Indian universities

Emerging as a centre for training in econometrics (Department organized one month training programme for IES offices and a one week national workshop on financial econometrics for PhD scholars)

The department has conducted 5 national conferences, one national seminar, one workshop, one policy study under development research group programme of RBI and a four week training programme for IES officers sponsored by Ministry of Finance.

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DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM STUDIES

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 7 faculty members with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects (21 in Number). 4 faculty specialize in core Tourism; 2 faculty specialize in Management related subjects; and 1 faculty specializes in Hospitality. There are two women faculty in the department.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student profile in the Department is quite heterogenous. The Department offers MBA (Tourism), Ph.D (Tourism) and P.G. Diploma in Event Management.

MBA (Tourism) has 109 students (89 Male and 20 Female) who are drawn from all part of India. The PG Diploma has 45 students out of which 38 are Male and 7 are Female mostly drawn from Puducherry. There are 18 students who have registered for Ph.D, the composition bring 12 Male and 6 Female.


The curriculum is revised and reviewed every year with the inputs obtained from the Industry and the Alumni Meets

In the last five years the syllabus of the Master s Programme has been revised thoroughly twice (2007 & 2010).

Five new soft core courses have been added in the recent revision in 2010.

Ph.D Programme and P.G. Diploma in Event Management have been introduced in 2006-07 and 2009-10 respectively.

The teachers with experience in the field of tourism are able to identify new and emerging areas of tourism, which are indicated in the various courses.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years

During the last five years the dropout rate has been consistently in range of 1-2% on an average.

The success rate in terms of passes has been consistently above 95%.

The Dept. has achieved 100% placement during 2009-10 & 2010 - 2011.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources

The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 50 systems (WAN & LAN).

The Wi-Fi enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Department.


Advanced Tourism related software AMEDUES & GIS are procured and installed in all the systems.

Air-conditioned class rooms with good ambience and plasma TVs are provided.

A Tourism lab has been sanctioned with SAP grant during 2010-11.

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The department has access to CIME data centre recently commissioned in the School of Management.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Power Point Presentations, Case discussions, Role Plays and Field surveys are the modern teaching methods.


The Dept. has a system of student counseling. A group of students are assigned to each faculty, who is designated as Faculty Advisor for the assigned group of students.

Faculty members monitor the progress of students in studies and provide remedial assistance wherever required. All the teachers fully participate in all curricular and extracurricular activities assigned to them. Devotion of teachers is almost total.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years

Dr. Sampad Kumar Swain attended a four month FDP in IIM, Indore. Five faculty have attended UGC- Refresher/ Orientation courses they are


Dr. Jitendra Mohan Mishra

Mr. Anu Chandran,

Mrs. Sibi. P.S

Dr. Sherry Abraham

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty are involved as Wardens and in-charge of Computer Lab. They organize Annual National Study Tour & Eco-Tours, Industry Institute Interface Events, World Tourism Day Celebrations, Alumni Meets, Co-coordinates Evening P.G. Diploma Program and Placement Activities, besides a host of office related work including laisoning with University administration and outside corporate world. The faculty, during the last five years, has published 43 research papers, out of which 35 are in national while 8 are international journals with citation index of 2.0 and h index of 1. The faculty have published 5 books.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has established active collaboration with, Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI), Indian Association of Tour Operators(IATO), South India Hotels & Restaurants Associations. (SIHRA), Dept. of Tourism, Government of Puducherry, IITTM, Gwalior who extend support in terms of collaborative projects and placement of students.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Entrepreneurship in Tourism and Sustainable Tourism are the thrust areas of research.

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years UGC Minor Project : Sustainable Tourism Development: Problems, Prospects & Strategies

Dr. Sampad

Kumar Swain (Principal Investigator).

UGC

Major Project :

Entrepreneurship in Tourism, Sustainable Tourism Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy (Principal Investigator)

Social Networks in Tourism Entrepreneurship Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy (Principal Investigator), Dr. Y. Venkata Rao (Co Investigator)

14. Programmes by research offered by the University None other than Ph.D

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years with details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty, during last 5 years, has published 43 research papers, out of which 35 are in national while 8 are international journals with citation index of 2.0 and h index of 1. The faculty have published 5 books. 1. Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy s Text Book on Entrepreneurship accepted for

Publication by Printice Hall India.

2. Dr.Y. Venkata Rao s Book Management Process & Organisational behaviour

Co-authored with Dr. Ramanand Singh. Akanksha Publishers

2010.

3. Dr.Sampad Kumar Swain s book Tourism Business

Principles and Practices

Co-authored with Dr.Jitendra Mohan Mishra accepted for publication by Oxford University Press.

4. Mr. Anu Chandran has published the following Books: (a) Tourism

An Overview Kerala Tourism Academy 2008 (b) The Facets of Quality Management in Tourism , Abhijeet Publishers, 2010

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University In collaboration with INTACH, Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of Puducherry, the Dept. every year organizes: Heritage walks, Environment awareness weeks, Tree plantation and Tourism Awareness programmes.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal Tests, Term projects, Field surveys, Seminar presentations are the various components of continuous students assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The Dept. has been able achieve students placement of above 95% consistently over the years.

It has been 100% during 2009-10 & 2010-11.

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educational institutions.

The department is chiefly instrumental in forging linkages with tourism companies and bringing them to the campus for placement. The Institution Industry Interface established strongly by the Department is at the root of placement success in the Department.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. 1. Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy was awarded Certificate of Merit for performance as teacher

in 2010. 2. Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy was elected as Vice-President of Indian Tourism Congress

in 2010 for period of two years. 3. Mr. Ramachandra Rao, a First year MBA (Tourism) student participated in a

National Level Swimming competition held in Delhi in 2010. 4. Students have won prizes in:

National Level Management Meet VOYAGE held in Madras Christian College, Chennai in March 2010.

Christ College Bangalore in Feb 2009.

NM Christian College, Marthandam in September 2007.

Intra-University Games & Sports organised by Dept. of Physical Education PU every year.

Four students of the Dept. have cleared UGC-NET/JRF in 2010 out of 12 students qualified in the country.

Five students are selected for Lecturer positions by Government of Tamil Nadu and IITTM, Gwalior.

Dr. Babu George an Alumni (1998 Batch) and former faculty of the Dept. (2004-08) has got tenured Faculty position at University of Southern Mississippi, USA.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Dept. is awarded UGC SAP- DRS-Level-I during the year 2009-10.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years To emerge as India s premier Department for Tourism and related studies both in

teaching and research . In order to realize the vision the Dept. envisions diversification into Hotel Management and Management of Airports and thus to grow into a one stop destination for all the Tourism and Travel academic pursuits.

22. Any other highlights The number of applications for MBA (Tourism) program has increased from 147 in 2005-06 to 1374 in 2010-11. Faculty of the Department are on Expert Committees, Board of Studies and Faculty Selection Committees of several Indian Universities.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty On the Department of Banking Technology which was established as an interdisciplinary management programme concentrates technology use in the banking and financial industry.

The faculty strength is six out of which two specialized in the area of IT and others in Banking. There are five Doctorates among the faculty who are fully competent to handle all the core courses offered by the department.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers M.B.A and Ph.D programmes in Banking Technology. Majority of students are from Engineering background and are selected through an All India entrance examination. Since the students are with B.Tech (Computer science/ IT) back grounds, they readily fit into the programme. Currently there are 103 students in MBA programme, out of which 78 are men and 25 are women drawn from the states of India. 13 scholars (11 Men and 2 Women) have registered for Ph.D.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus for MBA BT is thoroughly restructured and revised three times in last five years. New papers have been introduced to meet the growing demand from industry. Papers like Cyber Crimes, Information Security, Information Systems Audit are major subjects introduced recently. Last revision took place in January 2011 with the experience gathered, the faculty are richly contribution to changes in the course.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate of students is almost 100 per cent and about 90 percent of students pass with first class. Dropout rate is minimal.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department possesses Electronic Board Networks, Internet & Intranet, Net support Web- oriented application, e-learning materials as the basic facilities for effective teaching learning process. Department has an advance computing Lab with 4 servers and 65 systems. CMIE I-cube data centre provide the data requirements for all PG and Doctoral Students.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The department has added three fully equipped Air conditioned class rooms and a computer laboratory. Further, the department has been upgrading the learning resources by procuring different Books and Journals, e-resources, databases during the last 5 years.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method MBA Banking Technology Department has been using methods of Experiential learning and internships, Industrial visits and Case Presentations, Development of prototype and

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working on live software projects, Summer/ winter projects on Banking Industry, Internship training in stock market/ Forex trading

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The faculty members help the students through personnel counseling and guidance. In case of slow learners, Remedial coaching classes are arranged. Department facilitates the students to participate in competitive management forum with necessary guidance of faculty. Besides, all faculty members involve fully in teaching and research work.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Senior Faculty members are deputed to attend the FDP programmes organized by reputed institutions. Faculty have attended the FDP at IDRBT, Hyderabad, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, TCS Chennai, etc, TCS conducts one day FDP every year on Contemporary Topics as a part of MOU with other Universities in which the faculty participate.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty members attend and present papers and act as resource persons in the seminars and conferences conducted by various institutions. In addition, many faculty members are serving as members of editorial boards in journals. All faculty members are members of various professional bodies including AIMA, MMA, CII, Cyber Society, Computer Society of India etc.,

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Individual Faculty and the Department have collaborated with other institutions. At present two faculty members are associated with major research and research projects which are being carried out Inter- departmentally.

Department has taken up effort to build Industry-Interface with major IT companies, ITES industry, Public and Private Sector Banks.

MOUs with industry giants like TCS to keep constant touch with industry developments. Annual Faculty Development Programmes and Special Lectures to students is a part of the MOU.

Associated with IDRBT, Hyderabad for curriculum development and Faculty exchange. Collaboration with ISACA Chennai chapter for visiting faculty.

Collaborating with Indian Overseas Bank and Indian Bank for visiting faculty and student internships.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Faculty of Department of Banking Technology are conducting their research works in inter-disciplinary areas of Technology management. The thrust areas include Banking Technology Management, Financial Management, Management of Banking & Financial Institutions, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Derivatives Management, Information Security, Data Warehousing & Data Mining, Network Management, Object Oriented Modeling & Design.

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years Faculty, who are drawn from Finance and Computer Science background have takenup special projects in the areas of information security, Information system Audit, Cyber Crimes, Software Project Management, Object oriented modeling, agent technology, cloud computing etc., as thrust areas. Dr. K. Chandrasekhara Rao, ABC Analysis and Estimation of Cost the student

UGC

Major Project. Dr. V. Prasanna Venkadesan is associated with a major research project with different institute like IIT, Chennai, Anna University, Chennai. Project is entitled Smart and Secured Banking Environment . The outlay for this project is ` 1

crore.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The Department of Banking Technology has initiated a Ph.D. Programme in an inter-disciplinary area of Technology Management, focusing on IT Research in the field of Finance & Banking. This Programme is open to both Engineering Post - graduates as well as to MBA graduates.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 64 papers in the last 5 years out of which 44 are in National journals and 20 are in International journals with a citation index of 2.0

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Extension services are offered to the society through the Awareness programmes. The Cyber Crime awareness programme is organized for the benefit of general public. In addition, faculty delivered lectures in various social organizations. The Students of Banking Technology organize an academic association, viz., BT Club. The activities carried out by this club include:

Organizing Pre and Post Budget discussions

Special Lectures on Stock Market Trends

Analysis of RBI Credit Policy

Computerization in Banking Industry

Trends in Privatized Insurance Industry

Other hot topics in business universe

Soft skills development Students from various colleges participated in these activities and benefited.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The continuous assessment is done their periodic tests, assignments and seminars. Department conducts a week long Internal Assessment Test Series at the end of 2nd month in every semester. A joint seminar session for 2 full working days is organized to evaluate the communication of students. The Progress of students in Project works is assessed by midterm reviews.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The department helps the students to get Campus placement in various IT and Banking Companies. It achieves 100% placement every year Alumni of the Department in

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Flagship Companies are as follows: Grade B Officer at RBI for Data Centre Management, Business Analyst at IBM, HCL,TCS, Information Security Consultant at Capgemini, Financial Consultants at TCS, ICICI, Bank Probationary officer at SBI, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, IDBI Bank, ICICI Bank, IT Consultants at Lakshmi Vilas Bank, ICICI Bank

The Department has a strong alumni network. The active alumni is sharing and transmitting information on 26th January every year during the alumni meet.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Dr. V. Prasanna Venkatesan has won Best Paper Award for 2008 and Dr. S. Sudalaimuthu has won Govt. of Tamil Nadu Award in 2009. Students have won Won south regional SMGE organized by AIMA, Won Bid 2 Win MG organized at SRM Chennai. Majority of students cleared the following certification also IIBF Certification, IRDA Certification, NCFM Certification

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Submitted an application for UGC Special Assistance Programme (DRS) for a research to be undertaken in the area of Smart Banking Technologies for a sum of Rs.50,00,000.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The vision of the department is to become a Centre for Excellence in Banking Technology. Establishment of domain specification advanced Labs like

Banking Technology lab

Corporate Finance Lab

Business intelligence lab

22. Any other highlights Department of Banking Technology was established to offer an innovative and inter-disciplinary PG Programme with special funding from UGC during the end of X Plan. The man power produced by the department is well accepted by the IT Companies as well as banking companies to develop acknowledgical solutions in BFSI sector. It is evident through 100% placement for all MBA Banking Technology Students during last four years. The flagship bands like Reserve Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra that have recruited the students have IT offices at their corporate offices. TCS, HCL Technologies, WIPRO, IBM, IFLEX, Polaries have recruited the MBA Banking Technology Students for business analysis position. 100% ICT enabled teaching learning environment has been created to enable the student attend the classes with their own books to learn from e-resources.

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department of International Business is one of the recent additions established during the Academic Year 2006-07. The Department has 8 faculty comprising of 1 Professor; 1 Associate Professor; 3 Readers and 3 Assistant Professors. There is one female among the faculty. All the Faculty Members are Ph.D. holders and 5 are recognized research guides and have got full workload. They have adequate expertise to teach all the core areas of International Business in addition to teaching specialization subjects in the areas of Marketing, Finance, HR and Operations with international focus.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department is offering MBA and Ph.D programmes in International Business. The total strength of MBA Programme is 128, out of which 100 are Male and 28 are Female, representing the States of Tamilnadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhrapradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttarpradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Delhi. The total strength of Ph.D. Programme is 11 comprising, 7 Male and 4 Female, from the States of Tamilnadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhrapradesh.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The MBA (IB) Course Curriculum was first drafted during the academic year 2006-07 and latest revision was made in the academic year 2010-11. As Members of Board of Studies the teachers are making substantial challenges in the courses.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The overall success rate is 100% since inception. The average Dropout rate is 5% during the past Five years.


The Department has a full-fledged Computer Lab with 53 Systems (WAN & LAN), The Wi-Fi enabled Campus the CMIE Data Centre.

Smart-Class Room, devices like digital board, LCD Projectors, Scanning machine, Photo Copier, Fax machine, Public Address System, Air-Conditioned Class Rooms are the learning resources available in the department.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major additions to learning resources include the e-resources access through library portal, installation and use of Software s like SPSS packages, Tally, etc., and database like CMIE. The proposed School history would also enhance the learning resources.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The Faculty Members extensively use the following Case Study; Seminars; Group Discussion; Role Plays; Mini Projects with Statistical Analysis as modern Teaching Methods.

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The department has a system of student counselling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each Faculty Member of the department who serve as Faculty Advisor and monitors the curricular and co-curricular progress of the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years The Department encourages the faculty members to undergo faculty development programmes. One faculty has completed his Ph.D. during the academic year 2009-10 and two faculty members have attended orientation course during the academic year 2010-11.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty Members serve as Deputy Wardens and also placed in-charge of Placements, Corporate Relationships, Computer Lab, Industrial Visits, Institute-Industry Interface, Organising Seminars & Special Lectures and a host of office related works, including liaisoning with the University Administration. They have attended 47 national and 9 international seminars besides involving in teaching, learning and research activities.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Department collaborates with other sister departments like Commerce, Economics & International Studies in addition to French Department for teaching and research purposes. In addition, the department has taken initiatives to establish collaboration with other national premier institutes like Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and International Management Institute (IMI) in matters of teaching, research and consultancy projects.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of research of this department are Foreign Trade, FDI, Forex Reserves etc. The Department has also submitted SAP proposal to the UGC during the current academic year in the thrust area of Knowledge Management.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The faculty members have submitted project proposals in different areas of their specialization and expertise.

14. Programmes of research offered by the University At present no research programmes other than Ph.D. are offered in the department.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During the last five years, the faculty of the department have published 66 Articles, out of which 65 are in National Journals and 11 in International Journals with a citation index of 2.0 and h index of 1.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The Department has conducted Blood Donation Camps in the past.

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The continuous students assessment is done through various internal assessment components. They are two tests, two assignments and one seminar presentation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department for the student placement. So far, 3 Batches of students have rolled out of the department. The Department has achieved near 100% placement record (130 students) during the last 3 years. Companies like TCS, HCL, Keans, IDBI Bank, ICICI Bank, ICICI Securities Ltd, Bank of Maharashtra, City Union Bank, South Indian Bank, HB Entertainments Ltd, Thomas Cook, PEPSICO, etc. have visited our campus for placement.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The Department is offering a specialized MBA Program in International Business. The program is so unique that its popularity is growing steadily year after year which is quite evidenced by the steep increase in the number of applications received by the aspiring student community from just 400 applications in 2006-07 to 3000 applications in 2010-11 for an intake of 72 students. Dr. Bushan, D. Sudhakar has won the Best Teacher Award of VIT, in 2006.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department of International Business has submitted SAP proposal during the current academic year.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department s vision is to shape management education with international orientation by generating new leading edge knowledge and preparing upright, dependable, socially sensitive leader-managers committed to engaging in the progress of mankind. In line with the above vision, the department will be embarking on carrying out research and consultancy projects in the years to come. The department will also strive to establish best practices in international business.


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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty All our faculty members are Ph.D holders and except two newcomers who have applied for recognition as Ph.D supervisors, all are recognized Ph.D supervisors. The faculty specialization areas are Number Theory, Best approximations in Banach Spaces and Geometry of Banach Spaces, Graph Theory, Integrable Systems, Hydro Dynamic Stability, (On Lien)- Harmonic analysis, Commutative Algebra, Fuzzy sets, Numerical solutions to differential equations Computational fluid dynamics, Combinatorial Representation Theory, Number Theory, Special Function, Graph Theory. The department has adequate faculty strength (12) to handle all the core courses offered by the department with optimum work load. Their competency is also high.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc. The department conducts M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D programs, apart from a 5-year integrated M.Sc program. The students are drawn from various states and the particulars for 2010-11 is given below. There are 117 students in M.Sc. Mathematics, 10 in fiver year integrated courses, 12 in M.Phil and 5 in Ph.D. Out of 144 students, 73 are Female and 71 are male.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The 5 year Integrated program in Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics was started 2005-06, while M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D programs are on since 1987. Every year the syllabi of all courses are revised and updated through the Board of studies and the School board. Last Board of Studies was held on 27.10.2010 and the School Board on 01.11.2010. As experienced Members of the Board of Studies, the faculty have richly contributed to the changes.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Success rate has been uniformly 100% for M.Phil and 95% and above for M.Sc all these years. The drop our rate in M.Phil is nearly 0% and in M.Sc is less than 6%.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources In the last 5 years, the department has developed a small library with books and monographs and a computer lab with 58 computers with net connection and softwares like Mathematica. Each research scholar has a 24X7 access to a PC with internet connection.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major change in our class room is the interactive electronic board, through which the teaching is made more effective.

The University library has opened up access to enormous amount of e- resources. Apart from the University book grant, the department has been receiving NBHM book grant (` .4,00,000/- per annum on an average) . Since the last year, the department gets an annual book grant of ` 5,00,000/- through the UGC/SAP and the DST-FIST schemes.

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These extra funds have enabled purchase of state of art books in mathematics at teaching and research levels.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The teaching of M.Sc classes through the electronic interactive board has great advantage over usual chalk & black board, by way of quick and clear writing, with much less effort, providing more time for much needed discussion in class. Since last year, the department has newly introduced 5hours per week of problem solving sessions, to enable the students to successfully perform in national level competitive examinations.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Each student has a faculty advisor to consult on their academic and personal problems. On the academic front, the instructor discusses with the student his/her performance over the tests and exams, to help to perform better in future. The students can approach the instructors in and out of the class anytime to clarify doubts.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years 3 UGC refresher courses have been conducted by the department in the last 5 years. Three of our faculty members have attended Orientation programs and one among them has attended a UGC Refresher course also.


Undertake evaluation of M.phil and Ph.D dissertations from Pondicherry University and other institutions, on request.

Set question papers for the final exams of other Universities and colleges.

Serve as members of Board of Studies of their department and some for departments of other universities, on being invited to do so.

Some are invited to be Referee of research papers submitted to journals for publication and some are invited to review published papers in their field.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years In the last 5 years, our faculty members have published joint research papers with mathematicians in USA, France, China, Japan and India.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Research is a significant and in fact, the prime activity of the department apart from teaching. The thrust areas are Algebra, Hydrodynamic Stability ,Functional Analysis, Fuzzy sets and Clustering techniques, Graph Theory , Integrable Systems, Number Theory and Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years

Research Projects (Completed 2006-2010) Title: EXTREMAL STRUCTURES IN BANACH SPACES , Amount: ` .5,35,000/-, Sponsors: INDO

US Project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology DST Govt. of India and NSF(National Science Foundation - US) Principal Investigator: Prof . V. Indumathi.

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Research Projects (Ongoing) 1. Title: Effective clustering techniques for Diagnosing medical database and

for medical imaging segmentation Duration: 2011-14, Principal Investigator: Dr . S.R . Kannan, Sponsors : UGC, Amount: ` . 10,47,800/-.

2. Title: Novel fuzzy clustering systems of medical data industry Duration: 2010-13, Principal Investigator: Dr. S.R. Kannan Sponsors: CSIR, Amount: ` . 12,00,000/-

3. Title: RSK correspondence and rook version of a class of diagram algebras Duration: 2011-14, Principal Investigator: Dr. A. Joseph Kennedy, Sponsors: DST Fast track scheme for young scientists

PROJECT, Amount: ` . 14,00,000/-

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. and M.Phil

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty members have published 67 research papers in refereed journals of national and international repute during the last five years with an impact factor of 1.2, Citation index of 1.1 and h index of 3.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The department faculty members teach all the mathematics course, seven in number, in the five year integrated program of the School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences of our university. Some of our faculty members teach in the UGC/CSIR NET Examination training conducted by the university.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The students are continuously assessed during the semester through tests for internal marks, quizzes and questioning students in class to check their level of comprehension of the subject and to study their class response. Students are also asked to make presentation in class.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Computer related lab courses have been added as soft courses of the M.Sc program to enhance the job prospects of the students. The problem sessions in the department have helped the students to clear GATE and CSIR/UGC JRF examination. Some get employment, mainly in the IT sector, through campus interviews arranged by the university placement cell. 15 Students of the department are performing their further studies in terms of Ph.D., M.Tech in institutes of high repute like IIT, IISER, JNCASR, NET, OSM, CMI etc.,

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. Our department receives funding under both the schemes. Research Projects: Currently the department has 3 national level research projects and had completed one Indo- US international DST-NSF project in 2007. High level performance of students in competitive JRF national level tests: Four out

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of 6 of our full time research scholars are UGC/CSIR JRF holders, one Rajiv Gandhi fellowship holder. In the last 5 years, 16 of our students have cleared GATE and in the year 2010 alone, 5 of our students have passed UGC/CSIR JRF Exam and 2 more the UGC/CSIR NET. Apart from these, 3 of our students have joined in the recent years reputed national level Research Institutions like Chennai Mathematical institute, JNSCAR of Bangalore,and ISRO and in all the three cases, our student was one of two selected for the JRF at national level.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The department has been identified for assistance both for the UGC Special Assistant Program (Level DRS-I) and the DST-FIST program to further develop infrastructure facilities of the department.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Our first goal is to take the department to UGC/SAP Level DRS-2 and then to CAS Level in the coming years. A long term goal is to spread further our research activities to new major branches of Mathematics by widening and strengthening current research groups within the department.

22. Any other highlights The faculty members have actively organized 2 International conferences including one ICM Satellite Conference, 1 National level seminar and 2 National level workshops in 2009-11.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Presently the faculty strength is 7 (1 Professor, 1 Reader and 5 Assistant Professors) and all are Ph.D. holders. The faculty of the department have the expertise to teach all the core areas of Statistics: Statistical Inference, Distribution Theory, Design of Experiments, Multivariate Data Analysis, Data Mining, Biostatistics, Statistical Computing and Bayesian Inference. The faculty is adequate and competent.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc There are 80 students in the department from different geographical locations. There are 45 (20 Male and 25 Female) students from Pondicherry, 9 (7 Male and 2 Female) students from Tamil Nadu, 16 (10 Male and 6 Female) students from Andhra Pradesh, 6 (4 Male and 2 Female) students Kerala and 3 Male students from Bihar. PG Diploma (Add on) course; there are 25 students (21 Male and 4 Female). In the recently started Ph.D. programme, there are 3 research scholars (2 Male and 1 Female) pursuing research in Statistics.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum is updated once in TWO years. The curriculum covers thrust areas like Data Mining, Biostatistics, Univariate and Multivariate Statistical Inference, Data Analysis using Statistical Softwares. In the recently revised curriculum, the soft core papers introduced are Statistical Genetics, Demographic Techniques, Programming in C++ and Total Quality Management, and these additions were made after the induction of new faculty members. Ph.D programme was introduced in the academic year 2009-10. In all these changes faculty contribution was substantial as Members of Board of Studies.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years On an average the pass percentage for M.Sc. Statistics course is 97%.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources Internet facility for students, research scholars and faculty members. The department is equipped with a Full fledged Statistical Laboratory with 50 Desktop computers. The School Libraries supplements to main library and e-resources

access. The major facilities such as Copier machine, FAX and public address systems also are available.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major additions are: e-resources access through library portal, installation and use of Licensed statistical softwares

PASW SPSS 18.0, SYSTAT 12, R-language.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Problem solving, Assignment, Practical, Project Work, Seminar are the other modern methods of teaching in the department.

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Each student is assigned to a faculty member (faculty advisor) who monitors the academic performance and over all development of the student.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Two of the faculty members attended Refresher course and three of the new faculty members have attended orientation programmes organized by the Academic Staff College, Pondicherry University. In addition one has attended Advanced Training programme on Bayesian Statistics

Theory and Applications.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty in addition to teaching take care of the equipments available in the department. Takes care of the Seminar room and the equipments as well as Statistical Laboratory which houses 50 terminals and 3 printers and monitor the guest lecture programmes and seminars. They also act as Members of various academic Bodies of the University.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department helps in carrying out the analysis of experimental data to the research workers and faculty members of the sister disciplines. The department faculty act as resource persons training program on SPSS organized by the sister department like Banking Technology and Political Science. The department regularly helps the Academic Staff College of the university in conducting orientation and refresher courses for the college and university teachers.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust areas for research in the department are Distribution Theory, Operations Research, Bayesian Inference, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Sampling Theory, Cluster Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, Reliability Theory, Survival Analysis, Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Statistical Computing, Optimization Techniques, Data Mining and Regression Analysis


Prof. P. Dhanavanthan

Title of the Project Agency Sanctioned

Amount

Forecasting Crop Prospects of Tamil Nadu and Modelling Yield Instability

UGC Major Research Project (2006-2009) (vide UGC s letter No. F.31-92/2005(SR) dated 31.3.2006)

Rs.3, 90, 600/-

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Dr. Kiruthika

Title of the Project Agency Sanctioned

Amount

A Statistical Study on the Nature and Extent of Violence Against Women in Puducherry

UGC Minor Research Project (2011-2013) (F.No.39-940/2010 (SR) dated 13-1-11)

Rs. 1, 15, 000/-

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. Programme

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 23 articles in National and 24 International Journals during last five years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Nil

17. Method of continuous student assessment Students are continuously assessed by periodical tests, assignments and seminars.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The Placement activities of the Department are taken care of by the university Placement Cell. The major recruiters are Cognizant Technology, Census Department of Govt. of India, NSSO etc. Some of the prominent placements are as follows:

S.No Name Batch Company / Institution

1. S. Uthra Devi 2005-07 Census Department, Govt.of.India

2. M. Kavitha Devi 2005-07 Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation

3. R. UdhayaKumar 2005-07 Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation

4. E.Sathyanrayana @Satish

2005-07 Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation

5. M.Gayathri Devi 2005-07 Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation

6. Ilaveni 2006-08 NSSO

7. Swetha Reddy 2006-08 Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation

8. C. Balaji 2007-09 NSSO

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9. G. Raja 2007-09 NSSO

10. Ilayabharathi 2005-07 Statistical Assistant, Office of the Registrar, Pondicherry University

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the

past five years. 1. Dr.R.Vishnu Vardhan received Ms. Bhargavi and Prof. C. R Rao award in the year

2010. 2. Prof. P.Dhanavanthan is a member of State High level steering committee to monitor

the preperation State Strategic Statistical Plan (SSSP) for implementation of the centrally sponsored schemes.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Submitted a proposal for DST

FIST and UGC

SAP

DRS 1 level. Submitted a proposal for the introduction of M.Sc in Quantitative Finance under UGC innovative program.


