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Declaration by the Institution
I do, hereby, certify that the data included in this Re Accreditaiton Report (RAR) is true and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief. Further, the RAR is prepared by the institution as per the guidelines and norms given by the
NAAC in its ‗Institutional Accreditation: Manual for Re Accreditaiton Report – Universities‘ published in March
2013.
The RAR is prepared with the help of the University‘s academic and administrative staff; and no part of the RAR is
outsourced.
I understand that the Peer Team will validate the RAR with the support of evidences. I do hereby undertake the
responsibility to make available all necessary documents to the Peer Team at the time of their on site visit.
(R. G. Parmar)
I/C Registrar
Date: 17.12.2013
Place: Rajkot – 360 005
Executive Summary:
Page 6
Re-Accreditation
Assessment
Report
(RAR)
2009 - 2013
Saurashtra
University
Preface:
Page 4
Profile of the Institution:
Page 7
Criteria-wise Analytical
Report:
Page 17
Evaluative Report of the
Department:
Page 202
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Preface
The Saurashtra University has been mindful about the immense importance
higher education has come to attain in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, along
with keeping pace with the rapid changes of the times, it has accorded top priority to
transform the information explosion into meaningful, coherent and relevant units of
knowledge in the classroom. The University has been, in the last couple of decades,
witness to the changing demography in higher education with lots of first-time
students entering the campus from sections of the society hitherto not having access to
higher education. It thus is aware of the social responsibility towards such students,
making available to them meaningful curricula and research opportunities that would
be synchronous with developing them intellectually and preparing them for potential
employment opportunities. Additionally, the University has been active in forging
meaningful dialogues and linkages with its immediate society as well as institutions of
repute within the country and beyond. It sees its Alumni as an important asset in such
an endeavour of establishing meaningful communication with the larger society. The
University has made important strides in the last decade in research and recognizes it
as the most important area where as an institution of higher learning we can make
concrete and path-breaking contribution to the society. In this endeavour, it has
enabled all its basic sciences departments on the campus to carve a place for
themselves in the field of meaningful research by attaining the UGC SAP-DRS / CAS
/ DST-FIST status. And in the next phase, the University is exploring the best possible
means so that the other departments can emulate the achievement of these
departments.
Saurashtra University believes in the motto: Educate. Liberate. Transform. It
is aware of the emphasis laid on education as an emancipating and transforming force
by visionaries and social reformers like Swami Vivekanand and Mahatma Gandhi,
and takes pride in the pioneering work done in this direction in the Saurashtra region
by its founding Vice-Chancellor Professor Dolarrai Mankad. The University in its
nearly five-decade long existence has been untiringly striving to spread the light of
knowledge in its mandated area with the belief to prepare the young adult population
of this region create a better society for all.
Saurashtra University, an affiliating State conventional University has its
jurisdiction over 9 districts in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Although there are a
few important cities it covers, none of them are type-A metropolises. Rather, there are
many mofussil towns and villages it has to reach out to, where people are not yet fully
aware of the implications and benefits of higher education. Taking its educationally
developing area as a challenge, and not overlooking the local socio-economic, cultural
and developmental needs, Saurashtra University‘s vision is: To be at the vanguard of
knowledge in the domain of higher learning and achieve the highest global standards.
As a University, we take heart in the recent development of the State Government
sanctioning us the first phase of a very encouraging amount as grants towards
developing this University into a ‗world-class University‘. Such encouragement gives
us confidence in the quality of our present work, and motivates us to strive higher
with a vision of this institution in the future. As it would become evident from the Re
Accreditaiton Report, the University has a roadmap of the tasks that need to be
prioritized in the years to come, and has established a full-fledged IQAC set-up that
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would plan, coordinate and oversee the holistic qualitative development of this
institution.
The IQAC of the University has striven tirelessly to represent a true picture of
our status, achievements, strengths as well as the challenges in front of us that we are
certain to collectively overcome. I heartily compliment every member of our
University family who has contributed in the Re Accreditaiton Report. I also consider
this Report as a guiding document that would ever prompt us in our mission of
improving the quality of life in harmony with our heritage, culture and environment as
well as relating learning with the highest humane values.
Place: Rajkot
Date: December 17, 2013 (Dr. Mahendra K. Padalia)
Vice-Chancellor
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Executive Summary
SWOC ANALYSIS
Strength The biggest strength of the University is its strong
financial position (probably no University in the state
would be having such own financial soundness as the
Saurashtra University is having)
The University is having extra ordinary research
facilities with its applied and pure science departments
e.g. Pharmaceutical Science, Chemistry, Bio Science,
Physics, etc.
The faculty and the campus is a optimum blend of highly
experienced minds, emerging scholars and fresh talent
providing an excellent learning ground for new-comers.
They are provided with excellent infrastructure for
research and teaching.
The University has an excellent network of colleges
reaching to the remotest area of the Saurashtra Region
and it provides higher education at affordable cost.
The University has been leader in implementation of
UGC Higher Education Reform agenda.
Weakness Unfilled teaching and non-teaching posts
Public transportation is inadequately linked to the
University headquarters
There is a significant variation in research activities
across the departments
Opportunities Harmonious stakeholders relations
Good infrastructural Research, ICT, and Financial
Support
The SU may become a virtual leaning place by
converting its course content and lectures in electronic
form and giving access to its students registered for
online courses.
Challenges The Central and State Governments are cutting the size
of the grants day by day and the expenses are increasing
day by day.
Monolithic hierarchical structure of governance of the
University inherited from British system
Multiplicity of diverse functioning and constraint on
resources
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Profile of the University
1. Name and Address of the University:
Name: Saurashtra University
University Road, Rajkot Gujarat INDIA Address:
City: Rajkot Pin:360005 State: Gujarat
Website: www.saurashtraUniversity.edu
2. For communication:
Designation Name
Telephone with
STD code
Mobile Fax Email
Vice Chancellor Dr. M. K.
Padalia
O: 0281-2577633
R:0281-2431720
+91-
90999
79720
+91-
281-
2576802
vc@sau
uni.ernet
.in
Pro Vice Chancellor -------------- O: -----------------
R:------------------
--------- ---------- ----------
Registrar Mr. R. G.
Parmar
O: 0281-2576347
R: 0281-2561326
+91-
98250
78873
+91-
281-
2586983
registrar
@sauuni
.ernet.in
Steering Committee /
IQAC Coordinator
Dr. A. K.
Chakrawal
O: 0281-
2570966
R: 0281-
2563298
+91-
90999
39487
+91-
281-
2577633
iqac@sa
uuni.ern
et.im
3. Status of the University:
State University
State Private University
Central University
University under Section 3 of UGC (Deemed University)
Institution of National Importance
Any other (please specify)
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4. Type of University:
Unitary
Affiliating
5. Source of funding:
Central Government
State Government
Self-financing
Any other (please specify)
6. a. Date of establishment of the University: 23/05/1967 (dd/mm/yyyy)
b. Prior to the establishment of the University, was it a/an
i. PG Centre Yes No
ii. Affiliated College Yes No
iii. Constituent College Yes No
iv. Autonomous College Yes No
v. Any other (please specify) …………………
If yes, give the date of establishment …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
7. Date of recognition as a University by UGC or any other national agency:
Under Section dd mm yyyy Remarks
i. 2f of UGC* November, 1968
ii. 12B of UGC * November, 1968
iii. 3 of UGC #
iv. Any other ^ (specify)
* Enclose certificate of recognition.
# Enclose notification of MHRD and UGC for all courses / programmes /
campus/campuses.
^ Enclose certificate of recognition by any other national agency/agencies, if any.
8. Has the University been recognized
a. By UGC as a University with Potential for Excellence?
Yes No
If yes, date of recognition: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
b. For its performance by any other governmental agency?
Yes NO
If yes, Name of the agency …………………… and
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date of recognition: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy
9. Does the University have off-campus centres?
Yes No
If yes, date of establishment : …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
date of recognition : …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
10. Does the University have off-shore campuses?
Yes No
If yes, date of establishment : …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
date of recognition : …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)
11. Location of the campus and area:
Location * Campus area in
acres
Built up area in
sq. mts.
i. Main campus area Rajkot (Semi –
Urban)
363 Acres 1,22,734 Square
Meters
ii. Other campuses in the
country
- - -
iii. Campuses abroad - - -
(* Urban, Semi-Urban, Rural, Tribal, Hilly Area, Any other (please specify)
If the University has more than one campus, it may submit a consolidated self-
study report reflecting the activities of all the campuses.
12. Provide information on the following: In case of multi-campus
University, please provide campus-wide information.
Auditorium/seminar complex with infrastructural facilities
Sports facilities
Playground
Swimming pool
Gymnasium
Sardar Patel Sports Complex – Sports Ground (Consisting
of Cricket Grounds, 400 meters Athletics Track, Volleyball
Ground, Football Ground, Handball Ground, Basketball Court,
Lawn Tennis Court, Kabaddi&KhoKho Ground, etc. )
Indoor Stadium (Consisting of Gymnastic Floor, Badminton Court, Table Tennis Court, etc.)
Women‘s Health and Fitness Centre
Hostel
Boys‘ hostel i. Number of hostels 3 +1 (International Hostel)
ii. Number of inmates 258
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iii. Facilities - Furnished
Girls‘ hostel i. Number of hostels 2
ii. Number of inmates137
iii. Facilities - Furnished
Working women‘s hostel
i. Number of hostels NIL
ii. Number of inmates NIL
iii. Facilities
Residential facilities for faculty and non-teaching
Cafeteria
Health Centre – Nature of facilities available – inpatient, outpatient, ambulance, emergency care facility, etc.
Facilities like banking, post office, book shops, etc.
Transport facilities to cater to the needs of the students and staff
Facilities for persons with disabilities
Animal house
Incinerator for laboratories
Power house
Waste management facility
13. Number of institutions affiliated to the University
Type of colleges Total Permanent Temporary
Arts, Science and Commerce 188 77 111
Law 10 6 4
Medicine 3 12
Engineering NIL NIL NIL
Education 92 10 82
Management 49 12 37
Others (specify and provide
details)
21 12 9
14. Does the University Act provide for conferment of autonomy (as recognized by
the UGC) to its affiliated institutions? If yes, give the number of autonomous
colleges under the jurisdiction of the University
Yes No Number
NIL
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15. Furnish the following information:
Particulars Number Number of Students
a. University Departments Undergraduate
Post graduate
Research centres on the campus
00 00
28 2633
00 00
b. Constituent colleges NIL NIL
c. Affiliated colleges 297 2,56,024
d. Colleges under 2(f) 02
e. Colleges under 2(f) and 12B 88
f. NAAC accredited colleges -
g. Colleges with Potential for Excellence (UGC) 02
h. Autonomous colleges NIL NIL
i. Colleges with Postgraduate Departments
j. Colleges with Research Departments NIL NIL
k. University recognized Research
Institutes/Centres
03
16. Does the University conform to the specification of Degrees as enlisted by the
UGC? Yes No
If the University uses any other nomenclatures, please specify.
17. Academic programmes offered by the University departments at present, under
the following categories: (Enclose the list of academic programmes offered)
Programmes Number
UG 1
PG 29
Integrated Masters 2
M. Phil. 18
12
Programmes Number
Ph. D. 27
Integrated Ph. D. NIL
Certificate 1
Diploma -
PG Diploma 9
Any other (please specify)
Total 87
18. Number of working days during the last academic year.
19. Number of teaching days during the past four academic years.
YEAR College Department
2009-10 213 210
2010-11 235 227
2011-12 212 219
2012-13 227 220
(‗Teaching days‘ means days on which classes were engaged. Examination days
are not to be included)
20. Does the University have a department of Teacher Education?
Yes No
If yes,
a. Yearof establishment 07/11/1978
b. NCTE recognition details (if applicable)
Notification No.: Apw03262/313034 (AddI)
Date: 30/10/2006 (dd/mm/yyyy)
c. Is the department opting for assessment and accreditation separately?
Yes No
21. Does the University have a teaching department of Physical Education?
Yes No
If yes,
a. Yearof establishment JUNE 2005
b. NCTE recognition details (if applicable)
Notification No.: wrc/32/324062/74/2005/5524
Date: 07/07/2005 (dd/mm/yyyy)
c. Is the department opting for assessment and accreditation separately?
Yes No
UG-227, PG-220
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22. In the case of Private and Deemed Universities, please indicate whether
professional programmes are being offered?
Yes No
Not Applicable
If yes, please enclose approval / recognition details issued by the statutory body
governing the programme.
23. Has the University been reviewed by any regulatory authority? If so, furnish a
copy of the report and action taken there upon. NO
24. Number of positions in the University
Positions
Teaching faculty Non-teaching
staff
Technical
staff Professor Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Sanctioned by the
UGC / University /
State Government
Recruited
Yet to recruit
23
10
13
41
30
11
73
56
17
191
09
Number of persons
working on contract
basis
01
15
231
02
25. Qualifications of the teaching staff
* The Designation of the faculty members have been kept at their entry level
Highest
qualification
Professor Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female
Permanent teachers
D.Sc./D.Litt.
Ph. D. 08 01 26 05 39 12 91
M. Phil.
PG 01 01 02
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Highest qualification
Professor Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female
Temporary teachers
Ph. D. 03 1 4
M. Phil.
PG 07 04 11
Part-time teachers
Ph. D.
M. Phil.
PG
26. Emeritus, Adjunct and Visiting Professors.
Emeritus Adjunct Visiting
Number NIL 05 120
27. Chairs instituted by the University:
Chairs
School / Department 06
28. Students enrolled in the University departments during the current academic year,
with the following details:
Students UG PG Integrated
Masters
M. Phil. Ph. D. Integr
ated
Ph. D.
D.Litt.
/ D.Sc.
Certifi
cate
Diplo
ma
PG
Diplo
ma
*M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F
From the
state where
the
University
is located
Dept. 612/600 …….. 154/165 287/1
82
…… ……. …… 651/
295
2852/
1363
P.G.
Ce.
4163 …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. ……..
M.A.
Extern
42410 …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. ……..
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Students UG PG Integrated
Masters
M. Phil. Ph. D. Integr
ated
Ph. D.
D.Litt.
/ D.Sc.
Certifi
cate
Diplo
ma
PG
Diplo
ma
*M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F *M *F
al
M.com
Extern
al
15935 ……. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. …….. ……..
From other
states of
India
……. 416/179 ……… 22/12
71/41
…….. ……. ……. 22/9 44/28
NRI
students
……. ……. …….. …….. ……. ……. ……. ……. ……. ……..
Foreign
students
14 ……. …….. ……… …….. ……. ……. …….. ……. …….
Total
*M-Male *F-Female
29. ‗Unit cost‘ of education
(Unit cost = total annual recurring expenditure (actual) divided by total number
ofstudents enrolled)
(a) Including the salary component = Rs 1, 29,404/-
(b) Excluding the salary component = Rs 48,499/-
30. Academic Staff College
Year of establishment1987
Number of programmes conducted (with duration)
UGC Orientation 99
UGC Refresher199
University‘s own programmes 31. Does the University offer Distance Education Programmes (DEP)?
Yes No
If yes, indicate the number of programmes offered.
Are they recognized by the Distance Education Council?
32. Does the University have a provision for external registration of students?
Yes No
If yes, how many students avail of this provision annually?
Approximately 40,000 students on an average seek admission to the external
programmes.
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33. Is the University applying for Accreditation or Re-Assessment? If Accreditation,
name the cycle.
Accreditation: Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3
Cycle 4 Re-Assessment:
34. Date of accreditation* (applicable for Cycle 2, Cycle 3, Cycle 4 and re-assessment
only)
Cycle 1: 08-11 January, 2002Accreditation outcome/Result 4****
Cycle 2: 26-28, February 2009Accreditation outcome/Result Grade ‗B‘
March 08, 2009 Reaccredited: (CGPA of 2.93 on Four Point Scale)
Cycle 3: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy), Accreditation outcome/Result ……
Cycle 4: …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy), Accreditation outcome/Result ……
* Kindly enclose copy of accreditation certificate(s) and peer team report(s)
35. Does the University provide the list of accredited institutions under its
jurisdiction on its website? Provide details of the number of accredited affiliated /
constituent / autonomous colleges under the University.
36. Date of establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and dates of
submission of Annual Quality Assurance Reports (AQAR).
IQAC 14/07/2004 (dd/mm/yyyy)
AQAR (i) 28/08/2012 for the Year (2009-2010) (dd/mm/yyyy)
(ii) 28/08/2012for the Year (2010-2011)(dd/mm/yyyy)
(iii) 30/08/2012for the Year (2011-2012)(dd/mm/yyyy)
(iv) 29/08/2013for the Year (2012-2013)(dd/mm/yyyy)
37. Any other relevant data, the University would like to include (not exceeding one
page).
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Criterion wise Analytical Report
Criterion I: Curricular Aspects
1.1Curriculum Design & Development:
1.1.1 How is the institutional vision and mission reflected in the academic
programmes of the University?
The translation of the vision and mission of the University is done under a few
well-planned stages. The first is to create a physical atmosphere conducive to a
serious higher learning through qualitative modern infrastructure, amenities and
campus ambience. The University is spread over an area of 363 acres of land, and
although the Saurashtra region is geographically known to receive less than normal
rainfall, it has taken aridity as a challenge and created a green oasis amidst
surrounding urbanity by constructing check-dams and employing drip irrigation
method for the ground water level and its numerous trees on the campus. Almost all
of its 28 PG departments on the campus are housed in their own spacious
buildinggiving them ample scope for future development without any worry of
physical constraints. Modernization is an on-going drive for these buildings to provide
students and teachers technology-enhanced teaching-learning environment. As part of
its modernization drive, the entire campus now is Wi-Fi enabled. Next is the emphasis
given to faculty enhancement, the faculty of the Saurashtra University possesses the
highest qualification (Ph. D.). The faculty members are conversant with e-learning
concepts and use them as effective learning aids. They are also active in enhancing
their own knowledge quotient through regular FDPs and participation in seminars,
conferences and workshops; a natural outcome of which is their sustained
publications in recognized platforms. The curriculum framework of this University –
the backbone of learning – is among the latest, which finds detailed mention in the
immediate following section. Simultaneously, the feedback mechanism to learn from
and maintain the standards has been in vogue in a regular manner. A very important
aspect about vision and mission is not just to identify them but, having identified, to
constantly strive to realize them and thus maintain and improve the standards. The
Saurashtra University in its first accreditation (2002) was awarded with four stars by
NAAC, and in its first re-accreditation (2009) obtained the highest CGPA score (2.93)
among all the state conventional universities in Gujarat. This graph of progress has
only been possible due to the University‘s constant efforts to achieve all-around
excellence in higher education.
1.1.2 Does the University follow a systematic process in the design and
development of the curriculum? If yes, give details of the process (need
assessment, feedback, etc.)
In fact, Saurashtra University was the first in the state of Gujarat (and among
the very first in western India) to switch over from the yearly to the semester system
(2006), and then from the semester to the CBCS mode (2010). The curriculum of this
University is a harmonious blend of where the frontiers of each discipline stands in
the twenty-first century, and an awareness of the local needs vis-a-vis the subjects
taught. The Board of Studies (BoS) in each subject is a body active in making an
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assessment of these dual needs. It meets at least twice a year to deliberate upon the
latest developments and brainstorm upon fresh needs if any. Members of the Board
are in constant consultation with subject experts as well as in touch with leading
publishers about latest trends and developing areas of scholarship. Being subject
teachers themselves they are in a position to feel the feedback pulse from students
about existing subjects and think of ways to incorporate them in the curricula. The
Industries-Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC), an initiative of the University‘s IQAC is
regularly in dialogue with industries and other private institutions to assess the
outcome of syllabus learning and the hands-on realities of the outside world. The
knowledge gained through such mechanisms serve as important feedback for
modification of existing syllabi and designing newer ones. During the framing of new
syllabi, there is always a concerted effort by the BoS, the Board of University
Teaching (BUT) and Syndicate of the University. At the undergraduate level,
affiliating college‘s IQACs also contribute in this task.
1.1.3 How are the following aspects ensured through curriculum design and
development?
Employability
Innovation
Research
As mentioned in the previous section, the first step to ensure employability is
to frame the curricula that always remain contemporary and aware of local and global
employment needs. Regular assessment, modification and upgrading of curricula are a
constant process in the University where the faculty of the University (through its
Staff Council meetings), interaction with the Alumni at the departmental levels, and
the BoS of various subjects as well as their deans play vital contributory roles.
Additionally, the University has a full-fledged Career Counselling and Development
Cell (CCDC) with its own separate building, staff and library that organize year-round
programmes of counselling, coaching/training and informing students about avenues
and opportunities of employment. The CCDC organises more than a dozens of
programmes in the interest of students to coach and train them for appearing in
competitive examinations. A brief note of the successful candidates in various
examinations trained by the CCDC is shown in the table here below:
Successful candidates in different Competitive Examinations:
Sr. No. Name of Examination Year
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
1 GPSC Class I 1
2 GPSC Class II 4
3 GPSC Class III 14
4 GPSC 1+1
(Lecturer)
4
5 District Mamlatdar 1
6 Deputy Mamlatdar 2 2
7 PSI 5 3 8
8 SRP 1
9 Talati Mantri 1 1
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10 UPSC 1 1(IAS)
11 Forest Officer 1
12 NET 8 4
13 SLET 4 15
14 Stenographer 1
15 Bank P.O. 1
16 Bank Clerical 1 1
17 Typist at High court 1
18 EPFO 2
19 Constable Lok Rakshak 1
20 Deputy Section officer 1
21 PGVCL Clerk 1
The Overall picture of students successfully employed from different Departments is
given in the following Table
Name of the
Department
UGC-
CSIR-
NET
SLET ATE / CAT /
GRE /
TOFEL /
GMAT /
Central /
State
services
Defence State
Level
Civil
Services
Any Other
Bio Chemistry 1 1
Mathematics 3 25
Pharmacy 83 (GATE /
GPSC)
Philosophy 5
Physical Education 2 6 9
Chemistry 15 3 20 (GATE /
GPSC)
Physics 1 2 2 13
Sanskrit 7 3
Sociology 5 13
Electronics 1
Hindi 10 3 4
History 4
Social Work 2 10
Bio Science 6
Economics 1
English 4 1 25 1
Gujarati 11
Home Science 05 10
Human Rights 3
Law 8
Library Info.
Science
08 2 2 2
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Saurashtra University Competitive Exam Awareness Test (SUCEAT) is
conducted by CCDC every year, to prepare students for the Competitive Exams like
UPSC/GPSC/BANK/RAILWAY/SSS etc. Every year more than 12,000 students
appear in these examinations. The district Toppers are awarded with complimentary
prizes of General Studies Books worth Rs. 1000.00 each.
CCDC has independent library facilities for students preparing for competitive
examinations where there are more than thousand members, for whom the relevant
books as well as free internet facility along with 15 magazines and three National
daily newspapers are available.
The IIIC of the Saurashtra University specifically pays attention to
establishing linkages with industries and corporate houses with two specific purposes:
a) finding the needs for professional employment; and b) exploring opportunities as to
how those needs could optimally be met by the graduates and postgraduates of our
University. The IIIC has organised more 30 important meetings in the last four
academic years involving leading academician, industrialist, corporate professionals,
etc.
There is also a Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) on the campus which
offers several value-added short-term courses and organises skill-enhancement
training programmes round the year enhancing employability prospects.
The element of innovation cuts across all aspects of the teaching-learning
spectrum, from the smallest variations to big ideas. With respect to the curricula,
innovation happens most often in how they are taught and how the students are given
various creative and innovative tasks for their internals. The courses have been
designed with inter-disciplinary and real-life case study aspects incorporated in them
to broaden the horizon of the students and make them identify aspects of their
curricula that have an impact in the society. Blended learning provides excellent
opportunities for innovative classroom teaching. Faculty make use of e-resources for
teaching along with traditional lecture and blackboard/white-board methods. The
projects and assignments given to students make them explore their subjects beyond
their text and reference books and encourage out-of-the box ideas. To this effect,
organising seminars and workshops along with invitation to guest faculty by various
departments on the campus and affiliating colleges besides being platforms of
deliberations impacting the curricula also become events where new and innovative
ideas and concepts are mooted and disseminated. A list of
seminars/workshops/symposia held on the campus in the period between 2009 and
2013 is attached under the appropriate sub-section in Criterion 3 (3.1.11). Internet
access for students enables them to source the latest information in their subjects and
turn them into knowledge. The Academic Staff College (ASC) on the Campus is
constantly engaged to impart FDPs that would motivate faculty to become and remain
up-to-date and innovative in their areas of expertise and interest. The Saurashtra
University is only the second University in the state to have a full-fledged on-campus
ASC. A list of the ASC activities in the last four years is attached appropriately under
sub-section 2.4.10.
Research is a vital component of higher education and the strongest way to
lend newness and innovation in disciplines of knowledge. Often universities are
known outside their regions on the basis of their research strength. Saurashtra
University too gives significant attention to research. Many departments like
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Journalism & Mass Communication, Social Work, Library & Information Science,
Psychology, Human Rights, Law, Education, Home Science, Commerce,
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biosciences, Biochemistry and Statistics have a component
of research at the Masters level itself. Full-time M. Phil. programmes are running on
the campus to orient students towards deeper research. Students have to clear an
entrance examination for securing admission to M. Phil. programme. For Ph. D., the
Saurashtra University Common Admission Board (SUCAB) conducts PHD Entrance
Test (PET) and the research proposals of successful candidates are screened by a duly
constituted Research Development Committee (RDC) set up by the University; the
candidates whose proposals are cleared by the RDC get final registration to Ph. D.
programmes. It is noteworthy that the NET/JRF, SLET, and M. Phil. Candidates are
exempted from the PET.
A brief on the achievements of the various departments on the campus vis-a-vis
research runs as follows:
i) Departments of Biosciences, Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy–all
credited with UGC-CAS/SAP, DST-FIST, Centre of Excellence, and other
distinctions such as National Facility for Drug Discovery (NFDD) – are
renowned centres for research on the campus. Their relevant details are
described in sub-section 3.2.5.
ii) The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has
successfully completed the first phase of UGC-SAP/DRS on Indian
Renaissance Literatures in English, Hindi and Gujarati.
iii) Psychological Scales developed and Psychometric Forms designed by the
Department of Psychology are adopted as research tools by other
Universities in the State.
iv) Statistical tools and methods of data analysis devised by the Department of
Statistics are employed by many departments within and beyond the
campus to augment their research.
v) Department of Gujaratihas instituted the Zaverchand Meghani Lok Sahitya
Kendra for study and research into Saurashtrian and Gujarati folklore.
vi) Research work in the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication
has significantly enhanced understanding of the journalistic history of
Saurashtra, both print and electronic.
vii) Research work in the Department of Hindi focuses on significant
contemporary and emerging areas like Gender and Ethnic Studies.
viii) Research work in theDepartment of Economics has significantly enhanced
understanding of Regional Economy.
ix) Department of Education is well known for its expertise in the areas of
Experimental Research and Test Construction.
1.1.4 To what extent does the University use the guidelines of the regulatory
bodies for developing and/or restructuring the curricula? Has the
University been instrumental in leading any curricular reform which has
created a national impact?
The UGC Curriculum Development Council (UGC CDC) syllabi models are
followed as foundational yardsticks to develop or restructure the curricula. The same
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applies for professional courses like Engineering, Architecture, Management and
Pharmacy where the curricular norms laid down by AICTE& NCTE are followed; and
the MCI, DCI, INC, etc.,norms are adhered to for medical and paramedical courses.
Furthermore, the BoS in each subject regularly undertakes the assessment of existing
curricula with an eye towards their retention or modification. The curricular
overhauling has been a regular feature every three years in this University wherein the
endeavour is to balance canonical learning with emerging new areas. The regional
needs form an important discussion in these syllabus reform / modification meetings
and these are incorporated mostly as a full-length course. To mention some highlights
about the uniqueness of our curricula:
Department of Biosciences offers courses (both at teaching and research levels) on Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystem and Desert Ecosystem keeping
into consideration the long coastline of the State and the climatic aridity of
Saurashtra.
Department of Physics with its excellent expertise in Nano Science &
Technology offers inter-disciplinary courses in this area. It also offers a large
and diversified packet of 12 electives out of which the students at the M.Sc.
level can choose any 4.
Department of Chemistry, with its strong research base in Pharmaceutical Sciences, offers highly advanced Pharma-Analytical, and Pharma-Organic,
Physical & Material Sciences (Polymers & Physical Chemistry) courses.
Department of Pharmacy is offering two unique courses: Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Research (PGDCR) and Certificate Course in Dialyses
Techniques (CCDT), one of its kinds in the State. This department is the only
institute in the State which has DCGI approved Human Ethics Committee
(ETHICLIN) for Bio Availability /Bio Equivalence studies.
Department of Electronics offers an one of its kind course in the State, a five-year Integrated Course in ECI (Electronics, Computer and Instrumentation)
which besides covering all the core courses of electronics incorporates
computer science related areas like JAVA, PHP, MySQL, Web-designing
and Hardware as well as areas of Advanced Electronics like Automobile,
Futuristic and Emerging electronics.
Department of Computer Science teaches unique courses like Advanced PHP
and Dot Net.
Department of Statistics offers a unique job-oriented PG Diploma in Hospital Management (PGDHM).
Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies offers a full course on Indian Poetics along with Western Criticism and Theory. Under
Comparative Literature, it teaches texts originally in Gujarati and Hindi (and
not their translated-into-English version). It offers elective courses in
Translation Studies, Creative Writing and Film Studies.
Department of Gujarati on the campus is the only department in the country
to offer an optional paper on Folk Literature at the UG level. It is a nationally
recognized centre for Folk and Bardic literature.
M. Phil. Courses in the Department of Hindi are unique in their foci on Women‘s, Dalit and Adivasi (Tribal) Studies.
Department of Psychology‘s course in Clinical Psychology is taken as a model in the psychology departments of other universities and colleges.
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Courses like Mathematical Logic and Philosophy of Science are unique for the State offered only here by the Department of Philosophy.
Life and Community oriented multi-disciplinary courses offered by the
Department of Home Science are both unique and much in demand.
Department of Education is the only department in the State to offer Information Technology in Education as a core paper. Its career-oriented
course in Instructional Psychology is also unique in the State.
The Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, a premier national institute, offers a unique course affiliated to Saurashtra University that is M.
Phil. in Natural Resource Management.
The M.Sc. course in Wildlife Science is a flagship course of the Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun, a premier national institute for training and
research in the field of wildlife conservation and management and is widely
acclaimed both nationally and internationally. This course is affiliated to
Saurashtra University.
All India Institute for Local Self Government Mumbai (established in 1926)
is a premier autonomous research and training institution in India and offers a
few unique courses affiliated to Saurashtra University, namely: a) B.Sc. in
Food Science Technology, b) PG Diploma in Fire Safety & Disaster
Management, and c) Diploma in Public Health Services.
The Christ College Rajkot affiliated to Saurashtra University offers a one-of-its kind course in the State at the UG level called B.Sc. in Bio-informatics.
The M.&N. Virani Science College, Rajkot affiliated to Saurashtra University offers a few one-of-its kind courses at the UG level in the region,
namely: a) B.Sc. Industrial Chemistry, b) B.Sc. Biotechnology, c) M.Sc.
Industrial Chemistry, and d) M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry.
1.1.5 Does the University interact with industry, research bodies and the civil
society in the curriculum revision process? If so, how has the University
benefitted through interactions with the stakeholders?
As mentioned in 1.1.3, the Industries-Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC), an
initiative of the University‘s IQAC is regularly in dialogue with industries and other
private institutions to assess the outcome of syllabus learning and the hands-on
realities of the outside world. The IIIC of the Saurashtra University specifically pays
attention to establishing linkages with industries and corporate houses with two
specific purposes: a) finding the needs for professional employment; and b) exploring
opportunities as to how those needs could optimally be met by the graduates and
postgraduates of our University. Additionally each department on the campus is
linked to their relevant research bodies and academic institutes like the Sciences with
CSIR, Humanities with ICCR, ICHR, Sahitya Akademi, Social Sciences with ICRAR,
etc. The Alumni of the University who are now established in various walks of their
professional life maintain contacts with their respective departments. Interaction with
such bodies and stakeholders help the University in incorporating latest areas of
knowledge in its curricula as well as erect facilities and infrastructure on the campus.
A point worth mentioning here arises from the University‘s interaction with the civil
society: many people from the society make use of the green campus for their
morning or evening walk. The University saw this as an opportunity to bring the
members of the society on its campus and hence has facilitated them by creating foot-
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paths on either side of the RCC roads that serve as walking tracks. A group of senior
citizens from the society are especially fond of a patch of the University‘s beautiful
garden and lawn which has a Saraswati Temple on it. The University also has an
exclusive Fitness& Freshness Centre for Women to encourage home-makers and
career women to maintain their health and fitness. The University Crèche has been
established to assist young working women with kids from the nearby society. And
listening to a feedback from its students to provide them an informal students‘
meeting space, the University has erected sitting circles under many of its trees as
well as shaded huts at different points on the campus.
1.1.6 Give details of how the University facilitates the introduction of new
programmes of studies in its affiliated colleges.
The University considers the BoS meetings of vital importance in framing and
introduction of new programmes. The need for a new programme first emerges in the
discussion within and feedback given to the BoS. The BoS of each discipline meets at
least once every semester. The suggestions of the BoS for the introduction of a new
programme are then sent to members of the Faculty, who after due formalities
forward it to the Academic Council. The affiliating college then informs, and through
a prescribed procedure applies to the University for Introduction of the new
programme.
On receipt of the application for a new programme/s, the University
constitutes a need-cum-inspection team, the Local Inquiry Committee (LIC) visits the
college to assess the physical infrastructure, qualified faculties, laboratories and
libraries required to run the proposed courses. The report by the LIC is discussed and
its recommendations are positioned before the Academic Council for the final
decision.The Council studies the relevance and significance of the new programme
and being convinced of its suitability, places the proposal to the Syndicate for
ratification. The University has always maintained the policy of curricular revision
and up gradation every fourth year and encourages the members of all the relevant
bodies to be alert towards enhancement of knowledge through the introduction of
contemporary, new and challenging programmes of studies. Section 1.1.4 above
already contains the highlights of the uniqueness of our curricula. At the time of a
major policy-level decision regarding redrafting of the programmes of studies, the
movement of deliberations takes place top-downwards, i.e., from the Vice-chancellor
and Syndicate to the BoS. Such a major policy shift took place last in 2010 when the
University decided to implement the CBCS. A list of new programmes in the last four
years and their date of approval is given below:
Sr.
No. Bachelor or Master Degree Programme Faculty Date
1 M. Phil. (Journalism) Arts 23.02.2010
2 B.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology (B. Sc. M.L.T) Science 23.02.2010
3 M.Sc. Marine Science(Biological Oceanography) Science 10.07.2010
4 M.Sc. Marine Science(Chemical Oceanography) Science 10.07.2010
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5 M.Sc. Marine Science(Physical Oceanography) Science 10.07.2010
6 M.Sc. Marine Science(Geological Oceanography Science 10.07.2010
7 M.A.( Political Science & Public Administration) Arts 10.07.2010
8 M. Phil. (Natural Resource Management) Business Management 09.05.2011
9 M.Sc. FST(Food Science & Technology) Science 14.11.2011
10 B.Sc. FST(Food Science & Technology) Science 22.03.2012
11 M.D. (Homoeopathy) Homoeopathy 05.06.2012
12 M.D. (Radiotherapy) Medicine 23.07.2012
13 M.Sc. (Pharma Organic Chemistry) Science 24.12.2012
14 M. Phil. (Education) Education 24.12.2012
15 M. Phil. (Physical Education) Education 24.12.2012
16 Bachelor of Social Work & Human Resource
Management BSW (HRM)
Arts 24.12.2012
17 M. Phil. (Pharmaceutical Biotechnology) Pharm. 24.12.2012
18 M. Pharm. (Drug Regulatory Affairs) Pharm. 24.12.2012
19 Pharm. D. (Six Years) Pharm. 24.12.2012
20 Pharm.D. (Post Baccalaureate) (Three Years) Pharm. 24.12.2012
21 Master in Hospital Administration Business Management 27.6.2013
22 Master in Hospital Administration Science Science 27.6.2013
23 B.A. Gandhian Studies (External) Arts 27.6.2013
24 M.A. Gandhian Studies (External) Arts 27.6.2013
25 M. A. (Education) (External) Arts 27.6.2013
26 M. Phil. ( Management ) Business Management 27.6.2013
1.1.7 Does the University encourage its colleges to provide additional skill-
oriented programmes relevant to regional needs? Cite instances.
Yes, the University does believe in introducing the component of skill-
orientation right from the UG level. Consequently, many UG courses in the
Sciences, Management and Computer Science are skill-based and designed
according to professional / job-related demands: e.g., courses like BBA; BCA;
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B.Sc. IT; B.Sc. in Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Environment Science, Bio-
informatics, Bio-technology, Industrial Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry.
A list of skill-oriented programmes in the last four years and their date of
introduction is given below:
Sr.
No.
Name of the New Programme Name of the
Faculty
Year of
Approval
1 Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research
( PGDCR )
Pharm. 23.2.2010
2 Diploma in Yoga Education 11.6.2010
4 Post Graduate Diploma in Health Care, Medical
Profession and Law (PGDHCMPL )
Law 11.6.2010
5 Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Process out
sourcing ( PGDLPO )
Law 11.6.2010
6 Post Graduate Diploma in Hardware
Technology and Net Working (P.G.D.H.T.
&N.W.)
Science 22.3.2012
7 Certificate Courses in Dialysis Techniques(
CCDT )
Pharm. 22.3.2012
8 Post Graduate Diploma in Orthopedics Medicine 23.7.2012
9 Diploma in I.T. for Researcher Science 5.6.2012
10 Post Graduate Diploma in Food Science and
Technology ( 15 Months)
Science 24.12.2012
11 Post Graduate Diploma in Fire safety& Disaster
Management
Business
Management
24.12.2012
12 Post Graduate Diploma in Sophisticated
Instrumentation Techniques for Pharma and
related Industries.
Science 22.6.2012
13 Post Graduate Diploma in Patentization,
Documentation and Regulatory Affairs.
Science 22.6.2012
1.2 Academic Flexibility
1.2.1 Furnish the inventory of the following:
Programmes taught on the campus are enlisted below:
Faculty of Arts:
Master of Arts
Master of Arts (External)
Master of Labour Welfare
Master of Philosophy
Master of Social Work
Master of Library and Information Science
Master of Journalism and Mass Communication
Master of Fine Arts
Master of Performing Arts
Master of Applied Arts
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Master of Gandhian Studies
Bachelor of Library Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Education
Master of Education
Master of Philosophy , Education
Master of Physical Education
Faculty of Science
Master of Science
Master of Philosophy
Master of Computer Science and Application
Master of Science Information Technology and Computer Application
M. Sc. (ECI) Integrated
Doctor of Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Post Graduate Diploma in Sophisticated Instrumentation Techniques for Pharma and related Industries
Faculty of Law
Master of Law
Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Laws and International
Humanitarian Laws
Faculty of Commerce
Master of Commerce
Master of Commerce (External)
Master of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Home Science
Master of Home Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Business Management
Master of Business Administration
Doctor of Philosophy
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Management
Faculty of Pharmacy
Master of Pharmacy
Doctor of Philosophy
M. Phil.
Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research
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Overseas programmes offered on the campus: None as yet
Programmes available for colleges enlisted as follow
Faculty of Arts
Bachelor of Arts (Special)
Bachelor of Arts (General)
Bachelor of Arts (Special) (External)
Bachelor of Arts (General) (External)
Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Library Science
Diploma In Music
Diploma in Drama
Diploma in Painting and Sculpture
Diploma in Dancing
Diploma in Architecture
Diploma in Journalism
Diploma in Physical Education
Diploma in Cooperation
Senior Certificate in English
Junior Certificate in English
Doctor of Letters
Junior Certificate in Sanskrit
Senior Certificate in Sanskrit
Post Graduate Diploma in Quantitative Economics
Diploma in Research Methodology
Diploma in Tamil
Certificate in Tamil
Diploma in German
Diploma in French
Diploma in Russia
Junior Certificate in German
Senior Certificate in German
Junior Certificate in French
Certificate course in Journalism
Senior Certificate in French
Senior Certificate in Russian
Junior Certificate in Russian
Certificate in Research Methodology
Certificate in Photography
Diploma in Photography
Bachelor of Journalism
Diploma in Public Relations
Diploma in Printing
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Performing Arts
Bachelor of Applied Arts
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Post Graduate Diploma Course in Hindi Translation
Certificate Course in Indian Poetics
Certificate Course in Jain Culture Literature
Certificate Course in English
Diploma Course in Translation
Diploma Course in Charani Sahitya
Bachelor of Social Work
P. G. Diploma in Vallabha Vedant & Vaishnavism
Faculty of Education
Bachelor of Education
Bachelor of Education in English
Diploma In Education
Bachelor of Physical Education
Faculty of Science
Bachelor of Science (Special)
Bachelor of Science (General)
Master of Science
Doctor of Science
Diploma in Statistics
Diploma in Research Methodology
Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Microbiology
Diploma in Fisheries
Post Graduate Diploma in Water and Soil Analysis
PGDCA
BCA
DMLT
B.IT. & CA
PGDHTA
M. Sc. IT & CA
Faculty of Technology including Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering
Master of Engineering
B. Arch.
Ph. D.
Faculty of Law
LL. B. (General)
LL. B. (Special)
Diploma in Taxation Laws and Practice
Diploma in Labour Laws and Practice
Diploma in Banking Co-operation and Administrative Law
P.G. Diploma in Corporate Laws
P. G. Diploma in Banking Laws
P. G. Diploma in Export – Import Laws
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P. G. Diploma in Environmental Laws
Faculty of Medicine
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S)
Doctor of Medicine
Master of Surgery
Bachelor of Science (Medical)
Master of Science (Medical)
Bachelor of Pharmacy
Master of Pharmacy
Diploma in Ophthalmology
Diploma in Anaesthesia
Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Diploma in Otorhinolaryngology
Diploma in Child Health
Diploma in Medical Radio Diagnosis
Diploma in Public Health
Diploma in Venereology and Dermatology
Diploma in Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy
Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases
Diploma in Pharmacy
Diploma in Clinical Pathology
Bachelor of Science (Nursing)
Bachelor of Dental Surgery
Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology
Master of Chi ology
Master of Dental Surgery
Bachelor of Physiotherapy
Faculty of Commerce
Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Business Administration
Diploma in Business Management
Diploma in Banking
Diploma in Industrial Management
Diploma in Co-operation
Diploma in Financial Management
1.2.2 Give details on the following provisions with reference to academic
flexibility Core / Elective options:
a. Students on the campus have two/three core courses in each semester. Usually
students avails option for electives / interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary in two
out of four semesters. Some departments on the campus offer dissertation /
project work.
b. Enrichment courses: Students on the campus have six enrichment courses over
their Masters programme of four semesters.
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c. Courses offered in modular form: courses offered on the campus are according
to the CBCS mode but modular form is yet to be introduced.
d. Credit accumulation and transfer facility: This facility is yet to be introduced
at our University.
e. Lateral and vertical mobility within and across programmes, courses and
disciplines: Such mobility exists from Science to Commerce, and Science and
Commerce to Arts. Additionally, students of Arts can join the BCA
programme. There is full Vertical Flexibility in all professional courses i.e.
MCA, MBA, MSW, MLW, LL. B., M. Sc. (IT&CA), BJMC, B. Ed., etc. With
effect from academic year 2013 the University has instituted UG and PG
programmes in Gandhian Studies wherein students from any stream can join.
MCA course has been introduced with lateral mobility.
1.2.3 Does the University have an explicit policy and strategy for attracting
international students?
The University has initiated a dialogue with the Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR) to systematically initiate the entry of foreign students on the campus
under the ICCR Scholarship Schemes in 21 major areas. The number of foreign
students in the University till now has been in the courses offered by the Wildlife
Institute of India, Dehradun and Department of Pharmaceutical Science. The foreign
students enrolling here are mostly from the SAARC countries. The number of foreign
students enrolled in the years between 2009 and 2013 at this institute is four: two
from Nepal, and one each from Mongolia, Guyana and one from Iran at the University
Campus. Presently, students from USA, Iran, and other countries are studying under
various research programmes.
1.2.4 Have any courses been developed targeting international students? If so,
how successful have they been? If „no‟, explain the impediments?
The Saurashtra University is having good infrastructure and courses designed
for Research degree programmes. Hence, most of the foreign students getting enrolled
with the Saurashtra University are in the research programmes. Departments like
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Philosophy, Management, etc. have cultivated bilateral
relations over a period of time which has resulted into having students from abroad.
1.2.5 Does the University facilitate dual degree and twinning programmes? If
yes, give details.
Dual degree or twinning programme is not yet a regular feature. However,
integrated courses like B. Com. –LL. B. and B. Sc. ECI – M. Sc. ECI have been
initiated.
1.2.6 Does the University offer self-financing programmes? If yes, list them and
indicate if policies regarding admission, fee structure, teacher qualification and
salary are at par with the aided programmes?
Yes, the University offers self-financing programmes as indicated in the list
tagged below. Teacher qualification is never compromised in such programmes and
the salary too is commensurate with the best in each respective category. The
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University follows the rules and regulations of the UGC, State Government, and its
own executive council guidelines.
A list of self-financing programmes run in the last four years and their fees is given
below:
Self-finance Programs Detail
Department Seats Available Fee (Rs.)
Bio-Science Master(15)
23015
Chemistry Master(50)
12615
Physics Master(20)
11000
Electronics
Master(60)
PGDHTA(40)
Post Graduate Diploma
in Hardware Technology and
Applications
10000(Master)
6250
(PGDHTA)
Computer Science Master(30) M.Sc. IT(70)
22585(MCA)
21585(M.SCIT)
Mathematics Master(30) M. Phil. (15)
3150(master)
4750(MPHILL)
Pharmacy Master(108)
55000
M.B.A.
Master(30)
PGDBA(60) Post Graduate Diploma
in
Business Administration
50640(MBA)
14715(PGDBA)
Home Science Master(04)
5025
Education Master(15)
20000
Physical Education Master(30)
15000
Law Master(15) PGDFT(10)
4500(LAW)
2000(PGDFT)
Human Rights & IHL Master(07)
5665
English Master(06) M. Phil. (03) 3595
Gujarati ----- M. Phil. (24) 4820
Hindi ----- M. Phil. (30) 5735
History Master(06)
3605
Philosophy ------ M. Phil. (06) 5575
Library &Information
Science
Master(06) M. Li. Sc. (03)
9670 (B. Lib)
113730(M. LI.
Sc.)
Psychology M. Phil.(6) 5585(M. Phil.)
Social work
Master
(35)
M. L.W(35) Master of Labour
Welfare
7500(M.S.W)
7500(M.L.W)
1.2.7 Does the University provide the flexibility of bringing together the
conventional face-to-face mode and distance mode of education and allow
students to choose and combine the courses they are interested in? If „yes‟ give
operational details.
Apart from face-to-face mode, the University offers External Programmes,
which is based on the CBCS model since 2010-11. The linking of both the Regular
and External modes under CBCS has been done with a view to facilitate all students
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with the same competitive syllabi, providing students with the flexibility of opting
into the External mode, and reduce the drop-out rate. The courses offered under the
External Programme are: B.A., B. Com., M.A., and M. Com. The new courses
introduced from 2013 under the External Programme are: B.A. and M.A. in Gandhian
Studies and M.A. in Education. The Saurashtra University website reflects all relevant
information of the External Programmes. At present more than 29,000 students are
enrolled per semester. The University is in the process of converting its external
programmes into e-programmes.
1.2.8 Has the University adopted the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)? If
yes, for how many programmes? What efforts have been made by the
University to encourage the introduction of CBCS in its affiliated
colleges?
All the 28 PG departments on the campus run their programmes according to
the Choice Based Credit System as per the UGC guidelines from June 2010 onwards.
(The inventory of programmes has already been furnished under sub-section 1.2.1
above.) The UG programmes run in the affiliated colleges (list in 1.2.1) also adopted
CBCS. And as mentioned above under 1.2.7, even the external programmes since
2010-11 are being offered through the CBCS mode.
1.2.9 What percentage of programmes offered by the University follow:
Annual system – 12%
Semester system (CBCS) – 88%
Trimester system – 0%
1.2.10 How does the University promote inter-disciplinary programmes? Name a
few programmes and comment on their outcome.
The PG syllabus of every department on the campus has an inter-disciplinary
component in the first two semesters. Particular programmes worth mentioning are:
- Course in ECI at the Electronics Department: Here, students gain knowledge of not
only electronics but computers and instrumentation too and thus making them
holistically knowledgeable in these three inter-connected fields of knowledge.
- Course in General Semantics at the English Department: The ‗semantics‘ in General
Semantics is not connected to language studies or Linguistics but explores meaning
ascribed by people to life in the larger sense and therefore this course encompasses
other disciplines of knowledge like philosophy, psychology, political science, history,
and even mathematics and certain other domains of pure sciences.
- Course in Hospital Management at the Statistics Department is subscribed by many
doctors who want to know how to better run their own private multi-speciality
enterprises.
- Course in Mathematical Logic at the Philosophy Department links philosophy and
mathematics making students realize the overlap in these two disciplines and give
students of philosophy and an extra epistemological and professional edge.
- Course in Organo-pharmaceutical, Pharma Analytical and Physical Polymer
Chemistry at the Chemistry Department equips students with the knowledge of much-
in-demand specializations which are interdisciplinary.
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- Course in Folklore at the Gujarati Department provides students of literature the
knowledge of oral literatures/traditions; thereby grounding them soundly into their
domain of creative / imaginative art.
- Operations of Stock Exchanges: This is unique interdisciplinary course offered by
the Commerce department. This paper is offered to all post graduate students giving
exposure to stock market operations.
- Basics of Computers, Personality Development and Interview Skills at the Hindi
Department empower students with soft skills required for a competitive job milieu.
The above cited are few examples of inter disciplinary approach adopted.
1.3 Curriculum Enrichment
1.3.1 How often is the curriculum of the University reviewed and upgraded for
making it socially relevant and / or job oriented / knowledge intensive and
making the emerging needs of the students and other stake holders?
The curriculum of the University is generally reviewed every three years with
the process being initiated through the Board of Studies, going through the respective
Faculty, then finally approved by the Academic Council. The University, since
moving over into the CBCS programme in 2010, has not initiated the curricular
change this year in order to allow stabilization of the CBCS. Instead, the University
has also made CBCS the norm for its External Programme since 2011, and is
monitoring the transition by Statutory Authorities of the University. In several
faculties, new courses and curriculum changes are done looking to the need in
knowledge and requirement in society at large.
1.3.2 During the last four years, how many new programmes at UG and PG
levels were introduced? Give details.
The list of new programmes in the last four years is already attached under
1.1.6. Of these, 05 can be put under inter-disciplinary programmes, and 08 under
programmes in emerging areas.
Inter-disciplinary Programmes:
Sr.
No.
Bachelor or Master Degree
Programme Faculty Date
1 B.Sc. Medical Laboratory
Technology
( B. Sc. M.L.T )
Science 23.2.2010
2 M.Sc. Marine Science(Biological
Oceanography)
Science 10.7.2010
3 M. Pharm. (Drug Regulatory
Affairs)
Pharmacy 24.12.2012
4 Master in Hospital Administration
Science
Science 27.6.2013
5 Master in Hospital Administration Business
Management
27.06.2013
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Programmes in Emerging Areas:
Sr.
No.
Bachelor or Master Degree
Programme Faculty Date
1 M.Sc. Marine Science(Chemical
Oceanography)
Science 10.7.2010
2 M.Sc. Marine Science(Physical
Oceanography)
Science 10.7.2010
3 M.Sc. Marine Science(Geological
Oceanography
Science 10.7.2010
4 M. Phil. ( Natural Resource
Management)
Business
Management
9.5.2011
5 M. Phil. ( Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology)
Pharmacy 24.12.2012
6 Pharm. D. ( Six Years ) Pharmacy 24.12.2012
7 Pharm. D. ( Post Baccalaureate )
(Three Years)
Pharmacy 24.12.2012
8 B. A. Gandhian Studies
( External )
Arts 27.6.2013
9 M.A. Gandhian Studies
(External)
Arts 27.6.2013
1.3.3 What are the strategies adopted for the revision of the existing
programmes? What percentage of courses underwent a syllabus revision?
Strategy of the curricular revision and change is based upon a three-pronged
process:
a) The individual BoS for various disciplines deciding to bring about a revision,
looking at the need to make the syllabus more contemporary, flexible and dynamic
through inclusion of emerging and inter-disciplinary areas
b) Timely suggestions given by governing academic bodies like UGC (CDC), AICTE
etc. The thrust area of various disciplines of science is also taken into account. The
University always endeavours in these changes to pay attention, incorporating the
local requirements in its syllabus; and
c) The University and individual departments seek advice from concerned external
experts from both academia and industry.
A major syllabus revision across the University took place in 2010 with the transition
from the Semester to the CBCS mode. Apart from the list of new programmes
introduced (mentioned in 1.3.2 above), since the transition from Semester to the
CBCS mode, no change has been introduced in the existing courses. A revision is
scheduled in the academic year 2014 – 15.
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1.3.4 What are the value added courses offered by the University and how does
the University ensure that all students have access to them?
Specific value-added courses offered by the University are:
Departments Value-added Programmes
Biosciences
M. Phil. in Plant Biotechnology and Genetic
Engineering
Law
1) Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Process
outsourcing
2) PG Diploma in Forensic Science
3) PG Diploma in Export- Import (EXIM) Laws
4) PG Diploma in Banking Law
Physical Education M. Phil. in Physical Education
Those that have been introduced in the last four years are:
i) Diploma in Yoga
ii) M.A. Elective course in General Semantics
iii) B.A. in Gandhian Studies
iv) M.A. in Gandhian Studies
The University has always endeavoured to add value in the lives of its
stakeholders, most importantly and directly in its students. Lectures and talks are
arranged at regular intervals on the campus regarding the necessity, importance and
aspects / categories of value in life, be it from spiritual mentors like the monks from
Ramakrishna Mission, Advaita Ashram, Art of Living etc., and scholars, writers and
thinkers. A list here would be too long, but just to mention a few such talks held only
in 2013 would suffice:
Sr.
No.
Name of the Speaker Topic of the Talk /
Lecture
Date
1 Kajal Oza-Vaidya (renowned
Gujarati novelist)
―My Message is My
Life‖
7 October
2 Prof. Prashant Sinha (eminent
Full-Bright scholar)
―Mahatma Gandhi‘s
Political
Ideals‖
2 October
3 Prof. Babu Suthar (Linguist-
Theorist from Pennsylvania
University)
‗Journey of a Boy from
a Marginal Community
to the States‘
16 August
4 Prof. Ranjana Harish (eminent
scholar & former HoD, English
Dept., GU, Ahmedabad)
‗Status & Role of
Women in the Present
Time‘
8 March
5 Prof. Nandkishore Acharya
(Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi
awarded poet and critic)
‗The Social
Significance of
Literature‘
5 March
6 Prof. Arun Kamal (Bharat Bhushan
Puraskar awardee Hindi poet)
‗Role of Poetry and the
Poet‘
5 March
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1.3.5 Has the University introduced any higher order skill development
programmes in consonance with the national requirements as outlined by the
National Skills Development Corporation and other agencies?
The higher order skill development programmes introduced by the University
in the last four years are eleven. They are as under:
Sr.
No.
Name of the Programme Faculty Year of
Commencement
1 PG Diploma in Clinical Research
(PGDCR)
Pharmacy 2010
2 Post Graduate Diploma in Sophisticated
Instrumentation Techniques for Pharma
and related Industries.
Science 2012
3 Post Graduate Diploma in Patentization,
Documentation and regulatory Affairs.
Science 2012
4 Post Graduate Diploma in Health Care,
Medical Profession and Law
(PGDHCMPL)
Law 2010
5 Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Process
Out Sourcing(PGDLPO )
Law 2010
6 Post Graduate Diploma in Hardware
Technology and Net Working
(P.G.D.H.T.&N.W.)
Science 2012
7 Certificate Courses in Dialysis Technique
(CCDT )
Pharmacy 2012
8 Post Graduate Diploma in Orthopaedics
(MCI Approved)
Medicine 2012
9 Diploma in I.T. for Researcher Science 2012
10 Post Graduate Diploma in Food Science
and Technology
Science 2012
11 Post Graduate Diploma in Fire Safety &
Disaster Management
Business
Management
2012
1.4 Feedback System
1.4.1 Does the University have a formal mechanism to obtain feedback from
students regarding the curriculum and how is it made use of?
Feedback is a regular feature in all departments in the University. The
University Authorities have taken adequate steps to formalize such practice.Here the
University adheres to the NAAC feedback model, through its feedback forms for
faculty as well as courses to be filled by the students at the end of each semester.
Additionally, the existing alumnus with the departments is a very useful
channel of feedback regarding a realistic standing of the curriculum and the
improvement / enhancement required in them. For the operational aspects of the
curriculum, every department has a feedback / grievance mechanism through which it
obtains them on the various related issues.
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1.4.2 Does the University elicit feedback on the curriculum from national and
international faculty? If yes, specify a few methods such as conducting webinars,
workshops, online discussions, etc., and its impact.
Curriculum of every department is discussed at the departmental and
individual levels with national / international scholars whenever they are on the
campus visiting a particular department during events like seminars, conferences,
workshops, CAS / SAP appraisal meetings etc. The faculties of University who are
visiting various Universities and Institutes and places of Higher learning are also
getting good feedback during such academic visit. It would be pertinent here to cite a
few examples:
- October 2013: Visit by eminent scholar and former HoD, English at Pune
University, Professor Prashant Sinha and his discussion with the course coordinators
of Gandhian Studies for the newly introduced BA and MA level programmes on
Gandhian Studies.
- August 2013: Visit by international scholar Dr. Babu Suthar from the University of
Pennsylvania to the departments of Gujarati and English when the existing curricula
of these departments were discussed in the context of a discussion on marginal
literature, linguistics, literary criticism and theory.
- April 2013: Visit by international scholar Professor P.C. Kar, Director, Balvant
Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences and his team to the
Department of English & CLS, for a discussion on the existing curriculum in order to
confer the status of a Regional Centre on General Semantics and Other Human
Sciences.
- January 2013: Visit by international Canadian Scholar, and President International
Council for Canadian Studies, Professor Om P. Juneja to the Department of English &
CLS, for a discussion on the non-British and especially Canadian literature.
- March 2010: Visit by international scholars on Comparative Literature, Professors
Dorothy Figuera (America), Sieghild Bogumil (France), and Harish Trivedi (DU) to
the Department of English & CLS, for a discussion on the existing curriculum on
Comparative Literature.
The UGC CAS Biosciences Department has had an illustrious number of national and
international scholars who gave important suggestions for curriculum in the last four
years, a list of which is as under:
- January 2009: Visit by Dr. Zsolt Vegavariand Dr. Miriam Melanie Hansbauer, both
from Hortbagy National Park (Hungary),University of Debrecen, Germany to the
Department of Biosciences for a discussion on the latest research on European Crane.
- April 2010: visit by Prof P. Ramasamy, Vice –Chancellor, Alagappa University,
Alagappa Nagar, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, to the Department of Biosciences for
discussions on various issues related to educations reforms and collaborations
- Besides these in-person discussions, the method employed for curricular interaction
generally is telephonic and email discussion (with national scholars) and email (with
international scholars).
1.4.3 Specify the mechanism through which affiliated institutions give feedback
on curriculum enrichment and the extent to which it is made use of.
The teachers of affiliated colleges have adequate representation in all BoS,
Faculties and Academic Council through which their suggestions and feedback
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regarding alteration, addition and modification/up gradation of the curriculum is
addressed. These institutions follow the NAAC feedback model first for their own
institutions and then communicate to the University on relevant issues raised from
such feedback drives. The suggestions made by the BoS are outlined in 1.1.6.
1.4.4 What are the quality sustenance and quality enhancement measures
undertaken by the University in ensuring the effective development of the
curricula?
Quality is sustained and enhanced in the curricula through the following measures:
a) Framing competitive curricula to impart the students the best of learning in
their subjects.
b) Motivating the faculty to disseminate their curricular learning innovatively.
c) Adopting a continuous assessment mechanism through the internal tests,
projects, classroom seminars, assignments etc.
d) Endeavouring to provide adequate inter-disciplinary exposure to the learners.
e) Providing learners with technological facilities to enhance curricular learning.
f) Paying attention to a rigorous and timely examination schedule for allowing
students to test their curricular strengths.
g) Organizing CCDC and IIIC sessions for students to provide them with ideas
about the curricular demands in the outside world.
h) Eminent professors from outside the University are co-opted in all the BoS
and their suggestions for curriculum development are incorporated.
* Any other information regarding Curricular Aspects which the University would
like to include:
The University wishes to reiterate that it was the first State Conventional University in the entire western India to introduce the CBCS curricular mode
in 2010.
The curriculum of many departments on the Campus has a strong regional need-based speciality; just to mention a few examples: the Bio-Sciences
Department has a thrust on studying the coastal eco-system since Saurashtra
and indeed Gujarat has the longest coastline in India (approx. 1600 kms); the
Pharmacy Department runs courses on dialysis responding to the higher rate of
renal diseases in the people of Saurashtra; the State being a hub for
Pharmaceutical Industry, all the curricula of the Department of Chemistry and
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is oriented towards the need of such
requirements along with other related chemical, intermediate, dyes and
polymer industries; the Gujarati Department has earned a name in Bardic and
Folk literatures, again drawing an inspiration from the rich oral heritage of
Saurashtra.
The University has a very active Career Counselling and Development Centre,
reinforcing the curriculum taught on the campus with remedial coaching,
career-oriented UPSC / GPSC / NET / SET training classes and possesses an
excellent library with a full-time librarian of its own.
The Academic Staff College and individual departments on the Campus regularly organizes FDPs on newer / emerging curricular areas.
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The Centre for Continuing Education runs several Vocational, Skill Development, Personality Development, Self-Employment, and other short
term courses for the community at large.
The University fulfilled a long-held aspiration of the people of this region and
of its own with the introduction of UG and PG level programmes on Gandhian
Studies beginning 2013. By doing so, Saurashtra University is not only paying
tribute to the father of our nation but becomes the only higher education
institution in the State to offer such an extensive programme both for the UG
and PG students. Incidentally, Saurashtra University not only has the academic
jurisdiction over the birth-place of the Mahatma (Porbandar) but is itself
located at the place (Rajkot) that shaped Gandhiji and where he (as well as
Kasturba Gandhi) spent early years of their active life
Criterion II: Teaching-Learning and Evaluation
2.1 Student Enrolment and Profile
2.1.1 How does the University ensure publicity and transparency in the
admission process?
The University carries out publicity for admission in various newspapers as
well as the University website. The respective departments then conduct Entrance
Test for students desirous for PG admission. The broad syllabus and paper-style of the
Entrance Test is made known to the students by each Department. 50% weightage is
given to the score in the Entrance Test and 50% to the marks obtained in the
qualifying (Bachelor's) examination. The individual departments inform students
when their merit list would be prepared, and puts it on the notice board, and the
University website stating there that if students find any discrepancy (especially
regarding the marks they scored in their qualifying examination), they can draw the
attention of the departmental office and then begins the admission process in
accordance with the reservation policies of UGC and the Government of Gujarat as
applicable from time to time. Students finding a place on the merit list are then
informed from the office of respective departments about their registration process,
paying of the fee, commencement of their studies etc. The wait listed candidates are
also made aware of the status of the admission progress; and as per the availability of
the seats vacant, they are admitted. Thus, students seeking admission in the University
are notified about the entire admission process with an assurance of complete
transparency. Students in professional program like MBA, MCA and M. Pharm are
admitted by State Level Central Admission Committee.
2.1.2 Explain in detail the process of admission put in place by the University.
List the criteria for admission: (e.g.: (i) merit, (ii) merit with entrance test,
(iii)merit, entrance test and interview, (iv) common entrance test conducted by
state agencies and national agencies (v) other criteria followed by the University
(please specify).
Most departments on the campus follow criterion (ii), i.e., merit with entrance
test for admissions in the Masters and M. Phil. Programmes. Ph. D. admission is
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through the common entrance test conducted by the Saurashtra University Common
Admission Board (SUCAB) followed by the assessment of the Ph. D. proposals by
the Research Development Committee (RDC). The students having qualified
NET/JRF/SLET exams and those having M. Phil. degrees as per the UGC norms are
exempted from the Ph. D. entrance test. The merit lists for various entrance tests are
prepared within a maximum period of 48 hours as per the norms of the University and
displayed on the notice board of each department and also uploaded on the
departmental web space/page of the University website. Wherever common entrance
test are mandatory, the University abides by the relevant norms, e.g., MBA and MCA.
2.1.3 Provide details of admission process in the affiliated colleges and the
University‟s role in monitoring the same.
Affiliated colleges have been issued the minimum guidelines for admission
into the Bachelor‘s programmes. They also have the course / syllabus related
guidelines passed by the respective Boards of Studies, Faculty and the Academic
Councils. Colleges are independent to admit students in their programmes, and each
college advertises its guidelines and procedures. In case, in a particular academic year
if the demand for admission exceeds than available seats, the University authority
takes appropriate measures to ensure the smooth admission process to optimum
number of desirous students by allowing increase in number of seats in colleges. The
entire data related to students‘ registration from the affiliating colleges come to the
University forming a centralised data of UG students. With effect from 2011, this
vital data regarding students‘ registration has become online and the enrolment
number assigned to a student remains the same till the completion of the programme.
2.1.4 Does the University have a mechanism to review its admission process
and student profile annually? If yes, what is the outcome of such an analysis and
how has it contributed to the improvement of the process?
Departments on the campus review its admission process and student profile
twice a year – at the time of admission and before the semester-end examination as
regards attendance, dropouts, internal evaluation, overall progress, etc.
The Staff Councils in general and the Admission Committees in particular is
deliberate upon the graduate results of the year and the academic trends of graduate
students, both of which facilitate an idea as regards the demand of postgraduate
programmes on the campus. Having assessed the demand of a particular PG
programme through the number of application forms, the Admission Committee
strategizes upon the difficulty level of the entrance examination. In case there is an
increased demand of a particular PG programme in an academic year, the department
seeks permission to increase the intake number which is very positively responded by
the University. The University has formed a special wing called SUCAB (Saurashtra
University Common Admission Board) since 2012 to streamline admission procedure
in certain programmes, which are always in demand like B.Ed., M.Ed., M. S. W., and
M.Sc. (IT) besides monitoring the Ph. D. Entrance of the University.
The objectivity of the admission procedure is ensured by getting the OMR
based test papers prepared from a competent external agency.
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2.1.5 What are the strategies adopted to increase / improve access for students
belonging to the following categories: SC/ST; OBC; women; persons with varied
disabilities; economically weaker sections; outstanding achievers in sports and
other extra-curricular activities.
The University meticulously follows admission in accordance with the
reservation policies of the UGC and the State Government as regards students from
SC/ST, OBC and SEBC categories. A general positive trend over the past decade
worth mentioning in this context has been the rise of women students seeking
admission on the campus across the categories (as is also reflected in 2.1.6 below).
Many of these students as well as many men from the SC, ST and OBC categories
coming to the campus are first generation University students. Each department on the
campus would have more than half a dozen examples of under-privileged women and
men becoming shining examples for their community and motivating others to
empower themselves with higher education. Women students are exempted from
paying the tuition fees in all grant-in-aid courses. Moreover, the University has one
seat reserved in every department as a super-annuity seat for the single girl child. As
per State Government norms, there is a 3% special reservation for differently-abled
students. The University ensures that the seats are filled up by the candidates
belonging to different categories as per these policies. The University has a unique
Earn-While-Learn Scheme for providing earning opportunities to financially
constrained students. A special hostel (at present only for boys) has also been
constructed for providing staying facilities to such students. The University
encourages admission to students who are achievers in sports. It has trainers for 20
different sports and encourages its sportsmen and women to participate in various
events bearing their expenses towards travel, boarding and lodging.
2.1.6 Number of students admitted in University departments in the last four
Academic years: (SC, ST, OBC, General, Others)
Students Admitted in University Departments in the Last Four Academic Years
CATEGORY
2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013
M F M F M F M F
SC 115 71 106 62 89 64 78 74
ST 25 31 34 25 28 15 38 33
OBC 270 171 243 152 219 161 256 200
GENERAL 506 392 449 416 366 438 333 297
OTHER 14 24 13 16 17 28 9 24
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2.1.7 Has the University conducted any analysis of demand ratio for the
various programmes of the University departments and affiliated colleges? If so,
highlight the significant trends explaining the reasons for increase / decrease.
The analysis is tabulated as under:
The trend from the above table can be analysed as: in Arts & Humanities, the
demand ratio for Masters, M. Phil., and Ph. D. is decreasing; whereas the demand
ratio is increasing for Masters, M. Phil. and Ph. D. in the departments like Science,
Commerce, and Management. However, the demand ratio for Masters and Ph. D. is
increasing in departments like Law and Human Rights, Home Science.
2.1.8 Were any programmes discontinued / staggered by the University in the last four
years? If yes, please specify the reasons.
Information regarding programmes discontinued by the University:
Under the Faculty of Education, Bachelor of Physical Education (B.P.E. 3 years Programme) and B. P. Ed. One year Programme, after
graduation, is now transferred to Gujarat Swarnim Sports University
and B. Ed. (Rural Studies) is converted as the B. Ed. Basic Education.
Diploma in Business Management (DBM) under the faculty of Management
Self-financed programme of M. Phil. under the faculty of Commerce
B. Sc. Instrumentation (Vocational)
B.A LL. B. Integrated
Diploma in Vallabha Vedant
The list of the courses discontinued, running in the affiliated colleges, shall be
provided to the peer team at the time of visit.
Programs Number of
Application
Number of Student
Admitted
Demand
Ratio
UG
PG 8648 3932 46%
Integrated
Masters 29 27 93%
M. Phil. 1867 903 48%
Ph. D. 931 466 50%
Integrated Ph.
D.
Certificate
Diploma
PG Diploma 170 122 71%
Any Other
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2.2 Catering to Student Diversity
2.2.1 Does the University organize orientation / induction programmes for
freshers? If yes, give details such as the duration, issues covered, experts
involved and mechanism for using the feedback in subsequent years.
All departments on the Campus conduct a time-tested mechanism for the
orientation and induction programme for the freshers. The senior batch of students
decides on a day for the formal welcome cum induction of the new students in the
departments. This day is generally fixed within the first fortnight of the arrival of the
new batch of students. The programme has a formal and an informal session. In the
former, all faculty members, non-teaching staff and generally the head of the Institute
(Hon‘ble Vice-Chancellor and / or the Registrar) are invited. Students here articulate
their experience in the department and also their expectations. It is a session where the
University gets a glimpse of the aspirations of their most important stake-holders and
obtains an idea to optimally channelize these in the upcoming months of the semester.
The latter session gives an opportunity for the students to know each other and their
department. This session also brings out the extra-curricular / cultural talents of the
students helping each department to identify them for future programmes like the
University Youth Festival. Academically, all the Courses are introduced to the
students during the first week itself, particularly, the Elective Courses. A proper
induction of every course is organized, which helps the students in the selection of the
Elective Courses. The teacher-in -charge provides general outline of the Course.
2.2.2 Does the University have a mechanism through which the “differential
requirements of the student population” are analysed after admission and before
the commencement of classes? If so, how are the key issues identified and
addressed?
The differential level, requirements, motivation and expectations of the
students are gauged during the interview session of the incoming students after they
clear the merit in each department. These become more definite during the first week
of commencement of teaching when each faculty introduces his course, charts its
outline and scope and invites students' queries, doubts and clarifications towards the
particular course or the programme in general. These are then generally discussed in
the Staff Council wherein academic planning and strategies regarding lesson-planning
and students‘ task for their internals are discussed. Tentative identification of group
leaders for academic and extra-curricular activities is also carried out at this stage.
The accommodation and hostel facilities for students are also addressed and the
students are given advice on alternatives when they are unable to get admission at
various hostels of the University campus.
2.2.3 Does the University offer bridge / remedial / add-on courses? If yes, how
are they structured into the time table? Give details of the courses offered,
department-wise / faculty-wise.
Many departments on the Campus organize remedial courses. They are conducted and
structured outside the regular time table. As mentioned in 1.1.3, the University has a
special Career Counselling & Development Cell (CCDC) looking after the remedial
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requirements of students on the campus and has a structured time-table (kept mostly
on week-ends) for such activities. Some departments on the campus have their own
remedial schedule. For example, the Department of English & CLS runs a remedial
capsule targeting especially their first semester new entrants wholly managed by
mentors from their Alumni. The CCDC of the University regularly organizes remedial
classes. Besides CCDC, NET / SLET Coaching Centre, Entry into Service Centre are
run by faculties which cover both under privileged and general stream of students.
Focus is also given to strengthen the soft-skills of the students on the campus.
2.2.4 Has the University conducted any study on the academic growth of
students from disadvantaged sections of society, economically disadvantaged,
physically handicapped, slow learners, etc.? If yes, what are the main findings?
The Staff Councils discuss the academic growth of all students including the
disadvantaged students. The main findings over the years in this regard have been:
i) Economic problem is the least of all the problems of disadvantage, as the University
fees are very nominal. However, economically weaker students are sometimes
disheartened by the rising cost of living. The departments encourage such students to
minimize the cost of books and materials by getting in touch with the senior batch and
forming study groups where such materials can be shared. The departments also make
it known to all its students to contact any faculty in case of facing a financial crunch
affecting their studies.
ii) Students disadvantaged by any form of physical handicap require motivational and
psychological support from their peers and teachers. The departments ensure a
congenial academic and inter-personal ambience that would make any physically
challenged student least conscious of their handicap. They make a conscious effort to
see that such a student is involved in academic and extra-curricular activities
optimally. A designated faculty member in each department looks after such students.
iii) Departments also share even a minor achievement of any disadvantaged student
with all others not only to instil a sense of self-confidence and joy in such a student
but also that they can be a source of motivation for others like them.
iv) Slow learners are encouraged dually: a) through remedial classes; and b)
encouraging them to approach either their seniors / advanced learners or seek some
extra study time from their teachers for clearing doubts and understanding concepts /
issues.
2.2.5 How does the University identify and respond to the learning needs of
advanced learners?
The departments endeavour to cultivate gifted and talented learners by
motivating them towards more challenging assignments and classroom presentations
and seminars. They are also entrusted group-leaders‘ roles during group activities, and
requested to become peer-mentors for their slow learner classmates.
Each department is vigilant over identifying advance learners. The faculties
are working as mentors of such students and they are encouraged for many advanced
level academic endeavours. They are encouraged by sending them to various
workshops, seminars, symposia and conferences. They are also encouraged to apply
in various training programs, summer institutes and short term programs at institutes
of higher learning. Many advanced learners have successfully entered into premium
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institutes of India and abroad for their PG level work, dissertations etc. More than 50
students have gone to Belgium, Taiwan, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria, UK, Greece,
etc. for their pre doctoral, doctoral and post-doc assignments. The detail shall be made
available to the Peer Team at the time of their visit.
2.3 Teaching-Learning Process
2.3.1 How does the University plan and organize the teaching, learning and
evaluation schedules (academic calendar, teaching plan, evaluation blue print,
etc.)?
University publishes Academic Calendar and University Diary every year
which helps in planning and organization. Every departmental Staff Council also in its
meeting takes decisions on these matters. Academic Calendar is approved by the
Academic Council. Usually, the departments offer different specialization in the form
of the Electives. The teachers have ample academic freedom and flexibility to run the
course classes, practical and dissertation. The concerned teacher puts his plan before
the Staff Council, and then it is reflected on the time-table for the students. The
departments also make aware to the students the submission dates of their internal
assignments / projects/ classroom activities; dates of internal tests (and its paper-
pattern) are made known to them; also, the dates of contributory teachers / visiting
faculty are made known to the students well in advance.
2.3.2 Does the University provide course outlines and course schedules prior to
the commencement of the academic session? If yes, how is the effectiveness of the
process ensured?
The syllabi of all the 28 departments have been put up on the website of the
Saurashtra University. Additionally, each student entering a department is given the
syllabus booklet for all the 4 semesters including a list of reading materials, references
and recommended books. After the admission process is over, the teachers in charge
of the concerned Course deliver an induction lecture which helps the students in
choosing their electives. The students come to know the teachers in charge, the course
content, the course planner, the reference books, time table and the nature of internal
and the semester-end examination in the given course in advance. Such an effective
practice enables students to plan their study schedule, becoming a veritable blueprint
for their learning outcome.
2.3.3 Does the University face any challenges in completing the curriculum
within the stipulated time frame and calendar? If yes, elaborate on the
challenges encountered and the institutional measures to overcome these.
We are facing some problems related to curriculum completion. There are
several reasons which are responsible for this; e.g., mini vacations during major
festivals. However, such challenges are resolved by taking extra lectures on holidays
and whenever the students are available during the semester.
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2.3.4 How is learning made student-centric? Give a list of participatory
learning activities adopted by the faculty that contributes to holistic development
and improved student learning, besides facilitating life-long learning and
knowledge management.
Teachers give hand-outs of their lectures or project them as PPT talks which
encourage the students to interact in the class. They are given assignments to
complete. They make seminar presentations. Moreover, through quizzes, group work
and group discussions and extra-curricular activities their holistic development is
improved. Student-centric approaches on the campus include:
Interactive classroom teaching
Group discussion / Group work
Assignments and Project work
Dissertation at PG level
Classroom seminars
Multimedia presentations
e-learning
Quizzes and tests
Interaction with expert scholars other than teachers in the departments
2.3.5 What is the University‟s policy on inviting experts / people of eminence to
deliver lectures and / or organize seminars for students?
All Post Graduate departments decide for themselves as regards inviting
eminent experts / scholars for classroom teaching, special lectures and research
guidance. The University provides adequate funding from UGC schemes such as
'Teachers' Exchange Programme' and 'Visiting Fellow/Professor Scheme'. The
University also provides additional financial support to all departments from the
University Development Fund (UDF) and other resources to carry out such academic
strives. Moreover, whenever a scholar comes for Ph. D. viva voce examination to the
departments, he/she is requested to deliver a talk to the students. Organized seminars,
conferences, workshops, etc., on the campus bring prominent national / international
scholars and every department tries to make them interact with their students for some
time. (A small illustrative list of such eminent scholars on our campus has already
been mentioned in 1.3.4 as well as 1.4.2.). The University has created many chairs,
centres and award lecture series to invite diverse persons of eminence to deliver
lectures which are relevant to contemporary issues and interests; e.g., Dolarrai
Mankad Annual Lecture series, V.M. Thakor Award Lectures, Narsinh Mehta Award
Lectures, Zaverchand Meghani Award Lectures, etc.
2.3.6 Does the University formally encourage blended learning by using e-
learning resources?
Yes, the University and it's faculties extensively use e-learning resources as
their main sources of latest information. Also, the University provides Wi-Fi facility to all the faculty and students. The students are encouraged to have an access to
authentic websites for the learning resources that would go beyond mere information
and enhance knowledge.
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INFLIBNET facility is provided to the University through which faculty on the
campus (and through them the students) have access to latest papers / scholarly
publications on such reputed e-sites for accessing journals in sciences, humanities,
social sciences, and professional courses. The University is among 20 Universities
which are identified for Sci-finder facility. The usage of Sci-finder at Saurashtra
University is exemplary and higher than many reputed universities. Certain
departments like Business Management and Law have subscribed for relevant
databases. Students and faculties can access open journals across the campus.
Infra-structurally, each department on the campus has at least one classroom
equipped for a blended learning experience.
2.3.7 What are the technologies and facilities such as virtual laboratories, e-
learning, open educational resources and mobile education used by the faculty
for effective teaching?
Internet facility, multi-media projectors for PPTs, interactive boards in the
classrooms, television, FM radio, e-Learning open resources on the web, e-libraries
around the world, free e-books, virtual laboratories are made use of from an
environment-friendly perspective as well when certain practical session on animals
are conducted by running appropriate CDs, language laboratory, open educational
sites (e.g. Khan's Academy), NPTEL video lectures (from IIT websites), online mock
trading for securities and portfolio management classes, CMIE Prowess database and
Capitalize database, etc., are variably used by the faculty on the campus for effective
teaching. Many classes – especially in the Sciences – are held aided by technology,
and even in the other faculties, Power-Point lectures are very common. Video-
conferencing and on-line workshops are gradually becoming a norm on the campus.
Equally gaining in preference is the use of social networking sites for communication
between faculty and students on aspects of classroom discussion, class seminars etc.
Many faculties have their own web pages, and put teaching / instructional matter on
them. Some departments run their own blogs which dually serve as a site for current
teaching-learning and facilitating networking with the Alumni. The CCDC of the
University has a huge database of students‘ emails and interacts with them regarding
various issues of employment. SMS technology is used by the Examination Section
for intimating students about results.
2.3.8 Is there any designated group among the faculty to monitor the trends
and issues regarding developments in Open Source Community and integrate its
benefits in the department‟s educational processes?
Although there is no formal designated group among the faculty to monitor the
trends and issues regarding developments in Open Source Community, the benefits of
learning through open resources is well recognized by the faculty, and as evident from
2.3.6 and 2.3.7, adequate infrastructural and procedural measures are taken in this
direction. Informally, the Staff Council of the various departments or the faculties
designated by it, monitors trends and issues regarding the developments in the open
source community e.g. Moodle, Google Group, etc. — executing its benefits in the
educational processes at various departments.
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2.3.9 What steps has the University taken to orient traditional classrooms into
24x7 learning places?
Our Wi-Fi campus provides such an opportunity to students and teachers to
change the traditional classrooms into modern e-oriented teaching learning models.
Many departmental students are connected through Google groups or Yahoo groups
for connectivity and information passing for the students and even SMS and cell
phones are utilized for such requirements. The faculties also provide their classroom
notes, teaching aids, and learning resources through such closely connected groups.
Using the University website facilities, many lectures are put on the web regularly
enabling the students to access these learning materials whenever they want, 24x7.
Some departments have their own websites and / or blogs / created Facebook groups
where similar important academic aspects / events / talks etc., are featured. The
University central library remains open from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm. The science
departments and their laboratories are working day and night for research activities.
2.3.10 Is there a provision for the services of counsellors / mentors/ advisors for
each class or group of students for academic, personal and psycho-social
guidance? If yes, give details of the process and the number of students who have
benefitted.
All faculties act as counsellors/mentors and advisors to students for their
academic, personal and psycho-social guidance, although it is not a formal set-up.
Many departments have a regular interaction of their students with their Alumni who
act as informal mentors to them. Of course, if a case arises for any serious mentoring
(especially regarding personal and psycho-social guidance), a Staff Council meeting
is convened to arrive at the best possible help to the student. It has been found that
maximum counselling is required regarding confusion amongst the students about
their career ahead. Respective teachers have several sessions every year to de-clutter
students‘ mind with unnecessary information and choices (in this age of information
explosion) and make them realize their true potential and consequently focus on a
commensurate career option. The Career Counselling and Development Centre
(featured already in and 1.1.3 and 2.2.3) too is a great help in this regard. All the
students have benefitted from this type of guidance to them. Such a counselling centre
is available for all students at Department of Psychology on the campus.
2.3.11 Were any innovative teaching approaches/methods/practices adopted/put
to use by the faculty during the last four years? If yes, did they improve
learning? What were the methods used to evaluate the impact of such practices?
What are the efforts made by the institution in giving the faculty due recognition
for innovation in teaching?
Innovative teaching methods include pair and group work, classroom quizzes,
assignments, computer / multi-media aided learning seminar presentations, small
projects, report writings, mini-thesis writing (resulting into a small Masters-level
research), interviewing people, surveys, preparing PPTs, short films, invited guest
lectures, and study tours. During the last few years, the development of Wi-Fi
facilities across the University campus brought a wave of new innovative teaching
approaches which has enriched classroom teaching enormously. Extensive use of the
multimedia in teaching enabled faculty members to include varieties of updated
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information and inter-disciplinary aspects in their lectures. Extensive use of the
internet enriched the volume of the information and knowledge given to the students
by the faculty members. Some of these methods are incorporated within their internal
marks whereas others can be classified under informal and continuous assessment
mode of the students. The University encourages more and more such practices by
FDP trainings through its Academic Staff College. In most of the departments, a
hierarchy is created from most senior Ph. D. scholars to the junior level master
students to pass on several learning practices, experimental skills, computational
skills, instrumentation training, writing research papers, preparing posters, accessing
journals/research materials, funding applications, etc. Excellent results and outputs are
observed in terms of knowledge, imparting training, extension and generating
revenues.
2.3.12 How does the University create a culture of instilling and nurturing
creativity and scientific temper among the learners?
The University organizes several programmes related to the creation of
scientific temper. In the last few years, several international conferences, symposia
and workshops have been organized in order to promote scientific temper. The post
graduate students are encouraged to participate with their research findings at various
places in form of posters or oral presentations which give them excellent opportunity
to learn the subject better. The students work closely with the Community Science
Centre of the region to create scientific awareness. Students of the departments of
Pharmacy and Biochemistry conducted the DST sponsored INSPIRES CAMPS
consecutively in the years between 2009-2012. On the campus, there is a Vikram
Sarabhai Centre created by ISRO, Geo Magnetic Observatory created by the
Government of India and Centre of Excellence in Nano Science by GUJCOST. The
National Facility for Drug Discovery Centre gives unique opportunity for creative
minds for their entrepreneurship. The Bioscience Department has virtual bits for
students who are higher learners in bio-informatics.
The students of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Culture have adequate scope
for exhibiting their talent through the Indubhai Parekh Art Gallery on the campus. All
the departments have students‘ display boards where their creative talent is exhibited.
The University Youth Festival also provides an annual mega-platform for art and
cultural activities. Various art / cultural competitions are also held in several
departments like Traditional Recipe Making, Salad Dressing, Traditional Dressing
and Grooming, Mehendi and Rangoli arts, folk performances, poster competitions on
various topics etc.
Overall, the University encourages the students to take critical interest in the
matters of their study as well as socio-economic-cultural issues of our contemporary
time. Besides encouraging them to interact in the class regarding queries and doubts,
the project and assignments allocated to them as part of their internal evaluation
motivate them to think out-of-the box and work systematically and coherently.
Providing students ample exposure in their subjects through invited / visiting scholars
broadens their horizon. Every department follows a system of reflecting and stock-
taking of the major events happening there which is a very effective method of
encouraging their creativity and scientific temper.
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2.3.13 Does the University consider student projects mandatory in the learning
programme? If yes, for how many programmes have they been (percentage of
total) made mandatory?
Number of projects executed within the University: Most of the Post Graduate Departments on the campus have project
work as a part of their programmes. The comprehensive list of the project
work shall be presented to the Peer Team members at the time of their campus
visit.
Names of external institutions associated with the University for student
project work:
The faculty members and the students of the maters programme decide
about the title and type of their project work. In many cases, students carry out
case studies of various industries or institutions; and in such fashion they are
associated with the project work. An exhaustive list of such institutions shall
be made available to the Peer Team members at the time of their visit.
Some of the well-known external institutions / organizations worth
mentioning here are: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai;
Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad; Claris Life sciences, Ahmedabad; Intas
Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad; Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar; CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad; BAN Laboratories, Rajkot; VASU Pharmaceuticals,
Baroda; PDU Medical College, Rajkot; Cancer Hospital, Rajkot; Jilla Talim
Bhavan (District Institute of Education and Training, DIET), Rajkot; Central
Salt and Marine Research Institute (CSMRI), Bhavnagar, National Research
Centre for Groundnut, Junagadh; H. M. Patel Institute of English, Vallabh
Vidhyanagar; Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human
Sciences, Baroda; Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal; Wild Life
Institute of India, Dehradun.
Role of faculty in facilitating such projects:
Students carry out their project work under the guidance of the faculty
members. The faculty members‘ role is very much important in wake of
project work by students. The faculty‘s role starts from the selection of the
title, and it goes till the final report writing by students.
Student's projects are a part of their internal evaluation in the various
departments at the Masters level. Additionally, half of the 28 departments on
the campus have a provision of a small research work leading to a report /
mini-dissertation / dissertation within their curricula. Each student works
under the supervision of a faculty member for their dissertation and other
research works.
2.3.14 Does the University have a well-qualified pool of human resource to meet
the requirements of the curriculum? If there is a shortfall, how is it
supplemented?
The existing permanent faculty and support staff are all qualified to the highest
degree. There is however a shortfall in the State Government appointments and the
University is in dialogue for sanctions to recruit qualified people. In fact the
University has already advertised for a good number of teaching and administrative
positions recently and expects to appoint the new qualified people soon. In the interim
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period, the University has, through due procedures of appointment adhering to UGC
and State Government norms, recruited ad-hoc teaching and non-teaching /
administrative positions. Curricular requirements are thus well met, and even after
these arrangements if the University feels that human resources are lacking anywhere
affecting teaching-learning, such a shortfall is met by the appointment of visiting
faculty / contractual teachers.
In addition to these, many departments have good number of meritorious
fellows, senior research fellows, post-doctoral fellows, and research associates and
project fellows who are supporting permanent faculties in teaching and research. This
opportunity to the young talent pool also provides them with a platform for their
future academic career. They have played a vital role in teaching-learning and
research activities of some of the departments.
2.3.15 How are the faculty enabled to prepare computer-aided teaching/ learning
materials? What are the facilities available in the University for such efforts?
Faculty members are provided with laptops and they are well versed with
computer aided teaching/learning skills. The University has provided every
department with computers (desktops) and multi-media equipments, LCD projectors,
smart boards, Wi-Fi facility. The Computer Centre and the Academic Staff College
(separately or jointly) assist the faculty in enhancing computer-aided teaching skills.
The Central Library is a source of e-information that forms an important component
for teaching.
2.3.16 Does the University have a mechanism for the evaluation of teachers by
the students / Alumni? If yes, how is the evaluation feedback used to improve the
quality of the teaching-learning process?
Yes, the University has a regular feedback mechanism of its teachers from its
existing batch of students according to the norms suggested by NAAC. Departments
also have their own feedback / suggestion / grievance cell additionally. The Staff
Councils of the departments peruse through the feedback, and assess their merit for
brainstorming over improvements in the overall teaching-learning segment. Alumni
feedback is still in its informal stage with some departments on the campus having
their formed Alumni body and feedback mechanism.
2.4 Teacher Quality
2.4.1 How does the University plan and manage its human resources to meet the
changing requirements of the curriculum?
The University through its three-yearly mechanism of revising / upgrading its
curricula, first of all arrives at identifying the emerging changes in the curricula. It
then, in consultation with the departments, plans and manages its human resources to
meet the changing requirements. The faculties are encouraged to enrich themselves
with the latest happenings in their areas of teaching and expertise by participating in
national / international conferences, seminars or workshops, to take part in the faculty
exchange programmes with, or invited resource persons to other national /
international academic institutes. Many faculties on the campus are invited to become
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external referees for doctoral research which is an effective method of gaining
exposure to the latest happenings in their field at other places, and to discuss /
disseminate these ideas in their own departments. As regards managing its human
resources for teaching the curricula, besides its tenured faculty, the University
appoints ad hoc faculty through a proper selection procedure, and seeks assistance
from visiting faculty / contributory teachers as well.
2.4.2 Furnish details of the faculty
Qualifications of the teaching staff
Permanent Teachers
D.Sc. / D.Litt. 6
Ph. D. 66
M. Phil. 6
P.G. 19
Temporary Teachers
Ph. D. 14
M. Phil. 2
P.G. 25
Part time Teachers
Ph. D. 4
M. Phil. 0
PG 11
2.4.3 Does the department encourage diversity in its faculty recruitment?
Provide the following details (department / school-wise).
Department % of faculty
from the
same
University
% of faculty
from other
universities
within the
state
%of faculty
from other
universities
outside the
state
% of
faculty
from other
countries
Department of Biochemistry 2 (50%) 2(50%) 0 0
Department of Biosciences 6(67%) 2(22%) 1(11%) 0
Department of Home Science 3(100%) ----- ------ -----
Department of Human Rights and IHL 3(100%) - - -
Department of Law 2(67%) Nil 1(33%) Nil
Department of Mathematics 2(40%) 1(20%) 2(40% 0
Department of Business Management 4(57%) 3(43%)
Department of Computer Science 6(75%) 2(25%) - -
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences 3(21%) 10(71%) 1(8%) 0
Department of DBA 1(100%) - - -
Department of Physical Education 5(63%) 2(25%) 1(13%)
Department of Physics 6(75%) 1(12.5%) 1(12.5%) -
Department of Sanskrit 2(50%) 2(50%) Nil Nil
Department of Sociology 2(67%) 1(33%) --- ---
Department of Statistics 2(100%)
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Department of Commerce 1(50%) - 1(50%) -
Department of Economics 3(50%) 2(33%) 1(16%) Nil
Department of Education 5(83%) 1(17%) - -
Department of Electronics 3(100%)
Department of English 4(100%) 0 0 0
Department of Hindi 2(40%) 2(40%) 1(20%) -
Department of History 3(100%) 0 0 0
Department of Gujarati 3(100%) 0 0 0
Department of Social Work
Department of Philosophy 5(71%) 2(29%) 0 0
Department of Psychology 1(100%) 0 0 0
Department of Chemistry 5(62.5%) 2(25%) 1(12.5%) 0
2.4.4 How does the University ensure that qualified faculty are appointed for
new programmes / emerging areas of study (Bio-technology, Bio-informatics,
Material Science, Nanotechnology, Comparative Media Studies, Diaspora
Studies, Forensic Computing, Educational Leadership, etc.)? How many faculty
members were appointed to teach new programmes during the last four years?
Many existing faculty themselves become competent to teach new / emerging
areas in their fields by attending various FDPs, workshops, seminars, conferences,
and self-enhancement of their scholarship through accessing new books, journals and
reference materials (both print and soft). But the University also takes stock of its
number of existing faculty members vis-a-vis already running and emerging
disciplines of study and appoints full-time and part-time / ad hoc faculty through a
proper and transparent selection process. Generally the more experienced faculty take
up the challenge of teaching newer / emerging areas of knowledge. There were five
permanent appointments made in the last four years; out of which three were of
Associate Professor‘s rank, and two were Assistant Professors. The former have been
assigned teaching of newer areas. The subjects in which these appointments have
been made are: Bio-Sciences (1 Associate and 1 Assistant Professor); Chemistry (1
Associate Professor); Economics (1 Assistant Professor); and Hindi (1 Associate
Professor).
2.4.5 How many Emeritus / Adjunct Faculty / Visiting Professors are on the
rolls of the University?
Professor Emeritus:
Professor P.P. Sood for Bio-Sciences (He is both ICMR and UGC Professor
Emeritus)
Professor Amarnath Pandey for Bio-Sciences
Adjunct Faculty:
1. Dr. Ashok D.B. Vaidya for Pharmacy
2. Dr. Bipin Pandey for Chemistry
3. Dr. Pratap Chandra Gupta for Statistics
4. Dr. Subhash H. Behere for Physics
5. Dr. J.J. Raval for Physics
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Visiting Professors (on the University rolls, apart from UGC schemes): Nil
2.4.6 What policies/systems are in place to academically recharge and
rejuvenate teachers (e.g. providing research grants, study leave, nomination to
national/international conferences/seminars, in-service training, organizing
national/international conferences etc.)?
Faculty members are encouraged to participate in various academic and
scientific programmes conducted in the state or elsewhere in the country. Many also
visit overseas to present their work in various conferences and to interact with the
global community of scholars in their field. They are also encouraged to apply for the
various research grants. Every faculty members avails atleast thirty days of duty leave
to participate in various academic activities to recharge themselves.
2.4.7 How many faculty received awards / recognitions for excellence in
teaching at the State, National and International level during the last 4 years?
The Department-wise list of faculty getting recognized with awards in the last
four years is as under:
Department No. of Awards
Law 1
Psychology 3
Sanskrit 3
History 1
Biochemistry 1
Statistics 1
Physics 1
Pharmacy 6
History 3
Economics 2
MBA 6
Chemistry 15
Biosciences 4
Law 3
Commerce 1
2.4.8 How many faculty underwent Staff Development Programmes during the
last four years (add any other programme if necessary)?
The list below is a reflection of faculty of the University as well as those in the
affiliated colleges who have undertaken FDPs:
Academic Staff Development Programmes
No. of
Faculty
Refresher Courses 536
HRD Programmes 7
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Orientation Programmes 563
Staff Training conducted by the University 20
Staff Training conducted by other Institution Nil
Summer / Winter Schools 4
Workshops 508
Other Programs 878
2.4.9 What percentage of the faculty have:
Been invited as Resource Persons in Workshops/Seminars/Conferences
organized by external professional agencies?
Participated in external Workshops/Seminars/Conferences recognized by national / international professional bodies?
Presented papers in Workshops/Seminars/Conferences conducted or recognized by professional agencies?
Teaching experience in other universities/national institutions and other
institutions?
Industrial engagement?
International experience in teaching?
2.4.10 How often does the University organize academic development
programmes (e.g.: Curriculum Development, Teaching-Learning Methods,
Examination Reforms, Content / Knowledge Management, etc.) for its faculty
aimed at enriching the teaching-learning process?
The University through its Academic Staff College very frequently organizes
Orientation Programmes (OP), Refresher Courses (RC), Short Term Courses (STC),
Summer & Winter Schools (S/W Schools). According to our Academic Staff College
calendar up to March 2014, the various programmes from the year 2009 comes to:
RCs - 35
OPs - 25
Short Term Programmes – 16
Summer / Winter Schools – 9
Invited as resource
persons in
Workshops
/ Seminars
Conferences organized by
external
professional
agencies
Participated in external
Workshops /
Seminars /
Conferences
Recognized by
national/
international
professional
bodies?