To promote interaction among the students, their leadership qualities and communication skills, the department plans to have a Statistical Association in the department.

The department also has plan to start Master Programme in Actuarial Science to cater to the needs of insurance industries.

22. Any other highlights The department is periodically organizing training programmes in the use of statistical softwares.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 18 faculty members including 5 Professors, 3 Associate Professors and 10 Assistant Professors. All the faculty members posses Ph.D. degree with high level of potential to teach various specializations in the department. The specializations of the faculty include Nano materials, Solid Sate Ionics, Non linear dynamics, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Lithium battery, Spectroscopy, Secure communication, Fluid dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Condensed matter Physics, Lasers, Hydrogen in Silicon, Quantum Mechanics, Plasma Physics, Spintronics, Photovoltaics, Atomic Physics.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Integrated M.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. are 4 programmes offered by the department. The total student strength in these courses is 206, of which 127 are male and 79 are female. The students of the department are drawn from different regions of the country.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus for all the Integrated M.Sc courses were reviewed and revised in 2007. The revision of the syllabus for some courses takes place periodically. The complete revision is undertaken once in three years. The number of soft cores is steadily increasing due to joining of new faculty members and introducing new soft core courses by existing faculty members. Four new soft cores were introduced in the year 2010.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The pass percentage is above 90 in all the courses offered in the department and it remains unchanged over the last five years.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 30 systems. The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources across the campus. The Department has all the required teaching laboratories, such as exclusive labs for Integrated M.Sc I year, II year and III year, Two year M.Sc I year and II year (advanced labs in Condensed matter physics, Laser physics and Electronics). The equipment available in the department include powder XRD, IR, Impedance analysis, DSC, Magnetic Hysteresis set up, Four probe resistivity, Laser teaching lab, Nd-Yag laser kit, Microprocessor kit, Microcontrollers, Labview. In addition, students are trained on instruments available in CIF such as SEM, VSM, NMR, FTIR, UV-VIS, Specrofluorometer etc.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years E

Resource access through library portal is a major addition. Wi-Fi enabled campus allows the use of it.

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7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method

Using computers for animation

Science Video screening (Experiments on Bose Einstein Condensation and superfluid He transition)

Learning science by doing: developing low cost science experiments.

Mini Projects

Seminars, Reading assignments and term papers in advanced areas related to the course.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students: The University has a system where every student is assigned a faculty advisor, who counsels the student on all matters of academic nature. Besides, the Dean of Students

Welfare also organize for any personal counseling.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Details of faculty development programs: Faculty members visit various countries for research collaboration both on short term (3 months) and long term (10

12 months) on regular basis.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching & research: Each year, two faculty members are identified as seminar coordinators for inviting experts all over India and organize their seminars. Also two members are identified to conduct seminars by research scholars, which is compulsory for the students. A committee of five to six faculty members assess the M.Sc projects periodically and their assessment is a part of the internal assessment.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Collaborations with other Departments/Institutes:

International =10

National = 20

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of research in the Department:

Lasers and Nonlinear optics.

Condensed Matter Physics.

Theoretical and Computational Physics. The department is funded by FIST levels I and II as well as by UGC-SAP.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Details of ongoing projects:

Faculty Name Title of the Project Funding Agency

Amount ( ` )

Prof. N. Satyanarayana Development of thin film lithium batteries using nanomaterials as power sources for

DST- NanoMission

60.62

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devices based on nanotechnology: synthesis, fabrication and charateristic studies



AICTE 13.00




UGC 9.93



CSIR 16.30



DRDO 17.90

K. Porsezian Theoretical analysis of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

DST 31.46

K. Porsezian Investigation of soliton and modulation instability in nonlinear couplers and birefringent fibers

DAE-BRNS 12.65

K. Porsezian Theoretical investigation of soliton in nonlinear optics

UGC 7.97

Dr.G.Chandra sekaran

Synthesis, properties and Sensor performance of Vanadium doped Zinc Oxide Nanograins

U.G.C 9.98

Dr. R. Murugan Development of 3DOM electrolyte material for all solid state lithium ion batteries

CSIR 19.00

Dr. R. Murugan Development of All Solid State Lithium Battery for Electric Vehicle

DRDO 26.60

Dr. R. Murugan Nanostructured Materials for Lithium Battery application

AICTE 8.90

Dr. V.V. Ravi Kanth Kumar

Crystallisation kinetics of oxyfluoride glass-ceramics

UGC 9.26

R. SIVAKUMAR Development of higher order accurate solvers to solve nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations.

UGC 8.85

Dr. A Ramesh Naidu Orthogonalization Strategies in a multi-disciplinary perspective

UGC 1.50

R.N. Bhowmik Study of Mechanical Alloyed Magnetic Heterogeneous systems

UGC 11.56

- Magnetic Ordering in Nano Sized Ferrite Particles: Role of Core-Shell Spin Structure

DST 11.72

R. Sivakumar Development of new nanomaterials for sensor applications.


6.00

S.K.Sinha Luminous efficacy enhancements of micro discharge-cells for a plasma display by modifying sustain waveform*

CSIR 25.00

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14. Programmes by research offered by the University

Only Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published in the last five years 181 research articles in National Journals and 172 in International Journals with an impact factor of 2., citation index of 3.3 and h index of 12.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Department organized a month long activity in February named Reflections on the occasion of national science day. The competitions such as debate, quiz, presentation, group discussion, scientific writing etc are conducted by the department all open to students across all colleges in Pondicherry region. Every week on Saturday, department organizes an event Ask an Expert , where experts answer the questions of the audience and it is open to the public of Pondicherry. Every year, the department conducts an open house, where the students of colleges and schools of Pondicherry region are invited to see the facilities of physics department, teaching and research labs and also the facilities of CIF. Department faculty members are also involved in giving lectures in other institutions to motivate the students to take up science as a career and help the students to clear national level examinations such as CSIR- UGC NET, GATE and JEST.


Students are encouraged to conceptualize some mini projects during their lab courses. The mini project will be outside the syllabus, but involves the physics learnt in the lab course. The mini projects are given adequate weightage in the internal assessment.

Students are encouraged to take up term papers on some advanced topics related to their course. The reading assignments and term papers are given adequate weightage in the internal assessment.

M.Sc projects are continuously assessed by a committee constituted by the department and a part of the internal assessment marks are given by the committee. Students are asked to maintain a project dairy and some marks are reserved for that.

M. Phil and Ph.D students have to give a seminar every year and it is compulsory.

In addition to internal assessment tests, student specific assignments are prepared to compensate the difference in learning pace.

These are being done apart from the regular internal assessment tests as per CBCS regulations.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Through placement cell of the University. The placement of the students is done.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years.

Department faculty members are in the Directories Who s Who of Scientists and are recipients of national and international awards.

State of the art Teaching Labs.

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30 percent of M.Sc students are selected for summer fellowships across the

country after their first year.

The output of the department join premier institutes like TIFR and IITs in India and some go abroad for Ph.D.

Most of our faculty members have projects.

Faculty members are in the various national level committees, and some are on the board of referees for international journals.

Faculty members are invited to give lectures in national and international conferences and meetings.

Success of students in national level examinations is steadily increasing.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. 1. Eureka, a three day workshop funded by Pondicherry University, 2006 2. National Conference of Physics of Materials. (2008) 3. Hosted Number of PAC meetings of DST 4. Hosted a Workshop on Solid State Physics to Material Science (2009) (funded by

UGC

CSR Indore) 5. National Workshop on Quantum Entanglement (funded by DST, PU, UGC-SAP)

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department shall serve so as to attract students to join the 5-year Integrated M.Sc (besides regular M.Sc / M.Phil or Ph.D) programs. Department plans to strengthen the existing courses by innovative and modern teaching methods. Department proposed that our institute should join the pool of national institutes and be a part of common entrance tests conducted such as JEST for Ph.D and JAM for M.Sc for recruiting students to our programmes. In the next five years, department also proposes to develop research in interdisciplinary areas and faculty members will put efforts to get projects of that nature and initiate research. The Department aspires to play a key role so as enable the institution to be identified as a University with Potential for Excellence in the near future. The department is in the path of strengthening collaborative research projects with national and international reach. The department plans to be part of MOU s with leading institutions in India/Abroad so as to enhance our global visibility. The department also proposes to take-up industry collaboration/consultancy and design courses so as to suit such collaborations.

22. Any other highlights The department has a strong team of faculty members working in major thrust areas who are leading contributors in their respective areas of research. The department has a strong student-teacher interaction.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has 16 faculty consisting of 5 Professors, 4 Associate Professors and 7 Assistant Professors. All are Ph.D degree holders and the specializations are Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Stereochemistry, Green Chemistry and Industrial Organic Chemistry, Bio-chemistry EPR, Chemical Oscillators, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Nano material Photocatalysis, Nanocomposite, Polymeric Solar Cells, Inorganic Photochemistry, Organometallics, Chemistry Educaiton, Homogeneous Catalysis, Tranition metal based homogenous catalysis, Chemical Information Sciences, Asymmetric Synthesis, Crystal Engineering, Bio-inorganic chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Quantum Dynamics. The faculty strength is just sufficient to teach current courses in the department and they are highly competent.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers M.Sc Integrated, M.Sc (Cheical Science) and Ph.D. programmes. The total number of students in these courses is 107 consisting of 24 Female and 83 Male. In the current academic year, for M.Sc. (Integrated) course, girl students are 16, whereas boys are 12. The corresponding numbers for M.Sc. (Chemical Sciences) are 05 and 54; for M.Phil. 02 and 07; for Ph.D. 01 and 10 respectively. As the entrance examination is conducted on All India bases, students from 6 or 7 states of India are represented for all the courses offered in the department. However, the representation is more from the four southern states.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus is revised once in three years. A few new soft courses such as Nano technology and polymer chemistry were offered. These have been approved by the School Board and waiting for AC approval. The last Board of Studies was held on 2007 to update the syllabus.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years In the last five years, the dropout rate has been decreased dramatically, even though the strength has been increased due to the OBC quota. The success rate is above 95 percent.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has well equipped labs for the practicals as well as a computer lab with WAN and LAN connectivity and most of the softwares required. The department has almost all the sophisticated instruments to do state of the art research in the field of Chemistry and each instrument is in charge of a faculty, who takes care of its maintenance. The faculty also use the special instruments available in CIF.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The on line access of most of the Chemistry journals through library has enhanced the research capabilities of students and faculty. Additional purchase of sophisticated instruments at CIF and purchase of new software has added for the

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increase of publications in international journals of repute.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method As the student strength has increased, each class room is provided by interactive white board and a laptop for effective teaching measures. Faculty also encourages students to submit assignments via email facility.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Whenever a student joins the department, he has been allotted a faculty advisor for all academic guidance. The faculty also advises the student on other personal aspects also, if necessary. In addition, Dean of the School with the help of Dean of Student affairs arranges counseling for the students. In our school, Dean has arranged a separate counseling for integrated students through the faculty of Applied Psychology, on an experimental basis.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Three to four faculty members visit abroad or nearby Institutions during summer vacation to enhance their research capabilities.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Three of the faculty members were wardens of hostels. The administrative work load in the department is shared by most of the faculty members. Faculties are in charge of verification of purchased Chemicals, glass ware, instruments, liquid nitrogen and arranging department seminars. They are also serving as experts in various institutions and Bodies.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has collaboration with Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Physics, Department of Food Science and Technology Bio-Informatics for carrying out research projects.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas are Magnetic Resonance, Organic Synthesis, Solid-State Chemistry, Photocatalysis of Nano particles, Inorganic Photochemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Porphyrin Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Bio-inorganic chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The faculty members currently have 20 projects worth ` 310 Lakh and have completed around 20 projects during the last five years. The projects are mainly sanctioned by DST, UGC and CSIR.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil and Ph.D

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index and impact factor analysis During the last five years, the faculty have published 140 papers (21 in National and 120 in International journals with an impact factor of 1.9, citation index 2.8 and h index 10.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The faculty extends support to teach in central school and arrange extra classes for chemistry teachers in the schools of Pondicherry. Also, provide help for faculty members in the colleges and PG centre, attached to Pondicherry University.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Continuous assessment of students are done by conducting test, seminars, assignments which are part of internal assessment also.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The employability of the output of the department is quite satisfactory. Most of the students after completing the degree pr.efer higher studies either in India or abroad, after qualifying TOEFL and GRE and get admissions in USA, Canada and European Universities for Ph.D. programs. Other students by campus interviews are placed in companies such as Dr. Reddy Research Laboratories, Shasun Drugs, G.V.K. Biosciences, SRF, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited etc. The Research scholars after successful completion of Ph.D. get Post-doctoral position in renowned Universities/Institute in USA, Canada, Japan and European countries and some obtain faculty positions in colleges/universities.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. From the very beginning, the department has an excellent track-record of finding its postgraduate students qualify for the National level tests, such as UGC-CSIR NET/GATE to seek academic progression. In fact, during 2009, all the M.Sc. students of the Department have qualified either CSIR JRF/UGC JRF/Lectureship and GATE or both. In the 2009 GATE examination, the students obtained great scores, and frontline all India ranks. Most of the faculty members are reviewers for prestigious international journals.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. In addition the faculty obtains research funding to the tune of around 270 lakh from DST, CSIR, UGC, AICTE etc. The Department is supported (around Rs. 250 lakh) by special funding through DST

FIST program and UGC-SAP (DRS) program.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department is planning to introduce new courses in the areas of Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry. In addition, plans are also on to introduce integrated Ph.D. Program. The long time needs of equipments such as Q-band EPR, 500 MHz NMR, Powder XRD, TGA/DSC, BET surface analyser etc. will be acquired in future.


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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has 11 faculty members consisting of 2 Professors, 3 Associate Professors and 6 Assistant Professors. The faculty are competent having qualification earned from premier Universities / Research Institutions. The faculty are adequate to teach most of the core subjects. The specializations of the department include Isotope, Geo-chemistry, Mineral exploration, Economic Geology, Sedimentology, Tectonics, Structural Geology, Geo-Physics, Micro-Paleontology, Oreogeology and crystal evolution.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department has a total student strength of 130, spreading over M.Sc. Applied Physiology (39), M.Tech (6), Integrated M.Sc. (Applied Geology) (158), Ph.D. (27). Among the total students there are 79 Male and 51 Female. The students hail from different parts of the country.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum of both the 2 year M.Sc. and 5 year M.Sc. Integrated programs are reviewed periodically. Term-paper cum seminar was introduced to enhance the technical writing communication skills of M.Sc. students. Summer internship has been introduced to 2nd and 3rd year M.Sc. Integrated students. Two new soft core courses, Climatology and Physical Oceanography have been introduced. All the faculty actively participated in curricular changes. M.Tech in Exploration Geosciences was launched during 2009-10 and all faculty contributed to framing the syllabus of various courses.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The dropouts are almost nil. More than 95% students pass out and the percentage of students excelling in National level exams, like CRIR-UGC NET, GATE, UPSC- Geologist Exam is continuously increasing and comparable to top ranking Geology / Earth Sciences departments in the country.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has a good computer laboratory with internet connectivity, which is extensively utilized by the students. The department has well equipped teaching and research laboratories. The M.Sc. students are encouraged to use the sophisticated facilities like XRD, ICP-AES, and Fluid Inclusion stage. SEM, XRF and EPMA housed in Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) are also used for their project work.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Petrology laboratory has been upgraded with the purchase of around 20 Olympus Polarizing Microscopes. The Paleontology laboratory is also upgraded with new Stereo zoom Microscopes of Olympus make. A Remote sensing and GIS laboratory is being set up to strengthen teaching and research.

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The students are taken to field and open cast and underground mines as part of curriculum to supplement classroom / laboratory teaching. This also exposes students to modern practices of applied geology. Seminars, group discussion are the other teaching methods adopted.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Each teacher is assigned as Faculty Advisor to a small group of students. The faculty advises students on various options available while choosing soft-core courses at the time of registration. The teacher also provides personal counseling on various matters, as per the requirement.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years All the faculty (joined before 2010) have undergone orientation courses and refresher courses organized by UGC-Academic Staff College. Dr.Rajneesh Bhutani was awarded BOYSCAST fellowship by DST and he carried out Post-doctoral research at Washington University, St.Louis, USA. During 2007-2008.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Teachers regularly participate in National and International Seminars / Conferences and present papers. The faculty of the department are also involved in setting up of question papers and evaluation for UGC-CSIR NET and UPSC exams and also for other Universities. They are also members of academic bodies of other Universities and adjudicate Ph.D. thesis regularly. Dr.S. Balakrishnan was member of DST

PAMC for FAST-TRACK project.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The faculty of the department have following collaborations with the faculty in International: University of Bern, Switzerland in Geochronology, IGEM, Moscow, FEGI, Vladivostok, Russia, Washington University, USA in Geochronology National: IIT Kharagpur, Kalyani University, Delhi University, Bangalore University, IIT Mumbai in Isotope Geochemistry, PRL, Ahmedabad, IIT-Mumbai study of Barren Island Volcanism and rocks of Andaman Islands. Under Science of shallow sub-surface (SSS) program of DST with French Institute and Scientists from other institutions. With other Department: Physics in Paleomagnetism, Department of Chemistry in EPR spectroscopy of minerials.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of research are: Tectono-metamorphic evolution of Indian Lithosphere, Surface processes and paleo climate studies, Ore genesis studies.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The department has completed four major projects.

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Ongoing Projects:

Faculty Name Project Title

Dr. S. Balakrishnan

Setting up of National Facility for Geochronology and Isotope Geosciences

Geo-chronological Studies on Uranium Mineralization using 233U-236U tracer solution

Measurement of cosmogenic 10Be and 26AI abundances in quartz to determine exposure ages of granulites and gneisses from Southern India

Geochronological studies on uranium mineralization and host granitoids in parts of south India using 233U/236U isotope tracer solution

Dr. Subhadip Bhadra

Emplacement mechanism and post-emplacement evolution of the massif-type anorthosite at Bolangir, Eastern Ghats Belt India.

Dr. M.S. Pandian

Modelling of fluid processes in the unconformity type uranium mineralization in Srisailam and Painad sub-basins of Cuddapah basin, Andhra Pradesh

EPR spectroscopic study of quartz from hydrothermal ore deposits: Significance in mineral exploration

Indo-Russian Collaborative project on Comparison of fluid circulation processes in granite intrusion-related environments: development of models for economic evaluation of granite-related hydrothermal processes


146Sm-142Nd isotopicstudies of meteorites and Earth materials: Early chemical differentiation of bulk silicate part of planetary bodies (2007 to 2010)

Geochemical tectonics across Cauvery Shear Zone, South India (2005-2009)

Dr. Manisha Kumari

Jurassic Ostracoda from the southern part of Mainland Kachchh, India with respect to their systematic, age, biostratigraphy, paleozoogeography and paleoenvironments

Dr. Pramod Singh

Drill core Sampling of the Quaternary Sediments of the Cauvery Delta between Mannargudi and Pennar River for geochemical and paleo environmental studies

Be-10 measurements using AMS on sediment core samples from Indian Ocean and Inland water bodies to determine rate of sedimentation: Significance to paleoclimate studies

Drill core sampling of subsurface sediments for geochemical and paleoenvironmental studies as a component of the Mega project A Multidisciplinary study of the shallow subsurface and the Quaternary geology of Cauvery Delta region.

Dr. Anupama K.

Pollen Analysis of Quaternary sediments: reconstructing vegetational and environmental history

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in the Cauvery floodplain . DST funded

Dr. Shreyas Managave

Stable isotope based dedroclimatological investigations of tees from Indian Region

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Only Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have Published 46 research articles in journal of national and 26 international repute with an impact factor of 2.6, citation index of 1.8, h index of 5.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University College students and teachers were invited to the Department to interact with faculty and visit research laboratories.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Students are continuously assessed through test series, class seminars and assignments which forms part of internal assessment also.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Every year students are placed in Geological Survey of India, Atomic Minerals Directorate, ONGC and NTPC. Placement of students in reputed MNCs and private companies has increased in recent years. Ph.D. scholars have been placed in reputed institutions like IISER and Lousiane State University.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The Department was sanctioned National Facility for Geochronology and Isotope Geosciences, which was established at a cost of ` 4 Crores. This is first such facility in the University system. Student strength has gone up from 20 to 130 during the last five years. Dr. Subhadip Bhadra was awarded prestigious Naganna Medal by Mineralogical Society of India and Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani was awarded BOYSCAST fellowship. Four research scholars of the department were awarded best paper presentation awards and also their students have achieved high ranks in NET, GATE and UPSC exams.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department was awarded FIST in two phases. The first phase (` 90 lakhs) was completed and the second phase (` 78 lakhs) is being implemented. UGC-SAP has been awarded (` 72 lakhs) at DRS Level I.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department plans to emerge as a Center of Excellence in teaching Earth Sciences and to attract best students from different parts of the world. The department is well recognized for geochemical research and plans to further strengthen this area and develop new and emerging areas of research in Paleoclimate studies and Planetary Sciences.


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DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has six faculty members of whom five are Male and one is Female. Four faculty hold Doctorate Degrees with rich knowledge and experience. The number of faculty is adequate to carry out the academic activities of the department. They are also competent to teach the various programmes offered in the department.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Currently the department is offering M.Sc., and Ph.D., programmes in Applied Psychology besides one year PG Diploma course in Industrial Psychology. The student enrolment in the department is 103 out of which 37 are male and 66 are female.

The student population reflects a rich diversity in terms of regional representation. They are from Puducherry, Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and north eastern States like Nagaland, Assam and Mizoram.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum was designed on May 9, 2009.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate has been more than 92% and there is hardly any dropout during the three years of existence of this department.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has a full fledged lab with computers and latest scientific equipments like EEG and Bio feedback. The Wi-Fi enabled campus has provided access to the library for e

resources from the department.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The department has added well-equipped two laboratories, one seminar hall, classrooms, computers and adequate space for experiential games and role play.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method In addition to OHP and LCD, modern learning and experimental apparatus are also available.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The staff is actively involved in catering to the counseling needs of the university students and staff as well as clients from vicinities. Under the Faculty Advisor system each student of the department is attached to a faculty who renders guidance and counseling services to student both in curricular and co-curricular activities of the department.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years From time to time our university organizes Faculty Development Programmes which

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were attended by the faculty of our department.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculties are involved as wardens and also placed in charge of departmental seminar, organizing visiting lectures and other office related works including liaisoning with the administration. They are working as Members of various academic Bodies of our and other universities.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Currently, there is no collaborative project with any institution.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of the research in the department are: Students mental health, Incidence of childhood disorders and efficacy of intervention, Mental health of people suffering from terminal disease, Community health seeking behavior, HIV/AIDS, Stress of professionals and effective management of stress, Positive organizational behavior, Cognitive psychology, Psychological studies on indigenous population, Mental health of Pondicherry University of staff


The Effect of Displacement on Mental Health of Displaced Tribes in Mysore and Kodagu Districts of Karnataka, Principal Investigator: Dr. B. Rangaiah, Reader, Dept. of Applied Psychology, PU, sponsored by UGC, New Delhi, Budget. Rs. 4.92 lakhs, 2010 -2012.

A Study of Psychological Contract among University Employees. Principal Investigator: Dr. Surendra Kumar Sia, Reader, Dept. of Applied Psychology, PU, sponsored by UGC, New Delhi, Budget: Rs.92.000/, 2010-2011.

Prof. Sibnath Deb has three projects funded by UGC, Global Fund and ICMR.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University None other than Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty members have published 57 Articles, 45 in National Journals and 12 in International Journals. In addition, they have published 9 books.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Faculty members are involved in community extension activities like radio talks, teachers training programmes, HIV/AIDS counselors training, counseling services to the students, employees and general public as well as statistical analysis of research data.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Class tests, Seminars, Group discussions and assignments are part of continuous students assessment.

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18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department

of the student placement. Students of the department started getting jobs in different sectors like mental health institutes, schools as student counselor, Industries and NGOs.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. The faculty members with diverse research background and with different specializations are awarded from different academic and research bodies for their contribution. So far faculty members of the department received nine awards.

Prof. Sibnath Deb

Endeavour Executive Award 2009 from the Australian Government.

ISPCAN Executive Councilor Award 2008 from the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, USA

Best Book Award 2009 for the book entitled Styles of Parenting Adolescents: The Indian Scenario .

Prof. B.Viswanatham Best Paper Award 2008 for the paper entitled Prevention of Violence against Children: Role of Teachers and Psychologists

Best Book Award 2007 for the book entitled Children in Agony

Dr. B. Rangaiah, Reader

Prof. B. Viswanatham Best Paper Award in 2010

Dr. Surendra Sia, Reader,

Best Paper Award 2010 in the Psychological Well-Being section of the 45th

National & International Conference of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.

Sourya Pattnaik Award 2010

for Paper Presentation in the XXth Annual Convention at JNU New Delhi.

Dr. D. Dhanalakshmi, Assistant Professor,

Best Poster Award 2007 in a International Conference on Mental Health , organized by NIMHANS.

D. Barani Ganth, Assistant Professor,

ICQESMS Excellence Award 2007

Award of Certificate of Merit 2010 from Pondicherry University

Faculty Members were also successful in brining eight research projects during the last five years.

Success of our students:

Three students qualified JRF

Two qualified entrance exam. of NIMHANS for M. Phil and were placed 1st and 3rd

in the merit. 20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS

/FIST etc. Applied for SAP project

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department plans the following activities:

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M. Phil. Course in Counselling/Health Psychology.

Professional Course in Clinical Psychology in collaboration with the School of Medical Science, Pondicherry University.

Sensitizing students of Pondicherry University for availing the Counseling Services offered by the Dept of Applied Psychology.

Organising Stress and Conflict Management Workshops for University Employees and various organizations such as IT Organizations, Industries and Educational Institutions.

Counseling services for more school children with behavioral problems covering more schools.

Creating more community awareness about important psycho-social and health issues through All India Radio, Puducherry and TV programmes.

22. Any other highlights The department is just three years old. However, the department has made reasonably good progress in terms of publications, students intake both in M.Sc. Course and in Ph.D. program, and research projects.

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR

BIOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The present Faculty strength of the department is 7, of which 4 are male and 3 are female faculty. All the Faculty are PhD holders and many have postdoctoral research and work experience within India and Abroad. Faculty research specializations include Reproductive Endocrinology, Protein Biochemistry, Microbial Biochemistry, Enzymology, Metabolism, Immunology and Toxicology. Faculty are highly competent to teach and research in thrust areas.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department admits students from all over the country. There are a total of 78 students in the department in M.Sc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, of which 34 are women and 44 are men. The M.Sc. Microbiology program has additional 15 students with 7 Male and 8 Female. Further, PhD students are 23 of which 14 are men and 9 are women students. Many of students have cleared the National level competitive exams such as the CSIR JRF/ NET/ and GATE. The students hail from different part of the country.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes Since the year 2007, the department had periodically revised the teaching curriculum and had introduced new theory and lab courses. The Department had also started research projects for the M.Sc. students with a view to submit dissertations in partial fulfilment of their degree requirements. New courses like Proteomics, Neurobiology, Microbiology, Developmental Biology and Clinical Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Bio-statistics and Scientific Writing were introduced. A 2year M.Sc program in Microbiology was started beginning July 2010 in collaboration with the Department of Food Science.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate in securing the degree is around 95% with a below 5 %drop out rate during the last five years.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has computer and internet facility for the faculty, staff and students. Several E- Journal and books are available. The Department has well furnished M.Sc & Ph. D laboratories and has modern equipments, Cell culture and cold room facilities. The department students also have access to the Central Animal House facility for use of laboratory animals in research.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Establishment of computer/ internet facility. LCD and OHP projectors are available for classroom teaching with AC. Establishment of spacious lecture hall and laboratories are the additions to the learning resources during last five years.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Use of PowerPoint presentations for the classroom lecture. Interactive teaching with

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continuous internal evaluation. Strengthening teaching labs for skill development. Equipment supported labs for strengthening skill development. Use of CD source for technical / lecture demonstration are the modern teaching methods used by the faculty.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Academic and personal counselling is done by the faculty in charge and also by the HOD. Faculty advisors to students are instituted for each batch.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years The new faculty of the department were deputed for participating in orientation and refresher courses. Refresher & Orientation course (Dr. S. Sudha Rani & Dr.C.Thirunavukkarasu) Orientation Course (Dr. R. Rukkumani & Dr. P. Latha)

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty members are involved in various academic activities from time to time. Organize National Scientific Seminars, Technical Seminars and demonstrations. Some of the Faculty members are in Journal Editorial boards and in Academic & Administrative bodies/ Committees. Faculty also function as Hostel warden and student related activities.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Intra Department Faculty teaches Bioinformatics for M.Sc. under the UGC s Innovative Programme- Teaching & Research in Interdisciplinary & Emerging Areas. Few faculties have research collaborations with other faculty within the department in reproductive biology and diabetes, aided by funds from UGC and other agencies. Awarded UGC-SAP (Rs 45 lakhs) based on thrust area development through intra-departmental collaborations.

Inter Department

Recently established collaborative research program for establishing investigations on novel molecular leads for drug development under the DBT-IPLS scheme with Dept. of Biotechnology and Dept. of Bioinformatics (Funding at Rs.9 crores).

National organizations Collaborations with Dept. of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi and Bangalore University, Bengaluru.

Non-Government organizations Collaboration with Kalpataru, Pune (NBSAP, Pondicherry).

International organizations Population Council, Center of Biomedical Research, New York, USA. Center for Reproductive Medicine, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.

Other Institutions Collaboration with Vector Control Research Center (ICMR), Pondicherry.

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12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department

The thrust area of research of the faculty are: Reproductive Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Protein Biochemistry, Thermophilic Enzymes, Phytohormone-Cell Interaction, Gene Expression; Microbial Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Systematic & Developmental Anatomy and Biopesticides, Natural Principles and Liver toxicity; Cell Signaling in degenerative diseases-Cancer, Diabetes, liver Cirrhosis, and Reproductive toxicity.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Every Faculty has involved in carrying out research projects. Currently there are 19 ongoing research projects. Four projects have been completed within the last 5 years. The total research funding raised by this department has been in excess of Rs 210 lakhs. Funding for research has been received from agencies such as the UGC, DST, DBT, ICMR and the CSIR. Major areas under investigation include reproductive toxicology, anti diabetics, Peroxidative damage, Antimicrobials, Antimosquitocidals, and Anticancer compounds.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M. Phil., Ph. D & D. Sc.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The publications of the faculty in the department during last five years numbered 91 with average impact factor of 1.9 and the average Citation index 6.6. The contribution in the edited books numbers 10.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Department Faculty participates in Inspection Committees for the affiliated colleges, College Governing Bodies and for examination work.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The continuous assessment includes tests, seminars, assignments and practicals.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. More than 95% of students who had graduated from this department have found placement in institutes and University in India and Abroad with fellowship support. Glagow University,, Hanover Medical School, Leuven University and University of Gottingen are the foreign institutions where some of our students have found their academic niche.. IIT-M, NIN, HCU, PGIMER, NCCS, NCBS, IISc, Punjab Univ., are the Indian Institutions Where others have found their niche. IOB, World Bank and Google are the other abodes for a select few. Most of these students have been supported with letters of recommendations and personal communications for their placements.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The department has received an amount of Rs 1.8 Crores through DBT-IPLS extramural research Project, . Rs 70 lakhs through DST-FIST 2009 program and Rs. 35 lakhs from DST-FIST 2002. The Department has procured many sophisticated equipments in the last

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five years. A large number of students cleared National examinations. An M.Sc. student of the Department has received an award and cash price from Scientific Solution for best project proposal and one of the Faculty received Best Teacher Award in 2010. The faculty have received awards such as Young Scientist Travel Award, Best Paper Award, Mrs. Indira Vasudevan Award, ICMR International Fellowship Award for Senior Indian Biomedical Scientist and Subhash Mukherjee Memorial Infor India Arabian Award.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department has received Rs 70 lakhs from DST-FIST in 2009 and Rs. 35 lakhs from DST-FIST 2002.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department would strengthen existing teaching and research programs by getting more extramural funding and upgrading the syllabi, lab and teaching facilities. The department would focus more on skill development in students through practical training workshops.

22. Any other highlights A student participated in Quiz program conducted by the Dept. of Physics and winning first prize. Ten students have qualified for Summer Training program of the Indian Academy of Sciences with financial assistance and sponsored by DST, New Delhi. The department has initiated marinating a Blog of alumni students.

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department has sufficient strength of faculty members (10) with required specialization in Microbiology, recombinant DNA technology, immunology, biochemistry, Aquaculture, protein Engineering, Stem cell biology and Phytomedicine to handle all the courses offered. The faculty strength is sufficient for the present teaching, research and extension activities in biotechnology

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers two-year M. Sc and full time Ph. D programmes, in addition to one year Post Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology. Students representing different parts of the country are admitted through National Level Combined Entrance Examination in Biotechnology (CEEB) conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as well as through University Entrance Examination. 41 PG students: (Male 27; Female 14)

representing 10 states and 22 Ph. D. students: (Male 17; Female 5) representing 4 states and 17 P G Diploma students: (Male

11; Female

6) representing 5 states. In all students of this department representing 13 states (Kerala, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Jharkand, Delhi, Kashmir, Orissa and West Bengal).

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes Curriculum has been reviewed and revised periodically by Biotechnology Board of Studies (Department and School Boards) and subsequently, approved by Academic Council. With the induction of 3 new faculty members, the Department has introduced two new soft core practical subjects (Radiation Biology and Animal Biotechnology) and PG Diploma in Biotechnology.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Success rate is 100% during past five years. The dropout rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer laboratory with WAN and LAN enabled computers. The Department has well-equipped, spacious teaching and research laboratories with required facilities such as cold room, photodocumentation facility, plant tissue culture facility, biosafety facility and animal cell culture facility. The Department also has sophisticated equipments such as high speed refrigerated centrifuges, UV spectrophotometers, bioreactors, CO2 incubator, gel apparatus, gel documentation system, ELISA reader, multimode detector, PCR, Real-time PCR, Flash Chromatography, HPLC, GC, LCMS, vacuum concentrator, lyophilizer and phase contrast, fluorescence and inverted microscopes. The Department also has experimental garden for plant science research.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Apart from the e-resources access through library portal, the Department has been enriched with modern softwares (Biogene software, 1D and 2D softwares, flowcytometer

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software, Ab initio modeling and clone Map software) for biotechnological research.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Modern teaching methods are followed using power point presentation, document camera, visual presentation, overhead and LCD projectors, Group discussions and student seminars and interactive sessions are conducted.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students PG Students are assigned to each faculty for course-related advice and for summer training and specific project supervision. Apart from Ph.D. supervision, teachers are also serving as Doctoral Committee members to monitor the progress of research carried out by students of Biotechnology and other University Departments.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Faculty members are benefited by attending the orientation and refreshers courses of Academic Staff College. Mr. V. Balasubramanian is currently doing part-time Ph.D. through FIP programme. Dr. Lata Shukla has received post-doctoral research training from Oklahoma State University, USA

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty members are organizing departmental seminars, guest lectures, student seminars and journal club. The faculty are placed in-charge of store room, purchase of chemicals, purchase and maintenance of equipments and other office related works.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Department has national, international, and interdepartmental research collaborations. The details are given below: National level: IICT, Hyderabad, Osmania University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Central Leather Research Institute, University of Hyderabad, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Microbial Technology, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad International level: Kansas State University, USA., NMR core facility, Kansas State University, USA, Royal Danish Agricultural University, Denmark., Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs University, Germany, UCONN Health Centre, University of Connecticut, USA, 6. Dr. Justine K Peeters, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands Interdepartmental Collaboration with Department of Food Science and Technology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Centre for Nanotechnology, Physics, Bioinformatics for collaborative projects, Sharing of expertise, Exchange of research materials and Joint Publications.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Yes. The Research is one of the main activities of the department. The thrust areas of research are as follows:

Bioactive molecules and phytomedicines,

Genetic engineering for crop improvement,

Probiotics for disease control and food processing,

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Molecular pathogenesis of human pathogens,

Protein engineering and molecular epigenetics, 6. Hematopoitic stem cells for human diseases

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The Department has a total of 9 ongoing projects major research projects (DBT, UGC, CSIR, ICMR, AERB) with an outlay of Rs. 145.998 Lakhs. A total of 12 projects with an outlay Rs. 260.31 lakhs have been completed for the past five years.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D Programmes

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis A total of 119 publications including research articles and review articles have been published with an average citation index of 4.5 with an impact factor of 2.8.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Faculty members have participated in National Integrity Camp, organised by NCC, Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu, Department has enrolled undergraduate students from degree colleges of Pondicherry for research and training programme under the aegis of UGC motivation programme, sponsored by UGC, New Delhi. Different faculty have trained undergraduates in a research programme and have motivated them to take up scientific research as their career in life

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal assessments and external examinations, practical examinations, assignments, seminars presentations and projects.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. A total of 50 PG students are pursuing their higher studies in various National level highly reputed institutes. Students are also pursuing their higher studies in reputed international institutes such as Georgia medical College, Georgia, USA, University of Connecticut, USA Hanover Medical School, Germany, University of Pennsylvania, USA, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, University of Calgary, Canada, Max-planck Institute, Germany and National University of Singapore, Singapore. In addition, our Ph.D. scholars bagged permanent academic positions in various National and International Institutes like IISER, Trivandrum, NIH, USA, National University of Korea, South Korea, TANUVAS, Tuticorin, Yeungnam University, South Korea, University of Rochechestor, USA, Research Associate, University of Arizona, USA, Manonmanium Sundranar University, Industrial placements for PG students are arranged through Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL). The faculty members of the Department of Biotechnology are supporting students by providing necessary advice and need based recommendations for higher studies as well as industrial training.

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19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the

past five years. Extramural project funds from national and international agencies, publications in reputed national and international journals, 100% placement record of our students attest the quality of research and teaching carried out in our Department.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. 1. UGC DRS, New Delhi has sanctioned Rs.60 lakhs to the Department for 5 years 2. DBT FIST Program - 2008 has sanctioned Rs.70 lakhs to the Department for 5 years.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department is planning to strengthen M.Sc. Biotechnology teaching programme by introducing novel aspects such as protein engineering, stem cell biology and phytomedicine. Basic and applied research in the areas viz. novel drug discovery, crop improvement, probiotics for disease control and food processing, and molecular diagnosis of plant, animal and human pathogens will be carried out to achieve excellence in biotechnological research and applications.

22. Any other highlights The Department is committed to excel in research and teaching in Biotechnology. The Department has bagged patents (Indian and USA) on novel dimeric phenazine antibiotic. The Department is exploring the possibilities to develop novel drugs with anti-microbial, anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory potentials.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND ENRIVONMENTAL

SCIENCES

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There is adequacy of faculty (14) with optimum workload and expertise to teach the 16 core courses and a total of 26 soft core courses offered for M.Sc. program. Specialization available in department are: Conservation Biology, Plant-animal interaction, Environmental Epidemiology, Vermitechnology, Applied Soil Ecology, Water pollution, Biodiversity and Conservation, Forest Ecology, Environmental Laws and Policy, Environmental Education, Community based Eco-regional planning, Agro-Ecology and Industrial Ecology, Weed Ecology, Agro Ecosystem, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System, Seri Biotechnology, Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Land Ecology, Forest Biodiversity and Conservation, Traditional conservation systems, Photocatalysis, Nanotechnology.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs. In M.Sc. Programmes there are 46 male 28 female representing 14 states. Ph.D. program covers a wide range of specialization and out of total 48 candidates 33 are male 15 are female drawn from 9 states.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes Curriculum has been revised periodically and the next revision is due in next year 2012. A total of 16 hard core courses are offered. In which 15 are common courses and Research methodology is related to their project work in final semester. The total of 26 soft core courses offered in the department which covers a wide range of topics including contemporary issues of importance. In the last year, seven soft core courses were added.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The department is having a record of 100% success rate in M.Sc. program and their employability is also very high in a wide range of organizations for higher studies and jobs.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 30 systems (WAN & LAN). The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Departments. The Department has required teaching labs for handling M.Sc. Programs and specialized Microbiology lab, Bioremediation lab, water quality lab, Biodiversity characterization lab and GIS lab for Ph.D. Major facilities include Atomic absorption Spectro photometer, UV Visible Spectro photometer, FTIR Spectrometer, Gel Documentation and Image analysis, Auto analyzer, Flash Chromotography, Microplate Reader and Washer, Multiwave digestion unit with adequate software.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Significant additions during the last five years have been the e-resources through library portal, enhanced DST funding for instruments, installation of systems and software for GIS lab, SPSS, etc.

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7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method

The modern teaching practices adopted are: Effective field demonstrations, Industrial visits and report preparation, Remote sensing and GIS training.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University follows a student counseling through faculty advisor for every student throughout their course of study including project work choice and career guidance through Placement Cell. Besides, the Dean of Students Welfare also organize for any personal counseling.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Two teachers have attended special training programs organized in focal specializations useful to their professional growth and to the department.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are in-charge of equipment, departmental seminar, organizing guest lectures, research collaboration with other research institutions, etc.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years

Ohio State University

MOU, Research

University of California, Santa Barbara

Global synthesis of Lianasa research

outcome so far

two papers in Impact Journals

French Institute, Pondicherry- Guest Lectures and Research discussions

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust Areas 10 (Research groups) UGC-SAP: Thrust areas: Environmental Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The faculty attracted grants from a total 17 projects from seven funding agencies. List of projects with title, outlay, Principal Investigators

Title of the Project Principal Investigator

Co-Principal

Investigator

Funding Agency

Amount in ( ` )

The genetic structure and reproductive ecology of wild brinjal (Solanum species) in India: Phase I

Priya Davidar Allison Snow

Ohio State University,

USA 6.97

Elephant habitats of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: Location, threats and management.

Priya Davidar J. P.

Puyravaud

United States Fish

and Wildlife Service

17.15

Assessment of plant diveristy, and impact of invasive species in the Mukurthi National Park, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

Priya avidar Rajiv

Srivastava UGC 6.35

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Quantitative assessment and mapping of plant resources of Eastern Ghats (2005-2009).


- DBT 16.4

Bio monitoring of permanent plots for biodiversity changes and aspects of tree biology and forest ecology in tropical dry evergreen forest on Coromandel coast, south India (2002-2006)


- DST Project 12.00

Species diversity, distribution and abundance of macro benthic invertebrates of mangroves, Pondicherry

Dr. Anisa B Khan

- UGC 11.27

Health Risk assessment studies on the impact of heavy metal contamination with special reference to cadmium and lead.

Dr. Anisa B Khan

- UGC 4.45

Investigation on the role of Salicylic acid (elicitor) in the physiology and disease resistance in Capsicum annuum L. infected with Colletrotrichum capsici (Syd.)Butler & Bisby , April 2010-2013.

Dr. B. kannabiran

Dr. D. Ramamoort

hy U G C 8.50

Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Development

- Yes

University Grants

Commission, New Delhi

22.95



- DST 16.08

Influence of anthropogenic pressure on the structure and functional attributes of sacred groves in Sivagangai District of Tamil Nadu, South India

Dr. SM. Sudarapandia

n - UGC 3.58

Role of high-resolution satellite data with GIS in integrated resource analysis at mini-watershed level (2005-2007)

S. Jayakumar -

Department of Science

and Technology, New Delhi,

India

12.27



- DST 16.08

The role of Earthworms .. pollutants

Dr. M. Vikram Reddy - DST 7.29

High precision CO2 concentration sink of carbon

Dr. M. Vikram Reddy - DST 8.50

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Evolving and implementing LEISA based agro-ecological technologies for sustainable rice production in salt affected soils of Pondicherry coastal region

Dr. G. Poyamoli -

DSTE, Puduhcerry

0.60

Status of Biomedical waste management in the UT of Puducherry

Dr. G. Poyamoli -

DSTE, Puducherry

2.00

14. Programmes by research offered by the University None other than Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During last five years, the faculty have published 254 articles (160 in National Journals, 94 in International Journals with an impact factor of 2.2, Citation index of 2.5 and h index of 7).

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Extension Activities

Environmental education to School children during Wildlife Week Celebration. Demonstration of significance of wildlife conservation to university students by placing eye catching and informative display boards in key junctions in key places of the campus. The department is also conducting Wildlife Week Celebration.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Mid-term exams, seminars, assignments, field / lab reports are the methods of continuous assessment of students.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Placement record: The products of our department have been absorbed in various premier institutions, industries and research organizations/ NGOs.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. a) Research publications in Impact factor journals b) Serving at the capacity of Associate Editor in International Journals c) Editorials board members in journals d) Referee in a number of journals

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc.

Participation in SAP

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years a) Establishing an advanced Geomatics lab to provide hand on training to students and

researchers b) Aiming at output oriented intensive training to students to face challenges through

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DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN STUDIES AND MARINE BIOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 5 faculty in the department of which 1 is a Professor 2 are Associate Professor and 2 are Assistant Professors of which 4 are Ph.D degree holders. The faculties who are working in this Department are highly competent and experienced to take classes on all the core subjects such as Chemical Oceanography, Ocean Management, Marine Biology, Marine Microbiology, Physical Oceanography, Marine Biotechnology, Marine Ecology, Marine Pollution, Fisheries, Coastal Aquaculture, Invertebrates, Cell Biology, Vertebrates and Physiology & Biochemistry with maximum workload and execute research in this Department. Two of the faculty members have carried out their post doctoral research in the Foreign Universities.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc This Department offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in Marine Biology. The students are from all parts of India. In the M.Sc. Programme, 39 Male and 9 Female students, belonging to 10 states are studying. Similarly, in the case of Ph.D. 12 Male and 5 Female students belonging to 5 states are carrying out their research in this Department.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed and revised once in three years constantly. The Ph.D. Program was launched only in the year 2007. Recently, in April 2011, the department revised the syllabus and introduced new soft core courses based on the needs of the students in current scenario. All the faculty members have contributed to revision of the syllabus.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years 100 % Success rate has been maintained for the last 10 years. Dropout also is Nil till date.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has augmented its basic needs of library resources by way of more than 800 text and reference books as well as six international journals in hard copies. Further, the Department has also the required teaching laboratories, such as exclusive labs for Chemical and Fishery Sciences, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Optical Instrumentation lab, Computer Lab. In this academic year (2010-11) Biotechnology, Molecular Taxonomy and Culture labs were developed.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The books have been increased from 200 to 800 numbers and also laboratory equipments were purchased for around Rupees Fifty Lakhs to augment the need of teaching and research programmes.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Power Point Presentation, Audio visual Presentation, Field Work as wells as Development of Models for learning are the modern teaching methods.

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The University has a system of student counseling for every student. All the faculty members are constantly monitoring the welfare of the students and need based counseling is provided other than student s council advisor.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years One of the faculties, Dr.S.Venu has been motivated to complete his Ph.D. Degree in the last two years.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are involved as wardens and also placed in-charge of chemicals, equipment, departmental seminar, organizing the visiting scholars and a host of office-related works, including liaison with administration.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Due to the Defense and Strategic importance of these islands the collaboration with other Institutes are limited. However, the department has already developed the collaboration with Department of Biotechnology and Earth Science departments of our University. Further, Central Government agencies like, Zoological Survey of India, Botanical Survey of India, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Central Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Medical Research Centre are also closely coordinating with research and teaching works of the department. Further, one major project was also evolved based on this collaboration and funded by DBT.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of research of this department are: Development of technique to Induce breeding for the marine animals, as well as improvement of new bioactive component for biomedical applications. Identification of new species not yet recorded other than the above, the other areas of research are Benthic Studies and its environment, Marine Microbiology, Marine Biotechnology, Plankton Studies, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years One DST Project was completed for an amount of Rs.6,79,000/- Two projects sanctioned from MoES and UGC, respectively Rs.30,00,000/- and 8,12,800/- are ongoing in this Department. Another Projects sanctioned by DBT is continuing as a collaborative project.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. Programme in Marine Biology

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis A total of 76 papers (66 in national journals and 10 in international journals) have been publication with an average impact factor of 1.5, citation index of 2.3 and h index of 3.

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16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University

Every year the department conducts INSPIRE Programme for +2 Science students from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to motivate to choose science as a subject for higher learning in the sponsorships by Department of Science and Technology, GOI, New Delhi. Conduct Coastal Cleanup Programme every year to eradicate the plastic solid waste polluting the coastal environment. Involved in Fisher folk developmental activities by imparting hygienic fishing training to local fisher folks.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Seminar, Question and Answer Sessions, Group Discussions and Personal Observations are the various methods of continuous evaluation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Eight students of the department have joined in the Private fish processing Industries in the coastal regions of India. Four students have joined in the Aquaculture activities. More than twenty students have joined for Research in the Universities and other National Institutes. Three students are pursuing higher studies in Australia. Three students are working in IT industries.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. This department has developed the Data Bases on different oceanography parameters like Physical, Chemical, Biological and Geological aspects about 2 islands which did not have any data bases before inception of this Department. The Department has identified four new species belonging to Phylum

Mollusca - Family

Haminoeidae Two Species; Family

Aplysiidae

One Specie; Phylum-Cnidaria - Family

Caryophylliidae

One specie, which is not reported in this part of India. Out of these one species is presumed to be a new species.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Applied for the SAP Programme and also plans to go for FIST Programme in the coming years.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department contemplates develop as an internationally renowned Ocean and Island studies centre.

22. Any other highlights This Department started nine years back without any infrastructural facilities in this remote part of the Country. Now this Department has emerged as one of the major Departments of Pondicherry University with an investment of 20 Crores in A&N Islands. The Department started with two faculty members and increased to thirteen Members and with a new P.G. and Ph.D. Course in Coastal Disaster Management with a funding of Three Crores. Since, June 2010, this Department has been bifurcated and a new Department of Coastal Disaster Management was created which functions in same campus.

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DEPARTMENT OF COASTAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 3 faculty in the department 1 Professor and 2 Assistant Professors specializing in Geophysics, Geographical Information System, Tectomics etc., The faculty are adequate and have necessary expertise to handle all the core papers offered. All the faculty are Ph.D. degree holders and are recognized Ph.D. guides of the University.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student profile in the department is quite heterogeneous. The department offers two year M.Sc. programme and Ph.D. programme.

M.Sc. programme

M F representing 5 states of Andaman, Nagaland, Assam, Kerala and Bihar 14 5

Ph.D Programme

4 0 representing 6 states of Andaman, Tamilnadu, Andra Pradesh, Pondicherry.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes M.Sc. programme was started in the year 2007. Ph.D. programme was launched in the year 2009.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years No failures in M.Sc. Programme.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department is well equipped with sophisticated Geophysical equipments of Seismograph with 12 channel SIR 2000 Ground Penetrating Radar, Electricity Resistivity Imaging, Transient Electromagnetic System (terra TEM), total organic carbon analyzer (TOC), automatic weather station, Microscope with image analyzer. Survey equipments like Marine Magnetometer, Side Scan Sonar, Echo sounder, Current meter are also available. Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory is equipped with software of ArcGIS and ERDAS. Computing and Network Facility: Adequate numbers of PCs in Remote Sensing laboratory with internet connectivity are available. Field equipment: total station with reflector, Auto Level, Global Positioning system, Rock cutting machine, automatic sieve shaker. Multi dated Satellite imagery for all islands of Andaman & Nicobar and part of Coastal district of Tamilnadu are also available. Library: Reference and Text books are available.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The above listed equipments were procured in the 2009

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Most of the practical works are carried out in field condition with equipments and class room teaching is aided with LCD projector.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Counseling for every student is provided by the faculty advisor.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years All the three faculty members are with Ph.D. degrees. However two of the teachers have participated in training programme at GIS at Hyderabad.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are in charge of hostel warden.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Research Scholar Motilal got technical and research expertise from Indian Institute of Technology Chennai and Wadia Institute Himalayan Geology, Dehradun for his Ph.D. programme Prof. N. Ramanujam and three research scholars jointly carried out coral atoll survey at Interview island, North Andaman with Prof. C.P. Rajendran from Indian Institute of Science in the month of March 2011.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The main theme of research activities of Department is concerned with identification and mitigation of Natural hazards and Disasters.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Ongoing Ministry of Earth Science Government of India sponsored Research programme (2010-2013).

Paleoseismological study through Geophysical investigation in Andaman islands . Cost of the project Rs. 25,24,400/- principal investigator Prof. N. Ramaujam.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University No Programme other than Ph.D programme

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published 39 research articles during last 5 years of which 12 are International publications and 27 are National publication.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Beach cleaning programme, AID awareness are the additional extension activities. Prof. N. Ramanujam has conducted two INSPIRE programme in the year of 2010 and 2011 as Program Coordinator to create awareness and career opportunity in basic Sciences. The programme was sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The cost of each programme is 6.5 Lakhs.


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Conducting tests, discussion, seminar questions and quiz are the components of students assignment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Government of India has offered State Government to open one District Management Cell, attached with District Administrative Office. Hence Employment opportunity is more in Government sector and also in the private sector like NGO. Only two batch of Coastal Disaster Management have come out. Five of them are doing research for the award Ph.D. Degree. Three students have got BED degree admission. Four students are working in private firms.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Within short duration Department has conducted two INSPIRE programme for the benefit of Andaman & Nicobar students and awarded one major research project to do Paleoseismological study in Andaman region.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department is a newly started Department. Once the department become full strength interms of total sanctioned faculty, it will participate in COSIP / COHSSIP for financial assistance.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department is well equipped with sophisticated equipments compared with National Institutions and other Universities of country, hence the identification and remediation of natural hazards and managements at critical situation is main objective. Furthermore, Department is located in Andaman

the Natural laboratory is another advantages here all types of natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, tsunami, volcanic eruption, land subsidence are common. As a natural justification all research programme are to be leaning towards the identification of natural hazards and remediation and management.

22. Any other highlights World class equipment facilities are available in the Department to study the natural and as well as the man made hazards. The Department is to be developed as National Centre for Disaster related study.

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DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department which was established in 2007, has a faculty strength of 5 which is adequate to meet the teaching and research requirement of the department. Faculty of the Department has a wide expertise ranging from diatetics, food product development, food analysis, food quality assurance and food processing and preservation. They are highly competent to teach the courses.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offer two M.Sc Courses (Food Science and Nutrition and Food Science and Technology) and two Ph.D. programmes in the above disciplines. There are 80 studnets in M.Sc Programmes and 13 students in Ph.D progrmames of the 93 students, women number 56 while the male students are 37. The students profile in the department is heterogeneous coming from all over India. The Ph.D research scholars in the department includes 3 UGC JRF and ONE from industry sector.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed every year and revised every alternate years. The department was established in the year 2007 when only one course in M.Sc Food Science and Nutrition was there, later in the year 2009, Masters in Food Science and Technology was started along with the Ph.D Programme Further the syllabus is revised periodically and is tailored to cater to the food industries needs.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Success rate in the department is very high with 100% in the first batch in 2009 and 96.66 % in 2010.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department is well equipped with modern equipments which cater to the research in the rapidly advancing area of food science and technology including Texture analyser, Rheometer, vacuum packaging machine and Color flex to name a few to provide a hands on experience in the modern analytical equipments. In addition to this, the department has a computer lab where the students are free to access all the e resources of the University Library and the computers are also used as an ICT tool. The department has six laboratories exclusive for the post graduate student and Ph.D scholars including Food Analysis lab, Food Processing, Food Product Development lab, Food chemistry, Food Microbiology lab.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The department has enhanced the learning resources through training on the relevant usage of the equipments and training to the research scholars on the techniques and skills in the experimentation.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Usage of technological gadgets including power point presentation, Formation of t

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understanding of the subject and enhancing their articulation skills, conduct of industrial visits to give, real time exposure to the practicality of the discipline, are the methods of teaching adopted.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Students are allotted to faculty advisors in the beginning of their course to counsel the respective students on various academic aspects of the MSc programme.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Out of the five faculty in the department, four of the faculty members have completed their Ph.D. The single teacher who has already registered for Ph.D is being facilitated to complete his doctoral degree.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Specific faculty members in the department are actively involved in organizing departmental seminar, national and international conference and workshops along with giving special lectures in the other Universities and Institutions and act as resource persons for UGC Academic Staff College of the University and in various local community nutrition related programs.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department is actively collaborating with the sister departments like Department of Biotechnology within the University in addition to International institutions like University of Copenhegan and Aarhus University Denmark. At the National level , the academic collaboration has been extended to National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Central Food Technology Research Institute , Mysore, French Institute of Pondicherry , Anna University, Chennai and the Ministry of industries and Women and Child Welfare, Government of Puducherry.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of the research in the department are: Phytochemicals, Antioxidant, Metabolic diseases, Therapeutic nutrition,Community nutrition, Crop processing, Meat processing, Food Biotechnology, Food security and Food safety. These focus areas of research are being undertaken with basic funding from the university and faculty attracting extramural research funding. The five different research groups in the department include Food safety and Food Biotechnology;. Agricultural processing;. Therapeutic Nutrition; Metabolic diseases, antioxidant nutrients and phytochemicals and Meat Processing

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Ongoing research projects Reduction of Mycotoxin Exposure in Human Gastro Intestinal Tract using Pre-and Probiotic Microorganisms.,CSIR ( Rs. 24,00000.00) Development of functional starter culture for idli.,UGC (Rs. 11,00000.00) Evaluation of Nutraceutical potential of patented products, Oriens Biocare Pvt, Ltd, Chennai (24,00000)

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14. Programmes of research offered by the University

The department is offering Ph.D in two courses including Food Science and Nutrition and Food Science and Technology.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis

Faculty has 15 publications during the last five years out of which 4 are published in international journals and 11 in national journals with the impact factor 3.2, citation index of 9.0 and h index of 2. In addition 2 books and 2 patents were also produced by the faculty.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The department is actively involved in extension activities as a part of the Post graduate curriculum by providing elaborate Nutritional survey and Nutrition education to the nearby villages of the University. Besides this the department is actively participating along with the Department of Women and Child Welfare, Government of Puducherry to revamp the ICDS food menu in terms of nutritional impact and quality.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The students are continuously assessed for 40 marks by conducting three cycle tests on a quarterly basis of a semester along with surprise tests, Quiz, assignments and seminars which constitute the internal assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. As the department is only three year old, there have been only 30 students who have passed out. The department is taking efforts to bring in reputed food companies for campus recruitment.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The department in association with the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, Mysore, organized an International Conference on Traditional Foods in December, 2010 bringing together 600 participants including 20 foreign delegates. Other than this the department has organized two workshops and one National Conference. Dr. Pradap Kumar Shetty has received Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award and Young Scientist Award.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department has successfully obtained a grant in aid of Rs 75 Lakh from the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India for the creation of infrastructural facilities for the Food Technology course.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department is planning to establish NABL accredited food analytical facility through funding from Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India and other sources and also planning to conduct regular certificate courses in food safety and quality, training the trainers etc., As the Department has well equipped facility for food product development and analysis, we are planning to launch incubation lab facilities where local prospective entrepreneurs

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can develop and launch novel products before they go commercial. We have already approached the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, Government of India for possible funding.