Presented papers in
Workshops /
Seminars /
Conferences
conducted or
Recognized
by
professional
agencies?
Teaching experience in
other
universities /
national
institutions
and other
institutions?
Industrial engagement?
International experience in
teaching?
15% 22% 47% 51% 8% 7% 3%
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2.4.11 Does the University have a mechanism to encourage. Mobility of faculty
between universities for teaching? Faculty exchange programmes with national
and international bodies? If yes, how have these schemes helped in enriching the
quality of the faculty?
The University encourages all departments on the campus to avail of the
various faculty exchange programmes in existence offered by the UGC. Additionally,
on a personal basis, many faculties are attached with various national and
international bodies and research institutes. Thus the departments invite faculty from
other universities for teaching as well as facilitates its own faculty to go to other
universities for the purpose of teaching under these UGC schemes. Certainly these
schemes have proved to be very useful in giving exposure to our faculty (and also to
an extent the students) for enriching their quality. Two faculties from USA selected
Saurashtra University under the Faculty Exchange Program of Full Bright Scheme
2.5 Evaluation Process and Reforms
2.5.1 How does the University ensure that all the stakeholders are aware of the
evaluation processes that are in place?
1. As regards entrance examination to various courses on the campus are
concerned, the University, through its respective departments conducting the entrance
test (at PG and M. Phil. levels), announce the syllabus, paper-style, and duration of
assessment / evaluation (for the preparation of merit list) well in advance to the
students through announcement on its website, prominent dailies, as well as on the
notice boards of the departments.
2. As regards internal tests / assessment of students are concerned, every
department makes its students aware of the course content, dates of testing and
methods of evaluation giving them sufficient time for preparation (unless it is a
‗surprise test‘ employed by certain faculty members of certain departments as part of
innovative learning). Every student can consult their teachers to seek guidance on
their internal scores obtained, air their queries / dissatisfaction if any, and discuss how
they can improve their marks subsequently.
3. As regards semester-end examination arranged faculty-wise with prior
announcement to the students (who are also informed about their semester calendar by
their respective department), they are again made aware of the course content, paper
style, dates of examination, and expected dates of results. The results of these final
examinations are uploaded on the University website facilitating students to download
them prior to obtaining the hard copy of their mark sheets. Students are also made
aware by their teachers that they can also avail of the facility of reassessment of their
semester-end answer scripts if they find themselves dissatisfied with the scores
obtained.
4. As regards the evaluation process, students are informed about the
declaration of their results and made aware of the re-evaluation process of the
University in case they are not satisfied with the obtained marks. Additionally, the
University has a provision through which a student scoring less percentage (even
though he / she might have passed the exam) can re-attempt the PG examination
within five years of the first attempt to improve the score.
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5. The Evaluation process and procedure are widely made known through
print (News paper) and electronic media thus making the other stakeholders aware of
them.
2.5.2 What are the important examination reforms initiated by the University
and to what extent have they been implemented in the University departments
and affiliated colleges? Cite a few examples which have positively impacted the
examination management system.
The University has certainly made significant progress in examination
reforms. The data is as under:
Examination Reformations:
Looking at the current traditional examination system, Saurashtra University has not
put only concentration on term-end examination at the end of academic year but has
taken efforts in the direction of continuous evaluation of University-certified degree-
holders before they are accepted for the jobs in public and private sectors.
Saurashtra University has implemented considerable changes as mentioned below:
(a) Internal evaluation follows principle of ‗those who teach should evaluate‘. The concerned faculty-member of department in University or affiliated college or
recognized PG centre is doing the internal assessment by way of tutorials,
seminars, lab work etc. The evaluation outcome is expressed by pre-
determined marks or even in some of the cases by grades. It is then announced
and displayed on the notice board as per the time-frame.
(b) End-of-semester evaluation is being carried out at the end of each semester to
assess the skills and knowledge acquired by students. It is in the form of
written examination or even in the form of lab work as per syllabi or credit
schedule.
Regarding lab work, the internal faculty are associated themselves with the external
examiners in the examination process.
The committees proficient in the subject are evaluating the end-of-semester test
papers that can be in the format like object-type, essay-type etc.
Answer-booklets are encoded and decoded before it is passed on to examiner /
evaluator.
(c) Integration of Internal & End-of-semester evaluation is being done with the
consideration of following points:
a. The integration procedure is applicable to all the students pursuing
certificate, diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, M. Phil. & Ph. D.
courses.
b. The relational weightage of internal and end-of-semester evaluations is
being carried out by University committees on the recommendations of
Department committees.
c. The relational weightage assigned to internal evaluation is ranging
from 25 to 40 percent as per the UG & PG programmes.
d. The results after integration are expressed in marks & grades as per the
policy.
e. University has kept the global trend by way of giving Cumulative
Grade Point Score (CGPS).
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f. The results are announced in keeping with the academic calendar to
facilitate students‘ academic or even occupational pursuits.
Apart from above discussion, University has taken considerable changes in
reformation of examination systems:-
1. Implementation of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) from June-2010
Saurashtra University has implemented CBCS from June-2010 as per the guidelines
of UGC. With the implementation of this concept, students are getting an opportunity
to study from larger range of teaching programmes available through the country.
Campus Management System, a web-based online portal is developed with end-to-
end solution i.e. right from enrolling the students to the degree awarding. Following
are some of the features:-
a. Enrollment / Enlistment / Registration is done online through college and there
on checked and verified by University.
b. Every college has been given username & password for authentication and
through which filling of examination forms is being done.
c. Required reports are being generated to conduct the exams wherein bar code
& ID stickers‘ concept is also used for maintaining confidentiality of answer-
booklets.
d. Hall tickets are being issued to the students along with time table printed on
hall tickets.
e. Internal, Practical, Project & Dissertation marks are being entered by colleges
using their logins.
f. External Examination marks are being entered by University to have finally
reports like mark sheets, office register, college register, notification etc.
g. Finally, students are getting their results through delivery of SMS in their
mobile device with the use of SMS-Gateway embedded in web-based online
portal.
2. Online Admissions for Students in External Courses from June-2012
Saurashtra University has taken a step ahead towards the technology by giving
admissions to students through Online Admissions Supporting Systems. From
anywhere & at any time approach, students were filling admission forms online for
external courses under UG programmes like BA & B.Com and under PG programmes
like MA & M.Com. During academic year 2012-13, approximately, 27242 students
filled their forms online and saved their time, money and energy. Students were able
to print Bank Challan for paying the fees to the nearest branch of Central Bank of
India throughout the Gujarat state. Students are able to visualize their course syllabus,
course rules & regulations, subject assignment definitions & its submission dates etc.
online. Further, they are also able to see / print exam schedule, seat numbers, hall
tickets etc. online. So, they need not come to the University personally.
3. SMS Supporting Systems from 2010
Saurashtra University has taken an approach one step ahead in Communication
Systems for the benefit and better services to students. Students are delivered short
messages on their mobile device regarding form acceptance acknowledgement, exam
schedules, results etc. with the support of SMS-Gateway embedded in web-based
online portal.
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4. Online Question Paper Delivery Supporting Systems from June-2012
Saurashtra University is about to launch this concept from current semester exams.
Academicians are submitting their subject question banks to the University.
University has developed a confidential POOL for making these question banks
digitized. A repository of such question banks is then maintained in Database Server
with a certain authentication system. During the exam schedule, at the examination
centre, before half-an-hour of exam commencement, the Principal & Senior
Supervisor are delivered passwords in their personal login accounts. With the support
of these secret passwords they will be able to open drawn question paper and will be
printed on high-speed printers. This concept will save lots of time, money and human
hours so far as the transportation, printing and human resources expenses are
concerned.
5. Digitization of Answer Booklets from June-2012
Even though, giving respect to the maintenance of student answer-booklets submitted
to the University by way of traditional system, University has started approaching the
digitization of student answer-booklets with the support of high-speed scanners in a
larger quantity. Scanned copy of student answer-booklets are then maintained in a
Database Server which can be assessed by examiners at a later stage.
6. Digital Evaluation of Answer Booklets from June-2012
Eight faculties viz. Science, Home Science, Medical, Homeopathy, Architecture,
Management, Education and Pharmacy among the overall thirteen faculties of
Saurashtra University are assigned the task of digital evaluation of student answer-
booklets from December-2012 semester term-end examination. Examiners appointed
from the eight faculties are given their logins and passwords at the Centralized
Assessment Centre, who will keep track of all the transactions. Examiners will do
digital evaluation of student answer-booklets. This concept will save much more time
and energy of examiners. The average time taken in declaration of results is, under
this procedure, brought down to a maximum of one week. Further, it will prevent the
mal-practice during the evaluation as MASK-PAGE concept is launched to hide the
student details. After finishing of digital evaluation of any examination, the result can
be declared within short period of time. The same concept is also applied to re-
evaluation of student answer-booklets.
7. Applying for Online Forms Filling for Conferring Degree Certificates from
May-2013
Saurashtra University has taken a step ahead towards the technology by allowing
students, who have passed regular courses before 2004 and external courses for any
year, to apply for filling-up their form for conferring their degree certificates through
Online Degree Form Filling Supporting Systems. From anywhere & at any time
approach, students are filling forms online for conferring degree certificates. During
academic year 2013-14, approximately, 6000+ students filled their forms online and
saved their time, money and energy. Students were able to print Bank Challan for
paying the fees to the nearest branch of Central Bank of India throughout the Gujarat
state. Students are able to visualize their filled forms. Further, they are also able to see
status of conferring degree certificates online. So, they need not come to the
University personally. Same concept will be applied for issuing provisional degree
certificates soon.
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8. Payment Gateway Implementation in Online Admissions, Re-Assessment of
Student Answer-Booklets, Issuing Provisional Degree Certificate etc.
As compare to traditional systems of fees collection from students, University is
going to apply technological implementations in fees collection by way of adopting
PAYMENT GATEWAY embedded in web-based online portal. Students will be
given different options like Net-Banking, Credit Card, Debit Card, Payment in nearest
branch of Central Bank of India, in personal approach etc. It will also save lots of
time, money and energy of students and even the process will be executed very fast
and errorless.
9. As a part of Exam Reform, the University has prepared and implemented
Question Bank in the faculty of Home Science and Homeopathy during the
exam held in March / April 2009.
10. The University is providing study material to the students of PG external
exams i.e. M.A. & M.Com. since the year 2007, prepared by senior faculty
members of University department and colleges.
11. These is large increase in number of external students at UG level
programmes like B.A. & B.Com and P.G. level programmes like M.A. &
M.Com. examinations.
12. The University has organized convocation ceremony during the year 2008,
2009 & 2010. A separate convocation stadium is constructed on the University
campus at a cost of about 4 crore. The University has received a donation of
Rs. 1 Crore from Shree C.U. Shah.
13. A separate building for Students Convention Centre is constructed at a cost of
Rs. 2.67 Crore, for conducting examination of 3000 students at a time.
14. The University has introduced a new format of mark sheet with in-built
transcript with a photograph of students since March-2009 with considerable
security features.
15. Besides above, the examination section has made notable automation efforts.
Earlier, migration certificate, provisional eligibility certificate, eligibility
certificate, enrolment / enlistment / PG registration work was carried out
manually. Now, the work is updated with the help of online web-based
application software. Even, work of enquiry window is computerized.
Software for issue of appointment orders for paper setter and examiner is also
implemented.
2.5.3 What is the average time taken by the University for Declaration of
examination results? In case of delay, what measures have been taken to address
them? Indicate the mode / media adopted by the University for the publication of
examination results (e.g., website, SMS, email, etc.).
The average time taken by the University for declaration of examination
results (out of the 122 different kinds of examination it has to conduct), from the
starting date of the examination to the declaration of results is 68 days. The University
is exploring ways to bring the average down to below 60 days as a first step of further
reforms. The results are put up on the University website and information of the same
is circulated through SMS, and the prominent dailies in the city. Students can put their
query through an email.
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2.5.4 How does the University ensure transparency in the evaluation process?
What are the rigorous features introduced by the University to ensure
confidentiality?
Transparency and objectivity are the prime concerns of the evaluation process,
monitored strictly by the University. The rigorous steps in this direction include:
Anonymous barcoding
Shuffling of answer scripts
Systematic routing of answer scripts to evaluators through a Tracking barcoding
Software for moderation
Generation of independent subject code, paper code, students code and evaluators code
E-assessment of papers in 8 faculties within the University
2.5.5 Does the University have an integrated examination platform for the
following processes?
Pre-examination processes – Time-table generation, OMR, student list generation, invigilators, squads, attendance sheet, online payment gateway,
etc.: Yes, except for the online payment gateway.
Examination process – Examination materials management, logistics, etc. : Yes
Post-examination processes – Attendance capture, OMR-based exam result,
auto processing, generic result processing, certification, etc.: Yes
2.5.6 Has the University introduced any reforms in its Ph. D. evaluation process?
A pre-submission presentation by the candidate in his / her respective
department is now the norm in the University which has bettered Ph. D. evaluation by
making the thesis stronger and ridding it off any plagiarism. An open defence of the
thesis is a usual norm nowadays. Guides are aware of software that checks plagiarism.
The PDF formatted softcopy of the submitted thesis is also uploaded on the
University website to make the Ph. D. process more transparent besides strengthening
the University research-work database. The University has a database of competent
external evaluators in all subjects.
2.5.7 Has the University created any provision for including the name of the
college in the degree certificate?
The name of the college appears at present in the marks-sheet of the student.
2.5.8 What is the mechanism for Redressal of grievances with reference to
examinations?
The University, as a first step in this direction has minimized the scope of
grievances in the Internal Examination by strictly following the principle ‗those who
teach should evaluate‘. This keeps the students directly in interaction with their
teacher-evaluators and also helps in their learning. The way for reducing grievances in
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the Semester-end Examination is by forming committees of evaluators proficient in
the subject, and within the subject, the particular papers within each subject. All
students through their departments are made aware of the norms of re-assessment of
semester-end papers. The University has brought down the average number of days
for declaration of reassessment to 40. Apart from these aspects, such occasional
grievances like a particular question paper containing out-of-syllabus questions are
competently looked-into and judiciously resolved keeping the veracity of the
grievance and students‘ interest.
2.5.9 What efforts have been made by the University to streamline the operations
at the Office of the Controller of Examinations? Mention any significant efforts
which have improved the process and functioning of the examination division /
section.
The University has provided an exclusive infrastructural space to its
Examination Section. The Controller of Examinations and his entire staff have been
provided with ample physical space and state-of-the-art facilities like latest
computers, communication equipment like FAX, photo-copiers, hi-speed internet etc.,
and power inverters so that vital functions of the section can remain operational
throughout the year. A notable infrastructural boost has been a separate building
called the Students Convention Centre, constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.67 crore, for
conducting examination of 3000 students at a time. Aware of the menace of bogus
marks-sheets / certificates and degrees, the University has introduced a new format of
marks-sheet with in-built transcript with a photograph of students since March-2009
with considerable security features. Additionally, the Examination Section has made
notable automation efforts. Earlier, migration certificate, provisional eligibility
certificate, eligibility certificate, enrolment / enlistment / PG registration work was
carried out manually. Now, the work is updated with the help of web-based
application software. Even, work of the enquiry window is computerized. Software is
also implemented for the issue of appointment orders, paper setters and examiners.
2.6 Student Performance and learning Outcomes
2.6.1 Has the University articulated its graduate attributes? If so, how does it
facilitate and monitor its implementation and outcome?
Yes. The students are informed about what is expected from them by the time
they complete the programme. Also, during the course of study, these attributes are
articulated and reiterated to them. Accordingly, the curriculum, the curricular and
extra-curricular activities are organized in the departments. Even their internal
evaluation is also in tune with that.
2.6.2 Does the University have clearly stated learning outcomes for its academic
programmes/departments? If yes, give details on how the students and staff are
made aware of these?
Yes, the University has a very clearly spelt-out learning outcome for it‘s
programmes especially in the higher studies and research oriented programmes. The
possible and minimum expected outcome is given in the syllabus of the research
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oriented portion of the curriculum of PG courses. In case of research oriented courses,
i.e., M. Phil. and Ph. D. programmes, students are expected to publish their outcome
of the research in good and reputed journals as evidences of their grasp in learning the
area of research chosen.
2.6.3 How are the University‟s teaching, learning and assessment strategies
structured to facilitate the achievement of the intended learning outcomes?
The achievement of the intended learning outcomes are assessed by following
the UGC directed methods implemented by the University, i.e., the CBCS mode.
2.6.4 How does the University collect and analyse data on student learning
outcomes and use it to overcome the barriers to learning?
The student's learning outcomes in the various departments are analysed from
the given assignments and seminars conducted from time to time. Any difficulty
noticed thus, is attended almost immediately by the faculties. Suggetions from
employers and other stackholders are invited openly by mail and other social
networking for the learning outcome of the students and they are gradually
implemented
2.6.5 What are the new technologies deployed by the University in enhancing
student learning and evaluation and how does it seek to meet fresh/ future
challenges?
The details of the new technologies deployed by the University in enhancing
student learning find comprehensive mention in 2.3.7. Assessment of papers through
up-loaded answer-scripts in 8 faculties within the University is an indication to meet
up to the future developments where technology can be harnessed in a beneficial way
for all aspects of teaching, learning and evaluation.
Any other information regarding Teaching, Learning and Evaluation?
The University is moving in the direction of integrating newer technologies in all the
three aspects. It envisages that use of technology would help in reducing the time in
key aspects involving this criterion, e.g., in shortening the period of evaluation and
reaching results quicker to the students. It plans to orient its students and faculty on
the campus towards the newer modes of interactive learning to make the teaching-
learning activities more exciting and result-oriented. Efforts would be to harness
technology to create a network of scholars of global repute who would be accessible
to our students too thereby increasing their exposure and competence. Emerging areas
of learning shall be an important aspect of curricular reforms the University wishes to
undertake in the coming academic year when the syllabus of most faculties would be
revised / updated.
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Criterion III: Reaserch, Consultancy and Extension
3.1 Promotion of Research
3.1.1 Does the University have a Research Committee to monitor and address
issues related to research? If yes, what is its composition? Mention a few
recommendations which have been implemented and their impact.
Yes, every department of the University has a research Committee known as
Research Development Committee (RDC) which monitors and addresses issues
related to research and Ph. D. program. The RDC comprises of Dean of the Faculty,
Head of the Department, two external subject experts appointed by the Vice-
Chancellor out of the approved panel, and faculty members who guides doctoral
research. The University strictly follows UGC specified minimum standards and
procedures for the award of Ph. D. degree, Regulation 2009.
Some of the latest reforms made by the University are as under:
1. With the effect from 2012-13, the synopsis of research has to be submitted in a
soft copy facilitating scrutiny for plagiarism and IPR.
2. The component of pre-submission presentation of thesis, another step towards
strengthening research and rooting out malpractices, has been introduced
w.e.f. the academic year 2012-13.
3. The research thesis is submitted also in a soft copy (PDF) so that it can be
uploaded on INFLIBNET and the same is available in the University website.
Putting such a work on a wider public domain is also an effective check
against malpractices and plagiarism.
4. The candidate is required to present open pre-submission presentation in the
department.
5. The viva-voce of the researcher includes a component of open defense in the
respective department in presence of external referee, internal referee, head of
the department, interested Alumni, current students (P.G. to Ph. D.) and all
faculty of the department.
6. It is mandatory for the students have to publish at least one paper in peer
reviewed and indexed journal from his/her research work. The student has to
include the reprint in the thesis.
The Committee also encourages young researchers to participate and present their
research output in various academic events like conferences/seminars and to publish
their research work in reputed journals. Some departments also conduct an "Annual
Research Seminar" once a year for all its Ph. D. students to provide them a proper
intellectual platform, track their research progress, and through an exposure of their
work, motivate the aspiring researchers.
3.1.2 What is the policy of the University to promote research in its affiliated /
constituent colleges?
An important policy of the University to promote research in its affiliated
colleges is the timely dissemination of all research related information. This is the
first step to motivate college teachers to embark upon significant research projects
like the UGC Major and Minor Research Projects. The number of college teachers
being awarded such UGC research projects in the period between 2009 and 2013 is
mentioned below. The faculty members of the various colleges affiliated with the
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Saurashtra University stay in constant touch with the faculties of the departments on
various academic and research related work. Many college teachers are Alumni of the
various departments on the campus; others are recognized guides; so there is always
an interaction and exchange of research ideas and information during RDC meetings,
open defenses, seminars and conferences. Research collaborations are also reflected in
joint publications shared by the faculty members both from the departments and
affiliated colleges as well as research scholars. Faculty members from colleges are
also motivated to attend refresher courses, summer / winter schools, lectures and
academic discussions on research methodology, and emerging areas of research.
Details of Major Research Projects sanctioned by UGC, Pune to College Teachers
affiliated to Saurashtra University, Rajkot and Registered Under Section 2(f) & 12(B)
of UGC Act, 1956.
During XII Plan: 2013 till date
Hindi
Dr. Joshi Daxa R., Lt. Minaben Kundalia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot. (Rs.7,64,600/-)
During XI Plan : 2009 to 2012
Gujarati
Dr. Jethalal M. Chandravadia, Yogiji Maharaj Mahavidyalaya Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Dhari. (Rs.8,24,600/-)
Dr. B.R. Khachariya, Shri G.K. & C.K. Bosamia Arts & Comm. College,
Jetpur. (Rs.5,22,500/-)
Biotechnology
Dr. Neha T. Patel, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot. (Rs.13,36,800/)
Economics
Dr. Dhakan Banu R., Lt. M.J. Kundalia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot. (Rs.7,27,600/-)
Microbiology
Dr. Neepa Pandhi, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
(Rs.8,00,800/-)
Details of Minor Research Projects sanctioned by UGC, Pune, to College Teachers
affiliated to Saurashtra University, Rajkot and Registered Under Section 2(f) & 12(B)
of UGC Act, 1956.
During XII Plan: 2013 till date
Commerce
Dr. Jani K.M., P.D. Malaviya College of Commerce, Rajkot.
Dr. Kornat H.M., Shri Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Joshipura, Junagadh
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Mr. Padia H.R., Shri A.K. Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar.
Mr. Marvaniya N.M., S.S.P. Jain Arts & Commerce College, Dhrangadhra,
Dr. Ransariya S.N., S.S.P. Jain Arts & Comm. College, Dhrangadhra
Mr. Raval M.M., Dr. Subhash Mahila Arts, Comm. & Home Science College, Junagadh.
Mr. Ahir K.D., Shri M.P. Shah Commerce College, Surendranagar.
Mrs. Patel H.R., Shri M.P. Shah Commerce College, Surendranagar.
Mr. Jhala N.K., Shri M.P. Shah Commerce College, Surendranagar.
Dr. Vala S.C., M.P. Shah Muni. College of Commerce, Jamnagar.
Hindi
Dr. Jagad G.A., Shri M.N. Kampani Arts & Shri A.K. Shah Comm. College,
Mangrol
Mr. Rathod R.M., Kamani Science &Prataprai Arts College, Amreli.
Dr. Vanvi L.J., U.K. Vachhani Mahila Arts College, Keshod.
Mr. Vala K.H., Lt. Shri N.R. BorichaTrsutSanchalitArts & Comm. College,
Mendarda.
Dr. Vyas J.C., Shri Dharmendrasinhji Arts College, Rajkot
Sociology
Dr. Vaghera T.H., Lt. M.J. Kundalia Arts & Comm. Mahila College, Rajkot. .
History
Dr. Khachar P.B., Dr. Subhash Mahila Arts, Comm. & Home-Science College, Junagadh.
Dr. Purohit N.J., D.K.V. Arts & Science College, Jamnagar.
Dr. Vala D.P., Lt. Shri N.R. Boricha Trust Sanchalit Arts & Comm. College, Mendarda
Sanskrit
Dr. Thakar C.R., Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Joshipura, Junagadh.
Mrs. Parmar A.N., D.K.V. Arts & Science College, Jamnagar.
Psychology
Dr. Mankad A.M., Smt. J.A. Patel Mahila College, Morbi.
Dr. Bhoraniya J.C., Smt. J.A. Patel Mahila College, Morbi.
Dr. Zalavadia T.L., Smt. R.R. Patel Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot
English
Prof. Ladva R.R., Gardi Arts& Comm. College, Malia-Hatina.
Mr. Pandya K.S., Shri M.B. Arts & Comm. College, Gondal.
Gujarati
Mr. Zalavadia M.J., M.B. Arts & Comm. College, Gondal.
Prof. Pandya B.D., Shri Dharmendrasinhji Arts College, Rajkot.
Dr. Barad B.A., Shri J.S. Parmar Arts & Comm. College, Kodinar.
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Dr. Chaudhari D.H., A.R.S. Sakhida Arts, Comm. & Home-Science College, Limbdi.
Education
Dr. Mahesh Raval, Shri C.H. Shah Maitri Vidyapith Mahila College of
Education, Surendranagar
Computer Science
Mr. Jobanputra P.V., P.D. Malavia College of Commerce, Rajkot.
Home Science
Mrs. Khakhar M.N., Shri A.K. Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar.
Dr. Jotangiya D.J., M.V.M. Science & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Mrs. Bhadasiya H.K., M.V.M. Science & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Mrs. Savant H.D., U.K. Vachhani Mahila Arts & Home-Sci. College, Keshod.
Mrs. Rao R.S., SadguruRanchhoddasji Mahila Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Chemistry
Dr. Patel A.U., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Dr. Vadodaria M.S., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Dr. V.N. Patolia, Kamani Science &Prataprai Arts College, Amreli.
Details of Minor Research Projects sanctioned by UGC, Pune, to College Teachers
affiliated to Saurashtra University, Rajkot and Registered Under Section 2(f) & 12(B)
of UGC Act, 1956.
During XI Plan Period: 2009 to 2012
Commerce
Mr. N. D. Zala, M.B. Arts & Comm. College, Gondal.
Dr. F.C. Shastri, Jasani Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot.
Dr. Dave K. S., Smt. J. H. Bhalodia Women's College, Rajkot.
Dr. Usdadiya C.L., Shri S.M. JadejaArts & Comm. College, Kutiyana.
Dr. Sarvaiya M.P., P.D. Malaviya College of Commerce, Rajkot.
Mr. Danger R.A., Smt. J.H. Bhalodia Women's College, Rajkot.
Mr. Moradiya B.V., Manavadar Arts & Comm. College, Manavadar.
Mrs. Mehta K.T., J.J.C. Sanchalit Commerce College, Junagadh.
Dr. Goswami Y.K., Smt. K.S.N. Kansagara Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot.
Ms. Odedra J.V., J.J.C. Sanchalit Commerce College, Junagadh.
Prof. Gohil R.A., Gurukul Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Porbandar.
Dr. Dodia B.M., Smt. J.C. Dhanak Arts & Comm. College, Bagasara.
Shri Dangar Ramesh A., Smt. J.H. Bhalodia Women's College, Rajkot.
Shri Thoriya Nilesh S., Smt. G.J. Sheth Comm. College, Morbi.
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English
Prof. Shaikh F. A., Lt. Shri N.R. Boricha Trust Sanchalit Arts & Commerce College, Mendarda.
Prof. Mehta R. H., Smt. J. J. Kundalia Comm. College, Rajkot.
Ms. Shah Nila M., Jasani Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot
Ms. Neela K. Pandya, M.V.M. Science & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Prof. MakodiaVipul V., Shri A.K. DoshiMahila College, Jamnagar.
Dr. Sulbha R. Devpurkar, Dr. V.R. Godhania College of Arts, Comm., Home-
Sci. & I.T. for Girls, Porbandar.
Psychology
Dr. Mori J. B., Shri J.P. Parmar Arts & Commerce College, Kodinar.
Dr. Ketan C. Dholakia, Shri A.K. Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar.
Prof. Ramilaben M. Pansara, Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Joshipura,
Junagadh.
Dr. Alka Mankad, Smt. J.A. Patel Mahila College, Morbi.
Physics
Mr. Parikh K.D., M.P. Shah Arts &Science College, Surendranagar.
Shri Jethva H.O., Shri M.M. Science College, Morbi.
Biosciences
Dr. B.A. Jadeja, M.D. Science College, Porbandar.
Hindi
Dr. R.H. Vankar, Smt. R.P. Bhalodia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Upleta
Dr. Dodia N.M., Lt. M.J. Kundalia Arts & Comm. Mahila College, Rajkot.
Dr. Bandhiya M.J., Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Veraval.
Dr. D.M. Solanki, Shri U.K. Vachhani Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Keshod.
Dr. Daxa R. Joshi, Lt. M.J. Kundalia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot.
Dr. Goswami M.K., Gurukul Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Porbandar.
Rural Studies
Mr. Gajera P.S., Gardi Gramvidya Mahavidyalaya, Mangrol.
Gujarati
Mr. Vyas M.A., Manavadar Arts & Comm. College, Manavadar.
Prof. B.S. Nimavat, V.D. Kanakia Arts & Comm. College, Savarkundla.
Dr. K.H. Karmata, Lt. Shri N.R. Boricha Trust Sanchalit Arts & Comm. College, Mendarda.
Dr. Ladva K.M., Smt. K.S.N. Kansagra Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot
Dr. Ladani U.P., Shri U.K. Vachhani Mahila Arts & Home-Sci. College, Keshod.
Dr. Chaudhari D.H., A.R.S. Sakhida Arts &Gediwala Comm. & Home-Sci.
College, Limbdi.
Mr. Vala H.L., Smt. J.C. DhanakArts & Comm. College, Bagasara.
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Prof. Choudhari R.K., V.D. Kanakia Arts & M.R. Sanghvi Comm. College, Savarkundla.
Dr. Mori S.D., Smt. J.C. Dhanak Arts & Comm. College, Bagasara.
Prof. Sejpal Hinaben V., Lt. M.J. Kundalia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot.
Prof. Aniruddhsinh B. Gohil, D.K.V. Arts & Science College, Jamnagar.
Political Science
Mr. B.B. Brahmbhatt, A.R.S. Sakhida Arts, Comm. & Home-Science College, Limbdi.
Economics
Dr. B.T. Babariya, Shri M. & N. Virani Science& Yogiji Maharaj Arts
College, Rajkot.
Mr. Ram K.R.., M.B. ARts& Comm. College, Gondal.
Mr. Vala J.S., Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Veraval.
Dr. B.D. Vala, Shri H.N. DoshiArts & Comm. College, Wankaner.
Dr. Vibha V. Bhatt, P.D. Malaviya College of Commerece, Rajkot.
Ms. Madhuben S. Fadadu, Smt. J.C. Dhanak Arts & Comm. College, Bagasara
Dr. Chauhan L.L., V.D. Kanakia Arts & M.R. Sanghvi Comm. College,
Savarkundla.
Sanskrit
Dr. Hina M. Kikani, Lt. M.J. Kundalia Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Rajkot.
Dr. A.H. Nandania, Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Veraval.
Dr. Pandya N.V., Shri A.K. Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar.
Dr. Gajera B.H., Shri Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Joshipura, Junagadh.
Shri Joshi D.N., Yogiji Maharaj Mahavidyalaya Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Dhari.
Dr. Unadkat Gita, Dr. V.R. Godhania College of Arts, Commerce & Home-Sci. College, Porbandar.
Computer Science
Mr. Patel Satvan, Shri M.& N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Ms. Panth S.N., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Ms. Parsana Falguni, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot. Microbiology
Ms. Parmar M.M., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Dr.(Mrs.) Umrania V.V., M.V.M. Sci. & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot
Mr. Nilkanth Faldu, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Ms. Archana S. Rana, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Mr. Nishant S. Junnarkar, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Dr. Jignasha Thumar, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Biotechnology
Ms. Leena Ambasana, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Mr. John J. Georrge, Christ College, (Arts, Sci. & Comm.) Rajkot.
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Mr. Vishwakarma N.P., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot. Home Science
Prof. Rao Kamlamani R., Shri A.K. Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar.
Dr. Samani V.S., M.V.M. Science & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Dr. Mankad G.P., M.V.M. Science & Home-Sci. College, Rajkot.
Dr. Barot J.N., Gurukul Mahila Arts & Comm. College, Porbandar
Physical Education
Dr. Butani S.J., Muni. Arts & Comm. College, Upleta.
Shri Jagani K.V., Shri G.K. & C. K. Bosamia Arts & Comm. College, Jetpur.
Library & Information Science
Mr. Ramani V.J., Saurashtra Gyanpith Sanchalit Arts & Comm. College, Barwala.
Biotechnology
Ms. Praveena Bhandari, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Mr. Ravi Rajan Kumar Ravi, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Ms. Shivani Patel, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Mr. K.P. Senthil Kumar, Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Mr. Serathiya H.M., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Chemistry
Dr. J.M. Parmar, Shri M.M. Science College, Morbi.
Dr. Patel P.K., Shri M. M. Science College, Morbi.
Dr. Purohit D.M., Shri M. & N. Virani Science College, Rajkot.
Dr. Bapodra A.H., Shri M.D. Science College, Porbandar.
Dr. Bhadja D.R., Shri M.M. Science College, Morbi.
Dr. Karia D.C., Shri H. & H.B. KotakInstt. of Science, Rajkot.
Dr. B.M. Bheshdadia, Shri M.M. Science College, Morbi.
Education
Shri Vaghela A.D., Smt. M.J. Gajera B.Ed. Mahila College, Amreli.
Sociology
Dr. Javiya S.R., Smt. J.A. Patel Mahila College, Morbi.
3.1.3 What are the proactive mechanisms adopted by the University to
facilitate the smooth implementation of research schemes/projects?
Allotment of funds in advance for sanctioned projects
Seed money for research projects.
Simplification of procedures related to sanctions / purchases to be made by the investigators
Autonomy to the principal investigator/coordinator for utilizing overhead
charges
Timely release of grants
Timely auditing
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Submission of utilization certificate to the funding authorities
The first proactive step adopted by the University to facilitate smooth
implementation of research schemes / projects is to make the various schemes /
projects known to all the departments on the campus and the affiliated colleges. The
Planning and Development Office of the University focuses on this job. The Office of
the Registrar pays attention to the prompt processing of research proposals to various
sanctioning and funding agencies like the UGC, DST, etc. Once any project is
sanctioned, the CAO‘s office pays attention towards the smooth sanctioning of the
advances and other financial aspects of the research, including timely release of
grants. The Audit section of the University does the financial-year-wise timely
auditing of amount already utilized for research, and finally, preparing the Utilization
Certificate. With respect to purchases including overhead charges, the University has
given the same sanctioning authority to the PI as the Head of the Department.
It is worth to mention that the University, through its IQAC, has been
awarding Seed Money Grants for research to the faculty members of the PG
departments. There is a formal process of screening and sanctioning of the grant (up
to Rs. 50, 000/-). The details of the last five year Seed Money Project is mentioned in
Best Academic Practice in 7.3.5.
3.1.4 How is interdisciplinary research promoted?
*Between/among different departments /schools of the University and
*Collaboration with national/international institutes / industries.
Interdisciplinary research is promoted by encouraging the faculties to apply
for Inter-Departmental projects, consultancy projects etc. The list of completed and
ongoing collaborative projects with the prominent National and International
Institutes are the ample testimony of the collaborations. For example, the Department
of Biosciences has conducted two multi-institute major research projects involving
IIT-Delhi, Delhi University-South Campus and Wildlife Institute, Dehradun in the
recent past. Multi institutional approach is also reflected in some projects sponsored
by the Government of Gujarat. There is also an Ordinance encouraging
interdisciplinary research approach in Ph. D. program. For example, Department of
Home Science has more than one Ph. D. students working in Inter-disciplinary areas
like Home Science with Psychology, Sociology, Human Rights, Economics and
MSW, etc. Similar practice is also followed at International level in department of
Pharmacy, where a Foreign. Student from M. Sc. (Medicinal plant) is pursuing Ph. D.
in Pharmacy.
Intra-Departmental Interdisciplinary Research: Many departments encourage
their students to undertake interdisciplinary research projects amongst different
specializations. As an example, a researcher in Pharmaceutical science can choose
interdisciplinary research topic amongst Pharmaceutics, Herbal Drug Technology,
Pharmacology, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs.
Multi-Institute Interdisciplinary Research: Researchers are also encouraged to
undertake interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with various
Departments of other Universities and Institutes. Several Departments of the
University are engaged in this kind of interdisciplinary research with National
Institutes like Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar; IIIM, Jammu; and Institute of
Human Genetics, Ahmedabad. Collaborative research with International Institute like
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University of New Mexico, USA is currently undergoing. Researchers are also
engaged in interdisciplinary research collaborating with Industries, Hospitals and
CROs like CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad; B. T. Savani Kidney Hospital, Rajkot; Civil
Hospital and PDU Medical College, Rajkot; Wockhardt Hospital, Rajkot; BAN
Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot; Vasu Pharmaceuticals, Vadodara; and Espee
Pharmaceuticals, Rajkot. MBA Department also has Interdisciplinary Ph. D. research
facility and collaborations with departments like commerce, economics and
psychology.
List of Active Collaborations with international/national institutes / industries:
1. Department of Bio-Sciences: THREE Collaborations with national institutes:
IIT, Delhi
Delhi University, South Campus
Wildlife Institute, Dehradun
2. Department of Physics: TEN Collaborations with national institutes:
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi
UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore and Mumbai
Department of Applied Physics, MSU, Vadodara
Institute of Applied Physics, CHARUSAT, Changa, Anand
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Inter University Accellator Center (IUAC), New Delhi
3. Department of Chemistry: NINE international & 06 national collaborations:
Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Microbiology, Albert Szent George Medical University, Szeged, Hungary
Katholik University, Leuven, Belgium- TAACF- Tuberculosis
Anti-Microbial Acquisition & Coordinating Facility, Southern
Research Institute, USA.
Institute de Science, Pharmacology, University of Siena
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Acedemia Sinica, Taiwan.
Faculty of pharmaceutical science, Josai University, Saitama,
Japan
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna.
Faculty of pharmaceutical science, Josai University, Saitama, Japan
Dabur Research Foundation, Ghaziabad (INDIA)
Bombay College of Pharmacy(BCP), Mumbai
University of Mysore, Mysore (INDIA).
Nicholas Piramal Research Center, Mumbai(INDIA)
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Alembic Limited, Vadodara: Anti-TB, Antibacterial and SAR study.
Claris Life Sciences, Ahmedabad.
4. Department of Pharmacy: 02 international & 08 national collaborations:
University of Central Lancashire, UK
University of New Mexico, USA
Lincoln Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ahmedabad
Montage Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Himmatnagar
Genetic Research Centre, Ahmedabad
Bio-care Formulation, Ahmedabad
M/s. Purple Remedies Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad
Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli
Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar
Sehat Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Himmatnagar
5. Department of Statistics: TWO international & THREE national
collaborations:
West Florida University, USA
University of Manitoba, Canada
IIT Madras
IIM Ahmadabad
St. Thomas College, Pala
6. Department of English: ONE national collaboration:
Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Vadodara
7. Department of Physical Education: TWO national collaborations:
SardaVidhyapith
Swarnim Gujarat Sports University, Gandhinagar
8. Department of Law: ONE national collaboration:
BPR & D, New Delhi.
3.1.5 Give details of workshops/ training programmes/ sensitization
programmes conducted by the University to promote a research
culture.
The University Departments conduct conferences, seminars, workshops or training
programmes regularly for promoting a research culture amongst the academics and
students, few examples of which are as follows:
Department of Biosciences:
1. Two Days Swarnim Gujarat Symposium on Trends in Biological Sciences, 16-17,
September, 2010
2. Two Days Seminar / Workshop on Recent Techniques in Life Sciences, 16-17,
October 2010.
3. One Day Symposium on Recent Trends in Life Sciences, Dept. of Biosciences, 11,
January, 2011.
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4. 2nd Annual Research Seminar, ARS- 2012, 20 April, 2012
5. 3rd Annual Research Seminar, ARS- 2013, 17-18, January, 2013
Department of Chemistry:
1. International Conference (15th
ISCB) Bridging Gaps in Discovery and
Development: Chemical and Biological Sciences for Affordable Health, Wellness
and Sustainability at Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 4-7 February, 2011
2. Two days National Workshop on updates in Process and Medicinal Chemistry-3-4
March, 2009.
3. Corporate communication and perfect pronunciation as well as leadership, 6
March, 2009
4. Two days National Workshop on Patents and IPR related updates, 19-20 Sept,
2009.
5. LCMSMS Basics, overview and How LCMSMS can be used for applications like
structure elucidation, 8 Dec, 2009.
6. 3rd International Workshop on Database, Search Engines and Software-3-4 Feb.
2011.
7. Science Direct Data Workshop, 25 Feb. 2011.
8. XXXI Annual CONFERENCE of Indian Council of Chemists – 28th
Dec - 2012
Department of Physics
1. UGC SAP National Seminar on Advances in Physics- Feb 28, 2013,
2. National Workshop on Functional Oxides Nanomaterials and Device Application
1-2 March, 2012
3. National Convention of Indian Association of Physics Teachers 5-6 Oct, 2011
4. National Space Science Symposium, 24-27 , Feb. 2010,
5. National Workshop of X-Ray diffraction Application, 17-19, March 2010
6. DST-PAC meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, Oct 30- Nov 2, 2012
Department of Home Science:
1. Role of Home Science in Social well-Being UGC sponsored National Conference
held on February 2010.
2. ―International Women‘s Day Celebration‖ Jointly organized with IQAC, Saurashtra
University. 08-03-2013
3. ―Life style management‖ UGC sponsored National Conference March – 2013.
Department of MCA:
1. UGC Sponsored Three days short term training program (STTP) on Advanced CPP
April 2009
2. UGC Sponsored Three days short term training program (STTP) on Core Java 28,
29, 30-01-2011
3. University and Department of Computer Science Sponsored One day National level
Seminar on ―Development of Web Application using Java and .NET‖ on 25-03-
2012.
Department of Human Rights:
1. ―Human Resources & Ecological Balance -A Dialogue‖ in association with NHRC,
New Delhi. UGC Sponsored National level seminar from 4-5, March 2013.
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Department of Journalism:
1. National Level Seminar on ―Role of Media‖ conducted on 28-3-2011
2. State level Seminar on ―Gujarati Films‖ conducted on 31-3-2012
Department of Business Management:
1. Faculty Development Programme on ―Case Pedagogy in Management, Organized
by Indian Accounting Association, Saurashtra University, Rajkot in collaboration
with Industry Institution Interaction Cell, Department of Business Management,
Saurashtra University, Rajkot on January 23, 2010.
Department of English:
1. An inter-disciplinary International Conference on Canadian Studies on the theme
―Global Challenges: Canada and India‖ was organized by the Department of
English & Comparative Literary Studies in collaboration with Indian Association
for Canadian Studies (IACS) between Jan. 20 and 22, 2013.
2. International Conference on ―Expanding Territories: Comparative Literature in the
21st Century‖ was organized by the Department of English & Comparative Literary
Studies in collaboration with Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)
and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, between Mar. 29 and 31, 2010.
Department of Psychology:
1. UGC Sponsored National Seminar in Collaboration with Bosamia Arts College,
Jetpur in Feb.2013.
Department of Sanskrit:
1. Sanskrit Yuva Sammelanam, 04 Sep, 2012
2. Workshop: ―Sanskrit Wikipedia‖, 24 Sep, 2012
Department of Sociology:
One National seminar on "Kathiawadi Horse: In Historical Perspective" was
organized by our department in the year of 2011.
Department of History:
One National seminar on "Kathiawadi Horse: In Historical Perspective" was
organized by our department in the year of 2011.
Department of Physical Education:
One day workshop on ―Introduction of Physical Education as an elective Subject‖ at
UG Courses conducted on 26th July, 2011 Participants - 75.
Department of Hindi:
1. National Seminar on Samkalin Upanyas Sahitya held on 3-3-2010 at Saurashtra
University Campus.
2. National Seminar on Hindi Upanyas Sahitya main Dalit Chetna held on 7-2-2011
at Saurashtra University Campus
3. National Seminar on Hindi-Gujarati Sahitya main Dalit Vimarsh held on 26-2-
2011 at Saurashtra University Campus
4. National Workshop on Hindi Anuvad: Samsya aur Samadhan held on 30-3-2011
at Saurashtra University Campus
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5. National Seminar on Gujarat ka Hindi Sahitya 30-3-2012 at Saurashtra
University Campus.
3.1.6 How does the University facilitate researchers of eminence to visit the
campus as adjunct professors? What is the impact of such efforts on the research
activities of the department?
The national level researchers of eminence are invited to the Department
under various schemes like UGC-SAP. The University has appointed two Professors
Emeritus and five Adjunct Professors in the departments like Physics, Chemistry,
Management, Pharmacy, and Statistics to bolster this aspect. Departments on the
campus organize lectures on current research topics of academicians and researchers
from different organizations thus providing the latest knowledge to the students and
exposing them the problems and emerging areas of research.
3.1.7 What percentage of the total budget is earmarked for research? Give
details of heads of expenditure, financial allocation and actual utilization.
Amount of grant utilized for research in various departments wise as per the
need and requirement. On an average the Departments have earmarked between 30-35
% of its resources for research purposes in its Post-graduate and research
programmes. The spectral examples across the different faculties of the University are
the Department of Biosciences, Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy has earmarked
around 60 % of its resources for research purposes in its Post-graduate and research
programmes. The Home Science Department has earmarked around 40 % of its
resources for research purposes in its Post-graduate and research programmes. In the
Department of Journalism and Law, 20 % of the total budget is used for research,
whereas in the Department of MBA 7.5 % of the grant is earmarked for research. In
the Humanities, Department of Psychology utilizes 30 % and Department of Hindi
utilizes 5% of their total grants for research.
3.1.8 In its budget, does the University earmark fund for promoting research in
its affiliated colleges? If yes, provide details.
The University has earmarked a fund for teachers in the affiliating colleges for
the publication of their research work.
3.1.9 Does the University encourage research by awarding Post-Doctoral
Fellowships/Research Associate ships? If yes, provide details like number of
students registered, funding by the University and other sources.
The Departments encourage research by awarding JRF and Research
Associate ship. JRF and Research Associate ships are available through DSA / CAS
programmes of the UGC sanctioned to Bioscience Department. Besides, large number
of the research students is awarded research fellowships from various funding
agencies. The students of various Departments regularly receive fellowships from
CSIR, DST, DBT, UGC and the state government. The Departments also encourage
research by awarding JRF and Research Associate ship as per UGC norms.
University encourages fresh Ph. D. degree holders to apply for POST-DOC
fellowships, Research Associate ship, DST Young Scientist grant, etc. Presently one
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DST Young scientist is working in the Department of Physics and one DST-SERB
woman scientist is working in the Department of Bio-Sciences on post-doctoral
fellowships.
3.1.10 What number of faculty has utilized the sabbatical leave for pursuit of
higher research in premier institutions within the country and abroad? How
does the University monitor the output of these scholars?
The list of the faculty members utilizing sabbatical leave between 2009 and
2013 is given here below. The University has received the sabbatical output of six out
of the seven faculty members. The seventh faculty is right now on a sabbatical. The
name of the faculty members, their respective departments, sabbatical periods, and the
outcome are mentioned here below:
a) Dr. A. D. Ambasna (Education) 01-08-2008 to 31-07-2009
b) Dr. M.S. Moliya (Education) 14-06-2010 to 13-06-2011
c) Dr. Nitin R. Vadgama (Gujarati) 01-09-2010 to 31-08-2011
d) Dr. Kunal B. Modi (Physics) 01-12-2010 to 30-11-2011
e) Dr. Bhadrayu Vachharajani (ASC) 10-05-2011 to 09-05-2012
f) Dr. Hiren H. Joshi (Physics) 01-07-2012 to 30-06-2013
g) Dr. B.G. Maniar (Law) 01-02-2013 to 31-01-2014
List of Publications for Dr. Hiren H. Joshi (Physics): 2012-13
Effect of Anisotropy on Magnetic Ordering in the Spinel System CoZnzGezCrx-zFe2-x zO4 Kalpesh H. Jani, Amish. G. Joshi and H. H. Joshi
Solid State Phenomena Vol. 202 (2013) Pg. No. 155-160 Trans Tech
Publications, Switzerland doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.202.155
Influence of Swift Heavy Ion (Si+8) Irradiation on Super-paramagnetic Mn0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 Nanoparticles having Different Sizes, R Desai, R V
Upadhyay, M C Chhantbarc, H H Joshi, Ravi KumarSolid State Phenomena
Vol. 202 (2013) pp 143-153
Computer Aided X-Ray Diffraction Intensity Analysis for Spinels: Hands-On
Computing Experience A. R. Tanna and H. H. Joshi World Academy of
Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 75, page 78, (2013)(Presented at
International conference held at Madrid, Spain during March, 29-31, 2013)
THERMOLUMINESCENCE STUDY FOR DIFFERENT GRAIN SIZES OF ANNEALED SYNTHETIC QUARTZ MATERIALS. A. Parashar, Y. H.
Gandhi D. R. Joshi, J. D. Baraliya, H. H. JoshiInternational Journal of
Luminescence and its applicationsVolume 2(I), , ISSN 2277 – 6362 (2012)
Structural Properties of High Energy Mechanical Milled Ca-Zr Doped BaTiO3: Ca0.1Ba0.9Zr0.1Ti0.9O3A R. Tanna and H. H. Joshi,Citation: AIP
Conf. Proc. 1536, 827 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4810483Published by the
American Institute of Physics
Synthesis and characterization of surface-engineered Core-Shell Nano-Size
Ferrites for biomedical applicationsJ. D. Baraliya and H. H. JoshiProc.
Conference ―Scientific wealth of Physics‖, Saurashtra University, August,
2012ISSN: 2300-0003
Synthesis of nano-structured ferroelectric tetragonal BaTiO3A.R. Tanna, K. Vala, J. D. Baraliya, H. H. JoshiJ. Science ( KCG: Govt of Gujarat) Vol.1
(2012) ISSN: 2320-0006
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On the influence of Jahn-Teller Cu2+ (3d9) ion on the structural and magneticproperties of Al-Cr co-substituted CuFe2O4A. R.Tanna, U. N.
Trivedi, M.C. Chhantbar, H. H. JoshiIndian J. Physics (Springer) ISSN 0973-
1458, Published online : 16th June, 2013DOI 10.1007/s12648-013-0341-1
Evolution of Magnetic ordering in spinel oxide system:Mn1.5(1-x)Ti0.5(1-
x)Fe(1+ 1.5x)Li(0.5)xO4Vaishali P. Joshi, Ashish R. Tanna, Kalpesh H. Jani
and H. H. JoshiTrans Tech Publications, Switzerland (2013) In Press
Scientific and Academic activities carried out during 1st December 2010 to 30th November 2011 by Dr. Kunal B. Modi, Associate Professor, Department
of Physics, Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
Research papers published\communicated in internationally reputed journals
Structural parameters and X-ray Debye temperature determination study on copper-ferrite-aluminates V. K. Lakhani, T. K. Pathak, N. H. Vasoya and K.
B. Modi, Solid state Sciences 13 (2011) 539-547.
Structural parameters and resistive switching phenomenon study on Cd(0.25) Co(0.75) Fe(2)O(4) ferrite thin film U. V. Chhaya, B. V. Mistry, K. H.
Bhavsar, M. R. Gachvi, V. K. Lakhani, K. B. Modi and U. S. Joshi Indian
Journal of Pure & Applied Physics 49 (2011) 833-840.
Al+3 modified elastic properties of copper ferrite V. K. Lakhani and K. B.
Modi Solid State Sciences, 12 (2010) 2134-2143.
Effect of Al+3 substitution on the transport properties of copper ferrite, V. K. Lakhani and K. B. ModiJournal of Physics D; Applied Physics 44 (2011)
245403 (11 page).
Negative magnetization, magnetic anisotropy and magnetic ordering studies on Al(+3)-substituted copper ferrite V. K. Lakhani, B. Zhao, L. Wang, U. N.
Trivedi and K. B. ModiJournal of Alloys and Compounds 509 (2011) 4861-
4867.
Influence of 50 MeV (Li3+)-ion irradiation on M–H loop characteristics of
(Y3+)-substituted YIG P. U. Sharma, S. N. Dolia, Ravi Kumar and K. B.
ModiRadiation effects and defects in Solids (2011) 1-5.
X-ray Debye temperature of mechanically milled Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 spinel ferrite K. B. Modi, T. K. Pathak, N. H. Vasoya, V. K. Lakhani, G. J. Baldha
and P. K. JhaIndian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics 85 (3) (2011) 411-
420
On the effect of mechanical milling on some physical properties of yttrium iron garnet K. B. Modi, S. N. Dolia and P. U. Sharma Journal of alloys and
Compounds (communicated)
Swift heavy ion irradiation induced modifications in electrical and dielectric properties of Y (+3) substituted YIG K. B. Modi and P. U. Sharma Journal of
Alloys and Compounds (communicated)
Permeability spectral analysis and micro-structural parameter determination
for yttrium excess polycrystalline yttrium iron garnet K. B. Modi and P. U.
Sharma Journal of Alloys and Compounds (communicated)
Worked as a reviewer for internationally reputed Journals
IR and elastic moduli study of NiFe(2-x)Cr(x)O(4) Nano crystalline ferrites Journal of Alloys and Compounds (11th November 2011)
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A low-loss dielectric using (Nd0.5Na0.5) TiO(3)-modified (Mg0.7Zn0.3)0.95Co(0.05) TiO (3) ceramics for microwave applications
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of solids (5th August 2011)
Structural and elastic properties of Li-Ni ferrite Journal of Physics and
Chemistry of solids (14th May 2011)
Sonic IR imaging of micro-defects in Titanium AlloyMaterials Science and Engineering B (14th August 2011)
Electrical Transport properties of Yttrium substituted Mg-ferrites Journal of Physics and Chemistry of solids (1st September 2011)
Study of elastic moduli through IR spectroscopy of NiFe(2-x)Cr(x)O(4) Nano crystalline ferrites Ceramics International (29th September 2011)
Influence of Co(+2) ion substitution on microstructural aspects of Li-Ni-Zn
Nano ferrites prepared through chemical route Materials Research Bulletin
(21st January 2011)
Liquid infiltration growth processed YBCO bulk superconductors using attrition-milled precursor Y(2) BaCuO(5) Journal of alloys and compounds
(10th February 2011)
Doping of Nb to the Ba and Cu sites in the Y(0.6) Gd(0.4)Ba(2)Cu(3) O(7-delta) Journal of Alloys and Compounds (16th May 2011)
Thermoelectric power and DC conductivity of Li-Cu ferrite Materials
Chemistry and Physics (20th June 2011)
Structural and dielectric characterization of lithium silicate ceramics: A comparative study. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (27th
September 2011)
Conductivity and dielectric behavior of W-type BaCa(2)Fe(16)O(27) hex ferrite particles prepared using a stearic acid gel route Nano science and
Nanotechnology letters (3rd November 2011)
Dr. NitinVadgama (Gujarati)
Books Published:
Swarnim Kavya-Kumbh by Saurashtra University Press, 2010.
Aparampar by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir, Ahmedabad, 2011.
Aarpaar by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir, Ahmedabad, 2011.
Dr. M.S. Molia (Education), 2010-11:
Submitted manuscript of book entitled Statistical Techniques for Analysis of Data in Research to the publisher Earth Graphics, Rajkot. Slated to be
published early 2014.
3.1.11 Provide details of national and international conferences organized by the
department highlighting the names of eminent scientists/scholars who
participated in these events.
The details of conferences are already enlisted under 3.1.5. Eminent
participants are enlisted below.
List of eminent scientists participated in different conferences.
Dr. Rashmi Barbhaya-MD, CEO and cofounder of Advinus Therapeutics,
Bangalore;
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Dr. T. Rajamannar-Director, SPARC Ltd. (Sun Pharma), Vadodara;
Mr. Sandip Parekh-Director, Unimark Remedies Ltd., Bavla;
Dr. R. C. Gupta-GM, Torrent Research Centre, Gandhinagar;
Dr. H. G. Koshia-Commissioner, Food & Drug Control Admn, Gandhinagar;
Prof. Dr. B. P. Bandgar-VC, Solapur University, Solapur;
Prof. R. K. Goel Former-VC, MS University, Vadodara;
Dr. J. S. Yadav-Director, IICT, Hyderabad ;
Dr. C. M. Gupta-Former Director, CDRI, Lucknow ;
Dr. Keshavdeo-VP, Wockhardt Research Centre, Aurangabad;
Mr. Bharat Mehta-Chairman, Calyx Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai ;
Dr. A. K. Goswami, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur;
Prof. S. C. Ameta-President, Indian Chemical Society;
Dr. G. C. Saxena-President, Indian Council of Chemists;
Prof. Harish Padh-VC, SP University, V. V. Nagar, Anand;
Dr. S. P. Adeshara, Food & Drugs Control, Commissioner;
Prof. Y. K. Agrawal, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University;
Dr. Ashok Vaidya, SPARC, Mumbai;
Prof. H. Ila, JNCSAR, Bangalore;
Prof. Virendra Parmar, Delhi University, Delhi ;
Prof. P. T. Perumal, CLRI, Chennai;
Dr. V. G. Nayak-President, Alembic Ltd., Vadodara ;
Prof. M. M. Sharma-Former Director, UDCT, Mumbai;
Mr. Kantisen Shroff-Chairman, Excel Crop Care Ltd., Bhuj;
Dr. B Gopalan-Chief Scientific Officer, Aurobindo Pharma, Chennai;
Mr. Chetan Majmudar-Director, Claris Life Science Ltd., Ahmedabad;
Dr. Bharat Trivedi, Wokhardt, Aurangabad
Dr. Sunil Nadkarni-VP, Torrent Research Centre, Gandhinagar;
Prof. Sailesh Gandhi of IIM A;
Prof. Vijay Gupta of IIM I.
Prof. Shailesh Gandhi, IIM Ahmedabad;
Prof. A.K. Laha, IIM Ahmedabad;
Prof. V.K.Gupta, IIM Indore;
Prof. NageswarRao, Vikram University, Ujjain;
Prof. B.A. Prajapati, HNGU, Patan;
Prof. B. Rames, Goa University, Goa;
Prof. H.J. Jani, S. P. University, V.V. Nagar;
Prof. G.C. Maheshwari, M. S. University, Vadodara;
Prof. ParimalVyas, M. S. University, Vadodara;
Prof. S.S. Sarangadevot, Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur;
Prof. B.S. Patel, M. S. University, Vadodara;
Prof. J. S. Panwar, S. P. University, V.V. Nagar;
Prof. R.K. Balyan, AIMS, Udaipur;
Prof. H.S. Oza, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad;
Prof. K. Sasikumar, University of Kerala, Trivendrum;
Prof. D. Prabhakar Rao, Andhra University, Visakhapatanam;
Prof. S.S. Modi, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur;
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Dr. Paresh Kari, OTIS Ltd., Mumbai ;
CA Yagnesh Desai, Mumbai;
Prof. N.M. Khandelwal, Udaipur;
Dr. J.L. Gupta, Delhi;
Prof. Sujit Sikhadhar, Assam;
Prof. P.K. Rathod, S.P. University, V.V. Nagar;
Dr. Mithilaprasad Tripathi, Ujjain; and
Prof. D. N. Pandey, Somnath Sanskrit University.
Prof. Mahavirsinh Chauhan, SP University, V.V. Nagar
Dr. Suryadin Yadav, Renowed Author, Nadiad
Dr. Shravankumar Mina,Jay Narayan Vyas University, Rajasthan
Dr. Uttambhai Patel, Asso. Professor, Vanraj Arts College, Dharampur
Dr. H. N. Waghela, Prof. and Head, Department of Hindi, Bhavnagar University
Dr. Madhukar Padvi, Principal MTB Arts College, Surat
Dr. Alok Gupt, Prof. and Head University of Gandhinagar
Maitryi Pushpa, Renowed Author, New Delhi.
3.2Resource Mobilization for Research
3.2.1 What are the financial provisions made in the University budget for
supporting students‟ research projects?
For supporting students‘ research projects, Saurashtra University through its
IQAC provides Rs. 5000/- as Students‘ Research Award to one student in each
department from 2008 onwards. Additionally, IQAC awards an innovative Research
Award for M. Phil. and Ph. D. Students in the faculty of science from 2013 onwards.
3.2.2 Has the University taken any special efforts to encourage its faculty to file
for patents? If so, how many have been registered and accepted?
The Saurashtra University has formulated its IPR policy which gives
guidelines for generating IPR including patents. The guideline also includes the
monetary benefits and it‘s sharing of revenue for patents as well as consultancies and
other services. The IPR policy document / guidelines are available on the University
website. The details regarding patents with the University are as under:
Sr.
No
.
Year Faculty Subject Detail of Patent
Registered
Name of
Patent holder
Scientist
Institution
where the
research
work
conducted
Date of
registration of
Patents
1 2009 Science Biosciences Prof. Vrinda
S. Thaker
and Rohan
Pandya
Department
of
Bioscience,
Saurashtra
University
Application
No:
704/MUM/200
9,
November 23,
2009
2 2010 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Dr. A. V. Department Provisional
83
preparation containing
Naringin as
Permission
enhancer
Dudhrejiya &
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
of Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Patent Application
No:
2513/MUM/20
10
Date:13/09/201
0-
3 2010 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
Preparation for
Haematological
Disorder
Dr. Sanjay
Chauhan &
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
579/mum/2010
Date:
4/03/2010
4 2010 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
Preparation for
Asthma
Dr. Sanjay
Chauhan
&
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
580/mum/2010
Date:
4/03/2010
5 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing
sunflower oil as
a permission
enhancer
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
&
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1497/mum/201
1
Date:
16/05/2011
6 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing gum
as binding
agent enhancer
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
&
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1498/mum/201
1
Date:
16/05/2011
7 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing
almond oil as a
permission
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1496/mum/201
84
enhancer Saurashtra University,
Rajkot -360
005
1 Date:
16/05/2011
8 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing
lavender oil as
a permission
enhancer
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1499/mum/201
1
Date:
16/05/2011
9 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing
Silymarin as
Permission
enhancer
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1604/MUM/20
11
Date:31/05/201
1
10 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing gum
as release
modifier
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
&
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1500/mum/201
1
Date:
16/05/2011
11 2011 Medicine Pharmacy Pharmaceutical
preparation
containing
isolated
flavonoid as
Permission
enhancer
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Department
of
Pharmaceut
ical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot -360
005
Provisional
Patent
Application
No:
1604/MUM/20
11
Date:31/05/201
1
12 2011 Science Bioscience Prof. Dr.
Vrinda S.
Thaker
& Madhvi
Joshi
Department
of
Biosciences
Application
No:
144/MUM/201
1, 17th Jan
2011
13 Science Chemistry 6-Methyl-4-
phenyl-5-
(phenyl or
cycloalkyl)carb
Dhiman
Sarkar,
Sampa
Sarkar,
Department
of
Chemistry
Applications
No.:
PCT/IB2011/0
01184
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3.2.3 Provide the following details of ongoing research projects of faculty:
The details about ongoing and completed research projects (i.e., data for 3.2.6)
have been combined and tabulated at the end of section 3.2 under 3.2.6.
3.2.4 Does the University have any projects sponsored by the industry /
corporate houses? If yes, give details such as the name of the project, funding
agency and grants received.
The current project with the University sponsored by an industry is that by BAN Laboratories of the amount of Rs. 50,000/-. This project is with the
Department of Pharmacy.
The other project sponsored by the Claries life Sciences of the amount of Rs. 77.20 Lacs to the Department of Chemistry.
Bioscience department has received 3 sponsored projects from ESSAR ltd.
and Jetpur Dying and Printing Association. Amount received from these
projects is 20 Lacs.
3.2.5 How many departments of the University have been recognized for their
research activities by national / international agencies (UGC-SAP, CAS;
Department with Potential for Excellence; DST-FIST; DBT, ICRAR, ICHR,
ICPR, etc.) and what is the quantum of assistance received. Mention any two
significant outcomes or breakthroughs achieved by this recognition.
Biosciences: Centre for Advance Studies (UGC)
Chemistry: DST-FIST, UGC SAP-DRS, DST-NFDD, BRNS, DBT, MSME,
CSIR, UGC,
Physics: DST-FIST, UGC SAP-DRS, DST, GUJCOST
Pharmaceutical Science: UGC SAP, AICTE, UGC Innovative, DST
MBA: AICTE
MCA: AICTE
Department of Physics has received 39.85 Lacs amount towards Centre for Excellence for Nano Technology (GUJCOST, GOG)
Department of Chemistry obtain 544 Lacs towards establishing National Facility for Drug Discovery and Instrument support centre for small
Pharmaceutical Companies
Department of Bioscience has received 125 Lacs towards Centre for Advance
Studies from UGC
Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Bio-Science and Pharmacy have received funding from UGC under SAP.
amoyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro
pyrimidin-2-
one derivatives
as
Antitubercular
Agents
Rohit Joshi,
Vijay
Khedkar,
Raghuvir
Pissurlenkar
, Evans
Coutinho,
Anamik
Shah.
(31.05.2011) /
Publication
no.:
WO2011/1517
01 (08.12.2011)
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Pharmacy department obtain 38 Lacs for Inspire Faculty Program (DST) and 55 Lacs for Innovative Program by UGC
Major Outcomes
The facility of NFDD created at Saurashtra University is catering need
of nearby Pharma industries, entrepreneurs and researchers. This has
boosted the industrial activity and research output in last four years
considerably.
The training to PG students and researchers in sophisticated instruments in other departments also created impressive track record
of students outflow in industry, Government institutions, CSIR
laboratories, other National Institutes and on International Arena.
Pharmacy as well as Bioscience departments has supported local industries in the area of pre-clinical and clinical Herbal Pharmaceutical
formulation, Marine Ecology and Environmental Monitoring
The outcome of material science laboratory at Physics department has several Laurel for the application part of their study on semi
conductors etc.
Claris life sciences at Ahmedabad are given proven technology for
their four products used in cases of chronic Kidney failure.
KUQ18 the molecule developed at Saurashtra University for anti inflammatory Cancer pathway was shown in the report of Piramal Life
Sciences in their investor meet.
3.2.6 List details of
a) Research projects completed and grants received during the last four years
(Funded by National / International agencies)
b) Inter-institutional collaborative projects and grants received
i) All India Collaboration:
ii) International:
Sr. No. Name of the
Faculty Title Funding Agency Tenure
Total Outlay
in Rs. (Lacs)
1 Prof.
V.S. Thaker
Plant Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering
Department of science
and technology,
Government of Gujarat
2007-
2013 147.82
2
Prof.
V.S. Thaker
BIT Virtual. The Virtual
Institute of Bioinformatics.
Collaborative Research
Project with various
Universities of State and
AP BioNet, Singapore
DST, GSBTM
2008-
2013 173.64
3
Prof.
V.S. Thaker
Molecular marker studies on
plant pathogenicity and
development of pathogen
diagnostic kit.
GSBTM,
(DST), Gandhinagar
2011-
2013 19.86
4
Prof.
S.V. Chanda
Utilization of fruit and vegetable
peels as a potential source
of antimicrobial and antioxidant
agent with their phytochemical
UGC Major Research
Project
2010-
2013 10. 25
87
analysis
5 Department of
Biosciences
Centre of Advanced Studies
(CAS) Ongoing
UGC
2013-
2018
136.00
6 Department of
Biosciences
FIST Phase-
I Programme (DST) Completed DST
2006-
2011 55.00
7
S.P. Singh
Screening of biotechnologically
Useful Enzymes in Halophiles/
Haloalkaliphiles from Coastal
Areas of Gujarat: Molecular and
Functional Characterization for
Industrial Application:
Completed
DBT (Multi-Institutional
Project) IIT Delhi, Delhi
University, Saurashtra
University
2007-
2012
32.54
8
R. S. Kundu
Tourism and coastal health: An
ecological study of the key
intertidal macro fauna at
anthropogenic ally influenced
Somnath and Diu coasts of
South Saurashtra coastline.
UGC Major Research
Project
2007-
2010
4.01
9
R. S. Kundu
Marine Wealth
of Saurashtra Coast: Coastal
Biodiversity and the Status of
Marine Living Resources
of Saurashtra.
DST, Govt. Of Gujarat
Major Research
Programme
2007-
2010 25.55
10
R. S. Kundu
Monitoring of the marine
environment for the water
quality at the refinery complex
of Essar Oil limited. PHASE-
III. Completed
ESSAR OIL LTD.
Jamnagar
2008-
2009 6.50
11
R. S. Kundu
Monitoring of the marine
environment for the water
quality at the refinery complex
of Essar Oil limited. PHASE-
IV Completed
ESSAR OIL LTD.
Jamnagar
2009-
2010 6.50
12
BRM Vyas
Effects of Waste-waters on
Crops and Ground Water
Quality (Consultancy
Project) Completed
Jetpur Dying & Printing
Association, Jetpur
2008-
2009 7.00
88
13
V.C. Soni
Ecology, behavior and highly dense
populations (Melursus ursinus)
and conflict in Jessore wildlife
Gujarat and Mount Abu
Rajasthan Phase I &
II: Completed
With Wildlife Institute
of India (Grant-in aid)
2007-
2012
57.50
14
H. S. Joshi
New Drug Target for Diabetes:
Design, Synthesis and
Biological Evaluation Ongoing
CSIR 2013-
2016 25.00
15
Alok
Chakrawal
International Partners
Collaborating to Improve
Student Learning from
Assessment and Feedback
Ongoing
British Council 2013-
2014 24.00
16 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
Development of e-contents for
foundation course on
Pharmaceutical Microbiology
MHRD
6.75
17 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
Preparation and evaluation of
transdermal patch of solasodine
isolated from solanum
zanthocarpum
GUJCOST
0.50
18 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
Studies on Optimization of
Crystal Habit and Improvement
on Processing and
Pharmacokinetic Parameter of
Selected Active Pharmaceutical
Ingredients
UGC
4.57
19 Department of
Pharmaceutical
Sciences
Special Assistance Programme UGC
71.5
20 Dr. P. H.
Parsania
Development of Novel Polyester
Polyols Based Polyurethane
Resins for Bio-composites &
Coating Materials
UGC, New Delhi 2008-
2011
6.81
21 Dr. P. H.
Parsania
Use of Renewable Resources
and Novel Epoxy Resins for
Value Added Natural Fiber
Reinforced Plastics
DST, New Delhi 2010-
2013
20.00
22 Dr. P. H.
Parsania Synthesis of Specialty
Bisphenol-C-Epoxy , Bisphenol-
C-Novolac and Their Vinyl
Ester Resins for Value Added
Fiber Reinforced Composites
and Coating Materials
CSIR, New Delhi 2011-
2014
13.23
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23 Dr. P. H. Parsania
Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Modified
Multifunctional Resins and
Their Fiber Reinforced
Composites Based on
Renewable Resources
UGC, New Delhi 2013-2016
8.10
24 Dr. A. K. Shah National facility for Drug
Discovery Through New
Chemical Entities (NCE‘s)
Development & Instrumentation
Support to Small manufacturing
Pharma Enterprises
DST- DPRP, New Delhi,
UGC – SAP,
Govt. of Gujarat,
Sau. University.
2005-
2012
543.00
25 Dr. A. K. Shah Design, Synthesis and
Biological evaluation of highly
functionalized triazolo fused
benzodiazepinone analougues
via multicomponent reactions
DST (SERB), New
Delhi 33.89
26 Dr. A. K. Shah Synthesis and anticancer activity
of new chemical entities
(NCE's) aromatase inhibitors
UGC, New Delhi 2012-
2015
14.00
27 Dr. A. K. Shah Development of efficient P-
glycoprotein Inhibitors based on
Structure Based Drug Design
(SBDD) and In-silico
Comparative Studies
DBT, New Delhi 2011-
2013
46.82
28 Dr. A. K. Shah Structure-Based Development of
Non-nucleoside anti-HIV-1 RT
Drugs. With Prof. Virendra N.
Pandey, NJ, USA & Dr. Tanaji
Telele, NY, USA.
NIH-USA 2008-
2011
230128.50
(USD)
29 Dr. A. K. Shah Process development for some
chiral derivatives into non-chiral
keto acid salts and other
compounds useful as
pharmaceutical substances.
Claris Life Sciences, SU,
DST,
New Delhi.
2008-
2010
77.24
30 Dr. A. K. Shah Open Source Drug Discovery CSIR 2009-
2012
7.00
31 Dr. A. K. Shah Development of deuterium
labeled pharmaceutically active
compounds suitable for use in
pharmaceutical research
DAE-BRNS, Mumbai 2010-
2013
20.00
90
32 Dr. V. H. Shah Bioactive Pyridine & Pyrimidine as Anti HIV & Anti-Tumor
Agents
UGC,
New Delhi
2007-2010
6.66
33 Dr. V. H. Shah Design, synthesis and Bio
evaluation of pyridines and
Pyrimidine as potential
Antituberculor Agents
CSIR,
New Delhi
2010-
2013
15.00
34 Dr. V. H. Shah Design, synthesis and biological
evaluation of pyridine and
Pyrimidine based
heterocyclesaspotential anti -
HIV and anti-tumor agents
UGC,
New Delhi
2012-
2015
9.00
35 Dr. H. S. Joshi Investigation of Pyridines and
other hetrocyles as
Antituberculor and anti-
inflammatory agents
UGC, New Delhi 4.85
36 Dr. M. K. Shah Novel metal porphyries as
photodynamic therapeutics
UGC,
New Delhi
2010-
2012
1.40
37 Dr. Y. T.
Naliapara Synthesis and Biological studies
on novel aniline nitrogen
mustard containing various
heterocyclic as potent anticancer
agents
UGC, New Delhi 2012-
2015
12.4
38 Dr. R. C.
Khunt
Design, Synthesis and
Characterization of some new
Heterocyclic as an
Antituberculor agents
Fast track Young
Scientist scheme, DST,
New Delhi
2008-
2011
18.84
39 Department of
Physics
DST-FIST (Level-I)
DST 2008-
2013 129.00
40 Department of
Physics
UGC SAP DRS – II
UGC 2009-2014
71.50
41 Prof. D.G.
Kuberkar
Development and
Characterization of Multiferroic
Thin Films for Device
Applications
UGC
2011-
2014 12.37
42 Prof. D.G.
Kuberkar SHI Induced Modifications in
the Properties of BiFeO3
Multiferroic Thin Films
UGC
2012-
2015 05.79
91
43 Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
Electronic Structure and
Valance Band Studies on
Functional Oxides
UGC-DAE
2012-
2015 07.09
44 Prof. H.P.
Joshi
Aerosol characterization over
the semi-arid urban region –
Rajkot using multi technique
observations
ISRO
2012-
2015 18.00
45 Prof. D. G.
Kuberkar
Development and studies on
functional oxide thin film
devices for spintronics
applications
DST-SERB 2013-
2016 54.50
46
Prof. D. G.
Kuberkar
Studies on transport and
magneto-transport behaviour of
functional oxide based thin film
devices
DAE-BRNS 2013-
2016 24.90
47 Prof. K N Iyer Study of Aerosol Characteristics
over tropical, semi –arid, urban,
region- Rajkot ISRO
2008-
2010 22.61
48 Prof. K N Iyer Study of gravity wave
generation and propagating
during solar eclipse using chain
of GPS receivers and other
supporting system (2009- 10)
ISRO 2009-
2010 1.00
3.3 Research Facilities
3.3.1 What efforts have been made by the University to improve its
infrastructure requirement to facilitate research? What strategies have been
evolved to meet the needs of researchers in emerging disciplines?
Saurashtra University is among one of the Universities of Gujarat, which has
started improving infrastructure by receiving funds from different philanthropists.
Numbers of new buildings are created in true spirit of public / private participation on
the campus. Majority of departments have new buildings and also expansion program
wherever necessary. The departments are enjoying ample space to encourage the
research by providing faculties with upgraded premises, new laboratories and various
other amenities.
University provides 24x7 WI-FI Internet facilities to the P.G. Students and
Researchers along with LAN Internet facility to teaching faculties and research
scholars for carrying out research in their respective areas. University library has been
providing e-corner facility for students for NET surfing of various e-journals, e-
books, etc. University researchers have access to large number of e-journals through
INFLIBNET, SCIENCE DIRECT and other resources.
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Various centres of higher learning in science stream help students to take
research challenges of inter disciplinary nature. The students are allowed to learn the
techniques, laboratory skills, instruments and experimental protocols. Departmental
faculties are helping research scholars not only from the campus but the researchers of
neighbouring colleges, institutes and other universities too. The environment at the
campus is very conducive for the research and is appreciated by several agencies.
The facilities at many departments are continuously upgraded, expanded and a
phenomenal growth is done to meet the requirement to work on frontal areas of
research. E.g., material science, Nano technology, drug delivery systems, Nano herbal
formulations, drug discovery, bio-informatics, chemo-informatics, medicinal
chemistry, computer aided drug design, environmental pollution related research, bio-
remediation, marine biology, plant ecology, etc.
Similarly, in humanities and social science and professional courses, the
approach of faculties is to take up the challenges of current economy in global context
and study the industrial growth of the region. Saurashtra has a very rich culture of
language and dialects due to existence of diverse castes and creeds. This has given a
great boost to take up the research topics related to this.
3.3.2 Does the University have an Information Resource Centre to cater to the
needs of researchers? If yes, provide details of the facility.
The University library keeps some useful information and students and
researchers are taking benefit of this data. At departmental level, senior faculty
member looks after providing the necessary information related to research.
Periodically, various agencies of University train students to gather information from
different resource centres.
3.3.3 Does the University have a University Science Instrumentation Centre
(USIC)? If yes, have the facilities been made available to research scholars?
What is the funding allotted to USIC?
However, the USIC facility is not available on the campus but every science
department is equipped with necessary instruments for carrying out research activities
in multiple departments.
3.3.4 Does the University provide residential facilities (with computer and
internet facilities) for research scholars, post-doctoral fellows, research
associates, summer fellows of various academies and visiting scientists
(national/international)?
University has the residential facilities having computer and internet (Wi-Fi)
for research scholars, post doctoral students, NRIs, visiting scientists on the campus.
International transit house caters to the need of visiting scientists (National and
International) for their short and long stay on the campus.
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3.3.5 Does the University have a specialized research centre/ workstation on-
campus and off-campus to address the special challenges of research
programmes?
The specialized research centre on-campus is an exclusive interdisciplinary
research and development (R & D) centre, called the National Facility for Drug
Discovery Centre (NFDD), more about which is given appropriately in 3.7.4. All the
science departments are well equipped with latest computational facilities to meet the
challenges during their research along with few sophisticated instruments suitable for
research in front-line areas of science.
3.3.6 Does the department have centres of national and international
recognition/repute? Give a brief description of how these facilities are made use
of by researchers from other laboratories.
Four major science departments namely Chemistry, Biosciences, Physics, and
Pharmaceutical Sciences are well equipped with the state of art research facilities.
Chemistry department is instrumental in the establishment of ―National Facility for
Drug Discovery‖, while Physics department is responsible for the establishment of
Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Laboratory. Department of Bioscience is
responsible for establishment of latest Biotechnology Research facility on the campus.
The department of Pharmaceutical Sciences has developed the centre for herbal drugs
and plantation of medicinal plants (Dhanvantri and Nakshatra).
The above mentioned research centre and facilities are being used by the
researchers on the campus and off the campus to carry out research in their respective
fields. All such facility centre has regular documentation for the usage. Some of the
reputed institutions using our research facilities like R.K. University, B.K. Modi
Govt. Pharmacy College, Rajkot, Drug Inspectors Agencies of the State Govt. etc.
3.4 Research Publications and Awards
3.4.1 Does the University publish any research journal(s)? If yes, indicate the
composition of the editorial board, editorial policies and state whether it/they
is/are listed in any international database.
The overall research output of faculties of this University is note worthy in terms of
publications in well reputed and well cited journals. However, the University has also
initiated three research journals which are published annually as following:
(1) Saurashtra University Journal of Applied Sciences;
(2) Saurashtra University Journal of Humanities;
(3) Saurashtra University Journal of Social Sciences;
All three journals are sent to several Universities, academic institutions and colleges.
The teachers are encouraged to contribute in these journals and strengthen the
publication activities.
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3.4.2 Give details of publications by the faculty:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals
Monographs
Chapter in Books
Books edited
Books with ISBN details of publishers
Number listed in International Database
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
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Name of the
Department
Number of
papers
published in
peer
reviewed
journals
(national /
international)
Monographs Chapters
in Books
Books
edited
Books with
ISBN with
details of
publishers
Number listed in
International
Database(For e.g. Web
of Science,
Scopus, Humanities
International Complete,
EBSCO host, etc.)
Citation
Index –
range /
average
SNIP SJR Impact
Factor –
range /
average
h-index
Bio chemistry 50 - 6 - - - 3-23 - - 0-2 2-5
Bio Science 145 6 23 - - - 1-210 - - 0.5-4.8 5-24
Chemistry 240 - 2 2 2 - 1-45 0-5 7-18
Commerce 36 - - - 4 - - - - - -
DBM - - - - - - - - - - -
Economics 14 - 6 1 - - - - - - -
Electronics 44 - - - 1 - - - - - -
History 27 - - 4 10 - - - - - -
Human Rights 10 - - - - - - - - 0.5-0.2 -
Home Science 8 - - - 1 - - - - - -
Hindi 60 - 6 5 27
Journalism - - - - - - - - - - -
Law 12 - 2 - 2 2277-4254 - - - - -
Mathematics 93 - - - - 93 - - - - -
MCA 20 - 1 2 1 - - - - - -
MBA 25 - 2 1 2 - - - - - -
Pharmacy 103 - 1 - 3 0 2.4 0 0 3.6 8
Philosophy - - - - - - - - - - -
Physical
Education
- - - - 5 - - - - - -
Physics 138 - - - - 1 0-41 - - 0.2 -5.0 9
Psychology 54 - 29 1 4 - - - - - -
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3.4.3 Give details of:
Faculty serving on the editorial boards of national and international journals
Faculty serving as members of steering committees of international conferences recognized by reputed organizations / societies
Both the details are as under
Name of the
Department
faculty serving on the
editorial boards of
national and
international journals
faculty serving as members of
steering committees of
international conferences
recognized by reputed
organizations / societies
Other information
Bio chemistry 1 NIL One of the faculty Dr. N. R. Sheth is Member of editorial board of Plantaindica and
Current Trend in Biotechnology and Pharmacy Journal
Bio Science 1 1 Prof. Satya P. Singh is Scientific advisor in Sweden based scientific body "
International Science Foundation"
Chemistry 3 4 Prof. P. H. Parsania
1. J. Polymer Materials
2. International Journal of Applied Chemistry
Prof. A. K. Shah
1. Journal of Cell and Tissue Research (TRC journal)
2. Medicinal Chemistry: An Indian Journal (Trade Science Incorporation)
3. Associate Editor, Journal of Basic and Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brazil.
4. Heterocyclic Communications, UK
Prof. H. S. Joshi
1. International Journal for Pharmaceutical Research Scholar
2. Spark International Online e Journal
3. Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment
Sanskrit 22 - 5 8 4 - - - - - -
Sociology 15 - - 5 12 - - - - - -
Statistics 5 - - 1 1 - - - - 0.2-0.5 -
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4. Analytical Chemistry:An Indian Journal (Trade Science Inc.) Dr. S. H. Baluja
International Journal of Chemical Research (Bioinfo Publications)
Commerce 5 NIL Daksha Pratapsinh Chauhan
1) Indian Accounting Association Journal.
2) Spark ―e‖ Journal.
3) Management Trends.
4) Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.
5) Global Research Journal of Commerce , Finance and Business management.
Economics 1 1
Electronics 1 NIL NIL
Hindi 1 NIL Dr. B.K. Kalasva is serving on the editorial boards of as
(1) Surashtriya (2) SahityaParivar, which are national journals; (3) Shrey Journal of
mulitidisciplinary research, an international journal
History 1 NIL DR.KALPA A. MANEK serving on the editorial boards of national journals.("VAAK")
Home Science 2 2 Dr. N. R. Dave- Asian Journal of Home Science Vice President
west zone -Home Science Association of India
Dr. H. D Joshi -American Biographical Institute, North Carolina USA
Dr. R. V. Raval-Treasurer, Indian Dietetic Association, Rajkot club
Law 1 1 NIL
Mathematics 3 1 1) Mathematics Today
2) Indian Journal of Mathematical and Computer Sciences(Bundelkhand University)
MCA NIL 2 NIL
MBA 3 3 Prof. Pratapsinh Chauhan
Prof. Sanjay Bhayani
Prof. Hitesh Shukla
Pharmacy 1 NIL Dr. N. R. Sheth is serving on editorial board of Journal of Natural Drugs
Physics 1 1 1) Prof. H. H. Joshi Editor, Journal of Science , Govt. Gujarat
2) Prof. D. G. Kuberkar, Member, Accelerator User Commiittee IUAC, New Delhi
Psychology 15 4 1) Member of the Editorial Board of SARJ of Education and the Arts, an International
peer-review academic journal.
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2) Co-Editor/ Reviewer in-charge Int. Journal of Law and Social Sciences Global Science and Technology forum Singapore - 079903
3) Editorial Consultant : Indian Journal of Community Psychology.
4) Co-Editor Journal of Mental Health
5) Community Psychology Association of India Indian Journal of Community
Psychology Executive Committee ISSN No. 0974-2719 An official publication of the
community Psychology Association of India 2010 to continue Faizabad (U.P.)
6) Community Psychology Association of India Indian Journal of Community
Psychology Executive Committee ISSN No. 0974-271 An official publication of the
community Psychology Association of India 2010 to continue Faizabad (U.P.)
7) Community Psychology Association of India Indian Journal of Community
Psychology Executive Committee ISSN No. 0974-271 An official publication of
the community Psychology Association of India 2010 to continue Faizabad (U.P.)
Sanskrit 3 NIL 1) Dr. M. K. Moliya is the member of editorial Board in reputed Journal "Svadhyaya",
Oriental Institute, Vadodara.
2) Dr. M. K. Moliya, Dr. R. A. Chotaliya and Dr. R. N. Kathad are in editorial Board of
"Surashtriya".
3) Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of peer reviewed international referred journal naned
Recent Though.
4) Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of journal for Higher Education, peer reviewed
international referred journal "Kriti".
5) Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of editorial board in Vicharamanthana published by
BharatiyaVichara Mancha.
6) Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of editorial board in SamrasataSetu published by
SamajikSamarasata Mancha.
Sociology 2 NIL NIL
Statistics 8 NIL Faculty serving as evaluator of American Mathematical society when research papers
and books are evaluated. Also faculty is referring many National and International
research papers.
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3.4.4 Provide details of
Research awards received by the faculty and students
National and international recognition received by the faculty from reputed
professional bodies and agencies
The details have been provided as under:
Name of the
Department
Details about awards
Bio chemistry 1)Akhilesh Joshi, Raju Dabhi, Harshad Vala, Rageet Balondra,
participated in National Level Seminar on Science and Technology
2012, at Christ College, Rajkot 2nd Prize in poster presentation, Title
: Epidermal Electronics
2)Harita Pandya, Rekha Sharma, 1st Prize in poster presentation at
6th national level science symposium at Christ college, Rajkot
3)Vandana Savjiyani Participated and stood first in poster
presentation competition P.G section (Biochemistry) in 5th National
Level Science Symposium 2012 held at Christ College,
Rajkot. Poster Title was "Identification and characterization of salt
tolerance in microorganism isolated from agricultural soil." Guide:
Gaurav Dave
Bio Science 1) Ms. Varsha. M Trivedi
Best Poster Presentation,
International Congress of Environmental Research: In Life Science
Session, 2010
Awarded First Prize ―Best Poster Paper Presentation at the session
Life Science‖ in the International Congress of Environmental
Research at Reduit, Mauritius during September 16-18, 2010
2)Prof. V. C. Soni
1. Award given by The Wildlife Institute of India,
Dehradun in appreciation of the contribution in the
Wildlife science on 9th October, 2011.
2. Awarded for the contribution on forest research.
Indian Institute of Forest Research, Bhopal, 9th
October, 2011.
3. Awarded for best contribution in Indian Ornithology
Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural
History, Coimbatore, 26th November, 2011
3) Nagani Krunal, Rakholiya K and Chanda S (2011) In vitro
antioxidant property of Cissus quadrangularis L. stem in methanolic
extract and its fractions. Oral presentation at 3rd Australia-China
Biomedical Research Conference organized by Australia Chinese
Association for Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne,
Australia 28-30th April, 2011, Page No. 100, O109. Third Prize for
oral presentation
Chemistry 1) One time UGC Research award (for Outstanding Teachers who
have produced 15 Ph. D. in 5 years):
Prof. P. H. Parsania 7 Lacs
Prof. A. K. Shah 7 Lacs
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Prof. V. H. Shah 7 Lacs Prof. H. S. Joshi 7 Lacs
Prof. Anamik Shah:
2) National and International recognition:
(i) President Indian Society of Chemists and
Biologists (2008 Onwards)
(ii) Scientific Parternship Award (Russia)
(iii) Morari Bapu Award
(iv) Adjunct Professor at Banasthali Vidyapith
3) Prof. Shipra Baluja: Hari Om Ashram Best paper Award
Commerce
1) Best paper award received by Dr. Shailesh J. Parmar in 11th
International conference organized by RDA. Jaipur 2012.
2) Best paper award received by Dr. Alok Chakrawal in International
Conference Organized by Bombay University on Strategic
Management during 2011-12.
Economics 1) Dr.M.V.Joshi Best Professor in Economics
English 1) Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee selected for the U.S. Government‘s SUSI
Program at the University of Louisville, Kentucky between 17 June to
31 July, 2011.
Hindi 1) Dr. N.T. Gamit (Asso.Professor) has received research award of
minor research project title - "Socio-Cultural study of Gamit
Literature"
History 1) Dr.K.A.Manek is participated in essay competition organized by
Saurashtra-Kutch ItihasParishad in the Subject of "contribution of
princely states in the freedom struggled" And awarded with Swami
SmpurnanandjiMaharaj for getting first rank in it. (year: 2010)
2) Dr.K.A.Manek is participated in essay competition organized by
Saurashtra-Kutch ItihasParishad in the Subject of "Freedom Fighters
of Jamnagar District" And awarded with HarishankarShastriSliver
Medal for getting first rank in it. (year: 2012)
3) Dr.K.A.Manek is participated in essay competition organized by
Gujarat ItihasParishad, VallabhVidyanagar in the Subject And
awarded with awarded with Prof Keshaval H KamdarSliver Medal for
best research essay. (year: 2013)
Law Dr. N.K. Indrayan has received following recognition -
1) Included by 'Learned India' in 'Distinguished Biographies of 21st
Century' - 2009.
2) Nominated to receive 'Gold Medal for India' by ABI, 2010.
3) Nominated to be honoured 'Great Minds of 21st Century' by ABI
2011.
4) Nominated 'for inclusion in 'Top 100 Educations 2012' by IBC.
5) Nominated as International Educator of the year' by IBC, April
2012.
6) Selected for award of 'Cambridge Certificate by IBC, September
2012
7) Nominated amongst 'Leading Educators of World 2013; by IBC.
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MCA 1) Dr. CK Kumbharana has awarded one research paper in international conference, won the prize in the project presentation in
international conference, won the first prize in national level seminar.
2) Dr. AM Gonsai has awarded young scientist award, won the first
prize in national level seminar.
MBA 1) Prof. Pratapsinh Chauhan
Best Paper award at Dubai International Conference
2) Prof. Hitesh Shukla
Best Paper award at Jaipur International Seminar and National
Conference
3) Prof. Sanjay Bhayan
Best Paper award at Jaipur International Conference of RDA
Pharmacy 1) Research Award to Faculty
* Dr. Sachin Parmar is awarded with Guffic prize for best research
paper entitled "Immunomodulatory activity of Neem leaf
glycoproteins in Malaria" in oral presentation at National Level
Indian Pharmacological Society Conference - 2013.
2) Research Award to Student
Students from Regulatory affairs won the first prize for poster
presentation entitled "The Biosimilars: Regulation, Challenges and
Opportunities."
3) National Recognition
* Dr. Navin Sheth received BharatiyaShiksha Ratna award by the
Economics for health and education growth society, New Delhi, for
his service to the pharmaceutical society in 2009. currently he is
giving services as a resource person for staff development programs.
Physics Dr. K.B. Modi :
(1)UGC Research Award -2009
(2)Dolarrai Mankand Awards for Excellence in Research, 2011
Dr. J. A. Bhalodia
(1)Best Paper Award International Symposium for Research Scholars
(ISRS-10) held during Dec. 20-22:'10, IIT-Madras (2010).
Dr. D. G. Kuberkar
(1) Best Paper Award at International Conference on NANO Science
and NANO Technology (ICONN-2009), IIT Chennai.
(2) Best Paper Award at International Conference on NANO Science
and NANO Technology (ICONN-2010), SRTMU, Nanded.
Dr. M. J. Joshi
(1) Best Paper Award at DAE SSPS Symposium December , 15-18
2010, Manipal
Psychology Dr. Y. A. Jogsan
1) "Manju Thakur Memorial Award" IAAP June-2012.
Sanskrit Following students have been awarded UGC RGNF-JRF awards.
1) Vagh Daxa L. for M. Phil. and Ph. D.
2) Sondarava Dilip B. for M. Phil. and Ph, D.
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3) Parmar Chandulal V, for Ph. D. 4) Chavda Minaxi D, for M. Phil
5) Solanki Jignasa for M. Phil.
6) Makvana Bharat A. for M. Phil
Statistics 1) Student- Research Assistant Award to Kashyap Limbasiya
2) American Mathematical society and one foreign University have
given recognition.
3.4.5 Indicate the average number of successful M. Phil. and Ph. D. scholars guided per
faculty during the last four years. Does the University participate in Shodh ganga by
depositing the Ph. D. theses with INFLIBNET for electronic dissemination through
open access?
The average number of successful Ph. D. scholars guided per faculty during the last
four years is THREE per year and that of M. Phil. is THREE per year.
Yes, the University does participate in Shodh ganga by depositing the Ph. D. theses with
INFLIBNET for electronic dissemination through open access. Such theses are also uploaded
on the University website. In fact, Saurashtra University takes pride in claiming to have
uploaded the largest data of e-thesis by any University in India to be placed on the University
Website numbering about 1100.
3.4.6 What is the official policy of the University to check malpractices and plagiarism
in research? Mention the number of plagiarism cases reported and action taken.
The University policy in this regards is in line with the norms of the nodal agency in
the higher education. The issue of plagiarism is taken at the first instance at the departmental
level. The University departments deal with the issue through the staff council. The Research
Development Council is well structured for scrutinising the research proposals of the
prospective research candidates. The faculty members have to follow the code of conduct in
this regards; and all faculty members are abided by the ethical conduct in this regards. Till
date, there has been no case reported under the plagiarism issue.
3.4.7 Does the University promote interdisciplinary research? If yes, how many
interdepartmental / interdisciplinary research projects have been undertaken and
mention the number of departments involved in such endeavours?
Yes, interdisciplinary research approach is an important focal area for the University. Many
departments have approaches to the Interdisciplinary research projects like Biosciences,
Chemistry, Commerce, Management, Statistics, Home science, Economics, Pharmacy,
Electronics, Physics, Computer Science etc. The details about such interdepartmental /
interdisciplinary research are with the respective departments.
3.4.8 Has the University instituted any research awards? If yes, list the awards.
Yes, the University has two institutional research awards, initiated through its IQAC.
One is for faculty called the Dolarrai Mankad Best Research Paper Award named after
the first Vice-chancellor of Saurashtra University, renowned Gujarati scholar, thinker and
social activist Professor Dolarrai Mankad. The other research award is for students called
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Students‟ Research Project Award. For both the awards, IQAC, every academic year,
rigorously initiates the process of submission of the work, objective scrutiny by external
experts and declaration of awards within a stipulated time period. The Dolarrai Mankad Best
Research Paper Award, was initiated in 2006 with a cash incentive of Rs. 1100/- and a
citation. Since 2009, it has been raised to Rs. 2500/- along with a certificate of appreciation.
10 faculty members were conferred with this award since 2009 in the subjects of Statistics,
MBA, Psychology, Physics and Electronics. The list of the awardees of both the Awards is as
follows:
Year Name of the Students Name of the
Department
Amount
2012-2013
Israni Nikita Library and Info. Sci 5000.00
RajubhaiDabhi Biochemistry 5000.00
Tejasvita Sarvaiya Biosciences 5000.00
Mukesh Kher Pharmacy 5000.00
Ramani Dimple J. Psychology 5000.00
Chandni Trivedi Statistics 5000.00
2011-2012
Tank Sarita Psychology 5000.00
Dhruv Ravi Law 5000.00
Sapna Sanghvi Bioscience 5000.00
Subhash Bagthariya Pharmacy 5000.00
Kashyapkumar
Limbasiya
Statistics 5000.00
Udeshi Malay Physics 5000.00
Bhavna Lavadiya Chemistry 5000.00
2010-2011
Snehal J. Rabadiya Bioscience 5000.00
Kaushlendra Yadav Bioscience 5000.00
Kinjal Bhoring Bioscience 5000.00
NamanTrivedi Bioscience 5000.00
2009-2010
Amitkumar Sharma Bioscience 5000.00
Dhaval Mehta Bioscience 5000.00
Dipika Kalariya Bioscience 5000.00
Rutika Sata Bioscience 5000.00
P.D. Ladva Chemistry 5000.00
Khyati Parekh Statistics 5000.00
3.4.9 What are the incentives given to the faculty for receiving state, national and
international recognition for research contributions?
The University takes the following noteworthy steps as incentives for the faculty in this
regard:
The University facilitates financial support from external donors or from the University
Development Funds to the high achievers among their faculty members.
Felicitate such achievers in research, through certification, memento etc.
Publish their names with photograph in the University news magazine Sayujya.
Initiate its own research award schemes as mentioned in the section above.
Under the University Ordinance 205, consider such achievements of the faculty for their
API gradation.
Encourage them through facilitating their duty leaves etc., for research related work.
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3.5 Consultancy
3.5.1 What is the official policy of the University for Structured Consultancy? List a
few important consultancies undertaken by the University during the last four years.
The University does have a policy document for Structured Consultancy that is placed
on its website. The same document is attached below:
IPR Policy for Saurashtra University Operative from 01-04-2008
The Saurashtra University has foreseen the importance of intellectual property rights &
protection of innovation & research by strong IPR policy in favor of inventors. This was
among first University whose academic leadership has foreseen the effect of globalization
and first workshop on patent by Technology Forecasting and Assessment Council, (TIFAC),
Department of Science & Technology, founded & headed by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam took
place in March 1999.
The Saurashtra University is spearheading with 3 Indian Patents, 1 US patents filed & few
more are in the pipeline. Processes to support these efforts have been evolving over time and
now have attained a level of maturity. A formal Framework to guide the implementation of
these processes is now a clearly-felt need. An Intellectual Property Policy for SU has been
formulated towards this goal. This policy aims to lay down, the processes for promotion and
support available to innovators at SU for translating their creative works into IP. Parties
engaged in creations of original and innovative work at SU includes faculty, staff and other
employees of SU along with staff working on various projects, registered students of SU,
students from other institutions, personnel from other organizations or any other individuals
working in SU. This policy also aims to set forth guidelines for ownership of IP developed at
SU by SU personnel and non-SU personnel and its commercialization.
The aim of the IP Policy is to sustain and develop creativity in an ethical environment in SU
that recognizes the importance of innovations and assists in translating them into products,
processes and services for commercial exploitation and to achieve the widest public good.
The Role of IPR CELL in IP Protection:
The IPR cell at SU provides guidance, support and resources to all SU personnel and
facilitates protection and deployment of intellectual property. In achieving this goal, IPR cell
creates awareness of the importance and role of IP Rights, implements the IP policy, ensures
transparency and fairness of the IP policy to encourage compliance, solicits feedback
regarding the fulfillment of the IP policy and periodically reviews the Policy to improve upon
any shortcomings, strengthens the infrastructure and resources for protection and exploitation
of IP and makes available the expert inputs.
Issues of ownership, confidentiality, disclosure, patentability, technology transfer, revenue
sharing, and conflict of interest among others play a very important role in any IP
management. IPR CELL conducts workshops to enhance awareness on related issues. IPR
cell also provides templates and guidelines for the contracts, agreements and MOUs
governing the effective exploitation of the IP produced by SU. All such agreements and
matters relating to confidentiality, infringements, damages, liabilities and compliance are
administered by IPR cell.
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The IP Policy:
This policy is applicable to all SU personnel, as well as non-SU personnel associated with
any activity of SU such as, but not limited to, Continuing Education Programme and covers
different classes of Intellectual Property -- Patent, Copyright, Trade Mark / Service Mark,
Design Registration, Trade Secret, Confidential Information and Integrated Circuits Layout,
management & commercial consultancy work.
(I) Ownership:
I(a) Invention(s), Designs, Integrated Circuit Layouts and other creative works:
Invention(s) including software, designs and integrated circuit layouts, created by SU
personnel without the use of significant SU resources and not connected with the profession
for which employed at SU, shall be owned by the creator(s).
For invention(s) including software, designs and integrated circuit layouts, produced during
the course of sponsored and/or collaborative activity, specific provisions related to IP made in
contracts governing the collaborative activity shall determine the ownership of IP.
SU shall be the owner of all invention(s) including software, designs and integrated circuit
layouts created by teams of SU and non-SU personnel, associated with any activity of SU.
Non-SU personnel, who create invention(s) including software, designs or integrated circuit
layouts at SU but without intellectual contribution of SU personnel or significant use of SU
resources, shall be the owner of such invention(s).
Except as stipulated above, SU shall be the owner of all invention(s) including software,
designs and integrated circuit layouts created at SU.
I(b) Copyrightable Work:
Ownership of copyright of all copyrightable work shall rest with the author(s) with the
following exceptions:
a. If the work is produced during the course of sponsored and/or collaborative activity,
specific provisions related to IP made in contracts governing such activity shall
determine the ownership of IP.
b. SU shall be the owner of the copyright of work, including software, created by SU
personnel with significant use of SU resources.
c. SU shall be the owner of the copyright on all teaching material developed by SU
personnel as part of any of the academic programs at SU. However, the authors shall
have the right to use the material in her/his professional capacity. As the traditional
exception, SU shall not claim ownership of copyright on books and publications
authored by SU personnel.
d. SU shall be the owner of copyright of work produced by non SU personnel associated
with any activity of SU with the intellectual contribution of SU personnel. However,
the authors shall have the right to use the material in her/his professional capacity.
I(c) Trade Mark(s) / Service Mark(s):
Ownership of trade mark(s) / service mark(s) created for SU shall be with SU.
In cases of all IP produced at SU, SU shall retain a non-exclusive, free, irrevocable license to
copy/use IP for teaching and research activities, consistent with confidentiality agreements
where entered into by SU.
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(II) Disclosures, Confidentiality and Assignment of Rights:
For sponsored and/or collaborative work the provisions of the contract pertaining to
disclosure of creative work are applied. For all other invention(s) done at SU, if the
inventor(s) wish to protect the invention(s) they carried out, then they are required to disclose
the creative work to the IPR cell at the earliest date using an Invention Disclosure form
(IDF).
Disclosure is a critical part of the IP protection process and it formally documents claims of
inventor ship, the date of the invention and other details, the inventor(s) shall assign the rights
of the disclosed invention to SU.
All SU personnel and non-SU personnel associated with any activity of SU shall treat all IP
related information, which has been disclosed to the IPR cell and/or whose rights are
assigned to SU, or whose rights rest with SU personnel, as confidential. Such confidentiality
shall be maintained till the date as demanded by the relevant contract, if any, between the
concerned parties unless such knowledge is in the public domain or is generally available to
the public.
(III) Assessment of Innovation(s) for Protection:
To facilitate assessment, an IPR cell shall be formed by Vice chancellor for a period of 5
years the Chairman consisting of a chairperson, the IPR cell coordinator Technical Officer
(Secretary) and at least three additional faculty members with domain expertise or
familiarity/experience in areas related to the creative work. The creator(s) would be free to
suggest names of faculty who are qualified to evaluate the creative work who may be invited
by the Chairman to be a part of the IPR cell.
The IPR cell shall assess the disclosure in a timely manner and shall make recommendations
to the Chairman about the patentability of the invention according to the provisions of
Section (I) of this policy. The IPR CELL may make one of the following recommendations:
i. That SU shall take the responsibility of protection of the IP, in which case, SU will
initiate appropriate processes. TIFAC, DST New Delhi will be approached for such
work.
ii. That SU shall not take the responsibility of protection of the IP, in which case, the
rights to the disclosed invention shall be promptly reassigned to the creator(s). The
creator(s) may then choose to protect the creative work on their own.
Filings of IP Applications in foreign countries: Within six months of filing the Complete IP
Application in India, SU shall, based on available information decide on the suitability of
protection of the invention in foreign countries. If SU opts not to undertake such protection in
any specific country requested by the inventor(s), SU shall assign rights of the IP in that
country to the creator(s) for the purpose of such protection, TIFAC, DST will again be
approached for such protection or patent government agencies or patent attorneys.
Renewal of IP Rights: A decision on the annual renewal of IP rights will be taken by a
committee constituted by the Vice Chancellor & Chairman of IPR cell. If SU decides not to
renew the IPR in any country, then it will assign the rights of the IP in that country to the
creator(s) upon a request to that affect from the creator(s). In case of patents, the process of
reassignment will be completed in a period of three months before the due date for its
renewal. In all cases where IP rights in any specific country have been reassigned to the
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inventor(s), SU shall not claim any share of proceeds earned through that IP in that country
excepting for the costs already incurred by SU.
(IV) Support:
(IVA) Contracts and Agreements:
All agreement including but not limited to the following categories, undertaken by any SU
personnel and students need to be notified to SU authorities.
Allegiance, Affirmation & Confidentiality Agreement
Consultation Agreement including management
Evaluation Agreement
Research and Development Agreement (R&DA/MOU)
License Agreement
Technology Transfer Agreement
Alternative Dispute Resolution Agreement
Classified Information Non-disclosure (specific) Agreement
Chairman, IPR cell acts as a final signing authority in all the categories of agreements listed
above. IPR cell facilitates the process of framing such agreements by way of providing
templates and services of professional consultants.
(IVB) Obtaining IPR:
If SU opts to protect the creative work, it shall provide an IPR Advisor/Patent Attorney for
drafting the IP application as appropriate. SU shall pay for access to the relevant IP
information databases and other associated costs. The inventor(s) shall conduct IP searches;
study the prior art and provides the necessary inputs to assist in the drafting of the IP
application. SU shall bear all costs of drafting and filing an Indian IP application. If SU
chooses to file IP applications in other countries, then it shall bear the cost of application and
other associated costs. SU shall be free to enter into agreements with overseas institutions for
protection and licensing of the IP.
(V) Technology Transfer:
SU shall strive to market the IP and identify potential licensee(s) for the IP to which it has
ownership. The creator(s) are expected to assist in this process.SU may contract the IP to a
Technology Management agency, which manages the commercialization of the IP.For the IP
for which exclusive rights have not been already assigned to a third party, the creator(s) may
also contact potential licensee(s) on their initiative maintaining confidentiality and taking all
necessary care so as not to affect the value of the IP through appropriate agreements such as
Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with the potential licensee(s) during technology
marketing discussions.If SU is not able to commercialize the IP in a reasonable time, then it
may reassign the rights of the IP to the creator(s) of the IP. Optionally, If SU has not been
able to commercialize the creative work in a reasonable time frame; the creator(s) may
approach the Chairman for the assignment of rights of the invention(s) to them.
(VI) Revenue sharing:
(a) The net earnings from the commercialization of IP owned by SU would be shared as
follows:
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Case Net earnings Inventor(s) share SU‘s share
1 For the first amount Q 70% 30%
2 For the next amount Q 50% 50%
3 For amounts more than Q 30% 70%
It is suggested that amount Q be initially fixed at Rs. 10 lakhs. The creator(s) share would be
declared annually and disbursement will be made to the creator(s), their legal heir, whether or
not the creators are associated with SU at the time of disbursement.
When SU reassigns the rights of the IP to its creator(s) for any country, the creator(s) shall
reimburse the costs incurred by SU for the protection, maintenance and marketing and other
associated costs from the cumulative earnings from successful commercialization in that
country as under:
Case Cumulative earnings Inventor(s)
share SU Costs
A
Upto twice the cost
incurred by SU for
protection, marketing and
other associated costs.
50% 50%
B Beyond Q 100% 0%
Co-creators of IP shall sign at the time of disclosure, a Distribution of IP Earnings
Agreement, which shall specify the percentage distribution of earnings from IP to each co-
inventor. The inventors may at any time by mutual consent revise the Distribution of IP
Earnings Agreement.
(b) Project Consultation Rules:
Case A (I) where the consultation is on basis of intellectual input by the faculty member /
members alone &/or collectively without use of infrastructure (electricity,
computer, library etc)
Case B (II) where consultation is on basis of intellectual input by the faculty & with use of
routine infrastructure of University.
Case C (III) where consultation is on basis of efforts put in by faculty / other supportive
staff & with use of infrastructure & inputs of Universities (Chemicals,
glassware, instrumentation facilities other equipment, machines etc.)
Percentage sharing on 100% basis
Stake holders Case A Case B Case C
University 15 15 15
Department 15 25 35
Faculty / Member/
Researcher team
members
70 60 50
(IV)Where indirect / direct costs are involved, in case A, B, and C as the case may be, only
after deducting the amount of actual expenditure, the consultation amount will be shared
among individuals alone or those who are involved in the entire consultation work. The
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students who are offered for research fellowships from the project consultancy will in no case
be a part of consultation sharing. However they may be part of inventor group if their efforts
are significant. Funds transferred by consultant and if they demand to the University the same
have to be considered as donation and donation receipt should issued to him / her for I. T.
purpose.
(VII) Infringements, Damages, Liability and Indemnity Insurance:
As a matter of policy, SU shall, in any contract between the licensee and SU, seek indemnity
from any legal proceedings including without limitation manufacturing defects, production
problems, design guarantee, up gradation and debugging obligation.SU shall also ensure that
SU personnel have an indemnity clause built-into the agreements with licensee(s) while
transferring technology or copyrighted material to licensees.SU shall retain the right to
engage or not in any litigation concerning patents and license infringements.
(VIII) Conflict of Interest:
The inventor(s) are required to disclose any conflict of interest or potential conflict of
interest. If the inventor(s) and/or their immediate family have a stake in a licensee or potential
licensee company then they are required to disclose the stake they and/or their immediate
family have in the company.A license or an assignment of rights for a patent to a company in
which the inventors have a stake shall be subject to the approval of the Chairman, IPR cell
taking into consideration this fact.
(IX) Dispute Resolution:
In case of any disputes between SU and the inventors regarding the implementation of the IP
of Vice Chancellor SU policy, the aggrieved party may appeal to the Director of SU. Efforts
shall be made to address the concerns of the aggrieved party. The Vice Chancellor‘s decision
in this regard would be final and binding.
(X) Jurisdiction:
As a policy, all agreements to be signed by SU will have the jurisdiction of the courts in
Rajkot and shall be governed by appropriate laws in India
Glossary:
1. Author: means faculty, students, staff or visiting faculty who has/have written or
created a creative work.
2. Collaborative Activity: is the research undertaken by SU personnel in cooperation
with industry and/or another researcher(s) who are not SU personnel.
3. Confidential Information: Information not in the public domain and declared
confidential by parties as such in a MOU/Agreement that has been signed by the
parties.
4. Conflict of Interest: or a Potential Conflict of Interest exists when an inventor/author
is or may be in a position to use either creative work or influence for unmerited
personal or family gain.
5. Copyright: means the exclusive right granted by law for a certain period of time to an
author to reproduce, print, publish and sell copies of his or her creative work.
6. Copyrightable Work: is a creative work that is protectable under copyright laws.
Copyright protection is available for most literary, musical, dramatic, and other types
of creative work, including software, teaching materials, multimedia works,
proposals, and research reports.
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7. Creators: are persons who have produced any original work
8. Cumulative Earnings: from a patent/patent application are the total earnings to date
obtained from the commercialization of the patent/patent application.
9. Design Registration: Registration of the novel non-functional features such as shape,
or ornamentation of a product.
10. SU personnel: includes but is not limited to the, faculty students, staff or visiting
faculty, researchers and scientists at SU.
11. Intellectual Contribution: means original technical or artistic contributions.
12. Intellectual Property: includes but is not limited to copyrights and copyrightable
materials, patented and patentable inventions, tangible research results, trademarks,
service marks and trade secrets.
13. IPR cell: is a committee formed by the Chairman, which decides on the issues of
ownership and patentability among others consisting of a Chairperson, the IPR cell
coordinator of the IPR cell and at least three additional faculty members.
14. Invention: includes but is not limited to any new and useful process, formula or
machine conceived or first reduced to practice in whole or in part, defined within the
purview of the Patent Act. Inventor(s) are person(s) who produce an invention.
15. Licensing: is the practice of renting the intellectual property to a third party.
16. Net Earnings: Earnings resulting from the licensing or commercialization of the IP,
reduced by the outstanding actual expenses incurred in obtaining and
commercialization of the IP.
17. Patent: means the exclusive right granted by law for making, using or selling an
invention.
18. PCT Application: A PCT is a system of filing a patent application in several countries
through a single application keeping the priority of the first filing in any of the
countries within the PCT system.. This is administered by the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. It is not a patent granting system.
19. Protection of Layout of Integrated Circuits: Layout scheme of Integrated circuits that
are functionally important.
20. Royalty: is the payment made to an inventor/author or an institution usually for legal
use of a patented invention or any Intellectual Property when licensed.
21. Significant Use of SU Resources: is any usage of SUs resources in the creation of the
invention(s), excess of the routine use of office facilities, computers, library resources
and resources available to the general public.
22. Software: means anything executable in a computer.
23. Teaching material: means any material that aids the process of teaching.
24. Trade Mark / Service Mark: is a distinctive word, symbol or picture or a combination
of these, which is used by a business entity to discriminate its products and services
from those of other business entities.
25. Trade Secret: Usually some information such as know-how of commercial or strategic
value that is not disclosed to all and is used in a restricted manner.
26. Consultation: Any project work, short term assignment, long term consultancy,
monitoring and preparation of report which involves intellectual input of faculty
which generates revenue ( not covered in routine work of University responsibility)
Note: The Saurashtra University duly acknowledges the help from IPR policy of 2003 of
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai for framing this document.
Among the important consultancies undertaken by the University during the last four
years, the following are noteworthy:
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The Bio-Sciences Department, over the years, developed its expertise in the field of
ecology especially the Coastal Ecology. During the last five years, the Department extended
its expertise in rapid EIA and Environmental Monitoring Studies to the major industries
located around the Saurashtra coastline like Reliance Petroleum Ltd., Essar Oil Limited,
GHCL, Digvijay Cement Ltd., Dyeing and Printing Industries and few Salt Works industries.
Department is also extending its expertise on toxicity bioassay and toxicity testing for
Pharma Industries.
3.5.2 Does the University have a University-industry cell? If yes, what is its scope and
range of activities?
The University‘s Industries-Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC) is an initiative of the
University‘s IQAC. The Cell regularly engages in dialogue with industries and other private
institutions to assess the outcome of syllabus learning and the hands-on realities of the
outside world. Besides this curricular scope, two other specific purposes are within the
ambit of IIIC: a) finding the needs for professional employment; and b) exploring
opportunities as to how those needs could optimally be met by the graduates and
postgraduates of our University. A brief outline of their activities in the last four years is
already mentioned in 1.1.3.
3.5.3 What is the mode of publicizing the expertise of the University for Consultancy
Services? Which are the departments from whom consultancy has been sought?
The University website lists each faculty‘s area of expertise and till now that was the
only mode of publicity, although individual faculty are known in their field of study and are
consulted, but overall this aspect has remained largely informal barring a few departments
like Chemistry, Pharmacy and Bio-Sciences. The IQAC of the University is now thinking of
ways to formalize the pool of expertise the University has for consultancy services and
creating a Consultancy Cell.
3.5.4 How does the University utilize the expertise of its faculty with regard to
consultancy services?
As it is evident from the sub-sections above within 3.5, the University utilizes the
expertise of its faculty by creating a platform for them to interact with industries (where the
contracts are more formal) and for its commitment to the society at large wherein faculty
offer their expertise more informally. In the process, the University also generates revenue
for its research and development related activities.
3.5.5 List the broad areas of consultancy services provided by the University and the
revenue generated during the last four years.
The broad areas of consultancy services provided by the University in the last four
years has been in Bio-Sciences, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Statistics, Psychology and Hindi and
the revenue generated has been to the tune of Rs. 22 lakhs.
Name of the
Department
Consultancy undertaken in the area (title / area) Consultant
(Faculty/De
partment)
Revenue
in Rs.
Bio Science Coastal marine diversity, distribution and
ecological status, Sustainable eco-tourism,
Marine Bio-resources.
EIA, environmental monitoring and ecological
impact of industries on the coastal areas in this
Prof. R. S.
Kundu
And
Dr. BRM
Vyas
Rs. 30 Lacs
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industrially developed coastal zone. Ecotoxicology, in respect to industrial impact on
the biota. Toxicity bioassay & Toxicity Testing
for Pharma Industries
Plant immunology, development of useful
antibodies for botanical research, Plant
molecular biology and medicinal values of
certain plant species
Microbial diversity of the haloalkanophilic
bacteria and actimomycetes which thrive in the
saline habitats.
Xenobiotic degradation of the dyes used by the
cotton dyeing and printing industries
Chemistry 1) Process chemistry
2) Analysis
3) Analytical services
4) Molecules supply
Faculty
Members
Prof. A. K.
Shah
20 Lacs
Journalism 1) Cinema
2) Public relations
All Faculty
Members
NA
Law 1) Legal-Aid to Poor.
2) Consultancy in the matters put forward by
students, colleagues, friends & relations.
All Faculty
Members
NA
Pharmacy Consultancy services are done using
sophisticated instruments like HPLC, PCR,
Biopac, etc.
All Faculty
Members
4,57,950
Psychology Department's broad areas of consultancy
Services are : clinical psychology, organizational
Behaviour, Social and Applied Psychology.
All Faculty
Members
NA
Statistics We have visited 3-4 industry and suggested them
to improve the quality, however we did not
charge any amount.
All Faculty
Members
NA
3.6 Extension Activities and Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR)
3.6.1How does the University sensitize its faculty and students on its Institutional
Social Responsibilities? List the social outreach programmes which have created an
impact on students‟ campus experience during the last four years.
The faculty and the students take part whole-heartedly in various Government and
University campaigns as a part of their social responsibilities. Many socio-cultural activities
like Plastic Free day, Reforestation and Plantation day, ‗Joy of Giving‘ day, public
awareness generation against Swine-Flu, visits to the Homes for the mentally challenged
persons, Old Age Homes, Blood Donation Camps, awareness towards RTI, visits to
Baalwadi and Anganwadi centres, HIV awareness programmes, Women‘s Empowerment
programmes, ‗Save the Girl Child‘ programmes, programmes on the prevention of suicide,
programmes on the promotion of Science, Consumer Awareness programmes, Legal
Literacy Camps, and Rural Development programmes are some of the activities undertaken
in the last four years.
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3.6.2 How does the University promote University-neighbourhood network and
student engagement, contributing to the holistic development of students and sustained
community development?
University promotes neighbourhood network and student engagements through the
following activities:
Involving students in various social / cultural activities as mentioned in the section above.
Delegating students as educators to people in the society on matters like the use of
renewable energy sources, clean environment etc, as mentioned in the section above.
Involving students in inter/trans-disciplinary programmes for widening their horizon of knowledge and nurturing a holistic development in them.
3.6.3 How does the University promote the participation of the students and faculty in
extension activities including participation in NSS, NCC, YRC and other National/
International programmes?
NSS and NCC activities are vibrant amongst students of the affiliated colleges. On the
campus, students are made aware of such programmes and encouraged to participate in them
but also advised that their focus on higher education and research work should not be
compromised. Students‘ delegations are sent for forums like the Youth Parliament, Swami
Vivekananda‘s sesquicentennial year celebration etc.
3.6.4 Give details of social surveys, research or extension work, if any, undertaken by the
University to ensure social justice and empower the
underprivileged and the most vulnerable sections of society?
Certain departments like Sociology, Social Work, Law, Human Rights, Economics,
Pharmacy and Psychology are more involved with working for the empowerment of the
underprivileged and the more vulnerable sections of society in the areas of health and
hygiene, legal rights, human rights, consumer awareness, gender equality, female foeticide,
mental health / distress, awareness regarding certain widespread and common diseases like
malaria, diabetes etc. They execute their work through diagnostic camps, free distribution of
Ayurvedic and Homeopathy medicines etc. These departments also encourage their students
to undertake focused research on these and related relevant issues.
3.6.5 Does the University have a mechanism to track the students‟ involvement in
various social movements / activities which promote citizenship roles?
Faculty members of a particular department are aware of their students‘ participation
in socio-cultural activities every academic year. Such activities in fact cannot be successful
without participation of a large students‘ group.
3.6.6 Bearing in mind the objectives and expected outcomes of the extension activities
organized by the University, how did they complement students‟ academic learning
experience? Specify the values inculcated and skills learnt.
The activities as mentioned in 3.6.4 are opportune occasions for students to learn
aspects of group dynamics and inculcate citizenship values. Values like responsible
leadership, sharing resources, philanthropy, role playing, respecting diversity, recognizing
the societal reality are some of the values inculcated and skills of communication,
personality development, delegation of work and human resource management, problem
solving and crises management are learnt regularly by every batch of students through such
activities.
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3.6.7 How does the University ensure the involvement of the community in its outreach
activities and contribute to community development? Give details of the initiatives of
the University which have encouraged community participation in its activities.
The University directly benefits as it itself is benefitted from interaction with some of
the key stakeholders of the community at large, i.e., the Academic community comprising
of students‘ community, and the community of teachers who shape the youth into good
citizens. Parents are the next important stakeholder getting positively affected by the
University‘s outreach programmes. The University‘s green campus encourages many from
the neighbouring societies, especially a large community of elderly citizens, to avail of the
footpaths specially designed for walkers. The University frequently invites achievers from
various walks of life from the community to deliver inspiring talks to its students. Its sincere
efforts to offer quality education at an affordable rate has inspired famous philanthropists
like Shri Dipchandbhai Gardi to generously donate towards its infrastructural development.
3.6.8 Give details of awards received by the University for extension activities
and/contributions to social/community development during the last four years.
Department of Psychology has been awarded with three trophies of recognition by the Fieldmarshal Blood Bank, Rajkot.
The float of the students from the Electronics Department was adjudged to be
the best during the Republic Day celebration in the city held at the University Sports Pavilion.
3.7 Collaboration
3.7.1 How has the University‟s collaboration with other agencies impacted the
visibility, identity and diversity of activities on campus? To what extent has the
University benefitted academically and financially because of collaborations?
The University‘s collaboration with other agencies has made it known widely in the
State, in Western India, and in certain areas even all over India and abroad. The University
has over the decade carved out a unique identity for itself getting known as one of the highest
ranked State funded universities in western India. Academically this has resulted in making
our teaching-learning and research more contemporary and competitive and financially it has
generated revenues to the tune of around Rs. 3 Crore over the past five years.
3.7.2 Mention specific examples of how these linkages promote:
Some of the specific examples are as under:
Curriculum development: Linkages / collaborations is one of the factors for updated
University Curricula for all the 28 departments on the campus, but certain
departments like MCA, MBA, and Pharmacy have to remain more attuned to changes
within their industrial / professional linkages and the outside world.
Internship: Saurashtra-Kutch Stock Exchange
On-the-job training: ---
Faculty exchange and development: Teacher's University, Gandhinagar; Balwant
Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Vadodara;
University of New Mexico
Research: In areas like industrial effluent monitoring; clinical psychology; pharmaceutical sciences; marine eco-system; human rights; forensic science;
mathematics; Nano-technology.
Publication: ---
Consultancy: Drug development and administration; coastal ecosystem; toxicity
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Extension: PRL; BARC; Gujarat Ayurved University; BPRD; Western Railways; Precimax Bearings; IOC Ltd.; Reliance Petroleum Ltd., Essar Oil Limited; GHCL;
Digvijay Cement Ltd.; BAOU
Student placement: with reputed firms like TCS
Any other (please specify): A list of activities by the University‘s Industry-Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC) over
the last four years is given within 1.1.3; and more details on multi-institute research
collaboration as well as active linkages is given within 3.1.4
3.7.3 Has the University signed any MoUs with institutions of national/international
importance/other universities/ industries/corporate houses etc.? If yes, how have they
enhanced the research and development activities of the University?
The list of MOUs with some of the departments is as under:
Name of the
Department
Details of MOUs
Bio Science Wildlife Institute of India-Dehradun; DBT, New Delhi and Griffith University-Brisbane,
Australia.
Chemistry 1. Nicholas Piramal Research Centre (MOU Signed). The project has identified few
molecules for anti- inflammatory and anti-cancer activities.
2. Gujarat Ayurveda University (MOU Signed).
3. A Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed for Death Receptor Agonist development with
Centre for Biomedical Research University of Texas, USA and Saurashtra University.
English Department of English, KSKV Kachchh University, Bhuj; Balwant Parekh Centre for
General Semantics & Other Human Sciences, Vadodara
Home
Science Vaishnav College, Chennai
Law Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi
MBA Geo Tong University, China (dialogue is in progress)
Pharmacy Department has signed MoUs with following institutions and industries of national and
international importance. *Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar* IIM, Jammu*
Institute of Human Genetics, Ahmedabad* Christ College, Rajkot International
Institutes:* University of New Mexico, USA Industries, Hospitals and CROs:* CIMS
Hospital, Ahmedabad.* B. T. Savani Kidney Hospital, Rajkot* Civil Hospital and PDU
medical College, Rajkot* Wockhardt Hospital, Rajkot* BAN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.,
Rajkot* Vasu Pharmaceuticals, Vadodara* Espee Pharmaceuticals, Rajkot* Torrent
Research Centre, Gandhinagar.
The University has also signed MOUs with the following institutes in the last 2 years, and
most of these are in the initial stages of actual collaborative work:
Sr.
No.
Name of the (Indian & Foreign) University / Institute / Company
with whom MoU is signed Validity Year of Sign
1
Institute of the East, North-Eastern Federal University
№320A, 42 Kulakovsky St., Yakutsk, 677000, Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia),
Russia
5 Years
2013
2
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, Lancashire,
5 Years
2013
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3
Institute of Science, Technology and Research Universidad
Francisco Gavidia
San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America
5 Years
2013
4
Rajiv Gandhi University of Science & Technology
Georgetown, Guyana South America
5 Years
2013
5
Department of Statistics
University of Rajasthan Jaipur
5 Years
2013
6 Vaishnav College Chennai Tamilnadu
5 Years
2013
7
Gujarat Ayurveda University, Chanakya Bhavan,
Jamnagar, Gujarat-361008, India
5 Years
2013
8
Lincoln Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Ahmadabad
5 Years
2013
9
Swarnim Gujarat Sports University
Gandhinagar
5 Years
2013
10
Shree Somnath Sanskrit University
Veraval
5 Years
2013
11
Navsari Agricultural University,
Navsari-396450, Gujarat, INDIA
5 Years
2013
12 Dairy Science College,
Kamdhenu University, Amreli - 365601 Gujarat
5 Years
2013
13 Indian Institute of Teacher Education, Gandhinagar 5 Years 2013
14 Montage Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 5 Years 2013
15 Sehat Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 5 Years 2013
16 Genetic Research Centre 5 Years 2013
17 Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli 5 Years 2013
18 Purple Remedies Pvt. Ltd. Rajkot 5 Years 2013
19 Bio Care Formulations, Ahmedabad 5 Years 2013
20 SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(SPIPA), Ahmedabad.
5 Years
2013
21 University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 5 Years 2012
22 Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA 5 Years 2012
13 Siauliai University, Lithuania 5 Years 2012
24 University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria 5 Years 2012
25 PontificiaUniversidadeCatolica do Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil 3 Years 2012
26 Durban University of Technology ,South Africa 5 Years 2009
27 Essar Group 5 Years 2011
28 Ambuja Cement 5 Years 2011
29 Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd 5 Years 2011
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The MOUs are helpful in improving course curriculum, arranging expert lectures, providing
facilities for internships and projects, placement facilities, arranging training programs and
workshops, generating consultancies and all round development of department infra-structure
facility as well as national / international exposure to students.
3.7.4 Have the department-industry interactions resulted in the establishment / creation
of highly specialized laboratories / facilities?
An exclusive interdisciplinary research and development (R & D) centre, called the National Facility for Drug Discovery Centre (NFDD) & Instrumentation Support to
Small Manufacturing Pharma Enterprises has been established in the year 2007 on
the campus with funding from the DST, Govt. of Gujarat and the University. This
Centre is specifically devoted to the discovery of new chemical entities (NCEs) and
instrumentation support to small-scale pharmaceutical units in the State. The Centre
also offers highly sophisticated courses designed to cater exclusively to the
pharmaceutical industries.
Saurashtra University has a unique National Facility for Preservation of Molecular
Diversity funded by the DST and supported by the MSME clusters with the sole
purpose of collecting, analyzing, classifying, documenting and preserving NCEs in
pure form and other drug-like molecules as well as compounds isolated as products from various natural sources.
Any other information regarding Research, Consultancy and Extension, which the
department would like to include.
Our Department of Bio-Sciences is a UGC CAS COSIST department with additional
research project funding from FIST (DST), as well as multi-institutional research
projects from DBT and also from the Government of Gujarat.
Our Department of Physics is in its UGC SAP / DRS Phase II with additional research project funding from FIST (DST), Level I. It was identified as a Centre for
Excellence in Nano Science & Technology by GUJCOST in 2010, and received
from the Government of Gujarat a block grant of Rs. 125 lakhs for projects on Nano
Science & Technology and Environmental Physics.
Our Department of Chemistry is in its UGC SAP / DRS Phase II with additional research project funding from FIST (DST), Level II. It has received GUJCOST
grants in 2012, funding from the DBT, CSIR and received the Government of
Gujarat block grant for research and development.
Saurashtra University has the largest data of e-thesis in the country to be placed on
the University Website. The number of e-thesis placed on the web approximates
1100.
The NFDD (mentioned in the section above) is one of the rare and prestigious R&D centres in India.
Our Department of Pharmacy is a relatively new department established in 2006 but already in its UGC SAP/DRS Phase I. It also has an impressive array of research
facilities, has already secured 10 provisional patent registrations, and is a vibrant
centre for national and international seminars / conferences / FDPs.
Our Department of Psychology is also very active in introducing a research component at the M.A. level as a result of which many of its students have bagged
the Saurashtra University IQAC Research Award for P.G. students.
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Our Department of Gujarati with a grant from the State Government has instituted the Zaverchand Meghani Lok Sahitya Kendra for study and research into
Saurashtrian and Gujarati folklore. It also has instituted the Gulabdas Broker Chair
to facilitate study and research into the thoughts and writings of this significant
contributor to Gujarati literature. It has a rare collection of manuscripts for
researchers to work in the areas of Jain and Bardic literatures.
Our Department of English & CLS, during completion of its UGC SAP/DRS Phase-
I, erected a library exclusively with texts in English, Gujarati and Hindi on 19th
Century Indian Renaissance, and this collection has attracted many reputed national
and international scholars and researchers. Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, Associate
Professor in this department was selected as a Fulbright Scholar by the United States
Department of Education and Culture for the ―Study of United States Institutes‖
(SUSI) Program among only 18 such scholars from all over the world at the
University of Louisville, Kentucky, in 2011.
Our Sanskrit Department is working on a Gujarati-Sanskrit Dictionary, an important reference document which is still unavailable.
In the year 2013 itself, the University has entered into 20 MOUs (mentioned in 3.7.3) that has the potential to be capitalized into huge academic and financial gains.
Dr. D.K. Ghosh, Professor and Head Department of Statistics (who retired on 31-10-2013) joined as the Basic Science Research Fellow, awarded by the UGC, after
superannuation of his service in the University. He is probably the only such person
in Statistics in India to be awarded with this fellowship.
Criterion IV: Infrastructure and Learning Resources
4.1 Physical Facilities
4.1.1 How does the University plan and ensure adequate availability of physical
infrastructure and ensure its optimal utilization?
The University as a whole has several high power policy making committees
comprising of internal and external members under chairmanship of Honourable
Vice Chancellor. The requirement is further screened looking to the next five years
development plan and also long term perspective plan regarding campus
development and landscaping. The Planning and Development, Estate, Finance and
several other committees looks after this. The University also raises the external
flow of funds from philanthropists to meet the growing demand of adequate
infrastructure over and above state and central government funding.
Physical infrastructural requirements are met as per the set procedure of
making it available to the concerned department in the following manner:
Identifying the need by the concerned section or department or any other entity or
wing of the University.
The requirement reaches to the Estate Section of the University. While analyzing the demand and justification, various norms of UGC, State Govt. and other
regulation agencies are taken into consideration.
Estate section initially looks into the feasibility and viability of the requirement / demand.
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After due verification of justification of the demand, Estate Section takes necessary administrative approval from the appropriate authority for executing the
requirement/demand.
As per the ordinance 43(I)(1), the Vice Chancellor has the power of sanctioning all
expenditure pertaining to the University Building work (i) up to Rs. 50,000/- per
item without inviting quotations, (ii) up to Rs. 1,00,000/- per item after inviting
quotations or tenders. No tenders or quotations are necessary in case of work to be
executed as per S.O.R. of the State Government time to time.
In case of significant value and volume of the infrastructural work, the proposal is placed before the Estate Committee for necessary approval.
The constitution of Estate Committee is, as per the University Ordinance 37.
i) The Vice Chancellor;
ii) The Pro-Vice-Chancellor;
iii) The Architect to the Government of Gujarat;
iv) The Superintending Engineer (R & B Circle, Rajkot);
v) Five other members to be appointed by the Syndicate for a period of three
years from whom two shall be experts;
vi) Chief Account Officer;
vii) University Engineer;
viii) Registrar as a member secretary;
ix) One member from planning Board appointed by the Vice-Chancellor.
4.1.2 Does the University have a policy for the creation and enhancement of
infrastructure in order to promote a good teaching-learning environment? If
yes, mention a few recent initiatives.
The Saurashtra University is one of the Universities which have taken lead to
involve the donors in large number to help improving the enhancement of
infrastructure. Since last one decade and more the University has augmented many
new generous financial support to improve the existing infrastructure and most of
the departments have now their own building extension done or new separate
premises is provided with enough space, laboratories, faculty room, girls common
room, etc. The creation and enhancement of infrastructure in order to promote a
good teaching-learning environment is achieved by the University in the following
manner:
1. Every Department on the campus has its own individual spacious building.
There are 43 laboratories on the campus.
2. There are 10 auditoriums on the campus.
3. 90 % of the campus is laid out with RCC roads. Thus, all departments are easily
accessible.
4. Lay-out details about botanical garden on the campus.
5. Infra-structural details about super-speciality labs like NFDD.
6. Details about infrastructure of library
o Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.):3056.15
o Total seating capacity : 150
o Total number of computers for general access: 18
o Total numbers of printers for general access: 02
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o Internet bandwidth speed □ 2mbps □ 10 mbps □ 1 GBUp to 150
mbps depending upon usage
o Library building is fully under surveillance of CCTV cameras
7. Details about infrastructure of Computer Centre.
o Total area of the Computer Center (in Sq. Mts.) : 325
Centre has received ample bandwidth (10-100mbps based on requirement)
under NMEICT project and Centre Provides Internet facility to its
- Faculties
- Researchers
- Officers
- Students
The Computer Centre has its own computer lab for the students; teaching as
well as non-teaching staff with access of the internet facilities.24 X 7 internet facility
is accessible. A high power UPS at Center and Each distribution point equipped with
500VA UPS with D-Link 3526 Managed switch with remote monitoring facility is
managed 24 hours. Management of Users and Bandwidth is efficiently done with the
help of Cyberoam user management and Gateway level Anti-spam and Anti-
Virus software. More than 310 (registered) Users use the internet facilities at their
desktop or Laptop. Each user is allocated 250 hrs. Renewable when user quota is
utilized with a formal request. Each user has a Mail facility on the University Mail
server sauuni.ernet.in with unlimited space and attachments.
Computer Centre has successfully implemented around 7 KMs of Fiber Optic
Network. Centre is providing Internet and Networking facilities to the Faculties and
Research Students. Centre has proposed to University Grants Commission to enhance
this network with Wi-Fi facility during XI plan proposal. In the same context UGC
has sanctioned Rs 55 lacs for Wi-Fi, Video Conferencing and E-Governance
activities.
University at present is providing internet related services through wired
networks. Users are stuck to their desk for appropriate usage. University has issued
the Wi-Fi enabled laptops to its faculties and administrative officers. To make these
laptops a unified communicative device the Campus Wi-Fi connectivity is exposed on
it.
Recent technological developments have made easy access to Wi-Fi enabled
mobile phones, PDAs, Netbooks and tablet PCs. Users are not stuck to the Laptop /
Desktop for their communication needs any mobile device having Wi-Fi connectivity
can be used for their communication and internet needs.
Students and Faculties can have access to Emails, Journals, SIP based Voice
and Video communication anywhere on the campus without any interruption.
8. Details about the separate Examination Wing.
9. Details about infrastructure of sports facility (outdoor space and indoor stadium,
athletic tracks etc.)
Total Area of Sports complex is 113750 Sq. Mt.
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o Outdoor Space Area
Total Area of Open Pavilion: 2100 (Sq. Mt.)
Total Area of Athletic Field: 4400 (Sq. Mt.)
Basketball and Tennis Court: 2000 (Sq. Mt.)
Cricket Ground: 5300 (Sq. Mt.)
Hockey and Football Ground: 5000 (Sq. Mt.)
o Indoor Space Area:
Total Area of Sports building: 660 (Sq. Mt.)
Total Area of Indoor Stadium: 3030 (Sq. Mt.)
Sports Store: 127 (Sq. Mt.)
Toilet Block: 80 (Sq. Mt.)
10. Details about infrastructure of hostel facility (equipped with solar / energy
saving equipment if any).
There are six hostels on the campus, among them four Boys and two Girls Hostels.
Facilities in the Hostels:
Water cooler with RO plan
Solar Water Heating System
Rest Hut
Parking Facility
Wi-Fi Enabled
Kitchen and Dining hall
Library Room
First-Aid Kit
Common Room
11. Details about infrastructure of Canteen facility.
There are two canteens available on the Campus
Total Area of New Canteen: 736 (Sq. Mt.) with IT facility.
Total Area of Old Canteen: 100 (Sq. Mt.)
12. Details about large common facilities like the Convention Centre, Stadium etc.
Recent major developments on the campus:
There is a convention centre for student o Built up Area: 6135 Sq. Mt.
o Plot Area : 10, 400 Sq. Mt.
Cultural Complex o Built Up Area: 400 (Sq. Mt.)
o Plot Area: 17237 (Sq. Mt.)
13. Details about the steps taken for landscaping / beautification etc.
There is a continuous campus beautification and landscaping plan,
which is monitored by the University authorities through Estate
Committee and other statutory bodies.
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In first phase, there was a movement for greening the campus and later
by Nandanvan Scheme covers the corners and borders of the University
area into social forestry also with medicinal plantation.
The next phase was related to cover the boundary walls of all
departments, hostels, staff quarters, etc. with cement roads / RCC roads
that connects to the University office. In recent years the process of
covering all roads and other areas by paver block is going to prevent
dusting for pedestrians.
Along with RCC roads, centralized power / electric system, water
works system, drainage system, centralized maintenance of
infrastructure, innovative infrastructural schemes like water harvesting,
energy efficient new buildings, solar energy instalments, waste
recycling, etc. is also looked forward from infrastructural point of view
(their environmental ramifications can be mentioned in Criterion 7).
4.1.3 How does the University create a conducive physical ambience for the faculty in
terms of adequate research laboratories, computing facilities and allied
services?
Majority of the departments where laboratories are required, the University
has supported very well to maintain, upgrade and renovate the existing laboratories.
The adequate financial resources was made available from the State and Central
governments, donors and our own generated funds.
Each department has been provided enough computer support and it is also
based on usage by the department. The higher users are allowed to use the internet
and Wi-Fi facilities over and above their prescribed quota.
The faculties are provided better working places and it is continuing for up
gradation and improvement in terms of physical facilities.
The University is responding to the climatic condition of this region which is
hotter and hotter, has endeavoured to create at least one air-conditioned learning
space for students and teachers in each department. The various halls / auditoriums
on the campus are also technologically equipped, learning spaces are flexible enough
to serve as a fitting space for large / combined /inter-disciplinary classes as well as
for seminars. On days of fair weather, the green campus with its many shady trees
and lawns is also turned into enjoyable outdoor class / discussion venues. Every
teacher on the campus has been furnished with an air conditioned chamber with
computers/ laptops and printers so that smaller group discussions, guidance to
individual students, meeting with class representatives etc. can take place. The
laboratories are spacious and fully equipped to inspire and support research. The
library aids to every teacher with the latest journals and e-materials are provided.
The University now publishes three research journals from its own publication house
(one each for Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities) to augment faculty
research. The University has an exclusive Computer Centre to assist the faculty with
all kinds of computing facilities. Other allied facilities like photocopying centres,
stationery shops etc., are also available on campus for the faculties and students.
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4.1.4 Has the University provided all departments with facilities like office room,
common room and separate rest rooms for women students and staff?
Yes. As mentioned in the section above, all (including lady) faculty members
of this University have their independent well-equipped chambers. The support staff
of each of the 28 departments on the campus has their own office rooms and storage
space / records room. The women officers in the Main Administrative Building have
their separate chambers. Separate rest rooms for women students and staff is a
standard norm in the University. The campus also has an exclusive women‘s indoor
gymnasium. Additional facility is being erected as per need.
4.1.5 How does the University ensure that the infrastructure facilities are disabled-
friendly?
The disabled-friendly measures of the University include all buildings on the
campus having easier access paths like ramps for the physically disabled.
Classrooms and libraries are well-lit for the visually impaired. Libraries also have
xyz no. of Braille enabled books / reading material and audio books. Toilets are
specially designed for the disabled. Departments have classrooms with good sound
system for the auditory impaired.
4.1.6 How does the University cater to the requirements of residential students? Give
details of
Capacity of the hostels and occupancy (to be given separately for men and women):
There are three hostels for men on the campus with a combined capacity of 234
students. For women, there is one hostel at present with a capacity of 80 students.
All seats for men and women are fully occupied. Another hostel for women is
nearing completion and will be functional by early 2014.
Recreational facilities in hostel/s like gymnasium, yoga centre, etc.: The Women‘s hostel has basic fitness equipment on its premises apart from an
exclusive Women‘s Fitness Centre on the campus. There is a fully equipped
gymnasium in the Sports Pavilion for male students staying on the campus can
have the access of.
Broadband connectivity / Wi-Fi facility in hostels:
The entire campus has Wi-Fi facility. Students are facilitated with their own
identity so that they can access the web world.
4.1.7 Does the University offer medical facilities for its students and teaching and
non-teaching staff living on campus?
The University has a well-equipped Health Center, with a full-time qualified
doctor and a full-time qualified laboratory technician / pathologist. Additionally, it
has a Compounder, a Dresser and an administrative Clerk. Its laboratory is furnished
with latest equipment capable of analyzing all kinds of blood, urine and stool tests
including specialized tests like sugar, lipid, urea and creatinine profiles.
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4.1.8 What special facilities are available on campus to promote students‟ interest in
sports and cultural events/activities?
The University makes available a wide array of sporting facilities (over 20
different types of sports) to the students. The Department of Physical Education has
an elaborate sports calendar for every academic year with standard features like
inter-college championships, and zonal and regional competitions. The Physical
Education Section of the University also looks after cultural activities and
competition as per the guideline of AIU Board of Cultural Activities. In the last 4
years, a total of 3045 students and 109 colleges have actively participated in 32
different cultural events. The University Youth Festival is an annual gala cultural
meet with its venue often on the campus, or hosted by an affiliating college. Of
particular meritorious mention in the last two years has been our individual gold
medal (bagged by our student Ms.Rashmi Khodbhaya) and team championship in
the All India Inter-University Yoga Competition. Another woman student
Ms.ShilpaVala represented the Indian team in an international volleyball event for
women. In the cultural events, our student Ms.DhvaniVachchrajani bagged the
second position in the Inter-University West Zone Youth Festival in Hindustani
Classical (Vocal).
The University Indoor Stadium with multi-sports facility is nearing
completion and shall be operational by the next academic year.
Each department individually has their student union and subject union and
they are arranging various cultural activities, cultural events and celebrates Navratri,
New Year day, Holi, Annual Day, Welcome party, Farewell party and Cultural Day.
This gives opportunity to encourage inherent talents of the students in Art and
Culture.
4.2 Library as a Learning Resource
4.2.1 Does the library have an Advisory Committee? Specify the composition of the
committee. What significant initiatives have been taken by the committee to
render the library student/user friendly?
Yes. Under Ordinance 44, Library has an Advisory Committee which is
statutory. The composition of this Committee is as follows:
I) The Vice Chancellor;
II) The Pro-Vice Chancellor;
III) The Deans of the Faculties;
IV) The Head of the University Departments;
V) Three other members, to be nominated by the Syndicate, one of whom shall
be a teacher recognized for guiding Ph. D. student.
Librarian is the member secretary of this committee. The committee meets
annually twice or more as per requirements and it allocates budgets to each
department for books and journals. The block grants which are allocated are also
discussed for distribution by identifying the requirements of students and faculties.
This Committee has taken many significant decisions for the development of
the University Library benefitting the students/users. To name a few such initiatives:
it has affected the extension and expansion of the Library building, added more
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computers inside the Library, launched the Library website, installed CCTV cameras
within the Library, and enhanced the institutional repository.
4.2.2 Provide details of the following:
Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.): 3056.15
Total seating capacity : 150
Working hours (on working days, on holidays, before examination, during examination, during vacation):
On Working Days from 08.00 AM to 08.00 PM
On Holidays from 08.00 AM to 06.00 PM
Before Examination from 08.00 AM to 10.00 PM
During Examination from 07.00 AM to 08.00 PM
During Vacation from 08.00 AM to 08.00 PM
(Library is open for all. Transaction of documents is restricted to only for
registered students, faculty and administrative staff of this University.)
14. Layout of the library (individual reading carrels, lounge area for browsing and
relaxed reading, IT zone for accessing e-resources):
Floor Plan of the Library
4.2.3 Give details of the library holdings:
a) Print (books, journals, back volumes and theses)
Print Books (As on date 30/3/2013) 189354
Back Volumes 1196
Theses 3270
b) Average number of books added during the last three years
2009-2010 12124
2010-2011 3117
2011-2012 1508
2012-2013 1361
The UGC grant of the 11th
plan (Block Grant) was received by the University
for Library. Therefore books were increased 4 times during that period.
c) Non Print (Microfiche, AV):
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The Department is allocated to amount to purchase the documents (Books,
Journals, Non Print) Departments are recommending purchasing documents
and non-print. Therefore library has no to say to purchase non print. 221
non print are of those with were the print book.
d) Electronic (e-books, e-journals)
As per UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium:
7537 E- journal
5 Databases
UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium
List of Resources Subscribed for 2013
Sr.
No.
Resource Name Resource URL No. of
Journals
1 American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/ 37
2 American Institute of Physics http://journals.aip.org/ 18
3 American Physical society http://publish.aps.org/browse.php 10
4 Annual Reviews http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/ 33
5 Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org/ 224
6 Economic & Political Weekly http://epw.in/ 1
7 Emerald http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ 29
8 Institute of Physics http://iopscience.iop.org/journals 46
9 ISID http://isid.org.in/ Database
10 JCCC http://www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in/ Database
11 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ 2000+
12 Oxford University Press http://oxfordjournals.org 198
13 Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/journals 500+
14 Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org 29+6
Database
15 Science Direct (10 Subject
Collection)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ 1036
16 SciFinder Scholar http://www.cas.org/product/scifinder 1 Database
17 Springer Link http://link.springer.com/ 1389+
18 Taylor & Francis http://www.tandfonline.com/ 1079
19 Web of Science http://apps.isiknowledge.com/ 1 Database
20 Wiley-Blackwell http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ 908
e) Special collections (e.g. text books, reference books, standards, patents)
f) Book banks
g) Question banks
4.2.4 What tools does the library deploy to provide access to the collection?
OPAC
Through Library SOUL software library having web base OPAC
Electronic Resource Management package for e-journals
Getting free access form INFLIBNET, Sci-finder, etc.
Federated searching tools to search articles in multiple databases
Library Website http://library.saurashtraUniversity.edu/
In-house/remote access to e-publications: Yes, e-thesis is available for everyone to access from University Website
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4.2.5 To what extent is ICT deployed in the library? Give details with regard to
Library automation: We have the instruments / equipment and technology like machine readable catalogue; computerized bibliographic information of the
library holdings through Local Area Network (intranet) using WebOPAC.
Automated circulation system using barcode technology as well as the status on
Library Automation project using Electro Magnetic Security technology and
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based Library Management System
Server Hardware
HPML350 G6 P C 31
Windows NT 4.0 PRINTER: HPLJMLI 536
MICROSOFT SQL 7.0 CANON LASERJET 4350
SOUL SERVER CCTV CAMERA 19
DVR (16 Channel)
BARCODE READER-7
SCANNER: FUJITSU FI 6130-2
Total number of computers for general access: 31
Total numbers of printers for general access : 05
Total numbers of scanner for general access : 02
Internet bandwidth speed: □ 2mbps □ 10 mbps □ 1 GB Up to 150 mbps depending upon usage
Institutional Repository:
Saurashtra University is the only University of India which has 1014 E-thesis
online. For more details http://etheses.saurashtraUniversity.edu/
Content management system for e-learning: The systematic uploading of e-thesis and other research related information and events on the campus are done
regularly and are reflected on the University website. Additionally, we have the
small CD / DVD non-print collection, a content management for those can be
made operational
Participation in resource sharing networks/consortia (like INFLIBNET): The University organizes such kind of events through its various departments. The
concerned departments have exhaustive details of such events and the same shall
be provided to the peer team members at the time of their visit.
4.2.6 Provide details (per month) with regard to:
Average number of walk-ins: 340
Average number of books issued/returned: 110
Ratio of library books to students enrolled: 1255
Average number of books added during the last four years: 18110
Average number of login to OPAC: 85-100
Average number of login to e-resources: 65per day
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Average number of e-resources downloaded/printed: 40-45
Number of IT (Information Technology) literacy trainings organized: N/A
4.2.7 Give details of specialized services provided by the library with regard to:
Manuscripts: Yes
Reference: Yes
Reprography / scanning: Yes
Inter-library Loan Service: Yes
Information Deployment and Notification: Yes
OPACS: Yes
Internet Access: Yes
Downloads: Yes
Printouts: Yes
Reading list/ Bibliography compilation: Yes
In-house/remote access to e-resources: Yes
User Orientation: Yes
Assistance in searching Databases: Yes
INFLIBNET/IUC facilities: Yes
4.2.8 Provide details of the annual library budget and the amount spent for purchasing,
new books and journals.
Budget Estimate for the year 2011-12
Budget Head Estimate Amount Total Expenditure
Books and Periodicals Binding 20000 19950
Books Purchase 1100000 1052982
Computerization of Library 150000 48370
Contingency 50000 27682
Furniture & Equipment 55000 39110
Furniture & Equipment Repair 40000 31406
Periodicals Subscription 1150000 688584
Printing & Stationary 10000 5936
4.2.9 What initiatives has the University taken to make the library a „happening place‟
on campus?
The ambience of the library has completely changed in last few years and
emerging as a welcome place for the students on the campus and also outsiders. The
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library staff is trained to help and support for the necessary query or requirements
when any scholar or faculty visits. All books are in open access system and one can
visit directly to the book racks related to their subject.
The library also provides complete list of books, reference books, journals and
thesis online and one can identify availability of the relevant documents.
The users who don‘t have good reading facility and environment at home /
residence place / hostel, they are regular visitors of library for hours together for their
reading and knowledge. They are provided comfortable sitting and reading tables and
chairs and airy atmosphere.
4.2.10 What are the strategies used by the library to collect feedback from its users?
How is the feedback analyzed and used for the improvement of the library
services?
The library has kept suggestion box to get regular feedback and lacuna if any,
from the users. The suggestions which require immediate improvement are executed
immediately and where the suggestions are of financial implications and policy
matters are forwarded in next library advisory committee meeting. User satisfaction is
regularly majored and evaluated by user feedback & feed forward survey patent. The
suggestion made there in have been promote before the Library Committee and an
accordingly improvement in the library facilities and funding have been implemented.
This is regular a feature of the Library.
4.2.11 List the efforts made towards the infrastructural development of the library in
the last four years.
The building extension plan is already approved by Estate committee and the
construction work is in progress.
4.3 IT Infrastructure
4.3.1 Does the University have a comprehensive IT policy with regard to
IT Service Management: Yes
Information Security: Yes
Network Security: Yes
Risk Management : Yes
Software Asset Management : Yes
Open Source Resources: Yes
Green Computing: Yes The University has framed ICT policy in the above areas based on the policy
framed by the Government of Gujarat‘s comprehensive and innovative IT Policy
2006-2011 (reflected on its Department of Science & Technology website:
http://dst.gujarat.gov.in/it-policy.htm); and the policies framed by Government of
India‘s Department of Electronics and Information Technology (website:
http://deity.gov.in/). The University ICT Policy is also placed on its web site
(http://www.saurashtraUniversity.edu) for all stake-holders to read and follow.
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4.3.2 Give details of the University‟s computing facilities i.e., hardware and software.
Number of systems with individual configurations
Computer-student ratio
Dedicated computing facilities
Wi-Fi facility
LAN facility
Proprietary software
Number of nodes/ computers with internet facility
Any other (please specify)
Number of systems with individual configurations:
750+ in academic departments and 300+ in Administrative departments
All having processor higher then Pentium IV and 1 GB RAM.
Laptop with processor i3 or higher is given to each faculty member and officers
of the University.
Wi-Fi
University has established a high end WLAN system. University has covered
more than 80% of Outdoor and Indoor area with Wi-Fi access points. 11 high
capacity outdoor access points having 802.11 a, 802.11b 802.11g and 802.11n
connectivity which can give connectivity speed up to 300 mbps have been
installed. Nearly 50 indoor access points serves the users for indoor access.
Controller based solution provides monitoring of the entire solution. WLAN is
divided into three user types: Staff, Student and Guest.
LAN Facility
University has established LAN across the campus comprising more than 28
buildings having 1 GBPS fiber backbone of nearly 7.5 kms. Each building is
connected with managed layer 2 of 24 port switch. Each building is connected
to a Central Layer 3 Switch. For Smooth traffic of data University LAN is
divided into 8 VLANs. Central authentication and Monitoring servers are
established at the Computer Centre.
University Computer Centre maintains a dynamic web site. Each department
has access to update their own information. University web site is a truly
interactive portal having several sub domains like degree, external exams, e-
thesis etc. Each sub domain is maintained separately.
Each desktop/laptop is protected by anti-virus software. University has a
common procurement policy for all the departments.
Proprietary Software
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SPSS software is used in various departments like Statistics, Mathematics,
Commerce etc. as well as proprietary software like SAS, MATLAB are also
used by Statistics Department.
Number of nodes/ computers with internet facility
There are more than 300 computers are having internet facilities across all
department on the campus.
4.3.3 What are the institutional plans and strategies for deploying and upgrading the
IT infrastructure and associated facilities?
The University is planning to setup its own data center in the near future.
University has sent a proposal for the Data center to UGC and the proposal is
sanctioned by UGC. It is also planning for the ERP of the University which would
result in further smoothening of administrative and academic processes. The same
proposal has also been granted by the UGC.
4.3.4 Give details on access to on-line teaching and learning resources and other
knowledge and information database/packages provided to the staff and
students for quality teaching, learning and research.
Under the national umbrella for e-resources, Saurashtra University is also
provided INFLIBNET. Over and above this, the University on basis of its past use
enjoys Sci-finder facility among top 20 Universities of India.
Online resources such as, MIT online resources, NPTEL, A-View, IEEE
Journals, ACM, JSTORE,Elsevier Science, Emerald, Springer Link etc. are available
to University faculties and research scholars through the subscription paid by the
INFLIBNET. University also subscribes to area specific journals/databases like Sci-
finder which are available to researchers. The departments and University has
arranged several e-resource workshops with international trainers and the Masters‘
and Ph. D. Scholars are well trained to use these databases for their effective
research, for IPR generation and also for their quality learning. The teachers are also
trained time to time to update with newer versions and add-on facilities which
features in updated versions of database.
4.3.5 How does the University address issues such as authenticity and copyright with
regard to online resources that lie outside the University?
The University is in infant stage of implementation on IT policy. The
University‘s law department and other expert‘s lectures are arranged to educate the
issues related to IPR, copyright, etc.
The University policy in this regards is in line with the norms of the nodal
agency in the higher education. The issue of plagiarism is taken at the first instance at
the departmental level. The University departments deal with the issue through the
staff council. The Research Development Council is well structured for scrutinising
the research proposals of the prospective research candidates. No such cases have
been registered yet.
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4.3.6 What are the new technologies deployed by the University in enhancing student
learning and evaluation during the last four years and how do they meet new /
future challenges?
The University has adopted choice based system and therefore starting from
curriculum, time-table, internal tests, and end-semester exams are closely monitored
for possible blending of new technologies. Several model experiments in learning
and evaluation are done at various level and stages and the results there of are
evaluated by team of experts.
MCQ based evaluation was started as a part of the CBCS mode of teaching
for every program run by the University. University has also started online question
paper evaluation for eight different faculties comprising nearly 40000 students from
the year 2013.
Student learning is enhanced by faculties using the electronic and internet
based learning materials. Faculties prepare resource material based on content
available online and prepare a power point, pdf, word document based material for
the students. Each computer laboratory is equipped with internet connections for
ready availability of the reading material. Students, researchers and faculties also
have Wi-Fi connectivity for mobile internet access.
4.3.7 What are the IT facilities available to individual teachers for effective teaching
and quality research?
University has provided laptop to each faculty. In all departments adequate
number of desktops and printers are installed at office premises.Individual faculties
are provided with 24x7 Internet connections. Support service for hardware and
software is provided by the University Computer Centre. For high performance
computing, a facility is established at the Chemistry Department, NFDD centre, i.e.,
Dell‘s HPC along with Schrodinger at the cost of Rs. 40 Lacs.
4.3.8 Give details of ICT-enabled classrooms/learning spaces available within the
University? How are they utilized for enhancing the quality of teaching and
learning?
University has established at least one class room for each academic department
having Interactive board and internet connectivity. Most classrooms on the campus
are equipped with multimedia projector/OHP.
Each conference hall of the University is equipped with multimedia projector and
internet connectivity. All these facilities are being utilized by the students,
researchers and faculties at the optimum level thus incorporating the latest in the
field of learning, inter-disciplinarily, and procuring data for newer / potential areas
for research.
4.3.9 How are the faculty assisted in preparing computer- aided teaching-learning
materials? What are the facilities available in the University for such
initiatives?
All the faculty members are well versed with computing needs and internet usage.
However, the University organizes several ICT workshop/training programs in
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accordance with ASC, Computer Centre and Computer Science Department at
regular intervals. Several E-Content development initiatives have been taken for
University teachers under UGC-ASC refresher courses. Some faculty members
either have received or assisted NMEICT projects.
Some departments on the campus have their own websites / blogs with teaching-
learning materials and academic events being featured on them.
4.3.10 How are the computers and their accessories maintained?
University maintains computers and accessories in a central manner through
the University Computer Centre. This Centre has trained man-power to maintain the
resources. Where not possible the computers / accessories are sent outside for
repairing. The Computer Centre also advises the different departments (academic
and administrative) on issues relating to up-gradation of hardware, licensed
software, anti-virus and malware etc. There is annual maintenance and supply
contracts for maintenance and repair by inviting tenders.
4.3.11 Does the University avail of the National Knowledge Network connectivity? If
so, what are the services availed of?
Yes, the University is a member of NKN through NMEICT project. The
University is availing internet bandwidth through NIC Ahmedabad. Additionally, it
is also involved with various projects / programmes of the Knowledge Consortium
of Gujarat (KCG).
4.3.12 Does the University avail of web resources such as Wikipedia, dictionary and
other education enhancing resources? What are its policies in this regard?
Yes. The faculties and researchers are sensitized and they are made aware with
new resources which are given through INFLIBNET time to time.
Faculties and researchers utilize the internet resources such as Wikipedia,
dictionary and other databases as and when they need to utilize. University faculties
are allotted maximum 500 Mb per day internet connection and 250 hours a year with
a renewal policy. The policy on these educational resources is that they are
complementary (and even secondary) to the more established reading and research
materials. Thus, the faculty makes students and researchers aware that they are
useful for references but cannot replace in any way at the secondary sources / print
reference material by established publishers / review of literature for higher learning
and research.
4.3.13 Provide details on the provision made in the annual budget for the update,
deployment and maintenance of computers in the University.
Adequate Budget provision is made in the University budget under the head
―Computer Maintenance and Services‖ for each department according to the need of
the department.
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4.3.14 What plans have been envisioned for the gradual transfer of teaching and
learning from closed University information network to open environment?
University has initiated open source environment by transforming the e-
learning resources on Moodle/Linux platform. A workshop for e-content
development was organized in conjunction with the Academic Staff College and
faculties were given hands-on training in this regard. With the introduction of
Learning Management System software, the online option for reading materials,
assignments, evaluations, etc., will now gradually be explored on the campus
although it has made a beginning in certain departments especially in the Sciences.
4.4 Maintenance of Campus Facilities
4.4.1 Does the University have an estate office / designated officer for overseeing the
maintenance of buildings, class-rooms and laboratories? If yes, mention a few
campus specific initiatives undertaken to improve the physical ambience.
The University has a full-fledged Estate Section with a qualified University
Engineer at the helm, a Deputy Engineer, two assistant engineers (looking after civil
and electrical works) and other support staff like draftsman, storekeeper etc., in it.
The campus specific initiatives undertaken to improve the physical ambience is a
holistic exercise beginning from the RCC roads, to enhancing the green cover, to
maintain the green cover against the habitual arid landscape of this region at large
through measures like construction of check dams and drip irrigation, to aesthetic
landscaping within the campus, to adequate lighting, to garbage disposal, to erection
of new buildings and proper maintenance of the existing ones including existing
classrooms, laboratories, library living quarters, hostels, guest houses, etc.
Maintenance and repair of fixtures and furniture is also part of the Estate
responsibility. As mentioned under various sub-sections of 4.1, the broad
infrastructural planning happens coinciding with the five-year plans, but the
University maintains a year-to-year programme of infrastructural goals and
objectives and acts accordingly.
4.4.2 How are the infrastructure facilities, services and equipment maintained? Give
details.
The Estate Section systematically assigns to its staff the different tasks like:
Maintenance of infrastructure facilities (repairs, plumbing, electricity power etc.)
Maintenance of other fixtures and furniture, security, sanitation and cleaning of hostels, guest houses, conference and multi-purpose halls, classrooms, living
quarters, sports arena, canteens, etc.
Maintenance of computer-related equipment through Computer Centre, AMC of
other things like ACs, RO water plants, UPS etc.
Computer and related equipment are maintained using in-house expertise as far as possible.
Complains related to service and maintenance are looked after by the University Estate department from their regular staff, contractors, and technical man
power.
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The equipment maintenance is supervised by both individual department and University as a whole. Whenever, there is a inadequate financial support within
departmental budget University is pro-active to take up partial financial
responsibility to see the smooth functioning and utilization of the equipment.
Any other information regarding Infrastructure and Learning Resources which the University
would like to include.
The University is in a very strong position financially to equip itself with all the
required and relevant infrastructural and learning needs. Its infrastructural facilities
like the sports pavilion, community hall, conference halls etc., are often sought after
by other institutions of the city.
Saurashtra University is the only State University in Gujarat to operationalize since 2013 a campus-wide Wi-Fi network for all its staff, students and guests.
Criterion V: Student Support and Progression
5.1 Student Mentoring and Support
5.1.1 Does the University have a system for student support and mentoring? If yes, what
are its structural and functional characteristics?
The majority of students who are enrolled at the University are coming from
diverse background of city and rural colleges and therefore the problems of such
students who are pursuing their post-graduation study differs from the students who
have educated in metro from their schooling. The students have many psychological
barriers related to the University system, faculties, accommodation and especially the
language barrier. To cope with such situation, the University has to play vital role and
starting from administration to departmental head the student friendly environment and
system is must. Saurashtra University has a rich tradition to support students from
different academic, social and financial background. Once the students are on campus
they are given full support for their smooth inclusion in the system.
The new batch of students when arrives they are helped in several ways for
their temporary stay till permanent arrangements are made on campus and off the
campus.
Every department on the campus has an in-built system of student support and
mentoring which can be seen happening in three ways: support and mentoring of the
fresher‘s by their immediate seniors; mentoring by the Alumni to the current batch; and
finally mentoring by the teachers.
The two-pronged thrust of the mentoring programme aims at making the students adjust
better with the University ethos, and become better learners in their subjects. Coming
from different undergraduate colleges, the mentoring helps the students positively cope
up with the wider exposure and learning pressure those academics at any University
necessarily entails.
5.1.2 Apart from classroom interaction, what are the provisions available for academic
mentoring?
Mentoring takes place often in smaller groups and even individually. As
mentioned in the section above, the platforms for mentoring other than the classroom
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are seminars, conferences, study tours, sports meet, cultural activities, events of social
responsibility like blood donation camps, slum visits etc. Such outside-the-classroom
mentoring then happens also on non-working days / holidays, and often before / after
the time-table hours. For other mentoring, the supporting systems like the Library,
Computer Centre, etc., assist in academic mentoring. Many programmes of
interdisciplinary nature are arranged to have better interaction of students and faculty so
that multidisciplinary grooming is possible.
5.1.3 Does the University have any personal enhancement and development schemes
such as career counselling, soft skill development, career-path-identification, and
orientation to well-being for its students? Give details of such schemes.
The University has a centralized Career Counselling and Development Cell
(CCDC) linking all students on the campus with an email network and reaching them
information about their academic and professional opportunities and development.
Additionally, departments are running professional courses like MBA, MCA, MSW,
M.Ed, M.Pharm etc., also directly inform their students about recruitment
opportunities. Further, the CCDC arranges, training classes for competitive
examinations as well as soft-skills development. The Academic Staff College also
organises short-term courses for students pursuing their doctoral research.
At departmental level, several short term skill enhancement programmes are
arranged on regular basis round the year and when required.
5.1.4 Does the University provide assistance to students for obtaining educational loans
from banks and other financial institutions?
The University helps its needy students to secure educational loans from
nationalized banks by providing necessary information and testimonials required. The
students are sensitized by such schemes as and when declared by Government or other
funding agencies and wide publicity by notice boards or e-mail is provided.
5.1.5 Does the University publish its updated prospectus and handbook annually? If yes,
what are the main issues / activities / information included / provided to students
through these documents? Is there a provision for online access?
Most of the information mentioned above are provided on Saurashtra
University website with important links and is updated regularly. All departments
publish their prospectus and syllabus every year both in soft and hard copies. The
University also makes some information visible by giving advertisements in print
media.
Every department on the campus provides its latest prospectus at the time of admission.
The faculty / discipline wise commencement of courses is announced by the University
through the print media as well as its own website from where the prospectus and
application forms can be downloaded.
5.1.6 Specify the type and number of University scholarships / freeships given to the
students during the last four years. Was financial aid given to them on time? Give
details (in a tabular form) for the following categories: UG/PG/M. Phil. /Ph. D./
Diploma/others (please specify).
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2009-10
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, SCHOLARSHIP EXPS.
Particulars UGC Grant State Govt.
Grant
Other Grant Total
Scholarship
Emeritus Fellowship P. P.
Sood
270000.00
Indira Gandhi Single Girl
Child scholarship
80000.00
Meritorious (SAP)
Scholarship
3598333.00
P.G.Scholarship for SC/ST
student
69574.00
Post Doctoral Fellowship-
G.K. Vaghela (Hindi Dept)
229225.00
Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship 2271480.00
Scholarship (Ph. D.) 64000.00
Scholarshi ST/SC/SEBC 1390962.00
Merit Scholarship (Ph. D.
University)
94000.00
AICTE Pharmaceutical
Scholarship
5169342.00
CSIR Dharmendra Shukla 142933.00
CSIR Mayalata Dimple 202950.00
CSIR Project V. H. Shah 410213.00
CSIR P. S. Solanki
(Physics Dept)
222101.00
CSIR R. R. Doshi 164890.00
Total 6518612 1548962 6312429 14380003
Percentage 45 11 44
2010-11
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, SCHOLARSHIP EXPS.
Particulars UGC Grant State Govt.
Grant
Other Grant Total
Scholarship
Emeritus Fellowship P. P.
Sood
290850.00
Meritorious (SAP)
Scholarship
4981429.00
P.G.Scholarship for SC/ST
student
327222.00
Post Doctoral Fellowship-
Y. A. Jogsan (Psychology
Dept.)
279600.00
Post Doctoral Fellowship- 279600.00
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R. N. Kathad (Sanskrit Dept.)
Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship 3071367.00
Scholarship (Ph. D.) 6390.00
Scholarship ST/SC/SEBC 1425050.00
Merit Scholarship (Ph. D.
University)
53250.00
CSIR Dharmendra Shukla 177833.00
CSIR Megha Purohit 216526.00
CSIR Project P.H. Parsania 225493.00
CSIR Project V. H. Shah 364728.00
CSIR R. R. Doshi 56935.00
Total 9230068 1484690 1041515 11756273
Percentage 79 13 9
2011-12
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, SCHOLARSHIP EXPS.
Particulars UGC Grant State Govt.
Grant
Other Grant Total
Scholarship
Emeritus Fellowship P. P.
Sood
19150.00
Indira Gandhi Single Girl
Child scholarship
160000.00
Meritorious (SAP)
Scholarship
3830322.00
P.G.Scholarship for SC/ST
student
4305289.00
Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship 3688016.00
Scholarship (Ph. D.) 64000.00
Scholarshi ST/SC/SEBC 1390962.00
Merit Scholarship (Ph. D.
University)
24000.00
AICTE Pharmaceutical
Scholarship
5555039.00
CSIR Kunal Nagani 22975.00
CSIR Mayalata Dimple 333200.00
CSIR Megha Purohit 56154.00
CSIR Project P. H.
Parsania
381843.00
CSIR Project V. H. Shah 564763.00
CSIR P. S. Solanki
(Physics Dept)
111400.00
Total 7697488 4329289 7025374 19052151
Percentage 40 23 37
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2012-13
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, SCHOLARSHIP EXPS.
Particulars UGC Grant State Govt.
Grant
Other Grant Total
Scholarship
Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship 3320767.00
JRF Grant (UGC 11th
Plan) 242536.00
Meritorious (SAP)
Scholarship
2916594.00
P.G.Scholarship for SC/ST
student
41965.00
Post Metric Scholarship ST
/SC/SEBC
7198854.00
AICTE Pharmaceutical
Scholarship
9772199.00
CSIR B. A. Kikani 272908.00
CSIR Mayalata Dimple 280400.00
CSIR Scholarship Megha
Vagadia
281413.00
Merit Scholarship (Ph. D.
University)
72000.00
Total 6521862 7270854 10606920 24399636
Percentage 27 30 43
5.1.7 What percentage of students receives financial assistance from state government,
central government and other national agencies (Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan
Yojana (KVPY), SN Bose Fellow, etc.)?
- State Government – 30%
- Central Government - 27 %( exclusively from UGC)
- Other National Agencies - 43 % (from AICTE, CSIR, etc.)
5.1.8 Does the University have an International Student Cell to attract foreign students
and cater to their needs?
The University has no formal international student cell; however looking to the
geographical situation boundary of Saurashtra region the University attracts foreign
students, visitors, faculties and researchers frequently for short term. They are provided
adequate support from University administration and related departments for their
accommodation, travel and research activities. An International Transit House has 12
furnished rooms for such international visitors for temporary stay.
5.1.9 Does the University provide assistance to students for obtaining educational loans
from banks and other financial institutions?
The University helps its needy students to secure educational loans from
nationalized banks by providing necessary information and testimonials required. The
students are sensitized by such schemes as and when declared by government or other
funding agencies and wide publicity by notice boards or e-mail is provided.
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5.1.10 What types of support services are available for:
* Overseas students: The University is receiving several inquiries of aspirants from
overseas. One Iranian research fellow has joined the University last year and the
facility is provided at International Transit House.
* Physically challenged / differently-abled students: It provides the facilities of writers
and extra time during exams for visually challenged students. They have provided
additional care and mentoring by the fellow students and faculties for their day to day
functioning. All buildings on the campus are being prepared to help physically
disabled students for ramps, etc. The University has accepted in Toto the
recommendations of central government regarding this.
Additionally, as mentioned under 4.1.5: The disabled-friendly measures of the
University include all buildings on the campus having easier access paths like ramps
for the physically disabled. Classrooms and libraries are well-lit for the visually
impaired. Libraries also have numbers of Braille enabled books / reading material and
audio books. Toilets are specially designed for the disabled. Departments have
classrooms with good sound system for the auditory impaired.
*SC/ST, OBC and economically weaker sections:
For accommodation in the hostels such students are admitted as per government
norms. The economically weaker students are admitted at Earn While Learn hostel.
CCDC organizes special remedial classes to foster them for language efficiency,
computer skills, personality development, and also for competitive examinations. At
the departmental level, bright scholars are identified and they are groomed specially
for better career opportunities. They are also given financial support with the state
Government scholarship specially meant for them from the SC / ST Cell of the
Government of Gujarat channelized through the University.
* Students participating in various competitions/conferences in India and abroad:
The University has special super-numeracy seats of admission for students
participating in various national / international level competitions. Such talented
students are also felicitated by the University and facilitated with their training of their
skills, especially in sports. In exceptional cases, the University has encouraged them
by partial financial assistance or matching grant from Universities own sources (visit
by students to Italy and other foreign countries).
*Health Centre, health insurance etc.: As mentioned under 4.1.7, the University has a
well-equipped Health Center, with a full-time qualified doctor and a full-time
qualified laboratory technician / pathologist. Additionally, it has a Compounder, a
Dresser and an administrative Clerk. The University has an ex-gratia payment scheme
to the family members of an unfortunate deceased student. The earlier amount in this
scheme was Rs. 50, 000/-. Since the last year it has been raised to Rs. 1 lakh. The
University is also in dialogue with insurance companies for a group insurance scheme
for all its students.
* Skill development (spoken English, computer literacy, etc.) : CCDC of the University
regularly organizes classes for soft-skills development. The Chemistry Department
has an entire skills development course leading to Diploma in effective operation of
sophisticated pharmaceutical / analytical instruments. Short term programmes on
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similar lines are also organized by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Lectures and awareness programmes on leadership and managerial skills are
organized by the MBA Department with every batch of their students. The language
departments have sessions on the four skills of language learning (listening, speaking,
reading and writing). Classes on research skills are a part of the first semester for
every batch of newly enrolled Ph. D. students in every department. The Staff College
too organises short term courses on research skills for freshly recruited teachers as
well as the research scholars on the campus. It also, in collaboration with the MCA
Department and the Computer Centre holds short term courses on computer literacy
and the role of ICT in classroom teaching and research.
* Performance enhancement for slow learners:
This is done both at the individual department level as well as by the Career
Counseling and Development Centre (CCDC) of the University that organizes batch-
wise remedial classes for the students of the campus.
The slow learners are identified especially in the first semester of teaching and their
progress is monitored by designated faculties.
* Exposure of students to other institutions of higher learning/corporate/business houses
etc.:
Many departments have study tours as a regular feature of extensional learning and
exposure to other institutions of higher learning. Also, departments on the campus
offering professional courses like MBA, MCA, MSW, Pharmacy, Bio-Chemistry, and
also other departments like Chemistry, Statistics etc., have interaction with relevant
business / corporate houses. The Industry-Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC) of the
University further augments such interactions.
The students usually go to various CSIR laboratories, DST and government run
centres of excellence and other specialized places of higher learning in India.
In the changed trend the students are applying for short term fellowships abroad
during their doctoral studies and number of students has taken advantage for six
months to 18 months at European, East- Asian countries and USA.
* Publication of student magazines: Most departments have their wall magazines or a
dedicated space for students‘ expressions. Rajkot is a special and privileged city where
number of morning and evening newspapers and educational magazines are published.
The students as author contribute their literary talents and popular articles in such
places preferentially.
5.1.11 Does the University provide guidance and/or conduct coaching classes for
students appearing for Civil Services, Defence Services, NET/SET and any other
competitive examinations? If yes, what is the outcome?
Yes. CCDC regularly conducts following activities. In recent years, the trend
for national level competitions for several services has grown enormously and
numbers of students are increasing as successful candidates to enter into state and
central government jobs including the public sectors organizations like ONGC, DOE,
etc.
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Successful Candidate in different Competitive Examination
Sr. No. Name of Examination Year
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
1 GPSC Class I 1
2 GPSC Class II 4
3 GPSC Class III 14
4 GPSC 1+1
(Lecturer)
4
5 District Mamlatdar 1
6 Deputy Mamlatdar 2 2
7 PSI 5 3 8
8 SRP 1
9 Talati Mantri 1 1
10 UPSC 1 1(IAS)
11 Forest Officer 1
12 NET 8 4
13 SLET 4 15
14 Stenographer 1
15 Bank P.O. 1
16 Bank Clerical 1 1
17 Typist at High court 1
18 EPFO 2
19 Constable Lok Rakshak 1
20 Deputy Section Officer 1
21 PGVCL Clerk 1
*SUCEAT: Saurashtra University Competitive Exam Awareness Test
(SUCEAT) is conducted by CCDC every year, to prepare students for the
Competitive Exams like UPSC, GPSC, BANK, RAILWAY, SSC, etc. Every year
more than 12,000 students appear in this exam. The district toppers are awarded with
complimentary prizes of General Studies Books worth Rs. 1000.00 each.
CCDC has independent Library facilities for students preparing for
competitive exams where there are more than thousand members for whom the
relevant books as well as free internet facility along with 15 magazines and three
national daily newspapers are available.
5.1.12 Mention the policies of the University for enhancing student participation in
sports and extracurricular activities through strategies / schemes such as:
University has gymnasium facility, several playgrounds, and sufficient sports
equipments to increase the participation in sports. The University also provide two
coach for several sports e.g., volleyball, hockey, etc. The University also gives
adequate financial support when sports team are going for various state level and
national level competitions for travel, accommodation, and training.
The University as a whole is running several programmes related to extra-
curricular activities on basis of directives from central and State Government, UGC,
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and on its own. They are arranged on campus or sometimes at affiliated colleges who
sponsor such activities.
Sometimes cultural organizations or regional sports association jointly
organizes such activities which lead to large number of student participation.
Additional academic support and academic flexibility in examinations: Teachers give their extra time to help students attending state or national level extracurricular events
and also their internal examinations are flexibly readjusted.
Special dietary requirements, sports uniform and materials: Sports uniform is a
standard feature for our University players. They are also assisted with sports kit. Diet
is part of their training process.
Any other: Tuition fee is waived off for National / State level sports persons; free super-numeracy seats are reserved for them in hostels; the University takes pride in
felicitating them.
5.1.13 Does the University have an institutionalized mechanism for students‟
placement? What are the services provided to help students identify job
opportunities, prepare them for interview, and develop entrepreneurship skills?
University departments are arranging campus interviews in their respective
departments, off campus interviews in respective Industries / Organizations and they
facilitate the employers and companies providing infra structural, facilities and
secretarial assistance.
As mentioned in the section above as well as in 1.1.2, The Industries-
Institution Interaction Cell (IIIC), an initiative of the University‘s IQAC is regularly
in dialogue with industries and other private institutions to keep a track of industrial /
corporate trends and the job opportunities for our students therein. At a wider level,
and not just the industries, the Career Counseling and Development Centre (CCDC)
helps in making students aware of job opportunities, and arranges preparatory classes
for the same. One more mechanism, albeit informal, about job opportunities is
through the Alumni of each department.
5.1.14 Give the number of students selected during campus interviews by different
employers (list the employers and the number of companies who visited the
campus during the last four years).
Major employers / companies visited the campus in the last four years are as under:
Tata Consultancy Services
Sunshine Educational Group
BAN Laboratories
Zydus
Cadila
Oxygen Healthcare
Intas Pharmaceuticals
Essar
5.1.15 Does the University have a registered Alumni Association? If yes, what are its
activities and contributions to the development of the University?
Yes, the University has established its Alumni body formally since 2008,
though every department has their own departmental Alumni association
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existing for many years much before 2008. Usually, the Saurashtra University
Alumni meet is held every year on its day of establishment i.e. May 23rd
. The
registered number of Alumni with the Saurashtra University Alumni
Association at present is 1500; and the departmental Alumni association
members may not be included in this number. Few of the University Alumni
association activities are listed here below:
The Saurashtra University inaugurated its Alumni Chapter in the United States of America on May 11, 2013, at Connecticut. The Saurashtra
Alumni Meet in USA was inaugurated by Dr. Vitthalbahi Dhaduk, a renowned
medical doctor of USA, in presence of the Vice Chancellor of the University.
On 23rd
May, 2013 the Saurashtra University Alumni Association
organized a get-together of the Alumni with all the former Vice-Chancellors
of this University (or, their immediate family, in case they are no more) in an
evening of ‗reminisces and looking ahead‘. In the same function a database
drive of Alumni was initiated.
Some of our most noteworthy Alumni, department-wise are as under:
Sr.
No.
Name of the
Alumnus
Designation / Position of Alumnus Alumnus of
the
Department
1 J.N. Bhatt Chief Justice, Bihar Law
2 Sonia Gokani Judge, High Court, Gujarat Law
3 Shaktisinh Gohil Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly Law
4 B. L. Sharma Vice Chancellor, Sarguja University,
Ambikapur, Chattisgarh, Former Vice
Chancellor, Bhavnagar University, Gujarat
and Rajasthan University, Jaipur
Law
5 Kamlesh P
Joshipura
Vice-Chancellor, IITE, Gandhinagar,
Former Vice Chancellor, Saurashtra
University, Rajkot, Gujarat
Law
6
P.K. Mathur Professor & Head, Department of
Landscape Planning & Management,
Wildlife Institute of India, DEHRADUN
Bio-Sciences
7 Hemant Koshia Commissioner, Food and Drug Control
Administration (FDCA), Rajkot
Pharmacy
8 G. V. Saratbabu Additional Director (CS), Ministry of
Environment & Forests, Govt. of India,
ParyavaranBhavan, NEW DELHI
Bio-Sciences
9 Rajesh Sharma Major, Indian Army, 7 Bihar Regiment Physics
10 Pankaj Jani Former Vice Chancellor, Somnath Sanskrit
University, Gujarat
English
11 S. C. Sharma Former Head, Division of Forest Ecology,
Forest Research Institute of India (FRI),
DEHRADUN
Bio-Sciences
12 Arti Podar Vice President, ZydusCadila Healthcare
Ltd., Ahmedabad
Pharmacy
13 Chirag Khunt Officer at Probiotic Pharma, Melbourne,
Australia
Pharmacy
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14 Tushar Sumera IAS-Deputy Collector of Amreli District, Gujarat
English
15 N. R. Mankad Senior Scientist, NISCOM (INSDOC) -
CSIR, NEW DELHI
Bio-Sciences
16 Vraj Rabadia Scientist, ApotexPharma , Canada Bio-Sciences
17 Ajit Govindan Environmentalist, LUBBOCK, Texas,
USA
Bio-Sciences
18 Tej Mundkur Interim Director, Asian Wetland Bureau,
KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia
Bio-Sciences
19 P. N. Krishnan Senior Scientist, Tropical Botanical Garden
Research Institute (TBGRI), Kerala
Bio-Sciences
20 Haresh Bhatt Head, Networking Division, SAC, ISRO,
Ahmedabad
Physics
21 Sama Iqbal Director, Aga Khan Mission, Rajkot Economics
22 Christy Fernandez IAS – Govt. of Gujarat, Gandhinagar Economics
23 Tushar Hathi Vice Chancellor (I/c) KSKV Kachchh
University, Bhuj
Economics
24 Ashish Bhatt Director, Purple Remedies Pvt. Ltd.,
Ahmedabad
Pharmacy
25 Kapil Bhimani Director, Leo Neutrascience, Ahmedabad Pharmacy
26 Nidhi Bhatt Administrative Officer, London City
University, UK
English
27 Asma Dalal Associate Professor, University of Alberta,
Canada
English
28 Dushyant Goswami Independent Music Director & Short Film
Maker
English
29 Rayaprol Sudhindra Scientist-E, IUC, DAE, Mumbai Physics
30 Shyam Parekh Resident Editor, DNA, Ahmedabad English
31 Balaji Ranganathan Associate Professor, Central University of
Gujarat, Gandhinagar
English
32 Harilal Vora Scientist-H, RRCAT, Indore Physics
33 Rupal Joshi Scientist, Zydus Research Centre,
Ahmedabad
Bio-
Chemistry
34 Dipen Soni Research Executive, Serum Institute, Pune Bio-
Chemistry
35 Dhaval Joshi Postdoctoral Fellow, Kingston University,
Canada
Bio-
Chemistry
36 Ruchi Bhalodia Executive, Cadila Pharmaceuticals,
Ahmedabad
Bio-
Chemistry
37 Chirag Patel Executive, Zydus Research Centre,
Ahmedabad
Bio-
Chemistry
38 Mukesh Tanti Executive, Bioassay Research, Ahmedabad Bio-
Chemistry
39 M. K. Ranjitsingh IAS (Retired), INTACH, NEW DELHI Bio-Sciences
40 M. A. Kawosa IFS, Chief Conservator of Forests, Jammu
and Kashmir State, SRINAGAR
Bio-Sciences
41 K. K. Khakhar Former HoD, Economics, Saurashtra
University
Economics
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42 Punit Patel Manager, HDFC Bank, Jamnagar Economics
43 T. S. Bist IPS – Home Secretary, Govt. of Gujarat,
Gandhinagar
Economics
44 Krishnkant Unadkat Executive Editor, Sandesh, Ahmedabad Journalism
45 Kana Bantva Group Editor, Sandesh, Rajkot Journalism
46 Kaushik Mehta Editor, Phulchhab, Rajkot Journalism
47 Shirish Kashikar Director National Institute of Mass
Communication, Ahmedabad
Journalism
48 Kalpak Trivedi Pro-Vice Chancellor, Saurashtra
University, Rajkot, Gujarat
Law
49 Sweta Srivastav Asst. Professor, Sharda University, Noida,
New Delhi
Mathematics
50 Nilesh Dani Associate Professor, Government
Polytechnic, Junagadh
Mathematics
51 Naimish Joshi Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax, Rajkot Statistics
52 Jayesh Bhatt Principal, K.D. Mehta Gurukul College,
Porbandar, Gujarat
Statistics
53 Achyut Patel Vice Principal, Dhamsania Commerce
College, Rajkot, Gujarat
Statistics
54 M. G. Bhatt Principal , KekaShashtri College,
Ahmedabad
Statistics
55 Dr. Hemant
Koshiya
Commissioner, Food and Drug Control
Department, Govt. Of Gujarat
Pharmacy
Independently, departments on the campus have their own Alumni association
and activities. One can be mentioned as an example can be made here of the Alumni
Association of the English Department that runs its own blog called
http://Alumniengsu.wordpress.com/ with 123 followers at present and Facebook
account with more than 400 likes, and a Google group named
[email protected] . The blog created only in February 2012, in a short
span has become an impressive site recording past events, trivia, and future
programmes. As the figure on the blog shows, till October 2013, it has had 5485
visitors from all over the world. Another noteworthy thing of this Alumni Association
is that it has till date collected a corpus fund of over Rs. 5 lakhs for its preparation of
the 25th
year of the Department. Besides, the Alumni association of the Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Business Management are doing
tremendously well.
5.1.16 Does the University have a student grievance Redressal cell? Give details of the
nature of grievances reported. How were they redressed?
Yes. The University has student grievance redressal mechanism. Generally the
grievances are related to admission, hostel, food, canteen, transport, library, cash
counter, scholarships, examination time-tables, timely results, and also problems
related to affiliated colleges. The University administration is sensitive towards
student‘s problem and therefore the problems of students if raised individually or
collectively are addressed on top priority basis and resolved them immediately. The
Vice Chancellor himself meets the students for their individual problems everyday in
fix hours and the complaints are resolved by proper administrative measures or
instructions to the concerned department or official of the University.
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Every department on the campus has a students‘ grievances unit consisting of
faculty and students (senior and junior batch, girls and boys). Every department has a
grievance / suggestion box installed for students to register their issues, and meetings
of reading / discussion of these issues are held at regular intervals in the presence of
the Head of the Department, Staff Council members, representative group of students,
and if need be the non-teaching staff. The nature of grievances has so far been
regarding issues like that of public transport to the campus and the commensurate
problem of fleecing by the autorickshaw-walas, and consequently adjustments with
the timings of classes; this problem is resolved amicably and flexibly in each
department as this region has long hours of daylight. With effect from October 2013,
the Municipality of Rajkot has, taking cognizance of representation from people of the
city as well as the University, made a new effort of introducing a new line of city
buses. Other issues are those regarding canteen and tiffin food / snacks etc. which is
quite common in every institution with large number of people. The University‘s new
canteen however has received favorable remarks from the students‘ community. In the
past, there has been a recurring problem of adjusting the summer exams in such a way
that the problem of water scarcity (due to the natural aridity of this region) is avoided
and yet the students get sufficient reading and preparation time, but this issue since
the water of Narmada reaching Rajkot has not surfaced in any major way in the last
four years. The University has recognized the need of one more girls hostel and that is
being made operational by early 2014.
5.1.17 Does the University promote a gender-sensitive environment by (i) conducting
gender related programmes (ii) establishing a cell and mechanism to deal with
issues related to sexual harassment? Give details.
The Saurashtra University and its post graduate departments and
administration blocks have a track record of very promising atmosphere. The
University has not faced any on-toward incidents related to gender bias or sexual
harassment or even the complains related to ragging.
The University promotes gender-sensitive environment by being consciously
mindful of maintaining an unbiased equal platform for men and women in academics
and extra-curricular activities. It strictly implements the State Govt. benefit of tuition
fees for women to encourage more of them in higher education. It has a group of
women prefects acting as representatives in case there are issues relating to women.
There‘s a formal Women‘s Grievance Redressal Cell on the campus to address issues
related to sexual harassment, if any. No complaints have been registered with this Cell
till now. Among the other gender related pro-active steps on the campus, there is an
exclusive Women‘s Fitness Centre, Women‘s Day celebration (of academic and
cultural events) is a regular feature, awareness campaigns are held by our students
against female infanticide, and the University has a super-numerary seat in every
department for the single girl child.
5.1.18 Is there an anti-ragging committee? How many instances, if any, have been
reported during the last four years and what action has been taken in these
cases?
The University, in its history has not witnessed a single case of ragging. Yet
every department on the campus, being aware that ragging is a nation-wide problem,
has a staff and student incorporated mechanism to prevent ragging. All the
departments on the University campus have anti ragging cell to address the issue.
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However, the Saurashtra University campus can declare itself as a ragging free
campus.
5.1.19 How does the University elicit the cooperation of all its stakeholders to ensure the
overall development of its students?
The University feels that its first task in this direction is to keep all its
stakeholders aware of its academic and extra-curricular activities and in a relevant
manner try to involve those too by measures like:
• Forming the Alumni Association.
• Intimating and inviting the parents at least once a year on the campus.
• Forming a special cell (the IIIC) for interaction with the industries and corporate
bodies.
• Taking issues of social awareness directly to the people in the society.
Conversely, creating a serene campus that would attract people from the society
to visit the campus.
• Inviting public figures from the society on our campus.
• The University has successfully approached several individuals, philanthropist
and state government agencies (which are also stakeholders), to increase infra
structure in benefit of students community at large.
• Number of gold medals, fellowships, and other incentives are provided to the
students annually by several donors.
• The elected representatives of this region have also contributed well for few
projects of the University.
5.1.20 How does the University ensure the participation of women students in intra and
inter-institutional sports competitions and cultural activities? Provide details of
sports and cultural activities where such efforts were made.
The University arranges number of competitions and also alerts its affiliated
colleges for large number of enrolment of women sports persons to participate in
activities / competitions at different levels like district, state and national. The ―Yuvak
Mahotsav‖ is a colourful event which is held annually. A large number of participants
are taking part and the number of women participants are every time high event-wise.
The further details are given in the document at relevant and appropriate place.
As mentioned under 5.1.17, sports and fitness for women is also a University
commitment, not merely a document in words. That is why there is an exclusive
Women‘s Fitness Centre on the campus with the latest gym equipments and two
fitness trainers. There‘s an exclusive sports trainer for women. Although there are
outdoor facilities for sports for them like an athletics track, it has been seen that
women students from our campus have shown more interest in indoor games like
chess, badminton, table-tennis, handball and yoga. The University‘s decision to
complete a state-of-the art indoor stadium targeted to be operational by early 2014 is
an important pro-active step to encourage more women‘s participation in sports. In the
cultural arena, women students have always participated and excelled in the dance
forms of rasgarba and its several types famous in Saurashtra. The University has
always encouraged them and promoted this performing art. They also have been
encouraged in another Saurashtrian art form, i.e., Rangoli which is a fine art painting /
picturing with the medium of coloured powder.
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5.2 Student Progression
5.2.1 What is the student strength of the University for the current academic year?
Analyze the Programme-wise data and provide the trends for the last four years.
The student strength of the University for the Current Academic Year is 3106.
The programme-wise data is as follows:
It can be inferred from the above data that during the last four years (i.e. 2009
– 2013), the number of students passing Ph. D. degree has increased remarkably.
Also, it has been found that most of the students are opting for post graduate degrees
in sciences due to better job opportunities.
5.2.2 What is the programme-wise completion rate during the time span stipulated by
the University?
The program wise completion rate in post graduate level is approximately 90 %
while in Ph. D. program it varies between 70 – 80 %, depending on various factors.
About 15 – 20 % of the total students appearing for various qualifying exams, such as
UGC-CSIR NET, UGC NET, SLET, etc., passes their examinations and select career in
research and teaching professions.
5.2.3 What is the number and percentage of students who appeared/qualified in
examinations like UGC-CSIR-NET, UGC-NET, SLET, ATE / CAT / GRE /
TOFEL / GMAT / Central / State services, Defense, Civil Services, etc.?
The data is tabulated as under:
Name of the
Department
UGC-
CSIR-
NET
SLET ATE / CAT /
GRE
TOFEL /
GMAT /
Central / State
services
Defence State
Leve
l
Civil
Services
Any Other
Bio Chemistry 1 1
Mathematics 3 25
Pharmacy 83 (GATE /
GPSC)
Philosophy 5
Physical
Education
2 6 9
Chemistry 15 3 20 (GATE /
GPSC)
Physics 1 2 2 13
Sanskrit 7 3
Sociology 5 13
Student Progression %
UG to PG N.A.
PG to M. Phil. 10 - 15
PG to Ph. D. 20 - 25
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral 5
Employed
- Campus Selection
- Other than campus recruitment
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Electronics 1
Hindi 10 3 4
History 4
Social Work 2 10
Bio Science 6
Economics 1
English 4 1 25 1
Gujarati 11
Home Science 05
Human Rights 3
Law 8
Library Info.