22. Any other highlights The department is one of the youngest Departments but fastest developing departments in the University. The department has opened a local chapter of Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India), a professional body, to bring the academia, industry and community together.

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CENTRE FOR BIOINFORMATICS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Centre has 8 faculty members, which makes it the largest Bioinformatics Centre in the country. The faculty members specialize in various areas like Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology, Molecular Entomology, Genomics and Proteomics, Crystallography, Structural Biology, Molecular and Comparative Genomics, Computational Biology, Structural Biology, Drug design and Medicinal Chemistry, Computer Science etc. The faculty members have received training in various reputed institutions in India and abroad. All the faculty members are having Ph.D degree except one. They are adequate and competent to meet the teaching and research requirement of the centre.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Centre receives a large number of students from all over the country. The M.Sc. Bioinformatics programme has 39 male and 24 female students from various states like Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mizoram, New Delh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu & Puducherry. The recently started M.Sc. Computational Biology Programme has six male and four female students from Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The Ph.D. programme in Bioinformatics has ten male and seven female students from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The modular courses in Bioinformatics (leading to a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics) have 14 male and 21 female students from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curricula have been reviewed and revised every year, i.e., in 2009 and 2010. Currently the syllabi of M. Sc. Bioinformatics and M.Sc. Computational Biology are under revision. With the induction of new faculty, new soft core courses have been introduced and existing syllabi have been updated.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate of the M.Sc. Programme has been almost 100%. Dropout rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Centre has four full fledged computer laboratories with high speed internet connectivity. The labs are open for 24 hours and are being monitored by CCTV. The Centre has a dedicated 11 Mbps internet connectivity from BSNL. All the rooms in the centre are connected via intranet. All the teaching laboratories and class rooms have facilities of power point presentations which are being routinely utilized. The Centre has a Reference Library with about 600 books, 10 Journals and 5 Magazines. The Centre is also holding a collection of e-books available on the intranet. All the library resources available in the University can be accessed through the Centre s intranet connectivity. A separate website, designed in-house and hosted from the web server is maintained in the Centre and can be accessed at www.bicpu.edu.in. This comprehensive website, containing a wealth of information including free software and links to various agencies, is being used by a large number of professionals across the world.

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The Centre has well-equipped wet lab facility with High performance Liquid

Chromatography (AKTA-HPLC), UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, ELISA Reader, Gel Documentation System, PCR, -800C Deep Freezers, -200C Freezer, Refrigerated Table Top Centrifuge, Quartz Distillation Unit, Water purification system, Bench top Freeze Dryer, Vertical gel apparatus, Horizontal Gel apparatus, Western blot apparatus, UV illuminator and pH meter. In addition, the facility of other departments and CIF are being used. The Centre has 10 servers including Web server, Database server, Cluster Computing server, Domain Name Server, E-book intranet server, Zinc Finger database server. A complete UPS backup has been provided to all the rooms in the Centre.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years During the past five years the centre has acquired various softwares like Discovery Studio 3.0, Schrödinger Mastero, Tripos Sybyl 8.1, V-Life, SPSS, Amber 10, Autodock, Dock, Modeller, Gromos 96, Whatif, EMBOSS, BioEdit, Phred, Consed, GeneScan, Statistica, Endnote and Kasperskey Anti Virus 6.0 which are routinely used by the students and research scholars. During the past five years, the Centre has created three new computer laboratories, one research wet lab and one teaching wet lab. Several new books and journals have also been added.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The Faculty Members use modern methods of teaching including power point presentations, online demonstrations, hands-on sessions etc. in addition to the regular lecture method. The students are encouraged to make use of e-resource and print-outs of papers are being provided. Seminars are routinely organized.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University has an in-built system of student counseling under CBCS and a group of students are assigned to each faculty for counseling.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Six faculty members have attended Orientation courses conducted by the Academic Staff College of Pondicherry University. They are: Dr. Syed Ibrahim, Dr. Archana Pan, Dr. R. Amutha, Dr. R. Krishna, Dr. M. Suresh Kumar and Ms. V. Amouda

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty members are involved in the departmental activities by working as in-charges of chemicals, equipments, seminar conveners etc. A few faculty members are acting as wardens of University hostels. The Centre Head is also coordinating the Study in India Programme where foreign students join a semester in the University on credit transfer basis.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Centre has been collaborating with other departments like the Departments of Biotechnology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The collaborations have resulted in development of teaching programmes and starting of a few new projects like Innovative Programme in Life Sciences (DBT). The Centre has developed various collaborative programmes with the following institutions.

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1. Indian Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore

Collaborative research activities

2. University of Siena, Italy

Molecular Modeling approaches (Bioinformatics

area) 3. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

Network Teaching Programme

4. Anna University, Chennai

Network Teaching Programme

5. Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad- Collaborative research

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Molecular Biology, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Simulation, DNA-Protein Interactions, Genome Sequence analysis, Protein Structure Modeling, Molecular Modeling, X-ray Crystallography, Drug Design, Metabolic Pathways, Comparative genomics, Cell signaling, single particle analysis, Medicinal Chemistry.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Ongoing Projects:

Name of the Project Principal

Investigator Funding Agency

Total Grant ( ` ) lakh

Duration

Development of Database & Software tools for identifying Zinc-finger protein binding motifs in Mammalian genomes

Dr. .P.P.Mathur

Department of Information Technology

37.7

3 years (2007

10) Extended upto 2011


Dr. .P.P.Mathur

DST, New Delhi.

14.4 2003-2006.

Effect of environmental contaminants on male reproduction; 2003-2008

Dr. .P.P.Mathur

ICMR, New Delhi

3.5 2003-2008.

Development of E-learning modules in Bioinformatics; 2007-2010

Dr. .P.P.Mathur

DBT, New Delhi

7.0 2007-2010.

Isolation and molecular characterization of lipoxygenease (Lox) gene(s) from finger millet (Elusine coracana L.)

Dr.Dinakara Rao

DBT 38.90 -

Molecular cloning, characterization and functional analysis of lipoxygease (lox) gene from horse gram (Dolichos biflorus) germinating seedlings

Dr.Dinakara Rao

DST-SERC Fast Track

17.39 -

X-Ray Studies on Protein Crystal Dr. R. Krishna University

Grants Commission

10.66 3 years

(2010

12)

Structure Based Inhibitor Design for Protein Disulfide Isomerase

Dr. M. Suresh Kumar

University Grants

Commission 10.45

3 years (2010

12)

Searching for potential therapeutic targets in human pathogens (food-

Dr. Archana Pan

University Grants

7.82 3 years

(2011- 14)

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and waterborne) using comparative genomics approach: Molecular modeling, docking and simulation studies

Commission

A Probablistic Approach to Interact the Substrate- Aloe emodin with proteins targeting for Neuro ectodermal Tumor.

Dr. P.T.V. Lakshmi

UGC 9. 66 -

Insilico screening and comparision of Phyto-chemicals to target Angiotensinogen (AGT) of hypertension attributing to heart failure

Dr. P.T.V. Lakshmi

DST 14.32 -

Projects Completed:

Name of the Project Name of the Principal Investigator

Funding Agency

Total Grant

( ` lakh)

Duration

Development of E-Learning Modules in Bioinformatics

Prof. P.P. Mathur Department of Biotechnology

6.90 4 years

(2006

10)

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. in Bioinformatics

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published 18 papers in reputed national and international journals with high impact factor.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The Centre has been playing a key role in the extension activities of the University. Many students participated in Blood donation, cultural and sports activities of the University.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The students are assessed on the basis of internal tests, assignments, seminars etc. as per the CBCS guidelines.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Most of the students got employed in Research and Teaching institutions in India and abroad. The past students of the Centre have been placed in various industries and teaching/ research institutions such as HCL Info systems; Tata Consultancy Services; Molecular Connections, Bangalore; Protein Lounge, Bhubaneswar; Genemines, Chennai; Computational Research Lab, Pune; Jubilant Biosys, Bangalore; Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore; BIOBASE Database Ind. Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore; Pusan National University, South Korea; Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea; New York University, Stony Brook; University of Sienna, Italy; University of Madras; Central Sericulture Research & Training Institute, Mysore; Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh; Jawaharlal Nehru University: Amity University; Yeungnam University, South Korea; Maharshi Dayanand University; Wealth Mantra, Lucknow; Barclays

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International PLC; Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal; Assam Agricultural University; Indian Institute of Technology-Madras; University of South Carolina, USA; ABLE C Drive, Bangalore; National Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhubaneswar; National Institute of Immunology; ACTREC, Navi Mumbai and Achariya Arts and Science College, Pondicherry

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years.

The Centre got status of Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics from the Dept. of Information Technology, Govt. of India.

The Centre has generated more than Rs. 6 crores from different funding agencies like DBT, DIT, and UGC

An amount of Rs. 65.08 lakhs has been generated through extramural research projects

Procured many sophisticated equipments and established good computer lab facility.

Development of E-Learning tools in Bioinformatics

Good placement record.

Organized many symposia and seminars including Silver Jubilee Symposium on Bioinformatics & XXII Annual Coordinators meeting of Bioinformatics Centres of DBT, Govt. of India

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. 1. Distributed Information Centre grant of the Department of Biotechnology

(from 1992) 2. DBT s Advanced Post Graduate Diploma grant (from 2001

2008) 3. UGC s Innovative Program in Teaching and Research (M.Sc. Bioinformatics

programme) from 2007. 4. Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Research funded by the Department of

Information Technology (from 2007) 5. DBT-PU Interdisciplinary Programme in Life Science (IPLS) for Advanced

Research and Education

Rs. 10 Crores (Joint project with the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) (from 2010)

6. DBT s Network Teaching Programme (M.Sc. Computational Biology) 7. Participating Department of DST

PURSE scheme.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years 1. The Centre proposes to strengthen its research activities and industrial

collaborations 2. The Centre would establish video conferencing facility in order to make the

network teaching programme more successful. 3. The Centre plans to start a company and take up various assignments so

that the students could get employment there. 22. Any other highlights

The Centre has played a very significant role in getting the first email access in the University in the year 1993 and the first internet connectivity in the University using FDMA VSAT through National Informatics Centre in the year 1997. The Centre had designed, hosted and maintained the first website of the University at www.pondiuni.org

for a long time. The Centre has been providing email, internet and literature search facilities to the research scholars and faculty of the University and outside institutions.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Currently the Department of English has 12 Faculty. Right from its inception, the Department specializes in English and Comparative Literature and our faculty, trained in various literary fields, ranging from critical theories through aesthetics to diverse literary genres, is adequately equipped to handle the different areas of teaching and research proffered in our curriculum.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department draws students from all corners of India and even from other countries as well. We offer M.A. M.Phil and Ph.D Programmes over and above the Add-on Course PGDPCE. And over the last five years the ratio of girls and boys remain almost 1:1. The department has a total student strength of 129 spreading over M.A. English (103), M.Phil English (19), Ph.D (7). Among the total students there are 63 Male and 66 Female.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed and revised every alternate year. The latest revision of syllabus was done by a recent meeting of the Board of Studies held in 2010. The department has grown from offering courses in traditional British Literature to the present scenario of offering around 20 core papers and about 20-30 soft-core papers. (these are offered selectively) The department offer a wealth of courses on individual authors, the history of literary genres, literary theory, new media, and Creative Writing over and above language

centered courses. New courses added during the last five years are Green Voices: Literature and Environment professional communication, gender and communication, visual culture and communication, dalit literature, contemporary literature and culture, Indian writing in English, Non fictional prose, Diaspora writing, Literature and the visual arts. For the integrated M.Sc students, the Department offers an array of introductory courses designed to develop fundamental writing skills, powers of argument and analysis, and a historical perspective on literature. Faculty have contributed to substantial changes in the courses by being Member of Board of Studies.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is 100% and the drop-out rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources All our faculty and students are adequately equipped to handle computers, make Power-Point Presentations etc. Most faculty have their own laptop.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years All faculty have been equipped with desktop computers printers and internet access. Students are equipped with use of campus Wi-Fi.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The Wall-Magazine maintained by the faculty and students, as well as during the

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weekly seminars of the Research and Journal Alert Forum where both students and faculty come together to make presentations and to deliberate is the modern teaching methods.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students As the CBCS requires faculty advisors, the students of the MA are divided into small batches that are entrusted to the special care and advice of each faculty. At every point students are more than willing to seek the guidance and advice of these faculty advisors.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Almost all faculty have participated in FDP orientation Refresher workshops.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty of the department participate in various academic activities like delivering lectures, key note address etc in various seminars conducted at national and international level. Almost all faculty have participated in FDP, Orientation and Refresher Courses.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Collaborate with other language departments of the University.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust area of the research in the department are literary their of new media and creative writing.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Re-viewing Women s Writing: Select Kannada and Telugu Fiction Principal Investigator: Dr H. Kalpana (UGC)--4.2 Lakhs (ongoing)

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil and Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published 131 papers (128 in national and 3 in international) during last 5 years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The department has actively participated in outreach activities in terms of lecturing in institutions and schools in thelocality and neighborhood. Being crative writers and artists themselves some of our faculty involve themselves in social reconstruction activities too. Many have creative involvements with non-governmental agencies also. The department offers courses in ELT and Research Methodology which are application-oriented. A basic course devised as Language through Literature offers students an orientation to the formal study of English language and literary appreciation.

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Class tests, assignments, group work, quiz and question-answer sessions, mid-term tests are held periodically in order to maintain a steady assessment of students.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The students of the department get employment as teachers in schools or in Colleges and Universities all over India. Some have entered the Corporate and Media field. Some have found employment as content writers and technical writers and editors. A placement cell in the department coordinates between students and prospective employers.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Prof. S. Murali has been a special invitee at major conferenes in India and abroad as the founder president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE India). Dr. Murali was featured as POET ARTIST in the Sahitya Akademi s Indian Literature, J an-Feb2010, 255, pp.127-132. Prof. N. Natarajan visited Re-Union University and delivered 8 lectures for about a month under Exchange Programme. Prof. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan s Pichikuppan: A Novel was long listed for the first Man Asian Literary Prize among the top 20 entries from Asian countries and published as The Silent One by Penguin, India, No.2009. She was also awarded a citation as Consolation Prize by the Sahitya Akademi for the entry, Ramarisivanam, an oral episode of the Muduva Mahabharata, at the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Celebrations, 2008. Dr. Clement Lourdes received Paaventhar Pugazah Award for 2010 from the Hon ble Minister of Collegiate Educaiton for meritorious contribution to literature and Arts on 16.04.2010.

The other Awards and recognition of faculty are indicated below: Faculty Name Significance of Research / Awards

Dr. Kalpana

Awarded United States Fulbright Fellowship in the Study of Institute Program to attend a six week workshop on Contemporary United States Literature (June 15-July 29, 2007)

Awarded Major Research Project grant by University Grants Commission (2007-10).

Dr. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan

Award for the best research paper 2006 of the Indian Chapter of Association for commonwealth Language and Literature Studies.

International Recognition for Creative Writing: 2007-2008

Citation from the Sahitya Akademi

Dr. Murali

Fulbright Postdoctoral Research and Travel Fellowship 2006

Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship for Creative Writer in Residence at the Chichester University ,UK-- Runner up.

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20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS

/FIST etc. Participation in COSIP. The department has sought for aid of UGC through SAP. This project is on integration nature and literate.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years To utilize the study and teaching of literature as a means to sensitize and improve social interaction through various interactive programmes.

22. Any other highlights The department of English constantly strives to uphold excellence and equity in all its activities. The major objective of the Department as a teaching centre is to foster serious study and research and the department envisions a future student community committed to the intellectual pursuit of literature and literary studies as entertainment and enlightenment alike.

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DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are totally 8 Faculty Members in the Dept. of French, including the Dean, School of Humanities, who is from the same discipline of French Studies, and a French Tutor, who is deputed by the French Government. 3 new Faculty Members have been inducted in the Dept. in the last 5 years. 4 of the 8 Faculty Members are have Doctorate degree. All the Faculty Members are specialists in the French Language, Civilisation and Literature, and have undergone specialized vocational training at various Universities in France.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Students enrolled for M.A. ( French

Translation & Interpretation ), M.Phil. & Ph.D. (French) are from various States of India such as Uttar Pradesh, Jharkand, Bihar, West Bengal, U.T. of Delhi & Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, & One Foreign Student from Cameroon ( Africa ). The student strength has been steadily increasing over the years. With 64 joining the Post-Graduate Course, 21 in M.Phil., and 22 in Ph.D. in 2010, the department surpasses the enrolment in French department of any other Universities. Gender-wise the girls outnumber the boys (67:40).

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The Faculty revamped the existing Syllabi, and it was adequately changed when the School Board met on 11th December 2009.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years There is a 100% success rate ; 5% is the dropout rate. The dropout is mostly because of joining for jobs.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources There are about 1000 books as learning resources in the Department Library. Further, the available computers, facilitate access to the e-content, and various documenting and learning sites in French.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years More books, computers, audio-visual aids have been purchased in order to enhance the learning facilities. The Basic French and Add-On Certificate of Proficiency in French Courses attract many students. An inter-active board is also planned to be purchased for these Courses as it will facilitate the learning process.

7. Modem Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Other than the traditional lecture method, Power Point Presentations, videos, films, songs, theatre activities, group discussions, lucid learning activities are used as teaching methods.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The teachers act as faculty advisors & provide personal counseling, in placement, in

Pudhuvai Vani Radio Programmes, and media & cultural programmes.

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during the past five years The Faculty Members have been beneficiaries of Orientation Programmes, Refresher Courses, French Govt. Scholarships & Fellowships, the Shastri Indo

Canadian Fellowship.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The Faculty has actively taken part in national and international conferences, orientation programmes, refresher courses, workshops participated radio programmes, cultural programmes etc., besides serving in various expert Bodies .

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Department has organised Seminars with the other University Departments, like Tercentenary Celebrations of Shri Ananda Rangapillai s Anniversary, the International Conferences with the University of La Réunion, & the Indian Association of Quebec Studies. National Workshops were conducted by the French Departmnet in collaboration with Mahindra

Nissan

Renautl, from January 2009 to 2010. A French Essay Competition was conducted by the French Department on 07.11.2009 for Women Students in Puducherry, in collaboration with Soroptimist International, France. There are M.O.U.s & Exchange Programmes with French Universities, such as, for instance, the Université Lumière de Lyon 2 and the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. An International Conference on French & Francophone Studies was organized by the French Department from 13 to 16.02.2007

Campus France was organized by the Embassy of France in Indian on 21.02.2009, in collaboration with the French Department.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of the Department are mainly French & Francophone Studies, and Translation Studies.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years The Ongoing Project on the translation of important historical documents with pertinent annotations is under UGC SAP, granted from April 2009.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil and Ph.D programmes.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis There are about 15 Publications out of which 7 are published in national and 8 in international journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The Basic French (P.G. Soft Core) caters to students of all departments and is a much sought-after course, just as the Add-On Course of the Certificate of Proficiency in French.

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The continuous student assessment is done through frequent Tests, Seminars, Quiz, and the individual Class Performance which are part of internal assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. There is a 100% Placement, and the Student placement is done by the Department only.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years The UGC SAP was granted for the first time to a French Dept in India. Prof. S. Panneerselvam was selected under UGC-French Government Social Scientist Exchange programme 2007 while Dr. C. Thirumurugan was chosen for UGC-French Government Fellowship 2008. Dr. Nalini J. Thampi helped and monitored the compilation of the first comprehensive French

Hindi Dictionary by S. Sadasivan, published by Orient swan Pvt. Ltd. ( Sept. 2009 ). An abridged version of this Dictionary is also being prepared by her and will be published by October 2011. The students actively participate in the University s Cultural Programmes and national level competitions, bringing laurels to the Department.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. A Translation Project, in collaboration with all the Depts of the School of Humanities, was submitted for CPEPA. The UGC SAP Project and other translation projects are ongoing.

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DEPARTMENT OF HINDI

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Department is functioning with one Professor and three Assistant Professors. One of them is in Senior Scale. There is adequacy of the Faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects. Area of Specialization of all Faculty includes Poetry, Fiction and Comparative Literature, Modern Poetry, Drama, Functional Hindi and Translation, Linguistics, Hindi Drama, Journalism, Hindi Language and Literature, Language Computing and Comparative studies. The Department offers facilities for intensive study and Research in different areas of Hindi Language and Literature, Functional Hindi and Translation, paying special attention to comparative Literature.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers Ph.D (Full-Time & Part-Time) M.Phil (Full-Time) in addition to M.A and one Add on P.G Diploma Programme. The department currently has a student strength of 29 in 3 programme. Among them, 12 are male and 17 are female. They are drawn from Puduhcerry, Kerala, Tamil nadu, Andaman, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, New Delhi, Bihar, Manipur, West Bengal, Gujarath and Chattisgarh. Out of 56 students and Scholars of the department 20 are male and 36 are female. Out of them 6 are from Puducherry, 25 from Kerala, 2 from Tamil Nadu, 2 from Andaman, 3 from Uttar Pradesh 2 from Jharkhand, 2 from Andhra Pradesh, 2 from Rajasthan, 4 from New Delhi, 2 from Bihar, 1 from Manipur, 1 from West Bengal, 2 from Gujarat and 2 from Chattisgarh.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum of the Department has been reviewed and revised in 2010. The Department has designed 13 Soft Core and 10 Elective Courses pertaining to different facets of Hindi Literature, Visual Media and Hindi, Life and Works of Eminent Hindi Writers which are offered in English and Hindi medium. With the introduction of new faculty in Oct, 2010, two new soft core courses designed by Multilingual computing and Creative writing were submitted to School Board/BOS for approval.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years There is 100% success rate in the courses offered by the Department. Dropout rate is very minimal i.e. 2% hardly.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department is equipped with five computers with internet connection and one LCD Projector. Students are allowed to use the systems for utilizing on-line resources and to access the e-resources available on-line in the University Library Web links.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Department is enforcing online resources available at various portals in addition to the books and other reference material available in the Library.

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In addition to Tutorials, Seminars, Practicals and Group Discussions, Power point presentations, ICT Applications, Audio and Video resources are being used.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students All the Faculty members are properly counseling the students and guiding them for opting courses of their choice as faculty advisers. Apart from Curriculum teaching Faculty of the Department are contributing in counseling and providing coaching to our students for NET, SLET and UPSC Civil Services Examinations.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Nil

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty members are sharing the responsibilities like Administrative work, community work like co-ordination for Day Care Centre and Pre-Primary School, Co-ordinating with DDE. They are also serving in various academic Bodies of the University.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Department held one National Seminar in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi. Department also has collaboration with reputed agencies like Indian Institute of Languages, Central Hindi Directorate, Sahitya Akademi etc.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Research is a significant activity of the Department. The thrust areas of the Department are Gender Equality, Women Studies, Social Equality, Dalit Vimarsh and Post Modernism.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Prof.V.Vizialakshmi has got a UGC Major Research Project in Feb. 2009 entitled

Vartaman Sandarbh Me Hindi Nirgunia Sant Sahitya Aur Kannada Vachana Sahitya Ki Prasangikata .

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil and Ph.D programmes

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During last five years 4 books of faculty were published and 46 Research Articles also are published in referred and others popular Journals. In addition to these 26 Translations and 23 Reports also are published.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Faculty of the Department are actively engaged in extension activities of the University and the society as well. One Faculty of the Department is extending service in the translation work of Sri. Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry and Mira Aditi Centre, Mysore. One of the faculty is the Secretary of Sampark Society a registered body working for

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the welfare of Widows and Children, New Delhi and on the Advisory Board of Samayik Srujan the students in House Magazine of the Department. Another Faculty is a life member of Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai and Nagari Lipi Parishad, New Delhi and the honorary president of Yug Manas social educational and cultural society, Guntakal (A.P). He was the Member Secretary of TOLIC, Coimbatore during 2006 - 2010. He was the editor of Yug Manas and Kongu Nidhi (Both Hindi Literary Journals). He had trained more than Ten thousand people in Unicode and Word processing in Indian Languages (more than 700 workshops organized at various locations in South India). Developed Weblogs in various Indian Languages for digitalizing the Literature.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Continuous assessment is carried out through Class Tests, Seminars, Group Discussions and Midterm Exams.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The employability also is high. Considerable number of alumni of the department are employed in various institutions in various capacities. The Department is actively contributing for students placement. Most of the past students got career opportunities as Teachers at Schools and Colleges and some students got placement as Translators in Govt. service.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. Department organized 4 National Seminars and 1 Workshop and 1 Panel Discussion during last five years. Through Soft Core/Elective programmes designed the Department offered through English and Hindi medium in the last 5 years more than 200 students from the other Departments have earned their credits and are benefited by. The faculty have received the following recognitions.

Prof. V. Vizialakshmi, HOD is the recipient of two awards i.e. Rashtra Bhasha Samman Viswa Hindi Sahitya Seva Sansthan, Allahabad, 2009 and Award for the Propagation of Hindi by Rashtriya Hindi Academy, Kolkata, 2010.

Dr.S.Padmapriya, Asst. Professor (SS) got Associateship in Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla in 2009.

Dr.C. Jaya Sankar Babu, Asst. Professor was awarded SRIJAN SHRI

by Srijan Samman, Raipur (Chattisgarh) on 16 th February, 2008 and honoured by Pramod Verma Smriti Sansthan, Raipur, Chattisgarh on 31st July, 2010 with Atithi Samman .

Achievements of the Students : 4 students have cleared JRF/NET/SLET.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Nil

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Vision of the Department is to develop Hindi Language as a medium of unity and integrity in the multilingual arena and an unique platform for interdisciplinary research in Indian Languages to foster composite culture of our society. Pacing with scientific, spiritual and technological innovation and advancement of our nation, the Department is

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progressing ahead with a mission to develop Hindi Language as a forerunner in adopting technological innovations in turn to lead and support the all round development of all Indian Languages and to establish humanitarian values in every sphere of life. Subject to approval of the authorities concerned the Department is planning to introduce P.G Diploma in Computational Linguistics; and to start publication of a bi-annual Research Journal in Hindi and English. The Department intends to launch a joint venture of taking up a major project pertaining to Telugu and Hindi Literatures.