Science
08 2 2 2
5.2.4 Provide category-wise details regarding the number of Ph. D./D.Litt./D.Sc. theses
Submitted/ accepted/ resubmitted/ rejected in the last four years.
Department-wise Ph. D. Thesis Submission Information (2009-2013)
Name of the
Department
Thesis
Submitted
Accepted Resubmitted Rejected
MCA 07 07 Nil Nil
Home Science 04 04 Nil Nil
MBA 30 30 Nil Nil
Human Right 08 08 Nil Nil
Bio Science 21 21 Nil Nil
Chemistry 99 99 Nil Nil
Commerce 29 29 Nil Nil
Electronics 10 10 Nil Nil
History 08 08 Nil Nil
Law 12 12 Nil Nil
Mathematics 10 10 Nil Nil
Pharmaceutical 19 19 Nil Nil
Philosophy 46 46 Nil Nil
Physical
Education
4 4 Nil Nil
Physics 24 24 Nil Nil
Psychology 16 16 Nil Nil
Sanskrit 08 08 Nil Nil
Social Work 08 08 Nil Nil
Sociology 16 16 Nil Nil
Statistics 12 12 Nil Nil
English 13 13 Nil Nil
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5.3 Student Participation and Activities
5.3.1 List the range of sports, cultural and extracurricular activities available to
students. Furnish the programme calendar and provide details of students‟
participation.
The students on the campus have a wide variety of sports to compete in as
evident from the list below. The calendar for these individual games varies from year
to year, with at least one major championship in a year organized by the Physical
Education / Sports wing of the University.
No. Game
1 Chess (Men & Women)
2 Table Tennis (Men)
3 Table Tennis (Women)
4 Volleyball (Men)
5 Volleyball (Women)
6 Football (Men)
7 Basket ball (Men)
8 Basket ball (Women)
9 Hockey (Men)
10 Hockey (Women)
11 Cricket (Men)
12 Cricket (Women)
13 Kho - Kho (Men)
14 Kho - Kho (Women)
15 Kabaddi (Men)
16 Kabaddi (Women)
17 Handball (Men)
18 Handball (Women)
19 Swimming (Men)
20 Cross Country (Men)
21 Cross Country (Women)
22 Badminton (Men)
23 Badminton (Women)
24 Judo (Men & Women)
25 Weight Lifting (Men &
Women)
26 Power Lifting (Men &
Women)
27 Wrestling (Men & Women)
28 Athletics (Men &Women)
29 Cycling (Men)
30 Cycling (Women)
31 Softball (Men)
32 Softball (Women)
33 Tennis (Men & Women)
34 Yoga (Men & Women)
35 Archery (Men & Women)
36 Rifle Shooting(Men &
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Women)
As regards cultural activities, there is one mega cultural event, the University
Youth Festival held either on the campus or hosted by an affiliated college every year.
The list of cultural events students may choose from is as follows:
Sr. No. Items
1 Music
(a) Classical Vocal Solo
(Hindustani or Carnatik)
(b) Classical Instrumental Solo
(Percussion)
(c) Classical Instrumental Solo
(Non-Percussion)
(d) Light Vocal (Indian)*
(e) Western Vocal (Solo)*
(f) Group Song (Indian)
(g) Group Song (Western)
(h) Folk Orchestra
2 Dance
(a) Folk / Tribal Dance
(b) Classical Dance
3 Literary Events
(a) Quiz
(b) Elocution*
(c) Debate*
4 Theatre
(a) One Act Play
(b) Skits
(c) Mime
(d) Mimicry*
5 Fine Arts
(a) One the Spot Painting
(b) Collage
(c) Poster Making
(d) Clay Modeling
(e) Cartooning
(f) Rangoli
(g) Spot Photography
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5.3.2 Give details of the achievements of students in co-curricular, extracurricular and
cultural activities at different levels: University / State / Zonal / National /
International, etc. during the last four years.
2010-11
2011-12
Sr.
No. Name of the Students Achievement and Awards
1 S U Yoga team Won Second place in team Championship events in
All India Inter University Yogasana Championship at
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra .
2 SU Volleyball girls
team
Won First place in inter University West zone
Volleyball(W)
3 Miss RinaThumar Secured First Place in Girnar Arohanawarohan
Sr. No. Name of the Students Achievement and Awards
1 Mr. Pratik Sutariya Secured Second place in Gujarat Quiz
and won Rs.50000/-
2 Krutika Dave Secured second place in folk song and
essay writing at state level competition
3 Jani Chitrangad Secured First place in Elocution
competition at state level
4
Miss Rina Thummar
Secured First place in Girnar Arohan
awarohan national championship held
at Junagadh,
Second place in national marathon
held at Baroda
Second place in international marathon
competition held at Ahmedabad
5 Miss ShilpaVala Represented India in Volleyball
women team 6 Miss Gita Vala
7 Mr. Piyush Chauhan Selected for 'Santosh Trophy' national
Man's football Championship from Gujarat
8 Sagar Thapa Selected for 'Santosh Trophy' national
Man's football Championship from Gujarat
9 Mr. Dipesh Pun Selected for 'Santosh Trophy' national
Man's football Championship from Gujarat
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National Championship held at Junagadh
4 Miss
DhavaniVachharajani
Won Second place in Classical Vocal
solo(Hindustani/Karnatak) in West zone Youth
Festival Held at Udaipur & Participated at national
youth festival held at Nagpur
5 Kanani Mihir L. Secured Third place in sport photography in West
Zone Youth Festival Held at Udaipur.
6 Solanki Ramesh First place in Girnar Arohanawarohan National
Championship held at Junagadh
2012-13
Sr.No. Name of the
Students Achievement and Awards
1 Women‘s Yoga
Team
Champion in All India Inter
University YogaChampionships Held At
Maharaja Krushnakumarsinh Bhavnagar
University, Bhavnagar.
2 Rashmi Khodbhaya Secured Gold Medal In All India Inter University
Yoga Competition Held
At Bhavnagar.
5.3.3 Does the University conduct special drives / campaigns for students to promote
heritage consciousness?
The University promotes heritage consciousness amongst its students through
the following activities:
Study tours to places like Lothal and Dhola-Veera (conducted by individual
departments), Junagadh (Ashok Shilalekh), etc.
Encouraging the medieval art and dance forms of Saurashtra by keeping these as competition items at the University Youth Festival.
By ensuring the availability of trainers of these art forms with its College of Performing Arts (an affiliated institution in the city).
Various events at the Art Gallery on the campus.
Various events organised by the Zaverchand Meghani Centre for Folk Literature.
Keeping a provision for the students pursuing their Ph. D. in languages of translation and critical evaluation of significant Indian texts (of Gujarati, Hindi
and Sanskrit) into English for a wider / global readership.
The Humanities and language departments have also put enough focus on research on the diverse culture of various caste and creed, erstwhile princely states, and
their history.
The literature on migratory communities, coastal fisher folk literature and oral
traditions are also key elements which promote heritage consciousness.
The students are encouraged to visit places of importance like birth places of Mahatma Gandhi (Porbandar), Dayanand Saraswati (Tankara),and Shrimad
Rajchandra (Vavania) and Lord Krishna‘s Dwarka, and famous Somnath temple.
Saurashtra being a place for many saints and religion schools of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism and Sufism, all nine districts are famous for holy places,
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places of devotion and social service through religious organizations. The students
are aware and have an inbuilt conscious for service to human beings in condition
of draught and natural calamities. In this matter, the richness of Saurashtra
heritage is to be looked at.
5.3.4 How does the University involve and encourage its students to publish materials
like catalogues, wall magazines, college magazine, and other material? List the
major publications/ materials brought out by the students during the last four
academic sessions.
Students of most of the departments on the campus have their own wall space
to put up their creative / extra-curricular works.
Some of them are more formal like the students‘ wall magazine of the English
Department is called Thought, Language and More (TLM).
The students of the Journalism Department have a wall magazine titled
Lakhshyabhed. And the students of the Sanskrit Department run a magazine titled
Parnasubhasit.
The Bioscience department has its wall paper managed by life science
association.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences publish E-News Letter twice in a year.
5.3.5 Does the University have a Student Council or any other similar body? Give
details on its constitution, activities and funding.
University has a Prefect Council which has student representatives from every
department on the campus. Members of the Prefect Council are given leadership
training for organizing various important functions on the campus, such as inauguration
of various conferences and seminars, University Convocation, University Youth
Festival, special lecture series and gathering, cultural events, etc. Prefect Council
comprises of boys and girls from P.G. departments on the campus numbering 142
students.
Details of Activities of Prefect Council for the last four years (2009-13)
1. Youth Camp 8.12.2009 to 12.12.2009
Kutch (Gharoda)
20 Prefects (Boys / Girls)
2. 44th Convocation Ceremony 13.12.2009
Volunteer Duty
3. Parade by Prefects 26.01.2010
On Republic Day
4. Duty Performed at NSS 23.02.2010 to 27.02.2010
Organized by ISRO
5. Duty at Saurashtra Heritage Ceremony 06.02.2010 to 07.02.2010
6. Duty at ALL India VC Meeting 02.03.2010 to 04.02.2010
7. Run for NATION 10.07.2009
8. Forensic Science 14.08.2010
Law Department
Inaugurated by Chief Minister
Narendra Modi
9. Group Reading at Library
10. Appointment Ceremony of Vice Chancellor 18.07.2011
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11. Farewell to the Vice Chancellor 03.08.2011
12. Oath Taken by Vice Chancellor 20.10.2011
13. Saurashtra University Youth Festival 10.09.2012 to 12.09.2012
14. Morari Bapu invited in (Two Boys)
A program organized by
Zaverchand Meghani Club
Seminar By J.K. Dodiya
15. Saurashtra University Youth Festival 2013
16. Convocation Ceremony 24.11.2013
5.3.6 Give details of various academic and administrative bodies that have student
representatives on them. Also provide details of their activities.
Details of various academic and administrative bodies that have student
representatives on them and their activities are as under:
Prefect Council: details mentioned under 5.3.5 above.
Departmental Grievance Cell: Every department has at least 2 men and 2 women
students in this Cell. Regular meetings are conducted with the Staff Council and
the Head of the Department related to students‘ grievances if any.
University Senate: The University Act has a provision for graduate students‘ representative from different faculties as elected members of Senate.
Hostel Committee: Representing the hostel inmates‘ various issues as arising from time to time.
Women‘s Cell: Issues related to awareness of and cases (if any) against sexual harassment of women on the campus.
Alumni Association: Planning activities (academic and cultural) for / by the
Alumni, networking to expand the Alumni base and exploring possibilities to
increase the Alumni Corpus Fund.
Any other information regarding Student Support and Progression which the University
would like to include:
The Government of Gujarat State Level Mega Sports Event Khel Mahakumbh 2013 has been organized with Saurashtra University as one of its principal hosts.
Students of the Department of Statistics joined the training programme at NASA, Greater Noida for a week in the years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
The University looks upon its Alumni as a potential group to be actively involved
for its various academic and extra-curricular projects in the future. It has been
encouraging every department to formalize its own Alumni so that an
amalgamated centralized Saurashtra University Alumni (which is already in
existence) becomes a dynamic and vibrant group. A mention in this direction can
be made of the efforts of the English Department Alumni Association whose
corpus till November 2013 has touched Rs. 5.5 lakhs. The Department of English
& CLS is planning for a year-long series of events on its Silver Jubilee Year
(2014-15) wherein many activities would be student-based.
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Criterion VI: Governance, Leadership and Management
6.1 Institutional Vision and Leadership
The University logo:
The University is guided by its basic value (Pavka Nah:
Saraswati – Scripted in Sanskrit language), meaning: ‗Let our
Learning be Purifying‘ which is also embedded in the
University‘s emblem.
The motto of the University is: To Educate, Liberate and Transform. This captures
the central spirit of the very being of the University and its dynamic role in the lives of
people of this region. The Vision, Mission and Value statements of the University are
displayed at important places of the University to make all the stakeholders aware of our
commitments to these aspects. They are also articulated in the University diary, brochure
and on the University website.
6.1.1 State the vision and mission of the University
Vision:
To be at the vanguard of knowledge in the domain of higher learning and achieve the
highest global standards
Mission:
The University is firmly committed to its following mission statements:
To achieve excellence in teaching and research
To empower learners in achieving their professional goals
To strengthen educational and professional interface
To contribute in building the society and the nation
To improve the quality of life in harmony with our heritage, culture and environment
To relate learning with the highest human values
6.1.2 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, the
institution‟s tradition and value orientations, its vision for the future, etc.?
The six mission statements of the University have been seriously pondered
over and arrived at. These comprehensively encompass the various facets of higher
education lending a distinctive set of characteristics in terms of first and foremost
endeavouring to achieve the best in the task it has been given the mandate by the
society and the government of the land. Secondly, the University endeavours to
synchronize its curricula with the development of the discipline on one hand and the
need of the same in the outside world thereby empowering the students, it seeks to
serve in achieving their professional goals. Thirdly, the University understands the
significance of a continuous communication with the larger professional world and
therefore endeavours to forge new linkages and strengthen the already established
ones. Fourthly, the University is aware that its most important stakeholder is a future
of our nation and therefore endeavours to impart them by learning which is beyond
the mere confines of the curricula so that the youth of our land imbibes the best of
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values and tradition and evolves into responsible citizens and exemplary human
beings. Finally, the University has always striven to find ways of contributing to the
improvement of the quality of life of all its stakeholders. To achieve these goals, the
University has always remained vigilant and proactive in terms of curriculum design
and development, reforms in examination, automation of administration and up-
grading and adding to its infrastructural facilities. Further, the University has adopted
the following set of values in all its endeavours for achieving qualitative standards:
Making learning and research a way of life.
Achieving the highest professional standards.
Sustaining a total quality in our endeavours to meet local and global expectations.
Striking a balance between material and human values.
Nurturing a passion for all-round excellence.
6.1.3 How is the leadership involved
* in ensuring the organization‟s management system development,
implementation and continuous improvement?
The Vice Chancellor of the University is academic as well as administrative
head of the Institution. Besides, the Vice Chancellor is also the chairman of the
executive council i.e. Syndicate, the Vice Chancellor also is the ex-officio
chairman of the senate meeting. Being the leader of all executive bodies the Vice
Chancellor makes an effort to bring out a consensus on various issues among
members of different levels of authorities. In case of the University administration,
the Vice Chancellor follows the principle of delegation of authority to the different
responsible officers and academic heads. The leadership strives actively in
grooming the leadership and management attributes to all levels of administration
of the University.
Leadership at the University is always followed on the grounds of harmony
while governing. The Executive Council, Senate, students, teaching fraternity and
the non-teaching community actively participate with utmost interest in the
development of the University as per the Saurashtra University Act 1965, statutory
bodies of the University include the Senate, Syndicate, Academic Council,
Faculties, Board of University Teaching, Board of Studies, Board of Culture, and
Board of Sports. The departments and affiliated colleges of the University are
administered by their respective Heads/Principals/Directors. Further, internal
coordinators may be assigned for different functions at institution and department
level for smooth working and development. The University functionaries and
Executive Council have over the period developed a tradition of resolving all
matters through consensus. There occur debates and dialogues but by and large the
decisions are taken in the most congenial atmosphere. Hence, almost all the
decisions of the Syndicate are implemented in letter and spirit.
The University has evolved a healthy practice of monthly meeting of
Coordination Committee of teaching and non-teaching staff with the Vice
Chancellor and other officials. This practice helps in cutting down of the red tape
and builds a direct and one-to-one communication, which is found very useful and
effective in policy formulations, implementations and feedbacks collection. Over
and above this informal practice, there is a statutory provision for Joint
Consultative Committee (JCC) under the Ordinance 186 of the University.
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Continuous improvement:
The University has taken the following steps for qualitative infrastructure of the
administration:
Staff training and skill up-gradation
E-infrastructure
Modernization of administration
E-informatics
Time bound decision making
* In interacting with Stakeholders?
Students:
Interaction with students itself begins right from the beginning of their
academic programme. Administrative team effectively and concretely conveys value
and ethics of the Institution and the University. Each department and affiliated
colleges of the University has internal student counsellors, who regularly counsel
students for their financial, social, personal, health and academic related issues and for
creating a familiar and homely atmosphere for them. Students can also contact any
faculty and even head/principal/director for their problems apart from regular
counselling meetings. Throughout the year various programmes like celebration of
annual functions, national days, sports and cultural programmes, scientific events,
farewell parties, Alumni meets, industrial visits, study tours, etc., are continuously
organized for their all-round developments. The students having financial crisis are
helped by extending the time of fee payment, excusing the fine, helping them in
availing loans or recommending the candidate for a scholarship (if they deserve it).
Students can report their grievances in grievance box and due care is taken to sort out
their genuine grievances. Also, care is taken to avoid any gender sensitive and ragging
issues. To conduct and monitor it ethically and systemically, student members are also
involved in respective committees.
Parents: The University understands the role of parents as a significant stakeholder in
higher education and endeavours to make them a part of its efforts and ventures.
Parents are addressed during the time of students‘ admissions. In the first few days of
the formal meetings between the new students, especially female students and their
teachers; and even within this group, those from outside the city are advised to bring
their parents for a formal meeting with the Head of the department and teachers if
they feel like. They are regularly informed about in case of less attendance, poor
performances and so on about their ward. Similarly, any grievance from a parent is
also listened by the concerned authority and appropriate responses are made. Further,
parents are informed and also contacted immediately in case of any emergency like
health-related issues of their ward.
Teaching and non-teaching staff Faculties of the University play both direct and indirect role in leadership at
various levels in different committees. At department level also regularly and on need
basis teaching and non-teaching staff meetings are arranged individually as well as in
a combined group to take grievances and suggestions for continuous improvement.
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Alumni The annual Alumni meet is arranged individually at department/institution
level as well as at the University level which gives an opportunity to former students
to feel a part of their larger academic family. Further most of the departments also
take suggestions from Alumni members to upgrade the curriculum for continuous
improvement in courses to increase the students‘ efficiency and placement
opportunities.
Industries and other academic institutions and Universities
Other institutions and universities and industries are the important
stakeholders of the University. Their involvement is made officially by involving
them in important academic committees like Board of Studies (BoS), Placement Cell
(PC), Institution Industry Interaction Cell (IIIC) and through MoUs. This helps in
establishing healthy relations with outsources, updating curriculum of courses and
better placement opportunities for students.
Society The University is also actively involved in social awareness of community in
concerns with scientific and moral values. The University celebrates various national
days like ‗World Kidney Day‘, ‗Swami Vivekananda Anniversary‘, ‗Women‘s Day‘,
‗Thalassemia Day‘ etc., and also organizes free camps for diseases awareness like
blood donation, diabetes and epilepsy, swine flu awareness, as well as hygiene and
environment related activities like plastic free campus, tobacco free campus etc.
* in reinforcing a culture of excellence?
A culture of excellence is reinforced by identifying the ideals in a practice,
process or method, and then conducting a reality check on where as a University we
stand. The next step is to identify the measures that would take us closest to the ideal
in each affecting criterion whether it is teaching-learning, research, infra-structure or
student support. Following such a work culture is the University‘s way of achieving
and maintaining excellence. Over and above the local level of academic and
administrative work on the campus, the IQAC acts as a catalyst towards achieving an
all-round excellence on the campus. Specific instances of achieving excellence are
further detailed under Criterion 7. At the departmental level, the advanced learners are
identified at the entry level and they are involved in many activities related to extra
learning, skill development, and research. They are nurtured by the concerned
teachers and also mentored by the experts.
* in identifying organizational needs and striving to fulfil them?
Organizational needs are first of all identified at the particular academic or
administrative level. The needs are then put forth through the designated mechanism
and are discussed in the statutory organs of the University viz., Finance Committee,
Academic Council and Executive Council etc. for an assessment of the need. Once the
need is accepted after scrutiny, the University strives to act positively and swiftly
towards meeting the need.
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6.1.4. Were any of the top leadership positions of the University vacant for more than a
year? If so, state the reasons.
Currently the positions of Pro-Vice Chancellor and registrar are vacant. The
Registrar‘s post is advertised.
6.1.5. Does the University ensure that all positions in its various statutory bodies are
filled and meetings conducted regularly?
Yes. Saurashtra University is one of the universities where regularity is
maintained related to all positions of the statutory bodies e.g., deans, member of
syndicates, member of academic council, member of senates, etc. The University
conducts all the meetings of statutory bodies in time. As per the University Act,
several posts in the statutory bodies are filled up by elections and the schedule of
election for all posts is strictly maintained. There is no instance of delay in due
electoral procedures since the establishment of the University.
6.1.6. Does the University promote a culture of participative management? If yes,
indicate the levels of participative management.
The principle of Participative Management is well taken at the Saurashtra
University. The University always promotes the participatory management practice at
all levels in the managements as well as academics. There are many instances where
participatory management is implemented. All departments on the University campus
involve students and staff members in the management of their departmental affairs at
all levels. Similarly, the University core administration involves all stake holders in
policy level decision making and its execution.
The University has its IQAC which ensures the involvement of management members, teaching and non-teaching staff, students, and stakeholders in decision
making under the head of various committees.
In various statutory bodies and committees, involvement of respective stakeholders from all areas is promoted.
Students are equally promoted to participate in various decisions making activities
related to curriculum, academic calendar, sports and cultural activities, disciplinary
and hostel activities, grievances and Alumni events.
Involvement of stakeholders is promoted in curriculum designing, strengthening academia – industry interactions, placement cells, etc.
6.1.7 Give details of the academic and administrative leadership provided by the
University to its affiliated colleges and the support and encouragement given to
them to become autonomous.
In last few years the University has taken a pro-active role for its affiliated
colleges in following aspects:
a. Encouraged all colleges for training in understanding NAAC mechanisms.
b. Initiation and sensitization to the college management and principal to go for NAAC
accreditation. Practically the University, Academic Staff College and IQAC
collectively arranged several seminars and workshops for this purpose.
c. The colleges were encouraged to apply all supportive measures which were occupied
to ensure that the colleges undergo a transformation into a NAAC accredited college.
d. On administration front, the University has provided full support to affiliated colleges
in improving their ICT based issues and also trained them for facing challenges of
CBCS which was introduced for the first time in 2012 as per UGC guidelines.
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The University encourages well established colleges to apply for autonomous
status as a matter of policy. The University Act 1965 has a provision under section
48-A of the Act for the autonomy in the matter of admission of the students,
prescribing the courses, imparting education, and conducting of examination to any
affiliated college.
6.1.8 Have any provisions been incorporated / introduced in the University Act and
Statues to provide for conferment of degrees by autonomous colleges?
There are provisions in the University Act 1965 under section 48-A for
seeking the autonomy by a college. As per current status of demand for autonomous
college, the University is yet to make provisions regarding this.
6.1.9 How does the University groom leadership at various levels? Give details.
The University has two major fronts; academics and administrative. The
leadership can groom at various levels if there is a constant flow of young generation
in both streams. Saurashtra University is somewhat lucky in a sense that during last
decade and little earlier to that many youngsters have joined both the fronts. With the
retirement of many faculties in various departments the academic and administrative
responsibilities have been successfully shared by younger faculties and officers.
Therefore, in many departments, a blending of experienced and young staff is seen,
where ideal grooming is practiced. In the present state of affairs, the University staff,
in general, put their best efforts to pace up with the changing time and scenario to the
state level University.
The University administration has taken up several steps to put additional
responsibilities on new generation and also providing them adequate support.
Following are some steps taken so far:
Grooming through Responsibilities: Sense of responsibility is the best practice to train the personnel. The
University and its departments make sure that all the staff members are entrusted with
one or the other responsibility rather than only the head. So, all duties are done in
team work under the leadership of one entrusted responsible person. Duties are
changed in rotation, so that all staff members can understand and learn the
significance of the work at all its various levels.
Organising Workshops: Workshops, faculty development programmes, orientation programmes,
refresher programmes are regularly arranged at the University and department levels
to upgrade the skills and knowledge of staff with respect to their specific area and
management in general.
Participation in different Training Programmes:
Staff members at all levels are encouraged to participate in training
programmes for enrichment of their skills and exposure of other institutes of higher
learning. For such training, the University bears the entire expense of the programme.
It is made sure that all the staff get such opportunities in a fair manner. The staff that
undergoes such training shares his/her experience on returning from the programme
with the remaining staff members to make others thoroughly aware about the current
trends.
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6.1.10 Has the University evolved a knowledge management strategy? If yes, give
details.
Knowledge management with growing global changes begins with the changes in the
curriculum of courses itself. University departments follow the practice of modifying
curriculum every three years as per the changing scenario. Apart from curriculum, students
are always kept well versed with other important subject related updates and practical
expertise through extra classes, seminars, online groups such as Google groups etc. Faculties
are always encouraged to attend seminars, workshops and undergo training to make them
aware about current scenario and cater the same to their co-workers and students. At
departmental levels, meetings and presentations are scheduled where faculties can share their
experience related to such programmes with other faculties. Knowledge is constantly
upgraded and passed from faculties to students and from senior to junior students. Research
and development cells encourage to have interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects to
strengthen the core values of research and to share feeling of being a member of the family
rather than competitors. Special Journal Club lectures are kept within and outside the
timetable where students are asked to present their findings on current research trends.
Research publications of the departments are stored in the bound form at each department for
further references. Before initiating any new programme or for improvement of existing
programmes, staff council meetings are organized to have views of all concerned members.
Additionally various data are collected and analysed for imparting the knowledge and
keeping the department aware about contemporary scenario in each field of knowledge. Some
notable features in this direction are:
Before starting any new programme its feasibility and outcome are discussed at length and then implemented.
Feedbacks are collected on existing courses for continuous improvement.
Analysis of registration forms received and actual admissions confirmed is done to
have the knowledge about subject demand.
Result analysis is done to have knowledge about student‘s performance and required improvements.
360 feedback is collected from students to have knowledge regarding management,
faculties, and programmes and curriculum.
For up gradation of minute and specific technical aspects of industrial world, industry personnel are invited to deliver special talks and give training on instrumentation, etc.
6.1.11 How are the following values reflected in the functioning of the University?
The Saurashtra University campus is practically meant for post graduate
studies and research. The majority of the departments are focused on research which
is relevant, preferably in thrust area and also of societal need. The University
promotes its faculty to undertake challenging research and also facilitate faculties by
smoothening the administrative procedures. On other side, the University teachers
take up many assignments which are related to nations‘ prioritized area and the
outcome of research findings are noteworthy in many instances. It relates to the new
technologies or advanced technologies especially in the area of nanotechnology, and
advance materials, in area of new drug discoveries, in study of the environmental
issues related to the largest seacoast of India, and problems like salinity ingress.
Saurashtra University has contributed in past with number of important findings,
reports which are still used as a primary source of information. Several reports
prepared by faculties on economy, and environment are appreciated by the World
Bank (IBRD), government of India and many task forces. The research scholars and
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students particularly in many departments are encouraged and trained to use latest
technology, instrumentation, and advanced facilities created in various departments.
Many of the ethical and humane values form part of the teaching and research
curriculum in the humanities and social sciences departments.
Contribution to National Development
An important mission of the University is to impart quality higher education
and thereby enable the youth of this hitherto educationally under-developed region to
touch parity in terms of national standards intellectually and professionally.
It continuously strives for improvement in existing courses and addition of
new value-added and specialized courses to provide society with technically and
knowledge-wise sound personnel. Reserved seats for backward class people and
physically challenged students are kept and preferred for admission in all the courses.
Students from SC/ST and meritorious students are given scholarships to promote
them. Students are encouraged to attend various training programmes, seminars and
conferences for making them aware about the National problems and challeges in
changing scenarios in industries and professional institutions. Further, to incorporate
the national values, various national days are celebrated on the campus either in form
of cultural events, sports, rallies, parades, quiz competitions on the national days like
the Independence day, Republic day, Gandhi Jayanti, etc. Various disease awareness
and other such programmes of social relevance like blood donation camps, epilepsy
and diabetes camps, swine flu awareness camps, etc. along with NSS and NCC
activities are carried out at the campus and many students of the University are
selected to promote such programmes at larger state and national levels also.
Fostering Global Competencies among Students
In order to be globally competent student must be well versed with current
scenarios of the subject concerned along with required effective technical as well
as communication skills, creativity, team work attitude and leadership qualities.
The University regularly updates the curriculum, arranges for expert lectures and visits at the campus, encourages students to visit industries, hospitals and other
campuses and to participate in various activities and competitions.
University constantly invites eminent guest speakers from all areas to enrich students with current scenarios in the field.
Projects and industrial trainings are made mandatory to develop competent skills
among students.
Regular viva voce are practiced in routine practicals to help them reach the depth of the subject.
Seminars and journal club lectures are kept to enhance students‘ knowledge and increase their language and communication skills.
Students are involved in various committees to make them responsible citizens of
future.
They are encouraged to take up interdisciplinary research projects to enhance their team work spirit and foster their knowledge in adjacent subjects.
They are given hands-on training of various software, soft skill development and sophisticated instruments.
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Inculcating a Sound Value System among Students:
Ethics and humanity paves the way for success. Students are made aware about
the values of ethics and humanity on day-to-day basis.
Regular student counselling is conducted to improve their emotional quotient and help them face the challenges and demands in the world.
Sessions on eminent spiritual gurus like Swami Vivekananda and others are arranged to build up moral ethics among students.
Each department follows a tradition of offering prayer to the Almighty before initiating its routine schedule to inculcate the value of holiness in its day to day
life.
Various days like women‘s day, AIDS day, World Kidney Day, etc., are arranged
with campus / street acts, rallies and displays to bring awareness among students
and society.
All the festivals are celebrated with equal enthusiasm to build up unity in the midst of diverse cultures and religions.
Green day —by plantation of trees and plants and plastic free campus day —by dumping plastics from the campus to create the sense of environment protection
among students.
Free diabetes check-up camps, blood donation camps, epilepsy camps and swine-
flu awareness camps, thalassemia camps etc., are arranged on campus for society
awareness along with cost-free drugs distribution.
All such efforts are made on regular basis to inculcate the values of being human
themselves, towards society and environment.
Promoting Use of Technology
Today, one is completely surrounded by and depended on the world of technology. It is very much necessary to have skills in various technologies and
their use in day to day work to make it smooth, efficient and complete.
The University and its departments believe in adapting changes as per the
changing world and so it implements the use of advanced technology in its
administrative and management as well as teaching and learning practices.
Teaching and learning practices:
All the departments and institutions of the University have facilities of ICT-
enabled class rooms, smart boards, and multimedia projectors with internet
facilities to improve the learning of students.
All the faculties are provided with their individual desktops/laptops.
Students are provided with sufficient number of computers in their computer laboratories.
The University has a very good e-journal facility which helps to assess Sci-finder,
Inflibnet and more than 4000 e-journals.
The University campus is now a Wi-Fi campus.
Departments have their collection of software to make easy learning for students.
Departments follow the system of Google groups wherein an e-group is formed
involving a number of students and faculties where they can share their ideas on
learning and research and have a large source of material.
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Administrative and management:
The University and department websites are regularly updated to provide community with latest updates of the University.
Admission forms are made available online on the website for admission process.
All the details of the staff, related to their self-appraisal are maintained at department as well as at IQAC.
All the students‘ records like admission, attendance, results, activities, feedback forms and placements are kept as e-files.
Alumni details are also maintained as e-records and constantly updated both at individually department as well as centrally at the University levels.
The University has also started computer based evaluation system for external
exam papers.
The University is on a verge to ‗a completely paperless governance system‘.
Quest for Excellence
The University strives towards the quest for excellence and so efforts
continuously for its all-round improvement.
The University incorporates technological advancement in its administrative departments to smoothen and fasten the conduct of administration and making it a
paperless office.
Campus is made Wi-Fi to enhance easy availability of internet resources in entire campus.
It makes all the required amendments as per the all-round analysis reports from
the IQAC cell.
It encourages all the affiliated institutions to improve its administration and teaching-learning aspects to get an accreditation.
Faculties are provided with all the necessary facilities like individual computer facilities with internet, library resources, and grants to participate in workshops,
trainings and seminars for their continuous growth and development.
Faculties and students are encouraged to apply for grants from various national and private agencies.
All the students are taught in the ICT enabled classrooms by regularly inviting
expert speakers, arranging conferences and workshops on the campus. The
students are also taken for industrial visits and granted for attending off-campus
programmes for their easy and better learning.
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with various industries, hospitals, CROs and universities (state, national and international) for exchange
programmes and collaborative projects.
6.2 Strategy development and Deployment
6.2.1 Does the University have a Perspective plan of the development? If yes, what
aspects are considered in the development of policies and strategies?
Vision and Mission:
University has a perspective plan known as Vision-2020 in order to reach the
excellence in teaching and learning, research and development, community
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engagement, human resource planning and development, industry interactions and
internationalisation.
(i) Access and Expansion:
The prime objective of the Saurashtra University in terms of higher education
is to reach to the aspirants of higher education in the remotest colleges of the entire
Saurashtra region. For those who are not able to reach to the Saurashtra University
main campus at Rajkot, the University has decided to provide Postgraduate Centre to
all the districts of this region in addition to the regular undergraduate courses. The
University plans to expand its faculties by new recruitments. The University also
visions to involve the industry in its impartment of higher education for the last
aspirant. It has a clear plan to get its all constituent colleges connected with the
University through various networks.
(ii) Equity and Inclusion:
The Saurashtra University head quarter is located at the central place of the
Saurashtra region which covers diverse caste and creed. With growing awareness of
higher education through digital means of communication in colleges located at
remote areas, the brighter students of deprived classes are integrated in the main
stream. This phenomenon is observed consistently since the establishment of the
University. The Saurashtra University has taken up an initiative to be innovative in
terms of equity and inclusion of the all while imparting higher education. The
Government of India has already laid down some norms to include students from all
section of the society to ensure the equity to all and inclusion of all. The Saurashtra
University has been effortful to ensure the equity and inclusion to all sections of the
society. It is quite initiative taking in terms of providing better opportunities to female
students of the graduate and postgraduate courses. The University has a vision to take
care of socially and economically backward class by providing them the equal
opportunity taking care that talented students should not be deprived of higher
education due to lack of financial supports.
(iii) Quality and Excellence:
Higher education ought to excel in terms of Quality and Excellence. The
University has four postgraduate departments awarded with SAP, one department
with Centre of Advance Studies along with several National and International
collaborations to improve quality in higher education, seven postgraduate departments
with assistance from DST, ICSSR, ICMR, etc. Some of the University departments
have been successful in getting valuable patent registered by extraordinary research
output. It aims to promote qualitative researches in its all faculties especially the
science, medical science, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, physics, etc. and to
promote meaningful and useful researches for giving solutions to the real life
problems. There has been good number of alliances with the industries and
institutions of higher education for the attainment of quality and excellence. The
University is determined to go in this direction in much intensified manner to go par
excellence in terms of quality and excellence. The Saurashtra University has a
roadmap to propagate quality research from a help of national and international
research institutions along with collaborations.
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Teaching and learning: Teaching will be made completely in ICT enabled classrooms.
Industry and hospital trainings to be made mandatory to improve the standards of
learning.
Apart from education, students are to be trained for their language proficiency,
communication skills, personality development, interview skills, etc.
E-groups should be framed in each course for sharing unlimited information on
various educational aspects among group members.
University aims at converting its external courses into distance education
programmes.
University also aims at promoting global collaboration in education and research in
order to achieve global educational standards.
University has perspective to strengthen this initiate plans in coming years for
enrichment of teaching and learning.
Research and development:
University currently is giving more emphasis on research and development; to which it
has some perspective plans to be implemented and some existing plans to be
strengthen.
More of the interdisciplinary, inter-departmental, and inter-institutional projects to be done in coming years.
Increasing the MoUs with industries and hospitals which can be helpful in starting
from designing of curriculum to placements also including trainings.
Increasing the distribution of seed money projects so that more number of faculties
can be benefited from this scheme.
Encouraging faculties and students to do at least one minor/major project.
Increasing the number of publications in good impact factor journals and patents
and IPRs.
Initiating publication of research journals.
Encouraging faculties to be a part of editorial boards of various reputed journals.
Community Engagement:
Departments of University are encouraged to enter into MoUs for community
engagement.
Faculties are always promoted to exchange their knowledge and skills with
community.
Disease and other health issues and environmental related sessions and camps are
frequently arranged for community awareness.
Human Resource Planning and Development:
The University has sanctioned the non-teaching set-up as per the norms of the State
Government. The recruitment is completed as per the recruitment rules of the
University. The vacant posts are widely advertized through the advertisements in
the University Newsletters, Employment News, circulated to all Universities which
are members of the AIU, notified to employment exchange, ‗Rojgar Samachar‘ in
Gujarat and the state level newspapers. A selection committee is constituted as per
the recruitment rules, and the Syndicate consents to the recommendations of the
selection committee. In case of recruitment of the teaching staff, the selection
committee is constituted under Ordinance 199 which is revised from time to time to
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accommodate changes envisaged by UGC in the recruitment norms. Beside, to be
more objective, the University uses marking scheme in direct selection whereas
under the CAS, all the UGC norms are observed for promotions. Further, with the
expansion of functions and scope of the University, often the sanctioned set-up falls
short of manpower. In such condition, the University employs contractual
manpower.
Further, each faculty has to undergo at least one training each year and needs to
attain seminars and conferences on emerging trends in their areas to upgrade their
knowledge and skills.
Faculties are encouraged to attend Faculty Development Programmes also.
Industry Interaction: University has established an Institution Industry Interaction Cell (IIIC) centrally as
well as at the departmental level.
We aim to increase the MoUs of the departments and perform quality work
mutually.
We also aim to increase the availability of consultancies from the industries.
Further we also utilize (IIIC) in polishing our curriculum and placement of students.
Internationalisation: We aim to establish faculty exchange programmes with reputed international
institutes and Universities.
University encourages faculties to participate in international events and trainings,
from which many faculties and departments are already benefited.
We aim to have more number of international students on the campus than current.
University provides transit house facility to the international students.
Further, we plan to include foreign co-supervisors for students‘ research work to
have a research work of global standards.
6.2.2 Describe the University‟s internal organizational structure and decision making
processes and their effectiveness.
University‘s internal organizational structure involves leadership at various levels. Further,
decentralization of administration allows or smoothens the conduct.
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Important decisions pertaining to any aspect are taken by respective
committees. Their implementation is assured and continuously reviewed. Based on
the feedbacks, further amendments as and when required are taken by committees.
6.2.3. Does the University have a formal policy to ensure quality? How is it designed,
driven, deployed and reviewed?
Yes,
Various academic and management bodies are involved in effective
implementation and review of all-round quality. The IQAC is the nodal agency
ensuring quality on the campus .
The University constantly thrives to achieve and follow its vision and mission.
Feedbacks are collected from faculties, students, non-teaching staff, parents, and
stakeholders to review the policies and work of department, and the University. Further
at every aspect, individual departments and IQAC centrally reviews the all-round and
continuous improvement of its departments and as a whole of the University.
The nodal agencies, quality assurance agencies, and regulatory bodies e.g.
University Grants Commission, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, State
Government, etc. have already laid down sufficient set of quality related policies. The
University ensures that these policies are well in the right place and been taken care of
while carrying out higher education affairs at the University level. These policies are
formal quality policy of the University.
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6.2.4. Does the University encourage its academic departments to function
independently and autonomously and how does it ensure accountability?
The University firmly believes in encouraging its academic departments to function
with greater autonomy. The Saurashtra University has taken number of measures over the
years to empower respective departments and each head of the departments. The head of the
department enjoys wide power for academic programmes in consultation with staff council
and is given reasonably very good financial powers for smooth running of the department. At
Saurashtra University the department is a practically separate unit and entity. However, the
account, audit and administrative clearance are centralized and therefore overall
accountability is maintained. The staff council is a forum for the discussion and shaping the
academic and administrative practices of the department and the decisions taken at the staff
council level are upheld which amounts of the departments enjoying micro level autonomy.
Academic departments enjoy full autonomous functioning at various levels.
Designing of curriculum Academic departments are given complete freedom to design their curriculum
for different courses. The designed curriculum once finalized by staff council, passes
through board of studies and then faculties and senates. Thus, creditability of
programme is always confirmed by the Deans of academic affairs and Controller of
Examination. Further, any amendments in curriculum needs to be approved from the
authority. All the departments are also given the freedom to constitute the panel of
external members for the Boards of Studies and the Academic Council and the
examination.
Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Faculties are given freedom to decide academic calendar on their own.
However, it is observed that academic calendar is followed to its maximum. Faculties
are given freedom to put forward requirements pertaining to books, equipment or any
other kind of infrastructural facilities. They are also given freedom to invite experts
for conducting guest lectures or for their expert sessions during
national/state/international level programmes. Further, they are given full authority to
decide the mode of marking / evaluation of 20 marks in sciences and 30 marks in
other faculties of internal assessment of the students. Student and the faculty feedback
mechanisms are implemented at each department to ensure accountability.
6.2.5. During the last four years, have there been any instances of court cases filed by
and against the institute? What were the critical issues and verdicts of the courts
on these issues?
In all 101, 220, 29 and 94 cases were filed in year 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11,
and 2011-12, of which 72, 112, 27 and 55 cases were closed. All the cases were
related to affiliation of colleges, teaching and non-teaching staff service rules, pension
and retirement benefits and students‘ admissions.
6.2.6 How does the University ensure that grievances / complaints are promptly
attended to and resolved effectively? Is there a mechanism to analyse the nature of
grievances for promoting better stakeholder-relationship?
The University authorities take any grievance or complaint from its stakeholders
very seriously and try to resolve it as early as possible. Grievances are promptly
addressed, analysed and addressed wherever necessary. Committees are formed to
resolve the issues. Grievance boxes are also placed at each and every department where
students can address their complaints.
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6.2.7. Does the University have a mechanism for analysing student feedback on
institutional performance? If yes, what was the institutional response?
Feedbacks are collected in a standard form given by UGC on institutions
performance, programme, curriculum and faculties from students. Many of the
University departments also take feedbacks from parents and Alumni. All the
collected feedbacks are then evaluated using computerized software. Analysis reports
are submitted to IQAC for the evaluation report. Each department head discusses the
feedbacks in the staff council meetings for necessary amendments required as per the
report of feedback forms analysis.
6.2.8 Does the University conduct performance audit of the various departments?
Yes, the University does performance audit of its academic departments
through the Academic Audit process. The IQAC has developed a tool for academic
audit of the academic departments. All departments are served with the Academic
Audit tool by the end of the academic year; and the individual departments conducts
their own academic audit on various parameters involved in it. The duly filled up
audit form is submitted to the IQAC for further analysis and interpretation purposes.
6.2.9. What mechanisms have been evolved by the University to identify the
developmental needs of its affiliated institutions?
The University representatives are members on the Boards of Studies,
Academic Council and Governing Body of the institution/department where they give
valuable suggestions for all the developmental plans. The University also acts as a
coordinating link between UGC/NAAC/MHRD/DST/GUJCOST/other Funding
agencies and the colleges for FDP programmes, affiliation for new courses, funding for
research projects, etc. It supports all innovative efforts taken by the institutions
affiliated to the University. The University well recognizes the need of the
infrastructural facilities and staff recruitment to take necessary amendments. It also
identifies the need of overall staff development for which it facilitates its staff to groom
at each level by bearing all the necessary expenses required for faculty‘s mobility for
training and attending or participating in workshops and seminars.
State level Accreditation of affiliated colleges
College Development Council is also constituted as per direction of UGC
As provided in the Act of the University, the Dean of the respective faculty is
inspecting and guiding affiliating institutions in respect of their academic and other
development programs
6.2.10. Does the University have a vibrant College Development Council (CDC) /Board
of College and University Development (BCUD)? If yes, detail its structure,
functions and achievements.
There is a College Development Council (CDC) in the University to ensure
the proper planning and integrated development of affiliated colleges and to provide
college necessary help and guidance. It also serves as a vital link between the
University Grants Commission, the University, colleges and State Education
Department.
Constitution of College Development Council
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It consists of following members:
1. The Vice Chancellor. Ex. Officio, Chairman
2. The Registrar Ex. Officio.
3. Director, College Development Council (Member Secretary)
4. The Dean of the faculties of the Arts, Science, and Commerce.
5. One syndicate member nominated by the Vice-chancellor.
6. Two principals of affiliated colleges nominated by the Vice-chancellor.
7. One teacher of the affiliated college nominated by the vice-chancellor
8. One head of the University department nominated by the vice-chancellor.
9. The pro-vice chancellor as the permanent invitee member.
10. Two persons of education field nominated by the vice chancellor.
The term of the office of the members other than Ex. Officio members of the
council is three years, provided that a member who is appointed on the council shall
cease to be a member of the council if and when he ceases to hold the office by virtue
of which he was appointed. In view of casual vacancy, the vacancy is to be filled in
by a nomination of the Vice-Chancellor for the unexpired portion of the term.
The director of the CDC is appointed by the Vice-Chancellor. It is either made
on fixed salary base or as per the provisions of UGC. In case of regular appointment
the remuneration will be as per the provisions of UGC. The mode of selection would
remain as prescribed by UGC. He shall hold office for a period of three years.
However, he is eligible for re-appointment but not beyond the age of 62 years.
Working:
CDC meets at regular intervals at least twice in an academic year on a date
fixed by the Vice-Chancellor. In the absence of the Vice-Chancellor, a member
elected by the council can preside over the meeting.
Functions:
CDC serves as an academic guide to the college system on one hand and on
the other hand it ensures the inter-action between the academic faculties in the
University departments and the teachers in the colleges. To fulfil this objective, the
CDC may consult with the University or other bodies concerned. All such steps as it
may think fit for the promotion, co-ordination and raising the standard of education in
colleges. It may:
Function as a policy making body in regard to proper planning and integrated development of colleges.
Conduct surveys of all the affiliated colleges, with a view to preparing and maintaining a current profile on each college under the University, reviewing the
existing facilities and identifying the needs and gaps that need to be filled for the
development of colleges and make such information available to the University, the
University Grants Commission and other concerned bodies.
Advice the University on all matters relating to development of affiliated colleges,
such as provision of adequate facilities, academic and physical for raising the standard
of learning, teaching and research and its periodic evaluation for enabling the
University to maintain reasonable continuity of policy in regard to development of
colleges.
Prepare a perspective plan for the development and opening of new colleges, to enable the University and State Education authorities to take long term decisions on
the planning and development of colleges and may advise the University on matters
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relating to different courses taught in the colleges at different levels of the University
education.
Advice the University in regard to rationalisation and implementation of its policy on affiliation of colleges.
Keep constant contact with colleges with a view to helping them in their proper
utilization, selection of teachers, student amenities, proper utilization of grants and
efficient implementation of UGC approved projects and reforms viz., examination
reforms, courses, COSIP, SOHSIP, restructuring of courses to make them more
relevant and significant not only to students but also to the region as a whole by
assessing social transformation and regional development.
Review the facilities for post-graduate department of colleges in terms of the norms prescribed by UGC and assist those having the potential of coming up to the norms
within a few years.
Help in the selective development of some colleges to remove regional imbalances and also assist the colleges to realize their potential and identification of colleges for
autonomous status.
Evaluate and assess the impact of UGC, grants utilized by the colleges for the implementation of various developmental projects.
Ensure that the UGC grants are released to University for the disbursement to colleges
are not held/locked up or utilized by the University for its own purpose and also
ensure that these grants are properly and expeditiously disbursed to colleges for
specific purposes according to the guidelines laid down by UGC commission.
Obtain from the colleges and furnish to the commission utilization certificate and completion documents in respect to UGC grants released/disbursed to colleges
through the University, and help in monitoring UGC programmes implemented by the
affiliated colleges.
Ensure a close and sustained contact and interaction between the academic faculties at the University teaching departments and at the colleges
Review the inspection reports of the college and suggest remedies for the defects and
irregularities reported.
Perform such other functions as may be prescribed or as may be deemed necessary by the University for advancing the cause of collegiate education as may be incidental or
conducive to the discharge of the above functions.
CDC is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor and sends periodic reports to UGC about the impact of UGC programmes.
The University Grants Commission has sanctioned a grant of Rs. 2.67 crore under the College Development Council. UGC has sanctioned grant to the following colleges
where Gross Enrolment Ratio is lower than National Enrolment Ratio. These colleges
started functioning from June 2011 are as follows:
1. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, KALYANPUR, DIST: JAMNAGAR
2. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, RANAVAV, DIST: PORBANDAR
3. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, KOTADA SANGHANI, DIST: RAJKOT
4. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, CHOTILA, DIST: SURENDRANAGAR
5. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, BHESAN, DIST: JUNAGADH
6. GOVT. ARTS COLLEGE, JAFRABAD, DIST: AMRELI
The commission has sanctioned jubilee grant to the following colleges who have
completed their golden jubilee year in XI plan period. The commission has sanctioned
Rs. 25 Lacs during XI plan period for each colleges are as follow:
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1. MUNICIPAL ARTS & COMMERCE COLLEGE, UPLETA
2. MM SCIENCE COLLEGE, MORVI
3. UN MEHTA ARTS COLLEGE, MORVI
4. DHARMENDRA SINHJI ARTS COLLEGE, RAJKOT
The commission has honoured ―Colleges with Potential for Excellence‖ status to YOGIJI MAHARAJ MAHILA ARTS & COMMERCE COLLEGE, DHARI and
sanctioned grant of Rs. 1 crore during September – 2011
The commission has sanctioned a grant of Rs. 51.50 Lacs to M.V. & SMT N.V.
SCIENCE COLLEGE, RAJKOT during July 2012 under INNOVATIVE PROGRAM
scheme (for starting new course – M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry)
The commission has sanctioned a grant of Rs. 50 Lacs to M.V. & SMT. N.VIRANI SCIENCE COLLEGE, RAJKOT during May 2008 under INNOVATIVE
PROGRAM scheme to start M.Sc. (Industrial Chemistry)
6.3 Faculty Empowerment Strategies
6.3.1. What efforts have been made to enhance the professional development of teaching
and non-teaching staff?
In the advancing era, on one side where we require experience faculty
members on the other side we need young and dynamic team of faculties also. To
keep a balance between two, various professional development programmes are
organized on the campus as well as faculties are encouraged to participate in such
programmes also.
Such programmes are arranged both centrally by the University through
IQAC, Academic Staff College and also by the individual departments. Some
noteworthy programmes organised for professional development of the faculty
members are given here below:
Year Name of the Programs Date No. of
Participants
2009-2010
One Day Seminar on Principals of
Grantable colleges of Saurashtra
University by Academic Staff College
and Internal Quality Assurance Cell
23 August, 2009 61
2010-2011
Two days; Workshop for Faculty of
Education for CBCS
25-26 June, 2010 146
One day Training Program on
Teaching Practices:
16 July, 2010 21
Workshop for Principals Quality in
Practice
18-19 September,
2010
17
Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction
in Higher Education (in Association
with AIDMI, Ahmedabad)
22-23
November,2010
1-2
December,2010
9-10,15
March, 2011
99
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Such activities are also carried out for non-teaching staff with respect to administrative
insight, computer training, language classes, etc. A comprehensive list of such professional
development programmes organised for non-teaching staff is given here below:
Year Title of the Program Date No. of
Participants
2011-12
PC Hardware 26-12-2011 to
1-1-2012
13
Managing Administration 26-12-2011 to
1-1-2012
26
2012-13
NTSTP: Managing Administration for
University Administrator
15-19 August,
2012
35
STC: Gandhi Vichar 25-30 October,
2012
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6.3.2. What is the outcome of the review of various appraisal methods used by the
University? List the important decisions.
The teaching faculties submit its performance report annually. Besides, the
teachers are expected to submit their self-appraisal reports for expert scrutiny for their
successive promotions under the Career Advancement Scheme. The University
follows the norms of promotion under the Career Advancement Scheme given by the
University Grants Commission promulgated on September 18, 2010 in June 2010.
The Saurashtra University has adopted the UGC norms in its ordinance 205 CAS
promotions. On the basis of performance reviewed under self-appraisal, in the last
four Academic Year 43 Professors and 19 Associate Professors have been given
career advancement under the prescribed norms of UGC and the University
Ordinances.
6.3.3. What are the welfare schemes available for teaching and non-teaching staff?
What percentage of staff have benefitted from these schemes in the last four
years? Give details.
This University being a State University has provisions for group insurance, pensions,
CPF.
Both the teaching and non-teaching staff have their own established credit societies.
Scheme for Student Welfare:
Insurance Scheme 1,00,000/- Rs. accidental insurance scheme has been launched by the University for students who are registered with affiliated colleges and P.G.
Departments. Every year the University gives ex gratia amount to the
parents/dependants of the passed away student (on death by any reason). The
following table gives the details of the amount given by the University to the
parents/dependants of the passed away students in the last four years:
Year Amount (Rs.)
2009-10 10,12,500
2010-11 13,00,000
2011-12 12,50,000
2012-13 35,50,000
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After the registration of each student of affiliated college and University departments will be offered Thalassemia test at nominal charges.
To each affiliated college and P.G. Department, University provides the equipment
for sports and music worth Rs. 10,000/- every year.
Earn While Learn Scheme
Well-equipped Health centre and free medicines to staff and students.
Career Council Development centre for career advancement
6.3.4. What are the Measures taken by University for Attracting and Retaining Eminent
Faculty?
The University has enacted Adjunct Professor Scheme to attract eminent
professors, scientists and people from industry.
Under various UGC and other schemes, many faculties have continued to share their expertise after retirement.
Eminent scholars are invited to deliver special lecture program or to precise at the chair in the National and International seminar arrange by the University. They
are also provided free lodging and boarding facility by the University. Whenever,
such distinguish eminent scholars are visiting University for Ph. D. Viva Voce
test, invited to deliver a special lecture or to guide our M. Phil. and Ph. D.
Scholars in the area of special organization, they are sanctioned for TA/DA. In
case of appointment to higher teaching posts University may forward candidate‘s
application for protecting or increasing his emoluments to the State Government
of Gujarat. Faculties are always invited as guest speakers, trainers, and
chairpersons on various occasions. University re-appoints retired professors as per
schedules of state Government and UGC. Regular payment is made as well as
required amendments in pays are completed regularly. All faculties are given due
respect and responsibilities in various committees.
6.3.5 Has the University conducted a gender audit during the last four years? If yes,
mention a few salient findings.
Gender audit is performed in the University. In Saurashtra region, in last few
years tremendous rise in female students irrespective of caste and creed has been
observed. It is also observed that this numbers are increasing in all mainstreams and
professional faculties. The female students are performing better in terms of
excellence and also fetching good number of awards and medals. Many of them opt
for higher learning and doctoral studies. In Gujarat, the single girl child is given
special preference for admission in different courses.
6.3.6 Does the University conduct any gender sensitization programmes for its faculty?
Anti-sexual harassment cells are formed in each department which carries out
gender sensitization programmes at department and University level. Also University
encourages such programmes by celebrating Women‘s Day with various activities,
dramas, competitions, prize distribution, etc.
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6.3.7 What is the impact of the University‟s Academic Staff College Programs in
enhancing the competencies of the University faculty?
The programmes of academic staff college are really useful in many aspects.
The programmes are attended by young teachers and they are benefited for upgrading
curriculum, motivated for research, also are trained for applying to various funding
agencies. They have also learned e-resources and other teaching learning aids. The
detail of the programmes conducted by the Academic Staff College is given in the
2.4.10.
6.4 Financial Management and Resource Mobilization
6.4.1. What is the institutional mechanism available to monitor the effective and
efficient use of financial resources?
The finance committee is constituted as per the ordinance 41 of the Saurashtra
University as follows.
1. The Vice Chancellor (who shall be the ex-officio Chairman)
2. The Pro Vice Chancellor (if Any)
3. Five other persons appointed by the syndicate from amongst its members for a period
of three years.
The committee looks after effective and efficient use of financial resources. The
income from government of India, Government of Gujarat, other funding agencies
and donors are managed by the University in following manner.
There is a planning and monitoring board to ensure efficient and effective use of the financial resources available to the universities.
The University Accounts section prepares budget estimates for the entire University and individual departments to ensure efficient and effective use of financial resources
in the following manner.
In the month of July the budget estimate preparation process begins. Also the
current year‘s revised budget estimate is also being prepared during this
month.
Such budget estimates for the next year and current year revised budget
estimates are put before the finance committee as per the provision of section
50 of Saurashtra University act 1965.
After the approval of finance committee the budget estimates are put before
the syndicate for their approval.
The financial estimates shall be considered by the Senate at its annual meeting
and the Senate may pass resolutions with the reference and communicate the
same to the syndicate shall take them into consideration and take actions on as
it thinks fit; and finally adopts financial estimates.
The syndicate shall inform the senate at its next meeting of the action taken by
it or of its reason for taking no action.
To ensure efficient and effective use of financial resources the Finance Committee is
given the following powers as per the Ordinance 42 of the Saurashtra University:
1. To sanction all expenditure up to Rs. 1,00,000 on behalf of the
Syndicate.
2. To dispose of quotations and tenders received for the supply of the
materials, dead stock, execution of work and other expenditure
accept that which pertains to the Estate committee.
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3. To consider such other methods as are referred to it by Syndicate
from time to time.
The Vice Chancellor and officers of the University has been given financial powers commensurate to their designation as per the Saurashtra University Act, 1965, in the
following manners:
The Vice Chancellor has the following financial powers as per the ordinance
43 (I):
1. Sanctioning all expenditure pertaining to University building
work (i) Up to Rs. 50,000/- per item without inviting quotation, (ii)
Up to Rs. 1,00,000/- per item after inviting quotations or tenders. No
tenders or quotation is necessary in case of work to be executed as
per S.O.R. (Schedule of Rates) of State Government from time to
time.
1-A. Sanctioning all expenditure pertaining to the University (i) Up
to Rs. 50,000/- per item without inviting quotation, (ii) Up to Rs.
1,00,000/- per item after inviting quotations or tenders. If the item to
be purchase is equipment or other materials or research materials
which are manufactured by State Government owned or Government
of India owned Institutes or Companies or are conducted on behalf of
State Government or Government of India or is a State Government
or Government of India undertaking, the Vice Chancellor‘s powers
shall be Rs. 50,000 per item and no quotations and tenders are
necessary in such cases.
The Registrar has the following financial powers as per the ordinance 43 (II):
1. All expenditure to the University office including stationery, purchase of
furniture and other materials required for the office etc. (i) Up to Rs. 10,000/-
per item without inviting quotation, (ii) Up to Rs. 25,000/- per item after
inviting quotations.
2. Every stationery items to be purchased in case of immediate requirements with
the same are not in stock valued up to Rs. 5,000/-
The Planning and Development Officer / Academic Officer has the following
financial powers as per the ordinance 43 (III)
1. All expenditure pertaining to the University other than Stationery and
furniture (i) Up to Rs. 500/- per item without inviting quotation, (ii) Up to Rs.
5,000/- per item after inviting quotations.
However, every stationery item to be purchased in case of immediate
requirement when the same are not in stock valued up to Rs. 500/-.
The Controller of Examination has the following financial powers as per the
ordinance 43 (IV):
1. All expenditure pertaining to the University office including the stationery and
furniture for examination and branches under him, (i) Up to Rs. 500/- per item
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without inviting quotation, (ii) Up to Rs. 5,000/- per item after inviting
quotations.
2. Every stationery item to be purchased in case of immediate requirement when
the same are not in stock valued up to Rs. 500/-.
The University Engineer has the following financial powers as per the
ordinance 43 (V):
1. Every stationery item to be purchased in case of immediate requirement when
the same are not in stock valued up to Rs. 200/-.
Deputy Registrar 43 (VI):
1. Sanctioning all the expenditure pertaining to his Department/ Branches up
to Rs.200/- per item without inviting quotations and up to Rs.1000/- per
item after inviting quotations but excluding Stationery and Furniture.
2. Sanctioning any miscellaneous contingent expenditure other than
Stationery and Furniture up to Rs.100/- per item without inviting
quotations in respect of expenditure connected with the conduct and
arrangement of examination.
Chief Account Officer (VII):
1. Sanctioning all the expenditure pertaining to his Department/ Branches up
to Rs.200/- per item without inviting quotations and up to Rs.500/- per
item after inviting quotations but excluding Stationery and Furniture.
2. Sanctioning any miscellaneous contingent expenditure other than
Stationery and Furniture up to Rs.100/- per item without inviting
quotations in respect of expenditure connected with the Account Section.
University Auditor (VII – A):
1. Sanctioning all the expenditure pertaining to his Department/ Branches up
to Rs.200/- per item without inviting quotations and up to Rs.500/- per
item after inviting quotations but excluding Stationery and Furniture.
2. Sanctioning any miscellaneous contingent expenditure other than
Stationery and Furniture up to Rs.100/- per item without inviting
quotations in respect of expenditure connected with the Audit Section.
Head of University Departments (XIV):
1. Sanctioning all the expenditure pertaining to his Department/ Branches up
to Rs.5000/- per item without inviting quotations and up to Rs.10, 000/-
per item after inviting quotations.
2. Over and above, head of the departments, all individual faculties who have
project funded by different agencies have been given special powers
equivalent to HOD. This gives quick execution related to research projects.
All expenses are incurred as per the budget estimates duly approved by the Senate and other statutory bodies.
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All University departments are earmarked their budget allocation and they incurred all expenses as per the budget estimates.
In case of the need budget re-appropriation is done within the limits of total budget
expenditure with the permission of the Vice-chancellor.
It is mandatory that the University financial resources should be used as per the due procedure mentioned in Ordinance 43 of the Saurashtra University.
The University faculty members apply for various projects and scheme from time to time. All funds available under such projects or spent as per the guidelines of the
respective funding agency and the Saurashtra University norms.
The University has a unique internal control system of the expenses known as Pre Audit system.
To monitor the effective and efficient use of the financial resources. The University
has established its separate Audit department.
6.4.2 Does the university have a mechanism for internal and external audit? Give details
Yes. The University has the best mechanism for internal and external audit.
Internal audit mechanism
The internal audit is an independent appraisal activity within the organization to examine and evaluate financial activities in pursuance with the policies, rules,
regulations, laws etc set by the organization.
The university has fully fledged Audit department headed by the university auditor.
The university practices pre audit system to prevent any lapses in the adherence to the
set rules and regulations,ordinances,statutes and other financial norms set by the
university as well as funding agency.
Major Scope of work of the internal audit department
Pre audit
The main function of the internal audit department is to see that all set financial rules and regulations of the university and funding agency are properly followed in all
respect before any payment get released.
The department of internal audit acts as a preventive filter in stopping reoccurrence of the financial irregularities, which if not noticed and not solved, would have significant
impact on the financial strength of the university because prevention of undue
payment also plays an important role in building up the financial strength of the
organization.
Here are some of the major glimpses of the cost savings/deductions made by the audit department during last 4 financial year while auditing the bills submitted to the audit
department
year Deductions from
bills to be paid
from exam fund
Deductions from
bills to be paid
from development
fund/other self
generated fund
Deductions from
bills to be paid
from government
grant
Total
2009/10 1118624.00 751325.00 759339.00 2629288.00
2010/11 627339.00 726858.00 1256457.00 2610654.00
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2011/12 165135.00 1604050.00 2200126.00 4214891.00
2012/13 534215.00 872581.00 1222068.00 2628864.00
Total during
above 4 years
12083697.00
post audit of PG centers
The post auditing work of the each PG centers run by the university is done after the end of the each financial year as per the scheduled programme by the university under
the supervision of university Auditor
It is the administrative and financial inspection of the accounts of the PG centers in
relevance with the prevailing PG rules and regulations of the university
The excess of income over expenditure is being deposited by the PG centre in the university accounts after the completion of PG audit
The amount deposited during last 4 years are detailed as under
year Amount of savings of
PG centers
Amount of lapse
deposits
(to be deposited in
dev.fund)
total
2008/09 2192703.00 1038774.00 3231477.00
2009/10 2139130.00 356530.00 2495660.00
2010/11 1544135.00 1201100.00 2745235.00
2011/12 2323891.00 461907.00 2785798.00
Pay fixation verification of sixth pay
The audit department acts as a pay verifying unit for the sixth pay verification of university
employee.
External audit mechanism
The accounts of the university are being audited
by the local fund audit authorities as per the statutory requirement and as per the resolution no. u.s.g/4267/4089/5 dated 20/8/68 of the education & labor department
And by the AG audit authorities under section 14 (1) of the comptroller & audit general (DP&CS) act 1971
The local fund audit party represents the state government and reports to the same.
The AG audit part reports to both state government and central government.
The accounts of the university are being post audited by the above audit party as per the schedule and scope of the audit area decided by them.
The internal audit department acts as a mediator between the audit party and
university departments and making best efforts to get the possible best solutions for
the objections raised by them.
Normal procedure for the external auditing work is as under
The LFA /AG audit party intimates the university about their tentative audit programme and scope of audit and the financial year which is to be audited
The external audit work starts as per their scheduled programme
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During the audit they issue primary objections based on the accounting records observed by them and which is sent to the concerned departments for compliance
Based on those compliances, if they feel it satisfactory according to their criteria, they
wave the primary objections
The compliances which are not satisfactory according to their requirement gets converted into audit Para
Before the issuing of final report, the examiner of local fund would have a meeting with the vice-chancellor of the university discussing the major objections raised by
the audit team.
After that they issue final report to the university
University then prepares compliances for the audit Para mentioned in the audit report
under the guidance of the committee formed by the vice-chancellor for the scrutiny of
the audit report and compliances
Then the report and their compliances are put before the syndicate and as per the provision of the university act 50(2) The syndicate then submit a copy of the audit
report along with compliances to the senate and to the state government
The copy of report and compliances are then sent to the audit authority and respective department of the government.
Based on the compliances, audit authority either drop the paras if satisfies or asks for
further compliances where needed
The major objections raised by the government auditors are based on the discrepancies
between the accounting system and rules of the government and university as university
being an academic autonomous body has its own rules and regulations set by its act, statutes
and ordinances
6.4.3 Have the accounts been audited regularly? What were the audit objections, if any
and how were the complied with?
Yes. The accounts been audited regularly as per the intimation and audit programme
set by the external audit authority
Details of the last audit
Local fund audit: audit has been completed up to the year 2007/8 but report for the year
2007/8 has not received by the university. The audit for the period 2008/9 has been
commenced from 6/5/13….and still it is in continuation
AG audit: audit has been completed up to the year 2009/10
The details for the audit objections raised and compliances for the last for audited period are
enclosed here
Best practices
For the first time a first phase of para nikal camp has been organized by the local fund office
in the university on 26/2/2013 with the liaision of internal audit department of the university
and become successful by dropping up 180….no. of paras(audit objections) on the basis of
satisfactory compliances given by the university.
A second phase of camp will be organized within a short time
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6.4.4 Provide the audited income and expenditure statement of academic and
administrative activities of the last four years.
2009-2010
Saurashtra University - Rajkot
Statement Of Finance As On 31, March 2010
Fund Amount Rs. Amount Rs. Assets Amount Rs.
University General Fund
Permanent Assets 238384244.00
(A) Main Grants Accounts
77969056.40
As per Last Accounts
103312027.15
Credit: During the Year 25342970.75
Advance & Other
Accounts 8252007.75
(B) Examination Accounts :
253776722.73
As per Last Accounts
205703933.23
Bank and Other Credit
Bal. 59029433.22
Credit: During the Year 48072789.50
Capital Fund:
224596431.00 Investments 770243456.00
As per Last Accounts
158088996.00
Credit: During the Year 66507435.00
Books Fund :
13787813.00 Other Heads 76130936.00
As per Last Accounts 13787813.00
Credit: During the Year 0.00
Other Fund :
419485265.07
As per Last Accounts
328666847.74
Credit: During the Year
135236644.33
Debit : During the Year 44418227.00
Unutilized Govt. Grants:
99153159.59
(A) U.G.C. 66940411.74
(B)State Govt. 25567605.82
( C)Other Grant 6645142.03
Deposits
24723891.55
Self-Finance A/c
34693463.73
Suspense Accounts
109214.01
Endowment Fund
2810703.75
Provident Fund A/c
5613.89
Gratuity Fund
928742.25
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Total
1152040076.97 Total
1152040076.97
2010-2011
Saurashtra University – Rajkot
Statement Of Finance As On 31,March 2011
Fund Amount Rs. Amount Rs. Assets Amount Rs.
University General Fund Permanent Assets 238384244.00
(A) Maint. Grants Accounts 103312027.15
As per Last Accounts 103312027.15
Credit: During the Year 0.00 Advance & Other Accounts 8166067.00
(B) Examination Accounts : 237174468.73
As per Last Accounts 205703933.23 Bank and Other Credit Bal. 0.00
Credit: During the Year 31470535.50
Capital Fund: 224596431.00 Investments 1031936238.00
As per Last Accounts 158088996.00
Credit: During the Year 66507435.00
Books Fund : 13787813.00 Other Heads 0.00
As per Last Accounts 13787813.00
Credit: During the Year 0.00
Other Fund : 574221183.07
As per Last Accounts 419485265.07
Credit: During the Year 221113081.00
Debit : During the Year 66377163.00
Unutilized Govt. Grants: 19812449.00
(A) U.G.C. 25269
(B)State Govt. 19470002
( C)Other Grant 317178.00
Deposits 111937.00
Self-Finance A/c 79271.00
Suspense Accounts 109214.01
Endowment Fund 2810703.75
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Provident Fund A/c 6982.89
Gratuity Fund 928742.25
Total 1176951222.85 Total 1278486549.00
2011-12
Saurashtra University - Rajkot
Statement of Finance As on 31,March, 2012
Fund Amount Rs. Amount Rs. Assets Amount Rs.
University General Fund
Permanent Assets 313589115.00
(A) Maint. Grants Accounts
77969056.40
As per Last Accounts 77969056.40
Advance & Other
Accounts 15040609.00
(B) Examination Accounts :
321646159.73
As per Last Accounts
285247258.23
Credit: During the Year 36398901.50
Bank and Other Credit
Bal. -1557859.84
Capital Fund:
299801302.00
As per Last Accounts 258629190.00
Investments 1319439326.00
Credit: During the Year 41172112.00
Books Fund :
13787813.00
As per Last Accounts 13787813.00
Other Heads 114325604.00
Credit: During the Year 0.00
Other Fund :
756069208.07
As per Last Accounts
577429320.07
Credit: During the Year
202507546.53
Debit : During the Year 23867658.53
Unutilized Govt. Grants:
199484907.07
(A) U.G.C. 150072452.9
(B)State Govt. 34266479.32
(C)Other Grant 3161683.51
(D)State Maint. Grant 11984291.38
Deposits
29847198.55
Self-Finance A/c
53747967.69
Suspense Accounts
42141.01
Endowment Fund
8427955.75
Provident Fund A/c
2606.89
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Gratuity Fund
10478.00
Total
1760836794.16 Total 1760836794.16
Note: The accounts for the year 2012-13 are in the process of preparation. It will be
furnished to the Peer Team at the time of their visit.
6.4.5 Narrate the efforts taken by the University for Resource Mobilization
The University has put in good efforts to generate resources especially in terms of donations from philanthropists, industrialists, and benevolent trusts. In last decade,
more than 12 crore rupees. Were received from various sources as a donation.
The faculties of departments and also departments as a whole are encouraged to
mobilize resources for research activities and strengthening the departmental facilities
by applying to various funding agencies. The outcome is more than 20 crore rupees in
last few years.
Due to rigorous efforts made by the University for Resource Mobilization, it has a corpus fund of more than Rs.76 crore as on today.
The University encourages faculty members to apply for projects and schemes from various funding agencies such as DST, UGC, GUJCOST, CSIR, ICAR-ICMR,
ICSSR, etc.
The University has received considerable grant under WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY scheme from the Government of Gujarat.
The University has levied a sports development fund at Rs.10 per student, education
development fund per student at Rs.100 at the time of enrolment to mobilize resources
for developmental activities.
The University collects Rs.40000 per year from self-finance colleges and institutions for their renewal every year.
30% incomes of self-finance post graduate centres are to be deposited to the University.
The self-finance department/courses working on the University campus deposits 30%
of their revenue to the University.
15% of the total fees are collected for the examination development fund.
6.4.6 Is there any provision for the University to create a corpus fund?
If yes, give details.
The University has already created corpus fund known as the University Development Fund (UDF). Every year good amount of interest is added to the corpus.
Proper mechanism is developed to increase Self-finance Corpus by the contribution of 30% revenue from self-finance colleges.
Examination fees are increased annually looking at the cost of materials and
operational expenses.
University surpluses fund by investing at competitive rates with nationalize banks.
The University gives ATG certificate under section 12 A of income tax Act, 1961 to motivate philanthropist toward donating to the University generously.
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6.5 Internal Quality Assurance System
6.5.1 Does the University conduct an academic audit of its departments? If yes, give
details.
The Academic audit of all the departments has been initiated by IQAC with an
exhaustive audit tool served to each department. All departments conduct the
academic audit as advised by the IQAC in their individual capacity. Such academic
audit report is submitted to the IQAC by the end of the academic year.
6.5.2 Based on the recommendations of the academic audit, what specific measures have
been taken by the University to improve teaching, learning and evaluation?
Following are the few initiatives taken for the overall improvement.
Teaching: Saurashtra University has introduced CBCS first time among all State (Conventional)
Universities.
The entire curriculum is revised and updated looking to global trends and local needs.
Departments on the campus are equipped with the excellent infrastructure and the latest
teaching aids.
As already mentioned in Criterion I, almost every department has some uniqueness in
their syllabus.
The courses and syllabi are framed with diverse specializations which arms students
with a competitive edge.
Learning: The University has taken several measures to improve the academic atmosphere of the
University and many administrative and academic steps and programmes are initiated.
In house training to faculties
The visit and training to faculties at various places of excellence.
The students are encouraged for further training, research and skill development at the
University and at other places.
The administrative staff are also updated with computer skills which helps them serve
better.
Few programmes like ‗GyanYatra‘, Seed Money Project, and other incentives are
initiated by the IQAC.
Evaluation:
The evaluation system includes both internal and external exams for each paper/ course/
program. The internal marks of the students are further divided into various modes like
tests, seminars, assignments, oral viva, etc. After evaluation, student counselling is
organised to discuss about their performance. Extra classes are also arranged for slow
learners.
IQAC has evolved student‘s research award for the University students and also
―Dolarrai Mankad Excellence Research Award‖ for the faculty members
The awards are given with due evaluation.
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6.5.3 Is there a central body within the University to continuously review the teaching
learning process? Give details of its structure, methodologies of operations and
outcome?
Board of Studies of each subject, followed by the Board of University Teaching
and the Academic Council are three stages which review the teaching and learning
process. The detail of its structure is as per the Saurashtra University Act provisions.
Every year their regular meetings are arranged in a pre-scheduled manner and the
minutes of the meetings are kept and the recommendations will move to the higher
administrative and decision making bodies for execution.
6.5.4 How has IQAC contributed to institutionalizing quality assurance strategies and
processes?
The IQAC after its formation in 2004 has taken up several programmes for
strategic academic planning and execution. Now, with the adequate experience and
exposure it is almost stable in its functioning. Many measures are taken for
institutionalize strategies and the processes for quality assurance.
IQAC regularly arranges both formal and informal meetings with teachers,
college teachers, HODs, and other stakeholders and identifies the grey area in which it
needs to work more. The IQAC was instrumental in resolving many issues related to
implementation of CBCS system, explaining guidelines of UGC time to time
regarding API and other issues, the evolution of formula related to SGPA/CGPA.
In the last four years, the IQAC has organized more than a dozen workshops /
seminars / symposiums to sensitize and enhance the quality culture among all
stakeholders associated with the University. In such events more than 2,000
participants and experts were involved and also the programme encompassed around
800 different institutes.
6.5.5 How many decisions of the IQAC have been placed before the statutory authorities
of the University for Implementation?
In the nearly 10 years of its establishment, the IQAC has been a catalyst in
ushering several important developmental changes on the campus. A few highlights
are as under:
Transition of the curriculum from yearly to the semester system
Transition of the curriculum from the semester to the CBCS mode
Formulating CGPA and SGPA
Implementing CBCS in external courses.
API and Career advance scheme.
Instituting Dolarrai Mankad Award for Excellence in Research
Instituting Seed Money Projects for young faculties
Instituting a Students‘ Research Award
Instituting Professor Dolarrai Mankad annual memorial lecture
Instituting Gyan Yatra scheme for Faculty
Participation in Vibrant Gujarat educational fair
6.5.6 Does the IQAC have external members on its committees? If so, mention any
significant contribution made by such members.
Yes, currently IQAC has the following external members on its committees:
1) Mr. Maulesh Ukani (CEO, BAN LABS)
2) President, Rajkot Engineering Association
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These members have suggested interaction between factories / industries with
the University and have provided a data list of corporate experts who can be invited
for various quality development programs.
6.5.7 Has the IQAC conducted any study on the incremental academic growth of
students from disadvantaged sections of society?
IQAC has conducted many developmental programs for academic growth of
student from disadvantaged sections of the society. Academically many such
programmes have been conducted by the CCDC. The nature of these programmes has
been to strengthen the students from the disadvantaged sections so that they can
compete with other students in the professional / higher educational worlds. In this
regard, the CCDC has also extended its counselling programmes to students from
disadvantaged sections studying in more than 200 affiliated colleges of the University.
As mentioned earlier, it has been found that there is a significant rise in the
number of students from the disadvantaged sections of the society coming to the
campus. The rise in the number of female students from this section is particularly
heartening.
6.5.8 What policies are in place for the periodic review of administrative and academic
departments, subject areas, research centres, etc.?
It is a regular practice on the campus co-ordinated by the IQAC to periodically
review the functioning of various academic and administrative sections of the
University. Practices like yearly appraisal of each department, academic audit, gender
audit, green audit, review of research work, infra-structure and instrumental facilities
on the campus are regular features. Additionally, mechanisms like students feedback on
syllabi and teachers, feedback from meeting parents and Alumni are also part of the
continuous review process initiated by the University.
Any other information regarding Governance, Leadership and Management which the
University would like to include.
The Saurashtra University has been identified by the State Government for
upgrading its infra-structural facilities to the level of a World Class University; and
the State government has advanced an initial fund of Rupees two crore to the
University. The state government is further inclined to support the University in the
endeavour to become a World Class University.
Saurashtra University has a proven track of smooth functioning in terms of
governance, and implementation of policies related to higher education. A proof to
this is a fact that many important first meetings of policy decisions in higher
education of the state have been hosted by Saurashtra University like the first meeting
of Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG) which is now recognized as the State
Higher Education Council.
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Criterion VII: Innovations and Best Practices
7.1 Environment Consciousness
7.1.1 Does the University conduct a Green Audit of its campus?
The University completed its recent comprehensive Green Audit of its campus in the
month of June 2013. The process of the audit was initiated in the month of July 2012 and was
conducted professionally by the Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot, which
is a recognized institute by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) as Environmental
Auditor as mentioned in Schedule I and II GPCB, Gujarat. The Audit team consists of 5
GPCB recognized members headed by a Director of Environmental Audit (Schedule I) rank.
The other members included 3 Heads from the departments of Civil Engineering, Industrial
Chemistry, and Biochemistry & Microbiology. The auditing body‘s criterion on Environment
Management System (EMS) included the following:
1. Water Management System: The highlights of the audit in this criterion are as
under:
Critical Evaluation of Water Management System of the Saurashtra University:
As a whole, water management system established by the Saurashtra University
appears to be adequate and sound.
Purification of raw water is done by using principles of reverse osmosis (RO) and
adequate RO units have been provided.
As could be seen from Table-I, quality of treated water is well within the norms
prescribed by the GPCB.
Since the establishment being a University & not a chemical manufacturing unit;
waste water generated in the campus needs no effluent treatment using ETP.
However, there is full scope for establishment for sewage treatment plant (STP) and
such treated water can be utilized / reused for the development of green belt in the
University campus.
Thus, fresh water requirements can be curtailed.
Further, there is good scope for rain water harvesting and bore well recharging.
2. Air Pollution Management System: The highlights of the audit in this criterion are
as under:
Critical Evaluation of Air Pollution Management System of the Saurashtra University:
Since the establishment is not a chemical manufacturing unit, fuel stacks and process
stacks are absent.
Since, there is no air pollution, Air Pollution Control Measures (APCM) are not
required.
Ambient air quality has been measured at three locations in the campus as under:
(i) Location No. 1 : University office area
(ii) Location No. 2 : University hostel ladies block
(iii) Location No. 3 : Near staff quarter entry
Ambient Air Quality (AAQM) measured at three selected locations namely terrace of
University office area, terrace of ladies hostel block and terrace of staff quarters at
entry indicate that all the faculty staff and students are inhaling clean air.
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All the values of different AAQM parameters namely are well within the permission
limits prescribed by GPCB.
Development of Green Zones in the entire University Campus has helped the
University to enjoy Clean and Green Air in the campus. Use of water sprinklers in the
entire campus on roads at regular interval is still advisable.
Good scope exists to earn carbon credits by the Saurashtra University in this regard.
3. Solid Waste Management System: The highlights of the audit in this criterion are as
under:
Critical Evaluation of Solid Waste Management System of the Saurashtra University:
The University takes care of plastic free environment and University has adequate
waste management system.
The campus has put dustbins on every corner of the campus to make it garbage free
campus.
The chemicals and unused drugs in the science departments are kept separately in
strictly safe custody.
The chemical waste is destroyed as per the rules of the chemical drugs etc.
The approach roads in the University are made with environment friendly technology
by using fly ash generated in Thermal Power Plant (TPP).
Relevant details regarding kitchen waste, canteen waste, news paper waste, used
answer books waste and journals waste etc. are available with University Authorities
in a systematic manner.
As could be seen from the different aspects mentioned above, solid waste
management system established in Saurashtra University is praiseworthy.
4. Noise Level Management System: The highlights of the audit in this criterion are as
under:
Critical Evaluation of Noise Level Management System of the Saurashtra University:
Monitoring of noise levels at different locations was done and the noise levels were
measured at following ten selected locations:
1. University Office 6. Ladies Hostel (Corridor)
2. University Canteen 7. Boys Hostel (Corridor)
3. Typical Class Room 8. Staff Quarters
4. Typical Workshop 9. University Entrance Gate
5. University Library 10. Nr. Post Office / Bank
Noise levels monitoring results at above mentioned ten locations have been depicted
and compared with permissible limit as specified by GPCB.
As could be seen from data, noise levels are well below the permissible limits
prescribed by GPCB.
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It is to be noted that in green campus noise levels are generally very low. This is
equally true with respect to Saurashtra University campus.
The afore-mentioned data is a detailed excerpt of the comprehensive Green Audit conducted
by the University, and completed in June 2013. The detailed audit report is available at the
IQAC office of the University.
7.1.2 What are the initiatives taken by the University to make the campus eco-friendly?
Energy Conservation:The following measures are common on the campus in this direction:
Conscious effort of switching off when electricity is not required.
Running all air conditioners on energy saving temperature zone. Use of air
conditioners only up to the required level in large conference rooms, seminar halls
and auditoriums; meaning, the number of ACs used is according to the number of
people gathered inside.
Using energy efficient computer monitors. Shifting from CRT monitors to LCD/LED
monitors to save energy. Power saving options for computers/laptops is using them in
standby mode when not in use.
Not authorizing refrigerators, microwaves and coffee makers etc.,(devises that
consume large amounts of energy) for use in individual spaces on the campus.
Using energy-saving fixtures, lamps, ballasts and lighting control systems. Using
standard branded electrical equipments of companies that themselves are committed
to energy efficiency.
Optimum use of day light and correlating it to the University working hours.
Use of Renewable Energy: In the University campus, solar energy is renewed by means of solar street lights and solar water heating system. The University is
exploring the possibility of converting its outdoor electric light points into solar ones.
Conversion of biomass into useable energy is another option being explored. The
results so far into wind harvesting have not been encouraging as the average wind
speed does not satisfy the installation of any large effective wind mill on our campus.
Water Harvesting: The campus has a network of drip irrigation lines enhancing the
green cover substantially even on this naturally arid terrain.
Check-dam Construction:there are 3 check-dams on the campus that have contributed to a healthy rise in the ground water level of this area.
Efforts for Carbon Neutrality: effective and non-wasteful use of electricity (as mentioned in point first above) reduces carbon foot-prints of the University. The
second measure in this direction is its massive plantation drive.
Plantation: The green team has mentioned in its report that: ―Having more than
29,000 trees in the campus, over 2,000 saplings are being planted every year in and
around the Saurashtra University main complex.
This happens to be most unique achievement of the Saurashtra University. Hence, the
Saurashtra University deserves congratulations for this aspect.‖
Hazardous Waste Management: Hazardous waste is managed and disposed effectively following GPCB and Rajkot City Municipality norms.
E-Waste Management: e-waste is managed and disposed effectively following GPCB and Rajkot City Municipality norms.
Any other (please specify): The University is aware of ‗green building‘ concepts and plans to employ them in its new construction plans. Central facilities like the Students
Convention Centre are being erected on the campus with the idea of sharing energy
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resources. Plans are afoot to install solar lighting systems in an efficient manner on all
outdoor locations on the campus. Taking note of the report from its first-ever campus-
wide green audit, the University is taking positive steps to improve its water
harvesting, rain water management and bore recharging measures.
7.2 Innovations
7.2.1 Give details of innovations introduced during the last four years which have
created a positive impact on the functioning of the University.
Highlights of innovations worth mentioning that have created a positive impact on the
University functioning in the last four years:
Implementation of CBCS: The University decided to innovate on its curriculum by being
the first State University in Gujarat to implement the Choice Based Credit System mode of
teaching-learning in 2010. The Univeristy conducted several orientations and training
sessions to expose faculty members, examination staff, college principals, and others before
the transition from the semester to the CBCS curricular mode. An important innovative step
in this direction was the development of software by the Univesity which was then adopted
by other institutes and universities in the State. The University further trained the relevant
staff of these institutions peparing them for the transition. The impact of this innovative step
has been our students gaining a competitive edge, our teachers stepping up to upgrade their
knowledge and delivery skills, our Library being recharged with newer titles and the signal
going out to the society that this University is in-step with the best institutes of higher
learning in introducing positive changes at the right time.
Examination Reforms: Anticipating that the CBCS mode of teaching would bring in a two-
fold increase in examination work, the University planned to innovate in this area
concurrently with curricular reforms. Measures like: online question paper delivery system;
digitization of answer booklets; digital evaluation of answer booklets; applying for various
forms online; payment gateway implementation in online admissions, re-assessment, issuing
provisional degree certificate; formation of the Saurashtra University Central Admission
Board (SUCAB); etc., have been implemented, and more such steps are being worked out in
the direction of using technology for work accuracy and efficiency. The impact of these
innovative steps has been on the two most important stakeholders: students and evaluator-
teachers.
Involvement of the Society and Philanthrophists for Infrastructural Development: The
University leadership was successful in convincing members of the society and doners at
large to support with substantial financial resources to transform the infrastructure of almost
all the departments on the campus. The impact has been significant: faculties, students, and
visitors have witenessed a sea-change on the University campus over the last decade.
Facility for Preservation of Molecular Diversity: This unique project has collected 10,000
new molecules for drug discovery from various academic researchers across the nation. This
innovative approach was funded by MSME Foundation – DST, New Delhi. This innovative
idea has been taken up by the other higher educational institutions for archiving molecular
entities.This is a green and environment friendly measure that also saves huge financial
resources.
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Genration of New Polymer Composites: Prof. P. H. Parsania, an eminet polymer scientist
with the Department of Chemistry, has devised several new composits blending agro waste
from jute, wheat, rice, banana, sugarcane, coir, bamboo etc. This work has been appreciated
by the NRDC, New Delhi for low cost patitioning material or various other building
materials. It can also be used for quick roofing of houses affected by natural calamities.
Innovation and New Techonology Transfer: Under DST-DPRP programme, a faculty of
Department of Chemistry, professor and his team have transfer technology of four of the five
different keto-acids used to formulate Ketolog, a formulation of Claris Lifesciences, saving
substantial foreign exchange components towards import of such products.
Database of Marine Bioresources by DNA Barcoding: Gujarat, having the largest costline
in India, is home to number of marine fauna which are presious national bioresources. No
inventory was available till now for this fauna with there molecular phylogenic identity.
Department of Biosciences has initiated an innovative research work under the UGC-CAS
programme to enlist all the mairne bioresource fauna properly identified by DNA Barcoding
which will immensely help the academia and industry. Department of Biosciences is the only
department in India to take up such activities for the entire marine faunal spectra.
Innovative Formulation & applications in Drug Discovery: The Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences have developed Novel Drug Delivery Systems for several Active
Pharmaceutical Ingredients. The faculties have successfully isolated phytoconstituents for
stroke, diabetes, urolithiasis, metabolic syndroms and application of herbal bioenhancers to
improve bioavailability of various drugs.
Innovative Measures by the IQAC: The University, realizing that planning, implementing
and tracking the progress of innovative steps in itself required a constant monitoring,
instituted a full-fledged IQAC set up. The innovative thinking by the IQAC has been in the
direction of improving the overall research achievement of the University. For this the IQAC
has instituted separate motivational schemes for research scholar students and faculty
members (both on the campus and in its affiliated colleges); travel, exposure and learning
schemes for the entire department; publication of three different research journals; bringing in
the best academic and research minds on the campus through invitation; and recognizing and
encouraging academic and research achievers from the University family. The impact of
these measures has brought financial gains in terms of research grants from various funding
agencies, and helped in creating an image for the University beyond the State, and even the
country. The names of the various innovative practices by the IQAC have been enlisted in the
immediate following sub-section.
7.3. Best Practices
Best Practice – 1 # Academic Best Practice
1. Title: Seed Money Project
The Saurashtra University has initiated an innovative practice on its campus entitled, ―SEED
MONEY PROJECT FOR THE FACULTY‖ from the year 2006-07.
2. Goal / Objectives
The underlying objectives of the Seed Money Project are as follows:
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To inculcate a spirit of healthy intellectual competition and develop a research culture
among young and new teachers working on the campus.
To encourage and prepare the faculty members for undertaking minor and major
research projects from UGC and various other funding agencies.
To build up an environment of qualitative research outcomes on the campus.
To increase the quality research volume undertaken by the faculty members on the
campus.
To equip the young researchers of the University with adequate research facilities.
3. The Context
The University normally carries out three major activities through its academic staff or
through its faculty members i.e. teaching, extension, and research. To give impetus to
research activities by the faculty members on the campus, the University felt it necessary to
give some financial support as a start-up resource to its young faculty members for
embarking upon larger and more ambitious research projects whose framework can be
presented before prestigious national and international funding agencies. The University has a
clear vision to offer the Seed Money Project to the fresh and young faculty members on a
priority basis and thereby encourage them towards serious research work. The University has
duly constituted a committee under its IQAC for properly carrying out the tasks of scrutiny of
the research proposal and disbursal of the Seed Money Project Fund. The committee
identifies the panel of experts who study the merit of the proposal and is empowered to take
care of all the procedural activities pertaining to the Seed Money Project.
4. The Practices
The practice of awarding a faculty with the Seed Money Project is as follows:
1. IQAC invites applications from the University faculty members every year in the
beginning of the academic year.
2. The basic qualification required for one to be awarded with the Project is that the
applicant must be a permanent or ad-hoc faculty member of the University.
3. Preferably, Assistant and Associate Professors only are given priority for the Project.
4. More precisely, priorityis given to those who have not undertaken any Minor or Major
research projects from any funding agencies.
5. The procedure of awarding the Seed Money Project is as follows:
a. inviting applications from the University faculty members;
b. short-listing project proposals for the presentation before the project approval
committee duly constituted by the University;
c. identifying 5 to 6 proposals for the award of the Seed Money on the following
considerations:
i. the project proposal is up to the mark from the point-of-view of a
research work, both in its content and design / structure;
ii. the faculty member has not been awarded Seed Money for any
proposal in the past;
iii. the faculty member has not applied for any minor or major research
project to any funding agency in the past or is not having any such
project at present;
iv. the faculty member is considerably young and comes under the
Assistant or Associate Professor cadre; and
v. Committee members are satisfied about the project‘s future outcome.
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vi. The University earmarks certain amount of fund (between Rs. 40 to 50
thousand) to be given to the identified research projects under Seed
Money Project every year.
5. Evidence of Success
The University funds this project through its IQAC from its Development Fund which has
an exclusive sub-heading for research. Attached below is the list of the different faculty
members awarded with the Seed Money Project till date:
Year Name of the faculty Department Amount
2006-07 Dr.K.B.Modi Physics 40,000/-
Dr.N.A.Shah Electronics 40,000/-
Dr.Sanjay Mukherjee English 40,000/-
Dr.A.H.Gosai Computer Science 40,000/-
Dr.D.P.Patel Gujarati 40,000/-
2007-08 Dr.P.J.Rawal History 50,000/-
Dr.A.Dudhrejiya Pharmacy 50,000/-
Dr.J.A.Bhalodiya Physics 50,000/-
Dr.M.N.Jivani Electronics 50,000/-
Dr.A.M.Sondarva Commerce 50,000/-
2009-10 Mr.Sachin Parmar Pharmacy 50,000/-
Dr.M.K.Shah Chemistry 50,000/-
Dr.B.G.Maniar Law 50,000/-
Dr.K.A.Manek History 50,000/-
Dr.Y.A.Jogsan Psychology 50000/-
2010-11 Dr.Nita Udani Journalism 50,000/-
Dr.U.C.Bhoya Chemistry 50,000/-
Dr.J.M.Naik Sociology 50,000/-
Ms.Jigna Patel Bioscience 50,000/-
Dr.Nilesh Panchal Bio Sciences 50,000/-
2011-12 Dr.K.P.Damor Commerce 40,000/-
Dr.M.S.Moliya Education 40,000/-
Dr.Y.T.Naliapara Chemistry 40,000/-
Dr.R.C.Khunt Chemistry 40,000/-
Dr.C.K.Kumbharana Computer Science 40,000/-
Shri DevendraVaishnav Pharmacy 40,000/-
Dr.MukeshKanzia Economics 40,000/-
2012-13 Dr. R. N. Kathad Sanskrit 50,000/-
Dr. Kokila T. Tank Library and Information
Science
50,000/-
Dr. R. B. Zala English and CLS 50,000/-
Dr. Yogesh Barvalia Biochemistry 50,000/-
Dr. MihirRaval Pharmaceutical Science 50,000/-
Out of the 32 awardees of this Project since 2006, 14 have already embarked upon
larger research works – UGC Minor / Major Projects – and the proposals of six others
are in various stages of consideration with funding agencies like the UGC, FIST,
DST, etc. It can, thus, be said that the University‘s innovative initiative of the Seed
Money Project for ushering a research climate and enhancing qualitative research
work on the campus has been a success.
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6. The Problems Encountered and Resources Required
In implementing the Seed Money Project, the Saurashtra University has not encountered
any obstacle. On the contrary, it is a highly welcomed project by all stakeholders of the
University. Furthermore, there is a now demand to extended this Project up to the
Professors‘ cadre to increase the element of competitiveness and innovation of ideas. This
might be seen as a challenge, but the University feels that such a demand has arisen
mainly because of the success of this innovative practice.The only challenge is to make
this Project accessible to more faculties without compromising on quality and
innovativeness. The consideration of increasing the amount of funding(keeping in view
rising costs of things and inflation) is another challenge but the University is innovative
enough in generating resources for funding this and such other qualitative projects.
7. Notes
Till now this Project could be sanctioned for only a faculty on the campus. However, the
University is seriously considering the option of extending it to the fresh and young
faculties of the affiliated colleges which will open up a whole new dimension in the
interest of qualitative research.
Best Practice – 2 # Administrative Best Practice
1. Title of the practice
Examination Reformations and Implementation of Paperless Concept through
Campus Management System (CMS)
2. Objectives of the Practice
The underlying objectives of this Practice are as follows:
Integration of internal and end-of-the semester evaluation within the CBCS
mode.
Online admission for students of various courses.
SMS support system for students.
Online question paper delivery system.
Digitization of answer sheets and digital evaluation.
Online application for conferring degree certificate.
3. The Context
Looking at the current traditional examination system, Saurashtra University has not
only concentrated on term-end examinations, but has taken efforts in the direction of
continuous evaluation of University-certified degree-holders before they are accepted
forjobs in public and private sectors. In these endeavours, the University has
attempted to successfully integrate technology, thus, moving into an eco-friendly
direction of reducing the use of papers as well as matching up with the demand of a
faster delivery of goods and services.
4. The Practice
The Saurashtra University has implemented considerable changes in its
examination system e.g. Integration of internal and end-of-semester evaluation for all
programmes. The relational weightage assigned to internal evaluation ranges from 25
to 40 percent in various UG and PG programmes.The Saurashtra University having
implemented CBCS from June-2010 as per the guidelines of the UGC, the students
are getting an opportunity to study from a larger range of courses under various
programmes.The Campus Management System (CMS), a web-based online portal, is
developed with end-to-end solution i.e. an integrated solution of paperless
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examination management consisting of all procedures and stages from enrolment till
the conferring of respective degree to the student.
5. Online Admissions to Students in Various External Programmes from June-2012: The
University has taken a step towards integrating technology by giving online
admissions to students in various external programmes namely B. A., B.Com., M. A.,
and M.Com.
6. SMS Based Information Systems: The University has decided to use the latest
communication technology from the year 2010 by integrating SMS services in the
delivery of examinations‘ results and other important notifications for the benefits of
the students. Students are delivered short messages on their registered mobile device
with regards to their form acceptance acknowledgement, exam schedules, results, etc.
using the SMS-Gateway embedded in web-based online portal.
7. Online Question Paper Delivery Systems (QPDS): The University has developed a
confidential pool for making question paper bank digitized. A repository of such
question paper bank is maintained in the database server with adequate authentication
system. The digital question papers are delivered through QPDS to the authorized
principals/senior supervisors in their personal login accounts just before 30 minutes of
the start of examination. All examination centres are equipped with high speed
printers/photo copiers to print desired number of question papers. The QPDS is
commenced from June 2012.
8. Digital Evaluation of Answer Scripts:Evaluators of eight faculties out of thirteen viz.,
Science, Home Science, Medicine, Homeopathy, Architecture, Management,
Education and Pharmacy are assigned the task of digital evaluation of students‘
answer-booklets from December-2012 semester term-end examination making the
evaluation process faster, smoother and at a lesser operational cost.
9. Evidence of Success
The implementation of CMS concept is helping the University in many ways.
During academic year 2012-13, more than 27,242 students filled-up their forms online
and saved time, money, and energy. Students can view the course syllabus, course
rules & regulations, subject assignment definitions and its submission dates, etc.
online. Further, they are also able to view/print exam schedule, seat numbers, hall
tickets, etc. online. Hence, students need not come to the University campus. The
online QPDS saves time, money and human hours so far as the transportation,
printing and human resources expenses are concerned. With the support of SMS-
Gateway embedded in web-based online portal thereby signaling the young computer-
and-mobile literate stakeholders that the University is in sync with their
communicational aspirations.
10. Problems Encountered and Resources Required
With the introduction of the latest digital technology CMS at all levels of work,
problems are bound to come. Sometimes there are hardware and compatibility issues
of machines, but more frequent issues are related to the familiarization of the digital
technologies for the human resources associated; thus there is a gestation period
consumed by the people working upon it. The adaptation by the stakeholders to these
new technologies is going ahead satisfactorily.
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Notes
The University recognizes the significance of the transition period between the long-
held methods of paper-based communication to a paper-less way of functioning. The
University examination department and other administrative sections are learning the
way to paperless administration by overcoming evident obstacles and bottlenecks
during the course of application CMS.
Any other information regarding Innovations and Best Practices which the University
would like to Include:
Taking note of Saurashtra University‘s pro-activeness for innovations and the versatile
range of its best practices, the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG), the State Higher
Education Council, has often begun its newer initiatives from this University, and often
the first meetings for dialogue/discussion on these initiatives have been held on the
campus. The University would also like to enlist the following innovative practices and
initiatives carried out by the IQAC:
Professor Dolarrai Mankad Award for Excellence in Research to the academicians.
Publication of annual research journals in humanities, social sciences, and applied
sciences.
Sayujya – the bi-monthly Saurashtra University newsletter.
Soft-skills Development Programme by CCDC.
Vidushi – A Centre for Women‘s Studies & Research.
GyanYatra – Project for gaining exposure and knowledge from all over India.
Earn While Learn hostel scheme for students.
Career Counselling and Development Centre (CCDC) for students.
Institution Industry Interaction Cell (IIIC)for opening up dialogue with the
corporate world/industries.
Students‘ Insurance Scheme.
Students Research Assistance Scheme.
Prefect Council of students.
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INDEX
Sr. No. Name of the Department Page No.
1 Bio Chemistry 202
2 Chemistry 220
3 Commerce 262
4 Economics 267
5 Physics 279
6 Education 298
7 Electronics 304
8 English 311
9 History 319
10 Home Science 336
11 Human Rights 344
12 Journalism 349
13 Library Information Science 356
14 Computer Science 366
15 Philosophy 374
16 Physical Education 379
17 Pharmaceutical sciences 390
18 Psychology 414
19 Sanskrit 424
20 Social Work 434
21 Sociology 439
22 Statistics 449
23 Hindi 457
24 Mathematics 467
25 Gujarati 474
26 Bio Sciences 495
27 MBA 506
28 Law 512
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department Biochemistry
2. Year of establishment: 1999
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes (Faculty of Science)
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters; Integrated
Ph. D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) PG, M. Phil. , Ph.D
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: Nil
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons N/A
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/: Semester (CBCS)
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Nil
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor Nil Nil Nil
Associate Professors Nil Nil Nil
Asst. Professors Nil Nil Nil
Others Nil Nil Nil
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience
and research under guidance
Name
Qualification Designation Specialization No. of Years
of
Experience
No. of Ph. D. /M.
Phil. students
guided for the last
4 years
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
M.Pharm. Ph.
D.
Professor
& Head
Pharmacognosy 32 years 2010 (2), 2011 (3)
2012 (5), 2013 (2)
Dr. Gaurav S.
Dave
M.Sc. Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
(Contractual)
Biochemistry 5.1 years NIL
Dr. Yogesh K.
Baravalia
M.Sc. Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
(Contractual)
Biochemistry 1.7 years NIL
Dr. Bhavesh
D. Kevadiya
M.Sc., Ph. D. D. S. Kothari
Postdoc. Fellow
Nanochemistry 1 month NIL
Mr. Jaymin
Mendapara
M.Sc. Laboratory
Technician
Biochemistry 1.5 year NIL
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors: NIL
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information
M.Sc.: 100%
M.Phil: 100%
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio 22:1
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled
and actual: Nil
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies: NIL
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
203
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise.
Name of
Principal
Investigator
Funding
agency
Total
Amount
Sanctioned
Project
type Title of project
Duration
In years
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
UGC
Major
Studies on Optimization of
Crystal Habit and Improvement
on Processing and
Pharmacokinetic Parameter of
Selected Active Pharmaceutical
Ingredients
2
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
UGC 71.5lacs SAP
Special Assistance Programme 5
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
MHRD
6.75lacs Major
Development of e-contents for
foundation course on
Pharmaceutical Microbiology
1.5
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
GUJCOST
0.5lacs Student
Sci-tech
Preparation and evaluation of
transdermal patch of solasodine
isolated from solanum
zanthocarpum
0.2
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
Govt. of
Gujarat 40lacs Major
World Class University from
Govt. of Gujarat
--
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth UGC 50lacs
New
Course New Course (PGDCR) 5 years
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth DST 13lacs
Training
Workshop
INSPIRE TRAINING
WORKSHOP 5 days
Dr. Navin R.
Sheth DST 15lacs
Training
Workshop
INSPIRE TRAINING
WORKSHOP 5 days
Dr. Gaurav S.
Dave UGC 2lacs
National
Minor
Research
Project
Role of SNPs in antioxidative
enzymes in diabetes mellitus 2
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
a) National collaboration b) International collaboration : NIL
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received. : NIL
20. Research facility / centre with : NIL
state recognition
national recognition
international recognition 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies :
NIL
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) :
Sr.
No.
Name of
teacher Title of Reseach Paper Name of Journal
International
/National/State Year
1 Dr. Navin Influence of Drug Development International 2012
204
R. Sheth polymers/excipients on development of
agglomerated crystals of
secnidazole by crystallo-
co-agglomeration
technique to improve
processability
and Industrial Pharmacy
2 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Formulation development
of physiological
environment responsive
periodontal drug delivery
system for local delviery
of metronidazole
benzoate
Drug Development
and Industrial
Pharmacy
International 2012
3 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Design and Development
of Nanoparticulate
Dosage Form of
Telmisartan for
Bioavaibility
Enhancement
Micro and
Nanosystems International 2012
4 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Emergence of methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) as a
public-health threat and
future directions of
antibiotic therapy for
MRSA infections.
Anti-Infective
Agents International 2012
5 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibiotic-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus: a
Challenge to Researchers
and Clinicians.
Bacteriol J International 2012
6 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Antioxidant and
antimicrobial properties
of various polar solvent
extracts of stem and
leaves of four Cassia
species
African Journal of
Biotechnology International 2012
7 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Brine shrimp cytotoxicity,
anti-inflammatory and
analgesic properties of
Woodfordia fruticosa
Kurz flowers
Iranian Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Research
International 2012
8 Dr. Gaurav
S. Dave
Crystal violet
(triphenylmethane dye)
decolorization potential
of Pleurotus ostreatus
(MTCC 142)
Bioresources International 2012
9 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
HPTLC fingerprint
profile for quantitative
American J
Pharmtech Res national 2011
205
determination of various phytoconstituents in
Anisomeles Species
10 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Analysis of fatty acid in
Anisomeles species by
gas chromatography-
Mass spectrometry
Pharmacognosy
Journal national 2011
11 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Preparation and In Vivo
Evaluation of Self-
Nanoemulsifying Drug
Delivery System
(SNEDDS) Containing
Ezetimibe
Current nanoscience International 2011
12 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Development of UV
Spectrophotometric
Method of Olmesartan
medoxomil in Bulk Drug
and Pharmaceutical
Formulation and Stress
Degradation Studies
Pharmaceutical
Method International 2011
13 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Neuroprotective activity
of Matricaria
recutita against fluoride-
induced stress in rats
Pharmaceutical
Biology International 2011
14 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Development of UV
Spectrophotometric
Method of Telmisartan in
Bulk Drug and
Pharmaceutical
Formulation and Stress
Degradation Studies
Inventi Rapid:
Pharm Ana & Qual
Assur
National 2011
15 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Design and development
of a self-nanoemulsifying
drug delivery system for
telmisartan for oral drug
delivery
International
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Investigation
International 2011
16 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Formulation and
development of a self-
nanoemulsifying drug
delivery system of
irbesartan
Journal of
Advanced
Pharmaceutical
Technology &
Research
International 2011
17 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Preparation,
Characterization, and In
vitro Evaluation of
Ezetimibe Binary Solid
Dispersions with
Poloxamer 407 and PVP
K30
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Innovation
International 2011
206
18 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Improvement of dissolution properties of
lamotrigine by inclusion
complexation and solid
dispersion technique
pharmazie International 2011
19 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Acute oral toxicity study
of Pluchea arguta Boiss
extract in mice.
J Pharmacol Toxicol International 2011
20 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Phytochemical analysis of
some medicinal plants
from western region of
India.
Res J Med Plant International 2011
21 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibacterial activity of
Mangifera indica L. seeds
against some human
pathogenic bacterial
strains and its
phytochemical analysis
Afr J Biotech International 2011
22 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antimicrobial and anti-
inflammatory screening
of four Indian medicinal
plants.
Lat Am J Pharmacy International 2011
23 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Hepatoprotective effect of
Woodfordia fruticosa
Kurz flowers on
diclofenac sodium
induced liver toxicity in
rats.
Asian Pacific J Trop
Med International 2011
24 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Hepatoprotective effect of
Woodfordia fruticosa
Kurz flowers on
diclofenac sodium
induced liver toxicity in
rats.
Asian Pacific J Trop
Med International 2011
25 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Protective effect of
Woodfordia fruticosa
flowers against
acetaminophen induced
hepatic toxicity in rats
Pharmaceutical
Biology International 2011
26 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Brine shrimp cytotoxicity
of Caesalpinia
pulcherrima aerial parts,
antimicrobial activity and
characterization of
isolated active fractions
Natural Product
Research International 2011
27 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Protective effect of
Polyalthea longifolia var.
pendula leaves on ethanol
and ethanol/HCl induced
Asian Pacific
Journal of Tropical
Medicine
International 2011
207
ulcer in rats and its antimicrobial potency
28 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Evaluation of
pharmacognostic and
physicochemical
parameters of
Woodfordia fruticosa
Kurz. Flowers
Pharmacognosy
Journal national 2011
29 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Design and development
of sustained release
micropheress of
Quetiapine Fumarte using
32 full factorial design
Jouranal of
Pharmacy Research International 2010
30 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Effect of rutin on
oxidative cardiac
enzymes in induced
myocardial infarction and
left ventricular
hypertrophy
Inventi Rapid:
Ethnopharmacology International 2010
31 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Oxidative stress and
inflammatory response
participate in hepatic
damage induced by renal
ischemia/ reperfusion
injury in hyperlipidemic
rat
Inventi
Rapid:Molecular
Pharmacology
International 2010
32 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Formulation and
evaluation of matrix type
transdermal drug delivery
system containing
odansetron hydrochloride
Inventi
Rapid:NDDS National 2010
33 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Camellia Sinensis (L):
The Medicinal beverage:
A review
International
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Sciences Review
and Research
National 2010
34 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Pharmacognostic
standardization of the
leaves of Pimenta Dioica
Linn.
International
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Sciences and
Research
International 2010
35 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Role of fenofibrate alone
and in combination with
telmisartan on renal
ischemia/ reperfusion
injury
Renal Failure International 2010
36 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
In vitro antioxidant
activity of leaves of
Garuga Pinnata Roxb.
International
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
International 2010
208
Research
37 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Biochemical alterations
of carbohydrate
metabolizing enzymes in
MMC stressed mice and
ameliorative effect of
natural and synthetic
antioxidants
Journal of Herbal
Medicine and
Toxicology
International 2010
38 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Role of fenofibrate alone
and in combination with
telmisartan on renal
ischemia/reperfusion
injury
Renal Failure International 2010
39 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Preparation,
characterization and
dissolution studies of β-
cyclodextrin inclusion
complexes of drotaverine
hydrochloride
Pharm Tech International 2010
40 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Exenatide protects renal
ishcemia reperfusion
injury in type 2 diabetes
mellitus
International journal
of diabetes in
developing
countries
International 2010
41 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Exenatide attenuates
cardiac injury induced by
renal
ischemia/reperfusion in
diabetes mellitus type2
Renal failure International 2010
42 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
In vitro antioxidant
activity of roots of
Tephrosia Purpurea Linn.
International
Journal of Pharmacy
and Pharmaceutical
Sciences
International 2010
43 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Preparation and
evaluation of sustained
release nimesulide
microspheres using
response surface
methodology
Journal of Pharmacy
Research International 2010
44 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Pharmacognostical and
preliminary
phytochemical
investigation of Leucas
cephalotes (Roth) Spreng
International
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Research
International 2010
45 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
In Vitro antioxidant and
free radical scavenging
studies of alcoholic
extract of alcoholic
extract of Medicago
Rom J Biol- Plant
Biol, International 2010
209
46 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Hyperlipidemia enhanced oxidative stress and
inflammatory response
evoked by renal
Ischemia/reperfusion
injury
International
Journal Of
Pharmacology
International 2010
47 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Influence of solvents and
processing conditions on
crystal habit and some
properties of amiodarone
hydrochloride
Journal of Science International 2010
48 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Pharmaceutical
characterization of
Prosopis juliflora (sw)
seed mucilage-excipient
Acta pharmaceutica
Sciencia International 2010
49 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Formulation development
of smart gel periodontal
drug delivery system for
local delivery of
chemotherapeutic agents
with application of
experimental design
Drug Delivery International 2010
50 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Phytochemical and
pharmacological review
of Legenaria siceraria
Journal of Ayurveda
& integrative
Medicine
International 2010
51 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Preparation and
evaluation of Sustained
release Nimesulide
Microspheres Using
Response Surface
Methodology
Journal of Pharmacy
Research International 2010
52 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Hyperlipidemia Enhanced
Oxidative Stress and
Inflammatory Response
Evoked by Renal
Ischemia/Reperfusion
Injury
International
Journal of
Pharmacology
International 2010
53 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Influence of solvents on
the crystal habit and
properties of rofecoxib
and celecoxib: No
evidence of
polymorphism
Journal of
Pharmaceutical
Innovation
International 2010
54 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Synthesis and
antibacterial activity of
some chalcones.
J Indian Chem Soc national 2010
55 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Synthesis and
antimicrobial screening of
1,6-dihydropyrimidine
Arch Appl Sci Res national 2010
210
derivatives
56 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antimicrobial and free
radical scavenging
activity of different
solvent extracts of
Mangifera indica L.
seeds.
Res J Microbiol International 2010
57 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Synthesis and
antimicrobial screening of
1,6-dihydropyrimidine
derivatives
Arch Appl Sci Res national 2010
58 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Screening of some plant
extracts against some skin
diseases caused by
oxidative stress and
microorganisms
African Journal of
Biotechnology International 2010
59 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Synthesis and
antibacterial activity of
some new triazole
derivatives
Archives of Applied
Science Research national 2010
60 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Antimicrobial and
antioxidant efficacy of
various solvent extracts of
seeds and fruits rind of
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Swartz
Archives of Clinical
Microbiology national 2010
61 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Evalution of Anti-fungal
activity of methanolic
extract of leaves and stem
of Solanum
sisymbriifolium Lam.
Pharmacologyonline International 2009
62 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Cardiac Damage Induced
by Renal
Ischemia/Reperfusion
Injury in Hyperlipidemic
Rats:Role of PPAR-α
Agonist
Hong Kong
J.Nephrol International 2009
63 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Inclusion complexes of
lamotrigine and hydroxy
propyl β-cyclodextrine:
solid state
characterization and
dissolution studies
J. Incl.Phenom
Macrocycle Chem International 2009
64 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Clear Shampoo: An
Important Formulation
Aspect with
Consideration of the
Toxicity of Commonly
Used Shampoo
Polymers International 2009
211
Ingredients
65 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Diabetes Type-II
Exaggerates Renal
Ischemia Reperfusion
Injury by Elevation of
Oxidative Stress and
Inflammatory Response
Journal of Young
Pharmasists International 2009
66 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Characterisation and
Evaluation of Antioxidant
Activity of Portulaca
oleracea
International
Journal of Pharmacy
and Pharmaceutical
Sciences
International 2009
67 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
Aqueous-based Film
coating of Tablets; Study
the Effect of Critical
Process Parameters
Journal of
Pharmatech
Research
International 2009
68 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth
In vitro antioxidant
activity of flowering tops
of Ipomoea indica
Pharmacologyonline International 2009
69 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antioxidant and
antibacterial activity of
Diospyros ebenum Roxb.
leaf extracts.
Turk J Biol International 2009
70 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Preliminary
phytochemical analysis of
some marine algae of
Western coast of Gujarat.
Plant Arch national 2009
71 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Screening of some
traditionally used Indian
plants for antibacterial
activity against Klebsiella
pneumoniae.
J Herbal Med
Toxicol national 2009
72 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibacterial evaluation
of Sapindus emarginatus
Vahl leaf in in vitro
conditions.
Int J Green
Pharmacy national 2009
73 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Determination of
antibacterial and
antioxidant potential of
some medicinal plants
from Saurashtra region.
Indian J Pharm Sci national 2009
74 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Antioxidant and
antibacterial activity of
Diospyros ebenum Roxb.
leaf extracts.
Turk J Biol International 2009
75 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Determination of
antibacterial and
antioxidant potential of
some medicinal plants
from Saurashtra region.
Indian J Pharm Sci national 2009
212
76 Dr. Gaurav
S. Dave
Hepato-protective value of some plants extract
against carbon
tetrachloride toxicity in
male rats
Journal of Cell and
Tissue Research national 2009
77 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibacterial activity of
Eucalyptus citriodora
Hk. Oil on few clinically
important bacteria
Afr J Biotech International 2008
78 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibacterial and
preliminary
phytochemical analysis of
Eucalyptus citriodora Hk.
Leaf.
Nat Prod Res International 2008
79 Dr. Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Antibacterial activity of
Punica granatum stem. Plant Arch national 2008
80 Dr. Gaurav
S. Dave
Hyperglycemia, reactive
oxygen species and
pathophysiology of
diabetic nephropathy
Journal of Cell and
Tissue Research national 2008
Monographs: 00
Chapters in Books: 05
Sr.
No.
Name of
teacher
author
Title of
Chapter Title of Book
Editor of
Book
Name of
Publisher
Year of
Publication ISBN
1 Dr. Navin
R. Sheth Liquid Crystal
Advances in
Drug Delivery
Volume I
Y.
Madhusudan
Rao, A. V.
Jithan
Pharma Med
Press,
Hyderabad
2011
978-
81-
7800-
254-5
2
Dr.
Yogesh
K.
Vaghasiya
Global
resistance
trends and the
potential
impact of
Methicillin
Resistant
Staphylococcus
aureus
(MRSA) and
its solutions.
In: Current
Research,
Technology
and Education
Topics in
Applied
Microbiology
Microbiology
Book Series
Mendez-
Vilas A FORMATEX, 2010
213
and Microbial Biotechnology.
3
Dr.
Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Fruit and
vegetable peels
– strong
natural source
of
antimicrobics
Current
Research,
Technology and
Education Topics
in Applied
Microbiology
and Microbial
Biotechnology
Mendez-
Vilas A FORMATEX, 2010
4
Dr.
Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Novel leads
from herbal
drugs for
infectious skin
diseases
Current
Research,
Technology and
Education Topics
in Applied
Microbiology
and Microbial
Biotechnology
Mendez-
Vilas A FORMATEX, 2010
5
Dr.
Yogesh
K.
Baravalia
Antimicrobial
and antioxidant
potency of
leaves of a
medicinal plant
– Pterocarpus
marsupium
Roxb.
Phytotechnology:
Emerging Trends
Daniel M
and Arya A
Scientific
Publishers,
Jodhpur
2012
Edited Books :00
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: 00
Sr.
No.
Name of teacher
author Title of Book Name of Publisher
Year of
Publication
1 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
A Textbook of
Pharmacognosy - II
Nirav & Rupal
Prakashan 2011
2 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
A Textbook of
Pharmacognosy - III
Nirav & Rupal
Prakashan 2011
3 Dr. Navin R.
Sheth
A Textbook of
Pharmacognosy - IV
Nirav & Rupal
Prakashan 2011
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences
Directory, EBSCO host, etc.): 00
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP:00
214
SJR:00
Impact Factor – range / average : 1
h-index :06 23. Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated : NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally/internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad : NIL
26. Faculty serving in :
a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other
(please specify)
1. Worked as co-coordinator at Refresher course for working Pharmacist by
Pharmacy Council of India New Delhi March 2000.
2. Member of Academic Council of North Gujarat University from 2001 to 2002
3. Secretary Indian Pharmaceutical Association Rajkot Branch for two terms.
4. Vice President, Indian Pharmaceutical Association Rajkot Branch from 2001 to
2005 and President since 2005
5. Faculty Member of South Gujarat University, Surat from 2001 to 2003
6. Co-chairperson at Scientific session of National Convention on Current Trends in
Herbal Drugs, January 2003.
7. Appointed as representative of H. H. Governor of Gujarat in Search committee for
vice chancellor of Babasaheb Ambedkar University, Gujarat, 2004.
8. Faculty Member of Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar from 2004
9. Chairman, Board of Pharmacy and senate member Medical faculty Member of P.
G. Committee for M. Pharm. at Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
10. Resource person at Academic staff college, Rajkot, AICTE, New Delhi, PCI,
New Delhi.
11. Member of editorial board of Planta indica and Current Trend in Biotechnology
and Pharmacy Journal.
12. Worked as coordinator at refresher course for working Pharmacist jointly
organized by P.C.I., Gujarat and B.K.Mody Govt. College Rajkot 24 and 25
December, 2005.
13. Appointed as member in Search committee for vice chancellor of Babasaheb
Ambedkar University, Gujarat, 2006.
14. Resource person at University of New Mexico, USA, in Global Health
Programme.
15. Coordinator INSPIRE camp Novermber 2012
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops,
training programs and similar programs).
a. Dr. Gaurav S. Dave and Dr. Yogesh K. Baravalia: One week teachers training on
―Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics tools for plant improvement‖ at Junagadh
Agricultural University, Junagadh for 1 week (2012) organized by Department of
Biotechnology, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh.
28. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental projects: 100%
percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute : 19.44% (total 14 students)
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
Faculty: Dr. Navin R. Sheth: • Served as a Guest speaker in RajAyuCon – 2009
215
organized by Rajkot district ayurved Medical Practitioners Association, 6th – 7th June
2009.
Currently serving as a Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, and working as a Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Biochemistry, Saurashtra
University, Rajkot.
Editor in Chief of research journal of Saurashtra University ―VAK‖
Resource person at University of New Mexico, USA, in Global Health Programme.
Served as a Judge I scientific poster session in National seminar on Nannocarriers: Novel tool as Drug delivery system organized by faculty of Pharmacy, Dharmsinh
Desai University, Nadiad 9th February, 2013
Served as a session chairman in ―Innovative Insights on the Pharmaceutical Industry‖ organized by Swarnim Vision, 16th February, 2013
Served as a chairperson of scientific session in 17th annual convention of society of
Pharmacognosy and International Symposium on Frontiers in Herbal Cosmetics and
neutraceuticals organized by Society of Pharmacognosy, 23rd – 24th February, 2013.
Served as a Speaker in one day national seminar on Stratergies towards forumulation development and their patent applicability organized by shree H. N. Shukla Institute
of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Rajkot. 3rd March, 2013.
Served as a resource person in ―PHARMA VISION 2020‖ organized by Tantra Shiksha Vidyarthi Parishad , 15-16 September 2013
Served as a Invited speaker in International conference on emerging trends in
chemical and Pharmaceutical sciences organized by JNTU, Anantapur. 28th – 30th
June, 2013.
Nominated for 2011 Edition of Who‘s Who in the World By Marquis publication, U. S. A.
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows :
Students :
Mr. Tapan Shah: Scholarship for Ph. D. from Rutgers University, Newark, USA
(Formerly known UMDNJ)
Mr. Bhargav Waghela: INSPIRE fellowship for Ph. D.
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
Sr.
No.
Type Days Date Theme Sponsor, if
any
1. INSPIRE
Summer
Internship
Program
Five 26/11/12
to
30/11/12
INSPIRE Summer
Internship Program
DST, New
Delhi
1. INSPIRE
Summer
Internship
Program
Five 20/11/11
to
24/11/11
INSPIRE Summer
Internship Program
DST, New
Delhi
1. National level
seminar
One 20/2/11 Biochemistry: Recent
advances in molecular
research
UGC
a. UGC sponsored one day National level seminar on Biochemistry: Recent advances
in molecular research in 2011
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b. DST sponsored 5 days INSPIRE program in 2011 (20-24 November)
c. DST sponsored 5 days INSPIRE program in 2012 (26-30 November)
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments : YES
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the Programme
(refer to question no. 4)
Applications
received
Selected
Male Female
Pass percentage
Male Female
Year 2009
M.Sc. 13 18 100% 100%
M. Phil. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Ph. D. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Year 2010
M.Sc. 14 23 100% 100%
M. Phil. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Ph. D. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Year 2011
M.Sc. 12 23 100% 100%
M. Phil. 00 00 00 02 00 50%
Ph. D. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Year 2012
M.Sc. 05 28 Result awaited
M. Phil. 00 00 01 00 00 50%
Ph. D. 00 00 00 00 00 00
Year 2013
M.Sc. 04 13 Result awaited
M. Phil. 00 00 00 00 00 100%
Ph. D. 00 00 00 00 00 00
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the State
% of students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from other
countries
M.Sc. 94.029% 3.73% 2.23% 00%
M. Phil. 100% 00% 00% 00%
Ph. D. 50% 37.5% 12.5% 00%
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
NIL
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG NIL
PG to M. Phil. 1.5%
PG to Ph. D. 11.11%
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral 00
Employed
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Student progression Percentage against enrolled
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
00
30%
Entrepreneurs 1%
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 02
from other universities within the State 01
from universities from other States 00
from universities outside the country 00
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period : NIL
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: 01
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: 06 computers
c) Total number of class rooms: 02
d) Class rooms with ICT facility: YES
e) Students‘ laboratories: 02 f) Research laboratories: 01
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University:
Name of Student Year Degree Remark
Mr. Jaymin Mendapara 2012 Ph. D. Running
Mr. Atul Makasana 2012 Ph. D. Running
b) from other institutions/universities: NIL
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University. :
Name of Student Year Amount Programme Sponsor
Mr. Rajubhai Dabhi
2012 Rs.5000/- M.Sc. Biochemistry Sem-4 IQAC,
Saurashtra University
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. NIL
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback? NIL
b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Feedback forms are given to iqac department for evaluation
c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback? NIL
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10):
1. Dr. Rupal Joshi, Scientist, Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad (2001)
2. Dr. Jagdish Patel, Scientist, United Kingdom (2002)
3. Mr. Dipen Soni, Research Executive, Serum Institute, Pune (2003)
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4. Dr. Dhaval Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kingston University, Canada (2004)
5. Mr. Nikunj Kanani, Director, Kanani Biologicals, Anand (2004)
6. Ms. Ruchi Bhalodia, Executive, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad (2005)
7. Mr. Chirag Patel, Executive, Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad (2007)
8. Mr. Mukesh Tanti, Executive, Bioassay Research, Ahmedabad (2008)
9. Mr. Vijay Vekariya, Assistant Professor, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari
(2009)
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
involving external experts.
A. UGC sponsored one day National level seminar on Biochemistry: Recent advances in
molecular research in 2011
B. Guest lectures by following scientist/professors
1) Prof. Harish Padh, Vice-chancellor, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
2) Prof. Hari S. Misra, Division of Molecular Biology, Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Mumbai
3) Dr. S. R. Acharya, Department of Biochemistry, The M. S. University of Baroda,
Vadodara
4) Dr. A. Mukhopadhyay, Advisor & Scientist ‗G‘, DST, New Delhi
5) Dr. K. Keshav Rao, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc,
Bangalore
6) Dr. Kumud Patel, Retired Deputy Director, NIOH, Ahmedabad
7) Dr. Ramesh Sharma, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, NEHU, Shillong
8) Dr. V. Balaram, Chief Scientist, NGRI, Hydrabad
9) Dr. B.S. Dwarkanath, Joint Director, INSA, DRDE, New Delhi
10) Dr. K Kannan, Professor, GGSI University, Dwarka, New Delhi
11) Dr. P. D. Gupta, Ex-Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hydrabad
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
The course involves lectures, practical classes, tutorials and individual study.
Lectures are an efficient way of providing information and define the scope of the
course. It is most important, however, that you steadily read the relevant chapters in the
recommended textbooks as well as recent research publications to extend and consolidate
the material covered in lectures.
Practical classes not only develop technical and analytical skills but also rely on
knowledge of more theoretical material. Application aspects of theoretical gained will be
only fulfilled in practical classes.
Tutorials are the heart of the course - they allow small group discussion (participate!) and
provide feedback to tutor on your understanding and progress. Tutorials provides indirect
presence of teachers to solve the problem and understand the subject repetitively
Individual study is not necessarily confined strictly to the syllabus, and is what
University life is all about. Apart from this individual study helps to develop
independence and self reasoning qualities to understand the subject.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
Through Internal Quality Assurance Cell and Feedback process (Students)
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Participation in various national and international level seminars, symposiums and
conferences.
Students are participating in various summer research training, dissertation training and
workshops
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48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department. Research article presentation and discussion
CSIR-NET, GATE, GPSC and Bank PO exam preparation
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details.
UGC recognized department
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied.
Department is actively involved in research activities, we have polished various research
articles in emerging areas of biological sciences. We are constantly upgrading students
with advance research and techniques.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
department.
Strength: advance instrumentation facility, department is equipped with advanced
education and teaching aids, students and young faculties are enthusiastic and energetic.
Weaknesses: No permanent faculties, compromised funding and self-financed
department
Opportunities: Generate strong platform for industrial job, PhD admission, teaching.
Challenges: To provide national & international level environment for research and
academics.
52. Future plans of the department.
Department is planning to establish a strong research collaboration with premier research
and academic institutes as well as universities to develop an efficient and skilled man
power to full fill current needs of different sectors. We are planning to offer advance
courses at PG level to generate awareness and interest in students of basic science to
build their career in advance research field.
Departmental Interest areas for National and International Collaborations
Population genomics, Enzymology, Bioremediation, Pharmacology
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Chemistry
2. Year of Establishment: 1980
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes (Faculty of Science)
4. Names of Programmes offered: M. Sc., Ph. D., PG Diploma
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: Nil
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.: Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: Nil
8. Examination system: Annual/Semester/Trisemester/Choice Based Credit System:
Semester/ Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: Nil
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 1 - 5
Associate Professor 4 3 1
Assistant Professor 6 5 2
Others - - -
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization, expertise
and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designatio
n
Specialization No. of
years of
experi-
ence
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. P.H.
Parsania
M. Sc., Ph. D. Prof. &
Head
(CAS)
Phys. & Polym
Chem
32 09
Dr. Anamik
Shah
M. Sc., Ph. D. Professor
(CAS)
Org. & Ana.
Chem.
30 17
Dr. V.H.
Shah
M. Sc., Ph. D Professor
(CAS)
Org. Chem. 24
12
Dr. H.S.
Joshi
M. Sc., Ph. D Professor
(CAS)
Ana. Chem. 23 09
Dr. Shipra
Baluja
M. Sc., Ph. D Professor
(CAS)
Phy. Chem. 23 07
Dr. U.C.
Bhoya
M. Sc., Ph. D Asso.
Professor
Ana. Chem. 17 -
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Dr. M.K. Shah
M. Sc., Ph. D Assist. Professor
Inorg. Chem. 11 03
Dr. Y.T.
Naliapara
M. Sc., Ph. D Assist.
Professor
Org. Chem. 17 08
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
I. Dr. Bipin Pandey, Former VP, Zydus Research Center,
Zydus Cadila Ltd, India
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: 10%
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: 14:1 (Including SF Staff)
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Ju. Cleark 1 1 1
Typist 1 1 1
Storekeeper 1 1 1
Peon 1 1 1
Hamal 4 0 0
Sweeper 1 1 1
Gas Mechanic 1 1 1
Glass Blower 1 1 1
Lab. Technician 3 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
Following are the research programs of the Department of Chemistry
Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry,
Synthesis of bioactive heterocycles,
Drug discovery,
Synthetic Polymers and their characterization,
Composites and coating materials,
Ultrasonic study of organic and polymeric solutions.
Metal complexes and metal chelates,
Bio-inorganic compounds,
Liquid crystals
Method development and validation.
Natural products isolation and identification.
Bioinformatics
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project title
and grants received project-wise:
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S.
No
Title of the project Funding
Agency
Amount
Rs.
(in Lakhs)
Duration PI
1. Development of Novel
Polyester Polyols Based
Polyurethane Resins for
Bio-composites &
Coating Materials
UGC, New
Delhi
6.81 2008-
2011
Dr. P. H.
Parsania
2. Use of Renewable
Resources and Novel
Epoxy Resins for Value
Added Natural Fiber
Reinforced Plastics
DST, New
Delhi
20.00 2010-
2013
Dr. P. H.
Parsania
3. Synthesis of Specialty
Bisphenol-C-Epoxy ,
Bisphenol-C-Novolac
and Their Vinyl Ester
Resins for Value Added
Fiber Reinforced
Composites and
CoatingMaterials
CSIR, New
Delhi
13.23 2011-
2014
Dr. P. H.
Parsania
4. Synthesis and
Performance Evaluation
of Modified
Multifunctional Resins
and Their Fiber
Reinforced Composites
Based onRenewable
Resources
UGC, New
Delhi
8.1 2013-
2016
Dr. P. H.
Parsania
5. National facility for Drug
Discovery Through New
Chemical Entities
(NCE‘s) Development &
Instrumentation Support
to Small manufacturing
Pharma Enterprises
DST- DPRP,
New Delhi,
UGC – SAP,
Govt. of
Gujarat,
Sau.
University.
543.00 2005-
2012
Dr. A. K.
Shah
6. Syntheiss and anticancer
activity of new chemical
entities (NCE's)
aromatase inhibitors
UGC, New
Delhi
14.00 2012-
2015
Dr. A. K.
Shah
7. Development of efficient
P-glycoprotein Inhibitors
based on Structure Based
Drug Design (SBDD)
DBT, New
Delhi
46.82 2011-
2013
Dr. A. K.
Shah
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and In-silico Comparative Studies
8. Structure-Based
Development of Non-
neucleoside anti-HIV-1
RT Drugs. With Prof.
Virendra N. Pandey, NJ,
USA &Dr.TanajiTelele,
NY, USA.
NIH-USA 230128.50
USD
2008-
2011
Dr. A. K.
Shah
9 Process development for
some chiral derivatives
into non-chiral keto acid
salts and other
compounds useful as
pharmaceutical
substances.
Claris
Life
Sciences
, SU,
DST,
New Delhi.
77.24 2008-
2010
Dr. A. K.
Shah
10. Open source Drug
Discovery
CSIR 7.00 2009-
2012
Dr. A. K.
Shah
11. Development of
deuterium labeled
pharmaceutically active
compounds suitable for
use in pharmaceutical
research
BRNS, New
Delhi
20.00 2010-
2013
Dr. A. K.
Shah
12. Bioactive Pyridine
&Pyrimidines as Anti
HIV & Anti-Tumor
Agents
UGC,
New Delhi
6.66 2007
-
2010
Dr. V. H.
Shah
13. Design, synthesis and
Bioevaluation of
pyridines and
Pyrimidines as potential
Antituberculor Agents
CSIR,
New Delhi
15.00 2010
-
2013
Dr. V. H.
Shah
14. Design, synthesis and
biological evaluation
ofpyridine and
Pyrimidine based
heterocyclesaspotential
anti - HIV and anti-tumor
agents
UGC,
New Delhi
9.00 2012
-
2015
Dr. V. H.
Shah
15. Investigation of
Pyrazines and other
hetrocyles as
Antituberculor and anti-
inflammatory agents
UGC, New
Delhi
4.85 Dr. H. S.
Joshi
16. Synthesis and Study of
Liquid crystalline
Seed Money
Saurashtra
0.50 2011-
2013
Dr. U. C.
Bhoya
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Materials University
17. Synthesis of Anticancer
activity of metal
pyridodipyrimidines
Seed Money
Saurashtra
University
0.50 2009-
2012
Dr. M. K.
Shah
18. Novel metal porphyrins
as photodynamic
therapeutics
UGC,
New Delhi
1.4 2010-
2012
Dr. M. K.
Shah
19. Synthesis and Biological
studies on novel aniline
nitrogen mustard
containing various
heterocycles as potent
anticancer agents
UGC, New
Delhi
12.4 2012-
2015
Dr. Y. T.
Naliapara
20. Synthsis of Rhodium
catalysts
Seed Money
Saurashtra
University
0.40 2012-
2014
Dr. Y. T.
Naliapara
21. Design, Synthesis and
Characterization of some
new Heterocycles as an
Antituberculor agents
Fast track
Young
Scientist
scheme,
DST, New
Delhi
18.84 2008-
2011
Dr. R. C.
Khunt
22. Design, Synthesis and
Characterization of some
new Heterocycles as an
anti HIV agents
Seed money
Saurashtra
University
0.40 2012-
2014
Dr. R. C.
Khunt
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
Name of Project Collaborativ
e Institute
Grant
Receive
d
Name of
Project
Collaborativ
e Institute
Grant
Receive
d lakhs
Facility for
Preservation of
Molecular
Diversity
Foundation
of MSME
clusters
(Supported
by DST
program)
34.00
Lakh
Structure-
Based
Developmen
t of Non-
neucleoside
anti-HIV-1
RT Drugs
NIH-USA 188
Open Source
Drug Discovery
CSIR 7.00
Lakh
Development of
deuterium
labeled
pharmaceuticall
BRNS,
New Delhi
20.00
Lakh
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y active compounds
suitable for use
in
pharmaceutical
research
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received:
Sr. No.
Title & Scope of
the R & D
Project
Year in
which
started
Grant
Received
In Lakhs
Remarks
(Status:
Completed/
Ongoing)
Name of
coordinator
1. DST-FIST 2011 59.00 Ongoing Dr. P. H.
Parsania
2. UGC-SAP 2009 74.50 Ongoing Dr. P. H.
Parsania
3. OSDD (two) 2010 10.00 2012 Dr. A. K. Shah
4. BRNS 2009 21.00 Ongoing Dr. A. K. Shah
5. NFDD 2007 548.80 Ongoing Dr. A. K. Shah
6. DST-DPRP 2008 71.00 Completed Dr. A. K. Shah
7. NIH 2008 188.00 ongoing Dr. A. K. Shah
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition: Yes
1. National facility for drug discovery (partly funded)
National Recognition: Yes
1. National facility for drug discovery (partly funded)-DST
2. Government of India-FIST-DST
3. UGC-SAP
4. BRNS-BARC
International Recognition: YES
1. National Institute of Health USA
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
Building donation from Dr. DipchandGardi of Rs. 3 Crore worth 35000 square ft.
NFDD sponcered by under the cluster development of industries commissioner at
1.25 Crore.
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals : 240
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(Appendix 1)
Monographs : 3
Chapter in Books: 1
Edited books : 1
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: 1
Glimpses of Physical Chemistry- Dr. Shipra Baluja and Falguni Karia
ISBN : 978-93-80982-42-7
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.) : 1
Citation Index – range / average: 50-350
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average: 0.17-5.6
h-index : 2-20
23. Details of patents and income generated:
I. Process for Preparation of Pharmaceutically Active N-phenyl (Anthranilic
acid) by Ullmann Method." Narsinh Dodia and Anamik Shah. Filing No. &
Date: 979/MUM/2000 (02-11-2000)
II. A Process for the Preparation of Methyl substituted dioxatetracyclo
Heptadeca-2, 4,6,11,13,15-hexaene." Narsinh Dodia, Rajesh Raval, V. M.
Thakor and Anamik Shah. Filing No. & Date: 305/MUM/2001 (30-03-2001)
III. Novel Compound namely methyl substituted Dioxa-tetracyclo Heptadeca-2,
4,6,11,13,15-hexaene." Narsinh Dodia and Anamik Shah. Filing No. & Date:
306/MUM/2001 (30-03-2001) and granted on 30/11/2007
IV. Novel Coumarin compounds as antiviral agents and process of preparations
thereof." Dinesh Manvar, Jignesh Patel and Anamik Shah. Indian Provisional
Patent Applications No. 584/MUM/2007
V. 6-Methyl-4-phenyl-5-(phenyl or cycloalkyl)carbamoyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro
pyrimidin-2-one derivatives as Antitubercular Agents." Dhiman Sarkar,
Sampa Sarkar, Rohit Joshi, Vijay Khedkar, Raghuvir Pissurlenkar, Evans
Coutinho, Anamik Shah. Applications No.: PCT/IB2011/001184 (31.05.2011)
/ Publication no.: WO2011/151701 (08.12.2011)
No income is generated.
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated:
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1. NFDD: 5 Lakhs
2. Outside testing charges: 1 lakh
3. Technology transfer (4) and in pipeline (1): 77 lakhs
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:
1. Prof. P. H. Parsania: Shimatzu Co., Singapure.
2. Dr. Shipra Baluja: Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
26. Faculty serving in:
a) National Committees: 5
1. Prof. P. H. Parsania
(i) UGC Plan Committees and Major Research projects
(ii) Selection Committee in various universities
2. Prof. A. K. Shah
(i) UGC Plan Committees and Major Research projects
(ii) Selection Committee in various universities
3. Prof. V. H. Shah
(i) UGC Plan Committees and Major Research projects
(ii) Selection Committee in various universities
4. Prof. H. S. Joshi
(i) Selection Committee in various universities
5. Prof. Shipra Baluja
(i) Selection Committee in various universities
b) International Committees : Nil
c) Editorial board: 8
Prof. P. H. Parsania:
1. Journal of Applied Chemistry
2. Journal of Polymer Materials
3. Pritam Publications, Jalgaon
4. International Journal of Polymer Science
Prof. A. K. Shah:
1. Journal of Cell and Tissue Research (TRC journal)
2. Medicinal Chemistry: An Indian Journal (Trade Science Incorporation)
3. Associate Editor, Journal of Basic and Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Brazil.
4. Heterocyclic Communications, UK
Prof. Shipra Baluja:
1. International journal of Chemical Research
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d) Other (please specify):NIL
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
E-training : 2
1. Workshop on data base-3-7 Feb. 2011
2. Science Direct Data Workshop-25th
Aug. 2011
Training Program: 1
1. Workshop on X-ray diffraction theory-31-5-2013
28. Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-
departmental projects : 45 %
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other Universities/
industries/ institutes: 2 %
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty
Dr. P. H. Parsania
1) One time BSR UGC grant
Dr. A. K. Shah
1) One time grant
2) Moorari Bapu Award
3) Russian Award for International Scientific Partnership
4) Best paper Award
Dr. V. H. Shah
1) One time BSR UGC grant
Dr. H. S. Joshi
1) One time BSR UGC grant
2) Best paper Award
Dr. S. Baluja
1) Hari Om Ashram award for Best research paper.
2) UGC one time BSR (awaited)
Doctoral/postdoctoral fellows:
Erasmus Mundas fellowship of European Union: 12
Humbolt Fellowship abroad: 01
Post Doctoral fellowship: 05
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Marie Curie fellowship: 01
Students:
Several students received awards in oral and poster presentations at different
national/international conferences
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
1. Two days National Workshop on Patents and IPR updates: 19-20 Sept. 2009.
2. National Seminar on Emerging trends in Polymer Science and Technology
(Poly-2009)-8-10 Oct. 2009.
3. One day workshop on LC-MS Basics Overview- 8th Dec. 2009
4. International Seminar on Recent Developments in structure and Ligand Based
Drug Design-23rd
Dec. 2009
5. ISCB-2011- 4-7 Feb. 2011
6. IPR Seminar- 26 Feb. 2011
7. XXXI Annual Conference of of Indian Council of Chemists-28-28th
Dec.
2012.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
I. If and when hazardous chemicals including cyanides and other toxic
materials are to be used in any experiments, then it is mandatory to use
them in Vacuum Hood. Prior concern and clearance from research guide is
also mandatory.
II. No researcher is allowed to work alone in the lab, apart from official time
of the department and holidays.
III. If radio tagged material is to be used in the experiment, then a separate
register has to be managed regarding amount and method of the materials
used. A clearance from relevant governing body should be attached.
IV. Proper safety practices and equipments are mandatory during working
with potentially bioactive molecules.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
Year Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M. Sc. 514 2009-2010 64 32 66.7 33.3
M. Sc. 436 2010-2011 54 38 58.7 41.3
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M. Sc. 482 2011-2012 51 39 56.7 43.3
M. Sc. 556 2012-2013 57 36 61.3 38.7
Ph. D - 2009-2010 9 0 100 0
Ph. D - 2010-2011 2 1 66.7 33.3
Ph. D - 2011-2012 28 10 73.7 26.3
Ph. D - 2012-2013 15 4 78.9 21.1
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M. Sc. 95 5 0 0
Ph. D 97 3 0 0
PG diploma 100 0 0 0
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details category-wise.
S. No. Name of Student Agency Remark
1 Mr. Mahesh P. Jadav Net JRF
2 Mr. YogeshAjudia Net JRF
3 Mr. Satish D. Ghelani Net LS
4 Mr. JayeshBabaria Net LS
5 Dr. R. C. Khunt GPSC
6 Mr. S. D. Ghelani GPSC
7 Mr. PankajChovatiya GATE-March-13
8 Mr. HareshGangadiya ,,
9 Mr. NileshVadodaria ,,
10 KiranNakum ,,
11 Mr. MayurPathar ,,
12 Mr. GautamDhula ,,
13 Mr. GarangPandya ,,
14 Mr. DenishViradiya ,,
15 Mr. JayantRathod ‗‘
16 Mr. NiragMavani ,,
17 Mr. Bharat Baria ,,
18 Ms. BhavnaLavadiya ,,
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19 Mr. MiteshGondaliya ,,
20 Mr. YogeshAjudia ,,
21 Mr. SatishGhelani ,,
22 Mr. SatishGhelani NET-March-13
23 Mr. YogeshAjudia ,, JRF-UGC
24 Mr. PankajChovatiya ,, JRF-UGC
25 Ms. BhavnaLavadia ,, JRF-CSIR
26 Mr. HareshGangadiya ,, LS
27 Mr. NiragMavani ,, LS
28 Mr. KiranNakum ,, LS
29 Ms. Charmi Mehta ,, LS
NETJuly 2013
30 Mr. Pankaj Chovatiya NETJuly 2013 CSIR
31 Ms. Bhavna Lavadiya ― UGC
32 Mr. Jayesh S. Babariya ― UGC
33 Mr. Hasmukh R. Khunt ― UGC
34 Mr. Jayant B. Rathod ― CSIR
35 Mr. Vipul C. Kotadiya ― ― CSIR
36 Mr. Kiran Nakum ― CSIR
37 Ms. Dipti L. Namera ― CSIR
38 Mr. Denish J.Viradiya ― CSIR
GATE
39 Mr. Gautam M. Dhuda GATE GATE
40 Mr. Jayant B. Rathod ― ―
41 Mr. Haresh J. Gangadiya ― ―
42 Mr. Pankaj Chovatiya ― ―
43 Mr. Bharat H. Bariya ― ―
44 Mr. Denish J. Viradiya ― ―
45 Mr. Nilesh Vadodariya ― ―
46 Mr. Mayur Pathar ― ―
47 Mr. Kiran Nakum ‗ ‗
48 Mr. Haresh J. Gangadiya CSIR NET
G SLET Sept. June 2013
49 Mr. Gautam M. Dhuda G SLET
50 Ms. Ankita A. Bhalu ―
51 Mr. Kalpen V. Chavda ―
52 Mr. Pankaj Chovatiya ―
53 Mr. Bharat H. Bariya ―
54 Mr. Jayant B. Rathod ―
55 Mr. Kiran Nakum ―
56 Mr. Paresh D. Ladva ―
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57 Mr. Yogesh Ajudiya ―
58 Mr. Dharmesh Sankharwa ―
59 Ms. Ranjan C. Khunt ―
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage
against enrolled
UG to PG -
PG to M. Phil. -
PG to Ph. D. 40
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral 2
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
10
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Entrepreneurs:
I. Dr. Vipin Patel, Endoc Pharma Ltd., Shapar-
Veraval.
II. S. D. Sorathia, Endoc Pharma Ltd., Shaper-
Veraval
III. Dr. S. H. Kavathia, Luptite Polyres. Ind.,
Rajkot.
IV. Dr. B. G. Manvar, Entrepreneur, Luptite
Polyres. Ind., Rajkot.
V. Dr. Vaibhav Ramani, Enron CRO, Shaper-
Veraval
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36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 62
From other universities within state 25
From universities from other states 13
From universities outside the country 0
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil., Ph. D. and D. Litt. during the assessment
period: NIL
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: 2
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: 12
c) Total number of class-rooms: 7
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: NIL
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e) Students‘ Laboratories: 6
f) Research Laboratories: 4
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
a) From the host Institution/University
List of Doctoral Students
Sr. No. Name Supervisor Year
1 Dr. J. J. Surani Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
2 Dr. A. S. Doshi Dr. H. S. Joshi 2009
3 Dr. D. N. Joshipura Dr. A. K. Shah 2009
4 Dr. H. V. Mathukia Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
5 Dr. S. H. Jarsania Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
6 Dr. N. P. Kapuriya Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2009
7 Dr. (Mrs.) Jyoti Singh Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2009
8 Dr. R. Kakadia Dr. A.K. Shah 2009
9 Dr. N. K. Godvani Dr. S. Baluja 2009
10 Dr. A.A. Kulshrestha Dr. S. Baluja 2009
11 Dr. G.G. Dubal Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
12 Dr. H. B. Patel Dr. H. S. Joshi 2009
13 Dr. P.R. Vachharajani Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
14 Dr. S. D. Tala Dr. H. S. Joshi 2009
15 Dr. M. J. Solanki Dr. V. H. Shah 2009
16 Dr. A. M. Pansuriya Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2009
17 Dr. V. R. Ram Dr. H. S. Joshi 2010
18 Dr. C. V. Bhuva Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2010
19 Dr. Amit. R. Trivedi Dr. V. H. Shah 2010
20 Dr. K. A. Joshi Dr. H. S. Joshi 2010
21 Dr. M. M.Savant Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2010
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22 Dr. K. L. Dubal Dr. H. S. Joshi 2010
23 Dr. B. D. Bhuva Dr. P.H. Parsania 2010
24 Dr. P. K. Mer Dr. P.H. Parsania 2010
25 Dr. R. H. Bhalodiya Dr. S. Baluja 2010
26 Dr. R. V. Gajera Dr. S. Baluja 2010
27 Dr. S. K. Matariya Dr. P. H. Parsania 2010
28 Dr. N. J. Vekariya Dr. S. Baluja 2010
29 Dr. M. P. Bhatt Dr. S. Baluja 2011
30 Dr. R. S. Thakkar Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
31 Dr. S. P. Parekh Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
32 Dr. N. U. Pandya Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
33 Dr. S. A. Thakarar Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
34 Dr. G. J. Kher Dr. H. S. Joshi 2011
35 Dr. C. P. Vakhariya Dr. V. H. Shah 2011
36 Dr.(Miss) D. K. Dodiya Dr. V. H. Shah 2011
37 Dr. N. K. Chavda Dr. M. K. Shah 2011
38 Dr. U. G. Pathak Dr. P.H. Parsania 2011
39 Dr. J. V. Patel Dr. P.H. Parsania 2011
40 Dr. H. O. Kaila Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
41 Dr. Jagdish Movalia Dr. S. Baluja 2011
42 Dr. B. S. Savalia Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
43 Dr. H. K. Ram Dr. V. H. Shah 2011
44 Dr. M. A. Ambasania Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
45 Dr. B. L. Dodiya Dr. H. S. Joshi 2011
46 Dr. (Mrs). P. P. Adroja Dr. P.H. Parsania 2011
47 Dr. B. R. Marvania Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
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48 Dr. A. J. Bavishi Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
49 Dr. R. S. Chaniyara Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
50 Dr. H. K. Vala Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
51 Dr. H. T. Saravaia Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
52 Dr. P. P. Pipaliya Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2011
53 Dr. D. Bhavsar Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
54 Dr. (Miss) M. N. Parmar Dr. A.K. Shah 2011
55 Dr. A. S. Patel Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2011
56 Dr. R. M.Tada Dr. M. K. Shah 2012
57 Dr. P. V. Vekariya Dr. H. S. Joshi 2012
58 Dr. V. B. Audichya Dr. Y. T. Naliapara 2012
59 Dr. Suresh B. Koradiya Dr. P. H. Parsania 2012
60 Dr. Bipin H. Dholariya Dr. V. H. Shah 2012
61 Dr. Lina D. Joshi Dr. P. H. Parsania 2012
62 Dr. Vaibhav S. Ramani Dr. A. K. Shah 2012
63 Dr. Vipul B. Kataria Dr. V. H. Shah 2012
64 Dr. Minaxi Maru Dr. M. K. Shah 2012
65 Dr. Ashish B. Patel Dr. Shipra Baluja 2013
66 Dr. Rizwan Y. Ghumara Dr. P. H. Parsania 2013
List of Research Associates:
1. Amit Trivedi 2010 Dept. of Chemistry,
Saurashtra University
2. J. V. Patel 2011 Dept. of Chemistry,
Saurashtra University
3. V. B. Kataria 2012 Dept. of Chemistry,
Saurashtra University
b) Other Institution/University:
S. No. Name of fellow Year
Doctoral/
postdoctorate Name of Institute
1 Vaibhav Mehta 2005 Doctorate Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
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2008 Post Doctorate
Humboldt
Institut fur Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie, Georg –
August -Universität Göttingen
2 Sachin Modha 2008 Doctorate Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 Nigam Mishra 2010 Doctorate Do
4 Deepak Vachani 2010 Doctorate Do
5 JitendraBarival 2009 Post Doctorate Do
6 JalpaTrivedi 2009 Post Doctorate Do
7 Bharat Savaliya 2009 Pre Doctorate Do
8 RupeshKhunt 2008 PostDoctorate-1
Vienna University of
Technology, Inst. of Applied
Synthetic Chemistry
2009 PostDoctorate-2 KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven
9 Priti Shah 2006 Post Doctorate
Vienna University of
Technology, Inst. of Applied
Synthetic Chemistry
12 Pratik
Ambasana 2013
Visiting Ph. D.
Scholar Katholieke Universiteit, Leuv
13 Himanshu
Butani 2013
Visiting Ph. D.
Scholar Katholieke Universiteit, Leuv
14 Vicky D. Jain 2013 Research
assistant Academia Sinica,Taipei,Taiwan
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University: NIL
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so highlight the methodology.
Yes. Suggestions from internal and external experts are taken into consideration for
framing the syllabus. Comments and views of experts from industries are also taken
into consideration for professional and practical features of syllabus.
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does
the department utilize the feedback?
YES. Faculty is invited to share their feedback on syllabus on regular basis in
Staff council. Proper updating and/or modification in syllabus is then approached
in accordance with the comments.
b) Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
YES. Curriculum as well as teaching methodology are updated and improved as
per comments and requirements.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the Department
utilize the feedback?
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YES. During updating of syllabus, employers feedback is always taken into
consideration for better employability.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1) Dr. Dharmesh B. Desai, Vice President, Solaris Chemtech Ind. Ltd, Baroda.
2) Dr. Dharmendra Thaker, Head, R & D, Solaris Chemtech Ind. Ltd, Baroda.
3) Dr. Jyoti Singh, Deputy General manager, Sci-Edge Information, Pune.
4) Dr. Priti Shah, Manager, QA, Torrent Pharmaceutical Ltd., Ghandinagar.
5) Dr. Virendra Kachhadia, Senior Manager, Orchid, Chennai.
6) Dr. M. R. Sanaria, Senior Manager, GullBensen, Baroda.
7) Dr. Niraj Shah, General manager, Macleods Pharma, Mumbai.
8) Dr. Nikhil Bhatt, General Manager, R & D, Lupin Ltd., Baroda.
9) Dr. Maitreya Joshi, Manager, Gujrat Insecticide Ltd., Ankleshwer.
10) Dr. Rajesh Loria, Manager, Lupin Ltd., Pune.
11) Dr. Nikunj Kacchadia, Manager, Dabar Research Centre, Sahibabad.
12) Dr. Mausami Chavada, Manager, Unichem Laboratories, Baroda.
13) Dr. J. K. Joshi, Manager, Atul, Valsad.
14) Dr. Dilip Vadalia, Asst. Manager, Atul, Valsad.
15) Dr. Anjana Shah, Assi., Manager, ADL, Unimerk, Ahmedabad.
16) Dr. Asif Solanki, Senior Scientist, Assi., Manager, ADL, Unimerk, Ahmedabad.
17) Dr. Paresh Zalavadia, Senior Group Leader, Oxygen Health care, Ahmedabad.
18) Dr. Ashish Doshi, USFDA Incharge, Lupin Ltd., Pune.
19) Dr. Hitarth Acharya, Group Leader-Organic Synthesis, Adventus Laboratories
Pvt. Ltd., Baroda.
20) Dr. S. B. Bhatt, M. D., Natural Solution Inc. & Natural API Solution, Baroda.
21) Dr. Ashish Trivedi, Scientist, Dishmann, Ahmedabad.
22) Dr. Niral Mehta, Research Scientist, R & D, Berryplastics Co., Baroda.
23) Dr. Arti Pandya, Senior Scientist, IPA, Cadella, Ahmedabad.
24) Dr. Bhavin Shukla, , Senior Scientist, IPA, Cadella, Ahmedabad.
25) Dr. Bhagwati, Research Scientist, Biotech Deptt., UK.
26) Dr. Dinesh Manvar, Research Associate, Rutgers biomedical and health Sciences,
Newark (USA).
27) Dr. Vaibhav Mehta, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, UK.
28) Dr. Amit Trivedi, D. S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellow, Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:
Following foreign scientists have visited Department of Chemistry to deliver lectures
1. Prof. Andrea Vasella Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland
2. Prof. Ulrich Jordis University of Technology, Vienna, Australia
3. Prof. Ramaiah Muthyala University of Minnesota, USA
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4. Dr. Mukund Chorghade President, THINQ Pharma, USA
5. Dr. Domenico Spinelli Università di Bologna, Italy
6. Prof. Colin Suckling University of Strathclyde, UK
7. Mr. Viren Mehta USA
8. Prof. Nicole Jeanne Moreau President of IUPAC, France
9. Dr. Akhil Vaidya Drexel University, USA
10. Prof. Erik Van der Eycken Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium
11. Prof Dr. Johan Van der Eycken Ghent University, Belgium
12. Dr. Mulchand Patel Distinguished Professor, University of Buffalo, USA
13. Prof. Henk Timmerman VU University, Netherland
14. Dr. T. V. Radhakrishna US Vitamins, USA
15. Prof. Ariga Katsuhiko Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Following Indian scientists who have visited Department of Chemistry to deliver
lectures
1. Dr. Rashmi Barbhaiya MD, CEO, and co‐founder of Advinus Therapeutics,
Bangalore
2. Dr. T. Rajamannar Director, SPARC Ltd. (Sun Pharma), Vadodara
3. Mr. Sandip Parekh Director, Unimark Remedies Ltd., Bavla
4. Dr. R. C. Gupta GM, Torrent Research Centre, Gandhinagar
5. Dr. H. G. Koshia Commissioner, Food & Drug Control Admn,Gandhinagar
6. Prof. Dr. B. P. Bandgar VC, Solapur University, Solapur
7. Prof. R. K. Goel Former VC, MS University, Vadodara
8. Dr. J. S. Yadav Director, IICT, Hydrabad
9. Dr. C. M. Gupta Former Director, CDRI, Lucknow
10. Dr. Keshav deo VP, Wockhardt Research Centre,Aurangabad
11. Mr. Bharat Mehta Chairman, Calyx Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai
12. Dr. A. K. Goshwami M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur
13. Prof. S. C. Ameta President, Indian Chemical Society
14. Dr. G. C. Saxena President, Indian Council of Chemists
15. Prof. Harish Padh VC, SP University, V. V. Nagar, Anand
16. Dr. S. P. Adeshara Food & Drugs Control, Commissioner
17. Prof. Y. K. Agrawal Gujarat Forensic Sciences University
18. Dr. Ashok Vaidya SPARC, Mumbai 19. Prof. H. Illa JNCSAR, Bangalore
20. Prof. Virendra Parmar Delhi University, Delhi
21. Prof. P. T. Perumal CLRI, Chennai
22. Dr. V. G. Nayak President, Alembic Ltd., Vadodara
23. Prof. M. M. Sharma Former Director, UDCT, Mumbai
24. Mr. Kantisen Shroff Chairman, Excel Crop Care Ltd., Bhuj
25. Dr. B Gopalan Chief Scientific Officer, Aurobindo Pharma,Chennai
26. Mr. Chetan Majnudar Director, Claris Life Science Ltd., Ahmedabad
27. Dr. Bharat Trivedi Wokhardt, Aurangabad
28. Dr. Sunil Nadkarni VP, Torrent Research Centre, Gandhinagar
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Audio-visual teaching methodology by utilizing Overhead Projectors, and
Digital Projectors.
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Conceptual and mechanistic understating by performing experiments.
Yearly industrial visits.
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
Through getting constant feedbacks from employers, other experts and from students.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Environment awareness
Green chemistry awareness
Safety awareness
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
Short and long Industrial visits
Picnics
NET, GATE, SLET, and other competitive examinations
e-workshops for scifinder & other web based resources
Lecture series of eminent speakers
Enterpreneurship awareness
Social services awareness
Blood Donation Camp.
Thelesemina Camp.
Cultural and Sports Programs.
Yoga Shivir.
English classes.
E-resource workshop.
Workshop on Patent awareness.
Workshop on IPR.
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details.
The Department of Chemistry is graded by both University Grant Commission and
Department of Science & Technology and DOC has been qualified for UGC-SAP
DRS-II and DST-phase II programme on the basis of outstanding performance over
last 9 years. Over and above DST has given National Facility programme of Rs. 6.00
crore.
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied
1. The Department of Chemistry has shown overall leadership not only in the specific
areas of specialization but also shown its capacity to develop their students in various
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other areas. DOC has make its several outstanding work in terms of teaching,
research, extension in frontal areas of chemistry and in many interdisciplinary
subjects at the interface of chemistry.
2. Building Donation for Dr. Gardi Research Centre: 1. New building of National
Facility is constructed worth Rs.1.5 Crore of 35,000 sq. ft. The civil work is almost
95% over on First and Second floor. Third floor is also completed. This building is
constructed with the generous donation from Dr. Dipchand Gardi of Rupees 84.00
lacs in the first round, 46.00 lacs in second phase and Rs. 100.00 lacs in the third
phase is assured. The building will be known as Dr. Dipchand Gardi Drug Research
Centre. All sophisticated instruments purchased in NFDD will be housed and utilized
permanently in this complex.
3. Saurashtra University Vikas fund: Remaining Amount for construction & other
facility is from Saurashtra University‘s own resources (approx. 2.20 crore).
3. An auditorium of 280 capacities which has a partition facility for converting two
mini auditoriums is ready for use at additional cost of Rs. 70.00 lacs.
4. Academic institution supported by department of Chemistry
• Kamani Science College, Amreli.
• Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.
• R. D. Gardi Pharmacy College, Rajkot..
• Bio‐Science Dept., Saurashtra University, Rajkot
• Pharmacy Dept. , Saurashtra University, Rajkot
• Physics Dept. , Saurashtra University, Rajkot
• Virani science College, Rajkot.
• S. P. University, Vallabh Vidhyanagar.
• Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda.
• Vikram University, Ujjain.
• Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.
• Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan
• Om Shanti Eng. College, Rajkot.
• V. V. P Engineering College, Rajkot
• Rajkot Municipal Corporation, Rajkot
• Gujarat Technical University (GTU), Ahmedabad
• Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar
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• Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma University, Kachchh
• Sir P. P. Institute of Science, Bhavnagar
• Christ College, Rajkot
• Matushri Virbaima Mahila College, Rajkot
• University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
• Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur
• University of Delhi, New Delhi
5. Department supported instrument facilities to pharmaceuticals & other industries
• EPP Composites Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
• Pharmachem Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
• Adani Food Products, Rajkot
• Malwin Pharma Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
• Samfine Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
• Biodeal Laboratories, Surendranagar
• Royal Thermoset Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
• Parth laboratories Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
• Atkotia Agrotech Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
• Scientila Agrotech Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
• Radhe energy Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
• Maps laboratories Pvt Ltd., Morvi
• Scent Pharma Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
• Anlon CRO, Rajkot
• Parth Food Products, Rajkot
• Vedantika Herbals, Rajkot
• Claris life scinces Ltd., Ahmedabad
• Unimark Remedies Ltd., Ahmedabad
• Zydus research center, Ahmedabad
• Oxygen health care, Bavla, Ahmedabad
6. Polymer Technology
7. Process of Four keto drugs formulation is developed and technology was
transferred to Claries Life Sciences.
8. Deuterium labeling of Pharmaceutical products.
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51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
Department
Strengths:
1. Infrastructural facilities are improved through Government of India (DST),
Government of Gujarat and philanthropist Dr. Deepchand Gardi.
2. During last two years considerable number of students have cleared various
competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, GPSE etc.
3. Sincere effords of Department led to increasing number of students in appearing
competitive examinations.
4. Research output in terms of national and international publications is maximum in
Gujarat state.
5. Number of Ph. Ds awarded in last four years is maximum.
Weaknesses
1. Shortage of teaching and non-tearching staff.
2. Students lack English proficiency.
3. Students lack self preparation and preparation of text materials and use of text
books.
Opportunities
1. Because of improved infrastructure facilities, maximum manpower will be
trained for research and industrial training.
2. Department can support small as well as large scale industries to solve their
problems.
3. Students can get opportunity to widen their knowledge by interacting with
national and international eminient scientists.
Challenges
1. To attract foreign students for higher education and research.
2. International collaboration to be strengthened.
3. Industry-academic interaction to be strengthened through collaborative work and
quality education.
4. English proficiency to be increased in students.
52. Future plans of the Department
Food testing/ laboratory. (to be approved by government)
Drugs & Pharmaceutical analytical laboratory. (to be approved by government)
Environment monitoring laboratory. (to be approved by government)
Will train more than 500 Science Graduates under PG Diploma in Sophisticated
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Analytical Instruments. (Skill development for employability)
Will run following training programmes.
1 Day Programme: 30 Programmers per anum
2 Days Programme: 30 Programmers per anum
3 Days Programme : 15 Programmers per anum
7 Days Programmers
5 Programmers per anum
Will assist in improving Process Chemistry to Small Pharma Industries for their
competitiveness.
Will create new chemical entities 5-6 per year. (Drug Research)
Will develop human resource in IPR, Patents and Informatics.
Will develop Deuterium Labelling Techniques. (With BRNS, BARC, Mumbai)
Will isolate alkaloids from medicinal plants. (Under NMPB, New Delhi)
Will develop few new molecules for anticancer, antiTB, antiHIV, antimalarial,
etc. for preclinical trials. (With International Tie up/ MoU)
Will also train school teachers and lecturers.
Will create approx. 500 professional instrument operators.
Will also develop facilities for drug discovery software system and their experts.
Will also create synthetic chemistry experts and researchers.
Sophisticated Instruments are to be utilized fully for supporting industrial growth
in Gujarat, to train Human resource and to carry out other extension activities to
other institutes.
Will have exchange of Students, Researchers & Scientists & Faculties to and
from various European countries, USA, Russia & SAARC countries.
Polymer Technology.
Deuterium Technology to be extended.
Introduction of recent courses in Syllabus.
Modification of Syllabus, curriculum and also dissertation work.
Industrial training component to be added for selected students as a part of
curriculum at the end of 3rd
or 4th
semester.
Appendix-1
List of Publications (2009-2013)
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Prof. P. H. Parsania
1. A cleaner approach for reduction of some symmetric diimines using NaBH4, V. K.
Aghera and P. H. Parsania, Ind. J. Chem.,48B, 438-442 (2009).
2. Performance evaluation of treated–untreated jute–carbon and glass–carbon hybrid
composites of bisphenol-C based mixed epoxy–phenolic resins, V. A. Patel, B. D.
Bhuva, and P. H. Parsania, J. Reinf. Plast. and Compos., 28, 2549-2556 (2009).
3. Preparation and physico-chemical study of jute–carbon hybrid composites of
bisphenol-C based mixed epoxy–phenolic resins, V. A. Patel, B. D. Bhuva, and P. H.
Parsania, J. Reinf. Plast. and Compos.,28 (16), 2025-2033 (2009).
4. Density, Viscosity and ultrasonic velocity studies of cardo group containing
symmetric double Schiff bases solutions at 303, 308 and 313 K, B. J. Gangani and P.
H. Parsania, J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 86, 942-949 (2009).
5. Ultrasonic velocity and molecular interaction study of biphenol derivatives at 300C,
D. D. Madhvi, F. D. Karia and P. H. Parsania, J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 86, 588-593 (2009).
6. Synthesis and characterization of poly (1,1‘-bi-2-naphthylidene- toluene-2,4-
disulfonate), J. P. Patel and P. H. Parsania, Phosphorous, Sulfur, Silicone and Related
Elements, 185,447–454 (2010).
7. Performance evaluation of alkali and acrylic acid treated-untreated jute composites of
mixed epoxy-phenolic resins, V. A. Patel and P. H. Parsania, J Reinfo. Plast. and
Compos., 29(5), 725-730 (2010).
8. Preparation and physico-chemical study of glass–sisal (treated– untreated) hybrid
composites of bisphenol-C based mixed epoxy–phenolic resins, V. A. Patel and P. H.
Parsania, J. Reinfo. Plast. and Compos., 29(1), 52-59 (2010).
9. Physico-chemical study of CPOL-701–glass/jute composites, Pooja P. Adroja, J. P.
Patel, N. M. Mehta and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plast. Techno. Engg. 49(5), 449-453,
2010.
10. Preparation and physico-chemical study of sandwich glass-jute-bisphenol-C-
formaldehyde resin, J. P. Patel, N. M. Mehta and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plast.
Technol. and Engg., 49(8) 822-826, 2010.
11. Ultrasonic velocity and related acoustical parameters of 2,(2-4-dinitrophenoxy)-1-
[2,4-dinitrophenoxy)naphthalene-1-yl] naphthalene solutions at 350C, Pooja. P.
Adroja, S. P. Gami, J. P. Patel and P. H. Parsania, J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 87,679-683,
2010.
12. Studies on jute/glass/hybrid composites of polyurethane based on epoxy resin of 9,9‘-
bis(4-hydroxy phenyl) anthrone-10(EBAN) and PEG-200, B. D. Bhuva and P. H.
Parsania, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 118, 1469-1475, 2010.
13. The preparation and physico-chemical study of glass, jute, and hybrid glass-jute
bisphenol-C epoxy resin composites, S. B. Koradiya, J. P. Patel and P. H. Parsania,
Polym. Plast. Technol. And Engg. 49(14), 1445-1449, 2010.
14. Preparation, mechanical and water absorption study of jute composites of acrylate-
maleate-unsaturated polyester resins, P.K. Mer, P. H. Parsania, J. Polym. Mater.
27(4), 369-378, 2010.
15. Investigation of acoustical properties of poly (1,1‘-bi-2-naphthylidene toluene-2,4-
disulfonate) solutions at 35 OC, J. P. Patel and P. H. Parsania, J. Pure Appl. Ultrason.
32, 85-88, 2010.
16. Synthesis, curing behavior and characterization of epoxyacylate and triethylamine
cured epoxy resin of 1,1‘-bis(3-methyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)cyclohexane, Pooja P.
Adroja, S. B. Koradiya and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plast. Technol. And Engg., 50,52-
58,2011.
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17. Use of renewable resources in making composites and their physico-chemical study,
S. B. Koradiya, Pooja P. Adroja and P. H. Parsania, J. Reinf. Plast. and
Compos.,30(2), 161-168, 2011.
18. Synthesis and thermal study of cured epoxy-acrylate-maleate, unsaturated polyester
and their interpenetrating networks of varying compositions, P.K. Mer, P. H. Parsania,
Polym. Plast. Technol. and Engg, 50(3), 282-287, 2011.
19. Ultrasonic speed and related acoustical parameters of 1,1‘-binaphthalene-2,2‘-diyl
diacetate solutions at 308.15K, Pooja P. Adroja, S. P. Gami, J. P. Patel and P. H.
Parsania, E- Journal of Chemistry, 8(2), 762-766, 2011.
20. Synthesis and physico-chemical study of high-performance ether-sulfonate
copolymer, S. K. Matariya and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plast. Technol. and Engg.,
50(5), 459-465, 2011.
21. Preparation, mechanical and electrical properties of glass and jute-epoxy polyurethane
composites, Pooja P. Adroja, S. B. Kordiya, J. P. Patel and P. H. Parsania, Polym.
Plast. Technol. and Engg., 50(9), 937-940, 2011.
22. Effect of temperature and solvent on the ultrasonic velocity and allied acoustical
parameters of the epoxy oleate of 9,9‘-bis(4-hydroyphenyl)anthrone-10 solutions, B.
D. Bhuva and P. H. Parsania, J. Solution Chemistry 40(4),719-726,2011.
23. Synthesis, speed of ultrasound and associated acoustical parameters of epoxy acrylate
of 9,9‘-bis(4-hydroxy phenyl)anthrone-10 solutions. B. D. Bhuva and P. H. Parsania,
J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 121(3), 1304-1310, 2011.
24. Effect of temperature and solvents on speed of ultrasound and allied acoustical
parameters of epoxy ricinol of 9,9‘-bis(4-hydroxy phenyl) anthrone-10 solutions. B.
D. Bhuva and P. H. Parsania, J. Ind. Chem. Soc., 88, 357-363, 2011.
25. Synthesis and Spectral Study of R, R‘,4,4‘-Cyclohexylidene Diphenyloxy Acetic
acids with Antimicrobial Activity, D. R. Bhadja and P.H. Parsania, Oriental Journal of
Chemistry, 27: 4, 1699-1704, 2011.
26. Synthesis, Spectral Study and Antimicrobial Screening of Poly (4,4‘-
Cyclohexylidene-R, R‘-Diphenylene Diphosphate), D. R. Bhadja and P.H. Parsania,
Oriental Journal of Chemistry,27:3, 1133-1139, 2011
27. Synthesis, spectral and thermal study of novel epoxy resins based on cardo symmetric
double Schiff bases, U. G. Pathak and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plas. Technol. & Engg.,
51(1), 75-79, 2012.
28. Syntheses and comparative physico-chemical study of epoxy-polyester polyols and
their polyurethanes for surface coating, P. P. Adroja, S. B. Koradiya, J. P. Patel and P.
H. Parsania, J. Polym. Mater., 29 (1), 101-108, 2012.
29. Syntheses and a comparative physico-chemical study of cardo epoxy-
isophthalate/terephthalate polyesters. P. P. Adroja and P. H. Parsania, J. Polym.
Mater., 29 (1), 109-114, 2012.
30. Synthesis and characterization of poly (4, 4‘-isopropylidene diphenylene diphenyl
ether-4,4‘-disulfonate), S. K. Matariya and P. H. Parsania, J. Polym. Mater., 29 (1),
137-143, 2012.
31. Ultrasonic Speed and Thermodynamic Parameters of Novel Epoxy Resin Solutions
Based on Cardo Symmetric Double Schiff Bases at 308.15 K, U.G. Pathak · J.V. Patel
· P.H. Parsania J Solution Chem. 41:755–765, 2012.
32. Synthesis and Characterization of Copolysulfonates of Bisphenol-A, Bisphenol-C and
Toluene 2, 4-Disulfonyl Chloride, S. K. Matariya and P. H. Parsania, Polym. Plast.
Technol and Engg. 51 : 9, 891-895, 2012.
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33. Synthesis, spectral and thermal study of novel bisbenzoxazines based on cardo
symmetric double Schiff bases, J. V. Patel, U. G. Pathak and P. H. Parsania, J. Sci. &
Ind. Res. 71, 544-548, 2012.
34. Curing, Spectral and Thermal Study of Epoxy Resin of Bisphenol-C and Its Polyester
Polyols Based Polyurethanes, Suresh B. Koradiya , Pooja P. Adroja , Jignesh P. Patel
, Rizwan Y. Ghumara & Parsotam H. Parsania. Polymer-Plastics Technology and
Engineering, 51:15, 1545-1549, (2012)
35. Synthesis, Spectral and Thermal Analysis of Unsaturated Copoly(ester-amide) of
Cardo Epoxy Resin, Jignesh P. Patel and P. H. Parsania, J. Polym. Mater 29, (4), 451-
457, 2012.
36. Synthesis and characterization of copolysulfonate of 1,1‘- bis (3-methyl-4-
hydroxyphenyl)cyclohexane, bisphenol-A, and 4,4‘-diphenyl disulfonyl chloride, L.
D. Joshi and P. H. Parsania, Designed monomer and polymer,16(2), 185-190, 2013.
37. Physico-chemical study of chalcone moiety containing epoxy resin and its fiber
reinforced composites, Pooja P. Adroja, R.Y. Ghumara & P.H. Parsania, Designed
monomer and polymer, DOI:10.1080/15685551.2012.747168.
38. Synthesis, characterization, and dynamic DSC curing kinetics of novel epoxy resin of
2,4,6-tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1-3-5-triazine,Rizwan Y. Ghumara, Pooja P. Adroja &
P. H. Parsania, J Therm Anal Calorim, DOI 10.1007/s10973-013-2984-8.
Prof. A. K. Shah
1. An Isocratic Method for Quantification of Valproic Acid and Its Related Impurities
Using Ion Pair Reagent by Ultraperformance Liquid Chromatography. Rakshit
Thakkar, Hitesh Saravaia, Mrunal Ambasana, Madhavi Patel, and Anamik Shah,
ISRN Chromatography, Volume 2012, Article ID 836132, doi:10.5402/2012/836132
2. Diversity oriented efficient access of trisubstituted purines via sequential
regioselective Mitsunobu coupling and SNAr based C6 functionalizations. Manvar, A.
and Shah, A. Tetrahedron, 2012 (In Press) Doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.10.079
3. In vitro cytotoxicity evaluation of diversely substituted N-aryl-2-oxindoles.Manvar,
A., Bavishi, A., Loriya, R., Jaggi, M., Shah, A. Med. Chem. Res. 2013 (In Press) Doi:
10.1007/s00044-012-0309-2.
4. Syntheses and in vitro biological screening of 1-aryl-10H-
[1,2,4]triazolo[3‘,4‘:3,4][1,2,4]triazino[5,6-b]indoles. Upadhyay, K., Manvar, A.,
Loddo, R., La Colla, P., Virsodiya, V., Trivedi, J., Chaniyara, R., Shah, A. Med.
Chem. Res. 2013 (In Press) Doi: 10.1007/s00044-012-0342-1.
5. DBU catalyzed multi-component synthesis: Facile access of 4,5,6,9-tetrahydro-
pyrido[3,2-c]quinolines. Chaniyara, R., Thakrar, S., Kakadiya,R., Marvania,B.,
Detroja,D., Vekariya,N., Upadhyay,K., Manvar, A., Shah A. J. Heterocycl. Chem.
2013, 49 (In Press)
6. Evaluation of Structurally Diverse Benzoazepines Clubbed with Coumarins as
Mycobacterium tuberculosis agents.Upadhyay, K.; Manvar, A.; Rawal, K.; Joshi, S.;
Naliapara, Y.; Trivedi, J.; Chaniyara, R.; Shah, A. Chem. Bio. Drug Des. 2012, 80,
1003 – 1008.
7. Microwave assisted rapid, efficient and Facile Synthesis of Some Substituted 1-((5-
(benzofuran-2-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)methyl)amine derivatives. Shailesh Thakrar,
Dhairya Bhavsar, Vishwa Dhinoja, Pratik Ambasana, Anamik Shah, Chemistry &
Biology Interface, 2012, 2, 6, 409-419
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8. A Rapid microwave assisted synthesis of novel 1,4-dihydropyridines derivatives
under aqueous medium. Shailesh Thakrar, Dhairya Bhavsar, Vicky Jain, Anamik
Shah, Chemistry & Biology Interface, 2012, 2, 4, 220-227.
9. Synthesis and anti-HIV activity of novel N-((1, 3-substituted diphenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-
yl) methylene)-2-methylindoline-1-amine derivatives using MTT method. Shailesh
Thakrar, Nilay Pandya, Hardevsinh Vala, Abhay Bavishi, Ashish Radadiya,
Chrishtophe Pannecouque, Anamik K. Shah, Chemistry & Biology Interface, 2012, 2,
2, 107-113.
10. Method Development and Validation of Stability Indicating Isocratic RP-UPLC
Method for Assay of Terazosin Hydrochloride Dihydrate in Pharmaceutical Tablets.
Batuk Dabhi, Darshna Pandya, Ashika Parmar, Yashwantsinh jadeja, Madhavi
Patel,Hetal Jebaliya, Denish Karia, Anamik Shah, Inventi Rapid: Pharm Analysis &
Quality Assurance, Vol. 2012, Article ID- "Inventi:ppaqa/453/12", 2012.
11. Fuller's earth catalyzed rapid synthesis of bis(indolyl)methanes under solvent free
condition, Naval Kapuriya, Rajesh Kakadiya, Mahesh Savant, Akshay Pansuriya,
Chirag Bhuva, Anil Patel, Piyush Pipaliya, Vipul Audichya, Sarala Gangadharaiah,
Sridhar Anandalwar, Javaregowda Prasad, Anamik Shah, Yogesh Naliapara, Indian
Journal of Chemistry, 51B, 1032-1038, 2012.
12. HPTLC Method for Estimation of Dronedarone Hydrochloride in both Bulk Drug and
Pharmaceutical Dosage Form. Batuk Dabhi, Hetal Jebaliya, Madhavi Patel,
Yashwantsinh Jadeja, Denish Karia, Anamik Shah, Int. J. Pharm. Sci. Rev. Res.,
17(1), 2012; no. 11, 48-51.
13. Synthesis and Antitumor Evaluation of Novel Benzo[d]pyrrolo[2,1-b]thiazole
Derivatives, R. Chaniyara, S. Tala, C.-W. Chen, P.-C. Lee, R. Kakadiya, H. Dong, B.
Marvania, C.-H. Chen, T.-C. Chou, T.-C. Lee, A. Shah, T.-L. Su, European Journal of
Medicinal Chemistry, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2012.03.030.
14. 1,4-Benzodiazepine as Cholecystokinin receptor antagonist: A Review. Anamik K.
Shah, Jalpa Bariwal, Sumit Bansal, Jasreen Chugh and Jitender B. Bariwal, Chemistry
& Biology Interface, 2(1), 12-30, 2012.
15. A rapid and highly efficient microwave synthesis of highly functionalized chalcones
derivatives, Shailesh Thakrar and Anamik Shah, Int.J. ChemTech Res.,4(1), 394-402,
2012.
16. A Chromatographic Determination of Aripiprazole using HPLC and UPLC: A
Comparative Validation Study. R. S. Thakkar, H. T. Saravaia, M. A. Ambasana, H. O.
Kaila and A. K. Shah, Indian J. Pharm. Sci., 73 (4): 439-443, 2011.
17. Novel bifunctional alkylating agents, 5,10-dihydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinoline
derivatives, synthesis and biological activity. Ravi Chaniyara, Naval Kapuriya, Huajin
Dong, Pei-Chih Lee, Sharda Suman, Bhavin Marvania, Ting-Chao Chou, Te-Chang
Lee, Rajesh Kakadiya, Anamik Shah, Tsann-Long Su, Bioorganic & Medicinal
Chemistry, 19, 275–286, 2011.
18. Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel water-soluble N-mustards as
potential anticancer agents. Naval Kapuriya, Rajesh Kakadiya, Huajin Dong, Amit
Kumar, Pei-Chih Lee, Xiuguo Zhang, Ting-Chao Chou, Te-Chang Lee, Ching-Huang
Chen, King Lam, Bhavin Marvania, Anamik Shah, Tsann-Long Su, Bioorganic &
Medicinal Chemistry, 19, 471–485, 2011.
19. Design, synthesis and antitumor evaluation of phenyl N-mustard-quinazoline
conjugates. Bhavin Marvania, Pei-Chih Lee, Ravi Chaniyara, Huajin Dong, Sharda
Suman, Rajesh Kakadiya, Ting-Chao Chou, Te-Chang Lee, Anamik Shah, Tsann-
Long Su, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 19, 1987–1998, 2011.
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20. Structure–activity relationship of 2-hydroxy-2-aryl-2,3-dihydroimidazo[1,2-
a]pyrimidinium salts and 2N-substituted 4(5)-aryl-2-amino-1H-imidazoles as
inhibitors of biofilm formation by Salmonella Typhimurium and Pseudomonas
aeruginosa. Hans P. L. Steenackers, Denis S. Ermolat‘ev, Bharat Savaliya, Ami De
Weerdt, David De Coster, Anamik Shah, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Dirk E. De
Vos,Jozef Vanderleyden, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Bioorganic & Medicinal
Chemistry, 19, 3462–3473, 2011.
21. Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-styrylcoumarin derivatives as inhibitors of
TNF-a and IL-6 with anti-tubercular activity. Kuldip Upadhyay, Abhay Bavishi,
Shailesh Thakrar, Ashish Radadiya, Hardevsinh Vala, Shrey Parekh, Dhairya
Bhavsar, Mahesh Savant, Manisha Parmar, Priti Adlakha, Anamik Shah, Bioorganic
& Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21, 2547–2549, 2011.
22. Synthesis and in vitro anti-HIV activity of N-1,3-benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl-2-(2-oxo-2H-
chromen-4-yl)acetamide derivatives using MTT method. Dhairya Bhavsar, Jalpa
Trivedi, Shrey Parekh, Mahesh Savant, Shailesh Thakrar, Abhay Bavishi, Ashish
Radadiya, Hardevsinh Vala, Jignesh Lunagariya, Manisha Parmar, Ladwa Paresh,
Roberta Loddo, Anamik Shah, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21, 3443–
3446, 2011.
23. Diversity oriented design of various hydrazides and their in vitro evaluation against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strains. Atul Manvar, Abhay Bavishi, Ashish
Radadiya, Jignesh Patel, Vipul Vora, Narshih Dodia, Kena Rawal, Anamik Shah,
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21, 4728–4731, 2011.
24. Synthesis of some novel benzofuran-2-yl(4,5-dihyro-3,5-substituted diphenylpyrazol-
1-yl) methanones and studies on the antiproliferative effects and reversal of multidrug
resistance of human MDR1-gene transfected mouse lymphoma cells in vitro. Shrey
Parekh, Dhairya Bhavsar, Mahesh Savant, Shailesh Thakrar, Abhay Bavishi, Manisha
Parmar, Hardevsinh Vala, Ashish Radadiya, Nilay Pandya, Juliana Serly, Joseph
Molnár, Anamik Shah, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 46, 1942-1948,
2011.
25. A concise synthetic strategy to functionalized chromenones via [5+1]
heteroannulation and facile C–N/C–S/C–O bond formation with various nucleophiles.
Mahesh M. Savant, Neetha S. Gowda, Akshay M. Pansuriya, Chirag V. Bhuva, Naval
Kapuriya, Sridhar M. Anandalwar, Shashidhara J. Prasad, Anamik Shah, Yogesh T.
Naliapara, Tetrahedron Letters, 52, 254–257, 2011.
26. Synthesis and Crystal Structure Study of 4-Anilino-3-[(4-benzylpiperazin-1-yl)-
methyl]-2H-chromen-2-one. S. NEETHA, D. N. JOSHIPURA, M. A. SRIDHAR, J.
Shashidhara PRASAD, and Anamik SHAH, X-ray Structure Analysis Online, 27,
2011.
27. Structure−Activity Relationship of 4(5)-Aryl-2-amino-1H-imidazoles, N1-Substituted
2-Aminoimidazoles and Imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidinium Salts as Inhibitors of Biofilm
Formation by Salmonella Typhimurium and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Hans P. L.
Steenackers, Denis S. Ermolat‘ev, Bharat Savaliya, Ami De Weerdt, David De
Coster, Anamik Shah, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Dirk E. De Vos, Jozef Vanderleyden,
Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 54(2), 472-484, 2011.
28. A Stability–indicating HPLC Method for Assay of Lercanidipine Hydrochloride in
Tablets and for Determining Content Uniformity,HO Kaila, MA Ambasana, RS
Thakkar, HT Saravaia, AK Shah,Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
72(3),381-384, 2010.
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29. Synthesis, in vitro antitubercular activity and 3D-QSAR study of 1,4-
dihydropyridines, Atul T. Manvar, Raghuvir R. S. Pissurlenkar, Vijay R. Virsodia,
Kuldip D. Upadhyay, Dinesh R. Manvar, Arun K. Mishra, Hrishikesh D. Acharya,
Alpesh R. Parecha, Chintan D. Dholakia and Anamik K. Shah, Molecular Diversity,
14, 2010
30. Potent DNA-directed alkylating agents: Synthesis and biological activity of phenyl N-
mustard-quinoline conjugates having a urea or hydrazinecarboxamide linker,
Kakadiya Rajesh, Dong Huajin, Kumar Amit, Narsinh Dodia, Zhang Xiuguo, Chou
Ting-Chao, Lee Te-Chang, Shah Anamik, Su Tsann-Long, Bioorganic & medicinal
chemistry, 18(6), 2285-99, 2010.
31. ChemInform Abstract: Fused Quinoline Heterocycles. Part 9. First Example of a 3,4-
Diamino-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinoline and a 3-Azido-1H-1,2,4,5,6,6a-
hexaazabenzo[a]indacene, Ramadan Ahmed Mekheimer, Afaf Mohamed Abdel
Hameed, Saeed Mohamed Refaey, Mohamed Ashry Ibrahim, Kamal Usef Sadek,
Anamik Shah, ChemInform, 41(1), 2010.
32. Screening for In Vitro Antimycobacterial Activity and Three-Dimensional
Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (3D-QSAR) Study of 4-
(arylamino)coumarin Derivatives, Vijay Virsdoia, Mushtaque S. Shaikh, Atul
Manvar, Bhavik Desai, Alpesh Parecha, Raju Loriya, Kinnari Dholariya, Gautam
Patel, Vipul Vora, Kuldip Upadhyay, Karia Denish, Anamik Shah, Evans C.
Coutinho, Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 76(5), 412-424(13), 2010.
33. Therapeutic capacities of natural and synthetic antioxidants (alone or in combination
with B Vitamins) in the restoration of mercury inhibited Na+, K+ anc Ca++ ATPases,
SOOD, P. P., RAO, A. P., BHARMAL, F. AND SHAH, A., Journal of Cell and
Tissue Research, 9(3), 2037-2042, 2009.
34. Fused Quinoline Heterocycles VIII: Synthesis of polyfunctionally substituted
pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinolin-4(5H)-ones. Ramadan Ahmed Mekheimer, Saeed M. Refaey,
Kamal Usef Sadek, Afaf M. Abdel Hameed, Mohamed Ashry Ibrahim and Anamik
Shah, J. Chem. Res., 735-737, 2008.
35. Fused Quinoline Heterocycles IX: First example of a 3,4-diamino-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-
c]quinoline and a 3-azido-1H-1,2,4,5,6,6a-hexaazabenzo[a] indacene. Ramadan
Ahmed Mekheimer, Afaf Mohamed Abdel Hameed, Saeed Mohamed Refaey,
Mohamed Ashry Ibrahim, Kamal Usef Sadek and Anamik Shah, Z. Naturforsch.,
64b, 973-979, 2009.
36. Superiority of Herbal and Natural Antioxidants Mix Therapy Over Their Individual
Applications In Methylmercury Stressed Chick: 1.Curcumin,Vitaminbcomplex
Andglutathionecombinations, Sood, P. P., Joshi, R., Gupte,K., Vekariya, V., Vekaria,
P., Delvadiya, C., Ankola, P., Barchha, S.,Manvar, R., Joshi, K. K. And Shah, A.,
Journal Of Cell And Tissue Research, 9(2), 1803-1810, 2009.
37. Fused Quinoline heterocycles part 8: synthesis of poly fuctionally substituted
pyrazolo[4,3-C] quinoline 4(5H)-ones, Ramdan Ahmed , Saeed M., Refaey Kamal
USef Sadak, Ataf Mohammed Abdel HAmeed, Mohmed Ashry Ibrahim, Anamik
Shah, Cheminform, 40(21), 2009.
38. Potent Antitumor Bifunctional DNA Alkylating Agents, Synthesis and Biological
Activities of 3a-Aza-cyclopenta[a] indenes, Rajesh Kakadiya, Huajin Dong, Pei-Chih
Lee, Naval Kapuriya, Xiuguo Zhang, Ting-Chao Chou, Te-Chang Lee, Kalpana
Kapuriya, Anamik Shah, Tsann-Long Su, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 17,
5614–5626, 2009.
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39. Superiority of herbal and natural antioxidants mix therapy over their individual
applications in methylmercury stressed chich, P.P. Sood, Joshi. R., Gupte K.,
Vekariya V., Vekaria P., Delvadiya C., Ankola P., Barchha S., Manvar R. , Joshi K.
K. And Shah A., Journal of cell and tissue research, 9(2), 1803-1810, 2009.
40. Synthesis of 1-(2, 6-dichlorophenyl)-3-methylene-1, 3-dihydro-indole-2-one
derivatives and invitro anti cancer evaluation against SW620 colon cancer cell line.
Vijay Virsodia, Atul Manvar, Kuldip Upadhyay, Rajesh Loriya, Denish Karia, Manu
Jaggi, Anu Singh, Rama Mukharjee, Mushtaque S. Shaikh, Evans C. Coutinho,
Anamik Shah. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 44, 1355-1362, 2009.
41. Synthesis, characterization, crystal and molecular structure analysis of 2,6-dimethyl-
3-acetyl-5-carbomethoxy-4-(3-ntrophenyl)-1, 4-dihydropyridine. Priti Adlakha, S.
Naveen, S. Lakshmi, Atul Manvar, Denish Karia, Anamik Shah, M. A. Sridhar, J.
Shashidhara Prasad, Journal of Crystallography, 39, 389-394, 2009.
42. DP7, a novel Dihydropyridines MDR reverter, shows only weak inhibititory activity
on human CYP 3A enzyme(s), Paola D‘Elia, Francesco De Matteis,
Stefania Dragoni, Anamik Shah, Giampietro Sgaragli, Massimo Valoti., 614(1-3), 7-
13, 2009.
43. Synthesis, in vitro anti-tubercular activity and 3D-QSAR study of 1, 4-
Dihydropyridines. Atul T Manvar, Raghuvir R Pissurlenkar, Vijay R Virsodia, Kuldip
D Upadhyay, Dinesh R Manvar; Arun K Mishra; Hrishikesh D Acharya; Alpesh R
Parecha; Chintan D Dholakia; Anamik K Shah; Evans Clifton Coutinho, Molecular
Diversity, 2009.
44. Catalyst-Free, Rapid Synthesis of Fused Bicyclic thiazolo-Pyrimidine and Pyrimido-
thiazine Derivatives by a Microwave Assisted Method. Vijay R. Virsodia, Nikhil R.
Vekariya, Atul T. Manvar,, Rupesh C. Khunt, Bhavin R. Marvania, Bharat S.
Savalia, and Anamik K. Shah, Phosphorous, Sulphur and Silicon, 184(1), 34-44,
2009.
Prof. V. H. Shah
1. A facile Synthesis of some indolylazetidinones and substituted
indolylthioazetidinones, by P. R. Vachharajani, Bhavin Trivedi, Gaurang Dubal,
Manish Solanki, Amit Trivedi. Organic Chemistry (Rajkot, India), 5(3), 266-269,
2009.
2. A new synthetic approach and biological evaluation of novel phenothiazines
bearing tert-butyl group, by Amit R. Trivedi; Arif B. Siddiqui; Dipti K.
Dodiya; Manish J. Soalnki; Viresh H. Shah. Journal of Sulfur Chemistry. 30(6), 590-
595, 2009.
3. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 1-aryl-3-methyl-4-(5‘-chloro-3‘-methyl-1‘-
phenylpyrazilo-4‘-yl)-4,4adihydro-6H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]-1,3-thiazolidino[3,2-
a]pyrimidine-5-ones, by A. R. Trivedi, N. R. Ravat and V. H Shah J. Inst. Chemists
(India). 81(1), 2009.
4. Synthesis, characterization and biological screening of some novel tetrahydroquinazoline derivatives, by S. J. Vaghasia, D. K. Dodiya, A. R. Trivedi, H.
K. Ram and V. H. Shah. Indian Journal of Chemistry (Section B), 49B, 802-806,
2010.