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DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department presently has 6 faculty member with Doctorate qualifications. The

Faculty is competent to conduct the hard core courses and soft core courses, Certificate and Diploma besides the Research programmes.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The students strength in the department is 6 in PG 10 in M.Phil and 12 in Ph.D and one in Certificate Programmes. Students come from various states of India such as Tamilnadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and West Bengal. Girl students are more in M.A & M.Phil, almost four times than the boys. In Ph.D. male students are more.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus is framed by a well constituted Board of Studies and is based on the UGC guidelines. It is reviewed and revised according to the needs and enabling the students to take NET/JRF examinations.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate of students is 100%. There has not been a single drop out.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department library and Main library have about 10,000 books pertaining to Sanskrit. Besides each Faculty is having a Computer with Internet facility. The students are guided to be computer literate, particularly on Devanagari script.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Power point presentation, ICT, e-journal, UGC Infonet Digital Consortium INFL/BNET Guest lectures by Eminent scholars of International repute have been added to the department.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Weekly Seminars, Group discussion, Project work, e-resources for students are the modern teaching methods used.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Personal counseling is given to students. Every student has a Faculty Advisor. NET/JRF training classes are conducted by the Faculty. All faculty members involve fully in academic activities

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Two Faculty members attended Orientation Courses. One Faculty attended Refresher course during last five years.


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Most of the members of Faculty are Expert members in Board of Studies and Adjudicators in various Universities in India and abroad. They also act as Resource persons for UGC Refresher courses. Sanskrit Day is celebrated every year. A two day National Workshop on Scripts and Manuscripts was conducted. One Faculty is Co-ordinator in Hindi Cell and member of Court. Two Faculty members are in the Academic council. Many faculty are involved in Examination duties such as invigilators and observers of Regular and Distance Education.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Collaborated with French Institute of Pondicherry in conducting Two day Workshop, and Research.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust areas of Research are Sahithya, Vedanta, Nyaya, Vyakarana and Manuscriptology.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Applied for SAP and CPEPA on a project Techniques of Translation.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil. and Ph.D., Full time and Part time (Internal and External)

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published during last five years 3 books and 34 research articles in National (27) & International (7) Journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Through the Hindi Cell the department is propagating the language away the people.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Student assessment is done through Tests, Assignments, Seminars and classroom discussions.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. All the former students are well placed in Educational Institutions and Research Institutes throughout the country. The students have got employment as faculty in various Universities and as Research assistants, teaching research assistants in various schools and research institutions.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. One Faculty was elected at Edinburgh University as a member of Consultative Committee of International Association of Sanskrit studies, and honoured with the Title Samskrit Ratna . Another Faculty was honoured with the titles Yuvavipaschit and Sastra Ratnakara The Department has registered a Society for Sanskrit Studies and

launched the National Journal for Sanskrit studies, VISVABHARATI. The new Sanskrit

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Research Journal VISVABHARATI has been launched. Certificate course in Sanskrit has been introduced.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Applied for SAP, CPE PA and Individual Projects (Major and Minor)

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department plans to undertake the activities like

Developing Sanskrit language laboratory.

Starting a PG Diploma in Sanskrit and Manuscriptology

Training the students in Manuscripts conservation.

Organising Seminars of Inter-disciplinary nature.

Weekly Sanskrit News and Wise sayings in the PUDUVAI VANI, (University F.M.)

Encyclopedia of Ramayana

Computational Sanskrit

22. Any other highlights The National Manuscripts Mission under IGNCA has accepted the proposal to recognize the Department as a Manuscripts Conservation Centre.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department has five full-fledged faculty members with Doctorate Degrees to handle hard-core and soft-core courses. The competent faculty is fully engaged in teaching. The department offers 22 hard-core papers and 11 soft-core papers. The specialization of the faculty are Hermeneutics, Psychology Phenomenology & Existentialism, Epistemology, Modern Logic, Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, Advaita, Aesthetics and Classical Indian philosophy, Gandhi, Contemporary Indian Social Philosophy, yoga, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Ethics, social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and cultural studies

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. programmes. The student profile is as follows:

MA (Philosophy) (I & II Year)

M

F

Representing two states of India: Nagaland & Puducherry. 1 1

M. Phil. 1 5 Assam, Orissa and Puducherry.

Ph.D. 6

3

Orissa, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & Puducherry

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum was revised and reviewed in 2010 based on the latest UGC requirements. Three new hard-core courses and three soft core courses have been added in the recent revision in 2010. M. Phil. and pre-Ph. D. syllabus is retained with minor modifications.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is quite high and the dropout rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources All the faculty members are provided with computers and remote access to library, The Wi-Fi enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Department.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Department has ordered for Desktop computers for students under UGC-SAP DRS I

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Power Point Presentations and Group discussions

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Weak students are identified and given counseling, Every student is assigned a faculty adviser, Besides, the Deans of Students Welfare also organizes personal counseling sessions to the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Dr. P. Kesava Kumar (Assistant Professor) benefited by attending orientation and refresher courses.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty members are involved in other academic activities as and when the administration assigns them the duty.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Dept. has active collaboration with other Departments such as Sanskrit for pursing research at present.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust Areas of Research: Consciousness Studies

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years One Project on Consciousness Studies .

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M. Phil. and Ph.D. programmes

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The total publications of the faculty of the department are 34 in national (25) and international (9) journals during last five years and 6 books have been published by two of the faculty members

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Faculty of the department have participated in community oriented programmes like tree-plantation. Health awareness camps

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal Tests, Assignments and term papers, Seminar presentations are the methods of continuous evaluation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. 99% of our Ph. D. holders are employed in teaching profession. Most of our students are employed in public or private sector undertakings.

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past five years. 1. Prof. K. Srinivas had been awarded UGC-DAAD Sr. Scientist Exchange Fellowship

in Social Sciences in 2010 to visit Germany to work on the project entitled Cognition in Buddhism, Sankhya and Advaita .

2. Dr. B.R. Shantha Kumari has been the Editor, Journal in Philosophy, Religion, and Culture

3. S. Indira had been Visiting Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2010.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Dept. is admitted into UGC SAP- DRS-Level-I during the year 2009-10.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The vision is to emerge as a strong teaching and research Department in South India.

22. Any other highlights The soft-core courses offered by the department attract not less than 150 students every semester. Thus the Department serves as a backbone for the Choice based Credit system. The Department has been striving to strengthen its teaching and research. Launched Indian Journal in Philosophy, Religion and Culture

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The faculty strength of the department is 9. There is adequacy of teaching staff in the department and the faculty are competent to teach the courses offered by the department. The faculty specializations are; Management and Organisation of Physical Education and Sports, Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education and Yoga, Kinesiology, Yoga and Volleyball, Exercise Physiology, Training Methods, Sports, Psychology and Yoga, Measurement and Evaluation and Basketball. Research Methodology, Exercise Physiology and Yoga, Sports Psychology, Volleyball and Table Tennis, Exercise and Disease Management and Sports and Multimedia, Exercise Psychology, Anatomy and Psychology. Exercise Psycho

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc There are 213 students in the department out of which 174 Male 39 Female Students profile is quite heterogeneous. Good numbers of women students belong to 03 states and men students to 07 states. This Department offers M. P. Ed.; M. Phil. and Ph.D. programmes, besides a PG Diploma Course

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus is revised and reviewed once in three years. P. G. Diploma in Health Fitness and Life style Management was introduced in 2009 and the curriculum was framed during the academic year 2009-2010. All the faculty members contributed to update the curriculum as members of Board of Studies.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is 100 %. The dropout rate is very meager for the last two academic years. In previous years there was no dropout.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources All teachers are having computers with internet facility and for students use 18 computers with internet facility are available in the department. Library facility is also available. There is a laboratory with few essential scientific equipment which are most useful for research work. There are sufficient play ground facilities with modern equipments which are used for teaching practical classes and coaching purposes.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The department has internet connectivity for faculty as well as students thus providing enough opportunities for using information technology in teaching and research. For practical classes and coaching purposes modern equipments like, high jump foam pit, landing mattresses, elliptical cross trainer, modernized tread mill, body analyzer etc. are available.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The modern teaching methods adopted by the teachers are power point presentation, seminar classes, and group discussions.

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Each Faculty member as faculty advisor counsel a group of students assigned to him / her. On some occasions faculty members used to counsel the whole group of students and individual students also.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Most of the teachers from this department participated in orientation and refresher programmes besides participating in seminars.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Four teachers of the department are on the board of studies of affiliated, autonomous colleges and other universities. Prof. N.Govindarajulu served for 03 years as the Governing Body Member of the Sports Authority of India nominated by the Government of India, Academic Council Member of an autonomous college, NAAC peer team Member Coordinator from 2009, Vice

Chancellor s nominee in an affiliated college and serving as a Physical Education expert in one of the Committees to solve the problems of Physical Education personnel of the National Institute of Technology appointed by the M.H.R.D. Ministry in 2010. Other faculty members also have participated in various academic activities such as Members Board of Studies, resource persons in seminars and conferences etc.,

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Nil

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust area of the research in the department are: Training Methods, Sports, Psychology and Yoga.


14. Programmes by research offered by the University The department offers Ph.D., M. Phil.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty members of this department published 42 papers 30 in national and 12 in international journals and 15 books during last five years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The students of the department actively participated in teaching sports and games in Tsunami affected villages around University campus along with Sport Without Frontiers (NGOs), blood donation, tree plantation in the University campus, University campus cleaning works and helping in organizing annual sports meet in various colleges and schools in Pondicherry.

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The continuous student assessment is done by conducting class tests, mid-semester examinations, assignments and seminar classes which are part of internal assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. 95 % of the students are getting jobs through agencies, employment exchange service as well as self approach. It is planned to invite Edu Sports placement service and to start a placement cell in the department itself.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Five students of this department represented the Indian 7-A Side Football team which participated in the Asian-Indo-Nepal-Sri Lanka International 7-A Side Football Championship 2008 organized by Nepal 7-A Side Football Federation and secured Second place (Runners-up).

Two students of this department represented the Indian 7-A Side Football team which participated in the Asian-Indo-Nepal-Sri Lanka International 7-A Side Football Championship 2010 organized by Sri Lanka 7-A Side Football Federation and secured Second place (Runners up).

The Department organized the South West Zone Inter-University Football Women Tournament for the academic year 2009-2010. This students both men and women of the department won many Inter

Collegiate tournaments for the last five years. They have represented the Pondicherry State in various games and sports. They also represented the Pondicherry University in the All India / South West Zone / South Zone Inter University tournaments in various games and sports for the last five years.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc.

Nil

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department plans to start the following

Center for yoga

M.Sc. Integrated course in yoga (five years).

Integrated degree course in Physical Education (Five years).

Bachelor of Physical Education degree course.

P.G. Diploma course in Sports Management.

Establishing Human performance laboratories.

Starting of Sports Physiotherapy Degree course.

Construction of new multipurpose indoor stadium.

Construction of standard swimming pool.

P.G .diploma in Mobility Science especially for blind people.

Self Defense programme for Women students and faculty members.

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SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Department of Performing Arts has professionally qualified and experienced permanent faculty drawn from various streams of theatre arts and drama discipline. A balanced mix of academicians, researchers, and practitioners from both Performing Arts and media with rich research and managerial experience contributes to the departments academic excellence and character in the country. There is adequacy of the faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects in the areas pertaining to Acting, Direction, Creative writing, Designing, performance and visual media theory and practice of working across linguistic and cultural boundaries. This includes the specialization in Asian Classical Theatre System, Stage Craft, Theatre Architecture, Folk Theatre, Theatre Music, Choreography, Eunuch theatre, Theatre Therapy, Children theatre, Theatre and Education, Film and TV Media, Lighting, Classical Music, Martial arts and Yoga as well as Foundational Multimedia training. The total teaching faculty strength in our department is seven. There is no female teaching faculty. Out of this seven teaching faculty five have the Ph.D qualification. The Department has the supporting teaching staff such as the Instructors. Out of three instructors two have qualified for NET Exam and one is pursuing Ph.D.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The students profile boasts of a prosperous and heterogeneous background

both academic and professional - with earlier work-experience in fields of Literature, journalism, fine Arts, Music, theatre and Mass Media. The Department offers Two-Year M.P.A programmes (Full-Time), M.Phil (Full-Time) & Ph.D programmes (Full-Time and Part-Time) in additions to PG Diploma in theatre Arts and the composition of student strength is as follows:

Name of the course Male Female

India/state Abroad

M.P.A(Drama and Theatre Arts) 10 5 1 (MP) 8 (TN)

5 (Pondicherry)

1 Sri Lanka

M.Phil.(Drama and Theatre Arts)

3 0 1(Kerala)

1(AP) 1

Sri Lanka

PhD (Drama and Theatre Arts) 5 3 2(Kerala)

2(TN) 4 (Pondicherry)

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PG.DTA. (Drama and Theatre Arts)

4 5 1(Kerala)

1(TN) 7 (Pondicherry)

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3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes As theatre educators the department has tremendous responsibility to craft the correct curriculum. In this background the curriculum has been reviewed and revised every year. With the induction of new faculties fourteen new subjects were introduced (six hard-core and eight soft-core) with the equal importance to Theory and Practice with cutting edge trends. The faculty as members of the Board of Studies have contributed substantially to take changes.

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4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five

years The success rate of the PG students during the past five year is 100%.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department of performing Arts has created infrastructure in terms of providing Departmental library. The Wi-Fi- enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the department. Department has the required teaching laboratories such as the studio theatre fully equipped with the audio-video systems for the benefit of the students and scholars.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major addition that has been given as stimulus to the learning resource is the well equipped three studio-theatres.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Demonstration method, question and answer method, Role plays method, Chalk and talk method, Field trip method and project method are the modern teaching methods. Interpersonal activities, Group activities, Audio segments, Video segments and Instructional Tips (etc)

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The Department provides confidential counseling for any student experiencing emotional or psychological difficulties relating to academic or social problems. Besides, the Dean of student s Welfare also organizes personal counseling to deserving students.


10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The teachers are participating in various Academic Bodies of various universities as their members. They do lot of lecturing in various Technical Institutions of Theatre besides offering technical advice. They have participated in 36 seminars besides organizing 39 national and international seminars.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Department of performing Arts is always making collaboration with the outside departments/ institutes, groups and also individual practitioners such as Star Vijay TV, Film and TV Institute of Tamil Nadu, Song and Drama Division of Tamil Nadu. School of Drama Calicut University, Regional Resource Centre Bangalore, National School of Drama, South Zone Culture Centre, Asian Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication, Folk Lore Resource and Research Centre, Central Institute of Classical Tamil, International Institute of Tamil Studies, Department of Health and Family welfare Govt of Tamil Nadu. India Foundation for The Art, Department of Culture Govt of India, Sangeet Natak Akademi.

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The thrust are of the research of the department are Modern Indian Theatre, Western Theatre, Classical Indian Theatre, Direction, Theatre Acting, Advance Acting, Acting for Stage, Theatre Architecture, Play Production, Children s Theatre, Theatre Games, Theatre Exercise, Theatrical Martial Arts, Theatre in Education, Set Design, Lighting Design, Make-up and Costume Design, Folk Theatre, Theru-K-Koothu, Mime and Choreography, Mass Communication, Voice & Speech, Classical Music, Music in Theatre, Film Acting, Film Theories & History, T.V. and Film Production and Script Writing/Play Writing and Performance Sound Design.


Name of The Project

Principle Investigator Sponsored F.N Year Amount

Narratives of Rural Arts

Dr.K.A.Gunasekaran

UGC F.5-222/04 05/06 4.1147 Lakhs

Authentic Analytical Documentation Ethno Cultural Programme of Theru-K-Koothu

Dr.V.Arumugham UGC - 10/11 3.86

Lakhs


15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The Department is accredited with more than sixty important publications in the national, international and Regional level journals. Apart from this the department has performed many numbers of public Performances for the audience.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Faculty members are deeply involved in outreaching activities in the community as their academic activities have a direct bearing on the cultural mores of the society. In the year 2011 the department has organised Actor s Training programme for the Tele-serial Actors of STAR VIJAY T.V. and our students are also involved in the Tele-serial production, Kanaaka Kaanum Kaalangal of STAR VIJAY T.V. The Department conducted two important Theatre awareness programme in 2008 and 2009 at different colleges. As part of awareness activities many plays were performed in the places of Puducherry, Cuddalore, Thindivanam, Villuppuram, Ranipet and Chennai. The Department also initiated Workshop cum Performance; Children s Day program for Tsunami Affected children. The Department also extended its teaching and performance activities for the students of School of Education. Further its activities also extended to the children s of Kendraya Vidyalaya School. As part of the Children s Theatre course programme the faculty of performing arts teaches the children s theatre and also produced the children s plays in Tamil, English and Hindi. The Department has given training for the staff and Children of the Day-care Centre and also Pre-Primary School Children. Under this programme some of the plays were staged for the children s day celebration. The Department also has given teaching and training programme for Study India Programme students and they also teach in the area of Classical Music, Theru-K-Koothu and Classical Indian Theatre.

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Department of Performing Arts uses the methods like

tests/assignments/seminars/quizzer demonstrations/exams etc. for continuous evaluation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The employability of the student is very high. The pass out students are getting the placement in schools and colleges as the drama and theatre teachers, Song and Drama Division, Film, Radio and TV, corporate agencies and NGO and the department of National and International Universities. The outstanding Alumni of this department are:

Dr.B.Anantha Krishnan, Professor & Dean, S.N. School of Performing Arts, Hyderabad University

Dr.Devasanpathi, Professor, Centre for Electronic Media, SRM Deemed University

Dr.C.K.Thomas, Regional Director, Door Dharshan, Kerala

Dr.Arimalam Padmanaban, Programme Director, Classical Tamil, Chennai

Dr.A.Kanagarasu, Curator, Art & Culture, Pondicherry State

Dr.AJith M Gopinath, Director, Jai Hind T.V., Kerala

Dr.C.Gopan, Former Head, SSS of Drama, Kalady

Dr.Jeeva, Assistant Professor, Department of Tamil, Bharathidasan University

Dr.Shibu S Kottaram, Head , Department of Drama, Calicut University

Dr.V.N.Vinod, Assistant Professor, School of Drama, Calicut University

Dr.Najmul Shahi, Assistant Professor, School of Drama, Calicut University

Dr.T.Balasaravanan, Assistant Professor, Centre for Electronic Media, Pondicherry University

Dr.Rajaravivarma, Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Pondicherry University

Dr. Saravanan Velu, Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Pondicherry University

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The Department of Performing Arts has produced short films and national level production. Two of faculty have received the Kalaimamani Award from the Govt.of Tamil Nadu. One faculty has received the Puduvai Kalimamani Award and another received IFA Funding for New performance. Our faculty member has also attended the international conferences at UK and France. Two of our faculty have received the Nehru and Kamban Pugazh Literature Award from the Government of Puducherry State.


21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years It is the goal of the Department to increase its reputation by imparting knowledge gathered in all walks of life to the students and make them creative in their endeavor in the field of Performing Arts.

22. Any other highlights Two students of this department have cleared the Junior Research Fellowship and also NET Examinations. Six of our students have got the Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship for the last two years. One of our Ph.D Scholar got the Moulana Abul Kalam Azad Award for the year 2010.

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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department of Anthropology was established in the year 1999 with a single faculty but now it has become a full-fledged department with two Professors and four Assistant Professors drawn from five different states of India having optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core papers which are included in the curriculum. Though the department specializes in Socio-Cultural Anthropology it has also a faculty whose specialization is in Biological Anthropology. Out of the total six faculty five are having Ph. D and three are recognized supervisors for guiding Ph. D

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Student Profile in the department is heterogeneous both in terms of gender and region. There are 29 men and 18 women students studying in M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D apart from three foreign students who undergo courses through Study India Programme of our University. MA programme drawn students from 6 states and M.Phil from 5 states and Ph.D scholars from 7 states of India. The department attracts students from SC, ST and BC communities of various regions of India including North-Eastern states.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed and modified periodically almost once in a year and thorough changes are made once in three years. As the faculty members are the members of the Board of Studies, they contribute academically in the matters of revision of the syllabus. Already each one of the faculty is undertaking the revision of the existing papers. New hard core and soft core papers are going to be introduced from the ensuing academic year. The last revision took place in April 2011.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years In the past five year excepting one year all the other years exhibited more than 75% success rate. For the past two years the success rate is 100% and the dropout rate is less than 9%.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has a limited text books collection in its library for the benefit of the students apart from the general library. It has good computer facilities with internet access. The Wi-Fi enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the departments. The department has also got a Visual Anthropology Unit. The anthropometric equipments and other consumables are used by the students for their practicals in the paper on Physical Anthropology.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The important addition that has been given as a stimulus to the learning resources is the e-journals access through library portal. A new multimedia projector and a handicam has been purchased in addition to the existing camera and other equipments which are used both to enhance the quality of learning and fieldwork. The computer centre also arranges

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for some of the important softwares for scholars and faculty the department.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method In addition to the lecture method the faculty constantly use power point, teaching aids, models, quiz, seminar, fieldwork, group discussion etc., as modern teaching methods.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The department works under has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty as faculty advisor who advises the students regarding the matters of choosing soft courses etc., Besides the Dean of students welfare who arranges for any academic and personal counseling. As most of the students in the department come from poor background the faculty take personal care of them as and when it is required.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years During the past five years two of our faculty attended Orientation and Refreshes course programmes organized by the Academic Staff Colleges of our university and Andhra University which have helped them in their career prospects.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are involved in arranging weekly seminars, examinations, co-organizing conferences, helping visiting scholars and in a few office-related works in addition to their teaching and research. They also actively participate in attending conferences and presenting papers in the National and International seminars.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Our department has collaborated with the departments of History, Sociology, Social Work, Tamil, Adult and Continuing Education, General library of Pondicherry University in carrying out interdisciplinary research projects and seminars and out reach programmes. Jointly with a Fulbright Scholar from USA the department has organised a seminar on Ethnomusicology which was sponsored by USEFI.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Research is the most significant activity in the department especially in the thrust areas such as Medical Anthropology, Ecological Anthropology, Ethnopoetics, Bio-social anthropology and Development Anthropology.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years A research scheme on Traditional Water Resources Management which is funded (Rs.one lakh only) in the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Puducherry is currently going in the department for which Prof. A. Chellaperumal is the Principal Investigator. First phase of another research project on Rock Arts has been completed last year which was funded by the IGNCA, New Delhi. Prof. T.S Naidu has completed five projects from different agencies namely UGC, ICMR, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, MHRD ( Govt. of India), Government of Pondicherry with a total cost of about Rs. 17 lakhs during the last five years..

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No research programme other than Ph.D is offered.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis Research articles numbering 25 have been published by the faculty both in the national and international peer reviewed journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The faculty of the department is often consulted by the Govt. of Puducherry in the matters of identity, welfare etc., of the weaker sections of society such as SC, ST etc.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The pattern of continuous students assessment adopted in the department for all the papers is that of the internal assessment which constitute test seminars, assignments carrying a total of 40 marks.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Our past students have got placements in Universities and research Institutes like Anthropological Survey of India, KIRTADS etc. in India and abroad in addition to working in NGOs. We have also created a placement cell to guide students which is looked after by two faculty.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. Three of our faculty got Best teacher award, best book award and a faculty enrichment (International) award respectively. One of our students got Wenner- Gren Foundation fellowship to do his Ph. D in Dalhousie University, Canada. Another student has been selected by a German Professor under DAAD scheme which would facilitate her to visit Germany further Ph.D programme. The department has signed MOUs with German, French, and Canadian Universities which are effectively functioning and this has facilitated exchange of visits of two Visiting Professors from Germany and Canada respectively and one Professor from this department to Canada.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The department is preparing to apply for SAP.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department has plans to establish a Museum of South Asian Cultures and a modern biological anthropology lab.

22. Any other highlights This department has been constantly approached both by the state and Union governments in the matters related to the welfare of the weaker sections of the society such as SCs and STs.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has 7 faculty; 3 Professors, 2 Associate Professors and 2 Assistant Professors. All the faculty are Ph.D. holders. There is only one female faculty in the department. The department has sufficient faculty members with adequate work load. Faculty are competent to take all the core courses offered by this department. The specialization of the department are; State Formation and Social Transformations in Peninsular India. Reconstruction of the Ancient History of South India : Archaeological, Historical, Epigraphical and Numismatic Sources, Religious Institutions and Political Legitimization in South India, Chola State and the Agrarian order: Peasantry, landed groups and water rights, Vijayanagara State, Society, Art & Architecture, South India and Indian Ocean as maritime Region, The Social transformation in Colonial South India, Growth of Capitalism, Labour and Subalterns, Women in Modern India, State and Society in Post

Independence South India

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student enrollment in M.A. M.Phil and PhD programmes come from a cross section of country. The major component of students in Post graduate course come from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and the North Eastern Regions of India. This year interestingly the major share in M.Phil intake is from Kashmir, which testifies to the national character of the Department of History. The student strength of the department is 80 (M.A 63, M.Phil 9 and Ph.D 8). Among the students there are 51 Male and 29 Female.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The Curriculum was revised twice (2005 and 2007) and a large number of new papers were added. As and when required the Programme committee meetings, at the departmental level as well as at school level, were also utilized to make necessary changes in the Course structure. The department has introduced two new Courses: World History and Early history of South East Asia. The expert faculty as member of the Board have richly contributed to take changes.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The department has 100% Success Rate and a Zero Dropout Rate in the M.A and M.Phil Programmes.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has all the modern teaching aids such as LCD projector, Over Head Projector computers within Broadband connectivity. Equipment such as Digital Vernier calipers, Digital balance, Dumpy Level, GPS, Handicams, digital still cameras, Desktop scanners and printers and other survey and excavation equipments for archaeological, archival and historical data collection, analysis and report writing. The well equipped computer laboratory at the School level is also an additional infrastructural facility available for the students of the department.

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All the above learning resources were developed during the 11th Five year Plan period.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Besides the chalk and talk method , the teaching is done thorough Power Point presentations . Group discussions and individual seminars by the students to develop the communicative skills in them. The department also has the programme of Educational Tour in which all the Post graduate and Research students are taken to the historical and heritage places. The research students are imparted with training on Site documentation in Porunthal and Pattinam Excavations.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Every Year one of the faculty members shoulders the responsibility of being the Faculty advisor to students. He/she will attend to the personal and academic issues and needs of the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years During the last five years, the department in association with the UGC Academic Staff College has conducted four Refresher Courses (each of a four week duration) in History and Cultural Studies in which the University teachers from across the country besides the college teachers under the jurisdiction of Pondicherry University have participated. One new faculty of the department has participated in the just concluded Orientation Programme conducted by the Academic Staff college.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The entire faculty have acted as members of Boards of Study, academic councils and selection committees of several universities and other academic bodies. They are regularly attending National and International conferences and are being invited as visiting Fellows across the country. This semester (November-April, 2011) the department of History organized three National Seminars which were funded by the Indian Council of Historical Research.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department in collaboration with such research organizations as Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and Governmental Agencies like Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Central Institute of Indian Languages(CIIL) is carrying out collaborative research Projects in the Documentation of Rock Art of Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu (IGNCA) and excavations of archaeological sites and documentation of all the monuments and other important antiquarian wealth in Tamilnadu. The department has collaborated with the Electronic media Center of the University to produce Documentary films on Heritage Sites.


State Formation and Social Transformations in Peninsular India

Religious Institutions and Political Legitimization in South India

Chola State and the Agrarian order: Peasantry, landed groups and water rights

Vijayanagara State, Society, Art & Architecture

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South India and Indian Ocean as maritime Region

The Social transformation in Colonial South India

Growth of Capitalism, Labour and Subalterns

Women in Modern India(These have been accepted as the UGC SAP research thrust areas)


Completed Projects

1. Historical Atlas of South India 85 lakh Ford

Foundation 2005-08

2. Archaeology of Vaigai River Valley, Tamila nadu

6.5 lakh UGC 2004-07

3. Archaeological Evidences for Ancient Tamil Civilization

5.0 lakh CIIL 2007

4. Excavations at Thandikudi & Porunthan

7.0 lakh CIIL & ASI 2009

5. Votive Terracottas of Andhra Pradesh

2.36 lakh UGC 2005-08

Ongoing Projects

1. Cultural Transformation from Iron Age to Early Historic

6.00 lakh UGC 2009-11

2. National Mission for Monuments and Antiquities

12.4 lakh ASI 2010-12


15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published four Books and 60 research papers during the last five years in reputed National and International Peer Reviewed Journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The faculty is giving lectures as resource persons in the Academic Staff College; involved in producing educational documentaries on the History of Pondicherry and the Fort of Jinji . They are also in the Editorial Board of the University News Letter

17. Method of continuous student assessment Two midterm tests of 15 marks each, one assignment and one seminar for the remaining ten marks should be taken by the students which are part of internal assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The Students of the Department are getting placements in the Teaching departments of the colleges and Universities besides the Governmental agencies like the Archaeological Survey of India and the State department of Archaeology and Museums. The role of the faculty or the department in finding their placements is minimum.