5. Novel dihydropyrimidines as a potential new class of antitubercular agents, by Amit
R. Trivedi, Vimal R. Bhuva, Bipin H. Dholariya, Dipti K. Dodiya, Vipul B.
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Kataria and Viresh H. Shah. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 20, 6100-
6102, 2010.
6. Synthesis and antimycobacterial evaluation of various 6-substituted pyrazolo[3,4-
d]pyrimidine derivatives. Trivedi, Amit; Vaghasiya, Shailesh; Dholariya,
Bipin; Dodiya, Dipti; Shah, Viresh, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal
Chemistry, 25, 893-899, 2010.
7. Synthesis and biological evaluation of some novel N-aryl-1,4-dihydropyridines as
potential antitubercular agents, by Amit Trivedi, Bipin Dholariya, Dipti Dodiya, Vipul
Kataria, Vimal Bhuva, Viresh shah. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters,
21(18), 5181-5183, 2011.
8. Synthesis and biological evaluation of some novel 1,4-dihydropyridines as potential
antitubercular agents, by Amit Trivedi, Dipti Dodiya, Bipin Dholariya, Vipul Kataria,
Vimal Bhuva, Viresh shah. Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 78(5), 881-886, 2011.
9. Synthesis and anti-tubercular evaluation of some novel pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine
derivatives, by Amit R. Trivedi, Bipin H. Dholariya, Chintan P. Vakhariya, Dipti K.
Dodiya, Haresh K. Ram, Vipul B. Kataria, Arif B. Siddiqui and Viresh H. Shah.
Medicinal Chemistry Research, Online First (DOI: 10.1007/s00044-011-9712-3),
2011.
10. Synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation of novel benzo[b]thiophenes comprising β-
lactam nucleus, by Amit R. Trivedi, Jignesh M Desai, Bipin H. Dholariya, Dipti
Dodiya and Viresh H. Shah. Medicinal Chemistry Research, Online First
(DOI: 10.1007/s00044-011-9669-2), 2011.
11. Advances in the Synthesis of Pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines, by Dipti K. Dodiya, Amit R.
Trivedi, Vipul B. Kataria, Viresh H. Shah. Current organic Chemistry, Accepted, in
press.
Prof. H. S. Joshi
1. Validated LC method for simultaneous analysis of cephexime and ordiazole in
commercial tablet, Kher Govind, Vijay Ram, Pandya Gaurang, H.S.Joshi,
International Journal of Chemtech Research 4,3,1124,2012
2. Mass Spectrometric Analysis of lipid present in leaves of Alinthus Excesla, Vijay
Ram, Kamlesh Khokhani, H.S.Joshi, Taslimahmed Khatri, International Journal of
Pharmatech Research, 4, 1, 227, 2012
3. Spectrophotometric and chromatographic analysis of aminoacid present in leaves of
Alinthus Excesla, Vijay Ram, Kamlesh Khokhani, H.S.Joshi, Taslimahmed Khatri,
International Journal of Chemtech Research, 4,1,389, 2012
4. Synthesis and biological study of some new chalcones and oxopyrimidines containing
imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidine nucleus, M.J.Joshi, P.B.Vekariya, B.L.Dodiya,
R.M.Ghetiya, H.S.Joshi, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 49,1,130, 2012
5. Development and validation of a stability indiacting HPLC assay methold for
simultaneous determination of spironolactone and furosemide in tablet formulation,
Vijay Ram, Pragnesh Dave, Hitendra Joshi, Journal of Chromatographic Science,
50,8,721, 2012
6. Synthesis and characterization of 1-phenyl-3-(propan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-ol single
crystal, P.M.Vyas, J.D.Akbari, S.D.Tala, H.S.Joshi, Crystal research technology,
47,7,763, 2012
7. Specrophotometric method development and validation for the determination of
spriolactone and furosemide by UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Kapil Dubal, Govind
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Kher, H.S.Joshi, Vijay Ram, International Journal of Waster Water treatment and
Green Chemistry, 3,1, 39, 2012
8. S. D. Tala, P. B. Vekariya, R. M. Ghetiya, B. L. Dodiya and H. S. Joshi* Synthesis
and biological study of some new chalcones and pyrazoles derivatives, Indian journal
of chemistry section-B, Accepted article [ Pb:3/4(SCCB-1682)/2011].
9. P. D. Zalavadiya, R. M. Ghetiya, B. L. Dodiya, P. B. Vekariya and H. S. Joshi*
Synthesis of some new dihydropyrimidines by iodine as a catalyst at ambient
temperature and evaluation of their biological activity, journal of heterocyclic
chemistry, Accepted article [MS No. JHET-10-0340].
10. Spectrophotometric and Chromatographic Analysis of Amino Acids Present in Leaves
of Ailanthus Excelsa-Kamlesh Khokhani, Vijay Ram, Jyotindra Bhatt, Taslimahemad
Khatri, and Hitendra Joshi, IJCTR OCT-DEC 2011 PAPER NO.224
11. Development and validation of a stability indicating UPLC assay method for
determination of Leflunomide in tablet formulation-Govind J. Kher, Vijay R. Ram ,
Gaurang P. Pandya; and Hitendra S. Joshi*-Der Chemica Sinica, 2011, 2(5):65-74
12. Diisopropyl 1-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)-2,6-dimethyl-4-(3-nitro-phen-yl)-1,4-dihydro-
pyridine -3, 5-dicarboxyl-ate-By Kapoor, Kamini; Gupta, Vivek K.; Kant, Rajni;
Pawar, Milind P.; Joshi, Hitendra S., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure
Reports Online (2011), E67(11). DOI:10.1107/S1600536811042073
13. (E)-3-(Furan-2-yl)-1-(4-methoxy phenyl)prop-2-en-1-one-By Kapoor, Kamini;
Gupta, Vivek K.; Kant, Rajni; Pandya, Jalpa R.; Lade, Sunil B.; Joshi, Hitendra S.,
Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2011), E67 (12), o3185.
, DOI:10.1107/S160053681104373X
14. Reversed-phase ultra-performance liquid chromatographic method development and
validation for determination of impurities related to torsemide tablets-By Patel Hitesh
B; Mohan Arivozhi; Joshi Hitendra S, Journal of AOAC International (2011), 94(1),
143-9,
15. Development and validation of a stability indicating UPLC method for determination
of ticlopidine hydrochloride in its tablet formulation -By Ram, Vijay; Kher, Govind;
Dubal, Kapil; Dodiya, Bhavesh; Joshi, Hitendra -From Saudi Pharmaceutical
Journal (2011), 19(3), 159-164.
16. HPLC method development and validation of combined dosage form of atenolol and
indapamide in tablet- By Kher, Govind J.; Ram, Vijay R.; Dodiya, Bhavesh L.; Joshi,
Hitendra S.-International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology (2011), 3(3), 3277-
3298
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17. Spectrophotometric method development and validation for determination of
lamotrigine in tablet formulation- Kher, Govind J.; Ram, Vijay R.; Pandia, Gaurang
G.; Joshi, Hitendra S.- International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology (2011),
3(3), 3231-3238.
18. Cocrystallization of two tautomers: 1-phenyl-3-(propan-2-yl)-1,2-dihydropyrazol-5-
one and 1-phenyl-3-(propan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-ol-By Kapoor, Kamini; Gupta, Vivek
K.; Rajnikant; Vyas, Poorvesh M.; Joshi, Mihir J.; Tada, Satish D.; Sarothia, Satish
M.; Joshi, H. S.-From X-Ray Structure Analysis Online (2011), 27(10), 59-60.
DOI:10.2116/xraystruct.27.59
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19. Development and validation of a stability indicating UPLC assay method for
determination of Leflunomide in tablet formulation-By Kher, Govind J.; Ram, Vijay
R.; Pandya, Gaurang P.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Chemica Sinica (2011), 2(5), 65-74.
20. Chromatographic separation and spectroscopic characterization of the E/Z isomers of
acrivastine-By Davadra, Prakash M.; Dabhi, Batuk; Singh, Manoj K.; Jain, Mukul R.;
Joshi, Hitendra S.; Bapodra, Atul H.-From Chirality (2011), 23(10), 955-960.
21. A validated chiral RP-HPLC method for the enantiomeric separation of duloxetine
hydrochloride using Chiral-AGP as the stationary phase- By Davadra, Prakash M.;
Patel, Snehal J.; Jain, Mukul R.; Patel, Pankaj R.; Joshi, Hitendra S.; Bapodra, Atul
H.-From Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies (2011), 34(16),
1699-1711.
22. Synthesis of oxadiazoles and pyrazolones as antimycobacterial and antimicrobial
agents By Thaker, K. M.; Ghetiya, R. M.; Tala, S. D.; Dodiya, B. L.; Joshi, K. A.;
Dubal, K. L.; Joshi, H. S.-From Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B: Organic
Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry (2011), 50B (5), 738-744.
23. Development and validation of a stability indicating method for the enantioselective
estimation of omeprazole enantiomers in the enteric-coated formulations by high-
performance liquid chromatography-By Vyas, Samir; Patel, Ajay; Ladva, Kartik D.;
Joshi, H. S.; Bapodra, Atul H.-From Journal of Pharmacy and BioAllied Sciences
(2011), 3(2), 310-314.-DOI:10.4103/0975-7406.80766
24. Validation of a stability-indicating LC method for assay of leflunomide in tablets and
for determination of content uniformity-By Kher, Govind J.; Ram, Vijay R.; Dubal,
Kapil L.; Bapodara, Atul H.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From International Journal of
ChemTech Research (2011), 3(2), 523-530.
25. Synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation of pyrazoline derivatives-By Patel, M. R.;
Dodiya, B. L.; Ghetiya, R. M.; Joshi, K. A.; Vekariya, P. B.; Bapodara, A. H.; Joshi,
H. S. International Journal of ChemTech Research (2011), 3(2), 967-974.
26. Development and validation of a stability indicating HPLC assay method for
determination of lamotrigine in tablet formulation-By Ram, Vijay R.; Kher, Govind
J.; Dubal, Kapil L.; Pandya, Gaurang P.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Chemica Sinica
(2011), 2(2), 58-65.
27. Spectrophotometric method development and validation for determination of
ticlopidine hydrochloride in tablet formulation-By Ram, Vijay R.; Kher, Govind J.;
Dubal, Kapil L.; Dodiya, Bhavesh L.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From International Journal of
Pharmacy and Technology (2011), 3(1), 1343-1350.
28. Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of some new 1,3,4-thiadiazoles and 1,3,4-
thiadiazines containing 1,2,4-triazolo nucleus-By Purohit, Dushyant H.; Dodiya,
Bhavesh L.; Ghetiya, Renish M.; Vekariya, Piyush B.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Acta
Chimica Slovenica (2011), 58(1), 53-59.
29. Development and validation of a stability indicating HPLC assay method for
determination of ticlopidine hydrochloride in tablet formulation-By Ram, V. R.; Kher,
G. J.; Dubal, K. L.; Dodiya, B. L.; Pandya, G. P.; Joshi, H. S.-From International
Journal of ChemTech Research (2011), 3(1), 192-198.
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30. Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of some new benzo[b]thiophene incorporated
dihydroquinolines-By Thaker, K. M.; Dodiya, B. L.; Joshi, K. A.; Ghetiya, R. M.;
Vekariya, P. B.; Joshi, H. S.-From Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (2010),
20(1), 21-24.
31. Evaluations of antimicrobial activity of some pharmacological important
dihydropyrimidines compounds-By Joshi, K. K.; Akbari, J.; Joshi, H. S., Journal of
Cell and Tissue Research (2010), 10(2), 2243-2250.
32. Synthesis and spectrophotometric studies of Fe(III)-HMCNP complex and their use
as an analytical reagent-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Dubal, Kapil L.; Ram, Vijay R.;
Bapodra, Atul H.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From PRAJNA--Journal of Pure and Applied
Sciences (2009), 17, 68-73.
33. Synthesis and spectrophotometric studies of Ni(II)-HMCPP complex and their use as
an analytical reagent-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Kher, Govind J.; Dodiya,
Bhavesh L.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Analytical Chemistry: An Indian Journal (2009),
8(4), 430-435.
34. Synthesis and spectrophotometric studies of Mn(II)-HMCNP complex and their use
as an analytical reagent-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Kher, Govind J.; Joshi,
Kaushik A.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Analytical Chemistry: An Indian Journal (2009),
8(4), 424-429.
35. Synthesis and spectrophotometric studies of Mn(II)-HMCPP complex and their use
as an analytical reagent-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Joshi, Kaushik A.;
Tala, Satish D.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Journal of the Institution of Chemists (India)
(2009), 81(5), 132-140.
36. Synthesis, antimicrobial and antitubercular activity of some cyclohexenone and
indazole derivatives-By Vyas, D. H.; Tala, S. D.; Akbari, J. D.; Dhaduk, M. F.; Joshi,
H. S.- Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B: Organic Chemistry Including
Medicinal Chemistry (2009), 48B(10), 1405-1410.
37. Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of some new cyanopyridine and cyanopyrans
towards Mycobacteriumtuberculosis and other microorganisms-By Vyas, D. H.; Tala,
S. D.; Akbari, J. D.; Dhaduk, M. F.; Joshi, K. A.; Joshi, H. S.-From Indian Journal of
Chemistry, Section B: Organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry (2009),
48B(6), 833-839
38. GC-MS studies of the fatty acids obtained from leave extract of ailanthus excels-
From Natural Products: An Indian Journal (2009), 5(2), 61-64.
39. Spectrophotometric and synthesis study of complexation of Cu(II) with 1-(4'-
hydroxy-8'-methylcoumarin-3'-yl)-3-o-nitrophenyl-2-propen-2-one-By Dave, Shailesh
M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Dubal, Kapil L.; Kher, Govind J.; Joshi, Kaushik A.; Joshi,
Hitendra S. Analytical Chemistry: An Indian Journal (2009), 8(2), 150-154.
40. Synthesis and spectrophotometric studies of Zn(II)-HMCPP complex and their use as
an analytical reagent-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Joshi, Kaushik A.; Tala,
Satish D.; Dubal, Kapil L.; Kher, Govind J.; Joshi.Hitendra S.From Analytical
Chemistry: An Indian Journal (2009), 8(2), 145-149.
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41. Spectrophotometric studies of Ni(II)-HMCNP complex for determination of Ni(II)
metal ion-By Dave, Shailesh M.; Ram, Vijay R.; Dubal, Kapil L.; Kher, Govind J.;
Tala, Satish D.; Joshi, Hitendra S.-From Analytical Chemistry: An Indian Journal
(2009), 8(2), 140-144.
42. Synthesis, antitubercular and antimicrobial activity of some new N-aryl-1,4-
dihydropyridines containing furan nucleus-By Rokad, S. V.; Tala, S. D.; Akbari, J.
D.; Dhaduk, M. F.; Joshi, H. S.-Journal of the Indian Chemical Society (2009), 86(2),
186-191.
43. Synthesis and biological study of oxopyrimidines and thiopyrimidines of 2-(2,4-
dichlorophenyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-carbaldehyde-By Ladani, M. J.; Tala, S. D.;
Akbari, J. D.; Dhaduk, M. F.; Joshi, H. S.-Journal of the Indian Chemical Society
(2009), 86(1), 104-108.
44. Validated column high-performance liquid chromatographic method for
determination of aspirin and clopidogrel in combined tablets in the presence of
degradation products formed under ICH-recommended stress conditions-By
Kachhadia, Pankaj K.; Doshi, Ashish S.; Joshi, Hitendra S.- Journal of AOAC
International (2009), 92(1), 152-157.
45. Multi-Component Synthesis of Dihydropyrimidines by Iodine Catalyst at Ambient
Temperature and in-vitro Antimycobacterial Activity -By Zalavadiya, Paresh; Tala,
Satish; Akbari, Jignesh; Joshi, Hitendra -Archiv der Pharmazie (Weinheim,
Germany) (2009), 342(8), 469-475.
46. Specrophotometric method development and validation for the determination of
spriolactone and furosemide by UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Kapil Dubal, Govind
Kher, H.S.Joshi, Vijay Ram, International Journal of Drug Development And
Technology(2011) 1(3-4) 103-110.
Prof. Shipra Baluja
1. ―Synthesis and Thermal Analysis of Some 1, 2, 4-Triazole Derivatives". Shipra Baluja, Nikunj
Kachhadia and Asif Solanki, Int. J. Pure Appl. Chem., 4 179-186 (2009).
2. ―Solubility of Difloxacin in acetone, methanol and ethanol from (293.15 to 313.15) K‖. Shipra
Baluja, Rahul Bhalodia, Ravi Gajera, Nayan Vekariya and Mehul Bhatt, J. Chem. Eng. Data,
54, 1091-1093 (2009).
3. ―Thermal studies of some Schiff bases of p-amino phenol‖. S. Baluja, K. P. Vaishnani and
Nikunj Kachhadia. J. Ultra. Sci. Phy. Sci., 21, 67-72 (2009).
4. ―Physicochemical studies of some azomethines of p-amino benzoic acid in some solvents at
308.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja, Pranav Inamdar and Jagdish Movaliya, Icfai. J. Chem., II, 22-30
(2009).
5. ―Synthesis and ultrasonic studies of some dihydropyrimidines in different solvents at 298.15
K‖. Shipra Baluja, Rahul Bhalodia and Ravi Gajera, Int. J. Appl. Chem., 5, 47-55 (2009).
6. ―Physicochemical studies of some azomethines of 5-amino isophthalic acid in solutions of
DMF and DMSO at 308.15 K‖. Nayan Vekariya, Pravin Kasundra and Shipra Baluja, Int. J.
Chem. Sci., 7(1), 533-538 (2009).
7. ―Dissociation constant of some pyrazole Schiff bases in DMF and THF‖. S. Baluja, N. Godvani
and J. Javiya, J. Ultra. Sci. Phy. Sci., 21 (2009).
8. ―Preparation, characterization and antibacterial activity of some metal complexes containing
Schiff bases of triazole derivatives‖. Shipra Baluja, Nikunj Kachhadia, Nilesh Godvani, Ratish
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Nair, Sumitra Chanda and Parag Ajudia. Inst. Chem., 81, 110-118 (2009).
9. ―Sonochemical Synthesis of some Schiff bases‖. S. Baluja, N. Kachhadia, A. Solanki and
Jagdish Movaliya, Int. J. Chem. Sci., 7(2), 976-980 (2009).
10. ―Microwave promoted synthesis of some novel Schiff bases‖. A. Kulshrestha, Samrat Dwivedi
and Shipra Baluja, Int. J. Syn. Charact., 2(1), 9-11 (2009).
11. ―The solution heat and conductance of some azomethines nonwater solutions at 308 K‖. S.
Baluja and M. Bhatt, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. A, 83, 36-38 (2009).
12. ―Dissociation constant of some derivatives of 4-amino benzoic acid in mixed solvents ‖. Shipra
Baluja, Pranav Inamdar and Mehul Bhatt, Prajna-J. Pure Appl. Sci., 17, 065-067 (2009).
13. ―Antibacterial studies of some metal complexes of coumarin chalcones: Part-II, Shipra Baluja,
Jagdish Movalia and Rahul Bhalodia, J. Inst. Chem., 81, 102-109 (2009).
14. ―Acoustical Studies of some derivatives of 1,5-benzodiazepines in dimethyl formamide and
tetrahydrofuran solutions at 298.15 K‖. S. Baluja, J. Movalia and N. Godvani, Russ. J. Phys.
Chem. A. 83, 2223-2229 (2009).
15. ―Solubility of Cholesterol in some alcohols from 293.15 to 318.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja, Ravi
Gajera, Nayan Vekariya, Mehul Bhatt and Rahul Bhalodia, Archiv. Appl. Sci. Res., 1, 263-270
(2009).
16. ―Studies of heat of solution and conductance of some azo methines in solutions at 318.15K‖,
Shipra Baluja and Mehul Bhatt, Acta Ciencia Indica, XXXV, 291-296 (2009).
17. ―Acoustical studies of some derivatives of 4-amino benzoic acid in 1,4- dioxane and DMF at
318.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja, Mayur Soni and Pranav Inamdar, Ife J. Sci., In Press, (2009).
18. ―Synthesis and acoustical studies of some chalcones of furaldehyde in different solvents at 308.15K‖. Shipra Baluja, N. Vekaria, R. Gajera and A. Kulshrestha, Int. J. Appl. Chem., 5,
(2009).
19. ―Solubility of biologically active Chalcones in 1,4-dioxane and N, N/-dimethyl formamide
from (298.15-318.15)K‖, Shipra Baluja, Ravi Gajera and Anchal Kulshreshtha, J. Chem. Eng.
Data, 55, 574-577 (2010).
20. ―Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some chalcones‖, Shipra Baluja, Nilesh Godvani,
Mehul Bhatt, Jigna Parekh, Yogeshkumar Vaghasiya, Sumitra Chanda and Ravi Gajera, J. Ind.
Chem. Soc., 87, 637-642 (2010).
21. ―Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some new triazole derivatives‖, Sumitra Chanda,
Yogesh Baravalia and Shipra Baluja, Archi. Appl. Sci. Res., 2(3), 117-126 (2010).
22. ―Evaluation of antibacterial activity of some Schiff bases‖, Shipra Baluja, Jigna Parekh,
Sumitra Chanda and K. P. Vaishnani, J. Ind. Chem. Soc., 87, 1-5 (2010).
23. ―Acoustical properties of Schiff base solutions in DMF‖, Shipra Baluja, Kirti P. Vaishnani,
Ravi Gajera and Nikunj Kachhadia, Latin Am. Appl. Res., 40, 249-254 (2010).
24. ―Synthesis and antimicrobial screening of 1,6-dihydropyrimidine derivatives‖, Shipra Baluja,
Ravi Gajera, Anchal Kulshreshtha, Ashish Patel, Sumitra Chanda, Yogesh Vaghasiya and
Yogesh Barvaliya, Archi. Appl. Sci. Res., 2(2), 72-78 (2010).
25. ―Dissociation constant of some derivatives of 5-aminoisophthalic acid in mixed solvents‖. Shipra
Baluja, Rahul Bhalodia and P. Kasundara. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. A, 84, 2268-2269 (2010).\
26. ―Solubility of 5-amino Salicylic acid in different solvents at various temperatures‖, Ashish Patel,
Arun Vaghasiya, Ravi Gajera and Shipra Baluja, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 55, 1453-1455 (2010).
27. ―Adiabatic Compressibilities of some synthesized derivatives of dihydropyrimidines in N, N-
Dimethylformamide and Dimethylsulfoxide at 298.15 K". S. Baluja, R. Bhalodia and R. Gajera,
Russ. J. Phys. Chem., 84, 1-6 (2010).
28. ―Study of molecular interactions of Loperamide drug in different solvents at 308.15 K‖, Nilesh
Godvani, Jagdish Movalia, Ravi Gajera and Shipra Baluja, Res. J. Pharma. Bio. Chem. Sci., 1,
67- 73 (2010).
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29. ―Studies on thermodynamic properties of some imidazolinone derivatives in DMF at 308.15 K‖,
Shipra Baluja, Asif Solanki and Nikunj Kachhadia, Chin. J. Chem. Eng., 18, 306-311 (2010).
30. ―Solubility of Ofloxacin in 1,2-Dichloromethane, Chloroform, Carbon Tetrachloride, and Water
from (293.15 to 313.15) K‖, S. Baluja, R. Gajera, M. Bhatt, R. Bhalodia and N. Vekariya, J.
Chem. Eng. Data, 55, 956-958 (2010).
31. ―Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some synthetic compounds derived from sulphanilamide
and 6-ethylbenzene-1,3-diol‖, Shipra Baluja, Ashish Patel and Sumitra Chanda, J. Chem. Bio.
Phy. Sci., 1, 169-178 (2011).
32. ―Schiff bases-Synthesis, Characterization and antibacterial activity‖, Shipra Baluja, Ashish Patel
and Sumitra Chanda, Res. J. Pharma. Bio. Chem. Sci., 2, 296-304 (2011).
33. ―Acceleration of the effect of solute on the entropy-volume cross fluctuation density in aqueous
2- Butoxyethanol, 1-propanol and glycerol: The fourth derivative of Gibb‘s energy‖, K.
Yoshida, S. Baluja, A. Inaba and Y. Koga, J. Chem. Phys., 134, 214502-214507 (2011).
34. ―Determination of some thermodynamic parameters of dissociation of dihydro pyrimidine
derivatives‖, Rahul Bhalodia, Ravi Gajera and Shipra Baluja, Russ. J. Phys. Chem., 85 (8), 1-3
(2011).
35. ―Experimental determination of a third derivative of G.(III): Differential Pressure Perturbation
Calorimentry (II)‖, Koh Yoshida, Shipra Baluja, Akira Inaba, Ken-ichi Tozaki and Yoshikata
Koga, J. Sol. Chem., 40, 1271-1278 (2011).
36. ―Thermal profile and decomposition kinetics of some new Schiff base derived from 4-amino
antipyrine‖. Shipra Baluja, Jagdish Movaliya and Ashish Patel, J. Chem. Bio. Phy. Sci., 2,
(2012).
37. ―A study of physicochemical properties of some azomethines of vanillin‖, Shipra Baluja, Ashish
Patel and Jagdish Movalia, Ife J. Sci., IV, 46-53 (2011).
38. ―In vitro antifungal activity of some new triazole compounds‖, Sumitra Chanda, Shipra Baluja
and Jigna Parekh, J. Ind. Chem. Soc., 89, 281-285 (2012).
39. ― Excess Thermodynamic properties of binary mixtures of acetophenone with methanol, hexane,
dimethyl formamide and tetrahydrophenone at T=308.15 K‖, Shipra Baluja, Jagdish Movalia
and Nilesh Godvani, Icfai. J. Chem., V(1) 18-25 (2012).
39. ― Ultrasonic velocity studies of solutions of some organic compounds at 298.15 K‖, Shipra Baluja and Falguni Karia, J. Chem. Bio. Phys. Sci., 2, 101-107 (2012).
41. ―Thiopyrimidine derivatives: Synthesis and antibacterial activity‖, Pharma. Chem. J.,46(2), 117-
121 (2012).
42. ― Synthesis and investigation of antibacterial activity of some Schiff bases‖. Shipra Baluja and
Sumitra Chanda, J. Chem. Bio. Phy. Sci.,2(3), 1176-1183 (2012).
43. ― Dissociation constants of some pyrazole schiff bases in Dimethylformamide and Tetrahydro-
furan‖, Jayesh Javiya, Nilesh Godvani and Shipra Baluja, J. Chem. Pharma. Res., 4(4), 2061-
2063 (2012).
44. ―Studies of Molecular Interactions In Solutions of Phenylephrine Drug at 308.15 K‖. Nilesh
Godvani, Jayesh Javiya, Jagdish Movaliya and Shipra Baluja, Asian J. Biochem. Pharma. Res.,
2 (2), 131-139 (2012).
45. ―Pyrazoline derivatives: Synthesis and antibacterial studies‖. S. Baluja and S. Chanda, World
Res. J. Appl. Med. Chem., 1(1), 6-10 (2012).
46. ―Physicochemical studies of some azomethines of p-amino phenol in DMF and DMSO solutions
at 308.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja, Kirit Vaishnani and Jagdish Movaliya, World Res. J. Org. Chem.,
1, (2012).
47. ―Thermal Profile and Decomposition Kinetics of Some Synthesized 1,5-
Benzodiazepines‖, Nilesh Godvani, Jayesh Javiya and Shipra Baluja, Int. J. Chem Tech.
Res.,( USA), 4(3), 928 - 932 (2012).
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48. ―Epoxy Aldehyde Schiff Bases: Synthesis and Antimicrobial Study‖, K. D. Bhesaniya, S.
V. Chanda and S. H. Baluja, Int. J. Pharma. Res. Scho., 1 (4), 6-10 (2012).
49. ― Biological activity of some azomethines of 5-amino isophthalic acid‖. Shipra Baluja
and Kapil Bhesaniya, VAK, Saurashtra University. (2012).
50.‖ Structural Properties of Schiff bases of 4-aminophenol in DMSO solutions‖. Shipra Baluja and
K. P. Vaisnani, World. J. Org. Chem., 1 (2012).
51. ― Density, viscosity and speed of sound in solutions of some imidazolinone derivatives in
DMSO at 308.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja and Nikunj Kachhadia, Int. J. Basic Appl. Chem.
Sci.,2, 63-73 (2012).
52. ― Synthesis and antibacterial studies of benzothiazole-2-amine derivatives‖. Shipra Baluja
and Falguni Karia, VAK, Saurashtra University. (2012).
53. ―Density, viscosity and ultrasound speed of Schiff bases of 4-aminophenol in DMSO
Solutions at 308.15 K‖. Shipra Baluja and K. P. Vaisnani, Russ. J. Phys. Chem., A,
Accepted (2013).
54. ― Ultrasonic studies of antiprotozoal drug in protic and aprotic solvents at 308.15K‖.
Shipra Baluja and Anchal Kulshshtra, Latin Am. Appl. Res., Accepted (2013).
55.‖Acoustical studies of some derivatives of azomethines in methanol and N,N-dimethyl
formamide at 303.15K‖. Shipra Baluja and Kapil Bhesaniya, Phys. Mat. Chem.,
Accepted (2013).
56. ―Thermo Physical Properties of Some Tetrahydropyrimidine Derivatives‖, S. H. Baluja,
K. D. Bhesaniya and AB. Patel, Int. J. Res. Pharma. Biomed. Sci., 4, 81-93 (2013).
57. ― Studies of physic chemical properties of some 4-amino-5-(40methoxyphenyl)-4H-1,2,4-
triazole-3-thiol Schiff bases‖, Shipra Baluja and Asif Solanki, SARJ Phys. Sci.,
Accepted (2013).
Dr. U. C. Bhoya
1. ―Synthesis and study of Ester Mesogenic Homologous Series: Ethyl-o-[p‘-n-
alkoxybenzoyloxy] benzoates‖ Doshi A.V., Joshi C.G. and Bhoya U.C., , Der
PharmaChemica, 3 (5), 2011
2. Doshi A.V., Joshi C.G. and Bhoya U.C., Liquid Crystalline Characteristics of
AzoesterMesogens: p-(p‘-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy) phenyl azo-p‖-methoxy benzene,Der
PharmaChemica, 3 (2), 2011
3. Doshi A.V., Bhoya U.C., Patel R.B., Study of New homologous Series of
AzoesterMesogens: p-(p‘-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)m-methyl phenyl azo-p‖-methoxy
benzenes,Der PharmaChemica, 3 (3), 2011
4. Doshi A.V., Bhoya U.C., Odedra D.A., Synthesis and Study of New Ester Homologous
Series of Mesomorphs: 4-Ethoxy Phenyl- 4‘-n-alkoxy benzoates,Der PharmaChemica, 3
(3), 2011
5. Doshi.A.V., Bhoya U.C., J.J.Travedi, Determination of Latent Transition Temperatures of
Nonmesomorphs by Extrapolation method in Binary Systems, Molecular Crystal and
Liquid Crystal,Vol. 552, 2012
6. Doshi.A.V., Bhoya U.C., Vyas N.N., Determination of Latent Mesogenic Behavior in
Nonmesomorphs by Extrapolation method,Molecular Crystal and Liquid Crystal, Vol.
552, 2012
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Prof. M. K. Shah
1. Spectroscopic Studies And Antimicrobial Activity Of Binuclear Transition Metal
Complexes Derived From 5-Bromo Salicyldehyde S.N.Dabhi, C.B.Dattani, M.K.Shah
And J.H.Pandya, IJSC , 2(1),(January-June 2009 ) pp.43-46
2. Synthesis And Biological evolution of 3-aryl-2-(2-chloro-6-iodoquinolin-3‘yl)-4-
thiazolidinones ;B.Shah,R.C.Khunt,M.K.Shah*; OCAIJ, June 2009 ,Vol.5,Issue
2,pp.215-217.
3. Synthesis And Antimicrobial Properties Of Transition Metal Complexes Of Novel
Schiff Base Ligand Derived From 5-Bromosalicyldehyde; J.H.Pandya And
M.K.Shah*,JICC, Vol.26.No.2, July-2009 , pp-19-112
4. A simple and one-pot three-component synthesis of 1,4-dihydropyridines
Minaxi Maru And Manish Shah*, OCAIJ, 5(3), 2009 [360-362]
5. Synthesis and Characterization of Copper(II) complex with 1-(4,5-dimethoxy-2-
nitrobenzylidene) thiosemicarbazide ; Acta Ciencia Indica.Vol.XXXVIIC, No.2, 133-
141 (2011) R.M.Tada,T.S.Mehta and M.K.Shah
6. Synthesis and Characterization of 5,10,15,20-tetra[(3,4-dimethoxy-6-nitro)phenyl]
Porphyrinatocopper(II); Naimish Chavda,Tushar Mehta and Manish SHAH*,Der
Chemica Sinica, 2011,2(1):21-26
7. Synthesis and characterization of some new thiosemicarbazide derivatives and their
transition metal complexes; Rakesh Tada, Naimish Chavda and Manish K. Shah, J.
Chem. Pharm. Res., 2011, 3(2):290-297
8. Synthesis and Characterization of some novel 1H- benzothizole and their derivatives
and their Cu(II) complexes;Minaxi Maru and Manish SHAH*,Der Chemica Sinica,
2012,3(2),481-485
9. Transition Metal complexes of 2-(substituted 1H-pyrazole-4yl)- 1H- benzo[d]
imidazoles: Synthesis and Characterization ; Minaxi Maru and Manish SHAH*, J.
Chem. Pharm. Res., 2012,4(3),1638-1643
10. Synthesis and physico-chemical studies of some divalent transition metal
complexes of 2-(2′-chloro-6′-substituted quinolinyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazole ligands,
Minaxi Maru and M.K.Shah, Int. J. Chem. Res., 2012,2(2),14-27.
11. Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Evaluation of Novel 2-(1,3-Substituted 1H-Pyrazol-4-yl)-1H-benzo[d]thiazoles, Minaxi Maru, M.K.Shah;
International Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, (2012), 3(2): 61-64.
12. Synthesis, physico-chemical studies and antimicrobial evaluation of novel 2-
(substituted aryl)-1h-benzo [d]thiazoles and their metal(ii)chloride complexes , minaxi
maru andm. K. Shah, Int J Pharm Pharm Sci, 2012,Vol 4, Issue 3, 388-391
Dr. Y. T. Naliapara
1. Novel dna-directed alkyating agents: design, synthesis and potent antitumor effect of
phenyl n-mustard-9-anilinoacridine conjugates via a carbamate or carbonate linker.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 17, 1264-1275, 2009
2. One-pot synthesis of 5-carboxanilide-dihydropyrimidinones using etidronic acid.
Arkivoc 7, 79-85, 2009
3. Etidronic acid: a new and efficient catalyst for the synthesis of novel 5-nitro-3,4-
dihydropyrimidin-2(1h)-ones. Catalysis lett. 132, 1 , 281-284, 2009
4. Use of cyclic aliphatic ketones for spiro 2-amino-3-cyano pyrano[3,2-c]chromene
formation, arkivoc 12, 254-260, 2009
5. Cation exchange resin (indion 130): an efficient, environment friendly and recyclable
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eterogeneous catalyst for the biginelli condensation. Lett. Org. Chem., 6 (8), 2009
6. Synthesis of some novel trifluoromethylated tetrahydropyrimidines using etidronic
acid and evaluation for antimicrobial activity. Der pharamcia lettre 1 (2), 277-285,
2009
7. Tetraethylammoniumbromide mediated knoevenagel condensation in water, synthesis
of 4-arylmethylene-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone.e. J. Chem. 2009.
8. Water mediated parallel synthesis of n‘-arylmethylene-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-2hindazole-
3-carbohydrazide library-e. J. Chem.
9. Synthesis and evaluation of antimicrobial activity of some new 5-imidazolinone
derivatives. Org. J., an indian journal 5(2), 237-242, 2009
10. Construction of 3,4-dihydro-1,2-diazete through 4π electron cyclization of 4-hydroxy-
2-oxo-2h chromene-3-carbaldehyde [(1e)-arylmethylene] hydrazone. Journal of
heterocyclic chemistry 47, 3, 513–516, 2010
11. Water mediated construction of trisubstituted pyrazoles/isoxazoles using ketene
dithioacetals. Journal of combinatorial chemistry 2010, 12 (1), 176–180
12. A concise synthetic strategy to functionalized chromenones via [5+1]
heteroannulation and facile c–n/c–s/c–o bond formation with various nucleophiles.
Tetrahedron letters 52, 2, 12 2011, 254–257
13. Synthesis and characterization of n-butyl 4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)- 6-methyl-2-
thioxo-1,2,3,4 tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate nanocrystalline particles by water/
oil microemulsion method. Int. J. Nanosci. 10, 6 (2011) 1237-1244
14. Fuller‘s earth catalised rapid synthesis of bis(indolyl)methanes under solvent free
condition. Ind. J. Chem., b 2012, 51b(07), 1032-1038
15. Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of some novel imidazole bearing isoxazole
derivatives int. J. Chem. Sci. 10(3), 2012, 1748-1758
Dr. R. C. Khunt
1. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of some new-5-oxoimidazollines,by D.P.
Bhoot, H.G.Sangani, R.C.Khunt and H.H.Patrekh, An Indian
journal,OCAIJ,5/2,2009.
2. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 3-Aryl-2-(2-Chloro-6-Idoquinoline-3-yl)-4-
thiazolidinone, by B.R. Shah, R.C.Khunt and M.K.Shah, An Indian
journal,OCAIJ,5/2,2009.
3. Synthesis of some novel pyrimidinones and their antimicrobial activity, by H.G.
Sangani, R.C.Khunt, K.B. Bhimani and A.R. Parikh, Journal of the Institution of
Chemists (India) (2009), 81(2), 44-46.
4. Synthesis and Characterization of Some Arylamino Derivatives of Chloroquinoline
as Antimicrobial agents, Bhimani K.B.: Khunt R.C.; Sangani H.G., Dhol S.R.;
Detroja D.P. and Parikh A.R; Archives of Applied Science Research, 70,2(1),2010.
5. Synthesis of Some Azetidinone as an Antibacterial and Antitubercular Bioactive
Compounds by Ranjan C. Khunt; Journal of Sciences, published by Gujarat
Government, 166,1(1),2010.
6. Synthesis and Antimicrobial activity of 4-[2‘-(Substituted)-5‘-H-4‘-thiazlidinone-
3‘yl]methyl-6,7-DimethylCoumarin by Denish Karia,RanjanKhunt, Ashok Sarwani,
Kuldeep Upadhyay and Anamik Shah, Journal of Science, 170,1(1),2010.
7. Synthesis and biological evaluation of chalcones and acetylpyrazoline derivatives
comprising furan nucleus as an antitubercular agents, Dinesh Bhoot, Ranjna C.
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Khunt and Hansa Parekh; Med Chem Res. 21,/10, 3233-
32392012,DOI.10.1007/s00044-011-9857-0,2011.
8. Synthesis, antitubercular evaluation and 3D-QSAR study of N-Phenyl-3-(4-
fluorophenyl)-4-substitued pyrazoline derivatives; R. C. Khunt, V. M. Khedkar, R.
S. Chawda, N. A. Chauhan, A. R. Parikh and E.C. Coutinho; Bioorg. Med. Chem.
Lett., 22/ 1, 666–678, 2012,
Dr. Falguni Karia
1. Ultrasonic velocity and molecular interaction study of biphenol
derivatives at 300 C-D. D. Madhvi, F. D. Karia and P. H. Parsania -Journal of Indian Chemical Society, Vol. 86, pp. 588-593, June 2009.
2. Ultrasonic velocity studies of solutions of some organic compounds at
298.15K
Shipra Baluja and FAlguni Karia-Journal of Chemical, Biological and
physical Sciences, Nov 2011-Jan2012. Vol.2.No.1, 101-107
3. Synthesis and antibacterial studies of benzimedazole and 2 -methyl
benzimedazole derivatives.-Falguni Karia and Shipra Baluja-Vak –
University Journal, Sau Uni (2012).
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Evaluation Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Commerce & Business Administration.
2. Year of Establishment: 1979.
3. Is the Department part of a Faculty of the University? YES.
4. Names of Programmes offered: M. Com., M.Phill, Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: Nil.
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
Nil.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: Nil.
8. Examination system: Choice Based Credit System with Semester System.
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: Nil.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 01 00 03 (CAS)
Associate Professor 02 02 01 (CAS)
Assistant Professor 04 04 02
Others 00 00 00
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualificatio
n
Desig
nation
Specia
lization
No. of
years
of
experie
nce
No. of
Ph. D./
M. Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr. D. P. Chauhan M.Com.
M.Phill, Ph.
D.
Prof. &
Head
Finance 24
Years
12 / 15
Dr.S. J. Parmar M.Com.,
Ph. D.
Professor Accounting
& Finance
22
Years
12 / 10
Dr. A. K. Chakrawal M.Com.,
Ph. D.
Professor Accounting
& Finance
22
Years
10 / 07
Dr. K. P. Damor M.Com.
M.Phill, Ph.
D.
Associate
Professor
Accounting
& Finance
14
Years
05 / 00
Dr. A. H. Sondarva M.Com.,
Ph. D.
Assistant
Professor
Accounting
& Finance
13
Years
05 / 00
Dr. C. H. Dhadhal M.Com.,
Ph. D.
Assistant
Professor
Finance 19
Years
01 0
0
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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor: Nil.
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
M.Com. = 16 Lectures per week.
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
M.Com. = 14:1
M.Phill = 5:1
Ph. D. = 8:1
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Junior Clerk 01 00 01(Contractual)
Typist 01 00 01(Contractual)
Peon 01 00 01(Contractual)
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: Accounting, Finance
and Marketing.
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise :Nil
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:Nil
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received: Nil.
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition
National Recognition
International Recognition
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: Nil
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals:36
Monographs:Nil
Chapter in Books:Nil
Edited books:Nil
Books with ISBN with details of publishers:04
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)Nil
Citation Index – range / average:Nil
SNIP:Nil
SJR:Nil
Impact Factor – range / average:Nil
h-index 23. Details of patents and income generated: Nil
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24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: Nil
26. Faculty serving in:
National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other (please
specify):05
DakshaPratapsinh
- 1) Indian Accounting Association Journal.
- 2) Spark ―e‖ Journal.
- 3) Management Trends.
- 4) Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.
- 5). Global Research Journal of Commerce , Finance and Business management.
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes): 02
28. Student projects: Nil
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by:
Best paper award received by Dr. Shailesh J. Parmar in 11th International conference organized by RDA. Jaipur 2012.
Best paper award received by Dr. Alok Chakrawal in International Conference
Organized by Bombay University 0n Strategic Management during 2011-12. 30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
All Indian Conference funded by UGC unassigned Grant.
Conference 2006-07
Conference 2011-12
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments: As per University norm.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details
category-wise.
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35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG Nil
PG to M. Phil. 02
PG to Ph. D. 01
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral 00
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
00
Entrepreneurs:
00
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 03
From other universities within state 02
From universities from other states 01
From universities outside the country 00
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:01
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: Departmental Library run by Students.
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Only for Staff.
c) Total number of class-rooms: 04
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 04
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Nil
f) Research Laboratories: Nil
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:Nil
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
41) Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology. No.
42) Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback: No
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ? Yes. Discuss in Staff Council Meeting.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ? No.
43) List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10): (See Annexure:
1)
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44) Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts: Nil.
45) List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes:
Lecture Method.
Class Room Seminar.
Power Point Presentation.
OHP.
46) How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ? N.A.
47) Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities:
Visit to Old age House by students.
48) Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department: Post
Graduate General Seminar Activity.
49) State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details. No.
50) Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied: Post Graduate General Seminar Activity.
51) Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department:
Strengths:(1). Faculty. (2). Infrastructure. (3). Continuous Evaluation & Development. (4). Departmental Library. (5). University environment for
Teaching & Learning.
Weaknesses: (1). Students from rural area. (2). Students' language proficiency. (3). External environment support system. (4). Insufficient rapo with parents. (5).
Placement of Students.
Opportunities: (1). Probability for good NET clearance . (2). Transformation of
students from weak to strong academic out-put. (3). Good infrastructure
development of City. (4). Probability of more number of students for competitive
exams. (5). Job- awareness.
Challenges: (1). Reduction in number of students. (2). Lack of awareness & carrier consciousness among Students' & parents. (3). Fluctuation in Teaching
fraternity. (4). Lack of employability. (5). Upgradation of system, structure,
syllabi & exam patterns.
52) Future plans of the Department:
The Department is planning to start MHRD Course.
The Department is planning to start Women Entrepreneur Centre.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department :- Department of Economics
2. Year of establishment : -1977
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? IndependentDepartment
for P.G.Studies in the University
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters; Integrated
Ph. D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) - M.A./M.Phil/Ph.D
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved:- Nil
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. : Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons : Nil
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System :-
Semester Based CBCS
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments:-
02(Department of Journalism &M.B.A Deptt.)
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 02 - 02
Associate Professors 02 01 01
Asst. Professors 05 04 02
Total 09 05 05
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience
and research under guidancefor the last four years
Name
Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of
Ph.
D./M.
Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr.P.G.Marvania Ph.D Professor&Head Economics 27 03/12
Dr.J.D.Naik M.A.M.A.(U.S.A)Ph.D Professor Industrial Eco 38 04/11
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Name
Qualification Designation Specialization No. of Years of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./M.
Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
Indian Eco Policy
Dr.R.A.Joshi M.A.Ph. D. Asso. Prof. International Eco
EcoofDevelopment
25 04/14
Dr.N.R.Shah M.A. Ph.D Asst.Professor Labour Eco 06 00/08
Dr.M.J.Kanziya M.A.M. Phil.
Ph.D
Asst.Professor RuralDevelopment
Agriculural Eco
04 00/10
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors: Nil
13. Percentageof classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information: Nil
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
Year Programme Nos.Teachers Nos.Student Ratio
2009-10 M.A. 06 96 16
M. Phil. 06 12 02
Ph.D 04 11 2.75
2010-11 M.A. 06 84 14
M. Phil. 06 08 1.4
Ph.D 04 06 1.5
2011-12 M.A. 06 98 16.34
M. Phil. 06 14 2.34
Ph.D 04 12 03
2012-13 M.A. 06 78 13
M. Phil. 06 30 05
Ph.D 04 20 05
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15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,
filled and actual
Post/ Category Sanctioned Filled Contract based
Staff
Clerk 01 - 01
Typist 01 - -
Peon 01 - 01
Sweeper 01 - 01(P.T)
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies:
Regional Development
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title
and grants received project-wise.
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
YEAR NAME OF
PROJECT TYPE DURATION
YEAR
OF
COMPL
ETION
GRANT
RECEI
VED
2009-10 District HDI Profile:
Jamnagar
Major 01 2010 4,00,000
2010-11 -Nil- Nil -Nil- -Nil- Nil
2011-12
IMPACT OF
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME
SEED
MONEY
2 40000
2012-13
IMPACT OF
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME
MINOR 18 MONTH 120000
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b) National collaboration:- Nil
c) International collaboration :-Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT,
ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received. :-Nil
20. Research facility / centre with : Nil
state recognition
national recognition
international recognition
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies :Nil
22. Publications:
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
1 NATIONAL 05 05 04 02
2 INTERNATIONAL -Nil- -Nil- 02 02
3 MONOGRAPHS -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
4 CHAPTERS IN BOOK 01 01 03 04
5 EDITED BOOKS 02 01 02 01
6
BOOKS WITH ISBN
WITH DETAILS OF
PUBLISHERS
-Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
7
NUMBER LISTED IN
INTERNATIONAL
DATABASE
-Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
8 CITATION INDEX-
RANGE / AVERAGE -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
9 SNIP -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
10 SJR -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
11 IMPACT FACTOR-
RANGE / AVERAGE -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
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12 H-INDEX -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
23. Details of patents and income generated :- Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated :- Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad :- Nil
26. Faculty serving in
a) National committees :- 01
b) International committees:- Nil
c) Editorial Boards :- 01
d) Any other (please specify)
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops,
training programs and similar programs). :-02
28. Student projects
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental
projects:- Nil
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities /
industry / institute :- Nil
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
Faculty : Nil
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows: Nil
Students : Nil
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
Faculty 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
NATIONAL -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
INTERNATIONAL -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil-
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
NATIONAL 04 03 02 04
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31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments :
(i) Objectivity in Research
(ii) Anti-plagiarism
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question no.
4)
Applications
received
Selected
Male Female
Pass percentage
Male Female
MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE
2009-10
M.A.SEM-1&3 50 22 28 86.37 96.42
M.A.SEM-2&4 46 20 26 85 96.15
M.PHIL SEM-1&2 12 08 04 100 100
Ph.D 11 06 05 NA NA
2010-11
M.A.SEM-1&3 44 22 22 95.45 100
M.A.SEM-2&4 40 19 21 100 100
M.PHIL SEM-1&2 08 04 04 100 100
Ph. D. 18 06 00 NA NA
2011-12
M.A.SEM-1&3 51 23 28 100 100
M.A.SEM-2&4 47 20 27 95 92.59
M.PHIL SEM-1 &2 14 09 05 100 100
Ph. D. 25 06 07 NA NA
2012-13 M.A.SEM-1&3 43 19 24 94.74 100
M.A.SEM-2&4 35 16 19 100 100
M.PHIL SEM-1&2 30 16 14 90 100
INTERNATIONAL -Nil- -Nil- -Nil- -Nil
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Ph.D 30 13 07 NA NA
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the State
% of students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from other
countries
2009-10
M.A. 100 0 0 0
M.PHIL 83.34 16.7 0 0
Ph.D NA NA 0 0
2010-11
M.A. 100 0 0 0
M.PHIL 87.5 12.5 0 0
Ph.D 100 0 0 0
2011-12
M.A. 100 0 0 0
M.PHIL 92.9 7.14 0 0
Ph. D. 69.2 30.8 0 0
2012-13
M.A. 100 0 0 0
M.PHIL 97 3.34 0 0
Ph.D 80 20 0 0
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Year NET
2009-10 NA
2010-11 01
2011-12 NA
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2012-13 NA
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against
enrolled
UG to PG Not Applicable
2009-10 PG to M. Phil. 75
PG to Ph. D. NA
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
NA
Entrepreneurs NA
UG to PG Not Applicable
2010-11 PG to M. Phil. 25
PG to Ph. D. 34
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
NA
Entrepreneurs NA
UG to PG Not Applicable
2011-12 PG to M. Phil. 78.57
PG to Ph. D. 30.76
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
NA
Entrepreneurs NA
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2012-13 UG to PG Not Applicable
PG to M. Phil. 63.33
PG to Ph. D. 05
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
NA
Entrepreneurs NA
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are post graduates
of the same University NA
from other universities within the State 04
from universities from other States 01
from universities outside the country NA
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:-Nil
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: -Departmental Library exist with 100 books on Environmental
Economics and 149 Books of Economics (Gujarati)
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: -Access to Wi-Fi
c) Total number of class rooms: -03
d) Class rooms with ICT facility:-01
e) Students‘ laboratories: -Nil
f) Research laboratories: -Nil
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University:- Nil
b) from other institutions/universities :- Nil
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University.
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Merit 02 01 - -
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Scholarship
Freeship
Scholarship
- - 02 01
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. :-Not applicable
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
d. Facultyon curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation?If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback? Yes
e. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback? Yes
f. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback? No
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
No Name Designation/Status
1 Prof. K.K.Khakhar Former HoD
2 Dr. SamaIqabal Director, Aga Khan Mission
3 Prin. Dr. N. Kanani Principal, J H Bhalodia College
4 Dr Christy Fernandez (IAS) Govt. of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
5 Dr. TusharbhaiHathi Vice Chancellor, (I/C) Kutch
University, Bhuj
6 Shri Punit Patel Manager, HDFC Bank, Jamnagar
7 Shri Jayantibhai Gadara Member, Gujarat Secondary
Education Board, Gandhinagar
8 Dr. K. J. Tankchan Director, MBA Christ College
Rajkot
9 Shri T. S. Bist (I.P.S) Home Secretary, Govt. Of Gujarat,
Gandhinagar
10 Dr. Hitesh Shukla Chief Deputy Manager, Rajkot
NagarikSahakari Bank, Rajkot
More names are with departmental records
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44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
involving external experts.NA
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
(i) Chalk & Talk
(ii)PPT based
(iii)Role Play
(iv)Assignment
(v)Classroom Subject Seminars
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly
met and learning outcomes are monitored?
(i)Internal Test
(ii)Quiz
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Implementation of ―RamRajya‖strategy in village Governance
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department. : Field visits
through tour.
49.State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details. NA
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied. Some output of Ph. D. dissertation is used by other scholars.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
department.
STRENGTHS:
Oldest department having narmonius stake-holder‘s relations
Dispensing higher education to the students coming from rural area and some of them
first generation learners in higher educational system
Good infrastructural amenities for the faculty and conducive natural environment for
teaching, learning and research
WEKNESSES:
Shortages of class-rooms and space for computer lab and department library
cum reading room.
Unfilled sanctioned positions of the faculty.
Poor proficiency of English Language of learners.
Declining strength of students in the recent years.
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OPPORTUNITIES:
Well behaved and eager-to-learn type of student community.
Positive support from the University authorities and administration.
Availability of funding for research from the University, UGC, ICSSR etc.
Link-up with local industries and state level research institutions.
CHALLENGES:
Filling of the non-filled sanctioned teaching positions.
Evolving a net-work for placement at the University level and linking the same at the
department level.
Creating reading material of advance level in vernacular for the easy reach of the
students.
Bringing more research projects and fruitful collaborations in the department
52. Future plans of the department.
1. Evolving active and fruitful collaborations with research institutions of
significance and local industries.
2. Taking students to field visits for the practical experience of working of theory
in reality.
3. institutionalization of remedial classes.
4. Creating infrastructural facilities for the equipping students for the computer
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Evaluation Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Physics
2. Year of Establishment: 1979
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ? Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: M.Sc, M. Phil. , Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: NIL
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc. NIL
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: NIL
8. Examination system: Semester with Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: NIL
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 01 00 04
Associate Professor 04 02 02
Assistant Professor 06 05 01
Others ---------- ---------- ----------
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of years
of
experience
(PG)
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Please see Annexure-1
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
List of Eminent Scholars visited the Department is attached
Sr. No. Name of Department Name of
eminent
research scholar
Institutional
details of the
Research
Scholar
Date of Visit
1 Physics Dr. Sukesh Space 3-10-2011
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Aghara Exploration, NASA,USA,
2 Physics Dr. V. N. Mani C-MET,
Hyderabad
23-03-2011
3-12-2012
3 Physics Dr. G. Sivjee Dept.of
Physical
sciences,
Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical
University,
Daytona,
Beach, FL,
USA
23-08-2012
4 Physics Dr. Hari Om
Vats
Physical
Research
Laboratory,
Ahmedabad
20-02-2010
25-03-2011
17-10-2012
5 Physics Dr. D.K.
Avasthi
Inter-University
Accelerator
Centre, New
Delhi
28-11-2012
6 Physics Prof. S. B.Ogle National
Chemical
Laboratory,
Pune
1-3-2012
7 Physics Dr. Ganeshan Director,
UGC-DAE-
CSR, Indore
1-3-2012
8 Physics Prof.
Dhananjay
Pande
BHU, Varanasi 17-03-2010
9 Physics Dr. H. S. Bhatt Head , Net
working
Division,
SAC,ISRO,
Ahmedabad
4-1-2013
10 Physics Prof. Ajay Dhar Indian Institute
of Geo-
magnetism,
Mumbai
12-10-2010
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: NIL
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: M.Sc.- 120:07, M.Phil-
15:07, Ph. D.- 40:07
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
281
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Office Staff
Clerk 01 01 01
Store-keeper 01 01 01
Typist 01 01 01
Peon 01 01 01
Sweeper 01 01 01
Laboratory staff
Laboratory
technician
03 01 01
Helper 02 00 00
Workshop staff
Superintendent 01 00 00
Mechanic 04 01 01
Carpenter 01 01 01
Helper 01 01 01
Total 17 09 09
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
1. Condensed Matter Physics
2. Space & Atmospheric Physics
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project title
and grants received project-wise
Total Grant Received: Rs. 316.57 Lakhs
Sr.
No
.
Title & Scope of
the R & D
Project
Year in
which
started
Grant
Received
In Lakhs
Remarks
(Status: Completed/
not completed)
Name of Principal
investigator/ coordinator
1 DST-FIST (Level-
I) 2008 103 2008-2013
Prof. Hiren H. Joshi
2 UGC SAP DRS –
II 2009 71.50 ongoing
Prof. Hiren H. Joshi
3 Development and
Characterization
of Multiferroic
Thin Films for
Device
Applications
2011 12.37 UGC
(In Progress)
Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
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4 SHI Induced Modifications in
the Properties of
BiFeO3
Multiferroic Thin
Films
2012 05.79 UGC
(In Progress)
Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
5 Electronic
Structure and
Valance Band
Studies on
Functional Oxides
2012 07.09 UGC-DAE
(In Progress)
Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
6 Aerosol
characterization
over the semi arid
urban region –
Rajkot using multi
technique
observations
2012 18.00 ISRO
On going
Prof. H.P. Joshi
7 Development and
studies on
functional oxide
thin film devices
for spintronics
applications
2013 49.00 DST-SERB
Prof. DG Kuberkar
8
Studies on
transport and
magneto-transport
behaviour of
functional oxide
based thin film
devices
2013 24.90 DAE-BRNS
Prof. DG Kuberkar
9 ―Fabrication of
Manganite Based
Thin Films and
Multilayered
Devices‖
(Seed money
Project)
2008 0.5 IQAC
Saurashtra University
Dr. JA Bhalodia
10 Study of Aerosol
Charecteristics
over tropical, semi
–arid, urban,
2008-
2010 22.61 ISRO
Prof. K N Iyer
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region- Rajkot
11 Study of gravity
wave generation
and propagating
during solar
eclipse using chain
of GPS receivers
and other
supporting system
(2009- 10)
2009-
2010 1.0 ISRO
Prof. K N Iyer
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: NIL
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received:
Sr.
No
.
Title & Scope of
the R & D
Project
Year in
which
started
Grant
Received
In Lakhs
Remarks
(Status: Completed/
not completed)
Name of
coordinator
1 DST-FIST (Level-
I) 2008-13 103
2008-2013
(Process for Level-II
initiated)
Prof. Hiren H. Joshi
2 UGC SAP DRS –
II Program 2009-14 71.50
Not Completed
(In Progress)
Prof. Hiren H. Joshi
Total Grant Received: 174.50 Lakhs
20. Research facility/centre with: Research facilities created under (State recognition):
Centre for nano-science & nano-technology funded by GUJCOST (DST)
Government of Gujarat funding for Nano-science and environmental Physics programme
Major Research facility developed under DST FIST and UGC SAP
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: NIL
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national/ international)
List of publications attached
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National Journals: 50
International Journals: 72
Monograph: NIL
Chapters in Books: NIL
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: NIL
Number listed in international data base: Web of science, Scopus
Citation index-range/average: 0-41
Impact factor range: 0.22-4.9
h-index: (average): 9.1
SNIP: Range: 6.98 – 0.14
SJR: Range: 1.91 – 0.03
23. Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NIL
26. Faculty serving in:
National committee : 01 (Prof. DG Kuberkar, Accelerator User
Committee , IUAC, New Delhi)
International committee: NIL
Editorial boards: NIL
Any other (Please specify)
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Academic staff college orientation and refresher courses
Faculty members attend Workshops and training programmes
Department organizes workshops on essential experimental techniques
28. Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
interdepartmental projects: 100 % (final year students)
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other University/industry/institute : NIL
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty: 04
Doctoral/post-doctoral fellows: 20
Students: 03
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
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Advances in Physics- Students seminar, Feb 28, 2013, Conveners: Prof. M.J. Joshi, Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
Prominent participants: Prof. Arun Pratap, Dr. Arun Anand
National workshop on Functional Oxides Nanomaterials and Device
application
Convener:Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
1st-2
nd March 2012, Department of Physics, Saurashtra University,
Rajkot.
Prominent participants: Prof. R.G. Kulkarni ( Belgaun,), Dr. S.B. Ogale (
NCL, Pune), Dr. D.K. Aswal ( BARC), Dr. Amitabh Das
(BARC), Dr. V.Ganeshan, (Director, UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore)
Prof. R.S. Khairnar (SRMTU, Nanded), Dr. Amitabh Das (BARC)
National Convention of Indian Association of Physics Teachers October, 21-23, 2010, Convenor: Dr. J A Bhalodia
Prominent participants: Prof. Satyaprakash, ( Punjab University Candigarh ),
Prof. Y R Waghmare, Prof. Vinay Kamble (DST, New Delhi), Prof. BG
Anandrao (PRL, Ahmedabad), Prof. H O vats (PRL, Ahmedabad
National Space Science Symposium, Feb. 2010, Convener: Prof. K.N. Iyer
Prominent participants: Dr. Radhakrishnan( Chairman: ISRO),
Dr. U. R. Rao (Ex-Chairman, ISRO, Chairman, ADCOS, ISRO), Dr. J N
Gowswami( Director,PRL) Prof. R Shridhran, (Director, SPL, Trivendram),
Prof. A. Jayraman (Director, NARL, Gadanki), Prof. Archana Bhattacharya
(Director, IIG, Mumbai), Prof. S S Hasan, (Director, IIA, Bangalore), Prof. R
R Navalgund, (Director, SAC, Ahmedabad), Prof. Ajit Kenbhavi (Director,
IUCAA, Pune), Prof. Ravi Subramanyan (Director, RRI, Bangalore)
Workshop of X-Ray diffraction Application, 17-19, March 2010 Convener: Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
Prominent : Prof. Dhanajay Pande (BHU), Prof. T n Guru Raw (IISc,
Bangalore), Prof. Rajanikant (Univ. of Jammu), Dr. S. Kannan
(CSMCRI, Bhavnagar)
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
The Department instills research ethics, research methodology and perseverance in
the doctoral and M. Phil. students during their pre-registration course work so that
they should not be driven by ―publish or perish syndrome‖ instead, authentic research
results emerge from their pure inquisitiveness. The department believes in publishing
research papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals and imparting training to research
students to present their research findings before scientific community in
national/international conferences. The pre-Ph. D. presentation in the department by a
research student has been made compulsory.
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32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Five years
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.Sc. 727 165 135 89% 95%
M. Phil. 200 32 28 98% 99%
Ph. D. 42 34 08 100% 100%
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M.Sc. 90% 10% NIL NIL
M. Phil. 85% 10% 5% NIL
Ph. D. 98% 2% NIL NIL
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details
category-wise.
NET : 01 (Mr. Chetan Kathad: Category: SC)
GATE: 02 (Mr. Ashish Ravaliya: category: SEBC,
Ms. Hitaishi Bhatt category: Open)
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG
PG to M. Phil. 25%
PG to Ph. D. 20%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral 5%
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
Entrepreneurs:
Vipul Gajjar: Nisan Electricals (India)
Pvt. Ltd. [CFL manufacturing]
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 06
From other universities within state 01 (retired in Octo.
2010)
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From universities from other states 01
From universities outside the country NIL
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: NIL
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: Library developed through grants received under UGC-SAP and Govt. of
Gujarat project for Nano-science and nano-technology
b) Internet facilities for staff and students:
In addition to internet connections allotted to department faculty
members, all the students are covered under wifi network.
c) Total number of class-rooms: Three class-rooms and a seminar-hall
with a capacity to accommodate 125
persons
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 01 : Seminar Hall
e) Students‘ Laboratories: 01 M.Sc. Lab
f) Research Laboratories: 06 research labs (M. Phil. and Ph. D.)
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
List of Ph. D. students:
No. Name of
Student
Thesis title Name of
Guide
Year of
registration
Status:
Working/awarded
1 Ashish
Tanna
Investigations on
transport properties of
ferrites and multi-
ferroic composites
Prof. HH
Joshi
2008 Working
2 Ms.Daxa
Mehta
Study of various
functional magnetic
oxides processed by
mechanical milling
Prof. HH
Joshi
2008 Working
3 Jagdish
Baraliya
Study of nano-
structured ferrites
synthesized by
different techniques
Prof. HH
Joshi
2010 Working
4 Ms.Ashvini
Joshi
Simulation and design
of smart antenna
And Symbolwise beam
forming
Prof. HH
Joshi
2011 Working
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for
The multiuser,
multicarrier wireless
system: MIMO,
OFDM
5 S R Suthar Growth &
Characterization of
some doped calcium
tartrate system
Prof. M J
Joshi
2003 Awarded (2008)
6 S J Joshi Growth &
Characterization of
Iron-manganese mixed
tartrate crystals and
derivatives compounds
Prof. M J
Joshi
2003 Awarded (2009)
7 D J Dave Growth and
characterization of
some amino doped
NLO-crystals
Prof. M J
Joshi
2005 Awarded (2011)
8 K D Parikh Growth and
characterization of
organic impurity doped
KDP family crystals
Prof. M J
Joshi
2006 Awarded (2011)
9 C K
Chauhan
Growth and
characterizations of
Struvite and related
crystals
Prof. M J
Joshi
2006 Awarded (2012)
10 P M Vyas Study of some organic
Bio-materials systems:
Crystalline
Prof. M J
Joshi
2007 Awarded (2012)
11 Ms. K P
Tank
Synthesis,
characterization and
inhibition study of pure
and doped nano-
hydroxyapatite
Prof. M J
Joshi
2007 Working
12 Ms. S R
Vasant
Study and
characterization of
pure and doped
calcium pyrophosphate
Prof. M J
Joshi
2008 Working
13 Mr. Rakesh
Hajiyani
Studies of some
Thiourea based crystals
Prof. M J
Joshi
2010 Working
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14 Mr. H S Jani Synthesis and characterization of
some borate systems
Prof. M J Joshi
2010 Working
15 Bhoomika
Jogiya
Synthesis and
characterization of
some bio-materials
nano-particles
Prof. M J
Joshi
2012 Working
16 Mrs.
Urvisha
Lathia
Synthesis of strontium
and magnesium tartrate
nano-particles and
related nano-particles
Prof. M J
Joshi
2012 Working
17 Mr. P D
Solanki
Synthesis and
characterization of
some pure and doped
pyrophosphate nano-
particles
Prof. M J
Joshi
2012 Working
18 Harshkant
Jethva
Growth and
characterization of
Lead-cadmium and
other mixed levo
tartrate crystals
Prof. M J
Joshi
2012 Working
19 P S
Vachhani
Investigations on
mixed valent
manganites
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2005 Awarded (2010)
20 Ms. R R
Doshi
Synthesis and
characterization of
some new perovskite
type mixed oxide
materials
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2005 Awarded (2010)
21 P D Solanki Studies on mixed oxide
functional ceramics
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2005 Awarded (2011)
22 Ms. U D
Khachar
Investigations on nano-
structured mixed oxide
systems
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2008 Awarded(2012)
23 B R Kataria Substitutional studies
in perovskite type
mangenites and oxide
superconductors
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2002 Awarded(2012)
24 A B
Ravaliya
SHI induced
modifications in the
properties of multi-
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2011 Awarded (2013)
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functional oxides
25 Ms. M V
Vagadia
Studies on some new
functional oxudes
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2009 Working
26 Ms. P G
Trivedi
Investigations of
structural, transport
and magnetic
properties of functional
multiferroics
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2013 Working
27 S V Katba Investigations on
spintronic based mixed
oxide systems
Prof. D G
Kuberkar
2013 Working
28 Ms. Parul
Trivedi
Study of seismicity
over Kutch region
using multiparametric
observations: 2001 to
2011
Prof. H P
Joshi
2006 Working
29 Ms. Mala
Bagiya
Multitechnique studies
of ionospheric
phenomena
Prof. H P
Joshi
2007 Awarded (2011)
30 Jayant Jogi Studies on ionospheric
irregularities using
multi-technique
observations
Prof. H P
Joshi
2010 Working
31 Ms. Jessica
Chocha
Synthesis and
characterization of
some mixed oxide
functional ceramics
Dr. J A
Bhalodia
2008 Awarded (2013)
32 Ms. Pooja
Chhelavada
Studies on some
perovskite type mixed
oxide compounds
Dr. J A
Bhalodia
2008 Awarded (2013)
31 S R
Mankadia
Investigation on some
nano-phasic mixed
oxide compounds
Dr. J A
Bhalodia
2010 Working
32 P V
Kanjariya
Study of multi-ferroic
and CMR compounds
Dr. J A
Bhalodia
2013 Working
33 T K Pathak Synthesis and Dr. K B 2010 Working
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characterization of nano-materials with
special emphasis on
photocatalytic activity
study
Modi
34 K B Zankat Comparative study of
bulk and microscopic
properties of magnetic
trivalent cations
substituted YIG
Dr. K B
Modi
2005 Working
35 K G Saija Synthesis and
characterization of
tetravalent cation
substituted Mn-Zn
ferrites for high-
frequency applications
Dr. K B
Modi
2004 Awarded (2012)
36 V K
Lakhani
Studies of pre and post
effects of rapid thermal
quenching on magnetic
and transport
properties copper-ferri-
aluminates
Dr. K B
Modi
2005 Awarded (2012)
37 N H Vasoya Scaling and modeling
of dielectric data for
spinel ferrite systems
Dr. K B
Modi
2008 Awarded (2012)
38 Ms.
Manisha
Chhantbar
Study of irradiation
effect a electrical
properties of magnetic
oxides
Prof. H H
Joshi
2002 Awarded (2009)
39 Ms. Pooja
Sharma
Investigations on the
effect of thermal
history, particle size
and SHI irradiation on
some physical
properties of Y(3+)
substituted YIG
Dr. K B
Modi
2005 Awarded (2010)
40 Ms. Neepa
Bhatt
Study of solar activity
and its impact on
terrestrial environment
Prof. Rajmal
Jain
(PRL,
Ahmedabad)
2008 Awarded (2012)
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41 S. B. Banerjee
Studies of low Latitude ionospheric
phenomena
Prof. K N Iyer
2007 Awarded (2012)
42 Ritweej
Ranjan
Studies of Aerosol
optical depth using
multiwavelength Sun-
photometer at the semi-
arid region:Rajkot
Prof. K N
Iyer
2004 Awarded (2009)
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University : NIL
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
After assessing the Department infrastructure and available expertise with the faculty
members the curriculum of the course is designed in tune with demand in teaching
and research professions
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback
Department periodically discusses the curriculum in the staff-council and the
suggestions are implemented through proper procedure
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
General points reflected from students‘ feed back regarding the teaching
faculty are discussed in the staff council, however, the personal or individual
remarks are discussed by HOD with particular faculty. Student‘ feedback
regarding curriculum, teaching, learning and evaluation, is discussed in staff
council and depending upon the seriousness of the issue the further steps are
taken in consultation with University authority.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?
Alumni give important feedback after going in to actual field of
job, the Alumni give feedback through e-mail or Alumni meet. The
suggestions are discussed in staff council and appropriate steps
are taken to implement Alumni views.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
Harilal S. Vora, Scientist -H, RRCAT, Indore
Dr. Haresh H. Bhatt, Head , Net working Division, SAC,ISRO, Ahmedabad
Dr. R.V. Upadhyay, Principal, Applied Science, CHARUSAT, Cahnga
Rajendra Oza, Scientist, BARC, Mumbai
Anuradha Sharma, Scientist, BARC, Mumbai
Dr. Vipul Tanna, Scientist, Group Head, IPR, Gandhinagar
Kautilya Pathak, Scientist, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad
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Mitesh Pandya, Deputy Collector, Ahmedabad
Dr. Sudhindra Rayaprol , Scientist-E, IUC, DAE, Mumbai
Dr. Dhanavir Sigh Rana, Assistant Professor, IISER, Bhpal
Dr. Krushna Mavani-Rana, IIT Indore
Dr. Satish Thampi, Scientist/Engineer SE, Thumba, ISRO, Trivendrum
Dr. K.C. Poria, HoD, Physics, VNSG, Surat
Dr. Kamalesh Pathak, SVNIT, Surat
Dr. Rajeshree Jotania, Professor, Gujart University, Ahmedabad
Dr. Utpal Joshi, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
Dr. R.P. Modi, Founder of Modi schools, Rajkot
Dr. Bharat Parekh, PDPU, Gandhinagar
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
Special lecturers:
Dr. Hari Om Vats, PRL, Ahmedabad, Solar Physics (Once per Year)
Dr. Sukhesh Aghara, NASA,USA, Space Exploration, Nuclear Energy Oct. 2011
Dr. A. Sivji, USA, Space science, and satellite navigation, Aug 2012
Dr. V. N. Mani, C-MET, Hyderabad, Ultra High pure materials, Dec 2012
Dr. D.K. Avasthi, IUC, Delhi, Accelerator Based materials characterization, Nov
2012
Prof . B.S. Shah, Ahmedabad, Crystal Growth, March 2013
Dr. B.B. Parekh, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Nonlinear Optcal materials, March 2013
Prof. R G Kulkarni, Former Head, Dept. of Physics, saurasntra Univ. on Nuclear
Physics
Prof.Ajay Dhar, Scientist, IIG, Mumbai, on Antarctica expedition and experiments carried out there and results
Dr. H. S. Bhatt, Head , Net working Division, SAC,ISRO, Ahmedabad
Seminars for Students organized:
-One Day Acquaintance Program for Accelerator, IUC, Sept 2012, Organized
by Prof. Kuberkar
-One Day Seminar on Advances in Physics, 28 Feb, Science Day Celebration,
Organized by Prof. M.J. Joshi and Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
National Workshop on X-Ray Diffraction Techniques Applications, March
2010
Convener -- Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
-National Workshop on Functional Oxides and Devices, March 1-2,2012
Convenor-- Prof. D.G. Kuberkar
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Conventional Chalk -duster method for topics involving rigorous mathematics for slow percolation of knowledge
Power point presentation using animations for topics like Digital electronics,
Instrumentation, Electronic communications
Using various models for teaching crystallography
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Taking students to National Laboratories on educational tour to show them very expensive instruments and national facilities like reactors and particle accelerators
(Pelletron), Syncrotron etc.
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
Students feed back on course and teaching faculty and its analysis
Analysis of continuous internal assessment through Internal test and University semester examination
The outcome of student feedback on course and results and necessity of change in course or remedial lectures are discussed in Staff Council Meetings
Continuous student-teacher interaction during Laboratory session for practicals
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Automated Weather Station has been installed in the Department
premises by meteorology department for its smooth operation
In collaboration with Indian Institute of geo-magnetism the Department had sent sophisticated equipment Quartz Crystal Micro-
balance to Antarctica for three years for atmospheric studies
Blood Donation camp arranged by M.Sc. students and Alumni in Feb 2013
Tree plantation under ―Green campus‖ drive July 2012
Cleaning campus under ―plastic free‖ campus
Training School children for science projects National Children Science Congress , September 2012
Plastic free campus August 2012
Cleaning Day September 2012
A TV Channel interview of Prof. M.J. Joshi in July2012 on Milk sucking Bull Idols in temples- scientific awareness
Conducted students‘ visit to Ghogha (Bhavnagar) in 2009 to see the total Solar Eclipse and lectures against the myths related to eclipse
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
In 2009 during total solar eclipse scientific measurements were made by
department students under guidance from PRL scientists. The Department had
arranged to watch Venus transit on the Sun on 6th
June 2012
The Department run ―Physics club‖ under leadership of department faculty member to organize seminar for M.Sc. and research students
The Department M.Sc. and M. Phil. students go to school and train students for science projects
The Department organizes UGC-NET coaching classes and discussions on
various Physics problems
Career counseling for final year students
Few selected M.Sc. second year students go to IPR, Gandhinagar and PRL, Ahmedabad, in summer programmes for projects
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49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details.
No
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
The Department has contributed in generating new knowledge in the research areas
of Condensed Matter Physics and Space & Atmospheric Physics. Since Physics is the
base of all the technological subjects, the Department has taken initiative to form the
curriculum in tune with the demand of ceramic industries, Electronics enterprise,
nano-technology, communication sector, research laboratories and various
competitive examinations. The Department produces a sound and confident Physicist
who can work at all levels from school to research laboratories and industries.
In the area of Condensed Matter Physics, new functional oxide thin film based
electronic devices such as magnetic P-N junctions diodes, magnetic tunnel junctions,
spin transistors, spin FETs, field sensors and electrical switches suitable for
SPINTRONIC applications have been developed. The Department The group has
also fabricated BiFeO3 multiferroic based thin film resistive switching Random
Access Memory (RRAM) devices having a large ON/OFF switching ratio ~ 2500.
The Department has developed expertise in growing crystals of non-lenear optical
materials like Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) doped with several amino
acids. The doping has enhanced optical transparency as well as the second harmonic
generation efficiency of fundamental pump Nd:YAG Laser. This new finding shall
culminate in the NLO device application. The Department has shown that certain
herbal extracts not only inhibit growth of urinary stones (crystals) or but fragment the
grown urinary crystal, this will help to plan therapy for Struvite based Urinary stones.
The Department has synthesized bio-compatible nano crystals of hydroxyapatite
useful in tooth implants and bone repair. The Department has expertise in
synthesizing nano magnetic particles of ferrites and ferroelectrics by various
techniques and to form ferrite-ferroelectric composites with significant magneto-
electric coupling coefficient.
In the area of Space & Atmospheric Physics the Department has cultivated expertise
in the satellite communication system parameterization through the study of total
electron content (TEC). The Department has been monitoring GPS based TEC at
equatorial anomaly region since 2005 (low solar activity) and high solar activity
dependence study is underway.
51. Detail five major Strenghts, Weaknesses, Oppotinities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the Department
Strengths:
1. Highly Qualified Teaching faculties involved in frontline research conducive
to significant place of research and PG studies
2. National level collaborations with other Universities and Research laboratories
in research in the area of condensed matter physics, material science and space
physics
3. The Department has emerged as an excellent research centre catering to the
need of M. Phil. and Ph. D. aspirants across the state
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4. Placement of Alumini as Scientist, Teaching Faculties and researchers in
national level institutes, Universities & colleges and in administrative services
5. Well equipped research laboratories having STATE OF ART facilities for
carrying out research in the field of material science and space physics
Weaknesses
1. Due to shortage of teaching staff it is not possible
2. Requires to bring more perfection and speed in routine administration
3. Needs fast response with sincerity towards research equipment maintenance
4. Needs time management and developing priorities to follow academic
calendar ascending other priorities
5. Needs improvement in inter-departmental and intra-departmental approaches
and interactions
Opportunities:
1. Establishment of advance research centres
2. To organize international conference in Condensed Matter Physics
3. More national & international level collaborations
4. More industrial collaborations
5. More interdisciplinary interaction
Challenges:
1. To keep pace with change in the requirement of society, region or nation
2. To generate more financial resources for future developments
3. To generate expert human resources to meet the future demand
4. To modernize teaching methods, to develop cutting edge research areas and
smart administration to meet the future demand
5. To develop world class infrastructure
52. Future plans of the Department :
a. Industrial collaborations in key technology areas
b. Developing nano scale devices
c. Facility to characterize nonlinear optical crystals
d. To Develop nano active pharmaceutical ingredients (collaborative)
e. To Study of nano-biomaterials and their bioactivity ( collaborative)
f. Developing novel oxide materials
g. Aerosol study for environmental monitoring
h. Ionosphere study over Saurashtra region
i. Establish a centre of Excellence for environmental study
j. To earn international repute in order to attract foreign students
k. To emerge as a centre of excellence in Materials Science
l. Department of Physics has planned in a major way, the all-round development
in the research field of materials science and Atmospheric Physics. The well-
developed research thrust areas of the Department will contribute to strengthen
M.Sc. and M. Phil. programmes by creating conducive atmosphere for
instilling basic instinct for higher learning. The Department faculty members
will be encouraged to develop e-content of the various subjects taught in
M.Sc. and M. Phil. classes. New modern multimedia based teaching and
simulation software based teaching will be incorporated in the M.Sc. Physics
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teaching and learning programme. The Department has already been
completed the Level-1 of DST-FIST and planning for the Level-2 funding for
establishment of highly sophisticated major research facilities in the
department such as Pulsed Laser Deposition of thin films, FE-SEM and
PPMS.
The Department has been under the UGC-SAP Phase-II and its tenure will be
completed in March 2014. It is planned to apply for establishment of Centre of
Advance studies.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Education
2. Year of Establishment: 1978
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: M.Ed., M. Phil. , Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: No
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc. : YES (IITE , Gandhinagar)
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: NO
8. Examination system: CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: NIL
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 2 1
Associate Professor 2 1 1
Assistant Professor 2
Others
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
years of
experience
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr. B.B.
Ramanuj
M.Com.
L.L.B. M.Ed.
Ph. D.
Head &
Associate
Professor
Research
Methodology
20 1
Dr. A.D.
Ambasana
B.Sc.
M.Ed.G. D.
Art, Ph. D.
Professor Information
Technology in
Education
24 6
Dr. M.S.
Molia
M.Sc. M.Ed.
Ph. D.
Associate
Professor
Psychology Of
Instruction
19 4
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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
Dr. K.J. Desai
Dr. G.F. Mehta
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
35%
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: M.Ed. (1:5), M.Phil (1:3)
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Clerk 1
Typist 1
Peon 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: NA
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise : NIL
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:
(a) National collaboration: 1 (IITE, Gandhinagar) (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received:
20. Research facility/Centre with:
State Recognition
National Recognition
International Recognition
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: NO
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals: 11
Monographs
Chapter in Books
Edited books
Books with ISBN with details of publishers
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
300
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
23. Details of patents and income generated: NO
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: NO
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NO
26. Faculty serving in:
e) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other
(please specify)
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes): UGC, ASC, Short
Term Programme
28. Student projects: NO
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by : NO
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
NO
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.Ed. 40 19 20
100 100 M. Phil. 20 14 6
Ph. D. 18 10 8
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
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34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details
category-wise.
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG
PG to M. Phil. 30%
PG to Ph. D. 5%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
Entrepreneurs:
VipulKagathara: CFL manufacturing
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 100%
From other universities within state
From universities from other states
From universities outside the country
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: No
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library : YES
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: YES
c) Total number of class-rooms: 3
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: YES
e) Students‘ Laboratories: YES
f) Research Laboratories: NO
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates: NO
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
From University: Merit & Free ship
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology. NIL
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback : YES
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b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ? : YES
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?:YES
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1. BhadaniyaRushina D.
2. BhalaraRashila
3. BhattiDhara N.
4. KarenaJalpa R.
5. ChauhanSonal K.
6. BagthariyaRohit
7. GoswamiMohit
8. Patel Jignesh
9. Patel Jitendra
10. Vadodariya D. K.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
Research Paper Writing Workshop: Dr. D. A. Uchat
Special Lectures: How to avoid errors in writing? Dr. RajendraChotalia
Eye donation: Experts team
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Lecture
Lecture + Discussion
Group Discussion
Project Method
Multimedia Presentation
Online learning
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
Through students' achievement.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Plastic Free Campus, Blood Donation
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department Staff members are...
writing books,
article,
delivering expert lectures
giving radio talks
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other
agencies? If yes, give details.
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NO
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
E-learning Material
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department
Strengths:
1. Well experience and dedicated staff
2. High achiever student‘s enrollment through Common Entrance Test.
3. Computer and Psychology Labs.
4. Good academic support from educational institutes
5. Teaching and Research guidance activities
Weakness:
1. Shortage of Teaching, non-teaching and technical staff
2. Departmental library
3. Few elective courses offered
4. High dependency upon visiting/ contractual staff
5. Limited extension services
Opportunities:
1. Can train teachers for teaching learning methodology
2. Can provide expert academic guidance
3. Can generate teaching learning materials
Challenges:
1. To maintain standards
52. Future plans of the Department
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Electronics
2. Year of Establishment:1987
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ?
yes
4. Names of Programmes offered:
M.Sc. Electronic
M.Sc. ECI (Integrated Master)
P.G.Diploma in Hardware Technology and Applications
Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved:
NIL
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc.
NIL
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons:
NIL
8. Examination system:
CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 1 1
Associate Professor 1 1 2
Assistant Professor 3 2 5
Others 1 1 1
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of years of
experience
No. of Ph. D./
M. Phil.
students guided
for the last 4
years
Dr,H.N.Pandya M.Sc. Ph. D. Professor Electronics 25 9
Dr. M.N.Jivani M.Sc. Ph. D. Associate
Professor
Electronics 13 2
Dr.N.A.Shah M.Sc. Ph. D. Associate
Professor
Electronics 12 5
Dr.
K.P.Thummer
M.Sc. Ph. D. Assi.
Professor
Electronics 9
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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
M.Sc.(Electronics) =45% M.Sc.(ECI) =80% PGDHTA =50%
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
M.Sc.(Electronics) = 10:1 M.Sc.(ECI) =10:1 PGDHTA =5:1
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Lab. Tech 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
Microcontroller, Microprocessor, VLSI, DSP, Nano Materials and Devices, CMR
oxide and devices, Thin films, Superconductivity, Ferrites, Inosphere
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise
NIL
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:
(a) National collaborationNIL
(b) International collaborationNIL
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received:NIL
20. Research facility/centre with:NIL
State Recognition
National Recognition
International Recognition
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies:
NIL
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals: 44
Monographs
Chapter in Books
Edited books
Books with ISBN with details of publishers : 1
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
306
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
23. Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NIL
26. Faculty serving in:
a)National Committees Prof.H.N.Pandya has served as expert member for the
research proposal evaluation committee for UGC several times.
b) International Committees :nil
c) editorial board Dr. Nikesh A. Shah a member of editorial Board of International
Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (IJECE); ISSN(Print):
2278-9901 ; ISSN(Online): 2278-991X ; Impact Factor(JCC): 2.5893
d) other (please specify) NIL
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Our faculties regularly attending Refresher course, workshops and training
programs.
28. Student projects:
In inter-departmental projects project is core subject in each semester
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Nil
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
A six day workshop on core industry automation conducted
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
Nil
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications received
Selected Pass percentage
M F F
2009-2013
M.Sc.(ele) 118 54 12 86 100
M.Sc.(ECI) 178 75 15 76 68
PGDHTA 5 2 1 100% 100%
33. Diversity of students:
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Name of Programme
% of students from the same
University
% of students from other
universities
within the state
% of students from
universities
outside the
state
% of students from other
countries
M.Sc.(ele) 88 8 4 -
M.Sc.(ECI) 100
PGDHTA 100
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details
category-wise.
NET one student
Civil service one student
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG (M.Sc.(ECI) 100 , M.Sc.(Ele) 55
PG to M. Phil. -
PG to Ph. D. -
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral -
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
-
Entrepreneurs:
VipulKagathara: CFL manufacturing
-
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 100%
From other universities within state
From universities from other states
From universities outside the country
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: None
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Available in laboratory and also wifi all
students assigned login and password
c) Total number of class-rooms: 6
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 6
e) Students‘ Laboratories: 4
f) Research Laboratories: 3
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
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NAME OF Ph.D STUDENTS
DhruvDevit B
VANDRA HITESHKUMAR HIMATLAL
OZA SEEMA JAGDISHBHAI
CHIRUTKAR HARSHADKUMAR GOVINDRAO
KANSARA SANJAY BHIKHALAL
BIMAL H VYAS
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
One Ph. D. student got Financial assistance from Central Government Under the
Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
Yes, We got the feedback from the students who were employed in the industry.
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how does
the department utilize the feedback
Yes, curriculum and teaching-learning evaluation is done regularly and discuss in
staff council. Based on the feedback and result of discussion curriculum is
updated time to time.
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, yearly students feedback is taken for staff, curriculum and teaching-
leaning evaluation. Department put these all feedback in staff council and take
action according to requirement.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?
The feedback from the inductry and students is studied to update the facilities in
the department and to introduce the latest teacing topics in the syllabus.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
NO. NAME OF STUDENT
1 PATHAK ARUNA C
2 MATHUR ALOK D
3 PATEL G D
4 PANDYA G P
5 MOKARIA N B
6 VACHHANI M K
7 GHIYAD H A
8 BHATT U C
9 PATEL U V
10 BUCH K A
11 TANDEL J N
12 SONI P H
13 RANIPA S N
14 LIYA DASHRATH B
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44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
workshops and training programs for the benifits of the students are arranged.
1. For training in English : spoken english classes(SCOPE)
2. Technical Improvement Programs :R.O.Plant basics and maintenance
LCD TV repairing
3. For english reading capacity building : One month program to read and understand
TIMES OF INDIA
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
1. Conventional black board and chalk method
2. Overhead display and explanation method
3.Multimedia presentation and discussion and explanation
4. Internet usage in the classroom
5.Digital interacting boards
6.Digital pads
7. Pesonalized projectors
8.Demonstrating different components, hardware, specialized items while teaching in
the class
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
By constantly evaluating student performance through CES.
By following targets achievements in terms of completing syllabus, projects and
learnng process in time.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Faculties and students participate in various extension activities like :
1. social awareness
2. traing programs, workshops and seminars
3.celebrating different days like independence day, birth days of eminent saints,
leaders etc
4.Participation in plastic free camp,
5. blood donation activity
6.teaching school students
7.displayingtelent creativity on the notice board
8.giving chance to show telents in the cultural activity
9.Industrial visit and tours
10. celebrating social fesivals like navratri, Holi, diwalietc
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
A six days workshop on Core Industry Automation organized free of cost for all
students.
Guest lectures are arranged time to time to motivate students for development.
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49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details.
No
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
Department have a well contributed in generating new knowledge in applied sciences.
Department have expertise in computer hardware and embedded system in saurashtra
region.
Department started a job oriented PG Diploma one year course to train student for
Computer Hardware and Application.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department Strengths: Updated syllabus, Dedicated faculties, good
experimental training to the students, use of latest teaching methods, interleaving
of the research with the advance learing
Weaknesses: Less regular staff, Lack of good funds, students getting admission
are weak on average, a sort of resistance in trying for good research projects, very
less time in the semester system to cover other extracurricular activities, extension
activities, sports encouragements etc.
Oppertunities : getting good funds department can grow in practical training, go
od chance to develope research areas, job chances for the students can be
increased by publishizing the course, faculties can take industry oriented work like
consultancy, manufacturing house hold gadgets and selling through University,
Challenges : growing more infrastructure, decreasing number of students in our
field,creating facilities for women students like women room, achieving world
class teaching environment, introducing latest topics in the syllabus due to
unavailibilty of literature, equipments and grants
52. Future plans of the Department :
1. Develope good research environment
2. Improve syllabus to the level of national and international standard
3. Raise the funds by interacting with the industry and/or becoming self relying by
selling day to day products by the department if the University permits
4.increase the infrastructure to meet advancement in the
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of English& Comparative Literary Studies.
2. Year of Establishment: 1989
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ?Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: M A, M Phil &Ph D
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved:None
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc. None
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: None
8. Examination system: Semester with CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
None
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 01 Vacant
due to
VRS
02 + 01 Vacant
Associate Professor 01 01 02
Assistant Professor 03 03 Nil
Others - - -
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualificatio
n
Designatio
n
Specializatio
n
No. of
years of
experienc
e
No. of
Ph. D./
M.
Phil.
student
s
guided
in the
last 4
years
A K Singh M A PhD Professor Literary
Theory,
30 02 Ph
D
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Indian Poetics,
Comparative
Literature.
American
Literature
Kamal Mehta M A Ph D Professor
& Head
Linguistics,
Phonetics,
Indian
Poetics,
Comparative
Literature
25 15 Ph
D
07 M
Phil
JaydipsinhDodiy
a
M A Ph D Professor Indian
Writing in
English,
Canadian
Literature,
ELT
23 10 Ph
D
10 M
Phil
Sanjay
Mukherjee
M A Ph D Associate
Professor
Literary
Criticism and
Theory,
Cultural
Studies,
Poetry
15 02 Ph
D
03 M
Phil
RavisinhZala M A Ph D Associate
Professor
Indian
Writing in
English,
Short Story,
Comparative
Literature
22 03 M
Phil
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, Emeritus Professor: None
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
M A 20%, M Phil. O %
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher ratio: M. A. 20:1, M Phil 2:1
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Office Asst 1 1 1
Typist 1 1 Vacant (Retired)
Peon 1 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: No research being
funded by any funding agency at present
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17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise: 01 – Dr. R.B. Zala has a Seed Money
Research Grant by Saurashtra University of Rs. 50, 000/- awarded to him in Nov.,
2013
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:None
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received:None
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition – None
National Recognition – None
International Recognition–None
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies:N/A
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals: 04
Monographs
Chapter in Books: 02
Edited books:03
Books with ISBN with details of publishers
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
23. Details of patents and income generated:N/A
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: None
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:02
Dr. J K Dodiya was invited to speak at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany on
Prospects in Higher Education in India in 2012; and to Toronto, Canada by the
International Council of Canadian Studies to represent as the President of IACS in
2013.
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Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee received the Fulbright Fellowship by the US Department of
State for the ―Study of United States Institutions‖ (SUSI) program at the University of
Louisville, Kentucky in 2011.
26. Faculty serving in:
f) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other
(please specify)
a) 02 in National Committees ; b) 01 in International Committee and c) 03 on
different Editorial Boards and d) 02 others like BOS.
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
All the faculty have completed their RCs. Now they go as Resource Persons.
28. Student projects: None
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :01 -
Dr. Mukherjeeawarded with the Fulbright Fellowship by the US Department of
State for the ―Study of United States Institutions‖ (SUSI) program in 2011.
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
02 International Conferences :collaborated by IACS, SahityaAkademi, UGC,
CIIL: participated by Professor SiegheildBogumil from France, Professor Dorothy
Figuera from America, Professor AmiyaDev from Kolkata, Professor Namvar
Singh from Delhi, Professor KapilKapoor from Delhi, Professor Om Juneja from
Canada among others.
01 National Workshop: collaborated by Balwant Parekh Centre for General Semantics
& Other Human Sciences, Vadodara: participated by Professor Gad Harowitz and
Professor Shannon Bell from Canada, Professor Prafulla C. Kar among others.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:The UGC, Government of
Gujarat&Saurashtra University norms for research.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M A 380 60 163 100 99
M Phil 150 12 20 95 95
Ph D* 60
*Ph D: Admission depends on several factors and varies from year to year. At any
time the Department has 32 candidates doing their research.
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
% of students
from
universities
% of students
from other
countries
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within the state outside the state
MA 90 10 0 0
M Phil 90 10 0 0
Ph D 90 1-5 1-5 0
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details
category-wise: 01 Civil Service, 25 GPSC, 04 NET, 01SET(in the last 4 years)
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG N/A
PG to M. Phil. 13%
PG to Ph. D. 5%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
100%
Entrepreneurs:
05%
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 20%
From other universities within state 40%
From universities from other states 40%
From universities outside the country 00
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:None
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: Department has its own Library Hall with 15 cupboards, and a seating
capacity for 40 students. The Hall has additionally an LCD Projector and
computer.
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: The University campus is wi-fi enabled,
and faculty and students have their own password to access the web world.
c) Total number of class-rooms: 03
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 02
e) Students‘ Laboratories: N/A
f) Research Laboratories: N/A
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39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates: 32 students are
pursuing their doctoral research under departmental faculty at present. (Detailed
list of the name of the students, their research topics, year of enrollment and the
names of the guides is with the office of the Department.)
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
The Department follows the University norm of revising / upgrading its
syllabus on an average every three years. The Staff Council meets for the revision /
upgradation exercise when emerging areas and new texts are considered and included
in the MA and M Phil programmes.
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback? Yes. In the Staff council, it is
discussed.
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?Yes. It is discussed in the Staff Council.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?Yes. It is discussed in the Staff Council.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1. Dr. PankajJani, Former Vice Chancellor, Somnath Sanskrit University.
2. Mr. Shyam Parekh, Res. Editor, DNA, Ahmedabad.
3. Dr. AsmaDalal, Professor, University of Alberta, Canada.
4. Mr. TusharSumera, IAS, Dy District Collector, Amreli. (Gujarat)
5. Dr. BalajiRanganathan, Associate Professor,CentralUniversity of Gujarat,
Gandhinagar.
6. Mr. MehendiHassan,IndependentEnterpreneur, Canada.
7. Ms. Nidhi Bhatt, Asst. Registrar, University of London, UK.
8. Mr. PranavPandya, a leadiing poet of Gujarati, Amreli.
9. Mr. PradipsinhRathore, IAS, Assistant Collector, Mehasana. (Gujarat)
10. Mr. DushyantGoswami, Independent Music Director and Short Film-maker,
Vadodara.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
1) National Workshop on ‗The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship‘, 13-16 Nov, 2013.
2) Internatinal Conference on Canadian Studies, 20-22 January, 2013.
3) International Conference on Compartive Studies, 28-30 March, 2010
4) Proficiency in Language & Literary Appreciation- Mentoring Programme by the
Alumni organised every year for three months targetting the freshers.
5) Occasional Expert Lectures by the leading scholars/critics/creative
writers/academicians etc. visiting the Department/University. The Department
organised five major lectures in the last four years.
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45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
In addition to the lecture method, the faculty employ methods like Projects,
Seminars of the students, group activities, discussion method, PPT, quiz, tours,
practical field work, interviewing people, writing reports, reviewing the texts, movies,
films analysis etc.
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
The Departmental Staff Council regularly monitors the entire process and
ensures that the objectives are met and outcomes of the learning are monitored.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
The faculty and students participate in a variety of extension activities related
to health and hygiene, environment, gender awareness etc. The faculty extend their
services in a variety of University, Gujarat Government and NGO run extension
activities. They help University in multiple ways through their expertise.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department.
The Department encourages beyond the syllabus learning through film shows,
quizzes, and invited talks from eminent achievers from fields allied to language and
literature like creative writing, advertising, philosophy, drama, media etc. Faculty and
students make it a point to attend cultural programmes held by various artists visiting
the city. The Departmental Alumni is an informal group of mentors for the current
batch of students. It runs a very vibrant blog mentioning and cataloguing the various
activities held in the Department.
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details.NO
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
The Department has contributed in a major way by its resarch in the field of
English Studies and it has provided a large number of teachers to the higher education
of the State. Almost 30% of the teachers of English recruited by the State
Government in schools, highschools, main stream and Professinal colleges happen to
belong to this Department.
The Department has generated a body of literature on Indian Renaissance
Literatures in Gujarati, Hindi, English and briefly in Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi.
The Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat was coordinated by a faculty of the
Department for two years.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department
Strengths: Committed staff, competent syllabus, disciplined students and strong
Allumni Association, infrastructural facilities, departmental library, rich body of
research work by the faculty.
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Weaknesses: Insufficient teaching staff due to irregular recruitment by the State, lack
of a Librarian to look after the Departmental Library, insufficient hostel facilities for
students especially girls.
Opportunities: To have new courses on Translation, ELT, Comparative Poetics,
Media Studies etc. To have the level-II of UGC SAP for further research, to shape the
talents of the students in the field of journalism, dramatics and creative writing.
Challenges: The increasing number of self-finance colleges, the trend towards the
external programme of the University, the rush towards the professional courses – all
have in the recent years resulted in a decrease in the number of highly motivated
students.
52. Future plans of the Department
1) To include interdisciplinarity in the curriculum of the Department.
2) To strengthen the Alumni Networking
3) To revive the Level-II of the UGC SAP
4) To institute an Annual Students‘ Research Paper Reading Competition. 5) To strengthen the Mentoring programme of the students.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department :- Department of History
2. Year of establishment :- 1969
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? Independent Department
for P.G. Studies in the university.
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters;
Integrated Ph.D., D. Sc.D. Litt. etc.): -M.A./M. Phil/Ph.D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved : Nil
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. :-
Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons :- Nil
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System :
Semester Based CBCS
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments :- Nil
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled & actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 1 Nil 03
Associate Professors 1 1 Nil
Asst. Professors 3 2 Nil
Others Nil Nil Nil
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance.
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of
Ph.D./M.Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
DR.P.J.RAVAL M.A., PH.D. PROFESSOR
& HEAD
MODERN 27
YEARS
09/20
DR.A.V.CHOTHANI M.A.,
M.PHIL,
PH.D.
PROFESSOR MODERN
PERIOD(INDIAN
HISTORY)
23
YEARS
06/19
DR. K.A.MANEK M.A.,
M.PHIL,
PH.D.
PROFESSOR MODERN 23
YEARS
05/20
DR. P.B.VALVAI M.A.,
M.PHIL,
PH.D.
ASSITANT
PROFESSOR
MODERN 10
YEARS
00/04
DR.P.B.VALVAI GOES UNDER LIEN FROM DATE 12/05/2011 TO CONTINUE.
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors:
Sr.No. Name From
1 Dr. ManjulaTarpada, Arts and Commerce College,
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Kalawad
2 Dr. Nita Sutariya, MVM College, Rajkot
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information:-
a. M.A. 31%
b. M. Phil. 20%
c. Ph. D.
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
Year Programme No.Teachers No.Student Ratio
2009-10 M.A. 4 64 1:16
M.Phil. 4 17 1:4.25
Ph.D. 3 2 1:0.66
2010-11 M.A. 4 48 1:12
M.Phil. 4 19 1:4.75
Ph.D. 3 05 1:1.66
2011-12 M.A. 4 26 1:6.5
M.Phil. 3 13 1:4.33
Ph.D. 3 4 1:1.33
2012-13 M.A. 4 19 1:4.75
M.Phil. 3 16 1:5.21
Ph.D. 3 4 1:1.33
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,
filled and actual:-
Post/Category Sanctioned Filled Contract Based
Staff
Clerk 01 Nil 01
Typist 01 Nil 01
Peon 01 01 Nil
Sweeper Nil Nil Nil
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies:-Nil
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national, b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project wise.
Principal
Investigator
Project Title Funding
Agency &
Year
Project
Type
Duration
(In Year)
Year of
Completion
Grant
Received
Dr.K.A.Manek Life & Times
of Shyamji
Krishna
Varma: An
Evaluation
Saurashtra
University
& 2009-
10
Minor
(Seed
Money)
01 Completed 50,000/-
Dr.P.J.Raval Kathiyawadi Govt. of Major 03 Completed 9.5
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Horse of Gujarat:
Historical
Perspective
Gujarat & 2010-
2013
Lakhs
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
a) National collaboration: Nil
b) International collaboration: Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received: - Nil
20. Research facility / centre with:
-
-PROJECT - 'KATHIYAWADI HORSE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE' &
PROJECT {Dr. Prafullaben J. Raval}
- 'LIFE & TIMES OF SHYAMJI KRISHNA VARMA- AN EVALUTION' (SEED
MONEY) {Dr. Kalpaben A. Manek}
- Nil
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:-
Nil
22. Publications:
Sr.
No.
Name of
Teacher
Title of Research Paper Name of Journals International/Na
tional/State
Year
1 Dr. P. J.
Raval
Saurashtra keKishanNeta:
Vallabhbhai Patel
BhartiyaGurjarParis
had, Kurukshetra
International 2011
Rajkot
JillanaSwatantrasainanio
Rajkot
GaikalAajAneAvtik
al
State 2011
Saurashtra Ane Uttar Gujarat
na Jain Muneo& Jain Tirtho
Jain Darshan
Bombay
International 2012
PranamiSampraday&Dr.Mah
eshchandaraPandya
AmrutMahotsavAbh
ivadanSamiti,
Gandhinagar
State 2011
Somnath Nu Punahnirman Glory of Saurashtra National 2011
2 Dr.A.V.C
hothani
Saurashtra keKishanNeta:
RatibhaiUkabhai Patel
BhartiyaGurjarParis
had, Kurukshetra
International 2011
Sardar Patel:
EkAnoothaVyaktitva
BhartiyaGurjarParis
had, Jaipur
International 2011
DayananadSarasvatinoSadbh
avnaSandesh
SadbhavnaniSuvas,
Rajkot
State 2012
Mara M.Philane Ph.D.
naSakshamMargdarshak
Guru:
Dr.MaheshchandraPandya
AmrutMahotsavAbh
ivadanSamiti,
Gandhinagar
State 2011
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Sir
3 Dr. K. A. Manek
Contribution of Gurjar Couple: Gopaldas Desai
&Bhaktilakshmi Desai in
Political & Social Fileds
GurjarokaVibhinnaKeshtro me Pradan
International 2009
Effect of British rule of
Saurashtra
Samipya National 2009
History Writing- Problem,
Factor & Impact
Sanshodhan State 2009
Contribution of Women of
Saurashtra in the National
Movement
Valo-Kuchhado State 2010
Forts of Jamnagar State: Forts of India Vol-II National 2010
Contribution of the
Journalist of Saurashtra in
the National Movement
Arthat National 2011
Education of Women in
Saurashtra: Beginning &
Development(1850 to 1950)
Glory of Saurashtra National 2011
Gurjar Women Leader:
Maniben Patel & Freedom
Struggle
GurjarMartubhumik
ePratiSamarpit
International 2011
Activites of Tourism in
Rajkot
Valo-Kuchhado State 2011
Rules of Princely State &
their Welfare Activites
SadbhavnaniSuvas,
Rajkot
State 2012
Freedom Fighters of
Jamnagar State
Samipya National 2012
Edited Books: 02
Books with ISBN with details of publishers:
Sr.No
.
Name of
Teacher Author
Title of Book Name of Publisher Year of
Publication
s
1 Dr.P.J.Raval Saurashtra Na
PravasanSthalo
Ambani& Company 2009
2 Dr.A.V.Chotha
ni
Swatantra
Saurashtra
Rajya
Saurashtra Uni., Rajkot 2009
3 Dr.A.V.Chotha
ni
Itihas Shanti PrakashanRohtak
{978-93-50700051}
2009
4 Dr.A.V.Chotha
ni
ItihasAarsi Ahemdabad
{978-93-81090473}
2010
5 Dr.K.A.Manek ItihasniPagdan
di
Rajkot 2009
6 Dr.K.A.Manek Higher
Education
Women in
ParsavPrakashanAhemdab
ad
2010
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Saurashtra
7 Dr.K.A.Manek History of
Rajkot
Pravinprakashanrajkot 2013
8 Dr.K.A.Manek History of
Europe
ParsavPrakashanAhemdab
ad
2013
23.Details of patents and income generated: -NIL
24.Areas of consultancy and income generated: - NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad: - NIL
26. Faculty serving in: -
a) National committees: - 01 b) International committees: - Nilc) Editorial Boards: - 2
d) Any other: - 03
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,
workshops, training programs and similar programs). : - 02
Sr.No. Name of
Teacher
Recharging Strategies
1 Dr.P.J.Raval Nominated as Delegate by Saurashtar University
Rajkot for ‗Women Oriented Programme‘ organized by
National University of Education, Planning &
Administration, New Delhi (13/09/2010 to 17/09/2010)
2 Dr.K.A.Manek Nominated as Delegate by Saurashtar University
Rajkot for ‗Women Oriented Programme‘ organized by
National University of Education, Planning
&Administration, New Delhi (13/09/2010 to
17/09/2010)
3 Dr.K.A.Manek Attend the State Level Symposium as A ‗Subject
Expert‘ on ―Rise & Development of Economic
Nationalism in Gujarat‖ organized by P.G.Dept. of
History, V.V.Vidhyanagar(24/02/2012)
28. Student projects
o Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
interdepartmental projects: - 100 % (M. Phil. Dissertation) Appendix attached
below
o percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities
industry / institute: - Nil
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by: -
Faculty: -3 (Dr. K. A. Manek)
o Award in Jan-2010on the subject ―Contribution of Princely States in the
Freedom Struggle‖
o Getting First rank in Essay Competition organized by Saurashtra Kutch
ItihasParishad, 2012 on the subject of ― Freedom Fighters of Jamangar
District‖
o Award of ―Prof. Keshvlal H Kamdar‖ silver medal, organized by Gujarat
ItihasParishad at VallabhVidyanagar for best research essay in its
competition.
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Doctoral/ post-doctoral fellows: - Nil Students: Nil
Faculty 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
National Nil 1 1 1
International Nil Nil Nil Nil
Student 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
National Nil 15 Nil Nil
International Nil Nil Nil Nil
State 02 Nil 04 02
30. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
National: Kathiawadi Horse: Historical Perspective
Sr.No. Name
1 DR. K.C.GUPTA, UDAIPUR (Ex. Prof. & Head, MohanlalSukhadia
University, Udaipur) Specialization: History of Rajashthan
2 DR.MEENA GAUD, UDAIPUR(Prof. & Head, MohanlalSukhadia
University, Udaipur) Specialization: History of Rajashthan
3 DR.S.V.JANI, RAJKOT(Ex.Prof.&Head, Department of History,
Saurashtra University, Rajkot) Specialization: History of Saurashtra
&AarziHukumat, Junagadh)
4 DR.AMBADAN ROHADIYA,RAJKOT(Prof., Department of
Gujarati, Saurashtra University, Rajkot) Specialization: Folk Culture
&Bardic Literature
5 PRABHATSINH BARHAT,RAJKOT(Specialization: Horse
Painting)
6 RAJENDRASINH JADEJA,PORBANDAR Specialization: Horse
Training & Breeding
7 R.D.JHALA,DHARI {Ex. IPS, Dhari) (Specialization: : Horse
Training & Breeding)
8 GHANSHYAMJI MAHARAJ, GONDAL Specialization: : Horse &
Cow Training & Breeding)
9 DR.PANDYA SIR, GONDAL Specialization: : Horse Training &
Breeding)
10 DARBARSHRI PUNJAVALA,SANATHLI Specialization: Folk,
Culture & Horse- Breeding)
11 RAMBHAI BAROT,JAMNAGAR Specialization: Folk songs
12 RAMKUBHAI KHACHAR,RAJKOT Specialization: : Horse
Breeding
13 NARESHBHAI KHACHAR,RAJKOT Specialization: : Horse
Training & Breeding
14 DR.PRADHYUMAN KHACHAR,JUNAGADH Specialization: :
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Tourism Places of Saurashtra
15 DR.DHIRUBHAI VALA,JUNAGADH
16 DR.NEETABEN PUROHIT,JAMNAGAR
17 DR.SMITA JHALA,RAJKOT
18 DR.P.J.RAVAL,RAJKOT
19 DR.A.V.CHOTHANI
20 DR.K.A.MANEK, RAJKOT(CO-ORDINATOR)
21 DR.P.B.VALVAI
22 DR.RANAVAT, SEETAMAU
23 DR.P.G.KORAT, BHAVNAGAR
24 DR.JIGISH PANDYA,VALLABH VIDHYANAGAR
25 DR.LAXMAN VADHEL,BHAVNAGAR
26 DR.RANA,BHAVNAGAR 8.DR.ANJANA SHAH,AHEMDABAD
27 DR.MAKRAND MEHTA,AHEMDABAD (ex.prof.&Head, Dept. of
History, Gujarat University) Specialization: : Economic History
28 DR.SIRIN MEHTA,AHEMDABAD (ex.prof.&Head, Dept. of
History, Gujarat University) Specialization: : Women History
29 DR.ARUN VAGHELA,AHEMDABAD (Associate Prof., Dept. of
History, Gujarat University) Specialization: : Tribal History of
Gujarat
30 MRS.PUROHIT,AHEMDABAD
ETC. WERE PRESENTED IN SEMINAR.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments: -
1. Objectivity in Research
2. Anti-plagiarism mechanism.
3. Candidates are advised to make thorough and exhaustive survey of literature
before deciding the topic
4. And more is taken from the guidelines of IQAC and APA
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the
Programme
Applications
received
Selected
Male Female
Pass percentage
Male Female
2009-10 M.A. Sem-1&3 64 (58) 44 14 100% 93%
M.A. Sem-2&3 55 41 14 98% 100%
M.Phil. Sem-1&2 39 (18) 15 03 100% 100%
Ph.D. 06 (06) 04 02 NA NA
2010-11 M.A. Sem-1&3 48 (34) 24 10 100% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 33 23 10 96% 90%
M.Phil. Sem-1&2 18 (17) 12 05 92% 100%
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Ph.D. 12 (11) 10 01 NA NA
2011-12 M.A. Sem-1&3 26 (19) 13 06 85% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 18 12 06 83% 100%
M.Phil. Sem-1&2 19 (13) 08 05 100% 100%
Ph.D. 17 (09) 07 02 NA NA
2012-13 M.A. Sem-1&3 19 (14) 10 04 100% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 14 11 03 100% 100%
M.Phil Sem-1&2 33 (16) 10 06 90% 100%
Ph.D. 16 (09) 07 02 NA NA
NOTE:
THE NUMBER INTO THE BRACKET () SHOWS THE NUMBER OFSTUDENTS
WHO TOOK ENTRANCE TEST WHICH IS MENDETARY. THUS, WE CAN
GIVE ADMISSION FROM THESE ONLY WHO TOOK ENTRANCE TEST.
33. Diversity of students: -
Name of the
Programme
(refer to
question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
university
% of
students
from other
universities
within the
State
% of
students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from
other
countries
2009-10 M.A. 96% 4% NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph.D. 100% NIL NIL NIL
2010-11 M.A. 85% 15% NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph.D. 73% 27% NIL NIL
2011-12 M.A. 85% 15% NIL NIL
M.Phil 92% 8% NIL NIL
Ph.D. 67% 33% NIL NIL
2012-13 M.A. 100% NIL NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph.D. 78% 22% NIL NIL
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Year NET SET GATE
2009-10 Nil 10 Nil
2010-11 Nil Nil Nil
2011-12 Nil Nil Nil
2012-13 01 Nil Nil
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35. Student progression: -
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
2009-10 UG to PG Nil
PG to M.Phil. 15
PG to Ph.D. Nil
Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2010-11 UG to PG Nil
PG to M.Phil. 12
PG to Ph.D. 09
Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2011-12 UG to PG Nil
PG to M.Phil. 08
PG to Ph.D. 06
Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2012-13 UG to PG Nil
PG to M.Phil. 12
PG to Ph.D. 05
Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
recruitment
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same university 100%
From other universities within the State NA
From universities from other States NA
From universities outside the country NA
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: - All the faculty already completed their Ph.D.
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: - 01
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b) Internet facilities for staff and students: - 03
c) Total number of class rooms: -02
d) Class rooms with ICT facility: - No
e) Students‘ laboratories: - NA
f) Research laboratories: - NA
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates: -
a) From the host institution/university: - Nil
b) From other institutions/universities: - Nil
40. Number of post graduate/research students getting financial assistance from the
university/other agencies.
Detailed appendix attached below.
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.
In the annual and regular meetings of staff council department discusses the issues and the issues are taken into considerations in the meeting as early as
possible.
Course needs, Application point of view, innovative interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary subjects are discussed and taken into
consideration.
Number of students, qualification criteria and fee structure are the basic
criteria discussed and ruled out in the staff meetings.
42. Does the department obtains feedback from:-
A. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback? Yes (In staff Council Meeting, Continues self-
evaluation & student‘s feedback.
B. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback? Yes feedback forms are given to IQAC department
for evaluation.
C. alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback? Yes
43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)
No. Name Designation
1 Chauhan Ramesh Pro.,N.S.Patel Arts College, Anand (Net & GPSCLec. Pass)
2 KanagaraVipul Pro.,Gov.Arts College, Surendranagar (Slet& GPSCLec. Pass)
3 LavadiyaShailesh Pro., Arts College, Wakaner(Slet Pass)
4 KaramtaValiben Net & GPSCLec. Pass
5 ThakarVinod Class-1 Officer, GIDC, Gov. of Gujarat
6 AhesanAjmeri Teacher, Ahemdabad (GPSC Lec. &Slet Pass)
7 VashudevVarmora Manager, Circuit House, Surat
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Merit
Scholarship
02 06 06 05
Freeship
Scholarship
02 03 01 01
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8 SavsaniMukesh Teacher, S.N.K. School, Rajkot
9 ChanganiMital Teacher, Rajkot
10 SarvaiyaKalu Research Assitant, Saurashtra University, Rajkot
11 Dr.A.M.Kikani Member, All India Nagar Parishad
12 Dr.MaheshchandraPandya Member, International PranamiSampradayCommittie
13 Dr.S.V.Jani Ex. Prof. & Head, Dept. of History, Saurashtra University, Rajkot
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts.
1. National Seminar on 'KATHIYAWADI HORSE IN HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE' held on 28-29 March 2011 sponsored by the Government of Gujarat.
Number of Participants 75
1. All faculty of the department conduct seminar on a special topic for each student &
student will give the seminar on the subject given by the faculty in the form of
dissertation.
Also special lecture also organize every year to increase the subject level knowledge
for student. The list of experts are as under:
Name of the Expert Date of Lectures
Dr. Rohit P. Pandya (27, 28 January 2010)
Dr. Jigish Pandya (8 To 17 February 2010)
Dr. Mehboobbhai Desai (3, 4 March 2010)
Dr. Jigish Pandya (22,23 March 2011)
Dr. Arun Vaghela (24,25 March 2011)
Dr. Jigish Pandya (19,20 March 2013)
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
1. Give Presentation on the Projectors
2. Personal Assistance to every student who need any kind of help
3. Organize tours of historical places
4. Lectures are an efficient way of providing information & define the scope of the
course.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
1. Internal Test
2. Quiz.
3. Seminar
4. Project
5. Assignment
6. Visit to Information Department, Rajkot, Museum & Archives Department
7. Study Tour
8. Examination System
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9. Feed Back process for Students
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities: -
Students are participating in various extension activities
Faculty are participating in various extension activities
P.J. Raval AkhilHind Mahila Parishad Rajkot ― bhaiyma mahila ni sthiti(prachin
samay thi adhunik yug sudhi)‖
Slam Asia, Sadhuvasvani Road, Rajkot.
Dr. A.V.Chottani Mahila mandal ane social group Rajkot tatha Rajkot ma rahela
junagadh jila na patidar samajna loko samakshkrantikari prakrutiyo
vivichak vigatvar samay apvi
Dr. K.A. Manek Jupadpadima rahela badko samaksh itihas vishaynu mahatva samjavu
Vidhushiya ane Fresh and Fittness center, saurashtra university na
bhavanma upasthit mahila samksh bharatma mahila rojgarini tako tatha
itihaas vivechak vigatvar samaj api.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department: -
AbhyasVartul, Awarness Programme, Study Tour&NET, SLET, GPSC Exam
Preparation.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If
yes, give details: -Yes , NAAC
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied: -
Department is actively involved in generating new knowledge towards the faculty of Social Sciences.
Department have well equipped facilities for the students for research and other related work.
Department provides unlimited scopes of exposure in research area to both students
and faculties.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the department.
Strengths:
1. Department of History has Departmental Library whichincludes several books.
2. All the faculty members are well experienced.
3. Oldest Department of the University.
Weaknesses:
1. There is no separate room for Library.
2. There is no separate fresh room available for women.
3. There is no separate M.Phil. Class room.
4. Non-filled sanctioned posts of teaching by permanent faculty.
Opportunities:
1. Evolving short-duration course in Tourism. 2. Establishing Cultural & Heritage Center.
3. Tapping student talent for historical studies.
Challenges:
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1. Declining strength of students.
2. Making historical studies popular.
3. Leading history with Present.
52. Future plans of the department.
1. Visit affiliated college to popularize study of History among U.G. students.
2. Making efforts for cultivating research aptitude among student of History.
Appendix-1Committee:
2009-10
Committee Name Coordinator Member
Anti-Raging Cell &
Anti Sexual
Harassment cell
A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Placement K.A.Manek P.J.Raval,
A.V.Chothani&P.B.Valvai
Time-Table P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Tour P.B.Valvai A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.J.Raval
Cultural Activities K.A.Manek P.J.Raval,
A.V.Chothani&P.B.Valvai
Study circle A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Internal Exam P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Sports P.B.Valvai A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.J.Raval
2010-11
Committee Name Coordinator Member
Anti-Raging Cell &
Anti Sexual
Harassment cell
A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Placement K.A.Manek P.J.Raval,
A.V.Chothani&P.B.Valvai
Time-Table P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Tour P.B.Valvai A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.J.Raval
Cultural Activities K.A.Manek P.J.Raval,
A.V.Chothani&P.B.Valvai
Study circle A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Internal Exam P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.B.Valvai
Sports P.B.Valvai A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek&P.J.Raval
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2011-12
Committee Name Coordinator Member
Anti-Raging Cell &
Anti Sexual
Harassment cell
K.A.Manek P.J.Raval&A.V.Chothani
Placement A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, &K.A.Manek
Time-Table P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek
Tour P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek
Cultural Activities A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, K.A.Manek
Study circle A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, K.A.Manek
Internal Exam K.A.Manek A.V.Chothani, P.J.Raval
Sports K.A.Manek A.V.Chothani, P.J.Raval
2012-13
Committee Name Coordinator Member
Anti Raging Cell &
Anti Sexual
Harassment cell
K.A.Manek P.J.Raval&A.V.Chothani
Placement A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, &K.A.Manek
Time-Table P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek
Tour P.J.Raval A.V.Chothani,
K.A.Manek
Cultural Activities A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, K.A.Manek
Study circle A.V.Chothani P.J.Raval, K.A.Manek
Internal Exam K.A.Manek A.V.Chothani, P.J.Raval
Sports K.A.Manek A.V.Chothani, P.J.Raval
Appendix – 2 :M.Phil. Dissertation
Sr.
No
.
Name of the
Student
Title Guided
by
Yea
r
Status
1 KananiHiren H. ―Rajkot
SahernaMukhyaDharmikSthalo ―
EkAdhyana
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
2
On going
2 ChaudhariNayna
V.
―BardoliTalukoEkAdhyayan‖ from
1964 to 2010
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
2
On going
3 TaviyadMadhu
M.
Rajkot
TalukaniSinchaiVyavasthaEkAbhyas
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
2
On going
4 Parmar Ramesh
M.
Rajkot
SaherniSamajikSansthaoEkAbhyas
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
2
On going
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5 JijriyaVipul V. Shree VidhyamandalEkAbhyas (GangajalaVidhyapith)
Dr. A. V. Chothani
2012
On going
6 Gohil Suresh G. JasdanTalukoEkAbhyas Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
1
On going
7 Mori Uday Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
1
Complet
ed
8 Patel Hetal N. NavsariJillanaPravasanSthalo Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
1
On going
9 RanpariyaKiran
B.
Leuva Patel NutanKelvaniMandalni
Rajkot Sthapana no
ItihasanetenuSikshanKshetrePradan
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
1
Complet
ed
10 AparnarthiHaresh
giri
PravasanSthalTarikeSansan Gir –
EkAbhyas
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
Complet
ed
11 BalvaiyaPankaj J. BotadTalukoEkEtahicPari Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
On going
12 ChaudhariSushila
J.
Mangrol
Talukoeketihasikpariprekhya
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
Complet
ed
13 Dangar Nita K. Rasulkhanji Hospital Junagadh
EtihasikAbhyas
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
On going
14 DamorSurekha P. DahodBhagini Samaj EkAbhyas Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
On going
15 Kava Vishwajit
A.
KeshodTalukoEkEtihasikAbhyas Dr. A. V.
Chothani
201
0
On going
16 ChavdaVajubhai Forward school
amrelitrustisthapnanoitihasanetenipra
vrutio
Dr. A. V.
Chothani
200
9
On going
17 KanaraGovind K. BhanvadTalukoEketihasikAbhyas Dr. A. V.
Chothani
200
9
On going
18 AalMatra L. Dr. A. V.
Chothani
200
9
Complet
ed
19 Galchar Nilesh J. Rajkot JillanaPravasanSthalo Dr. A. V.
Chothani
200
9
On going
20 Chavadiya Bijal
R.
Shrimati G.P. Mehta High School
Jamvanathali Ek Abhiyas
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
2
On going
21 Dafada Lalit.H Navyug Vidhiyalay (Mota Bevadiya)
Ek Abhiyas
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
2
Complet
ed
22 Makwana Hitesh
G.
Shri P & T.V Sheth at High School,
Rajkot. Ek Abhiyas
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
2
On going
23 Sosa Sanjay R. V.V.P. Engineering College, Rajkot.
Ek Abhiyas
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
2
Complet
ed
24 Sosa Vijay R. Swami Vivekanand nu Saurashtra
Parikraman- Ek Adhiyayan
Prafulab
en
201
2
Complet
ed
25 Batva Arshi D. Lakhdirsf Engineering College,
Morbi. Establishment, Development
Prafulab
en
201
1
Complet
ed
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and Activities- A study upto 2010
26 Patel Daksha D. Navsari Taluko- Ek Abhiyas
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
1
Complet
ed
27 Kota Paresh G. Jaymanbhai Parmar- Ek Abhiyas
Prafulab
en
201
1
Ongoing
28 Thakar Seema K. Swami Vivekanand Vidhiya
Mandir(Junagadh)ni Sthapana, Vikas
ane pravruti- Ek Abhiya.
(sthapanathi 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
1
Complet
ed
29 Lodhavi
Pravinkumar S.
Sutrapada taluka- Ek Abhiyas Prafulab
en
201
1
Complet
ed
30 Maraviya Bharti
V.
Lodhika Taluko- Ek Abhiyas Prafulab
en
201
0
On going
31 Patel
MayankKumar B.
Shri Mahuva Pradesh, sahakari
Khand Udhiyog Mandali Ltd- Ek
Abhiyas (From 1974 to 2010)
Prafulab
en
201
0
Complet
ed
32 Boda Bhavesh N. Kalawad Taluko- Ek Itihasik
Pariprakshiya
Prafulab
en
201
0
Ongoing
33 Lashkari Jignesh
O.
Amarsighji High School, Wakaner-
Ek Abhiyas
Prafulab
en
201
0
Complet
ed
34 Parmar Vijay K. Shree Bilashwar Khand Udhiyog,
Kodinar- Ek Abhiyas (from 1956 to
2006)
Prafulab
en
201
0
Complet
ed
35 Sarvaiya
Kadubhai G.
Gadhada taluko- Ek Aitihashik
Pariprakshiya ma
Prafulab
en
201
0
Complet
ed
36 Vada Mahendra
C.
Ramkrishna Mission (Limbdi)- Ek
Abhiyas
Prafulab
en
200
9
Complet
ed
37 Desai Yogesh J. Vasada Taluko- Ek Aitihashik
Pariprakshiya ma
Prafulab
en
200
9
Complet
ed
38 Jetawa Dhana R. Veraval Taluko- Ek Aitihashik
Abhiyas
Prafulab
en
200
9
Complet
ed
39 Lavadiya Sailesh
R.
Sister Nivedita Educational
Complex, Rajkot- A Historical
Perspective
Prafulab
en
200
9
Complet
ed
Appendix - 3 Scholarship / Free ship
Year Sr. No. Types of Scholarship Name of the Student Amount
2009-10
1 Free ship BodaBhavesh 1200
2 Free ship AlaMatra L. 1200
3 Merit Dabhi Rajesh N. 1200
4 Merit JadavRajansinh N. 1200
2010-
11
5 Free ship NakumParesh 1000
6 Free ship Gohil Nilesh R. 1000
7 Free ship Gamar Kanji N. 1000
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2010-
11
8 Merit RanpariyaKiran 400
9 Merit NakumParesh G. 330
10 Merit Gohil Nilesh R. 270
11 Merit HadaniChaman N. 400
12 Merit Jada Ramesh N. 330
13 Merit Jalu Mahesh R. 270
2011-
12
14 Free Ship GohilNielsh 1200
15 Free Ship PithdiyaJignesh M. 522
16 Free Ship Sosa Sanjay 430
17 Free ship Kachot Hitesh 353
18 Merit RanpariyaKiran B 576
19 Merit Gohil Nilesh R. 475
20 Merit Gamara Kanji N. 389
21 Free ship PithadiyaJignesh 780
22 Merit GojiyaRamsinh 324
23 Merit VarchandLalji B. 324
24 Merit PithadiyaJignesh 234
25 Merit Sosa Sanjay R. 193
26 Merit VadherJasi 157
27 Free ship GabuPrakash 600
28 Merit GabuPrakash 225
29 Merit VadherLalit 225
30 Merit Nandasana Vijay G 228
31 Merit GoswamiJyoti B 237
32 Merit MalakiyaJayesh 194
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department : Smt. S.B. Gardi Institute of Home Science, Sau.Uni., Rajkot
2. Year of establishment: 1997
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? : yes
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters; Integrated
Ph. D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) : M.Sc. Foods & Nutrition , M.Sc. General Home Science,
Ph. D Home Science, Ph. D. Chemistry
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: We offered interdisciplinary
courses as a part of M.Sc curriculum under the CBCS.
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. :Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons ; Not applicable
8. Examination System: Semester and Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: One faculty
member is research guide in chemistry subject, partial interdiciplinary approach is
established and this Department arranges various joint programs with Law and other
Departments of this University.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 01 ------- 01
Associate Professors 02 01 02
Asst. Professors 04 02 ---
Others --- --- --
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience
and research under guidance
Name
Quali. Desig. Speciali
zation
No. of Years
of
Experience
No. of Ph. D./M.
Phil. students guided
for the last 4 years
Guide
d
Reg
.
Total
Dr. Nilambari
R. Dave
M.Sc.
Ph.D
Professor Home Sci.
F & N
24 years 06 08 14
Dr. H. D. Joshi M.Sc.
Ph.D
Associate
Professor
Chemistry 24 years 01 04 05
Dr. R. V. Raval M.Sc.
Ph.D
Associate
Professor
Chemistry 14 years --
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors :
Sr. No. Name of Fellow
01 Dr. Uma Joshi- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., M. S. Uni., Baroda
02 Dr. M. Subhadra- Prof., Nirmalaniketan, Bombay
03 Dr. Maneesha Sukul- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., M. S. Uni., Baroda
04 Dr. Vinayak Patel-Vidyanagar- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., S. P. Uni.,
Vidyanagar
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05 Dr. Bharat Patel - Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., Agri. Uni., Dantiwada
06 Dr. J.j. Dhaduk- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., Agri. Uni., Dantiwada
07 Dr. Rema Subhash- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., S. P. Uni., Vidyanagar
08 Dr. Manjari Achharya- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., S. P. Uni., Vidyanagar
09 Dr. Madhu Sharan- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., M. S. Uni., Baroda
10 Dr. Mini Sheth- Prof., Deptt. Of Home Sci., M. S. Uni., Baroda
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information
Sr. No. Name of Program Number of Classes
01 M. Sc. Foods & Nutrition 33%
02 M. Sc. General Home Science 66%
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio:
Sr. No. Name of Program Student Teacher Ratio
01 M. Sc. Home Science 45:3
02 Ph. D. 16:2
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled
and actual
Sr. No. Academic & Administrative Support Sanctioned Filled
01 Smt AnupamaB. Sureja 01 01
02 Mr. Bharatbhai Jani 01 01
03 Vacat 01 00
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies: NA
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise. :
Sr.
no,
Title of the project Funding
agency
Principal
Investigator
Grant
received
Rs.
01 Monitoring and minimizing the
pesticide residue in vegetables
available at the market of Rajkot
city using traditional cooking
methods‖
UGC Dr. H. D. Joshi 11,86,200/-
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received :
d) National collaboration-Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received. :Nil
20. Research facility / centre with : Nil
state recognition
national recognition
international recognition 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies : Nil
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) :13
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Monographs: Nil
Chapters in Books: Nil
Edited Books : Nil
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: 01
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.): Nil
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index 23. Details of patents and income generated: Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad : Nil
26. Faculty serving in
a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other
(please specify):
Name Editorial Boards National committees
Dr. Nilambari R. Dave Asian Journal of Home
Science
Vice President west zone –
Home Science Association
of India
Dr. H. D Joshi American Biographical
Institute, North Carolina
USA
Dr. R. V. Raval ------- Treasurer, Indian Dietetic
Association, Rajkot club
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops,
training programs and similar programs). : Faculty attends, Co-ordinates, Acts as a
resources persons in ASC, Refresher / orientation programs.
28. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental
projects : 25%
percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute : Nil
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by : Nil
Faculty
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows
Students 30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
Sr.
No.
Name of Seminar/conference,
etc
Funding
agencies
Level Approx. No of
delegates
01 Role of Home Science in
Social well-Being
U G C National 250
02 Home Science & Life Style
Management
U G C National 180
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03 Women‘s issues University State 200
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments: All the code of ethics designed
by the University rules is followed.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the Programme
(refer to question no. 4)
Applications
received
Selected
Female
Pass percentage
Female
M. Sc.
Foods & Nutrition
31 25 98
M. Sc.
General Home Science
20 20 98
Ph. D. 29 24 39
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the State
% of students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from other
countries
M. Sc.
Foods & Nutrition
90 10 --- ---
M. Sc.
General Home
Science
80 20 --- ---
Ph. D. 90 10 --- ---
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.:05
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG ----
PG to M. Phil. Nil
PG to Ph. D. 45:2
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
30%
Entrepreneurs 2%
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 03
from other universities within the State -----
from universities from other States -----
from universities outside the country -----
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil., Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period : Nil
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: 01 with 700 books
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Available
c) Total number of class rooms: 04
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d) Class rooms with ICT facility: 04
e) Students‘ laboratories: 04
f) Research laboratories: 01
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University
Sr. No. Name of students
01 Dr. N. R. Dave
02 Dr. Urvi Trivedi
03 Dr. Kinjal Bhatt
04 Dr. Anjana Palkar
05 Dr. Geeta Rathod
06 Dr. Bhavana Vaid
07 Dr. Daxa Solanki
08 Dr. Samani veena
09 Dr. Shashikala Maheshvari
10 Dr. Hetal Desai
11 Dr. Zala Jyotiba
12 Dr. Jadeja Rekhaba
b) from other institutions/universities
Sr. No. Name of Students
01 Vimal Patel
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University. : Nil
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.: NA
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
g. Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback? : Yes, Positive suggestions are kept in boards of
studies meeting when ever syllabus reforms.
h. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback? : Yes, Summary is made from student evaluation
form for the improvement of faculties and is discussed in staff council meeting and
each staff is informed about suggestions made by students.
i. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback?: No
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10):
Sr. No. Name of Students
01 Dr. N. R. Dave, Head, Deptt. Of Home Science, Sau. Uni., Rajkot
02 Dr. Bhavana Vaid, Sr. lecturer, MVM college, Rajkot
03 Dr. Daxa Solanki, Sr. lecturer, MVM college, Rajkot
04 Dr. Shashikala Maheshvari, Sr. lecturer, Tolani Art College, Rajkot
05 Azadi Vachhani, Sr. lecturer, Govt. POLY technique college, Rajkot
06 Dave Charmi, Dietician, Giriraj Hospital, Rajkot
07 Dave Amishi, Dietician, Wockheart Hospital, Rajkot
08 Alpa Chauhan, Other than Dean, Faculty of homescience
09 Uma Tanna, Head, Deptt. Of work experience, Dist. Edu. & training, Rajkot
10 Geeta Rathod, Lecturer, SNDT college, Surat
11 Purvi Rajpara, Nutritional program officer, Gandhinagar
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44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
involving external experts: Department has arranged conference in 2010 & 2013, one
week work shop on legal literacy jointly with law department. With the help of legal aid
deptt. Every year. Every this deptt. Arranges different programmes on womens day like
workshops on women‘s issues, lectures of districts magistrates, poster competition etc.
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes. : The
Department has adopted various teaching methods which improve quality of teaching
and understanding power of students, these include Seminar method, Personal
presentations, Group discussions, field trips etc. The uses of latest teaching aids like
LCD, Slide Overhead projector are in practice.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored? :
There is a continuous evaluation system in our department in the form of assignment, seminars, internal test, practical and project work including field visit
and training. By these systems learning aspect of the students is monitored.
Every three years the syllabuses are reformed by accepting suggestions from
society, related industrial people, government and non-government organizations after through discussion among members of board of studies. Here any kind of
practical difficulties regarding the content of courses are attained.
Students are the fundamental stakeholder, every year we take feedback from
students for courses and their suggestions are also taken into account at a time of
syllabus reformation.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities: The
Department has participated various actively in the extension programme of the
University like Beti Bachavo Andolan, Flag Day etc . Moreover the Department also
organizes its own extension programme like exhibitions, puppet show and street plays
etc. in rural and slum areas. Under University initiatives and leadership, this department
had participated various need base educational programs for prisoners which were
organized jointly with various departments in the year 2011. The Department has
participated various actively in the extension program of the University like Beti Bachao
Andolan, Flag Day etc.
Moreover the Department also organizes its own extension program like exhibitions, puppet show and street plays etc. in rural and slum areas.
Under University initiatives and leadership, this department had participated various need base educational programs for prisoners which were organized
jointly with various departments in the year 2011.
The students of the department along with a teacher conducted nutritional
enrichment program, educational games, and cultural activities in the S.V. Virani
Deaf and dumb children school. – Every year in the first term of 3rd
semester, as a
part of syllabus.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department: Lectures and
workshop etc organized by the department for the development of values and virtues.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details. : Nil
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied. : Home science syllabuses cater almost all the basic needs of an individual as
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a member of the society.
Home science caters basic theoretical knowledge of science arts and humanities as well as applied aspects of all these basic branches of the knowledge.
These aspects such as Nutrition, Food Science, and technology, Bio-chemistry,
institutional food administration, Dietetics and patients counseling, normal and
disable children grooming, budgeting and investments, textiles and fashion, house
plans and interior designing, extension and communication etc.
As such this department has only two specialization i. e. Foods & Nutrition and General Home Science which are grant in aid. At the time of adopting CBCS
system in the year 2010, we have introduced block elective in various specialized
field so that students can opt for more specialized paper/ courses. In the field of
Foods & Nutrition student can opt for Food Technology, Dietetic and Public
Health Nutrition while in the field of General Home Science, student can opt for
Community Health Nutrition, Clothing & Textile, Extension & communication,
Home management and Child Development.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
department. :
Strength:
Advanced as well as vocational curriculum and ICT enabled teaching learning process.
It is life and community oriented course which is also having interdisciplinary approach.
Very few Universities of India offer M. Sc. General Home Science course which
is a composite course of home science, syllabus for NET/SLET examinations are
also based on composite Home Science, that‘s why it is helpful for our students.
This department cators mainly students of rural and even remote areas of Saurashtra region
Most of the students get placement
Staff of this department works in administrative positions in national bodies,
having aditorialship in national and international journals.
Weakness
Shortage of permenent teaching faculties.
Sortage of technical staff
We receive limited grant from UGC five year plans so unable to purchase sofisticated latest instruments.
Majority of students come from rural background so are not able to coup with
English materials as well as internet surffing.
Inadiquate research lab facilities Opportunities
Because of life and community oriented syllabuses there is wast opportunuty for students in various govrnment community based programms and also in NGO‘s.
In foods & Nutrition course in CBCS this department has introduced food industries
based courses to generate job opportunity.
In foods & Nutrition course in CBCS this department has introduced dietetics and public nutrition based courses to prepare students entreprenaure.
Due to its vesetile courses this department can promote interdisciplinary research also.
Extension is the part of Home Science syllabus; society can at large be benifited by
various activities of students in rural and slum areas also.
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Challenges
There is decreasing studentstrength in afiliated UG colleges may affect future student strength.
Due to government policies this department is not able to start various other
specializations in grant in aid.
Refine students in English language is a big challenge.
Due to its nomenclature as Home Science, and aslo UG colleges are anly women colleges, the traditional concept of only women studying in Home Science, male
students are not coming fro admission.
Shortage of permenent teaching faculties and technical staffs. 52. Future plans of the department: At present specialization are given in Foods & Nutrition
and General Home Science. The Department aims to start new branches of specialization
Viz. Clothing and Textiles, Human Development, Family Resource Management and,
Home Science Extension and Communication, if the faculties and other resources made
available. Department also aims to start some one year vocational Diploma courses for
students who can not afford to spare two years for degree courses or who do not get
admission to the degree courses. They are namely, Dietetics, Advance Food Technology,
Food Biotechnology, Bakery and confectionery, Fashion Technology, Textile Designing,
Crèche, Playhouse and Balvadi management, Geriatric home management,
Communication Technology, Environment Management etc. if the facilities are made
available.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Humans & I.H.L.
2. Year of Establishment: 1997
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ? Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: LL.M. Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: NIL
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
NIL
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: Post Gratuation Diploma in
Human rights and International humanitarian Laws
8. Examination system: Semester with Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
NIL
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 01 01 00
Associate Professor 00 00 00
Assistant Professor 02 01 01
Others ---------- ---------- ----------
** Both are lien as Vice chancellor at different University
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization, expertise
and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization
No. of
years
of
experience
No. of
Ph. D./M.
Phil.
students
guided
for the
last
4years
Dr.B.L.Sharma
(On lien as
V.C.)
LL.M.Ph. D. Head &Prof. Constitutional & Human rights. 27
Dr.M.K.Padalia
(On lien as
V.C.)
LL.M.Ph. D.
Prof. HumanRights 26
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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor: (1) Dr.B.L.Sharma
,(2) Dr. M.K.Padalia (3) Dr. R.N.Sharma
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: 100
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: LLM. 4/49 Ph. D.—2/8
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:Nill
Office Staff
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Clerk 00 00 02
Typist 00 00 00
Peon 00 00 00
Sweeper 00 00 00
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:Nil
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project title
and grants received project-wise :Nil
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: NIL
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received: Enova Car Funded by UGC for the Extension Activities
20. Research facility/centre with:Research facilities created under (State recognition): (1)
Computer Facility (2) Internet (3) E - Journal
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies: NIL
22. Publications:Annexure -A
National: 06
International: 00
Book with ISBN with detail of publishers: 02 23. Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated:NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:As per Annexure-BDr. B.L.Sharma has
selected in Different committee of U.G.C. and visit in different institution of India.
26. Faculty serving in:
National committee : 05
International committee: NIL
Editorial boards:NIL
Any other (Please specify)Yes, as a vice chancellor in Saurashtra University Rajkot and Sarguja University Ambikapur
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):NIL
28. Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
interdepartmental projects: 100%
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other University/industry/institute : 100%
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29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty: 00
Doctoral/post-doctoral fellows: 00
Students: 00 30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
U.G.C. Funded and Organized by Dept.:(1) National Workshop: 02
(2) National Seminar: 03
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
The Department instills research ethics, research methodology and perseverance in
the LL.M. Students during their pre-registration course work so that they should not
be driven by ―publish or perish syndrome‖ instead, authentic research results emerge
from their pure inquisitiveness. The department believes in publishing research papers
in reputed peer-reviewed journals and imparting training to research students to
present their research findings before scientific community in national/international
conferences. The pre-Ph. D. presentation in the department by a research student has
been made compulsory.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
Ll.M.
Ph. D. 30 16 14
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the state
% of students
from other
countries
Ll.M. 95.45 4.55 00 00
Ph. D. 100% NIL NIL NIL
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.:02
judicial services,02 civil services examination 03,
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG 00
PG to M. Phil. 00
PG to Ph. D. 10%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral 00
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
00
10%
Entrepreneurs: About 15 students have started their own
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legal practice every year
36. Diversity of Staff:NIL
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 100
From other universities within state NIL
From universities from other states NIL
From universities outside the country NIL
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the assessment
period: 01
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:YES
a) Library: Yes
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
c) Total number of class-rooms: Three class-rooms and a seminar-hall
with a capacity to accommodate 50
persons
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 01 : Seminar Hall
e) Students‘ Laboratories: 00
f) Research Laboratories: 00
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates: Nil
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University : Nil
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.: Nil
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
As per annexure -C
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:As per annexure -D
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes :
conventional method
46. How does the Department ensure that Programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?: NIL
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47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities: Every year
approximately 25 extension activities Conducted by student and participation of student
and faculty. As per annexure -E
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department 49. State whether the Programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details: Nil
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied:: Department Conducted group discussion on currant issue of Human Rights.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
Department (1)strengths : 2 Faculties (2) weaknesses: Staff
(3) Opportunities: Good scope for this course wordwide
( 4) Challenges :To keep class enguged for full time
52 Future plans of the Department :(1) More training (2) more visit to human rights
institution
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Journalism
2. Year of Establishment: 1973
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ? Faculty
4. Names of Programmes offered: PG., M. Phil. , Ph.D
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: NO
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc. Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: NO
8. Examination system: Semester/CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: NO
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 1 - 1
Associate Professor 1 - -
Assistant Professor 2 2 1
Others - - -
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualificatio
n
Designatio
n
Specialization No. of
years of
experienc
e
No. of
Ph. D./
M.
Phil.
student
s
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr. Nita Udani MJMC., Ph.
D.
Professor
& Head
Communicatio
n & Cinema
20 Years 20
T.H.Chandaran
a
MJMC Asst.
Professor
P.R.
Advertising
20 Years 16
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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor: -
1. Dr. Punita Harne
2. Dr. Chadrakant Mehta
3. Naliniben Upadhyay
4. Sailesh Tewani
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: -
1. M.J.M.C. 57:43
2. M. Phil 86:14
3. Ph. D 87 :13
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:-
M.J.M.C.
Semester
1-2
(Ratio)
semester 3-
4 (Ratio)
Permanent
Teacher
visiting Teacher
2009-10 30(57:43) 49
(74 : 26)
Dr. Nita Udani Naliniben Upadhyay
2010-11 22(59:41) 38 (66:34) Shri
T.H.Chandarana
Shailesh Tewani
2011-12 20(65:35) 24 (54:46) Dr. Y. N. Hirani Trupti Vyas
2012-13 21(61:39) 18(72:28) Nilesh Pandya
Jawlant chhya
Bina joshi
Devyash Rayththa
Ruchir Pandya
Neha Mehta
Panna Kariya
M.Phil (Journalism)
Semester
1 (Ratio)
semester 2
(Ratio)
Permanent
Teacher
visiting Teacher
2009-10 9 (66:44) 9 (66:44) Dr. Nita Udani Trupti Vyas
2010-11 8 (50:50) 8 (50:50) Shri
T.H.Chandarana
2011-12 9 (66:44) 9 (66:44) Dr. Y. N. Hirani
2012-13 10(40:60) 10(40:60)
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Peon 1 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
Nil
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17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise
Nil
-
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: -
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received:
Nil
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition
National Recognition
International Recognition 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies:
Nil
22. Publications: Nil
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals -3 (Dr.Nita Udani)
Monographs
Chapter in Books
Edited books
Books with ISBN with details of publishers
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index 23. Details of patents and income generated: -
Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated:
Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:
Nil
26. Faculty serving in: -
g) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other
(please specify)
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27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Asst. Professor Mr. T.H.Chandarana had Participated in a Refresher course (S.S.S.) in
S.C. of our University. THe duration was three weeks ( 9th
July to 29th
July 2012).
28. Student projects:
Students have contributed with Zeal by writing articles on a variety of topics in inter-
departmental magazine.
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Nil
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
Nil
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
Department takes enough care to see that the students do dissertation sincerely and
submit it in time. For this, Faculties guide and motivate them with zeal & sincerity.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
MJMC 219 111 67 100 % 100 %
M.Phil 36 16 20 100 % 100 %
Ph.D 5 1 4
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
MJMC 99.44 % 0.56 % - -
M.Phil 94.45 % 5.55 % - -
Ph.D 100 % - -
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details
category-wise.
Nil
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35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG
PG to M. Phil. 16.43 %
PG to Ph. D. 2.28 %
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral -
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
-
Entrepreneurs:
VipulKagathara: CFL manufacturing
-
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 66 %
From other universities within state 33 %
From universities from other states -
From universities outside the country -
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:
Nil
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library -1
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: -3
c) Total number of class-rooms: -3
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: -
e) Students‘ Laboratories: -
f) Research Laboratories: -
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
1. Niliseh parmar
2. Jayram Mehta
3. Jaydeep vasant
4. Trupti Vyas
5. Devya Chhatbar
6. Karena Sapna
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
Nil
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41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
Nil
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how does
the department utilize the feedback
Yes
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback ?
Yes
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the Department
utilize the feedback ?
No
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
No. Name Designation
1 Krishnkant Unadkat Executive editor ―Sandesh‖
(Ahmedabed)
2 Kana Bantva Group Editor ―Sandesh‖
3 Jayesh Thakrar Senior Journalist ―Gujrat Samachar‖
4 Nilesh Pandya Senior Journalist ―Aaspas‖ (Rajkot)
He is also a well known artist & folk singer
5 Kaushik Mehta Editor ―Phulchhab‖ (Rajkot)
6 Shirish Kashikar Director National Institute of Mass
Communication, Ahmedabad
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
Involving external experts
1. 4th
feb 2009 seminar Deepak Rajani, Dhimant Purohit
2. 28 march 2010 workshop Dr. Kamlesh Udashi
3. 28 march 2011 seminar Justics G.N.Ray
4. 13 march 2012 seminar Shri Kaushikbhai Mehta
5. 31 march 2012 seminar Shri Upendra Trivedi
6. 15 march 2013 seminar N. A. Parmar
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Whiteboard, PPP, LCD, Camera, Computers, Internet Facility etc
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
Assignment, Seminars are regularly given & conducted
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
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Nil
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
Street Drama, Voting awareness etc.
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details.
No
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
Nil
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department
Strengths
1. Excellent Placement ratio
2. Imparting education to students mostly from villages and towns
3. The oldest institute in Gujarat to impart formal education in Journalism
Weaknesses
1. Luck of studio & Editing room
2. Number of classrooms is less than requirement
3. Teaching staff is less than requirement
Challenges
1. 80 to 90 % students are poor in English
52. Future plans of the Department
1. To start short-term employment – oriented courses.
2. To start course linking P.R. With Journalism.
3. Construction of the latest editing room & Studio.
4. To have printing facility.
5. To inspire students for Practical work specially in cinema.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Library & Information Science
2. Year of establishment: 1976
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University?: Yes [Arts]
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters; Integrated
Ph. D., D. Sc., D.Litt., etc.)
[1] Bachelor of Library & Information Science [2nd
Degree Programme]
[2] Master of Library & Information Science [PG Programme]
[3] Ph. D in Library & Information Science
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: -Nil-
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: -Nil-
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: -Nil-
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System: CBCS
Semester
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments- -Nil-
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 0 -N.A- -N.A-
Associate Professors 1 0 -N.A-
Asst. Professors 1 1 SG Asst Prof [CAS]
Others 0 0 0
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience
and research under guidance
Name
Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./M. Phil.
students guided
for the last 4
years
Dr Kokila T Tank M.A.,
M.Lib. Sc.,
Ph.D
Sr AsstProf
[SG] , I/C
Head
Library &
Information
Science
Total: 26
In In UGC
System:
23
-Nil-
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors: -Nil-
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information: 60% in
Both regular Programmes by Visiting Faculty
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
Sr No Programme Student Teacher Ratio
1 BLIS 28:1
2 MLIS 18:1
3 Ph D in LIS 8:1
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15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled
and actual
Sanctioned Filled Actual
Support Staff (Technical) 0 0 0
Administrative Staff 2 2 2
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies
Information Needs and Seeking Behavior.
Management of Library and Information Centres.
Library Surveys & User Surveys.
IT and Computer application studies.
Reading Habits and Interest Studies.
Academic Librarianship.
Bibliographic Studies.
Citation Analysis Studies
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise.
1 faculty member is working on Seed Money Project
Total grant sanctioned: 50,000 received up till now: 35,000
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
e) National collaboration b) International collaboration -Nil-
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received. –Nil-
20. Research facility / centre with
state recognition
national recognition
international recognition -Nil-
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies
-Nil-
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) –
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Nil-
Monographs: -Nil-
Chapters in Books: 1 & Paper: 1 in Conference Proceeding
Edited Books: -Nil-
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: -Nil-
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences
Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) –Nil-
Citation Index – range / average –Not calculated-
SNIP: –Not calculated-
SJR: –Not calculated-
Impact Factor – range / average: –Not calculated-
h-index: –Not calculated- 23. Details of patents and income generated
-Nil-
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated
Consultancy services provided by the department during the last four years covers broad
areas of library computerization, database development, library designing, developing
innovative library services, resource development for visually challenged library users.
No revenue was generated as these were not fee based services.
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad : -Nil-
26. Faculty serving in
a) National committees: -Nil-
b) International committees: -Nil-
c) Editorial Boards: One
d) Any other (please specify)
Board of Studies in different Universities: One
Board of Paper setters and Examiners in different Universities: One
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops,
training programs and similar programs).
Department participates in local & national facilities for faculty recharging
1. Attended SAM Workshop [UGC Capacity Building Workshop of Women Managers
in Higher Education] at Mumbai from 20 - 24th September, 2011
2. Attended and presented a paper ―Information and Development: A Vision for
Emerging Infrastructure‖ in IASLIC 28th All India Conference at Srinagar from 10 to 13
October 2011
3. Attended TOT Workshop [UGC Capacity Building Workshop of Women Managers in
Higher Education] at Mumbai from 2 to 7 March, 2012
28. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental projects: 25
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percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute: 75
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
Faculty: -Nil-
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows: -Nil-
Students: -Nil-
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
- Nil as Yet-
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments
There is no formal documented Code of ethics for research followed by the
departments but it is essential for each researcher to sign a written undertaking of
original research work carried out before submitting for publication or examination.
32. Student profile programme-wise: [Consolidated 2009-2010 to 2012-13]
Name of the Programme
(refer to question no. 4)
Applications
received
Selected
Male Female
Pass percentage
Male Female
Bachelor of Library
Information Science
303 42 63 71.26 87.45
Master of Library
Information Science
98 26 42 90.17 93.54
Ph. D in Library
Information Science
16 05 03 Not Applicable yet
33. Diversity of students: [Consolidated 2009-2010 to 2012-13]
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the State
% of students
from
universities
outside the State
% of
students
from other
countries
Bachelor of
Library
Information
Science
97.14 2.86 00 00
Master of Library
Information
Science
91.18 8.82 00 00
Ph. D in Library
Information
Science
87.5 12.5 00 00
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Sr No Examination Year Name of Student Category
1 SLET Oct 2010 Dobariya Himal L Gen
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2 SLET Oct 2010 Sondarva Bharat H SC
3 Gujarat Police 2011 Karmur Rajeshkumar H SEBC
4 Gujarat Police 2011 Kuvadiya Kalpesh R SEBC
5 H-TAT 2012 Parmar Pravin M SC
6 Adhyapak Sahayak 2012 Barot Shraddha B SEBC
7 TET 2012 Vaghela Mukesh SC
8 NET June 2012 Solanki Mahesh SC
9 NET Dec 2012 Parsania Renish V Gen
10 NET Dec 2012 Makwana Pankajkumar S SC
11 NET Dec 2012 Joshi Namrata R Gen
12 NET Dec 2012 Mehta Viral N Gen
13 NET Dec 2012 Sakariya Kishorchandra G SEBC
14 NET June 2013 Falguni Kadchha SEBC
15 NET June 2013 Sondarva Arunkumar SC
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG 65
PG to M. Phil. 05
PG to Ph. D. 10
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral 00
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
[Detail information Sent earlier
to placement cell]
Entrepreneurs 05
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 0
from other universities within the State 0
from universities from other States 100
from universities outside the country 0
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period
1 [One Ph. D. awarded]
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: Yes
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
c) Total number of class rooms: 2
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d) Class rooms with ICT facility: 2
e) Students‘ laboratories: 1 Computer Lab
f) Research laboratories: Nil
39 List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University:
Solanki Mahesh R
Joshi Namrata Rajendrababu,
Jotangiya Nimesh K
Ramani Vithal Jivabhai,
Raval Nita Prakashchandra,
Sakariya Kishorchadra G,
Sondarva Bharatkumar Hirabahi,
b) from other institutions/universities
Dodia Indira N
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University.
P M S P M S P M S Total P.H Merit Free ship Total
SC ST SEBC Scholarship
2009-2010 9 --- 10 19 1 15 0 15
2010-2011 10 --- 13 23 -- 12 0 12
2011-2012 14 --- 6 20 -- 12 0 12
2012-2013 12 --- 6 18 -- 13 0 13
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.
Need assessment exercise was undertaken before introducing Payment based seats in the
MLIS programme. For this exercise rate of growth of new colleges was compared against
number of graduating LIS professionals and the short fall in the number of seats was met with
introducing payment based seats.
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
j. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback?
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The department does obtain feedback from faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-
learning-evaluation. The department utilizes the feedback in developing new courses, making
required changes in the existing framework of courses.
k. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
The department does obtain feedback from students on staff, curriculum as well as teaching-
learning-evaluation. The department utilizes the feedback in selecting visiting faculty
members each year and in developing new courses, making required changes in the existing
framework of courses.
l. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback?
Feedback from Alumni and employers on the programmes offered is also collected. The
department utilizes the feedback in developing new units, introducing required topics and
developing required skills in the students.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
1 Mehta Hasumati S 9 Tandel Kailashbahi D.
2 Pandhi Veena M 10 Mehta Mahendra H
3 Tank K T 11 Udani Niharika T
4 Joshi Bindu H 12 Bhatt Dilip J
5 Patel Chandrakant K 13 Vaghela Anupsinh S.
6 Oza Nimesh D 14 Pandya Anjani B
7 Trivedi Mayank J 15 Desai Ami D
8 Ardeshna Narendrakumar M 16 Gondaliya J P
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
involving external experts.
Talk by Chief Librarian Railway Staff College Vadodara on 08/2/2010
Talk by Head of the Department, DLIS MSU on 09/2/2010
Talk by Librarian, HML, MSU on 09/2/2010
Talk by Librarian of Central Library Vadodara on 09/2/2010
Students attended ADINET Seminar at ADI on 10/8/2010
Participated in seminar on census operations on 3/2/11
Students attended ADINET Seminar at ADI on 27/8/2011
Special Lecture and Visit to Gujarat State Archives Rajkot Records Office and
Museum
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Talk by Experts of Art of Living on 23/3/2012
Students attended ADINET Seminar at ADI on 11/8/2012
Talk by Experts from Art of Living on 7/9/2012
Talk by Coordinator of SCOPE 27/9/2012
Students attended National Seminar on Human Rights & Ecological Balance
4&5/3/2013
Talk by Head of the Department, DLIS MSU on 12/3/13
Talk by Assistant Librarian, HML, MSU on 12/3/13
Talk by Librarian of Central Library Vadodara on 12/3/13
Talk by Subject Experts at Gyanmandir at Mahavir Aradhna Kendra Koba on
13/3/2013
Talk by Librarian British Council Library Ahmedabad, on 13/3/2013
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Library and Information Science being a professional course, much emphasis is on
practical training. A combination of various teaching methods, viz lectures, hands-on-
practical, participatory discussion, IT based teaching, case studies, user community
surveys, library visits, information collection, seminars, assignments, brainstorming,
group learning etc are used to impart training to the students at bachelor and masters
level.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
The department ensures that programme objectives are constantly met by taking
periodic feedback from students, faculty, industry and other stack holders. Good
suggestions from these feedbacks are incorporated in next curricula design and
modifications. Learning outcomes are monitored based on continuous evaluation of
students.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Students of Munjaka School No 1 were given one hour each every day under ―Vanchan Abhiyan‖ a reading habits promotional programme in 2009-2010
Took part in 26th
January 2010 special celebration programme held on the campus in Tableau event (Pragatishil Saurashtra) and won 2
nd place.
Students of Munjaka Prathmik Shala were given one hour each, every day under
―Vanchan Abhiyan‖ a reading habits promotional programme for three months in
2010-2011
5 Radio talks by faculty member Dr K T Tank for community awareness during 2009-2013
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department.
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This department is having just one full time faculty hence the prime responsibility of
the department is to cater efficiently to the syllabi requirements. The beyond syllabus
scholarly activities are presently at the back seat, yet department organizes
community awareness programmes and also takes active part in research activities.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details. –No-
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied.
Being the only department catering to the Library & Information Science personnel
needs of this region, we were instrumental in generating basic and applied knowledge
about management, collection, resources, personnel, finance, computerization and
administrative problems of various types of libraries of Saurashtra region and
information requirement of its user base.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
department.
Strengths of the Department
[1] Only department catering to the Library & Information Science personnel needs of this
region for various types of libraries like Academic, Special, and Public Libraries.
[2] A strong Alumni base of 1000 plus and impressive placement record
[3] Strong extension activities like educational tours, community awareness
programmers, reading interest surveys etc
[4] Well developed curricula as per the UGC CDC Guidelines and CBCS mode Semester
requirements.
[5] Good Infrastructural Facilities on the campus.
Weaknesses of the Department
[1] Only one full time faculty in the DepartmenT
[2] Still teaching in regional medium
[3] Lacking specialized laboratories
[4] Have to depend on visiting faculty to cover courses
[5] Lacking specialized instruments for modern techniques of digitization
Opportunities of the Department
[1] More number of SF institutions coming up which require Librarians
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[2] Growing importance of information rich society
[3] Growing opportunities for entrepreneurship in Knowledge based society
[4] Developing indigenous information content in regional languages
[5] Developing databases and information systems of regional importance
Challenges of the Department
[1] Rising importance of modern information resources challenges traditional libraries
[2] Commercial Information vendors gaining advantageous position in information market
[3] Privatization of professional courses effecting quality of LIS education
[4] IT professionals taking over positions in libraries
[5] Developing communication and IT skills in students from regional medium
52. Future plans of the department.
Introducing M.Phil in Library & Information Science.
Need based Diploma Course in Library Automation.
A New Building with more facilities.
One more Computer Lab for Masters students
Separate Multimedia Laboratory.
Laboratory for teaching digitization of library resources.
A state-of-the-art Library to serve as a laboratory for LIS students.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
(1) Name of the Department : Department of Computer Science
(2) Year of establishment : 25th
April 1996
(3) Is the dept part of a school/faculty : Faculty of the university
of the university
(4) Name of programmes offered : MCA, M.Sc. (IT & CA), Ph.D.
(5) Interdisciplinary programmes and : - Nil -
departments involved
(6) Courses in collaboration with other : - Nil -
universities, industries, foreign
institutions, etc.
(7) Details of programmes discontinued, : - Nil -
if any, with reasons
(8) Examination system : Semester
(9) Participation of the department in the : - Nil -
courses offered by other departments
(10) Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professor/Associate
professor/Asst. Progfessor/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including CAS & MPS)
Professor - - -
Associate Professor 1 0 1 (CAS)
Asst. Professor 2 2 1
Lecturer (SF) 6 6 6
(11) Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance
Name Quali. Desig Speci. No. of
years
experi
ence
No of
Ph.D./
M.Phil
students
guided for
last 4 years
Dr. CK Kumbharana Ph.D., MCA Head &
Asso.
Prof.
Speech
processing,
web
application &
programming
21 yr 8
Dr. AM Gonsai Ph.D. MCA Assi.
Prof.
Protocol
development,
Networking,
wireless
networking
13 yr 6
Miss SC Raknagor MCA Lect
(SF)
Web appli. 5 yr -
Mr. AC Gorvadiya MCA Lect
(SF)
2 yr -
Miss VJ Desai M.Sc.(IT&CA Lect 1 yr -
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) (SF)
Miss KK Karia MCA Lect
(SF)
Analysis -
Miss SK Ramani M.Sc.(IT&CA
)
Lect
(SF)
Web appli. -
Miss PJ Solanki M.Sc.(IT&CA
)
Lect
(SF)
Web appli. -
(12) List of senior visiting fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors: - Nil –
(13) Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme – wise information :
- Nil –
(14) Programme-wise student teacher ratio : 40:1
(15) Number of academic support staff (Technical) and administrative staff :
Sanctioned Filled Actual
Technical 1 - -
Administrative 4 4 4
(16) Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies:
Area Funding agencies
Networking UGC
Library management atomization IQAC, Sau. Uni.
.
(17) Number of faculty with on going projects from (a) national (b) international funding
agencies and (c) total grants received. Give the name of funding agencies, project
titles and grants received project wise:
Name of investigator Title of project Funding agency Grant received
Dr. CK Kumbharana Library information
sharing with hand held
device (i.e. mobile) by
the users
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot
40000=00
Dr. AM Gonsai Rate Control Protocol
(RCP) Performance,
Testing and Tuning on
Wireless Networks
UGC, Delhi
Major Research
Project
1156000=00
(18) Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received : - Nil –
(19) The departmental projects funded by DST – FIST ; UGC – SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT,
ICSSR, AICTE etc; total grant received:
(20) Research facility/center with : - Nil –
(21) Special research laboratories sponsored by/created by industry or corporate bodies :
- Nil –
(22) Publications:
Number of paper published in peer reviewed journals (national /inter.) : 20
Monographs : - Nil –
Chapters in books : 1
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Edited books : 2
Book with ISBN with details of publishers : 1
Numbers listed in international database (for example web of science, scopus, humanities international complete, dare database – international social science
directory, EBSCO host etc.) : - Nil –
Citation index – range – average : - Nil –
SNIP : - Nil -
SJR : - Nil –
Impact factor – range /average : - Nil –
H-index : - Nil – (23) Details of patents and income generated : - Nil –
(24) Area of consultancy and income generated : - Nil –
(25) Faculty selected nationally/internationally to visit other laboratories/institutions/
industries in India and Abroad : Dr. AM Gonsai visited Laboratories of University of
Lincoln UK.
(26) Faculty serving in
(a) National committees : - Nil -
(b) International committees : - Nil -
(c) Editorial boards : Dr. CK Kumbharana in (1) Prajna published by
SP University, VV Nagar (2) journal for
applied science, published by Saurashtra
University, Rajkot.
(d) Any other please specify : - Nil –
(27) Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, refreshers/orientation program, workshop,
training programs and similar programs)
Faculties participate in refresher course, orientation program, workshop and FDP.
(28) Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in house projects including inter
department projects : 100%
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other university/industries/institutes : 100 %
(29) Awards/recognition received at the national and international level by
Faculty : UGC associate fellowship (By Dr. AM Gonsai)
Doctoral/post doctoral fellow : - Nil –
Students : - Nil –
(30) Seminar/conference/workshops organized and the source of funding
(national/international) with details of outstanding participant if any.
Sr
no
Type Date Theme Sponsored No of
parti
1 STTP by Dr CK
Kumbharana
28,29,30-
01-2010
Advanced CPP UGC 30
2 STTP by Dr. CK
Kumbharana
28,29,30-
01-2011
Core Java UGC 30
3 One day National level
seminar on ―development
of Web application using
25-03-2012 Web based
application
Department of
Computer
Science and
171
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Java and .NET‖ Grant from Saurashtra
University
4 one day workshop on
―Pre-interview
preparation‖
19-09-2013 Pre interview
preparation
CCDC & CCC
(UGC) initiated
by Department
of Computer
Science &
Department of
Electronics,
Saurashtra
University
(31) Code of ethics for research fellow by the department : As per university rules
(32) Student profile program wise
Name of
programme
Applications received Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
2009-2010
MCA Admission by GTU 36 21 - -
M.Sc. (IT & CA) Admission by SUCAB 39 31 - -
2010-2011
MCA Admission by GTU 34 24 - -
M.Sc. (IT & CA) Admission by SUCAB 33 37 - -
Ph.D. - 5 2 - -
2011-2012
MCA Admission by GTU 33 27 - -
M.Sc. (IT & CA) Admission by SUCAB 38 32 - -
Ph.D. - 7 2 - -
2012-2013
MCA Admission by GTU 30 28 - -
M.Sc. (IT & CA) Admission by SUCAB 32 40 - -
Ph.D. - 4 - - -
(33) Diversity of students
Name of the
programme
% of students
from the same
university
% of students
from other
university
within the state
% of students
from
universities out
side the state
% of students
from other
countries
MCA 96 4 - -
M.Sc (IT & CA) 96 4 - -
(34) How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise :
- Nil –
(35) Student progression
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Student progression % against enrolled
UG to PG NA
PG to M.Phil NA
PG to Ph.D. 14
Ph.D. to post doctrol NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus
recruitment
67%
37%
Entrepreneurs - Nil -
(36) Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same university 07
from other universities within the State - Nil -
from universities from other States - Nil -
from universities outside the country - Nil -
(37) Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period : - Nil –
(38) Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
Library 01
Internet facility for staff and students Full time for entire day (wi-fi + ernet)
Total no of class rooms 03+01
Class room with ICT facilities 03+01
Students laboratories 05
Research laboratories 01
(39) List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
(a) from the host institution/university
1 Gonsai Atulgiri M
2 Kathiriya Dhaval R
3 Radadiya Bankimchandra L
4 Thumar Satish G
5 Mehta Mihir J
6 Kanabar Chandresh M
7 Kumbharana Chandresh K
8 Maruti Penubothu
9 Ghodasara Yogesh R
10 Joshi Hiren
11 Bhadaka Harshad
12 Parikh Satyen
13 Binod Kumar
14 Lakhtaria Kamaljit I.
15 Anand Kumar
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(b) From other institutions/universities
- Nil –
(40) Number of post graduate/research students getting financial assistance from the
university/other agencies. :
Sr no Year No of students Amount
1 2009-2010 14 116860=00
2 2010-2011 16 269730=00
3 2011-2012 25 466810=00
4 2012-2013 34 891707=00
(41) Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. : - Nil –
(42) Does the department obtain feedback from
(a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback?
Yes - feedbacks are obtained from the faculties regarding curriculum as well
as teaching-learning evaluation during staff counsel meetings. on the basis of
the feedback, required amendments are done in curriculum and teaching and
learning evaluation patterns.
(b) Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback? \
Every six month the student feed back is taken and analyses through the
software and necessary improvement/implementation action is taken by the
department.
(c) Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Alumni are in regular communication for the up gradation required in all
sections of the department. officially Alumni are invited in Alumni function
where department interacts with Alumni for necessary feedbacks.
(43) List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
Sr No Name Working place
1 Dr. CK Kumbharana Dept of Computer Science, Sau Uni, Rajkot
2 Dr. AM Gonsai Dept of Computer Science, Sau Uni, Rajkot
3 Sheetal Rakangor Dept of Computer Science, Sau Uni, Rajkot
4 KK Karia Dept of Computer Science, Sau Uni, Rajkot
5 Hardik Dangar Sphere rays, Rajkot
6 Umesh Chauhan Searce Co-souring pvt ltd., Puna
7 Devang Raval App guru‘s, Rajkot
8 Hetal Thakker AITS, Rajkot
9 Raval Ravi Rajkot
10 Nitin V chavda Logistic Rajkot
11 Rajan Ramani Logistic Rajkot
12 Swati Delavadiya App guru‘s, Rajkot
13 Sweta Kakkad App guru‘s, Rajkot
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(44) Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts.
Department invites the expert from industries as well as from renowned institute to
aware the students regarding the current trend of IT industries.
(45) List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Many innovative applications are done by faculties like:
Teaching is made more easier and and understandable by using various animated softwares and videos. For each topic covered students are given information of
current application in market rather than only book material.
Presentation on particular subject is to be given on projector.
Last 10 mins of each lecture is used for discussion to improve interaction and solving doubts.
Viva are taken in each practical to make students study on regular basis.
Assignments
Students
Use moodles for students.
These small applications in daily practice has improved learning to great extent.
Impact can be visualized from their day to day improvement in performance and end
results.
(46) How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
The university has stated learning outcomes mentioned in its vision
They are made aware to all the faculty, staff and students through,
The printed posters are on the different places of department
Eventually all the students and faculty members are updated regarding all the
achievements and performance of the department.
Faculties are encouraged to attend advanced training program.
Industrial visits are arranged for the students.
(47) Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
- Nil -
(48) Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department.
Students are motivated to do the project in different area which will give the
awareness to them about the latest trends and updates of the IT industries.
(49) State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If
yes, give details.
- Yes
(50) Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied.
Students are motivated to do the project in different area which will give the
awareness to them about the latest trends and updates of the IT industries.
(51) Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the department.
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Strengths:
Department is a part of State University..
Department have a very good infrastructure facilities including campus,
laboratories, research facilities and human resources.
Department provides unlimited scopes of exposure in research area to both students and faculties.
Weaknesses:
Since department is a part of state university it follows government's rules and regulations in sanctioning of certain expenditures and clearance of certain
documents which delays completion of tasks
Opportunities and challenges:
Department have a good infrastructure facility with human resources but due to lack of strong bonds with industry proper exposure and absorption of students is
challenging.
(52) Future plans of the department.
Recently the department has implemented the paper less internal examination test.
Computerizations
Computerization of student activities, students records, financial records, faculty details and other administrative records.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1 Name of the Department: Department of Philosophy
2 Year of Establishment: 1999
3 Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ? Yes
4 Names of Programmes offered: M.A, M. Phil. , Ph. D.
5 Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: None
6 Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign
institutions etc. None
7 Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: None
8 Examination system: Semester with Choice Based Credit System
9 Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other
Departments: M.S.W.
10 Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual
(Professors/Associate Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor - - -
Associate Professor 01 01 01
Assistant Professor 01 - -
Others - - -
11 Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of
Specialization, expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of years
of
experience
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
1Dr. S.S.Sharma/ NET. Ph. D./Head-Associate Professor Mathematic logic
/25 / 4
12 List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
Dr. C. B. Vadher
Dr. P. V. Barasiya
Dr. J. B. Patel
Prof. D. V. Chavda
13 Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise
information: NIL
14 Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: 15:1
15 Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual: None
16 Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: None
17 Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International
funding agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding
agencies, project title and grants received project-wise : None
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18 Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: NIL
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19 Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received:
20 Research facility/centre with: Nil
State recognition
National recognition
International recognition
21 Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: NIL
22 Publications: Nil
23 Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24 Areas of consultancy and income generated: NIL
25 Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NIL
26 Faculty serving in: Nil
• a) National committee : Nil
• b) International committee: NIL
• c) Editorial boards: NIL
• d) Any other (Please specify)
27 Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation
programmes, workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):Nil
28 Student projects: Nil
• Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
interdepartmental projects:
• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other
University/industry/institute :
29 Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by : Nil
30 Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
Two National Seminars
31 Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
Anti - Pegriasms , objectivity Redivism
32 Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
P.G. 30 25 95%
M. Phil. 19 12 96 %
Ph. D. 5 2 100 %
• Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M.A. 85% 18% 0 0
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M. Phil. 90% 10% 0 0
Ph. D. 90 10% 0 0
34 How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ?
Give details category-wise.
35 Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG
PG to M. Phil. 25%
PG to Ph. D. 20%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral
Employed
• Campus selection
• Other than campus recruitment
Other than campus recuriment
Entrepreneurs:
Vipul Kagathara: CFL manufacturing
36 Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 100 %
From other universities within state -
From universities from other states -
From universities outside the country -
37 Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: NIL
38 Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: 3000 Books, Journals, Magazines.
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Nil
c) Total number of class-rooms: Two
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: Nil
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Nil
f) Research Laboratories: Nil
39 List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates: Nil
40 Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University:
41 Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of
new programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
Through, Bord of studies, the programmes, are framed.
42 Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, it is put before bord or studies
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
It is discussed in staff council.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ? Nil
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43 List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
(1) Dr. Garchanda Balu.
(2) Dr. Harsha H. Solanki (NRI)
(3) Dr. Manisha Gajare (Lawyer, Lecturer)
(4) Dr. Anil Desai (Lecturer)
(5) Dr. Hiren Domadiya (Lecturer)
(6) Dr. Ashwin Garala (Lecturer)
(7) Dr. Jayshree Pandit (Lecturer)
(8) Dr. J. B. Patel (Lecturer)
44 Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts: Nil
45 List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different
programmes
(I) Direct classroom teaching.
(II) Group discussion
(III) OHP.
(IV) Multi - media projector.
(V) Hand outs.
46 How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly
met and learning outcomes are monitored ?
By the method of continuos evaluation including student presentations, the
programme objectives are ensured and learning outcomes are monitered.
47 Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Nil
48 Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the
Department General group meetings and discussions on yoga, sprituality
and their application to society.
49 State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by
other agencies ? If yes, give details. Nil
50 Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
Through Ph. D. and M. Phil. Programmes, the department generales
naw knowledge in the field of classical and contemporary Indian
philosopher.
51 Detail five major Strenghts, Weaknesses, Oppotinities and Challenges
(SWOC) of the Department
Strength. Weakness
(i) Interdiscplinary research (i) Shortage of Regular Teaching
staff
(ii) Library with excellent collection (ii) Absense of Regular non Teaching
staff.
(iii) Innovation in National level (iii) No permanent building of the
department. Exams. (Five net one UGC - JRF
cum ICPRJRF (Chavda Devangi)
(iv) Multi - dimensional syllabai. (iv) Leak of infrastruc.
(v) 90% Replacement in Education (v) Constrains of fundings and
field. grants.
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Opportunities.
(i) To develop a concrete multi - demensional research programmes
with philosophy of physics and cosmology.
(ii) To articulate and design syllabai for bussness and applied
Ethics.
(iii) To innovate majar research projects in the collaboration of
learned visiting faculties.
(iv) To undertake an inter - departmental research programme with
MSW Department.
(v) To offer different certificate courses as well as regular course
on applied philosophy.
Challenges (SWOC) of department.
(i) To provide the basic concrete knowledge of physics and mathematics.
(ii) To overcome the linguistic constrains in teaching and research.
(iii) To establish a connection with industries for the development of code of
conduct
(iv) To increase the atmosphere of Sanskrit knowledge.
(v) To initate the research in cursunt social and spiritual dimension.
52 Future plans of the Department
(i) To provide a serious dimension and quidance for civil service and other
examination.
(ii) To initiate and general the philosophical research in audiology and undertake
a research programme in the foundation of Indian culture in the light of the
discoveries at the places like Dholavira and Khirasara.
(iii) To start a interdisciplinary journal.
(iv) To Promote and staff the stady of manuscribtology.
(v) To promote and create the atmosphere of social accountabillity of applied
research with MSW department.
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Evaluation Report of Department
1. Name of the Department:- Department of Physical Education
2. Year of Establishment: 2006
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes
School of Physical Education.
4. Names of Programmes offered: M.P.Ed., M. Phil. , Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: 2 students Doing Ph.
D.1.Dr.Arjunsinh and Mr.Hardevsinh.
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.-
Yes Mou with Swarnim Gujarat Sports University.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons:-Nil
8. Examination system: Choice Base Credit System (CBCS)
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:-Students
in open electives by other departments under CBCS.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled
Professor 0 0
Associate Professor 0 0
Assistant Professor 4 4
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualificati
on
Designatio
n
Specialization No. of
years of
experien
ce
No. of Ph.
D.students.
Dr. V.S.
Vankani
MPEd.,
MPhil.,
PhD.
Assistant
Professor
Football,Hoickey,
Sem-3,phy.edu.&
sports leb,sem.1
health education
5 Nil
Mr.M.D.
Bhatt
MPEd.,
MPhil.
Assistant
Professor
Handball,Basketball,s
em.3-Exercise
Physiology,sem-1-
Phylosophycal
foundation of
Phy.Edu.
9.5 Nil
Mr.B.H.
Kantesati
MPED.,
MPhil.
Assistant
Professor
Handball,Vollyball,se
m-1 Research in
2 Nil
380
ya Phy.Edu.sem-3 sci.pri. of Tra.&
coaching
Miss.S.N
.
Dave
MPEd.,
MPhil.
Assistant
Professor
Cricket,sem-1.yoga
& nataropathi,sem-3
phy.fitness &
wellness
3 Nil
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor :Dr.M.S.Charan &
Dr. Bhavnaben Khoyani, Dr.M.P.Trada, Dr.J.K. Savaliya, Dr.P.M.kasundra,
Dr.B.K.Joshi, Dr.Amit Godhani, Mr.R.J.Bhatt,
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: Yes
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: PG 7(Students):1(Lecturer),M. Phil. 2:1,Ph.
D.-5:1
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled
Clark 1 1
Pean(Sathibhai) 1 1
Ground man 1 1
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: Nil
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise :- Nil
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:- Nil
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received:
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition – Department of Physical Education,MPED,MPhil.,Ph. D.
National Recognition
International Recognition …………………….Nil
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
Nil
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals:-12
Monographs :-Nil
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Chapter in Books :-1
Edited books :-NIl
Books with ISBN with details of publishers :-9
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
---Na------
23. Details of patents and income generated: Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:
Yes
26. Faculty serving in:
h) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other
(please specify) Yes
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes): Yes 4
28. Student projects: Persantage of student who have done in University Intercollage,
Tournaments(softball girls ,powerlifting, Athletics,Gymnastics, Archry,rifal
shuting,Handball, Basketball) 100% for al semester students.
2.-Persentage of students doing tournaments in colobreation with other institution
(khel mahakumbh, Saptdhara) 100% students.
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :Yes
No Name Awards State/Inter
Collage
National/In
ter
University
International
Depatment of Physical Education
1
MPEd.Softba
ll Team
Softball Champion
Ship 2013-14
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
4 Student
participated
inter
University
Nil
2 MPEd.Softba
ll Team
Softball
Championship 2009-
10
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
4 Student
participated
inter
382
University
3 MPEd.Handb
all Team
Handball Runners
Ups 2009-10
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
3 Student
participated
inter
University
4 MPED.Hand
ball Team
Handball Runners
Ups 2010-11
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
3 Student
participated
inter
University
5 MPED.Hand
ball Team
Handball Runners
Ups
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
3 Student
participated
inter
University
6 MPEd.Handb
all Team
Handball Runners
Ups
Saurashtra
Uni.Inter collage
3 Student
participated
inter
University
7 Mped.Athleti
cs Team
Genaral
Champianship
Sau.Uni.Inter
Coll.
Faculty
1 Dr.V.S.Vank
ani
Football Prticipated
2 Dr.V.S.Vank
ani
Throwbal 2- national 1-International
Participated
3 Mr.M.D.Bhat
t
Handball Silver 1-National & 2-Inter
Uni.Participeted
4 Mr.M.D.Bhat
t
Basketball Gold 1-Inter
Uni.Participated
5 Mr.M.D.Bhat
t
Cricket( as a
Coach)
As a Coach in
Singapor,
Malesiya,Srilanka
6 Mr.B.H.Kant
esarya
Handball 1-Inter
Uni.Participated
7 Mr.B.H.Kant
esarya
Football 1-Inter
Uni.Participated
8 Miss. Sweta
Dave
Cricket 2-Inter
Uni.Participated
9 Miss. Sweta
Dave
Cricket Ranji Trophy
Students
1 Miss.Vala Shilpa 3-Time
Champio
nship in
Vollyball
Gold
3-Inter University
West Zone
Volleyball
International
2 Miss.Vala Nita
Champio
Gold Inter University
West Zone
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nship in Vollyball
3 Miss.Kambaliya Alka Champia
nship in
Yoga
Gold All India Inter
University
4 Loan
Tennis
5 Miss.Vaghela Rakha Champia
nship in
Yoga
Gold International Yoga
Competition
6 MissBaldha Dimpal High
Jump
Champio
nship
Gold National Athletics
7 Miss.Bhesaniya Gaytri Cross
Cantri
Champio
nship
Gold Inter Uni.cross
contri participated
8 Miss.Bhesaniya Gaytri 10
Thound
mtr.Run
Champio
nship
Gold All India Inter
University
9 Miss.Bhesaniya Gaytri 5
Thousand
mtr.Run
Champio
nship
Gold All India Inter
University
10 Miss.Bhesaniya Gaytri Girnar
Run.
Champio
nship
Gold National Girnar
Competition
11 Miss.Damor Nila Champio
nship in
Archry
Gold All India Inter
University
12 Miss.Pandavadra Pravina Judo
Champio
nship
Gold All india Int.Uni.
13 Miss.Patel Mayury Judo
Champio
nship
Gold All India Int.Uni.
14 Miss.Chotaliya Pallvi Basketbal
l
Participated
15 Miss.Chauhan Hany Cricket Participated
16 Miss.Dadhaniya Dhara Basketbal
l
Participated
17 Miss.Jethva Shivani Valleybal
l
Participated
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18 Miss.Mandaviya Ankita Cricket Participated
19 Miss.Thumar Rina Girnar
Run.Cha
mpionshi
p
Gold National Girnar
20 Mr.Jadeja Mahipal Champio
nship in
Handball
Gold National School
Games
21 Mr.Raba Bhavesh Champio
nship in
Handball
Gold National School
Games
22 Mr.Vahuniya kevin Champio
nship in
Archry
Gold All India Inter
University
23 Mr.Kalola Manan Champio
ns in
Softball
Gold Inter University
24 Mr.Bhayani Vimal Kho-Kho Inter Uni.
participated
25 Mr.Gohil Akash Football Participated
26 Mr.Luvelian Pinto Football Participated
27 Mr.Monal Athletics
(100
mtr.Run)
Gold Participated
28 Mr.Fefar Shailesh Kabddi Participated
29 Mr.Makavana Keyur Handball Participated
30 Mr.parmar Bharat Handball Participated
31 Mr.Makvana Gaurav Basketbal Participated
32 Mr.Garala Jitendra Vollyball Participated
33 Mr.Ribadiya Bhaskar Kabaddi Participated
34 Mr.Makavana Dhaval Basketbal
l
Participated
35 Mr.Bhojani Zenish Athetics(
110mts
Hurdals)
Gold Participated
36 Mr.Javiya Moulik Softball Participated
37 Mr.Majgul Hasan Kabaddi Prticipate
d
38 Mr.Barad Rahul Kabaddi Participated
39 Mr.Mansury Tofik Softball Participated
40 Mr.Nimavat Jignesh Handball Participated
41 Mr.Patel Jayesh Hockey Participated
42 Mr.Patel Jyesh Softball Participated
43 Mr.Rathod Bhagirath Volleybal
l
Participated
44 Mr.Bharvad Jignesh Hockey Participated
45 Mr.Bhaliya Hasam Kabaddi Participated
46 Mr.Bhaliya Samir Kabddi Participated
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47 Mr.Siruka Jagdish Basketball
Participated
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops/Sports Competition organized and the source of
funding (National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:Yes
No. Name of Competition Organized
1 Softball Girls Inter collage
2 Weight Lifting Inter collage
3 Rifal Shootinh Inter collage
4 Handball Inter collage
5 Basketball Inter collage
6 Jodo inter collage
7 Kusti Inter collage
8 Gymnastics inter collage
9 Saptdhara Gujarat State
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments: Nil
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.P. Ed. 53(2009-10) 26 2 100 100
M.P. Ed. 51(2010-11) 20 7 100 100
M.P. Ed. 35(2011-12) 11 5 99 100
M.P. Ed. 34(2012-13) 13 2 100 100
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M.P. Ed. 80 15 5 0
M.P. Ed. 85 10 5 0
M.P. Ed. 90 5 5 0
M.P. Ed. 90 5 5 0
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services :-Yes
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details
category-wise. :Yes
No. Name of Students Name of Exam Category
1 Mr.Bhaliya Hasam SET SC
2 Miss.Hansa SET SC
3 Miss.Vala Hansa SET OBC
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4 Mr.Vala Sandeep NET OBC
5 Mr.Ronak NET OPEN
6 Mr.Kumarkhaniya Sanjay NET OBC
7 Mr.Kalola Manan SET OPEN
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG yes
PG to M. Phil. Yes
PG to Ph. D. Yes
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
Yes 70 %
Entrepreneurs:
VipulKagathara: CFL manufacturing
Nil
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 2
From other universities within state 2
From universities from other states Nil
From universities outside the country Nil
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:Mphil-2,Ph. D.-1
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library ----Yes
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
c) Total number of class-rooms: Yes 4
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: -Yes
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Yes
f) Research Laboratories: Yes
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
Yes
No. Name of Ph. D.Students Cetegary
1 Dr.M.S.Charan OBC
2 Dr.V.S.Vankani OBC
3 Dr.Punit Teraya OBC
4 Dr.Shailesh Bhtani OPEN
5 Dr.Mandip.J.Barad OBC
6 Dr.Navin Kanani OPEN
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40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University
:Yes
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.:-Yes B.P. Ed. Programme
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback --Yes
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ? Yes
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ? Yes
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10): Yes
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:--yes
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes---Prectical
coaching & Thiory.-yes
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored? Yes
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Yes
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department Yes
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies ? If
yes, give details.----Yes
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied-------------Yes
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the Department --------------
Strength Weakness Opportunities Challenges
1.The faculty actively
Publish several
research papers in
various National and
International reputed
Journal during this
short span of time.
1.More faculty in
specialized are
could help us
create additional
credit courses for
students.
1. The department
can avail of the
central
Instrumentation
facility to better
enhance both
Doctoral programs
effectively
1.The biggest
challenge is the
motivation of
students towards
higher education
2.The Department has
signed national Mou
with Svarnim Gujarat
Sports University
which will chance
better exposure to our
2.Laboratories do
not meet the
standard and level
of requirement for
PG program
2.The Department
with the signing of
an Mou with
Swarnim Gujarat
Sports University
to work on joint
2.The number of
students on an
average is 14
despite an intake
capacity of 25, so
attracting more
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students carrying out higher studies.
research ventures with them.
applicants is a basic challenge
3.The Department has
conduct many major
program like Youth
festival and inter
college
tournaments,saptdhara
3.More advanced
equipment are
needed for
carrying the
research program
smoothly
3.The peacefull
environment of the
University is
conductive for
carrying oyt
academic activities
smoothly.
3.The remote
location of the
University
restricts and limits
better and more
efficient adequate
infrastuctural
4.Department can take
lead in the
development of
sports, Games,
Physiology lab.
4.Attracting
experts from other
renowed
institution is
difficult because
of the remote
location of the
University.
4.Since the scope
for getting seats is
higher here due to
the inadequacy of
applicants from the
state, the
anticipation of the
entry of more
young scientists
has tremendous
viability.
4.The standard
understanding of
sciences is still
rather frail which
gives tremendous
opening for a
wider scope
especially in
Physical
Education
5.The Department
wants signed an
Internationational
MoU which will
enhance better
exposure to our
students carrying out
higher studies
5.The state‘s
educational
system still has a
long way to go in
linking and
coorelating with
the basic need to
bridge the gap
from B.Ed to
M.P.Ed.
5.As a young
University the
scope for future
research projects is
rich
5.Lace of
proficiency in
English, which is
the teaching
medium, is a key
challenge that
faces teachers.
52. Future plans of the Department :_M.Phil New course Running 2013-14, BPEd 2014-1
List of Publications
2010 to 2013
Number of paper published in peer reviewed journals (national/international) :Total
19(Ninteen)
1. Vankani.V.S.,ISSN.No.-2229-3477,Sports psychology, p.no.82, Journal of
psychology for learning and research,Gujarat Manovigyan Darshan.
2. Vankani V.S.ISSN No.0975-7732,Asian Journal pf Physical Education &
Computer Science in Sports. A Comparative Study on effect of plyometric
training on strength and edurance of abdominal muscles,leg strength, Thigh Girth
and calf girth p.no.36
3. Vankani V.S.ISSN no.0976-4704, Effect of one year sports education curriculum
training on athletics abilities,Journal of Advances in Developmental
Research,p.no.199-201.
4. Vankani V.S.ISSN no.0976-4704, Personality Differences Between Inter-
collegiate level kabaddi and vallyball players. Journal of Advances in
Developmental Research,p.no.266-267.
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5. Bhatt M.D. A Goodnight sleep may be the best protection against a
pandemic,Gujarat Manovigyan Darshan , Journal of Psychology for Learning and
Reacherch ISSN No.:-2229-3477, Page No.96.
6. Bhatt M.D.Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam India Vision 2020,Hesma AResearch Journal of
Health Education Social Science Medical & all Objective Subjects. ISSN No.:-
2319-5959, Page No.38-39.
7. Bhatt M.D.Yoga & Weight Management , Ramat Jagat ISSN No.:-2250-
1428,page no.44
8. Bhatt M.D.Career Profile-Sports Psychology,Journal of Psychology for Learning
and Research, Gujarat Manovigyan Darshan,ISSN No.-2229-3477, Page No.-80
9. Bhatt M.D.Stress Coping Strategies,Shodh Sangam,International Research Journal
of Physical Education sports and Allied science,ISSN No.-2249-717X.
Chapter in Books:-1
Bhatt M.D.Value of life,Human Being : Suicide-Value- Rights, Ashok Prakashan
Mandir. Page No.-173.
10. Kantesariya B.H.,ISSN No.2250-1428,Ramat Jagat, Adhunik yugme yogka
prabhav, p.no.10.
11. Kantesariya B.H.,ISSN No.2319-5959,Hesma, Effect of curriculum Handball
Training on Strangth, p.no.19-20.
12. Kantesariya B.H.,ISSN No.2319-5959, Efect of Playometric Training Program on
componat of fitness and anthropometrical veriabals.p.no.17-18
13. Kantesariya B.H.,ISSN No.2319-5959, Valu through sports and physical education
p.no.13.
Book Publication with ISBN:-Total 9(Nine)
1. Bhatt M.D.ISBN :-978-93-82712-38-1, Horse Riding & Shotgun Rules,Ashok
Prakashan Mandir,Navbharat Sahitya Mandir
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Evaluation Report of Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
2. Year of Establishment: 2006
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University?
Yes - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is run by University Under the Faculty
of Pharmacy
4. Names of Programmes offered:
Post graduate/professional programmes:
Herbal drug and technology
Pharmaceutics
Quality assurance
Drug Regulatory affairs
Pharmacology
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Research Programmes:
Ph.D.
M.Phil. in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Certificate Programmes: Certificate Course in Dialysis Techniques (CCDT)
Other value added programmes:
Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research (PGDCR)
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: Yes
CCDT: Inter-institutional program run in collaboration with B. T. Savani Kidney
Hospital, Rajkot.
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
No courses are run in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign
institutions, etc.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons:
No programmes are discontinued till date.
8. Examination system:
Choice based Credit System is followed; Semester system
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
Our faculties are taking lectures in Biochemistry department.
391
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS & MPS)
Professor 1 1 1
Associate Professor 4 1 1
Assistant Professor 08 05 05
Others 04 04 04
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization, expertise
and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of years
of
experience
No. of
Ph.D./
M.Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. Navin
Sheth
M. Pharm.,
Ph.D., LLB,
PGDBM
Professor and
Head
P‘ Cognosy 32 yrs M.
Pharm.
2010 (2)
2011 (3)
2012 (5)
2013 (2)
Ph.D.
2009 (1)
2010 (1)
2011(4)
2012(2)
2013(2)
Dr. Ashvin
Dudhrejiya
M. Pharm.,
Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor
P‘ Cognosy 8.5 yrs M.
Pharm:
2010 (4)
2011 (4)
2012 (6)
2013 (8)
Dr. Mihir
Raval
M. Pharm.,
Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor
P‘ ceutics 8 yrs M.
Pharm:
2010 (4)
2011 (7)
2012 (5)
2013 (6)
Dr. Sachin
Parmar
M. Pharm.,
Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor
P‘ cology 7.5 yrs M.
Pharm:
2010 (3)
2011 (4)
2012 (5)
2013 (4)
Dr. Paresh M. Sc., Ph.D. Associate M.Sc. 39 yrs M.
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Purohit Professor Microbiology Pharm: 2013 (6)
Dr. Gaurang
Sanghvi
M. Sc., Ph.D. Assistant
Professor
M.Sc.
Microbiology
2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2012 (4)
2013 (2)
Mrs. Payal
N. Bhalodia
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ cology 5.5 yrs M.
Pharm:
2012 (6)
2013 (3)
Mr.
Devendra
Vaisnav
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ ceutical
Biotechnology
4 yrs M.
Pharm:
2011 (5)
2012 (3)
2013 (6)
Mr. Kashyap
Thummar
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
Quality
Assurance
2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2012 (7)
2013 (6)
Mr. Sameer
Rabadiya
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ cology 2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2012 (3)
2013 (2)
Mr. Kalpesh
Gajera
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ cology 3 yrs M.
Pharm:
2012 (2)
2013 (2)
Ms. Aashka
Jani
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
Quality
Assurance
2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2013 (5)
Ms. Priya
Patel
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ ceutics 2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2013 (2)
Ms. Krishna
Koradiya
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
P‘ ceutics 2 yrs M.