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19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the

past five years. The Head of the department was honoured with the Best teacher Award of the University in 2010.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department of History was awarded under Special Assistance programme of the UGC for its proposal on Social and Cultural Transformation in South India. A Sum of 32.5 lakhs was sanctioned out of which 10.5 lakhs has already been released.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department of History sets before itself the objective of acquiring the status of the Centre for Advanced Studies in South Indian History as next step of SAP of UGC. The Department also has plans to start contemporaneously relevant Centre for the promotion of knowledge and understanding on the contemporary themes in India and the World. Particularly the Department has proposals to start the following Centers:

Establishment of Centers of Global History

Establishment of Center for Contemporary Studies

Establishment of Center for Diaspora Studies

We plan to have a 5 year integrated programme in History


We have students from Sri Lanka who have joined the department to pursue the Ph.D

Study India Programme brings a number of Students from U.S.A to the University and our department participates.

The department cooperated in the production of highly acclaimed documentaries on a)Troy of the East and b) French Frangrance in Puducherry

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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has adequate faculty strength (8) with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects like Foreign Policy of India and other Major Powers, Indian Political System, Political Theory, Theories of International Relations, European Integration, Modern Diplomacy, international Terrorism, Peace Studies and human rights. Each one of the faculty specializes in these core subjects.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The Department offers two-year Post Graduate Programme, M.Phil and Ph.D programmes in Politics and International Studies. Currently, there are 34 students (20 Men and 14 Women) in M.A. 17 (15 Men and 2 Women) in M.Phil and 4 Male Scholars in Ph.D programme. The student profile in the department is heterogeneous and drawn from different parts of India, with adequate representation from, socially and economically backward communities, females and minorities.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed and revised once in three years. Last revision took place in 2009. Twelve hard and twenty eight soft core courses are being offered in the Department. Taking note of the developments in the international Political environment, new soft core courses like Human Rights and International Relations, international Terrorism and China in International Politics have been introduced. As Members of the Board of Studies, Faculty have made substantial changes in the courses.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Success rate continues to remain at almost cent per cent. Dropout rate was significantly minimal.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources There is a full-fledged Computer Centre with 30 systems with net connection at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies level catering to the needs of the students, besides 15 computers with internet connections with the Faculty and Office of the Department. The Wi-Fi- enabled campus has provided access to the e- resources.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Department has procured LCD Projector and Inter-Active Board. The major addition to the learning resources is the access to e-resources through library portal, and installation and use of SPSS software.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Liberal use of Power Point Presentations and Inter-active board.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Student counseling is available at the university level and if needed the faculty members are always available to counsel the students in academic as well as personal problems. A group of students are assigned to each faculty as Faculty Adviser at the department

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level. Faculty participate in all academic activities effectively.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Mr.L.Premashekara, Asst. Professor in the Department, took Sabbatical leave for a year in 2009-10, to complete his Ph.D. research work in JNU, New Delhi.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty Members of the department participated in finalizing the syllabus for Gandhian Studies Programme, IGNOU, New Delhi and have contributed lessons for the Study material for the course on Gandhian Studies. One of our faculty contributes articles regularly in Kannada language on international affairs which are published in periodicals published from Mysore. They also participate in various academic bodies as members.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Department has taken benefit of the MoU signed between Pondicherry University and University of Paris 13 and jointly organized two international colloquia in March 2008 and 2010. The Department received technical assistance under the India-EU Study Centres Programme, which sponsored the visit of 11 European scholars to the department for 28 man-days during the course of 2010-11. Taking benefit of this assistance, the Department organized two International Workshops in October 2010 and March 2011. Besides, Special Lecture Series on European Studies was organized in September-October 2010 and February 2011.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Indian Foreign Policy, European Union Studies, International Economics, Development Studies are the thrust areas of the department.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Research projects details are given below:

Sl. No Faculty Name Title of Project

1. Dr. B. Krishnamurthy European Common Foreign and Security Policy- Implications for India

2. Dr. B. Krishnamurthy Jawaharlal Nehru and the Freedom Movements in India

3. Prof. B. Mohanan Women Law and Public Domain: A Study with Special Reference to Kerala

4. Prof. B. Mohanan Civil Society and Social Capital in South Asia

5. Dr. P. Lazarus Samraj Indian Parliament and Foreign Policy Making : A Case Study on the Attitude of the Indian Parliament Towards China 1952-2010

6. Dr. P. Lazarus Samraj Indian Parliament and India s Nuclear and missile policymaking

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M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The Faculty of our Department have published

Books (authored) - 10

Articles in Intl. Journals - 08

Articles in Natl. Journals - 51

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University One of our faculty members is co-ordinating the special coaching programme of the university for training the SC,ST, OBC and minority students appearing for competitive examinations.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Students are continuously assessed through periodical tests, home assignments, seminar presentations, quiz and class attendance and participation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. A couple of students have already joined the print media. Some of them aspire for Indian Foreign Service.

Majority of our students join international organizations, think tanks, NGOs, top and middle level bureaucracy in State and Central governments.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. A couple of our students have become budding journalists and one of our research scholars has joined as Project Fellow in IDSA, India s top-most think tank in the field of security. Among the Faculty, Dr. D. Sambandan was conferred with the Best Teacher Award while Dr. P. Moorthy became a Member of the National Advisory Committee of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department has applied for SAP.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years To restructure the existing Programmes and to introduce inter-disciplinary P.G. Degree/Diploma Programmes. To bring out periodical Working Papers/Research Notes/Biannual Journal in International Studies. To establish area study centres of European, American, Japanese, Latin American and African Studies. To bring out an International Journal.

22. Any other highlights The department is bringing out the International Journal of South Asian Studies.

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department has adequate faculty interms of 1 Associate Professor, 1 Reader and 4 Assistant Professors of which 2 are women with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects in Social Work with specializations in Community Development, Human Resource Management and Medical Psychiatry.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers Master of Social Work, M.Phil and Ph.D programmes. In these three programme, 106 students are studying, out of whom 73 are male and 33 are female. These students represent. 14 states of the country such as Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The department also offers a P.G. Diploma

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes Emerging fields of social work practices and techniques such as environmental issues, disaster preparedness and management, disability, women and participatory rural appraisal the Department has been included in the syllabus which it is revised. As practioners and Members of Board of Studies, Faculty have richly contributed to changes.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate of the students in the department has been 100 per cent. The dropout rate is 6%.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources A computer centre with uninterrupted internet facilities is available for the students.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The department has purchased about 2000 books and subscribed 20 journals which are stacked in the central library. The Department faculty members have all been provided personal computers with access to internet facilities. A digital camera and a video camera have also been provided to document the outreach and extension activities of the Department. The School of Social Sciences and International Studies is in the process of establishing a library for the Department.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The Department faculty members organize student presentations, (individual and group), role plays, case analysis, use of audio visual aids (such as screening of documentary films followed by discussions) etc., as other teaching practices.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The Department has started a Student Counselling Center for all the students of the University. Apart from this, each faculty attends to academic/personal needs of students placed under their supervision for concurrent fieldwork as faculty advisors

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during the past five years The faculty of the department have attended UGC Sponsored Orientation Courses and Refresher Courses. They have also attended training programmes and workshops to develop skills in writing, SPSS etc.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty members were invited as resource persons/ panelists by colleges, universities and NGOs. They were also members of committees for curriculum development on contemporary issues of social work. The faculties are involved as wardens and are in charge of students counseling centre, fieldwork placements, rural camps, study trips (all annual features). Faculties also actively participate in corporate life of the University such as members of various committees.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has organized HIV/AIDS awareness programme for the students of various colleges in Pondicherry in collaboration with Pondicherry AIDS Control Society. The department organized ten days workshop on Harnessing the strength of voluntary sector and enhancing its delivery capabilities in collaboration with India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Organized seminars /workshops in collaboration with Centre for Women s Studies, Anthropology department. Faculty members of the department also teach in the add on courses of other Departments / Centres such as Women Studies, Sociology etc.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Social Work and the differently abled, gender issues, transgender and the world of work are the thrust areas of research of the department.

13. Details of ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years

Sl. No Title Principal Investigator Agency Amount

1.

Emotional violence against women in the workplace

(A Study of Academicians in select Indian Universities)

Dr. R. Nalini, UGC ` 6,04,800

2. Social work practice in industry (A Study of Select Industrial Organizations in Tata Group)

Dr. R. Nalini, UGC `53,00,000

3. A National Evaluation Study of Indira Awaas Yojana

Dr. A. Shahin Sultana

Planning Commission, Govt. of India

` 29,32,600

Completed 2008-2009:

A Study of Delhi University Women s Association

Centre for Women and Children, funded under the Scheme to strengthen R and D Doctoral Research Programme, University of Delhi, 2009 (Completed) by Dr. A. Shahin Sultana

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2007-2008:

SOS Kinderdorf

Compare the model pilot project in two countries

South Africa

and India

The Indian partner to assess the Quality of Institutional Child Care

Providers, 2007. (Completed) by Dr. A. Shahin Sultana

14. Programmes by research offered by the University None other than the Ph.D. programme

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published 60 articles of which 54 are in refereed national 6 are in conference proceedings.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The Department, in collaboration with Center for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Policy has adopted villages closer to the University. The department has organized a number of outreach programmes and observed international and national days of importance. The department has also organized awareness programmes on social issues for the stakeholders in the community.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal tests, seminars, assignments, quiz competitions, etc., are the methods of continuous assessment which constitute the internal assessment component.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The two batches that have passed out so far have been placed in various sectors. Some of them have got admission in prestigious institutions in India for higher studies.


One of our faculty members presented a paper in 17th International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden on July 11-17, 2010.

The Department had interaction programme with various International and National institutes such as University Of IOWA (USA), Nepal School Of Social Work, Katmandu(Nepal), JSS college, Mysore, Madras School of Social Work, Chennai ,Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu.

One of our Ph.D scholars was invited by the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Riverside, USA as a visiting scholar ( March

April 2011)

The first year MSW students participated in the inter-collegiate All India social workers meet "Samanwaya" organized by the Department of Social Work, B.C.M. College, Kottayam and won the runners up prize.

The faculty have received the following awards and distinctions

Dr. Nalini, Associate, U.G. C. Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (IUC) functioning at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; awarded in June 2008. Duration: one month each for three years.

Dr. Shakin Sultana, ICSSR Award for Paper on Living Dangerously: Migrant Families with Young Children in India

The brunt of the economic upheavals of the 1990 s

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Research Advisory Committee, NIPCCD, Delhi Child Care Services provided by Govt and NGO run homes: A Comparative Study , (2010-2011).

Project Advisory Committee member for a project on Quality Early Childhood

Education

A Handbook for Practitioners , Dept. of Elementary Education, NCERT,

Delhi, (2009

2010).

Member, Committee Against Sexual Harassment, Dept. of Social Work, University of Delhi (2008-2009)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of School Social Work, Chennai from 2005 onwards

Core Committee Member, Sub-Committee for Pre-primary teacher education programme, NCTE for preparing model syllabi in the light of NCTFE 2009

Project Advisory Committee member for a project on Laws related to Child Protection

An Information Booklet , NIPCCD, Delhi, (2009-2010).

Research and Ethics Advisory committee member of a study on Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in India

A Study of the Gaps, Quality and Cost of Care commissioned by Chronic Care Foundation, Delhi (2008-2009).

Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Awarded 1000 USD for participation and oral presentation in 22nd

International Tsunami Symposium 2005 from 27th to 29th June, 2005 organized by National Observatory of Athens, Greece.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department has applied under SAP of the UGC.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department is working on developing the department into a School of Social work by starting new courses such as Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), M.A in NGO Management, M.A. in Disability Studies, and M.A in Disaster Management. A Society has been registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The name of the society- Society for Social Work and Development

on 27th May, 2009. The society will publish a journal titled Journal of Social Work and Development

22. Any other highlights The Department organizes Annual Alumni meet, field work partners meet and brings out placement brochure. From the academic year 2010 onwards organize Ability Nite to

showcase the talents of the Persons with Disabilities and to mainstream them.

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has adequate qualified faculty who specialize in the core areas of Sociology and work with optimum work-load. The faculty strength of the department is 6 of which two are female. The faculty are competent to handle all core courses. The specializations are: Agrarian Change and Research Methodology; Industrial and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Religion and Social Theory; Development Sociology and Sociology of Gender; Social Demography and Sociology of Disaster Management.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The students are drawn from various states of the country belonging to different castes, class, and religious communities. The Department offers a two year Masters, M.Phil and Ph.D programmes in Sociology and also an add-on course titled Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development. The student profile for various courses is as follows:

Programme Male Female Total States

M.A 23 30 53 Orissa, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Puducherry

M.Phil 10 5 15 Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi ,Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, West Bengal

Ph.D 11 11 22 Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Kerala

PGDRD 19 10 29 Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu,Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum is reviewed and revised periodically. The soft-core papers offered previously were Sociology of Social Movements; Social Problems; Social Capital; Sociology of Globalization; Sociology of Disasters etc., However, with the recruitment of two new faculty, new soft-core papers like Sociology of Religion; Perspectives on Indian Sociology were included from 2010-11. The PG Diploma course started in the year 2009-10. The faculty with rich expertise have contributed a great deal to the changed mode.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is 100% and employability has improved in the recent years. The dropout rate is low.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has access to a full-fledged computer lab with (WAN & LAN). The Wi-Fi-enabled campus provides access to the library e-resources from the Department. In addition, the research scholars are provided with computers and internet connectivity.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The teaching and learning resources are considerably upgraded by accessing e-books, e-journals, and e-data base as well as subject specific journals subscribed by the university library. Further, the students are trained in the use of SPSS package for data analysis. The

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students are also encouraged to discuss and have access to materials through e-groups. In addition, the faculty accompanies the students to the field to facilitate them to gain hands-on experience in doing social research. Renowned sociologists from India and abroad are regularly invited to deliver lectures to enrich and update the knowledge of the students/faculty on current research and developments.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method a. Faculty deliver class room lectures using Power Point Presentation; screening of

films and documentaries pertaining to the subject. b. Students are encouraged to form e-groups to help share e-materials, and exchange

ideas. E-mail submission of assignments is also accepted. c. Field based teaching

walk through surveys, village mapping, group interviews - has been incorporated to bridge the gap between classroom teaching/learning and empirical realities.

d. Innovative internal evaluation techniques viz., team project, quiz, group discussion are being followed in order to improve their cognitive skills.

g. The students are required to access web resources, identify and review articles relevant to the topics taught.

h. Remedial coaching classes are conducted to enable slow learners, students from vernacular and rural backgrounds to catch up with the mainstream academic schedule.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Each batch of students is assigned a faculty advisor in every semester. The concerned faculty takes up the routine academic/personal counseling of those students. Besides, every faculty member provides academic counseling on papers taught by them. Moreover, the department as a whole is persistently engaged in shaping the personality of the students and building up their morale. Considering the unique requirements of the subject and its recent developments, the department also offers career guidance to the students in accordance with their individual acumen and interest. The department also conducts UGC-NET coaching classes on a regular basis after class hours with voluntary participation of the entire faculty. Research scholars are given counseling and guidance to participate and present papers in seminars, workshops, conferences and publish them in books and journals. There is full involvement of teachers in all academic activities of the department.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Four faculty members of the department have attended UGC sponsored orientation and refresher courses. A faculty member has availed ICSSR fellowship to pursue post doctoral research during the period 2008 to 2010 in the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research A faculty member of the department is part of the selection committee constituted for the award of Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship in Sociology, Anthropology, Education and Social Work. Three of our faulty are on the Editorial Boards of several national and international journals, and have served as Referees too. They are also part of advisory boards in SAP departments and Board of studies of various universities and autonomous colleges. One faculty is represented in the Managing Committee of the Indian

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Two of our faculty have served as a members of Inspection Committees for granting affiliation to colleges under Pondicherry University. They are also nominated to the Governing Bodies and Selection Committees of various colleges of the university. A faculty has served as warden for the ladies hostel of the university for a period of 2 years. In addition, every faculty is involved in the organization of national and international seminars; weekly seminars; and guest lecture programmes. Our faculty members are represented in Executive Council, Academic Council, Planning Board, and the Court of our university.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years In collaboration with the French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry, the department has been organizing lecture series from the academic year 2008-09.

In collaboration with the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, the Department offered UGC sponsored innovative course on M.Sc. Sustainable Development from 2005-06 to 2008-09.

In collaboration with the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, the department organized a National Seminar on Youth Empowerment and Employability Trends: Issues and Future Prospects , in March 2009.

In addition, the department has organized an International Seminar on Globalization and its Impact on Society in collaboration with the Departments of Social Work and Anthropology in March 2008.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The department focuses upon the following thrust areas:

Social Mobility and Transformation

Agrarian Structure and Change

Religion and Religious Communities

Participatory Irrigation Management

Natural Resources and Rural Governance

Sociology of Disaster Management

Gender and Development


Name of the Project Principal

Investigator Funding Agency Total Grant

Project A-HIVAIDS Prevention control among the college students

Dr. G. Ramathirtham

USAID &

APAC-VHS, Chennai. 10,45,440

Participatory Irrigation Management in Cumbum Valley: A Sociological Appraisal


University Grants Commission (UGC)

1,00,000

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Gender participation in Water user

Association of Sathanur Irrigation System: An Appraisal of Exclusion Vs

Empowerment of Women-Farmers in the Management of Irrigation System


Indian Council of Social Science

Research (ICSSR New Delhi)

3,00,000

14. Programmes by research offered by the University PhD Programme

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 4 papers in international journals and 26 papers in national journals with an impact factor of 0.8.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The students of the department, particularly the research scholars participated in AIDS awareness programme, Child Right awareness and motivated women to form Self-Help Groups in Puducherry. Many of our M.Phil and PhD students have produced dissertations on issues of public concern having policy implications and they have been communicated to the concerned agencies. Some of the faculty of the department participated in Gender Sensitization Programmes

in Puducherry and other States.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Continuous assessment of the academic performance of students is made through Periodic tests, Class room seminars (using PPT), film reviews, group discussions, take home assignments and end-semester examinations.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department for the student placement. Our students are serving as faculty in various reputed institutions such as IIT Delhi, Vellore Institute of Technology etc., Two women students of our department have joined Central Civil Service. Many students are employed in Government departments and non-governmental organizations.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The department has gained national visibility in terms of significant increase in the students enrolment who are drawn from different regions of India, research publications and high teaching standards. The students of the department are placed as faculty members in prestigious institutes like IIT, Delhi. Some of students have qualified UPSC Civil Service examination. A significant number of our students are consistently qualifying UGC JRF-NET examination. In recognition of their contribution Faculty of the department have received awards as given below:


Dr. B.B. Mohanthy

Most Able Star for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Social Research by TNHFCT and Need Trust, 2008.

Best Research Paper Award in UGC National Seminar by

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Department of Sociology, Nagercoil, 29-08-2008

Quaid-E-Milleth Academic Achievement Award by Imaan Tamil Izhakiya Peravai, Chennai, 2007

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Applied for UGC-SAP


Keeping in view the vision of the department to develop into a national centre offering academic programmes and undertaking research work of international acclaim the following plan of action is proposed for the next five years.

A five year integrated course in Sociology is planned to be launched in order to strengthen the sociological knowledge base of the students right from the undergraduate level and improve their performance at the Post-graduate level.

The all India Sociological Conference of the year 2013 is proposed to be hosted as part of the bi-decennial celebrations of the department. Considering the need for a comprehensive analysis of society and culture in South India, the faculty of the department as a whole proposes to publish a volume which may serve as a constant source of reference to researchers and students.

Mega-project with social relevance and policy implications diversified into distinct specializations of the department s faculty shall be pursued.

22. Any other highlights The department is launching a Journal titled Sociological Trends the first issue of which is scheduled to be released in May 2011. The department conducts UGC-NET Coaching Classes as a result of which the number of JRF qualified candidates has gone up. Weekly seminars are organized by inviting faculty from other departments.

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CENTRE FOR WOMEN S STUDIES

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There is one full time faculty (Associate Professor) who is fully qualified to teach the courses offered at the Centre. One more post of faculty is sanctioned. At present one guest faculty has been appointed.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers only M.Phil and Ph.D programmes with a student strength of only 9 (3 in M.Phil and 6 in Ph.D). The student profile of the Centre is quite hetereogeneous. There are both men and women students studying and doing research at the Centre for Women s Studies. Student representation is from a variety of states Pondicherry, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra, Orissa, Jharkand, etc. The department has also admitted foreign students for optional papers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, France and Norway. The students strength Male and female students ratio is 5:4.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculam is revised as per need. A new PG Diploma course in Women s studies was introduced in 2009 and syllabus prepared afresh for the same. New optional papers such as Introduction to Women s Studies and Introduction to feminism and Feminist theories have been introduced. As there was a demand for courses in Women s Studies from the students of the MSc integrated courses, the new paper was introduced in 2010 with suitable changes in question paper pattern to suit the language abilities of the science students.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate of students passing out from the Centre for Women s Studies is high and the dropout rate is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The centre purchases books and periodicals for at least 1 lakh every year which is stored in the Central library. Computers with internet facilities are available for faculty, staff and researchers.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Centre collects films, manuals, periodicals, etc from wherever possible in order to enhance classroom procedures.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Women s Studies uses participatory methods in the classroom. Apart from lectures, power point presentations, and seminars, films and audiovisual aids are used in the classroom to communicate the Women s Studies perspectives more effectively. Interactive sessions requiring equal participation from students and teachers are used effectively at the Centre for all the courses offered.

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Personal counselling is conducted regularly at the Centre as per requirement. Additional counseling is conducted according to student needs. Faculty s participated in academic activities is full.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years The faculty of this department has participated in workshops for capacity building of women leaders in Higher Education.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The Centre Head has given lectures for police personnel, prison officers, legislators, teachers, university faculty, students, etc, She has participated as panelist in the National Consultation conducted National Women s Commission in collaboration with the Puducherry Women s Commission on reducing the age of marriage, She is a Member BOS in almost all Universities offering women s studies courses in Tamilnadu and Kerala. Member UGC s curriculam development committee in Women s Studies and have produced a short film Twilight @ Home on Domestic Violence for awareness generation on the problem.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has collaborative programmes, seminars with NTTTR, Chennai, RGNIYD, Sriperumbadur, etc, University of Oslo, Norway, local NGOs, etc. on various issues relating to gender and women. Also have collaborated within the university with various departments such as Dept of English, Tamil, Management, Student Affairs, Social Work, Performing Arts, Media Studies, etc.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Creation of critical awareness and sensitivity towards women s issues and creating a body of knowledge relating to women, gender and issues relating to women are the thrust areas of research.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Women in Pondicherry: Problems and Prospects Dr Usha V.T

14. Programmes by research offered by the University MPhil, PhD.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The publication of the faculty in the department is one article in journals 5 edited volumes written 2 books one article during last five years.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The centre has collaborated within the university with various departments such as Dept of English, Tamil, Management, Student Affairs, Social Work, Performing Arts, Media Studies, etc. in the organization of awareness raising programmes to draw attention to women s issues.

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Internal assessment through seminar presentations, tests, assignments and discussions for 40 marks constitute the continuous evaluation.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The faculty assist students to get placement. Students completing courses successfully from the Centre have been employed as Faculty, research staff or work with NGOs. Others have gone for further research.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. The Centre has been upgraded by the UGC to the 2nd phase on account of the research output as well as the extension activities. Dr. V.T. Usha backed University of Cambridge Fellowship.


21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Starting new MA course in Women s Studies and offering more research projects, particularly with regard to research about Women and issues relating to women in Pondicherry. A large number of the dissertations produced at the Centre relate to local issues that have universal relevance.

22. Any other highlights The Centre Head coordinated a Refresher course in Women s Studies in collaboration with the Academic Staff college of the University. The Centre also conducted a gender sensitization programme for Faculty which resulted in courses being offered at many local colleges and Universities relating to Women s Studies.

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UNESCO MADANJEET SINGH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH ASIA

REGIONAL COOPERATION

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are four faculty in the centre which is adequate with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects. The faculty has specialization in fields such us South Asia in World Affairs, Foreign Policies of South Asian States, Society and Culture in South Asia, etc. Out of total 5 faculty members, all are male and 4 have got Ph.D degree.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The student profile in the Institute is quite heterogeneous. The Institute offers M.A and PhD programmes in South Asian Studies. PhD in Southern Asia Studies is also offered under the Southern Asia Studies Programme of the UGC.

M.A., Programme

M F Representing 5 states and 7 SAARC Countries 18 15

PhD. Programme 3 Nil From 3 states of India

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum was last revised and updated in November 2009.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years There is 100 percent success rate and dropout is negligible.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Institute has a full-fledged computer lab with internet facility. The Wi-Fi- enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources. The School and centres library supplement the main library and e-resources access. The centre has all the required teaching tools such as LCD projector, overhead projector, well-equipped auditorium, classrooms and readings rooms, etc.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major addition is the e-resources access through library portal: and the upgrading of copywriting facility.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Power Point presentation and distribution of teaching material through email are the modern teaching methods used.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty. Besides, the Dean of Students Welfare also organize personal counseling. The Institute Director is always available to students for counseling. Teachers fully participate in academic activities.

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during the past five years The junior teachers of the department have attended Orientation (04)/ Refresher (02) courses at Pondicherry and other universities.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty members are involved as Wardens and also placed in-charge of end semester examinations. The centre organized three international and two national seminars within a short span of time (Feb 2010-March 2011).

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The Institute is collaborating with several institutions in diverse ways. These include: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; School of Advanced

International Studies; Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC; Stemson Centre, Washington, DC; Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Centre for Contemporary Studies , Kathmandu; Department of Political Science, University of Peradenya, Sri Lanka; Department of International Studies, Dhaka; all chapters of South Asia Foundation located in SAARC capitals; Centre for South Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi; Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Pennsylvania Institute of Advanced Studies of India, New Delhi; Rajendra Prasad Academy, New Delhi; Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi; Department of Political Science, University of Delhi; Academic Staff College, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; Centre of International Studies, VPM, Mumbai; Kanpur University,Kanpur; Centre for Globalization and Development Studies, University of Allahabad; Malviya Centre for Peace Research, Centre for Nepalese Studies and Department of Political Science, BHU, Varanasi; Department of Political Science, BRA, Bihar University, Muzaffarpur; Central University of Bihar, Patna; Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkatta; Moulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata; Global India Foundation, Kolkata;Centre for South Asian Studies, Madras University; Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai; Department of Political Science, University of Mysore; Department of Political Science, Bangalore University; Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, Manipal (Karnataka); School of International Relations, M G University, Kottayam (Kerala); Centre for Nehru Studies, University of Kerala, Kerala; and so on.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust area of the research in the department are; Foreign Policy of South Asian Countries, South Asian Regional Cooperation, Peace and Security in South Asia, South Asia in World Affairs, Society, Cultural, History and Economy of South Asia, Contemporary challenges in South Asia including poverty eradication, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, refugees, environmental degradation, etc.

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years Two Major Research Projects of the UGC are currently in progress: 1. Coalition Governments and India s Foreign Policy , Nalini Kant Jha, Rs.4,52,000/-. 2. Human Security Dimension of South Asia by Dr. A. Subramaniyam Raju. 2. Parliament in the Making of India s Foreign policy: A Case of India s US Policy

since the 1990s , D. Purushothaman, Rs.3,84,500/-.


15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 23 research articles in journals of national and international repute during the last five years. Two of the faculty members have published 7 books.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The centre is actively promoting values of peace, cooperation and secularism through cultural exchange programmes and outreach activities.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal tests, book reviews, assignments and term papers are various methods of continuous assessment.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Though the Institute is very new and only one batch has completed courses till March 2011, 4 students (3 females and 1 male) out of six have got placements in Nepal, Bhutan and India.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The Institute is proud of bringing students from various SAARC countries, publishing papers in volumes published by Oxford University Press, Sage, Pearsan, etc., and journals of national and international repute.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. As the centre is new it is yet to participate.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department proposes to conduct following new programmes/activities in addition to continuing with existing activities. 1. Introducing fellowships for Ph.D from SAARC Countries. 2. Introducing internship / research positions for young students/ scholars from India

and abroad. 3. Inviting scholars from India and SAARC countries for offering new courses or

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4. Organising at least one cultural meet in one year involving of artists from different

SAARC countries. 5. Inviting policy makers of SAARC countries for policy dialogue. 6. Publishing of monographs/books and occasional lecture series. 7. Developing museum of arts and arte facts. 8. Organising workshops for business man and industrialists and officials to ponder

over ways for promoting intra regional trade and cultural exchanges. 9. Conducting study tour in India and SAARC countries. 10. Recruiting new faculty //Professional Assistant /Documentation Officer/

Receptionist, etc. 11. Establishing an Institute canteen, a separate Guest House/ procuring an Institute

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CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND INCLUSIVE

POLICY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 4 faculty in the department in the cadre of 1 Professor and 3 Assistant Professors. There is adequacy of the faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects of Social Exclusion: Theories and concepts and Research Methodology. The Faculty specializes in Anthropology, Economics and Social Work.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The centre which offers M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, was established recently, in 2009. It has a student strength of 12 (Male

8, Female

14) Scholars in M.Phil. The students hail from 7 states of Bengal, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Kashmir. Three scholars (Male 2 and 1 Female) have registered for Ph.D programme and they are from Puducherry and Tamil nadu.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum was prepared and introduced in the academic year 2009-10. The Faculty have collaborated in drafting the syllabus for a PG Diploma in Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy and six new soft cores that will be introduced in the academic year 2011-12

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The students in both academic years (2009-10 and 2010-11) have shown 100% success rate in the course work.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has audio-visual equipment that is used for classroom teaching. The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Centre.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major additions have been the e-resources access through library portal and the audio-visual equipment used in classroom teaching.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method They include: a. Seminar using powerpoint presentation b. Guest lectures by subject experts both academic and social activists c. Screening of documentaries and group discussions

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The faculty are actively involved in students counseling. Students who have difficulties in language are given tutorial where the concepts are discussed in vernacular. These tutorials also focus on building confidence in students and setting up peer-learning groups of students with mixed capacities. In addition, personal counseling of students is

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periodically undertaken.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Three out of the four faculty are Ph.D holders. One faculty is about to avail FIP to complete his Ph.D. One faculty has carried out Postdoctoral Research through an International Fellowship.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Faculty have been active in both presenting papers and participating in seminars/conferences/workshops and organizing them at the Centre. The Centre has since its inception (2009) organized two International conferences, six National conferences, five special lecture and two regional workshops.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Nil.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Theorizing and conceptualizing social exclusion and framing inclusive policies for the marginalized groups are the thrust areas of the department.


S.No Project Title Funding agency and fund 1. Documentation of data on PTGs of

Orissa University Grants Commission, New Delhi; 9.8 lakhs.

2. Ethnographic Study of Mc Mack: An aboriginal study of Canada

Canadian Government, US $ 4000.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University M.Phil and Ph.D in Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The total number of publications by faculty in this department are 18 during last five years in various national and international journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University One of the main objectives of the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy has been to look beyond teaching and research and include within its activities, action and policy research. The objective of Action and Policy research gives this centre its unique identity. Giving priority to this factor the centre has adopted five villages each representing one of the five selected marginalized groups, viz., Scheduled caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Caste, Religious minority and Nomadic community. Centre has also been regularly organizing senzitisation programmes for the excluded groups. Since inception i.e., within two years the centre has organized 6 Sensitization Workshops, 4 Community Awarness Programmes and 1 Medical Camp.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The Evaluation process provides for continuous assessment and monitoring of students.

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This is done by conducting in one semester two internal tests.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The Centre being only two years old (2009) and first batch is yet to pass out.



21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Teaching The future vision of the centre is to emerge as a research centre to provide necessary inputs to policy makers to evolve pragmatic and result oriented programmes to ameliorate the lot of the marginalized sections of the society. With this broad perspective, the plan of action of the centre is oriented towards.

Updating the existing syllabus.

Introducing six soft core papers for postgraduate students.

Introducing Post Graduate Diploma in Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy

Three faculty have submitted their Major Research Project proposals to the UGC an out lay of Rs.31.65 lakh.

Three national seminars- two with external funding and one with internal funding

One regional workshop

Four special lectures/panel discussions

Three symposiums Extension Activities

In addition to the village adoption, the centre proposes to organize extension activities on regular basis to sensitize and popularize welfare schemes and programmes especially designed for the marginalized communities by Central and State governments.


Faculty Name Significance of Research/Award

Prof. T. Subramanyam Naidu

Sastri Indo

Canadian Award for Faculty Enrichment

Anthropology Fellowship for carrying out Postdoctoral Research in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, U.K.

Identified and supported the claim for Schedule Tribe status for certain communities in Puducherry.

Dr. Thanuja Mummuti

Man-Nature relationship in the 4th

Inter-Congress of the Indian National Academy and Confederation of Anthropologists orgainsed by the University of Hyderabad, India.

Mr. A. Chidambaram

Lobbying with Tamil Nadu government for 3% reservation for the Differently-abled in government service.

Documented Skilled and semi-skilled visually challenged persons selling and begging in trains.

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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department has adequate faculty members 7 with required expertise to teach different courses offered. All the faculty positions are filled which includes one Professor, three Readers and three Assistant Professors. Out of the total faculty members, four are female and three are male. Six faculty members possess Ph.D degree and one possesses M.Phil degree and all are competent. The faculty have specialized in wide range of areas related to education which includes Teacher Education, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Economics of Education, Learning Strategies, Educational Administration, ICT in Education, Educational Technology, Environmental Education, Special Education & Language Education.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers M.Ed and Ph.D programmes in which 57 students are enrolled (33 Men and 24 Women). The students in the Department represent a cross section of India. Students for M.Ed. come from Seven States and Ph.D. from Four States as well as from Overseas. Generally, about 80% of the students come from socially and economically disadvantaged groups. The Department offers Diploma in Pre-School Education which is specially designed for female students.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The present syllabus for M.Ed. course is being offered since three years. The Department started the course with limited choices as electives and specialization. However presently with the full strength of faculty, the Department offers two electives in each semester, which attracts students from other departments also. The M.Ed. syllabus is due for review by the newly constituted Board of Studies and School Board. The Department has prepared a syllabus for the Post-graduate Diploma in Teaching Skills which is an add-on course as well as for PhD course.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The Department maintains 100% success rate of students since the inception, with a 2.5% dropout rate in 2009-10 and 2010-11.The dropout was due to placement of certain students in State government Departments.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 10 systems (WAN & LAN), in addition to each faculty member possessing a Personal Computer. The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Department. More than 2600 titles and over 4000 books on education, nearly 6000 e-journals with access to full text, Education Research Complete (Full text) in the main library are available for use by the faculty and students of the Department. The Department has a fully equipped Psychology laboratory and an Educational technology laboratory. In addition, the Department has a good collection of educational CD s. Well equipped class rooms with DLP projector, Home theatre, Visualiser and Interactive white board which are used both by students and faculty.

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The major additions in learning resources that have been provided to the Department since last three years, as fillip to the existing ones are in the form of access to e-resources through library portal, additional books of over 1000 each year, subscription for International journals exclusively for education, procurement of instruments like LCD projectors, Visualiser, DLP projector and user license of software like SPSS package (19.0 version).

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Faculties in the Department use a variety of teaching methods. Participatory methods are practiced as much as possible. Major methods practiced other than Lecture cum Discussion, include Web based teaching, Discussion, Debates, Student seminars, Dialogue sessions, Portfolio writing, Internship, Library/Internet resources based assignment & Field work.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Six to Seven students are assigned to each faculty member who serves as a faculty advisor cum counselor at the time of admission itself. These students regularly meet the faculty and discuss and seek help on any academic and personal matters from the faculty advisor. Besides, the office of the Dean of Students Welfare also arranges for personal and group counselling.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Teachers have attended faculty development programmes like UGC orientation programmes, refresher courses, and short term programmes. One of the faculty members has taken up post doctoral research work.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Teachers have participated and presented papers in National and International seminars and conferences. They have been invited to deliver key note addresses and to chair sessions in National seminars and conferences. They have served as resource persons in UGC orientation programmes and refresher courses. They have been invited to give special lectures in other Universities and colleges as well as other departments on the campus. They have been serving as members in university level and national level academic bodies.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Organised orientation programme on RTI Act, 2009 in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Government of Puducherry for 500 in-service teachers, DEOs, Teacher educators, Teacher trainees, in the year 2009. One of the faculty member has collaborated with NCERT, New Delhi in its National Project assigned to it by the MHRD, as State level co-ordinator for Tamil Nadu state.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The faculty members have been working in areas like Elementary School Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Teacher Education, Cognitive Psychology, ICT in Teacher Education, Mathematics Education and Language Education.

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years Since last five years teachers have worked/ been working on research projects funded by UGC, NCERT, MHRD (SSA), ICSSR and DST.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The Department is offering Ph.D. programme which is exclusively a programme of research. All the faculty members except one are recognised guides and involved in guiding the students for Ph.D. programme.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis Faculty members of the department have 81 publications in journals both National and International, 8 in conference proceedings, and 13 in abstracts form. They have in all published 19 books.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The Department has outreach programme promoting and Popularising Preprimary Education in Rural Areas (PPERA), a project of the University. Under this project the University has established its own Preprimary School meant to serve the children of University employees. This school is monitored by the School of Education. The Department has introduced Diploma course in Preschool Education for +2 passed talented women candidates. This course is meant to give teacher training and other entrepreneurship skills to start their own Pre-primary schools.

17. Method of continuous student assessment All the courses offered in the Department have internal assessment which involves continuous assessment. Generally, Teacher discusses the performance with each student as well as in the class as a whole so that the students can assess themselves as well as know how best they could have performed. One of the faculty members is trying out Portfolio writing for assessment wherein there is self-assessment, teacher assessment & peer assessment for each presentation of seminar or assignment made by the students. One of the faculty members is trying out Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT) for assessment of students performance in the classroom.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Since three years of the existence of the Department, 86 students have passed out of the M.Ed. course. Nine of them have qualified for UGC-JRF and joined the department for PG, Seven of them for UGC-NET. Fifteen students have been selected for Govt. service as lecturers in DIETS and as Post graduate and Under graduate teachers. All the remaining alumni of the Department including those who passed UGC-NET have become Assistant Professors in B.Ed. colleges. The faculty member positive guidance and motivation for the placement of students.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. Faculty members have represented Research, Academic and Selection committees at national & state levels. They have also served in NAAC peer team as well as NCTE inspection committee. They have also got best teacher awards. One of the faculty

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members has been nominated by the NCTE, New Delhi, as a member of the standing committee to review norms and standards of NCTE for teacher education Institutions in the country. (The same member had served earlier as Government of India nominee for National executive committee of the NCTE) One of the faculty members has gone as visiting Fellow in SAP Department in other University. Students have represented in state and national level sports & obtained awards. The Department has organised two National seminars within three years of its existence. Every year M.Ed. and Ph.D students are given orientation cum training on the use of SPSS which has enabled them to use the package independently for their research/dissertation work.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The School has applied for SAP assistance.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The School of Education has a vision to expand in terms of offering courses at different levels of teacher education including integrated programmes of teacher education, interdisciplinary courses related to education. The School wants to provide a hub for educational research and evolve itself as centre for Educational Research in some thrust areas like Teacher education, Higher education, School education and use of ICT for education. The School intends to develop modular materials for teacher education at different levels. It wants to provide leadership to all the affiliated B.Ed. Colleges by networking with them and promote ICT enabled teacher education through them.

22. Any other highlights Every year special lectures by senior faculty members from other universities are organised for the benefit of M.Ed. students to enrich the curricular input as well as to give the necessary input to face the UGC-NET/JRF examinations.

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DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department has 6 faculty members having strong interdisciplinary background educated from well-known and top universities both in India and abroad. Four of them hold Ph.D. degree from reputed universities including one from Loughborough University, England. Five out of six faculty members have work experience as information professionals in various organizations like libraries, universities, and national research organisations. Four out of six faculty have Ph.D degree. The faculty members have good experience and expertise to teach all the core subjects offered and taking optimum workload which includes teaching, conducting research and supervising masters and Ph.D. students.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The students profile of the Department is quite heterogeneous. The Department offers two-year integrated masters programme (MLIS), one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Library Automation & Networking (PGDLAN) and Ph.D. programme in Library & Information Science. The student strength of the department is 57 in these 3 courses; 38 are Male and 19 are Female. The department has both national and international students. Indian students are from various states including Pondicherry(33), Tamilnadu(6), Anadaman(1), Assam(6), Andhra Pradesh(7), Kerala(5), Uttar Pradesh(2), Manipur(1), Punjab(1), West Bengal (1) and Bihar(1). One international student from UAE also joined Ph.D. programme in the department.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The Department has a policy to continually appraise and revise the curriculum to ensure its relevance and to meet market needs of the manpower. The curriculum is being reviewed and revised every three years. The faculty actively participate in the process of revision of syllabus as Members of Board of Studies.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Of the total students appeared in the final exams, there is cent percent success from the inception of this department. However, the dropout rate is of 9.8 percent in MLIS and 15.6 percent in PGDLAN programmes.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The students are provided access to the central library e-resources from the Departments

Computer Lab. Department s teaching is supplemented greatly by the central library s e-resources. It has two well equipped classrooms and computer lab with 20 PCs, LCD projector, screen & PA system. There is a departmental library with about 300 books and more than a dozen professional journals with 10 years back issues by the department for consultation by faculties and students.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The central library is getting several databases such as EBSCO, SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index, etc. covering more than 3000 e-journals and e-books in Library &

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Information Science which are of great help to the students particularly research scholars. Several software are used for teaching such as WINISIS, LIBSIS, Koha, Soul, Greenstone, Dspace, Eprints, Photoshop, SounForge, etc. to get sufficient hands-on experience to students in various courses.In addition to printed sources, the students are given adequate training to use the e-resources that are freely available on the Internet and also subscribed resources by the university library. In addition to this, several study tours both local and national level are organized to study different types of libraries and their functioning.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The department is using computers, Internet, LCD projector, multimedia, etc. in all courses for teaching wherever possible so that delivery of instruction is better than black-board teaching. Weekly tutorials and seminars are conducted and group discussions are organized occasionally. In addition to this, sufficient hands-on training is provided on different types of Integrated Library Management Systems.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students In the department each faculty member is assigned three to six students and they meet on weekly basis to know and sort-out their day-to-day problems and also give required academic and personal counseling. Besides that, the Dean of Students Welfare also organizes counseling sessions in regular intervals throughout the year for helping the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Two faculty members are presently carrying out Ph.D. All the faculties participated in national and international conferences, seminars and workshops for which university provided financial support. Three fourths of the faculties also attended training programmes organized by the Pondicherry University and also other institutions to upgrade their skills.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are given fair chance to learn administration related works. Now the department is concentrating on alumni meetings, seminars, workshops, etc. The teachers presented 12 papers in various national and international conferences and seminars. The faculty also acted as resource persons at various seminars, workshops, training programmes within and outside the university.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department in collaboration with Central Library organized a national seminar on Ananda Ranga Pillai Tercentenary year in Aug 2008, two days workshop on Koha during 10-11 July 2009 and also associated with the several professional activities including CALIBER 2009, an international conference in the year 2009.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The Department identified the following thrust areas of research and formed four groups. They are: Bibliometrics, Digital Libraries, Cultural & Heritage Informatics, ICT Applications in Libraries.

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years Dr.C.K.Ramaiah completed two projects during this period and one more project is submitted to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, UT of Puducherry in the month of March 2011.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The department offers Ph.D. programme to pursue research in the field of Library & Information Science.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During the last three years, in total the faculty members published 46 papers in peer reviewed journals, three books, 14 book chapters.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University One of the faculty members provided consultancy for setting-up of FOSAPAH Library, Hyderabad in 2006; Setting-up of instructional lab for the Dept. of Library & Information Science, NEHU in 2006; Prepared a master plan document to set-up University Library in Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action, Hyderabad in 2006 and provided a report on modernizing of the library of Sri Vidyaniketan Engineering College, Rajempet in April 2010. Another faculty member helped in establishing a Library for SOS Village Children in Pondicherry in April 2009.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The academic programme of students is assessed systematically and periodically through monthly tests, seminars, tutorials, etc.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. 12 out of 13 students (92.3%) who passed out of the department are placed in different organizations as Librarians, Assistant Professor, Assistant Librarians, Junior Assistants, Managing Director, Graduate Trainee, Library Assistant and Area Supervisor. An alumnus of the Department was formed in 2010 and two meetings were already conducted. During these meetings, current students had good interaction with senior students on preparing for NET exams and applying to various types of jobs.


Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah has been appointed as Editorial Board Member of the DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, Delhi from January 2011 onwards.

Dr. Ramaiah was confirmed as the Charted Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, London in December 2010.

Best Teacher Award to Shri. M. Leeladharan on Teacher s Day 2010

Rajiv Gandhi fellowship to Shri. Mangkhollen Singson in the year 2008


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The department proposes the following activities. Offering PGDLAN progrmame through e-learning in virtual mode. To apply for SAP project to UGC Collaborate with one of best LIS Schools in the world and to offer exchange progrmame for the students of both the Universities.

Vision: To transform the department into a Graduate School of Information of international reputation. Mission: To educate graduates of any discipline into a new breed of Library & Information Science Professionals who are able to meet the needs of the industry in the country and abroad.


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DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Department of Mass Communication was started in the year 2008, There are five faculty members in the department. The Department has two readers (one male and one female) both with doctorates and three Assistant Professors (one female and two male). One of the Assistant Professors has submitted his doctoral thesis. All the faculty have vast experience in teaching besides competency in media productions. The faculty have specialized knowledge in journalism, television production, radio production, film production, advertising, photography, new media, public relation, media research and communication theories.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers M.A. and Ph.D. programmes in Mass Communication besides a P.G. Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication. There are 62 students in M.A., 7 in Ph.D., and 11 in PGDJMC. Out of 80 studnets, 56 are male and 24 are female. The student profile of the department is quite heterogeneous and they represent 11 states of India excluding Puducherry.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The syllabus was revised in the year 2010 and the faculty as Members of Board of Studies have contributed to enrichment of curriculum.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years First batch (M.A. Mass Communication) passed out in 2010. The success rate was 100% with 95% of the students being placed in different media organizations

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department has a full-fledged computer lab with 35 systems (WAN & LAN). The Wi-Fi enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the departments. The department library supplements the main library and e-resources access. The Department has all the required laboratories such as production centre, editing suite, to provide practical training to students. The major facilities include hi-end video cameras, editing, designing and 2D animation software, FTP server to host and run Department website. The department also makes use of the facilities in the Media production centre and Community radio FM-Puduvai Vaani.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Recently, the department has purchased books on a wide range of topics including mass communication, new media theories, film studies, radio and television and media research methods. Besides, new software such as Adobe Creative Suite 5 has been purchased to facilitate learning. Computer peripherals including DVDs, cassettes and external hard disks for storage of media assets produced by students have also been purchased.

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Visual aids are used for classroom teaching and well-furnished labs with state-of-the-art equipment are used for hands on experience. Students also produce different genres of programmes for the university community radio Station PuduvaiVani where they perform transmission duties. Further, moodle, an open source LMS tool is being used for teaching, learning and evaluation. Virtual interactions with experts from the industry are conducted using Skype on Media and Marketing as well as Web Designing. Likewise, face-to-face guest lectures and workshops were conducted on Web design, Broadcast Journalism, scriptwriting for television. Brain Storming Sessions, Industrial Visits, Power point Presentations, Group Discussions, Focus Group Discussions, Field based assignments, Term projects, Internship and Experiential learning are some of the additional in-class and out-class teaching methodologies.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty. The faculty members are responsible for the overall development of the students assigned to them and they provide continuous support, counseling and the required coaching. Faculty advisors guide the students to select areas of specialization, industry in which they can take up projects and placements.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Faculty members have attended Orientation programmes and refresher courses.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculties are in-charge of organizing departmental seminars, guest lectures, workshops, and a host of office related works, including liasoning with administration and organizing internships for students as well as placements. They also serve in various academic Bodies.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years None. It is a young department and plans are afoot to have an interface with the industry.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of the department in research are new media, film studies, game studies, e-learning, development communication and international communication.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years As it is a newly introduced department it is in the growing stage and yet to be stabilised, so it has not taken up any project.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The Department is offering Ph.D. on full time and part time basis.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis Faculty of Mass Communication Department have published 5 papers in the international journal and 11 papers national journals, 1 paper in the University journals,

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published 3 books and published 3 articles in 3 books which was presented in National and International Seminars.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Students design posters and produce text for NGOs; they also design development messages and conduct awareness programmes for the public.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Tests, assignments, both theoretical and practical, presentations by students, field based projects, Role plays, Discussions, student participation and interaction are various methods of assessment adopted. In addition, student productions as part of specially designed workshops are also used to evaluate their performance.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The students (2008-2010) were placed in different media organizations like Oracle, All India Radio, Pondicherry Doordarshan, Channel 2, Dinamalar, Makkal TV, inQ technologies, News today, Blaze technology-Pondicherry, Nila FM-Pondicherry,news Time-Guwahati, Sri Acharya college, Pondicherry, Mobius knowledge, Chennai, ISGP technology private Ltd, Cochin etc across the country.

19. Significant achievements of the department of faculty or students during the past five years. On of our faculty has received best teacher award. A student attended 10 days workshop on blogging\vlogging about women empowerment organized by WAVE, an NGO.Four students attended wildlife photography workshop in Western Ghat.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Since it is a newly started department participation is yet to be planned.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years Initiatives are being made to form institution-industry tie-ups to undertake collaborative research projects and for the students internships.

22. Any other highlights The department brings out The Inquirer a lab journal of the students of Mass Communication. The Inquirer is also available in the web version. 90% placement. Has conducted Women s film festival celebrating 100 years of woman s day.

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The Centre for Electronic Media is equipped with a judicious mixture of faculties from Communication, Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Electronic Media. The department has four faculty drawn from various parts of country who area competent to teach to programmes in the department. The specialization of faculty are: Television Production, Videography, Editing, Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Animation, Radio production, Lighting Design, Postproduction, Film Making, Performing Arts, who are competent the programmes in the department.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc M.Sc and Ph.D programmes in Electronic Media and a PG Diploma in Television Production are the programmes offered by this department. There are 69 students in there courses (M.Sc 56; Ph.D 6 and PG Diploma 7) out of whom 7 are women and 62 are men. Students from all parts of the country are enrolled for this course. Most of them are from the four southern states, while a handful of them from the Northern and Central parts and a couple of them are from the North Eastern part of India.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes M. Sc Electronic Media Programme was started in 2007. Initially the Board of Studies had representations from industry, academia and the civil society. After two years of offering the programmes, the syllabus was revised and updated. The programme has modern courses such as E Content Development and 2D & 3D Animation . As Member of Board of Studies, the faculty was respectable for many changes.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Two batches of students have passed out and the success rate is 100%. Drop out is minimal.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The department is well equipped with a Multimedia lab and an editing lab. Students use these two facilities to learn audio, visual editing, to create e-content and to learn 2D and 3D animation.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Centre for Electronic Media is offering its courses through blended learning mode. A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) has been created using an open source software called MOODLE. All the artifacts produced in the VLE is being stored and in future, these artifacts would enhance the learning process of the students. The VLE can be accessed at http://210.212.230.226

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Workshops are periodically conducted to have a hands-on-experience, on the skill sets they learnt in the classroom. Workshops are conducted on audio, visual, animation and e-learning technologies.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Each teacher of the Centre for Electronic Media is assigned with a set of exclusive students at the beginning of the semester. Students can seek counseling on academic and non academic issues they come across during their study from the faculty advisor.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Faculty are constantly encouraged to update their knowledge by attending workshops, seminars etc. Since its inception, the Centre for Electronic Media has been deputing its staff to attend such programmes on a regular interval. All the four faculty members have attended at least five such programmes in the last two years.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Teachers involved in the production of documentaries, organizing the exhibit of their art works, consulting to the media industry and in working with professional theater groups on designing stage light etc. During the recent State Assembly Elections, the Centre has collaborated with a popular NGO of Puducherry and produced a video programme narrating the peoples manifesto, which was telecast through local cable channel.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years No

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department New media studies Television effect studies Film studies Visual Art


Title Principal Investigator Agency Amount

(` lakh) Internet Radio: An effective medium for Distributive Communication among the Open and Distance Learners

Dr. S. Arulselvan

Distance Education Council, New Delhi

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To Develop four e-content for the four courses offered by the Tamil Nadu Open University National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD

Dr. S. Arulselvan

NMEICT, MHRD 28.00

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PhD in Electronic Media programme

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During the last five years, the faculty members have published 2 international and 1 national level research articles.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Students pursuing MSc Electronic Media programme, have been assisting the production crew in documenting all the major events held in the University campus. Faculty members help the students in documenting the events both in audio and video format.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Through assignments, internal tests and by assigning audio visual, new media productions the students are assessed continuously. These form part of internal assessment also.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. More than 90 % of the students are placed in Media related industry and in teaching.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. The Centre for Electronic Media has proactively launched a Campus News Video Magazine. This video magazine called CampBuzz is also uploaded in the YOUTUBE on an exclusive channel created for the Centre for Electronic Media. All the video magazines produced and published by the Centre is available online in the channel at: http://www.youtube.com/pucampbuzz. In order to sensitize the political issues, the staff members and students have jointly initiated a Media Watch Forum during the campaign period of State Assembly Elections 2011. All the major newspapers were closely scrutinized to find out the accuracy, fairness and objectivity of the published news stories. The outcome of the research were published in a blog, which is available at: http://www.mediawatch2011.blogspot.com.

Students have won awards for their audio visual productions at state level competitions, which has given a visibility to the Centre for Electronic Media. One of the faculty, has served Consultant to UNESCO for two years in a conflict area and has been continuously consulting to International Media Support (IMS), Denmark, GTZ Germany, and Sri Lanka Press Institute, Colombo. Another faculty, a professional artist has been conducted an art exhibitions in a public gallery is one more faculty, a professional light designer, has won national award for light design and continuously consulting to National level theatre groups in designing lights for stage performances.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. No

http://www.youtube.com/pucampbuzz

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The Centre for Electronic Media plans to offer three specializations in future: 1. Television Production 2. Animation and Graphic Arts 3. E-Content Development.

22. Any other highlights The students of this department are trained in ongoing production works for video and on the job transmission in Radio

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1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty This is one of the largest departments of the university with 21 Faculty Members and six programmes. Among the Faculty, there are seven women and 9 Doctorates. The faculty is adequate to meet the teaching and research requirement of the department.

Faculty Members of the department are competent enough to handle all the Hardcore Courses and offer Softcore Courses in a Wide Range of Specializations based on the demand from the students. The specializations available are knowledge and data engineering, intelligent computing, web service computing.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department has a total student strength of 338 spread over MCA (128), M.Sc Computer Science (91) M.Sc Intergrated (15) M.Tech Computer Science (42) M.Tech Network and Internet Engineering (41) and Ph.D (21). There are 114 female students and 224 male students. The detailed composition of the students is given below:

Name of the Course Male Female

States

M.Tech (CSE) 27 15

Representing 9 states of Tamil Nadu, viz., Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

M.Tech (NIE) 32 09

Representing 9 states of Tamil Nadu, viz., Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andaman Nicobar, Bihar and West Bengal

M.C.A 104 24

Representing 12 states of Tamil Nadu, viz., Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Rajasthan

M.Sc 46 45

Representing 9 states of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Delhi, Orissa and Bihar

M.Sc (Integrated) 04 11

Representing 4 states of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh

Ph.D 11 10 Representing 4 states of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh


Syllabus Revision has been done 4 times i.e. is 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 during last five years.

In 2007 a new M.Tech programme in Network and Internet Engineering was introduced and in 2009 two new add-on courses, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science and Applications (PGDCA) and Post Graduate Diploma in Simulation and Modeling (PGDSM) were introduced in the Department. The faculty with expertise

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in the subject and knowledge in manpower needs of the society have made substantial changes as Members of Board of Studies.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years

The success rate of the department is consistently 100%. The year-wise drop-out is negligible.


The department is equipped with highly specialized laboratories:

General programming lab with 62 computers,

Multimedia lab with 12 Apple Macintosh computers,

Grid computing lab with 23 Sun Solaris systems,

Three research labs with 52 computers.

The Student Computer Ratio in the Department is: Final year students 1 : 1 on 24 /7 basis. Other students 2 : 1

The total number of computers in the department is 210.


The resources of NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) are utilized to enrich the student s understanding of subject concepts.

Case-studies with real-time data collected from the industry are used to enhance the conceptual base.

Various Simulation tools are provided to offer and enrich the hands-on experience of the students.

The usage of software like Dragon Naturally Speaking is used to improve the communication skills of the students.


Presentation based teaching

Group Discussions for Knowledge sharing

Usage of Online educational micro blogging tools like Edmodo to improve the interactivity of the students.

Hands-on training sessions through real-time experiments.

Case Study based Teaching and analysis.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The Department counseling cell has been established for motivating the students in their curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular activities and to discuss, understand and provide solutions for difficulties faced by students in academic and non-academic issues.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years

Around 45 Industry - Academia collaborative Faculty Development Programs have been organized through which about 1800 (cumulative count) faculty members have been benefited.

The Department has the benefits of the MoU of PU with TCS through which, a number of FDPs have been organized for the past 4 academic years.

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The Department is recognized as a national level QIP centre for M.Tech. and Ph.D. programs.


The Faculty Members actively participate in conduct of university examinations.

Faculty Members are serving as the members of Doctoral Committees in various Universities.

Faculty Members are serving as the resource persons for Orientation and Refresher Courses.

Faculty Members of the Department serve as Wardens for Hostels and Members of Department Class Committees and provide necessary guidance and counseling.

They are also Members of various academic Bodies of our and other universities.


A Collaborative Basic Directed Research in the field of Smart and Secure Environment sponsored by NTRO is carried out in the department in Collaboration with 7 other Universities and Premier Institutions of the country.

Collaborative research activities are undertaken with other Internationally and Nationally reputed organizations and institutions like Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Belgium, C-DAC, STQC, Anna University, IIIT-A, SETS Labs and the output has been in the form of faculty publications.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The Department has Working Groups in all domains of Computer Science like, Knowledge & Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Intelligent Computing, Web Service Computing, Language Technologies, etc.,

13. Details of ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years Projects Completed : 2 Projects On-going : 3

Principle Investigator

Title Sponsoring

Agency Amount

Status

Dr.S.Kuppuswami Specialized Computer system, for Visually

handicapped

AICTE, New Delhi 15 lakhs Completed

Dr.R.Subramanian Optimal Parallel Scheduling Algorithm for Robotic ARM

AICTE, New Delhi

5 Lakhs Completed

Dr.S.Kuppuswami Collaborative Directed Basic

Research in Smart and Secure Environment

NTRO, New Delhi

1.56 Crores

On-Going

Dr.P.Dhavachelvan Multi-Model Approach for

Adaptive Web Service Selection

DST, New Delhi

24 Lakhs

On-Going

Dr.S.Siva Sathya

Bio-inspired Intrusion Response System through

Feature Relevance Analysis on Attack Classification

AICTE, New Delhi

4.8 lakhs

On-Going

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The department offers Ph.D in both full-time and part-time mode, in Computer Science and Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis

The faculty members of the department have published 178 research papers and 173 Conference Papers in the last Five years.

The average citation index of the department is 0.5 and the average impact factor is 2.4.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University

The Faculty members of the Department serves as the Placement Coordinator for the University and its affiliated Colleges; Convener for Centralized Software Purchase Committee, Coordinators for twinning programs of DDE, member of IQAC of the University; Members of Governing Bodies of Various Academic institutions; Members of Advisory Committees of Various Academic institutions.

Faculty Members of this Department provide training to Non-Teaching staff for one of Computing Resources and use of ICT for Teaching and Learning.

Faculty Members are involved in providing the software solutions to various departments and sections of the University like Finance, Directorate of Distance Education and Academic Section of this University.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The continuous assessment component includes Assignments, Online and Paper based tests, Seminars, Quiz Programmes, Viva Voce by Inviting experts from industry and other reputed institutions.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Right since the inception of the Department, the students of MCA and M.Techs are almost 100% placed either through on campus placement drives or through off campus placement drives.


Department Faculty Members have received awards for Best Paper, Best Poster, Shiksha Rattan Puraskar, e-Learning Course Content Award, University Gold Medals in academics and Distinguished Teacher Awards.

The students of this department have won overall championship in many national level technical symposiums conducted by reputed institutions like Anna Universtiy, PSG Tech Coimbatore, NIT Trichy etc.

Our students also have contributed to open source software development tools which have been downloaded and used by many.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The Department is supported by the SAP DRS-1.

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The mission is to establish the department as one of the nationally renowned departments in the identified thrust areas. Towards this end, the department places the following:

To establish collaborative activities with leading MNCs, Research Laboratories, Nationally and Internationally reputed institutions; through which the department is proposed to have joint research projects, exchange of students and faculty etc.

Establishment of domain specific laboratories.

Launching of an Innovative Integrated M.Tech. Programme which can cater to the needs of future Technological world.

Establishing MoUs with various reputed foreign universities in the identified thrust areas of the Department.

Establishing a data centre and planning to provide consultancy by utilizing the existing resources in the Department.

Establishing a Centralized Computing Facility (CCF) which would cater to the computing needs of all faculties and students of the University.

Providing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based solutions for asset tracking and management in the University.

22. Any other highlights The number of applications received for getting admissions to the courses of this department is the highest among the applications received by the rest of the departments. This Department serves to the largest number of students in the University.

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(KARAIKAL CAMPUS)

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty There are 5 faculty in the department. The faculty have optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects in Computer Science. The faculty of the department have specialization in the field of Web Services Computing and Data Mining, Information Systems, SOA, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithm, SOA.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The department offers only M.C.A programme in which 71 students enrolled right now. There are 54 Male and 17 Female students drawn from various states of India.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum has been reviewed and revised every year. The last revision was made in the academic year 2010-11.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The failures in every semester is reduced and we produced 100 % pass percentage in the last academic year 2010-11.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 54 systems (LAN). All the computers are provided with internet access.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The Class rooms are equipped with roof mounted LCD projectors for giving Multi-media supported lecture and online demonstrations. E-resources like Power Point slides, and e-Learning tutorials are also used.


Online case based teaching.

Live demonstration oriented teaching.

Teaching using Multimedia resources.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students The University has a inbuilt system of student counseling. A group of students are assigned to each faculty and faculty take care of their academic needs and support.


10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are involved in other co-curricular and extra-curricular activities like organizing sports events, cultural events and social welfare camps etc.,

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11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and

international level and their outcome during the past five years Since it is a new department, no collaborative programmes have been organized.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The department faculties are doing research in various thrust areas like Data Mining, Network Security and Service Computing.


14. Programmes by research offered by the University Nil

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of the department have published 22 papers in various reputed National and International Journals.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The NET qualified faculties are giving coaching and training for the students of the Department and the students of the nearby affiliated colleges.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The continuous assessment is done by conducting tests, assignments and seminars.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The department has achieved 100 % placement record for the students studying in final year in this academic year 2010-11.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. G. Kumaravelan, Assistant Professor has received the Best Paper Award.


21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Department is planning the following activities in the next five years;

To start new courses in the department

To increase the intake of the currently offered courses

To get more funded projects from various funding agencies like UGC, AICTE etc.,

To achieve 100 % placement in all academic years.


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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Department of Electronics Engineering has been started from the academic year 2010-2011. Presently department has two permanent faculty members, specializing in the areas like wireless communication and network, microwave circular and devices. Computational Electromagnetics, MEMS, Metamaterials. As the department is very new and does not have full strength faculty, based on the semester requirement, department engage Guest faculty members of appropriate expertise to run the M. Tech programme.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Students intake of M.Tech Electronics programme is 24. In the first batch the department has admitted 24 comprising 18 male and 6 female students. Other than Pondicherry, there are students of 5 different states namely, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Orissa, Tamilnadu and Uttar Pradesh.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum M.Tech Electronics Engineering Programme with two electives norms, Communication electronics and VLSI Technology, was framed on March 25, 2010 by the Special School Board constituted by the university. Second Special board meeting was held on March 23, 2011. One more elective group Nanoelectronics and few more elective papers for the existing electives groups are introduced in M.Tech Program and also some of the courses content is revised / restructured. In addition to this, the curriculum and syllabus for Ph.D. programme also has been framed

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years This is the first batch of students and there are no drop out as on today.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The learning resources include adequate books and lab facilities in the WAN/LAN connectivity.

Department has procured 470 new books in addition to existing electronics engineering related books in the library.

Department is developing a laboratory with high end server connected to 30 clients, so that students/faculty can use for electronic circuit design etc.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Since its inception the department has acquired:

Embedded Systems laboratory that consists of various trainer kits namely, 8 bit/16bit, basic and advanced, microcontroller kit; basic and advanced digital single processing trainer kits

Communication Laboratory that consists of various Analog and Digital Communication, basic and advanced level, trainer kits. Microstip line and Microstrip Antenna trainer kit.

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Sophisticated Equipments like Digital Storage oscilloscopes, 200 Mhz and 500 Mhz, Vector Network Analyser, Mixed signal oscillorscope, Arbirtary Waveform Generator

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Conducting Quiz, Group Discussion and Industrial visits are some of the other teaching practices adopted in the department.


Each student is assigned with a Faculty advisor for academic and personal counseling.

Coordinator/Faculty and Dean, School of Engg & Tech. meet the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Faculty are planning to attend Orientation Programme in Summer 2011.


Faculty are doctoral committee members of surrounding Institutes/Universities

Advisory member to Engineering Institutes

Faculty participate in University evaluation.

Involved in establishment of Teaching Laboratories

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has started exploring/identifying the institutes of interest with which it can collaborate for its academic activities.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Wireless Communications, Microwave Communication, VLSI


Prior to joining this Department, Dr. T. Shanmuganantham completed one AICTE Sponsored Project (Rs. 7.5 Lacks)

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty have published 33 papers in last five years of which 7 an after joining this department.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University This is the first year and hence no such activity has been undertaken.

17. Method of continuous student assessment Internal test, Quiz, Group discussion and Seminars are the components of continuous assessment.

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18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department

of the student placement. First batch will come out only in 2012.

19. Significant achievements of the department or faculty or students during the past five years. Dr. T. Shanmuganantham: Gold medal for best thesis is included in the 27th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World 2010, USA for research contribution in area of Antenna s; Received MHRD Fellowship during Ph.D.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. Yet to be eligible for such participation as the department in very new.


Establish the full fledged laboratories for training and Research.

Introduce Ph.D. Programme

Introduce the modern courses like Lab on chip

Collaborate /MOU with premier national/international Originations


In the first year the Department received above 900 applications for admission into this department.

Established laboratories within a year by successfully utilizing ` 100 lakhs allotted by the University

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CENTRE FOR POLLUTION CONTROL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The faculty of the centre is distinguished by high academic qualifications obtained in India and abroad, and extensive experience in post-graduate engineering teaching, R&D, and industrial environment. Presently the department has 4 faculty members of which one is Professors and remaining three are Assistant professors. All are experts in their own fields and are capable of handling all core courses. The specializations of this faculty are Environmental Engineering, Bio Sciences, Bioprocess technology and Chemical Engineering.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc The programmes offered by the centre are M.Tech (Environmental Engineering and Management), M.Phil (Environmental Technology), Ph.D (Environmental Technology). There are 55 students in these courses (M.Tech 30; M.Phil 10 and Ph.D 15) drawn from 8 states. There are 31 Male students and 24 Female students.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The curriculum is reviewed and upgraded frequently. In teaching of topics like global warming, ocean acidification, green energy, air pollution control, etc., the lectures are revised and updated continuously to keep up with the rapid evolution of these topics. The contribution made by the faculty to take changes is substantial as they are well versed in capturing the contemporary issues into the curriculum.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The success rate is more than 90% and employability of the successful candidate is near 100% in the year.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The centre has adequate computational and analytical facilities. Due to the collaborative research it is doing with prestigious institutions like Texas A & M University, and Sharif University of Technology, it gets access to practically all the engineering journals and books that come out in this centre s fields of study.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The centre s full scale effluent treatment plants treating wastewaters of different parts of the campus provide the students with a unique opportunity to do engineering experiments in a real-life environment.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method Extensive use of e-resources, Exposure to real-life problem solving environment through full-scale plants and link-up with industries, sophisticated equipments, employment on real life research project are modern teaching methods adopted in the department.

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The University has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty. Besides, the Dean of students Welfare also organize for any personal counseling. In addition the HOD regularly seeks views and other forms of feedback from the students.


10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research Different faculty members, are in turns, given charge of admissions, exams etc., They are nominated as Members of various academic Bodies of this and other universities. They have participated in several national and international conferences.


The CBCS pattern followed by the university enables wide-spread inter-departmental resource sharing. This centre also trains students from other departments and has its students trained at other departments.

At national level this centre has been providing summer training to students from other universities / institutes under the joint Indian Academies programme.

In 2005-2006 the centre hosted a visiting student from France who did her Master s thesis work here.

One of the centre s faculty had the honour of being co-supervisors of a Ph.D thesis successfully completed at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2010.

In terms of research, active collaboration with the following has led to 5 papers in thigh IF journals

- Taxas A & M University, USA - Sharif University of Technology, Iran

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department The thrust areas of research are : Development of cleaner, greener, and global-warming ameliorating pollution control technologies, Environmental impact of renewable energy sources, Use of weeds in nanoparticle synthesis, Forecasting and control of process industry disasters, Studies on global warming and its control, Special assistance received from AICTE for a CAEM Unit and environmental biotechnology facilities, Special Assistance received from the UGC for stand-done building.


Faculty Name Project Title

Prof. S.A. Abbasi

Towards opening a new frontier in bioprocess technology: development of termite-based systems for

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resource recovery from ligneous and other difficult-to-biodegrade solid wastes

R&D-cum-action and awareness project on rainwater harvesting, ground water recharge and wastewater reuse.

Status of Industrial Pollution Control (Large, Medium and Small) in the U.T. of Puducherry

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. Programme.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis During last five years, the faculty have published 177 articles in refereed national and international journals. The average impact factor is 3.7, Citation index is 3.4. The faculty have published 33 books.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University The centre continuously brings its work in public domain, thereby making it accessible to all, through books and other publications. In addition, several of the EIA and risk assessment studies done for the industries by us are available on the web-sites of the concerned governmental agencies (MoEF/State PCBs).


At least two tests and one seminar per course are used in assessment of students doing course-work

For students doing thesis work a unique system of research files is used which provides continuous record of performance and enables assessment based on it.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. 100% students get speedily employed; mostly in industries and some in academia. About 10% outgoing M.Phil / M.Tech students join IITs/NITs or foreign universities for Ph.D.


This centre was established in 1991 and for the initial 15 years its grew mainly on the strength of the sponsored research and consultancy funds. This has helped in bulding a vigorous culture of optimality and professionalism in this Centre which is reflected in the centre s copious output: it has produced 33 books and over 225 research papers of which the majority is in high impact factor international journals. The Hirsch Index score of the Centre, 22, is among the highest vis a vis environmental engineering departments in India and abroad.

In some research areas especially environmental impact of renewable energy sources, process safety, and termigradation the center is among the world s leading academic units.

The centre is the first among all central universities to offer M.Tech in Environmental Engineering and Management. Prior to it this programme was

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offered only by a few IITs.

The centre s Ph.Ds have achieved the unusual distinction of being taken on the faculty of much higher ranked academic institutions in India and abroad.

The pilot-scale wastewater treatment plants running in the campus based on the technology developed at this centre offer unique hands-on training opportunity to the students.

The centre is among the most prolific contributors of textbooks/reference books in environmental science and engineering with 33 books published already (all by national publishers). It is now under contract to write books by three of biggest international publishers

Elsevier, CRC (Taylor & Francis), and Springer.

The centre has among the most favorable cost-per-impact score ratios of its R&D output.

The centre s faculty has received some of the most coveted honours and awards, to name a few: - Fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy - National Design Award in Environmental Engineering - Membership on Board of Governors, IIT Rorkee

Four best paper awards in one year: The centre s M.Phil / Ph.D students have bagged four best paper awards in different national seminar / conferences during the last 12 months.



To integrate social responsibility, harmony and equitability with novelty, innovativeness, rigour and sophistication in all the activities of the centre.

To constantly raise the crossbar towards making India the world s most advanced country not merely in terms of the quality of its science but also in the manner in which it uses its science to ensure equitable, harmonious and sustainable existence.

22. Any other highlights The centre s faculty has been publishing and presenting studies relating to:

Inter-faith understanding, Gandhian Model of Development, Women s empowerment.

Two of the faculty is associated with creative writing in Hindi and English.

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CENTER FOR GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty Center for Green Energy Technology was established in 2010. This is the first center of its kind in India with a distinct mandate to conduct research in alternate energy resources, development of new devices to make the existing ones more energy efficient and develop human resources to cater to growing needs of industry. The center has a sanctioned strength of one professor, one associate professors, two readers and three assistant professors that is a total of seven faculty positions. Out of the sanctioned strength, two readers and two assistant professors have been already appointed. A professor from the Chemistry Department is acting as coordinator to support the newly launched programs. South Asia foundation is supporting this center. The faculty of the center have competency in the areas of Green Chemistry, Photovoltaics, Biophotonics, Biofuels, and nanophotonics. In addition to the above, the expertise available in sister centers like Nanoscience and Technology, Electronics are also utilized to run teaching programs. Moreover, efforts to recruit faculty in green energy areas like dye-sensitized solar cells, wind energy, geothermal energy, ocean current energy are underway.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc Apart from Ph.D. the center offers four semester M. Tech. program in Green Energy Technology on self-financing basis. Sanctioned student strength is twelve. In the first batch seven students were admitted in 2010 on all India competitive entrance test. Students with varied backgrounds like B.Tech. / B.E. in Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics / Civil engineering M.Sc. with Chemistry / Physics / Material Science etc. are admitted into the program. They hail from states like TN, AP, Kerala and Orissa. We expect the trend to continue in the current year admissions. Out of 7 students admitted one is female.

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes The entire curriculum of the course was designed to focus in the area of Renewable Energy Technology with an insight to the energy sources, energy utility, energy economics and entrepreneurship. UItlizing the experiences and specializations of the newly joined faculty, the curriculum and the syllabi of the program was modified in Feb. 2011. The special focus of the curriculum is on Photovoltaic Technology, Waste to Energy, Bio-energy Sources and Nanotechnology.

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years The first batch students have not completed the course yet. Even total number of students admitted was nine, two students dropped out due to personal reasons. All of them, generally, are successful in their course work till date.

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources All the reference books listed in the curriculum have been procured and placed in the Central Library. The department library books, which are mostly text books, are also temporarily housed in main library for want of space. For teaching and learning, the

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center has depended on the class rooms and the computer center available in the Lecture Hall complex. Efforts are underway to develop center s computer center.

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years Apart from regular class room teaching, students were exposed to special lectures, field trips and seminars to enhance their experiential learning. In addition to above, the center has organized talks and interactive session on India

Singapore initiative research

collaborations. From this talk one student has already got internship to conduct research in summer. Through the efforts made by the center Pondicherry University has entered into MOU with Maharishi Solar Technologies, India s only company with integrated facilities to make solar panels. This MOU covers student training exchange visits by faculty and scientists and organization of third party training programs.

7. Modern Teaching methods in practice other than the lecture method The M.Tech. program offered by the center is devise oriented. Students need to undertake individual / group projects as a part of learning of each theory course. In addition, student perform faculty oriented mini-project in their third semester. Major project will be done in industries speicilizing in alternative forms of energy. Seminars and power point assisted lectures are a part of the learning process. Field visits to the subject topic oriented establishments is undertaken a part of the course work.

8. Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students Each student is allotted to a faculty advisor who oversees academic progression of the student. Generally, faculty members are also involved in personal counseling particularly when their academic performance is below expected levels. In addition to above, in case of need, faculty advisors encourage concerned student to take professional help and treatment.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years Utilizing generous financial assistance given by the University all the faculty members have attended international and national seminars to enhance their research and teaching skills. One faculty member was selected by DAAD foundation, Germany to attend the workshop on Solar Energy to held during summer of 2011. In addition to above, two Assistant Professors attended the orientation program offered by Academic Staff College, Pondicherry University.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research All the faculty members are actively engaged in teaching, research and extension activities. The coordinator is in the editorial board of the international journals like Journal of Chemical Science, ARKIVOC, ISRN Journal of Organic Chemistry and Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. He is a national panel member for NAAC and has visited several Universities and Colleges for assessment and accreditation. He is also in national panel of experts for IGNOU. All the faculty members have acted as referees for papers in international journals, adjudicators of Ph.D. thesis and as resource persons for refresher courses. orientation programs, seminars, symposia and conferences. The department organized one International Conference in March 2010 on Green Energy Technology in which twenty two experts from all over the world had participated. Three of those experts have revisited Pondicherry to renew academic and research ties.

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11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and

international level and their outcome during the past five years The department has established collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry. Utilizing the collaboration, M. Tech laboratory courses were carried out in PEC. The center has made contacts with some faculty members of University of York, Canada, Harvard Medical School, USA, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. The faculties from abroad visited CGET and presented special lecture to the students.

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department At present the center is developing its research base through acquisition of sophisticated instruments. The thrust areas of research of the department are Green Chemistry processes. Solar cell materials and Devices, SPV systems and technology, Nanophotovoltaics, Wind Energy and Hybrid systems, Bio-fuels & bio-solar cells, Waste to Energy Nanomaterials & devices and Bionanotechnology.

13. Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years As the department is very new the faculty members are presently engaged in writing or pursuing to get external funding.

14. Programmes by research offered by the University Ph.D. only.

15. Publications of the faculty, for the past five years. Details regarding citation index and impact factor analysis The faculty of this department have published 30 papers in national and over 46 papers in international journal with an impact factor of 3.1 citation index of 2.4 and h index of 2.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Being a center for highly topical and contemporary relevance, it has made several efforts to reach out to the public through extension activities. It has organized Earth Day celebrations on April 22, 2011 through Community radio of Pondicherry University. Students of the center appeared on Ungalai Thedi radio program and spoke about Green Energy Technology at Pondicherry University. Faculty gave a New Year 2011 speech about Green Energy: in Kodai FM, Dec.31, 2011. The faculty of this department deliver talks on solar energy, green energy technology in various institutions as well as for radio.

17. Method of continuous student assessment For all the courses, the Center follows CBCS. All practical courses are assessed continuously. For theory courses at least two sessional exams are conducted. The students are continuously assessed through period tests, seminars, mini projects artistic writing etc.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. The first batch of M.Tech. students are yet to come out from the center. However, some industries have evinced interest to recruit our students into their organizations depending on their successful completion of project.

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past five years. In the short duration of its existence, this centre has successfully conducted International Conference in Green Energy Technologies in the month of March 2010. It has signed MOU with M/s Maharishi Solar Technologies Pvt Ltd., B.N. Kandrika, AP. It has invited and to in the process of recognizing Dr. K. Kalyansundaram, EPFL, Switzerland, as guide of PU. The center has hosted four visitors from abroad for giving special lectures to the students.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA / DRS /FIST etc. The center will go for accreditation and recognition by UGC soon by applying for DST FIST funding and MNRE funding for its activities.

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The center has several plans to unveil. On priority it will establish good teaching and research laboratories to initiate research in high priority areas of green chemistry, photovoltaic systems, solar energy, waste-to-energy and bio-fuel energy systems etc. In the near future it will establish national laboratory testing facility to test and validate alternative energy devices. In conjugation with industry, the center will strive to give third party training in alternative energy sources.

22. Any other highlights The center for Green Energy Technology is an unique department in the country. South Asia foundation has given generous grants up to USD500,000 for 5 years to incubate the center. It will soon have platinum energy rated building to conduct forefront research and teaching in energy and efficiency of its use. In its short duration of its existence, it made several contacts with academic and industry one which resulted in MOU.

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CENTRE FOR NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Faculty profile, adequacy and competency of faculty The department was started in the year 2010. There are 6 faculty in the department in the cadre of Professors, 3 Associate Professors, 3 Assistant Professors. There is adequacy of the faculty with optimum workload and expertise to teach all the core subjects in Nanoscience and Technology, such as Nanomaterials Synthesis and Characterization, Nanophotonics, Nanomagnetics, Nanoelectronics, Self-assembly etc. in addition to basic courses in Materials Chemistry & Physics, Quantum Mechanics/Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Lasers etc. The faculty members have also taken up the research activities in the cutting edge science and technology of Nanomaterials.

2. Student profile according to programmes of study, gender, region etc There are 18 students in the department (Male 15 and Female 3) representing 6 states Andrah Pradesh, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil nadu

3. Changes made in the courses or programmes during the past five years and the contribution of the faculty to those changes Nil. (M.Tech Program started from July 2010)

4. Trend in the success rate and dropout rate of students during the last five years Nil. (M.Tech Program started from July 2010)

5. Learning resources of the department like library, computers, laboratories and other such resources The Department has a full-fledged computer lab with 7 systems (WAN & LAN). The Wi-Fi-enabled campus has provided access to the library e-resources from the Departments. The main library and e-resources access. The Department has all the required teaching laboratories, such as exclusive labs for M.Tech (Nanoscience and Technology). The major characterization facilities like XRD, Nano- indenter, PL, UV-Vis, Electrochemical Work station, Four probe conductivity, E- beam facilities are under process. In addition, the central facility, CIF extends the use of other characterization

6. Enhancement of the learning resources during the past five years The major addition that has been given as fillip to the learning resources is the e-resources access through library portal, enhanced funding for sophisticated instrument, installation and use of the softwares and database such as CMIE, etc. The Copywriting facility has been upgraded to enhance the analytical capacity.


Power Point Presentation

Visual Media

Models and Demonstration

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The University has a system of student counseling for every student. A group of students are assigned to each faculty member who acts as a faculty adviser to the students.

9. Details of faculty development programmes and teachers who benefited during the past five years All faculty members of Centre for Nanoscience and Technology are already having PhD with Post doctoral experience from USA, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Korea, India and good academic records, awards and honors with good record of publications, US Patents and their work was highlighted from MIT, USA and US department of Energy.

10. Participation of teachers in academic activities other than teaching and research The faculty are involved in-charge of chemicals, equipment, departmental seminar, organizing visiting scholars and a host of office-related works, including administration.

11. Collaborations with other departments and institutions at the national and international level and their outcome during the past five years Collaborations with other Departments/Institutes: Nil. (M.Tech Program started from July 2010)

12. If research is a significant activity, the thrust areas of the department Thrust areas of research in the Department are Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage, Bioceramics, Bionanotechnology, Nanoelectronics.


Title of the Project Principal Investigator Agency

Amount (` in lakh)

Development of nanofibrous polymer electrolyte membranes by electrospinning technique for high performance dye sensitized solar cells

Dr.A.Subramania CSIR 20.00

Development of nanofibrous cubic spinel metal oxides and composite electrolyte membranes by electrospinning technique for asymmetric supercapacitors

Dr.A.Subramania DST-

(Nano) 41.00

Development and characterization of alternative to chromate based primers for aerospace steel and aluminium alloys

Dr.A.Subra mania DRDL, Hyderabad

10.00

Development of PVdF-HFP based nano-composite polymer electrolytes for advanced Li

Batteries Dr.A.Subramania

UGC 6.00

Development of Micro-porous PVdF-HFP based blend polymer electrolyte membranes for advanced Li

Battery Application Dr.A.Subramania DST 9.50

Sethu Samudram Ship Channel Project Environmental Monitoring (SSCP) Dr.A.Subramania DCI 27.00

14. Programmes by research offered by the University The department is starting the Ph.D program in Nanoscience and Technology

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index and impact factor analysis The total publications of the faculty of the department in last five years are 181 published in national and international journals with high Impact Factor of 2.8, Citation Index of 7.3 and h index of 15.

16. Participation of the department in the extension activities of the University Nil.

17. Method of continuous student assessment The students are continuously assessed through Internal Assessment, Assignment and seminar.

18. Placement record of the past students and the contribution of the department of the student placement. Nil. (M.Tech Program started from July 2010)


Dr. Vadivel Murugan

Clean Energy Award , 2008, Centre for Nano- Molecular science (CNM), University of Texas at Austin, USA

US Department of Energy, NASA Fellowships: BATT Program, 2007-2010

Best Research Paper Texas Society for Microscopy Spring 2008 University of Texas at Austin, USA.

The Electrochemical Society Award, Hawaii, USA 2009.

Research projects are funded from DST Nanomission and CSIR, UGC, AICT and DRDO.

20. Participation of the department in COSIP/COHSSIP/SAP/CAS/DSA/DRS/FIST etc. Nil. (M.Tech Program started from July 2010)

21. Plan of action of the department for the next five years The Centre for Nanoscience and Technology is aiming at undertaking Research & Development (R&D) and establish leadership in the intellectually exciting and emerging field by interfacing nanostructures for diverse and exciting applications in nanobiotechnology, Medical Sciences, electronics, and green energy conversion and storage. The vision of educating and training a new generation of students with truly interdisciplinary skills capable of leading future Nanoscience and technology advances in Indian academia and industries will be implemented. The development of cutting-edge technology and to protect intellectual property rights, technology to explore commercial viable renewable energy resources to common India people will be pioneered. Our aim is to establish "Nano User Facility" with several states. The art of experimental facilities will be explored.

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The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology has a very rare group of excellent faculty with outstanding credentials. All of them have graduated from very prestigious institutes such as Indian Institute of Technology, National Chemical Laboratory, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Madras University and Alagappa University and have several years of experience in world renowned laboratories in USA, Korea, Japan, and Europe. They have demonstrated expertise in a number of areas in Nanoscience which is manifested by their publications in very high standard international journals of repute, with very high impact factors, in addition to many invited review articles and book chapters published by famous science and technology publishers such as Academic Press, Wiley Publishers, and American Scientific Publishers, Taylor & Francis Group etc. Our faculties are also involving as reviewers for various reputed scientific societies like American Chemical Society (ACS), USA, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, American Institute of Physics (AIP) the Electrochemical Society, (ECS), USA and Elsevier Journals.

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