Pharm:
2013 (2)
Ms. Heena
Bagada
M. Pharm Assistant
Professor
Quality
Assurance
1.5 yrs M.
Pharm:
2013 (4)
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
1. Dr. S. Y. Gabhe: Visiting fellow
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
M. Pharm (Pharmaceutics) and PGDCR: 10%
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14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
Sr No Name of Program Student teacher ratio
1 Herbal drug technology 2:2
2 Pharmaceutics 36:3
3 Quality Assurance 36:3
4 Pharmacology 22:4
5 Regulatory Affairs 36:3
6 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Academic support staff (technical):
05 04 04
Administrative staff:
07 04 04
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
New drug delivery system, nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Phytochemistry,
Phytomedicine, Analytical Method development and validation, Stability study, etc.
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project title
and grants received project-wise
a) National: 07
b) International: 00
c) Total Grant Received: Rs. 257.98 lacs
Sr.
No Name of PI
Granting
Agency Program/ Scheme
Grant
Year Status (in
Lacs)
1 Dr. M. K. Raval GUJCOST Major Research
Project 2 2012 Ongoing
2 Mr. D. J. Vaishnav Saurashtra
University
Seed Money
Project 0.4 2012 Ongoing
3
Dr. N. R. Sheth
UGC Special Assistance
Program 71.5 2011 Ongoing
Mr. M.K.Raval
4 Dr. N. R. Sheth MHRD Sakshat 6.75 2011 Ongoing
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5 Dr. N. R. Sheth GUJCOST
Minor Research
Project - Student
Sci-tech
0.2 2011 Ongoing
6 Dr. N. R. Sheth Saurashtra
University
To make World
class university by
infrastructure and
research.
40 2011 Ongoing
7 Dr. N. R. Sheth Saurashtra
University CCDT Course 50 2011 Ongoing
8 Mr. M. R. Dabhi GUJCOST
Minor Research
Project – Student
Sci-tech
0.1 2011 Ongoing
9 Mr. M. R. Dabhi GUJCOST
Minor Research
Project - Student
Sci-tech
0.2 2011 Ongoing
10 Mr. N. K. Patel UGC Minor Research
Project 1.9 2010 Ongoing
11 Dr. S. K. Parmar UGC
Innovative
Program-Teaching
& Research in
interdisciplinary
and emerging
areas.
52.99 2009 Ongoing
12
Dr. N. R. Sheth
UGC Major Research
Project. 3.29 2009 Ongoing
Mr. M. K. Raval
13 Mr. M. R. Dabhi UGC Minor Research
Project 1.7 2009 Ongoing
14 Mr. M. R. Dabhi GUJCOST Minor Research
Project 0.95 2009 Ongoing
15 Dr. S. K.Parmar
Dept. of
Higher Edu.
Govt. of
Gujarat
Assistance to start
new course at
department.
26 2008-
09 Ongoing
TOTAL AMOUNT Rs. 257.98
395
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:
(a) National collaboration
1. The Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar
2 Projects done in collaboration with GAU on epilepsy and diabetes
2. BAN laboratories Pvt. Ltd.: Project done on hepatotoxicity
(b) International collaboration
University of New Mexico, New Mexico: Dr. Sachin Parmar underwent 2 months
training program at New Mexico.
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICSSR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received:
Sr.
No
Granting
Agency Program/ Scheme
Grant
(in
Lacs)
Year Status Name of
PI
1 GUJCOST Major Research Project 2.0 2012 Ongoing Dr. M. K.
Raval
2 Saurashtra
University Seed Money Project 0.4 2012 Ongoing
Mr. D. J.
Vaishnav
3 UGC Special Assistance
Program 71.5 2011 Ongoing
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
Mr.
M.K.Raval
4 MHRD Sakshat 6.75 2011 Ongoing Dr. N. R.
Sheth
5 GUJCOST Minor Research Project -
Student Sci-tech 0.2 2011 Ongoing
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
6 Saurashtra
University
To make World class
university by
infrastructure and
research.
40 2011 Ongoing Dr. N. R.
Sheth
7 Saurashtra
University CCDT Course 50 2011 Ongoing
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
8 DST INSPIRE Internship
Program (Summer Camp) 13 2011 Comp.
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
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9 DST INSPIRE Internship Program(Winter Camp)
16.5 2011 Comp. Dr. A. Dudhrejiya
10 GUJCOST Minor Research Project –
Student Sci-tech 0.1 2011 Ongoing
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
11 GUJCOST Minor Research Project -
Student Sci-tech 0.2 2011 Ongoing
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
12 UGC Minor Research Project 1.9 2010 Ongoing Mr. N. K.
Patel
13 GUJCOST Minor Research Project 2.5 2010 Comp. Mr. C.
Shah
14 DST INSPIRE Internship
Program (Summer Camp) 13 2010 Comp.
Mr. V.
Ranpariya
15 Saurashtra
University
Seed money project for
young scientist 0.5 Comp. Comp.
Dr. S. K.
Parmar
16 UGC
Innovative Program-
Teaching & Research in
interdisciplinary and
emerging areas.
52.99 2009 Ongoing Dr. S. K.
Parmar
17
UGC
Major Research Project. 3.29 2009 Ongoing
Dr. N. R.
Sheth
Mr. M. K.
Raval
18 UGC Minor Research Project 1.7 2009 Ongoing Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
19 GUJCOST Minor Research Project 0.95 2009 Ongoing Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
20
Dept. of
Higher Edu.
Govt. of
Gujarat
Assistance to start new
course at department. 26
2008-
09 Ongoing
Dr. S.
K.Parmar
Total Amount Rs. 303.48/-
397
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition: Certificate Course in Dialysis Techniques, recognized and partially funded by State
Govt.
National Recognition:
Master of Pharmacy, recognized by All India Council of Technical Education
International Recognition: International Centre for Research Excellence - A collaborative venture of Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Saurashtra University, PDU Medical College, Rajkot
with Centre of Global Health, University of New Mexico, USA
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
Special Assistance program, University Grants Commission, New Delhi.
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals: 113
Monographs: NIL
Chapter in Books: 1
Edited books: 0
Books with ISBN with details of publishers: 3
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.): NIL
Citation Index – average: 1
SNIP: NIL
SJR: NIL
Impact Factor – range / average: 0.17
h-index : 10
23. Details of patents and income generated:
Sr.
No.
Year of
Registration
Detail of Patent
Registered
Name of
Patent holder
Scientist
Date of registration of
Patents
1 2010 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
Naringin as Permission
enhancer
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya &
Dr. N. R. Sheth
Provisional Patent
Application No:
2513/MUM/2010
Date:13/09/2010-
2 2010 Pharmaceutical
Preparation for
Haematological Disorder
Dr. Sanjay
Chauhan &
Dr. N. R. Sheth
Provisional Patent
Application No:
579/mum/2010
Date: 4/03/2010
3 2010 Pharmaceutical
Preparation for Asthma
Dr. Sanjay
Chauhan
&
Dr. N. R. Sheth
Provisional Patent
Application No:
580/mum/2010
Date: 4/03/2010
4 2011 Pharmaceutical Dr. A. V. Provisional Patent
398
preparation containing sunflower oil as a
permission enhancer
Dudhrejiya & Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
Application No: 1497/mum/2011
Date: 16/05/2011
5 2011 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
gum as binding agent
enhancer
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya &
Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Mr. M. R.
Dabhi
Provisional Patent
Application No:
1498/mum/2011
Date: 16/05/2011
6 2011 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
almond oil as a
permission enhancer
Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Provisional Patent
Application No:
1496/mum/2011
Date: 16/05/2011
7 2011 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
lavender oil as a
permission enhancer
Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Provisional Patent
Application No:
1499/mum/2011
Date: 16/05/2011
8 2011 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
Silymarin as Permission
enhancer
Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Provisional Patent
Application No:
1604/MUM/2011
Date:31/05/2011
9 2011 Pharmaceutical
preparation containing
isolated flavanoid as
Permission enhancer
Dr. N. R. Sheth
&
Dr. A. V.
Dudhrejiya
Provisional Patent
Application No:
1604/MUM/2011
Date:31/05/2011
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated:
Yes, the Department do the consultancy for many types of agencies like Academic,
Industry and other projects, the income is generated through consultancy Rs. 4, 57,950
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad:
Sr. No. Name of the
faculty
Date Purpose Place
1. Dr. N. R. Sheth 3/3/2013 Guest lecture on
Strategies towards
formulation
development and their
patent applicability
Shree H. N.
Shukla Institute
of
Pharmaceutical
Education and
Research,
Rajkot
399
2. Dr. N. R. Sheth 1-3 Nov., 2012 Invited lecture BIT‘s 3rd Annual World
Congress of
Nanomedicine-
2012, Shenzhen,
China.
3. Dr. N. R. Sheth 08-12 Nov.
2009
Poster presentation 2229 AAPS
Annual Meeting
& Exposition,
Loss Angeles
Convention
Center, Loss
Angeles (USA)
4. Dr. Sachin Parmar 24/07/2012 Science Club: Clinical
research: A
multidisciplinary
approach
Christ college,
Rajkot
5 Payal Bhalodia 16/2/13 Guest lecture for B.
Pharm students: Drug
interaction and
Therapeutic Drug
monitoring
School of
Pharmacy, RK
University
6 Dr. Sachin Parmar
09-07-2012 to
29-07-2012
UGC Sponsored
special summer school
-2012
Academic staff
college,
Saurashtra
University,
Rajkot
7 Mr. Samir
Rabadiya
3 days, April
2012
Modular course on
pharma vision
By ICMR
8 Dr. Ashvin
Dudhrejiya
23-09-2011 to
07-10-2011
Training program on
―cytotoxicity study of
some herbal
compounds on HCT15
and MCF-7 human
cancer cell line‖
IIIM, Jammu
9 Dr. Mahesh dabhi
23-09-2011 to
07-10-2011
Training program on
―cytotoxicity study of
some herbal
compounds on HCT15
and MCF-7 human
cancer cell line‖
IIIM, Jammu
10 Dr. Sachin Parmar
06-06-2011 to
27-07-2011
undertaking research
training
New Mexico
School of
Medicine,
Albuquerqu,
USA
400
26. Faculty serving in:
i) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other
(please specify)
Name of the
Teacher
Name of
the Position
Held
Name of the Organization Nature of the Organization
Academic/Government/Non-
Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Member Indian Society for Technical
Education, New Delhi No.
LM 5196
Non Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Member Indian Society for
Pharmacognosy No. 111
Non Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Member Akil Bhartiya Vanausadhi
Sansodhan Mandal,
Ahmedabad, No. 223
Non Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Member Indian Pharmaceutical
Association
No.GUJ/RJK/LM/0026
Non Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Member The Association of
Pharmaceutical Teachers of
India.No-GU/LM-168
Non Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Expert All India Council of
technical Education
Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Expert Gujarat Council of Science
and Technology
Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Expert Pharmacy Council of India Government
Dr. Navin
Sheth
Expert University Grants
Commission
Government
Dr. Sachin
Parmar
Member Indian Pharmacological
Society (IPS): Membership
number-LP159 dated
January 16, 2005
Non Government
Dr. Sachin
Parmar
Member Association of
Pharmaceutical Teachers in
India (APTI): Membership
number-GU/LM162 dated
March 22, 2007
Non Government
Dr. Sachin
Parmar
Member Life Member of Gujarat
Pharmacy Teachers
Association (GPTA)
Non Government
Dr. Sachin
Parmar
Member Life Member of Alumni
Association of Nagpur
University Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences
(NUDPS), Nagpur
Government
Dr. Mihir
Raval
Member Association of
Pharmaceutical Teachers in
Non Government
401
India (APTI): Membership number-GU/LM166
Dr Ashvin
V.
Dudhrejiya
General
Secretary
Indian Pharmaceutical
Association, Rajkot Branch
Non-Government & Professional
Samir O
Rabadiya
Member European Society of
Cardiology(ESC)
Non-government
Samir O
Rabadiya
Member Hypertension and heart-ESC Non-government
Samir O
Rabadiya
Member Acute Cardiovascular Care
Association - ESC
Non-government
Samir O
Rabadiya
Member European Association for
Cardiovascular Prevention
and Rehabilitation (EACPR)
- ESC
Non-government
Payal
Bhalodia
Member Indian Pharmacological
Society (IPS): Membership
number-LB216 dated
January 16, 2005
Non Government
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Academic Staff Development
Programmes
Number of faculty
Refresher courses 3
HRD programmes 2
Orientation programmes 0
Staff training conducted by the university 1
Staff training conducted by other
institutions
3
Summer / Winter schools, workshops, etc. 6
28. Student projects:
Yes, Projects for all students in all programmes (100%) in Final semester are
mandatory. Total 120 projects are carried out in 4 years.
List of External institutions associated with the University for carrying out students'
projects:
o CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad.
o Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar
o B. T. Savani Kidney Hospital, Rajkot
o Civil Hospital and PDU medical College, Rajkot
o Wochardt Hospital, Rajkot
o Private Medical Practitioners as per research project undertaken like Well Care
Hospital, Jagnath, Rajkot, etc.
o BAN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
o IIM, Jammu, Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar
o University of New Mexico, USA
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o Institute of Human Genetics, Ahmedabad
o Vasu Pharmaceuticals, Vadodara
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty:
Dr. Sachin Parmar is awarded with Guffic prize for best research paper entitled "Immunomodulatory activity of Neem leaf glycoproteins in Malaria" in oral
presentation at National Level Indian Pharmacological Society Conference - 2013.
Mrs. Payal N. Bhalodia's research work entitled Generation and validation of a
proficient ADR reporting form at two tertiary care hospitals setup was selected
among top 10 research papers for G. Achari prize session at IPSCON-12; national
level IPS organized at Nagpur in Jan'13.
Mrs. Payal N. Bhalodia's Research paper on pharmcovigilance was accepted for poster presentation in state level IPS conference 2013, Ahmedabad.
Dr. Mihir Raval presented poster at fourteenth International Workshop on Physical Characterization of Pharmaceutical Solids on June 12 at Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. A. V. Dudhrejiya's Research Paper was selected in top 20 papers at International conference NRCT-JSPS 2010 at Bangkok, by National Research
Council of Thailand (NRCT) & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Dr. Navin Sheth received Bharatiya Shiksha Ratna award by the Economics for
health and education growth society, New Delhi, for his service to the
pharmaceutical society in 2009. currently he is giving services as a resource person
for staff development programs.
Biography of Dr. Navin Sheth is published in international magazine who‘s who.
Students:
Mukesh Kher M. Pharm. student awarded best thesis and granted Rs. 5000/- from IQAC, Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
Karishma Gandhi Ranked first in Regional level Elocution competition arranged
by Indian Pharmaceutical Association. Dec. 2010
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding (National/
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
Type of
Programme
Year Title of the programme Expert
Workshop 23/02/13 Image post processing workshop Dhaval Vagiya,
Science
Communication,
(Alumni member)
Workshop 6,7/10/12 Patent-O-Mania --
INSPIRE
Internship Winter
camp
20-
24/11/11
INSPIRE Internship Winter camp --
Workshop 14/7/11 India‘s Prospects to becoming Drug
discovery and Pharmaceutical
innovation hub. Gol initiatives and
your role
--
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INSPIRE Summer camp
3-7/5/11 INSPIRE summer camp --
INSPIRE summer
camp
3-7/5/10 INSPIRE summer camp --
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
YES.
Committee for the purpose of control and supervision of experiments on
animals (CPCSEA)
Human Ethical Committee
Institutional Animal Ethical Committee
Policies and guidelines provided by Saurashtra University ethesis-A
Saurashtra University Library Services
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
2009
M. Pharm NA 23 23 100% 100%
Ph. D. NA 05 01 NA NA
PGDCR NA 11 03 100% 100%
CCDT NA NA NA NA NA
2010
M. Pharm NA 38 18 100% 100%
Ph. D. NA 04 01 NA NA
PGDCR NA 01 04 100% 100%
CCDT NA NA NA NA NA
2011
M. Pharm NA 51 14 100% 100%
Ph. D. NA 04 02 NA NA
PGDCR NA 00 05 100% 100%
CCDT NA 02 01 100% 100%
2012
M. Pharm NA 42 23 100% 100%
Ph. D. NA 16 10 NA NA
PGDCR NA 01 04 100% 100%
CCDT NA 03 02 100% 100%
2013
M. Pharm NA 20 18 100% 100%
Ph. D. NA 04 03 NA NA
PGDCR NA 00 03 100% 100%
CCDT NA 06 07 100% 100%
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33. Diversity of students: Last Year or Four Years
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from universities
outside the state
% of students
from other
countries
M. Pharm NA * 85% 15% 00
Ph. D. 65% 35% 00 00
PGDCR -- 100% 00 00
CCDT 40% 60% 00 00
* As B. Pharm. Course is affiliated to Gujarat Technical University only therefore students
are not enrolling through Saurashtra University.
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
GPAT: 32; GATE: 45; IELTS: 01
Year wise:
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG NA
PG to M.Phil. NA
PG to Ph.D. 10%
Ph.D. to Post-doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
82%
--
82%
Entrepreneurs: 08%
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 07
From other universities within state 07
From universities from other states 01
From universities outside the country 00
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:
Dr. Mihir Raval
Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya
Dr. Sachin Parmar 38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library
Sr. No. Facility Details
1 Books 1351
2 e-journals 26
3 Sci Finder Accessible
4 INFLIBNET Accessible to more than 5000 journals
5 Pharmacopeias 07
6 Computers 38 with internet access
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b) Internet facilities for staff and students: All faculties are provided with internet
facility provided from University and department also carries departmental internet
facilities available to staff and students.
c) Total number of class-rooms: 06
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 04
e) Students‘ Laboratories: 09
f) Research Laboratories: 05
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
Sr. No. Name of candidate Guide name Saurashtra
university
Other
University
1 Devendra vaishnav Dr. N. R. Sheth √
2 Koradia Krishna Dr. N. R. Sheth √
3 Modi jagruti Dr. N. R. Sheth √
4 Vishvas ranpariya Dr. N. R. Sheth √
5 Mahesh dabhi Dr. N. R. Sheth √
6 Sunnny shah Dr. N. R. Sheth √
7 Pratik upadhyay Dr. N. R. Sheth √
8 Dhiren joshi Dr. N. R. Sheth √
9 Punit bhatt Dr. N. R. Sheth √
10 Thummar kashyap Dr. N. R. Sheth √
11 Mehul Rana Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
12 Jayesh Hadia Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
13 Samir rabadiya Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
14 Jay tilala Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
15 Behzad Mohadessi Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
16 Falgun dhabaliya Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
17 Truptesh pethani Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
18 Vekaria dharmishtha Dr. Ashvin Dudhrejiya √
19 Tejas Sharma Dr. Sachin Parmar √
20 Rakesh Prajapati Dr. Sachin Parmar √
21 Vishal Airao Dr. Sachin Parmar √
22 Prashant Thoriya Dr. Sachin Parmar √
23 Vishal Patel Dr. Sachin Parmar √
24 Prakruti Buchch Dr. Sachin Parmar √
25 Payal Someshwar Dr. Sachin Parmar √
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University :
Best Thesis award given by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Saurashtra University to
student of Rs. 5000/-.
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
Staff council meetings of department discusses the issues and the issues are taken into
considerations in the meet.
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Course needs, Application point of view, innovative interdisciplinary/
multidisciplinary subjects are discussed and taken into consideration.
Number of students, qualification criteria and fee structure are the basic criteria
discussed and ruled out in the staff meetings.
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does
the department utilize the feedback.
Yes feedbacks are obtained from the faculties regarding curriculum as well as
teaching-learning evaluation during staff counselling meetings. on the basis of the
feedback, required amendments are done in curriculum and teaching and learning
evaluation patterns.
b) Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Yes, we take feedback from students on staff, curriculum and teaching – learning
evaluation.
Students feedback is collected in a standard format on staff, curriculum and
teaching-learning evaluation. feedback forms are analyzed and outcomes are
discussed with faculties in staff counsel meetings for the improvement.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the Department
utilize the feedback?
Yes. Alumni are in regular communication for the upgradation required in all
sections of the department. officially Alumni are invited in Alumni function where
department interacts with Alumni for necessary feedbacks.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
i. Dr. Hemant Koshia, Commissioner, Food and Drug Control Administration
(FDCA)
ii. Mrs. Arti Podar, Vice President, Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd., Ahmedabad.
iii. Ms. Jalpa Modi, Drug Inspector (FDCA), Jamnagar
iv. Mr. Chirag Khunt, Officer at Probiotic Pharma, Melbourne, Australia
v. Mr. Mori Dhavalkumar, Assistant Professor at B. K. Modi Govt. Pharmacy
College, Rajkot
vi. Bhatt Ashish, Director, Purple Remedies Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad.
vii. Parmar Ravi, Senior Officer, Claris Life Sciences, Ltd. Ahmedabad.
viii. Suthar Janakkumar, Pharmacist in Western Railway, Ahmedabad.
ix. Bhimani Kapil, Director, Leo Neutrascience, Ahmedabad.
x. Bhatia Lav, Assistant Chemist, IPCA laboratories Ltd., Pipariya, Silvasa.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:
List of Guest lectures
Year Guest Expert Designation Topic of lecture
14/03/13 Dr. Hitesh N.
Shukla
Deputy Chief
Manager,
Secretarial
Rajkot Nagarik
Sahakari Bank
Ltd., Rajkot
Banking Introduction of Nagarik
Shahkari Bank.
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27/02/13 K. V. R. Chary Professor, Dept. of chemical
sciences, Tata
Institute of
Fundamental
Research, Mumbai.
Rudiments of multi dimensional NMR
26/02/13 Dr. C. N. Patel Principal, Shri
Sarvajanik
Pharmacy College,
Mehsana
Advances in Analytical Techniques
27-
29/01/13
Dr. C. V. S.
Subramaniam
Principal, GRR
College of
Pharmacy,
Hyderabad
Lectures on Analytical Techniques
27/12/12 Dr. Vraj Rabadiya Apo ILC Pharma Current scenario in pharma regulatory
affairs
11/12/12 Prof. Ravi Sodha Pharmaco,
Switzerland
Current scenario in Pharmaceutical
Research
25/09/12 S. N. Umathe Prof. Nagpur
University
Principle of ethics in research
8/9/12 Mr. Mohit Satti Ass. Professor,
VVP, Rajkot
Communication skills development
20/08/12 Dr. R. K. Goyal Prof. NMIMS,
Mumbai.
How to solve problems in research
25-
27/6/12
Mr. Nilesh Patel Assi. Prof., B. K.
Mody Govt.
Pharmacy College,
Rajkot
Basics of Spectroscopy and Infrared
spectroscopy
Mr. Chetan
Borkhatariya
Assi. Prof., B. K.
Mody Govt.
Pharmacy College,
Rajkot
Particle Size analyzer
Mr. Ketan Patel Metrohm
Mr. Pranav Thakar Schimandzu Co. HPLC
Mr. Shyamal
Thakar
Spinco Biotech
29/4/12 Mr. Shrenik Shah
Mr. Jigal Patel
Director, Montage
Labs., Himatnagar
Learning and sharing event on
Regulatory Affairs
19/4/12 Mr. Madhukumar
Mehta
Chief Mentor- I
CREATE
I CREATE
Mrs. Parul Daffari MSME lead
Mr. Ayush
Agrawal
Students lead
19/4/12 Mr. Jaykant
Sanghvi
MD, Que Pharma,
Surendranagar
How to face interview
Mr. Parth Nair Personal HR, Que
Pharma,
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Surendranagar
Mr. Trilokbhai
Thakkar
Expert
20/3/12 Mr. Manish and
Mr. Chirag
Water corporation Recent advances on chromatography –
VPLC
8/1/12 Dr. Vallabhbhai
Kathiriya
Chairman, Gauseva
Ayog, Govt.
Gujarat
Perspective on Global health Research
29-
31/12/11
Dr. S. Y. Gabhe Chairman AICTE,
Pharmacy Study
Board
Introduction to spectroscopy
11/10/11 Dr. Cockrase Prof. Nagpur
University
Animal Experimentation
28/9/11 Dr. H.M. Tank Principal, V. B.
Manvar College of
Pharmacy,
Dumiyani
NDDS
25/9/11 Dr. Pranav Jogani Scientist F, Zudus
Cadila,
Ahmedabad
Guidance related to research projects
24/9/11 Dr. Chirag Shah BA research,
Ahmedabad
Schedule Y – Indian Regulation
20/9/11 Dr. J. K. Patel Principal, Nutan
Pharmacy College,
Visnagar
NDDS
17/9/11 Dr. S. S. Agrawal Vice chancellor,
DIPSAR, New
Delhi
Adulteration of tobacco in non-
tobacco products
8/7/11 Mr. C. H.
Khambhati
Water (I) Pvt. Ltd. Principles of Liquid chromatography
16/9/10 Dr. R. K. Parikh LMCP,
Ahmedabad
Safety aspects in Pharmaceutical
dosage forms
8-
10/3/10
Dr. S. Y. Gabhe Chairman AICTE,
Pharmacy Study
Board
Principle of Mass spectroscopy and IR
17/3/10 Dr. Ganeshan Assi. Advisor,
NAAC
accreditation
Bright scholarship meeting
11/3/10 Dr. Harish Padh Director, Padh
Centre
Practices in Protein formulations
List of Seminars and Conferences
Year Guest Expert Sponsor Title of Seminar
8/1/12 Mr. Pratap Shah,
Dr. Vallabhbhai
Katheriya
Department of
Pharmaceutical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University
Perspective on Global health Research
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26/2/11 Dr. Nirav Chokshi Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences,
Saurashtra
University
Intellectual Property Rights
11-
12/2/11
Dr. Ketan Patel,
Dr. R. H. Parikh
UGC Importance and applications of
Pharmceutical approaches in dosage
forms development
27/6/10 Dr. Nirav Chokshi,
Mr. Bahumik
Modi, Torrent
Pharmaceuticals
Drug information
Association Young
Professionals
Gujarat Chapter in
association with
DPS, SU.
Common Technical Documents
17/2/10 Dr. Shrenik Shah
Dr. Padmin Buch
Foundation for
MSME clusters,
Delhi
Key issues in drafting and filling
Pharma Patents & relevance to Pharma
Industries
30/1/10 One day national
Seminar
UGC Biochemistry: A Global Approach
from Molecule to Cell
2/1/10 Dr. S. H. Mishra
Prof. M.S. Baghel
UGC One day national seminar and 2nd
annual conference of ISP Gujarat
Chapter, Globalization of Indian
Traditional system of medicine
March
2009
Dr. Jayesh Sheth UGC One day state level symposium ,
Cytogenecity & genetic disorder
Feb.
2009
Dr. M. C. Gohel,
Dr. R. H. Parikh
AICTE Recent Advances in Conventional
Pharmaceutical Dosage forms
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Many innovative applications are done by faculties like:
Teaching is made easier and understandable by using various animated software
and videos. For each topic covered students are given information of current
application in market rather than only book material.
Interactive board has been installed
Last 10 mins of each lecture is used for discussion to improve interaction and solving doubts.
Vivas are taken in each practical to make students study on regular basis. Study
questions related to practical are given to prepare them for viva and better
understanding of concepts of practicals.
Assignments are given to find out current trends in topics covered to improve their
awareness in subject area.
Students are encouraged to read research articles from journals and one journal club lecture is arranged in time-table to share the ideas of research.
These small applications in daily practice have improved learning to great extent.
Impact can be visualized from their day to day improvement in performance and end
results. Research projects quality has been improved. Student‘s participation in
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extra-curricular activities, conferences, competitions, and publications has been
improved.
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
The university has stated learning outcomes mentioned in its vision and mission.
They are made aware to all the faculty, staff and students through, the printed
posters are on the different places of department
Eventually all the students and faculty members are updated regarding all the achievements and performance of the department.
Faculties are encouraged to attend advanced training program.
Industrial visits are arranged for the students.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Students organized epilepsy camp in association with Gau Vigyan evam Sodh
Sansthan, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar. In this camp Dr.. Hitesh Jani
gave a seminar on epilepsy and its management followed by free distribution of
Ayurvedic medicines to the epileptic patients of different regions of Rajkot for 3
months with regular follow-up.
Similarly a student actively organized a pre-diabetic check up camp in different regions of Gujarat.
Both the camps were co-ordinated by the faculties.
Vivekanand jayanti is celebrated by organizing a rally.
World kidney day is celebrated by students and faculties in association with B. T. Savani Kidney hospital where common public and school children are given
general information about kidney and its functions and diseases.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
a. Dr. Chary, TIFR Mumbai, Dr. R.K. Goyal, NIMS, Mumbai.
b. Bank activity Awareness programme with co-ordination of Rajkot Nagarik
Sahakari Bank Ltd.
c. Rajkot Inter college quiz competition organised on 03-03-2013.
d. Sports event organised on 14-15-16 March 2013.
e. Industrial Visit was arranged at
Cadila Pharma, Ahmedabad,
Que Pharma Surendra Nagar,
Indiana Opthalmics, Surendranagar, etc.
49. Guest lectures by various well known eminent scientist like
List of Guest lectures
Year Guest Expert Designation Topic of lecture
14/03/13 Dr. Hitesh N.
Shukla
Deputy Chief
Manager,
Secretarial
Rajkot Nagarik
Sahakari Bank
Ltd., Rajkot
Banking Introduction of Nagarik
Shahkari Bank.
27/02/13 K. V. R. Chary Professor,
Dept. of chemical
Rudiments of multi dimensional NMR
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sciences, Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research, Mumbai.
26/02/13 Dr. C. N. Patel Principal, Shri
Sarvajanik
Pharmacy College,
Mehsana
Advances in Analytical Techniques
27-
29/01/13
Dr. C. V. S.
Subramaniam
Principal, GRR
College of
Pharmacy,
Hyderabad
Lectures on Analytical Techniques
27/12/12 Dr. Vraj Rabadiya Apo ILC Pharma Current scenario in pharma regulatory
affairs
11/12/12 Prof. Ravi Sodha Pharmaco,
Switzerland
Current scenario in Pharmaceutical
Research
25/09/12 S. N. Umathe Prof. Nagpur
University
Principle of ethics in research
8/9/12 Mr. Mohit Satti Ass. Professor,
VVP, Rajkot
Communication skills development
20/08/12 Dr. R. K. Goyal Prof. NMIMS,
Mumbai.
How to solve problems in research
25-
27/6/12
Mr. Nilesh Patel Assi. Prof., B. K.
Mody Govt.
Pharmacy College,
Rajkot
Basics of Spectroscopy and Infrared
spectroscopy
Mr. Chetan
Borkhatariya
Assi. Prof., B. K.
Mody Govt.
Pharmacy College,
Rajkot
Particle Size analyzer
Mr. Ketan Patel Metrohm
Mr. Pranav Thakar Schimandzu Co. HPLC
Mr. Shyamal
Thakar
Spinco Biotech
29/4/12 Mr. Shrenik Shah
Mr. Jigal Patel
Director, Montage
Labs., Himatnagar
Learning and sharing event on
Regulatory Affairs
19/4/12 Mr. Madhukumar
Mehta
Chief Mentor- I
CREATE
I CREATE
Mrs. Parul Daffari MSME lead
Mr. Ayush
Agrawal
Students lead
19/4/12 Mr. Jaykant
Sanghvi
MD, Que Pharma,
Surendranagar
How to face interview
Mr. Parth Nair Personal HR, Que
Pharma,
Surendranagar
Mr. Trilokbhai Expert
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Thakkar
20/3/12 Mr. Manish and
Mr. Chirag
Water corporation Recent advances on chromatography –
VPLC
8/1/12 Dr. Vallabhbhai
Kathiriya
Chairman, Gauseva
Ayog, Govt.
Gujarat
Perspective on Global health Research
29-
31/12/11
Dr. S. Y. Gabhe Chairman AICTE,
Pharmacy Study
Board
Introduction to spectroscopy
11/10/11 Dr. Cockrase Prof. Nagpur
University
Animal Experimentation
28/9/11 Dr. H.M. Tank Principal, V. B.
Manvar College of
Pharmacy,
Dumiyani
NDDS
25/9/11 Dr. Pranav Jogani Scientist F, Zudus
Cadila,
Ahmedabad
Guidance related to research projects
24/9/11 Dr. Chirag Shah BA research,
Ahmedabad
Schedule Y – Indian Regulation
20/9/11 Dr. J. K. Patel Principal, Nutan
Pharmacy College,
Visnagar
NDDS
17/9/11 Dr. S. S. Agrawal Vice chancellor,
DIPSAR, New
Delhi
Adulteration of tobacco in non-
tobacco products
8/7/11 Mr. C. H.
Khambhati
Water (I) Pvt. Ltd. Principles of Liquid chromatography
16/9/10 Dr. R. K. Parikh LMCP,
Ahmedabad
Safety aspects in Pharmaceutical
dosage forms
8-
10/3/10
Dr. S. Y. Gabhe Chairman AICTE,
Pharmacy Study
Board
Principle of Mass spectroscopy and IR
17/3/10 Dr. Ganeshan Assi. Advisor,
NAAC
accreditation
Bright scholarship meeting
11/3/10 Dr. Harish Padh Director, Padh
Centre
Practices in Protein formulations
50. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies? If
yes, give details.
All the courses run by department are approved by AICTE.
It is recognized for its research activities by UGC-SAP.
Innovative program- teaching and research in interdisciplinary and emerging areas
by UGC.
It is recognized as World Class University.
It is recognized as International Centre for Research Excellence - A collaborative venture of Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Saurashtra University, PDU
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Medical College, Rajkot with Centre of Global Health, University of New
Mexico, USA.
51. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied
Department have a well contributed in generating new knowledge in applied sciences and the research are being published in peer review journals.
Department is working on traditional system of medicine by way of modern science.
Department is doing hands of research in new drug delivery systems and have raised funds from national bodies like SAP also which has helped in establishing a fully
fledged laboratory facility for research in entire region.
Department also have a well developed neuropharmacology laboratory which have some major facilities like sterotaxic apparatus to perform research on
neurodegenerative diseases which is only done in our department in Gujarat.
52. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
Department
Strengths:
Department is a part of State University, so getting funds from various funding agencies is more feasible.
Department have a very good infrastructure facilities including campus,
laboratories, research facilities, funds, and human resources.
Department provides unlimited scopes of exposure in research area to both students and faculties.
Weaknesses:
Since department is a part of state university it follows government's rules and regulations in sanctioning of certain expenditures and clearance of certain
documents which delays completion of tasks.
University has no provision for post-doc scholarship.
Opportunities and challenges:
Department have a good infrastructure facility with human resources but due to lack of strong bonds with industry proper exposure and absorption of students is
challenging.
53. Future plans of the Department
To develop public testing laboratory which provide facility of testing of drug and food samples for people of Saurashtra region since there is lack of facilities here
due to which people have to send there samples to Ahmedabad and Baroda like
cities which takes both more time and money.
To introduce PG Course of Pharm D Program and integrated course of Master in Pharmaceutical Management.
To start few but valuable part-time certificate courses like Bio-informatics,
Pharmaco-epidemiology, and Pharmacovigilance for improving job prospectus
for researchers.
To start a toxicology laboratory and cell line study laboratory to fulfil basic needs of research.
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Evaluation Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department :Department of Psychology
2. Year of establishment :1989
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University?
Faculty
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters;
Integrated Ph. D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.)
PG, M. Phil. Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved
Department has CBCS system where Social Sciences departments are involved in
the PG Programmes and curriculum.
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions,
etc.
Departmental Courses are in collaboration with the Departments of other State
Universities and our syllabus is adopted by other State Universities.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons
N.A.
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments
Departmental faculties are the members of the course-framing committees of
other state Universities. Faculties are delivering guest lectures to the other
departments of the State Universities.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled
Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 01 01 03
Associate Professors 01 01 --
Asst. Professors 02 02 01
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Others -- -- --
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance
Name Qualification Designation Specialization
No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. D. J.
Bhatt
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Clinical Psy / OB 38 3/12
Dr. M. D.
Desai
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Clinical /
Personality
25 3/12
Dr. G. R.
Joshi
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Clinical Psy/ OB 25 4/12
Dr. Y. A.
Jogsan
M.A., Ph. D. Asst.
Professor
Clinical Psy /
Social
10 4/17
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors (2.4.5)
(1) Dr. Girishwar Misra Prof. of Psychology, Delhi University
(2) Dr. G. P. Thakar, Ex. Professor & Head, Kashi Vidyapith
(3) Dr. R. K. Gunthey, Prof. J.N.V. University, Jodhpur
(4) Dr. C. G. Deshpande, Mumbai University
(5) Dr. Bhagavdwar, Ex. Prof. Mumbai University
(6) Dr. Bimla Parimmo, Prof. M.S. University, Baroda
(7) Dr. B. Shejwal, Prof. & Head, Pune University
(8) Dr. S. K. Srivastav, Prof. & Head, Gurukul Kangdi Uni. Haridwar
(9) Dr. S.N. Dubey, Prof. Saket College, Faizabad
(10) Dr. L. R. Yagnik, Prof., S.P.University, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
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(11) Dr. Shamin Ansari, Prof. A. M. University, Aligarh.
(12) Dr. Samir Patel, Prof. & Head, S.P. Unversity, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information
25% M.A. Sem-I
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
MA -10, M. Phil. - 03, Ph. D. - 08
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,
filled and actual
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies
(1) Clinical Psychology
(2) Organizational Behaviour
(3) Social Psychology
(4) Applied Psychology
(5) Women Psychology
(6) Psychological Testing & Evaluation
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies,
project title and grants received projectwise.
Title of the
Project
Name of the funding
Agency
Duration Remarks
―The effect of
stress on health
consciousness
and eating
attitude among
diabetic and
CHD patients
and normal
people‖
UGC 2011-2012 75,000/00 RS
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received (3.2.6)
a) National collaboration
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Dr. Y. A. Jogsan & Prof. L. R. Yagnik (2010) : ' A Study of Sexual Harassment and
Mental Health Among, Government & Private B.Ed. and P.T.C. Colleges Female
Students' Indian Journal of Psychology & Mental Health, Vol. 04, 153-59. (ISSN -
0973-7286)
b) International collaboration
Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received. – 75000.00 from UGC
20. Research facility / centre with (3.3.5)
State recognition Department has Psychology laboratory for Experimental Psychological Research.
Research lab is instituted in the Department where modern gadgets are installed like
Computer, Internet,OHP etc.
National recognition
Research Journal are available in the Department library.
International recognition Research Journals, E-Journals and International Books are available in the Dept.
library.
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies
Nil
22. Publications: Please mention numbers here (attach supporting documents)
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) : 54
Monographs :
Chapters in Books : 29
Edited Books : 1
Books with ISBN with details of publishers : 4
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)
Citation Index – range / average
SNIP
SJR
Impact Factor – range / average
h-index
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23. Details of patents and income generated
Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated
Departmental faculties are delivering psychological counselling services to the
citizens, organizations, students parents honourary.
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories /
institutions / industries in India and abroad
Nil
26. Faculty serving in (2.4.9)
a) National committees
1. Principal A. K. Trivedi Sanman Contribution in Behavioural Sciences - Life
time Achievement Honour Certificate Gujarat Academy of Psychology (GAP)
Ahmedabad 20th Sept. 2009 Ahmedabad
2. Member of Board of Study Since 1985 to continue, Saurashtra University,
Rajkot 1985 to continue Rajkot
b) International committees
c) Editorial Boards
Member of the Editorial Board of SARJ of Education and the Arts, an International
peer-review academic journal.
Co-Editor/ Reviewer in-charge Int. Journal of Law and Social Sciences Global
Science and Technology forum Singapore - 079903
Editorial Consultant : Indian Journal of Community Psychology.
Member of the Editor Board of Indian Psychology and Mental Health Journal
d) any other (please specify)
1. UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) 2010, New Delhi as paper setter.
2. GSLET - Gujarat State Level Eligibility Test, Baroda since 2009 to continue
as Paper setter & Examiner
3. Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi, 2010 as Paper Setter.
4. Paper Setter & Examiner in different Universities of Gujarat and other states
namely
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,
workshops, training programs and similar programs).
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- Refresher Programmes
- Training Programmes
- Workshops
- National-International conferences
28. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including interdepartmental projects : 35%
percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities /
industry / institute : Nil
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by (3.6.8)
Faculty Faculty Name : Dr. Y. A. Jogsan
Manju Thakar award was given to the faculty in 2011-2012.
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows
Students Dimple Ramani received Prize during 2012-13 Shrimad Rajchandra Chair of Sau.
Uni.
Bhoomi Trivedi received Prize during 2012-13 Shrimad Rajchandra Chair of Sau.
Uni.
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding
(national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
- National Conference was organized at Dwarka in Colobarotion with
Saurashtra Psychology Association. (Self-financed)
- UGC Sponsored National Seminar in Colobarotion with Bosamia Arts
College, Jetpur in Feb. 2013.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments
As per APA Guidelines.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the Program
(refer to question no.4)
Application received Selected Pass Percentage
P.G. 240 56 93 37.75 62.25
M. Phil. 199 13 33 27.92 72.08
Ph. D. 178 27 30 50.84 49.16
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33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Programme
(refer to question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the
State
% of students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from
other
countries
M.A. Programme 2009 100%
M. Phil. Programme 2009 93.75% 6.25%
Ph. D. Programme 2009 98.02% 1.98%
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details
category-wise.
SLET 04
GPSC 02
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG --
PG to M. Phil. 40
PG to Ph. D. 33
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
Nil
20
Entrepreneurs 10
36. Diversity of staff
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Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 25
from other universities within the State 75
from universities from other States Nil
from universities outside the country Nil
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period
NIL
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to (4.2.2)
a) Library : Yes
b) Internet facilities for staff and students : Yes
c) Total number of class rooms : 05
d) Class rooms with ICT facility : 05
e) Students‘ laboratories
Department has one experimental Psychological Laboratory.
f) Research laboratories
Department has research laboratory for research students.
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University
NIL
b) from other institutions/universities
(1) Asha Vatalia, Bhavnagar University
(2) Ashok Gohel, Bhavnagar Universtiy
(3) Ronak Parmar, Kadi Vishwavidyalaya
(4) Bhikhabhai Desai, Kadi Vishwavidyalaya
(5) Pansara Ramila, Kadi Vishwavidyalaya
(6) Rekha Vanzara, Kadi Vishwavidyalaya
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40. Number of post graduate/research students getting financial assistance from the
University/other agencies.
35 students are financially assisted by University / Govt. Schemes.
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.
Department had annual yearly system for long time. Then in the year 2006 University
introduced Semester system. And from 2010, CBCS System is in practice. In this
CBCS System 12 Core Cousse (CCT) and 08 Elective Course (ECT) are offered.
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback?
Department has constituted staff-council where faculty's feed back is ascertain
on curriculum and teaching-learning evaluations.
b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how
does the department utilize the feedback?
Yes, Students are given feedback form designed by NAAC on staff /
curriculum, evaluation etc.
And accordingly correctional steps are taken by the Dept.
c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Regularly Alumni's feedback is received and its suggestions are incorporated
constructively.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
(1) Dr. Mahipalsinh Chavda, Principal, L.D. Arts College, Ahmedabad
(2) Dr. Yogesh R. Pandya, I/C Principal, Sahjanand Arts & Comm. College
(3) Dr Yogesh V. Pathak, Principal, Govt. Arts & Commerce College, Kotda Sanghani
(4) Dr. R. G. Meghnathi, Professor, Govt. Arts and Commerce College Kot
(5) Dr. Labhuben P. Nasit, Professor, KSN Mahila College, Rajkot
(6) Dr. Tarlika Zalawadia, Professor, Smt. R.R. Patel Mahila College, Rajkot
(7) Dr. Pankaj S. Suvera, Asso. Prof. , Department of Psychology, S.P. University
(8) Dr. Meghalben Buch, Professor, Dr. Subhas Chavda Mahila College, Junagadh
(9) Dr. Dinesh Dadhania, Professor, V.M. Mehta Municipal Arts & Comm. College
(10) Dr. Bharat G. Gamit, Professor, Shri S.S.P. Jain Arts & Comm. College, Dhangdhra
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts.
Teacher Exchange Programme
Visiting Fellowship
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Special Invitees
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Lecture method
group-discussion
Seminar / Assignment
Continuous evaluation
ICT Audio/Vedio
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored?
Department ensure that every student is thoroughly evaluated by presentation seminar
and class-room tests and evaluation methods. Students are given assignments and it is
evaluated by faculties.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Students and faculty are taking part in research oriented activities.
Students does take part in conferences, workshops and other relevant programmes.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department.
Students are taking part in Quiz, essay writing competition, Street-drama for 'Beti-
Bachao' Prog. Swine-flu awareness programme, plastic-free campus programme,
Biscuit-distribution to slum area students giving couselling service to the Juvenile
deligets, orphans students.
- Jail reform programme at Gondal, Morvi, Amreli, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot:
Dept. faculty gave expert-service to this.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other
agencies? If yes, give details.
Yes , NAAC
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied.
- Department is generating new knowledge by interacting with learned psychologists
and researches participating in National Conferences/ Workshops.
- Departmental Students are developing new Psychological Tests.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the department.
Strengths:
(1) Senior faculties
(2) Advanced courses
(3) Research library
(4) Learning technology
(5) Significant no. of M. Phil. / Ph. D. Awardee
Weaknesses:
(1) Staff crunch
(2) Under developed Psy. Lab.
(3) National / International Opportunity denied to students due to poor English
language efficiency.
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(4) Departmental Development could not happen due to lack of financial
resources.
(5) Lack of Publication Grant.
Opportunities:
(1) Inter-Departmental Collaboration
(2) Departmental Research Journal Publication
(3) Research Grant Availability
(4) Department can start modern laboratories for experimental / animal
psychology
(5) Opportunities can be created for rural / reserved categories students.
Challenges:
(1) The syllabus examination system are common for department External
students and Post-Graduate centers hence at times it is difficult to attract more
students to the department.
(2) Lack of financial support.
(3) Lack of staff.
(4) Students should be updated with current knowledge in English.
(5) Government is not sanctioning the Post of Laboratory assistant and
therefore Department is managing without lab. Asst. But progress could be
significant if we get Lab Asst.
52. Future plans of the department.
(1) To Develop Psychological Testing Centre at the Department of Psychology.
(2) To develop the Aninal Psychology laboratory.
(3) To develop advanced experimental psychology.
(4) To start coloborative services with mental hospital and industries.
(5) To start Post Graduate Diplomas in Counselling Psychology Clinical and
Vocational Guidance.
(6) To start various infrastructural facilities at the Department.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1 Name of the Department : Department of Sanskrit
2 Year of establishment : 1990
3 Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes
4 Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters;
Integrated Ph. D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.)
PG M. A.
M. Phil.
Ph. D.
5 Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: ----
6 Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.---
-
7 Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons
No programme is discontinued since the establishment of department.
8 Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System
Semester
Semester CBCS
9 Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments
Faculty members guide the M. Phil. students of Comparative Literature in Hindi
Department.
10 Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor
00 00 01
Associate Professors
01 01 02
Asst. Professors
02 02 00
Others
00 00 00
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of Years
of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. M. K.
Moliya
M.A., Ph. D. Professor and
Head
Puranashastra 23 22
Dr. R. A.
Chotalia
M.A., Ph. D. Associate
Professor
Vedantashastra 29 25
Dr. R. N. M.A., Ph. D. Associate Alankarashastra 11 12
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Kathad Professor
12 List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors : ---
13 Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information :
20%
14 Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
Sr.No
Name Of Programme
Student Teacher Ratio
1 M. A. 36:03
2 M. Phil. 13:03
3 Ph. D 21:03
15 Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned
filled and actual
16 Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies
Vedic and Puranic Literature
17 Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project- wise.
----
18 Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received a) National
collaboration, b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR
AICTE, etc.; total grants received.
Dr. Mansukh K. Moliya,
Minor Research Project : 01
Title of the research project : Textual Criticism of Syamantakopakhyana on Puranic
Literature and its importance in historicity of Shrikrishna
UGC Reference No. F.6-58/2009(HRP) Dated: 13-01-2010
Period of Project : From 01-02-2010 to 31-07-2011
Total Grant Sanctioned Rs. 100000/-
Total expenditure Rs. . 95799/-
Dr. R. N .Kathad
Minor Research Project : 01
Title of the research project The Concept of Rupakam of Kavi Sagaranandi : A
Critical Study
UGC Reference No. No.6-33/2010(HRP) Dated: 11-02-2011
Period of Project : From 01-02-2011 to 31-07-2012
Total Grant Sanctioned Rs.115000/-
Total expenditure Rs.111409/-
20 Research facility / centre with
state recognition ---
national recognition ---
international recognition --- 21 Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies
----
22 Publications: Please mention numbers here (attach supporting documents)
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international): 22
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Monographs 00
Chapters in Books 05
Edited Books 08
Books with ISBN with details of publishers 04
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences
Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)
---
Citation Index – range / average
---
SJR ---
Impact Factor – range / average ---
h-index
---
23 Details of patents and income generated
---
24 Areas of consultancy and income generated
---
25 Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad
---
26 Faculty serving in
a) National committees ---
b) International committees ---
c) Editorial Boards 03
Dr. M. K. Moliya is the member of editorial Board in reputed Journal ‗Svadhyaya‘, Oriental Institute, The M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
Dr. M. K. Moliya, Dr. R. A. Chotaliya and Dr. R. N. Kathad are in editorial Board of ‗Surashtriya‘.
Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of peer reviewed international referred journal named ‗Recent Thoughts‘.
Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of journal for Higher Education, peer reviewed
international referred journal, ‗Kriti‘.
Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of editorial board in Vicharamanthana published by Bharatiya Vichara Mancha.
Dr. R. N. Kathad is a member of editorial board in Samrasta Setu published by Samajik Samarasta Mancha.
d) any other (please specify)
---
27 Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,
workshops, training programs and similar programs).
Dr. R. N. Kathad had participated in training programme and short term course;
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the national translation training programme, IGNOU, Discovery of English,
Somnath Sanskrit University, Special summer school 2012 at UGC ASC, Rajkot,
and Gandhivichara at UGC, ASC,Rajkot.
28. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental projects
---
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities /
industry / institute
---
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
Faculty ---
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows ---
Students 03
These Girls have received Indira Gandhi Single Girl Child Award by UGC
1) Poriya Sapana A
2) Dave Ruchira
3) Kotak Vishakha
30 Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any
02
National Seminar, The Relevance of Vedic Literature in Contemporary World, Date :
26-27 Mar 2009 UGC unassigned Grant
1) Dr. Mithilaprasad Tripathi, Ujjain
2) Prof. D. N. Pandey, Somnath Sanskrit University
3) Dr. Manibhai Prajapati
4) Dr. Vasanta Parikh
National Seminar, Bhasanatakachakra, 27-28 Jan 2012, UGC unassigned Grant 1) Dr. Santoshkumar Shikla, Delhi
2) Dr. Vaishali Dabhke, Mumbai
3) Dr. Satya Prakash Dubey, Udaipur
4) Dr. Vijay Pandya, Ahemdabad
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments:
No official policy was there for checking malpractices and plagiarism in research. Yet, no cases are reported in department's history. However, department has
instructed
faculties to thoroughly check such practices and is implementing the use of plagiarism
checking software for the control of plagiarism in research.
Code of ethics for research is followed by the University guidelines and as per government norms.
32. Student profile programme-wise:
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Name of the Programme (refer to question no.4)
Applications received
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M A 208 66 62 78.78 66.12
M Phil 235 30 25 93.33 96.00
Ph. D. --- 12 06 --- ---
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Program (refer to
question no.4)
% of students
From the Same
University
% of students From
other Universities
Within the state
% of students
From Universities
Outside the state
% of students
From other
countries
M A 95.00% 4.00% 1.00% 0%
M Phil 100% 0% 0% )0%
Ph. D. 75% 25% 0% 0%
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
07 students who qualified the NET examination are :
SEBC 04
SC 03
03 students who qualified the SLET examination are :
SEBC 02
SC 01
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG ---
PG to M. Phil. 25%
PG to Ph. D. 10%
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral NA
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
15%
Entrepreneurs 15%
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
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of the same University 100 %
from other universities within the State 66.66 %
from universities from other States 0 %
from universities outside the country 0 %
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period
NIL
38 Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library YES
b) Internet facilities for staff and students YES
c) Total number of class rooms 04
d) Class rooms with ICT facility 04
e) Students laboratories 00
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University ---
b) from other institutions/universities ---
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University.
In year 2009-10, total 32 students got financial support from University and other
agencies.
In year 2010-11, total 30 students got financial support from University and other
agencies.
In year 2011-12, total 31 students got financial support from University and other
agencies.
In year 2012-13, total 30 students got financial support from University and other
agencies
41 Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) If so, highlight the methodology.
Department had annual yearly system for long time. Then in the year 2006 University
introduced Semester system. And from 2010, CBCS System is in practice. In
this CBCS System 12 Core Cousse (CCT) and 06 Elective Course (ECT) and 02
Interdisciplinary courses are offered.
42 Does the department obtain feedback from
a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Department has constituted staff-council where faculty's feed back is ascertain on
curriculum and teaching-learning evaluations.
b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Yes, Students are given feedback from designed by NAAC on staff / curriculum,
evaluation etc.
c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Regularly Alumni's feed back is received and its suggestions are incorporated
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constructively.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
Dr. Jesing Vanza
Dr. D K paija
Prof. GeetaF Boricha
Prof Sandip Boricha
Dr. M D Savsani
Nilesh Modhavadiya
Dr. R c Trivedi
Dr. C B Balas
Dr. Hitarthi Agravat
Dr. N J Joshi
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts.
Teacher Exchange Programme 1) Dr. Kashyap M Trivedi, Bhuj, 25-26 Feb 2010
2) Dr. Nirnajan P Patel, Vallabhvidyanagar, 12-13 March 2010
3) Dr. Narendra Pandya, Somnath, 11-12 March 2011
4) Dr. Nirnajan P Patel, Vallabhvidyanagar, 22-23 March 2011
Visiting Fellowship 1) Dr. R P Mehta, Ahmdabad, 8-13 March 2010
Sanskrit Yuva Sammelanam, 04 Sep, 2012,
Nagaraj Bhatt from Karnatak
Workshop, Sanskrit Wikipedia, 24 Sep, 2012 1) Shirish Devpujariji, Delhi
2) Yogesh Nalavde, Vadodara
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Lecture method
Group-discussion
Seminar / Assignment
Continuous evaluation
Power point presentation
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
Department ensure that every student is thoroughly evaluated by presentation seminar
and class-room tests and evaluation methods. Students are given assignments and it is
evaluated by faculties.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Students 1) Departmental Students have participated in Re-public celebration programme.
2) Students have participated in Youth festivals.
3) Students are celebrating various festivals, like Gurupurnima, Kalidasa-
Jayanti, Gita- Jayanti etc.
4) Students are participating in various programmes conducted on the campus
like Nehru- chair,Vivekanand Jayanti, Sports-events etc.
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5) Jalpa Sanghani won the first Prize in Cycling competition at state level.
6) Kotak Vishakha has got first rank in Vanche Gujarat Competition.
7) Blind girl student Nakum Kajal and Jadav Girish got rank in essay competition
organized Nehru Chair.
8) Shrimali Ashok and Kamlesh M Teraiya won the prize in Quize run by
Dooradarshana, Rajkot.
Faculties : 1 1) Dr. M K Moliya has served as a member of Board of studies in Bhavnagar
University, The M S University of Baroda, Kachchha Uni. and South Gujarat
University.
2) Dr. M K Moliya is a member of committee to prepare the text book for std.9
3) All faculties has given their services in interviews.
4) Paper setting and examining in various Universities.
5) lectures in many institutes
6) Educational tour to Dvarka, Ujjain and Vadodara.
7) Sandhan coordination by M K Moliay
8) Lectures by all faculties on BISAG
9) Dr. R N Kahthad is a cooridnator of Earn While Learn Hostel, UGC NET
Coaching 11th plan and 12th plan.
10) Dr. R N Kathad worked as Asst Chief Suprentendent UGC net exam Jun 2010
and GSLET exam Jul 2010.
11) Dr. R A Chotalia and Dr. R N Kathad worked as Asst Secretary in Vanche
Gujarat Abhiyan.
12) Dr. R A Chotalia coordinator in KCG humanities.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department.
Students are taking part in Quiz, essay writing competition, 'Beti-Bachao' Prog.
Swine-flu awareness programme, plastic-free campus programme. They collect fund for
the blinds.
Students took part in the short term courses of Sanskrit Bharati and learn to speak in
Sanskrit.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other
agencies? If yes, give details.
---
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied.
Department is generating new knowledge by producing original research works in M
Phil and Ph. D.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the department.
Strengths: (1) Well equipped faculties
(2) CDC model courses
(3) Large number of students having state level and UGC scholarship and Fellowes
(4) Awareness for M Phil and Ph. D.
(5) 10 students passed NET/SLET exam
Weaknesses:
(1) Faculty short fall, only 03 faculties
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(2) Lack of Language lab.
(3) Poor English language of students
Opportunities: (1) Inter-Departmental Collaboration
(2) Departmental Research Journal Publication
(3) Research Grant Availability
(4) Department can start language lab
Challenges:
(1) Academic Autonomy to the Department
(2) Lack of financial support.
(3) Lack of staff.
(4) Students should be updated with current knowledge in English.
(5) Students are deprived of internet facilities.
52. Future plans of the department.
(1) To Develop Simple Sanskrit Speaking center.
(2) To develop a centre for manuscripts.
(3) To provide more Electives in M A and M Phil
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Evaluation Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Department of Social Work
2. Year of Establishment: 1998
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ?Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: Master of Social Work , Master of Labour Welfare,
M.phil ,P.hD
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: NIL
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
NIL
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: NIL
8. Examination system: Semester with Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: NIL
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 0 0 0
Associate Professor 01 01 01
Assistant Professor 0 0 0
Others (LECTURER
CONTRACT.)
05 05 05
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name
Dr. R. D.
Vaghani
Qualifica
tion
P.hd
Designation
Head of
Department (
Asso. Prof.)
Specialization
Social Work
No. of
years of
experience
14 years
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
4 Students
Dr. Pritesh
V. Popat
P.hd Lecturer Social Work 4 years
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Dr. B. N. Rathva
P.hd Lecturer Social Work 7 Years
Priti V.
Mehta
Masters Lecturer Laber welfare 4 Years
Miss Deepali
S. Joshi
Masters Lecturer Social Work/
Diploma in
software
engineer.
3 Months
Miss Ankita
L. Gajera
Masters Lecturer Social Work 3 Months
Dr. T.R.
Hathi
P.hd Visiting
Lecturer
Dr. J. M.
Badiyani
P.hd Visiting
Lecturer
Shree S. P.
Bhatt
Masters Visiting
Lecturer
Miss
Kashmira
Jivani
Masters Visiting
Lecturer
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: NIL
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: M.S.W.: 30.1 , M.L.W. 22 M.Phil: 1.5, Ph.
D. : 3.5
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
Sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Office Staff
Clerk 01 01 01
Fieldwork officer 01 01 01
Typist 00 00 00
Peon 02 02 02
Sweeper 01 01 01
Laboratory staff
Laboratory
technician
00 00 00
Helper 00 00 00
Workshop staff
Superintendent 00 00 00
Mechanic 00 00 00
Carpenter 00 00 00
Helper 00 00 00
Total 05 05 05
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
436
Nil
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise
Nil
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: NIL
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Research facility/centre with:
Research facilities created under (State recognition): Nil
20. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
NIL
21. Publications:
[ By contractual faculty- Dr. P. V. Popat ― Name of book: = Bahu Viklang balko ni
samasyao‖ Language- Gujarati, Year 2012‖]
National: 00
International: 00
Citation index-range/average: 00
Impact factor range: 00
h-index: (average): 00 22. Details of patents and income generated: NIL
23. Areas of consultancy and income generated: NIL
24. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NIL
25. Faculty serving in:
National committee : NIL
International committee: NIL
Editorial boards: NIL
Any other (Please specify)
26. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
One day Sate level seminar on research for new trends and challenges with youth.
30/03/2013.
27. Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including interdepartmental projects: Nil
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other University/industry/institute : 100 %
28. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty: Nil
Doctoral/post-doctoral fellows: 00
Students: 00 29. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
40000 UGC Grant.
437
30. Code of ethics for research followed by departments: Nil
31. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.L.W./ M.S.W. 2070 213 71
M.Phill 26 16 08 40%
Ph. D. 10 7 3
32. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M.S.W. 95% 05%
M.L.W. 98% 2%
M. Phil. 100%
Ph. D. 80 % 20%
33. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details category-wise.
TWO
34. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG
PG to M. Phil. 5 %
PG to Ph. D. 0.1 %
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
11%
Entrepreneurs:
VipulKagathara: CFL manufacturing
35. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 05
From other universities within state 02
From universities from other states Nil
From universities outside the country NIL
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36. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period:NIL
37. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: NIL
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
In addition to internet connections allotted to department
faculty members, all the students are covered under wi-fi
network.
c) Total number of class-rooms: 2
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: Nil
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Nil
f) Research Laboratories: Nil
38. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates: Nil
39. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University :
Nil(staff- Student education and exam fee free from University)
40. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so highlight the methodology. Nil
41. Does the Department obtain feedback from: Nil
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?
42. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1. Dr. Ravi Dhanani, 2. Ilaben chauhan, 3. Dr. Bhursing Rathva 4. Dave
Shaileshbhai, 5. DAngar Vipulbhai, 6. Rohadiya Arvindbhai, 7. Zala Pusparajbhai, 8.
Dharmehbhai Mankad, 9. Rahulbhai Van, 10. Punamben Chavda.
43. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts: NIL
44. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes: OHP
Maltimedia oral presentation; Projector.
45. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored ? NIL
46. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities NIL
47. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department NIL
48. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies ?
If yes, give details.NIL
49. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied. NIL
50. Detail five major Strenghts, Weaknesses, Oppotinities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the Department NIL
51. Future plans of the Department
439
Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department :- Department of Sociology
2. Year of establishment :- 1977
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Independent
Department for P.G. Studies in the University.
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters;
Integrated Ph. D., D.Sc.D.Litt. etc.) : -M.A./M.Phil/Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved : Nil
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. :-
Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons :- Nil
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System :
Semester Based CBCS
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments :- Nil
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled & actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 1 1 02
Associate Professors 1 1 01
Asst. Professors 3 Nil Nil
Others Nil Nil Nil
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance.
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of
Ph. D./M.
Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
DR. H.V.Rao M.A.,M.Phil
Ph. D..
Professor &
HEAD
Gender
Studies,
Developmental
studies
33 Years 06/5
DR.H.S. Zala M.A, Ph. D. Professor Caste, religion
studies
31 Years 07/19
DR. J.M.Naik M.A., M.Phil,
Ph. D.
Associate
Professor
Women
studies, Health
23 Years 00/20
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors:
Sr.No. Name
440
1 Dr. Vidyut Joshi
2 Dr. Harish Doshi
3 Dr. Sudarshan Iyanger
4 Dr. Amrapali Merchant
5 Dr. K.K. Khakhar
6 Dr. Gaurang Jani
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information:-
40%
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
Year Programme Nos.Teachers Nos.Student Ratio
2009-10 M.A. 3 49 16%
M.Phil 3 12 4%
Ph. D. 2 8 4%
2010-11 M.A. 2 31 15%
M.Phil 2 9 5%
Ph. D. 2 7 4%
2011-12 M.A. 2 32 16%
M.Phil 2 14 7%
Ph. D. 2 Nil 0%
2012-13 M.A. 2 26 13%
M.Phil 2 31 15%
Ph. D. 2 11 5%
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,
filled and actual:-
Post/Category Sanctioned Filled Contract Based
Staff
Clerk 01 Nil 01
Typist 01 1 Nil
Peon 01 Nil 01
Sweeper Nil Nil Nil
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies:-
Major thrust areas are Costal Communities Funded by U.G.C.
Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national, b) international
funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding
agencies, project title and grants received project wise.
Name of Project Type Year Year of
Completion
Grant
Received
2012-
Continue
The Social,
Economical and
Major 02 Ongoing 7 Lakhs
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Cultural Changes in Costal Communities.
17. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
a) National collaboration: Nil
b) International collaboration: Nil
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received: - Nil
20. Research facility / centre with:
- Project–‗ Domestic Violation‘ (Seed Money)
- Nil
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:-
Nil
22. Publications:
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
1 National Nil 1 Nil 1
2 International Nil Nil Nil Nil
3 Monographs Nil Nil Nil Nil
4 Chapters in Books Nil Nil Nil Nil
5 Edited Books Nil Nil 4 4
6 Books with ISBN
with details of
publishers
1Saurastra
University
ALL 4
[ISSN NO. :
2321-2098]
Department
of Sociology
Saurastra
Uni.
All 4 [ ISSN NO.
: 2321-2098]
Department of
Sociology
Saurastra Uni.
7 Number listed in
International
Database
Nil Nil Nil Nil
8 Citation Index –
range / average
Nil Nil Nil Nil
9 SNIP Nil Nil Nil Nil
10 SJR Nil Nil Nil Nil
11 Impact Factor –
range / average
Nil Nil Nil Nil
12 h-index Nil Nil Nil Nil
23.Details of patents and income generated: - NIL
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24.Areas of consultancy and income generated: - NIL
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad: -1
26. Faculty serving in: -
a) National committees: - 01
b) International committees: - 1
c) Editorial Boards: - 1
d) Any other: - Nil
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,
workshops, training programs and similar programs). : - 02
28. Student projects
o Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
interdepartmental projects: - Nil
o percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities
industry / institute: - Nil
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by: -
Faculty: -1
Doctoral/ post doctoral fellows: - Nil
Students: Nil
Faculty 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
National Nil Nil Nil 1
International Nil Nil Nil Nil
30. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
National: Civil Society (U.G.C.)
Sr.No. Name
1 DR. VIDHUT JOSHI
2 DR.A.M. SHAH
3 DR. K.K. KHAKHAR
4 DR. HARISH DOSHI
5 DR. AMRAPALI MARCHAND
6 DR. VIBHUTI PATEL
ETC. 120 WERE PRESENTED PAPER IN SEMINAR.
National: Rural Society (U.G.C.)
443
Sr.No. Name
1 DR. VIDHYUT JOSHI
2 DR.H.V. RAO
3 DR.K.K. KHAKHAR
4 DR. VIKAS
5
ETC. 70 WERE PRESENTED PAPER IN SEMINAR.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments: -
1. Objectivity in Research
2. Anti-plagarism
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the
Programme
Applications
received
Selected
Male Female
Pass percentage
Male Female
2009-10 M.A. Sem-1&3 48 20 28 100% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 31 8 23 100% 100%
M.Phil Sem-1&2 12 5 7 100% 100%
Ph. D. 15 3 5 Nil Nil
2010-11 M.A. Sem-1&3 31 10 21 100% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 48 20 28 100% 100%
M.Phil Sem-1&2 15 3 6 92% 100%
Ph. D. 18 2 5 NA NA
2011-12 M.A. Sem-1&3 32 10 22 85% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 18 12 06 83% 100%
M.Phil Sem-1&2 19 08 05 100% 100%
Ph. D. Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
2012-13 M.A. Sem-1&3 26 13 13 100% 100%
M.A. Sem-2&3 14 11 03 100% 100%
M.Phil Sem-1&2 33 10 06 90% 100%
Ph. D. 16 07 02 NA NA
33. Diversity of students: -
Name of the
Programme
(refer to
question
no. 4)
% of
students
from the
same
University
% of
students
from other
universities
within the
% of
students
from
universities
outside the
% of
students
from
other
countries
444
State State
2009-10 M.A. 100% 0% NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph. D. 100% 0% NIL NIL
2010-11 M.A. 85% 15% NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph. D. 73% 27% NIL NIL
2011-12 M.A. 85% 15% NIL NIL
M.Phil 92% 8% NIL NIL
Ph. D. 0 0 NIL NIL
2012-13 M.A. 100% NIL NIL NIL
M.Phil 94% 6% NIL NIL
Ph. D. 78% 22% NIL NIL
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Year NET SET GATE
2009-10 Nil 10 Nil
2010-11 Nil 1 Nil
2011-12 1 2 Nil
2012-13 1 0 Nil
35. Student progression: -
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
2009-10 UG to PG Nil
PG to M. Phil. 75%
PG to Ph. D.
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2010-11 UG to PG Nil
PG to M. Phil. 12
PG to Ph. D. 09
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2011-12 UG to PG Nil
PG to M. Phil. 08
PG to Ph. D. 06
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Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
2012-13 UG to PG Nil
PG to M. Phil. 12
PG to Ph. D. 05
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral Nil
Employed
Nil
Entrepreneurs Nil
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 80%
from other universities within the State 20%
from universities from other States NA
from universities outside the country NA
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: - Nil
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: - 01
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: - 03
c) Total number of class rooms: -02
d) Class rooms with ICT facility: - 1
e) Students‘ laboratories: - NA
f) Research laboratories: - NA
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates: -
a) From the host institution/University: - Nil
b) From other institutions/universities: - Nil
40. Number of post graduate/research students getting financial assistance from the
University/other agencies.
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Merit
Scholarship
04 06 06 05
446
Freeship Scholarship
12 20 14 24
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.
In the annual and regular meetings of staff department discusses the issues and the issues are taken into considerations in the meet.
Course needs, Application point of view, innovative
interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary subjects are discussed and taken into
consideration.
Number of students, qualification criteria and fee structure are the basic criteria discussed and decided in the staff meetings.
42. Does the department obtains feedback from: -
A. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback? Yes
B. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback? Necessary changes undertaken
C. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback? Undertake workshop, and guidance for the students
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
No. Name
1 KHAN FARUK, Supervisor, in Govt.
Services
2 NIMAVAT VIJAY
3 ZALA NITA
4 DAVE PURVI
5 KHER BHARAT
6 PIPALIYA ALKA
7 BAROT NILESH
8 MEHTA DHRUTI
9 NAIK JAYSHREE
10 DAVE MAYURI
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts.
A. All faculty of the department conduct seminar on a special topic for each student &
student will give the seminar on the subject given by the faculty.
B. Also special lecture also organized to increase the value education, competitive
examination and skill oriented training programmee for student.
447
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
4. Chalk & Talk
5. PPT Based
6. Group discussion
7. Field work
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
1. Internal Test 2. Quiz.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities: celebration
of AIDS awareness ,environment awareness and visited , old age home, orphan child
home mentally retired children home
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department:
every year department organized debate, essay competition, study tour, celebration of
national days, participation in other University department seminars and workshops
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If
yes, give details: -N.A.
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied: -Some output of Ph. D. dissertation is used by other scholars.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the department.
Strengths:
1. Department has Departmental Library which include several books.
2. Experienced Professors.
3. Oldest Department of the University.
4. Study Tour to visit different research institute for students by Department.
5. Organized various skill based programmee for the students
Weaknesses:
1. There is no separate building.
2. There is no separate room for library and Ladies room.
3. There is no enough Class room.
4. Not-filled sanctioned posts of teaching and non teaching Opportunities:
5. Evolving short-duration course in Tourism.
6. Establishing Cultural & Heritage Center.
7. Tapping student talent for historical studies.
Challenges:
1. Research oriented students.
2. Job oriented training to the students.
3. Industry- institute collaboration
4. Collaboration with other universities,government and non government
organization agencies
5. Consultancy cell
52. Future plans of the department.
448
1. To develop museum regarding culture, communities, rituals, of different caste, tribes and
communities
2. To conduct research on coastal communities
3. To start regional centre for research on Saurashtra.
4. job oriented training to the students.
5. Industry- institute collaboration.
6. Collaboration with other universities,government and non government organization
agencies.
7. Consultancy cell.
449
Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: Statistics
2. Year of Establishment: 1984
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? YES
4. Names of Programmes offered: M.Sc. , Ph. D. & PGDHM
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: YES
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions
etc. NONE
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: NONE
8. Examination system: CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
YES
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 1 NO 2
Associate Professor 2 1 0
Assistant Professor 2 1 0
Others
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
years of
experience
No. of
Ph. D./
M. Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
D.K.GHOSH M.Sc. , Ph.
D.
Professor &
Head
Design of
Experiment
28
Teaching
and
Research
6
G.C.BHIMANI M.Sc. , Ph.
D.
Professor Biostatistics 24
450
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor: 6
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information:
10%
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio: (2009-13)
Sr. No. Name of the Program Student Teacher Ratio
1 M.Sc. 7:1
2 Ph. D. 13:3
3 PGDHM 17:5
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
Design of Experiment, Operations Research, Biostatistics, Time Series, Inference and
Econometrics
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise
a) National 1
b) International funding agencies and Nil
c) Total grants received 16,11,000
DST – ―Statistical Analysis of Breast Cancer in Saurashtra Region‖
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received:
(a) National collaboration NONE (b) International collaboration NONE
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received: NONE
Sr.
No
.
Title & Scope of
the R & D
Project
Year in
which
started
Grant
Receiv
ed
In
Lakhs
Remarks
(Status: Completed/ not
completed)
Name of
coordinator
1. Statistical
Analysis of Breast
Cancer in
Saurashtra Region
2012 161100
0 NOT COMPLETED
Dr. D.K.GHOSH
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition NONE
National Recognition NONE
International Recognition NONE
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: NONE
22. Publications:
451
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals 35
Monographs NIL
Chapter in Books NIL
Edited books 3
Books with ISBN with details of publishers 3, Published by Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.) NIL
Citation Index – range / average NIL
SNIP NIL
SJR NIL
Impact Factor – range / average 0.2 – 1.5
h-index NIL
23. Details of patents and income generated: NONE
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated:
The Area of consultancy for Department of Statistics is to find SQC work to check
number of defectives. ISO certification. Department have visited some factories to
guide for the ISO certificate and to check number of defective items. However
department has not generated any money from the factory.
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: Around 4 Years
26. Faculty serving in:
j) National Committees 1 Faculty
b) International Committees 1 Faculty
c) editorial board 1 Faculty
d) other (please specify) 1 Faculty ( Advisory board member in Government of
Organization)
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Workshop and Training Programme
28. Student projects:
Percentage of students who have done in – house projects including interdepartmental projects 100%
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities /
industry / institute NIL
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Faculty1
Doctoral / Post doctoral fellows NIL
452
Students 2
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
Coferences : Two (Funded by UGC, Society of Statistics Computer and its application
and self finance course of PGDHM)
Wrokshops: Two (Funded by PGDHM Department)
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.Sc. 37 15 13 94% 93%
PGDHM 107 33 33 100% 100%
Ph. D. 60 21 20 48% 33%
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
M.Sc. 96% NIL 4% NIL
PGDHM 64% 23% 13% NIL
Ph. D. 60% 27% 13% NIL
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details
category-wise. 26
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG --
PG to M. Phil. --
PG to Ph. D. 42%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral NIL1
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
7%
93%
Entrepreneurs:
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36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 50%
From other universities within state NIL
From universities from other states 50%
From universities outside the country NIL
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: NIL
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library YES
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: YES
c) Total number of class-rooms: 3
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: YES (2 classes)
e) Students‘ Laboratories: 1
f) Research Laboratories: 1
39. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
a) From the host institution / University
1. Srot Kausha Mehta
2. Ms. Mansi Gaglani
3. Ms. Hiral Vithlani
4. Manek V.B.
5. Amit Popat
6. Yashesh Zaveri
7. Paresh Patel
8. Rupani Mehul
9. Lakhtariya bhai
10. Parekh Priyanka
11. Shah Jinal N.
12. Bharmal Rashida T.
13. Sheth Urvi
14. Khyati Mehta
15. Poonam Radadia
16. Nehal Shukla
17. Savsani Mayur
b) From other institution / University
1. Mr. P.S.Puranik
2. Patel Mayank J
3. Parmar M.G.
4. Shah Nirav B.
5. Shah Kunjan H.
6. Ms. Anjna Joshi
7. Parmida Mahesh
8. Suryakant Parikh
9. Sweta S. Kulshreshta
10. Ashutosh Kumar Jha
11. J.G. Ramani
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12. Nasreen Jeelani
13. Shah Rushina
14. Mengarben
15. Raiyasi Saheb
16. Patel Saheb
17. JRF (ONE) Annasaheb Suryawanshi
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the
University :
M.Sc. 3
PGDHM 3
Ph.D 6
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.NO
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback YES
Frequent feedback in Staff Council meetings. Recommendations are implemented
immediately.
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
Feedback from the students are regularly taken at semester end using faculty feedback
form of UGC. The feedback received are communicated to the faculties for
their perusal.
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ?
Feedback received are presented in the Staff Council for discussion and
implementation.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1. Dr. M.G Bhatt , Principal , Keka Shashtri college, Ahmedabad
2. Dr. Anita Shah , UK.
3. Dr. Mausmi Bhatt, Australia
4. Mr. Himanshu Bhatt , Income Tax officer
5. Mr. Naimish Joshi, Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax
6. Dr. Anil Patel , Principal , Ahmedabad
7. Dr. G. C. Bhimani, Professor , Saurashtra University , Rajkot
8. Dr. Achyut C. Patel , Vice Principal, Dhamsania Commerce College
9. Dr. Jayesh Bhatt , Principal , K.D. Mehta Gurukul College, Porbandar.
10. Dr. Kamlesh Joshi , Associate Professor, Malvi college.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
Key note addresses in the seminar and conferences and guest lectures by external
resource persons are a regular feature of the Department.
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
1. Classical Class room teaching
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2. Teaching with Powerpoint presentation
3. Teaching using audio-visual aids.
4. Computer Assisted teaching
5. Computer aided teaching with extensive uses of on line materials.
6. Teaching by Interactive Digital Board
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met
and learning outcomes are monitored ?
By periodic feedback from the stakeholders concerned.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
The students participate in the extension work through Department.
1. NCC
2. NSS
3. Plastic Free campus
4. Training At NASA
5. Prefect
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department 1. Seminars on burning topics
2. Group discussions
3. Notice board publications
4. Quiz
5. Participation in Youth Festival
6. Competition of Cultural Program
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies
? If yes, give details. NONE
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
The department, over the years has contributed greatly to the cause of teaching and
Research in varied areas of Statistical sciences Using computer technology with time
it has adapted newer approaches into its curriculum and research activities.
Teaching students using MATLAB , SPSS,
Conducting Practical using MATLAB, MSEXCEL, SPSS, SAS
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
of the Department
Major Strengths :
1. Research Outputs in terms of high quality of research publications
2. Our infrastructure and quality of the education has been constantly increasing as
reflected by the acceptance of poor students by various sectors for employment
3. Department is fully equipped with MATLAB, MSEXCEL, SPSS
4. All the Papers are taught using LCD projector in form of PPT.
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5. CBCS Based semester system.
Weaknesses:
1. Inadequate faculty members.
2. Zero internal grants for research in budget.
3. Time is not sufficient for completing the course so extra classes are contractual
4. Limited academic flexibility
5. Absence of the academic audit
Opportunities:
1. University provide faculty to attend National conference /Seminars / Workshops
each year
2. University provide to attend International Conference once in three years.
3. ICT enabled / aided teaching learning process.
4. Value added courses and research programs.
5. consolidating and strengthening of self-financing courses
Challenges :
1. Being a single faculty , completing the course by taking 5 lectures per day.
2. Students are send to NASA for Training.
3.Novel teaching learning methods
4.Newer horizons or research
5.Channelizing human resources
52. Future plans of the Department
(a) To make the teaching more effective newer audio-visual technologies and on line
teaching methods are to be incorporated.
(b) The teaching learning processes to be more research oriented in the PG level.
(c) Research areas are to be expanded in the following areas:
* Inference
* Biostatistics
* Advance Design of Experiments
* Applied Statistics
(d) More knowledge of SAS.
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Evaluation Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department: - Hindi
2. Year of Establishment: - 1995
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University ? - Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered:
PG,
M. Phil. (Hindi),
M. Phil. (Comperative Literature),
Ph. D.,
Diploma in Translation
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved:
Comperative Literature,
Translation,
Kavyashastra,
Bhashavigyan
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
Tolani College of Arts & science
Adipur-Kutch
(KutchUniversity)
Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti,
Vardha,
Rajkot Kendra,
C/o Pranavanand Sankrit Bhavan,
Nr.Raj Studio,
Bharatsevak Samaj,
Race Course, Rajkot.
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: Nil.
8. Examination system: Choice Base Credit System
Seminar
Assignment
Internal Exam
MCQ
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
Comperative Literature offered by other Language Departments
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
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Sanctioned Filled Actual
(Including CAS & MPS)
Professor - - 02
Associate Professor 02 02 01
Assistant Professor - - -
Others - - -
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Desisgnation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualificatio
n
Designation Specialization No. of
years of
experience
No. of Ph. D./
M. Phil. students
guided for the last
4 years
Dr. B.K.
Kalasva
M.A., Ph.
D.
Professor -Anuvad
Sidhdhant
-Stri Vimarsh
-Dalit Vimarsh
-Adivasi Vimarsh
-Research
Methodology
21 M. Phil. - 31
Ph. D. - 10
Dr. S.K.
Mehta
M.A., Ph.
D.
Professor -Madhyakalin
Kavya
-Katha Sahitya
-Hindi Sahitya
Ka Itihas
- Sahitya ki
Vaicharik
Prushthbhumi
18 M. Phil. - 21
Ph. D. – 07
Dr. N.T.
Gamit
M.A., Ph.
D.
Asso.Professor -Hindi Fiction
-Tribal Literature
-Dalit Chetna
-Nari Vimarsh
16 M. Phil. - 19
Ph. D. - 06
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor: No
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: Nil
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
M.A. 67:03
M. Phil. 47:03
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual: Nil.
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
Clerk cum data
Entry Operator
(Contract base)
01 00 01
Clerk cum data
Entry Operator
(Contract base)
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Peon 01 01 01
16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies: Nil
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project title and
grants received project-wise –
Name of Faculty : Dr. N.T.Gamit
Name of Fundi Agency : UGC
Grant : Rs. 1,50,000/-
Minor Research Project Title : Socio-Cultural Study of Gamit Tribal Literature
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: Nil.
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received: Nil.
20. Research facility/centre with: Nil.
State Recognition
National Recognition
International Recognition
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
Nil
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals : 66
Monographs - Nil.
Chapter in Books - 06
Edited books - 05
Books with ISBN with details of publishers :- 27
Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science,
Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database
International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO Host etc.) – Nil.
Citation Index – range / average – Nil.
SNIP – Nil.
SJR – Nil.
Impact Factor – range / average – Nil.
h-index - Nil.
23. Details of patents and income generated: Nil.
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil.
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25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: Nil.
26. Faculty serving in:
k) National Committees b) International Committees c) editorial board d) other (please
specify)
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the Chairman in Board of Study of Hindi
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the Chairman in PG Adhoc Board of Hindi
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the member in SUCAB
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the member of SC-ST Cell.
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the member in south
Dr. S.K. Mehta is the member of PG Adhoc Board of Hindi
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the Senate Member of Saurashtra University
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the Co-op. Member in Hindi Board, Veer Narmad University, Surat.
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is the Co-op. Member in Hindi Board, Uttar Gujarat
University,Patan.
Dr. B.K. Kalasva is The Co-op. Member in Hindi Board, Bhavnagar University,Bhavnagar.
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
Dr. N.T. Gamit (Summer School Course sponsored by UGC)
Dr. N.T. Gamit (Short Term Programme sponsored by UGC
28. Student projects : Nil.
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
Dr. B.K. Kalasva has received The Best Book of Criticism Award from Hindi Sahitya
Academy in the year 2010 for his book ―Shodh ke Naye Ayam‖
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
Title Seminar /
workshop
Date National/ International
Samkalin Upanyas Sahitya Seminar 03-03-2010 National
Hindi Upanyas Sahitya Me Dalit Chetna Seminar 07-02-2011 National
Hindi-Gujarati Sahitya me Dalit Vimarsh Seminar 26-02-2011 National
Hindi Anuvad : Samasya Aur Samadhan Workshop 30-03-2011 National
Gujarat ka Hindi Sahitya Seminar 30-03-2012 National
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
Supervision of perfect grammer.
Proper guidance for the best and economic thesis preparation.
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32. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of
programme
Applications
received
(2009-2013)
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
PG
2008-2010 398 27 29 100 100
2009-2011 290 15 36 100 100
2010-2012 42 16 24 100 100
2011-2013 98 10 35 100 100
2012-2014 133 10 10 100 100
M. Phil. (Hindi)
2008-2009 89 11 10 100 100
2009-2010 73 16 04 100 100
2010-2011 34 03 02 100 100
2011-2012 56 16 18 100 100
2012-2013 89 04 11 100 100
2013-2014 100 04 11 - -
M. Phil. (Comp. Lit.)
2008-2009 89 20 10 100 100
2009-2010 73 14 16 100 100
2010-2011 34 00 00 100 100
2011-2012 56 11 16 100 100
2012-2013 89 08 20 100 100
2013-2014 82 07 25 - -
Ph. D.
2008-2009 40 10 06 25.00 15.00
2009-2010 28 06 07 21.43 25.00
2010-2011 38 06 02 15.79 05.26
2011-2012 50 28 19 56.00 38.00
2012-2013 65 27 37 41.53 56.92
2013-2014 75 22 28 29.33 37.33
33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
PG
2008-2010 90 10 00 00
2009-2011 74.51 25.49 00 00
2010-2012 65 35 00 00
2011-2013 88.89 06.67 04.44 00
2012-2014 90 10 00 00
M. Phil. (Hindi)
2008-2009 85.72 14.28 00 00
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2009-2010 90.00 10.00 00 00
2010-2011 90.48 09.52 00 00
2011-2012 93.33 06.67 00 00
2012-2013 73.33 26.67 00 00
2013-2014 86.67 13.33 00 00
M. Phil. (Comp. Lit.)
2008-2009 76.67 23.33 00 00
2009-2010 96.67 03.33 00 00
2010-2011 70.37 29.63 00 00
2011-2012 70.37 29.63 00 00
2012-2013 89.29 10.71 00 00
2013-2014 90.62 09.38 00 00
Ph. D.
2008-2009 56.25 31.25 12.50 00
2009-2010 84.62 15.38 00 00
2010-2011 75.00 25.00 00 00
2011-2012 61.70 38.30 00 00
2012-2013 65.62 34.38 00 00
2013-2014 52.00 48.00 00 00
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Civil Services and Defense Services Examination: Nil.
Name of Students Exam Passed Category Year
Maru Mital NET SC 2009-10
Bandhiya Sanjay NET SEBC 2009-10
Chauhan Pravin NET SC 2010-11
Rangpariya Trupti NET SEBC 2012-13
35. Name of Students selected for Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship and Maulana Azad
National Fellowship
Sr.
No.
Name of Students Name of Fellowship Name of
Course
Year
1. Patel Asha Chhotubhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
2. Patel Sunilkumar Magjibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2011-12
3. Patel Rajeshkumar Arvindkumar Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
4. Ghatiya Valiben Meraman Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2011-12
5. Bagda Savji Devsibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2012-13
6. Shandpa Krishna Kantilal Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
7. Parmar Bhanu Savjibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2012-13
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8. Parmar Pragna Balvantbhai Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
9. Makwana Bharti Pravinbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2011-12
10. Parmar Chandulal V. Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2011-12
11. Chande Dipmala Manjibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2012-13
12. Vaghela Pushpaben Dhanjibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2011-12
13. Makwana Bharatbhai Chimanbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2012-13
14. Bhadarka Pravinkumar Gangaji Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2012-13
15. Ganvit Komalben Maheshbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
16. Chaudhri Nirmalaben
Shankarbhai
Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2010-11
17. Vaghela Nitaben Dhanjibhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2011-12
18. Makwana Daxa Parbatbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2011-12
19. Patel Subhashbhai Natubhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2012-13
20. Chauhan Pravin Parsottambhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
Ph. D. 2011-12
21. Patel Yogitaben Nanajbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2012-13
22. Kokani Jigneshkumar Khalpabhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
23. Patel Indiraben Durlabhbhai Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship
M. Phil. 2010-11
24. Mirza Firozbag Maulana Azad
National Fellowship
Ph. D. 2010-11
36. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
UG to PG 60 63 70 68
PG to M. Phil. 81 82 80 88
PG to Ph. D. 80 76 83 81
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral Nil Nil Nil Nil
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
Nil
8
Nil
12
Nil
20
Nil
25
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Entrepreneurs: 11 09 13 12
37. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 01
From other universities within state 02
From universities from other states 00
From universities outside the country 00
38. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: Nil.
39. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library
Central Library : 17,500 Books,
21 Journals
Departmental Library: 601 Books
b) Internet facilities for staff and students:
All Faculties have their own Internet Facility in their separate chambers and students are also
given the advantage of these facilities in certain circumesstances.
Moreover, everty students are given wi-fi facility by Computer Centre of Saurashtra
University
c) Total number of class-rooms: 04
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 01
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Nil
f) Research Laboratories: Nil
g) Audio Vedio Room : 01
40. List of doctoral, post doctoral students and Research Associates:
41. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University :
Nil
42. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
43. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback ?
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the Department
utilize the feedback ?
44. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
(1) Dr. B.K. Kalasva, Professor & Head, Department of Hindi, Saurashtra University,
Rajkot.
(2) Dr. S.K. Mehta, Professor, Department of Hindi, Saurashrta University, Rajkot.
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(3) Dr. Sushil Dharmani, Principal, Tolani Arts & Commerce College, Adipur, Kutch.
(4) Dr. Vijay Sojitra, Principal, Arts & Commerce College, Dhrol, Jamnagar.
(5) Dr. Mukesh Tanna, Asso. Professor, Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Gondal.
(6) Dr. Daxa Joshi, Asso. Professor, Lt. M.J. Kundaliya Mahila College, Rajkot.
(7) Dr. Rajesh Raval, Asso. Professor, Lt. M.J. Kundaliya Mahila College, Rajkot.
(8) Dr. Niranjan Ashwin, Asso. Professor, Devmani Arts & Commerce College,
Visavadar,Junagadh.
(9) Dr. Bina Joshi, Asso. Professor, Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Junagadh.
(10) Dr. Jivan Dangar, Asso. Professor, Arts & Commerce College, Dhrangandhra.
45. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:
The Department organizes every year seminars and workshops for enrichment
46. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Group discussion, Academic Tour, seminar and tutorial
Teaching through Audio-Vedio system, Projector etc.
Research Project work/dissertation work by students
47. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
The department is met constantly met programme objective by calling guest teachers as
maximum as possible which is beneficial to the students and learning outcomes are
monitored through internal assignments, tests, seminars.
48. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
Nil.
49. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
The department organize group discussion for developing extra knowledge of the topic of
the syllabus or outside of syllabus in students.
50. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies ? If
yes, give details. : Not yet
51. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied
The department is generating new knowledge to the society by helping research students in
preparing an effective and innovative literatures and also the faculty is preparing their own
literature for the benefits and welfare of the society.
52. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the Department
No. Strength Weakness Oppertunities Challenges
1 The department is
successful in carrying out
There is very
limited number of
The Peaceful
environment of the
With very less
number of
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post graduate programme and Ph. D. programee with
limited number of faculties.
teaching and non-teaching staff in
the department.
University is conductive for
carrying out
academic activities
smoothly
faculties to meet programme
syllabus
2 One of the faculty, Dr. N.T.
Gamit is awarded for
carrying out Minor
Research Project
There is very
limited
classrooms to
initiate new
programe in the
department.
As a young
University the
scope for future
research projects is
rich.
3 The department has signed
an National MoU which
will beneficial to the
students to develop more
knowledge about their
literature
The department
has signed an
National MoU
which will raise an
opportunity to
develop learning in
the students.
4 The maximum number of
students are awarded M.Phil
and Ph. D. Degree in their
research work.
5 Every faculties is
publishing more and more
research papers, articles in
leading journal, edited
books, single authored or
co-authored books etc.
53. Future plans of the Department
The department plans to develop the interest of people in Hindi Literature narrating social
problems, their solutions which are beneficial to the society through their books, articles in
journal etc.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department : Department of Mathematics
2. Year of establishment : 1979
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes
4. Names of programmes offered M. Sc., M. Phil., Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: No
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.:
No
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: No
8. Examination System: Semester : Semester, Choice Based Credit System
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments : No
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual
(Professors/Associate Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 1 1 3
Associate Professors 2 1 1
Asst. Professors 3 3 1
Others
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of
specialization, experience and research under guidance
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of Ph. D./
M. Phil.
students guided
for the last 4
years
D. K. Thakkar Ph. D. Professor Topology, Graph
Theory 28 4 / 6
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S. Vishweswaran
Ph. D.
Professor
Algebra,
Commutative Ring
Theory
26
0 / 3
S. K. Vaidya Ph. D. Professor Theory of Relativity,
Graph Theory 25 6 / 11
V. J. Kaneria M. Phil., Ph. D. Associate
Professor Graph Theory 17 0 / 5
S. Ravichandran M. Phil., Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Functional Analysis,
Dynamical Systems 26 0 / 8
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors : No
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information : 0
14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio:
Sr. No. Name of Programme Student Teacher Ratio
1 M. Sc. 21:1
2 M. Phil. 3:1
3 Ph. D. 4:1
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,
filled and actual: Sanctioned 2, Filled – 0, Actual – 2(Placement Basis)
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies: Not Applicable
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies,
project title and grants received project-wise. : Not Applicable
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
a) National collaboration: Not Applicable b)International collaboration : Not Applicable
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received.: Not Applicable
20. Research facility / centre with
• state recognition : Not Applicable
• national recognition : Not Applicable
• international recognition : Not Applicable
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or
corporate bodies: Not Applicable
22. Publications:
∗ Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /
international) : 93 (SKV – 80, VJK – 2, DKT – 6, SV – 5)
∗ Monographs : No
∗ Chapters in Books : No
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∗ Edited Books : No
∗ Books with ISBN with details of publishers : No
∗ Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus,
Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) : 93
∗ Citation Index – range / average - NO
∗ SNIP - NO
∗ SJR - NO
∗ Impact Factor – range / average - NO
∗ h-index - NO
23. Details of patents and income generated : Not Applicable
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated : Not Applicable
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions
/ industries in India and abroad - NIL
26. Faculty serving in
a) National committees - 1 b) International committees - 0 c) Editorial Boards
- 3 d) any other (please specify) - NIL
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops, training programs and similar programs). Refresher course : 2 Staff training
conducted by University : 5
28. Student projects
• percentage of students who have done in-house projects including
inter- departmental projects : Not Applicable
• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities
/ industry / institute : Not Applicable
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
• Faculty : Nil
• Doctoral / post doctoral fellows : Nil
• Students : Nil
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national
/ international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. : "Conference of Mathematics - Celebrating The National Mathematics Year 2012" on
22nd December 2012 to mark 125th Birth anniversary of Srinivasa
Ramanujan
Code of ethics for research followed by the departments. No case of plagiarism
reported. Senior faculties remain vigil to prevent such incidents.
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31. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the Program
(refer to question no.4)
Application
received
Selected Pass Percentage
Male Female Male Female
M. Sc. 180 12 48 52% 55%
M. Phil. 40 9 9 60% 50%
Ph. D. 4 3 0 - -
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Program
(refer to question no.4)
% of students
From the
Same
University
% of student
From other
Universities
Within the state
% of students From
Universities
Outside the state
% of students
From other
countries
M. Sc. 55 5 - -
M. Phil. 8 10 - -
Ph. D. 1 2 - -
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
(1)UGC-CSIR-NET-03(passed)
(2)Gujarat Public Service Commission Examinatios for the post Asst.Professor in
Govt.Engg. colleges/Govt.Science colleges/Govt.Polytechnics(25 students passed)
35. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG -
PG to M. Phil. 5%
PG to Ph. D. 1%
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral -
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Employed
• Campus selection
• Other than campus recruitment
-
25
Entrepreneurs -
36. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 20
from other universities within the State 40
from universities from other States 40
from universities outside the country ---
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period NIL
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library - YES
b) Internet facilities for staff and students - YES
c) Total number of class rooms - 3Class rooms with ICT facility - 3
d) Students‘ laboratories – Computer Laboratory
e) Research laboratories – 1
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University - NIL
b) from other institutions/universities – NIL
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University.
- NIL
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. – Not Applicable
42. Does the department obtain feedback from
a. Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback? Yes, Feedback is taken at the end of
every semester.
b. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
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department utilize the feedback? Feedback is taken at the end of every semester.
c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the
department utilize the feedback? Feedback is taken at the end of every semester.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10)
1. Vasant Pathak - Educationists
2. Gaurang Ghodasara - Asst. Professor, Kotak Science College
3. Kailash Kanani - Asst. Professor, L.E. College, Morbi
4. Sweta Srivastav - Asst. Professor, Sharda University,Noida,New Delhi.
5. Mehul Rupani - Syndicate Member and Principal of SFI College,Rajkot.
6. Nilesh Dani - Associate Professor, Government Polytechnic, Junagadh.
7. Lekha Bijukumar - Vice Principal, SFI College,Gandhinagar.
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /
seminar) involving external experts. – NIL
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes. Faculties are using ICT resources for different programs.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored? The feedback about course is taken at the end of
every semester.
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
1. The department organizes tree plantation program under the banner of Green Campus Drive.
2. The area surrounding the department is cleaned under Clean Campus Drive.
3. Students and Faculties pickup plastic wrappers from the campus under Go Green initiative.
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department.
1. The department organizes career counseling for the students of last semester.
2. Guidance lectures are arranged for the students appearing in CSIR - NET, SET.
49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes, give details. – No.
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied.
1. Mathematics is applicable to most of the field of basic sciences, social sciences and
technology. The department has took initiative and developed the curriculum as per the
demand of the society and industries.
2. The department has emphasized to prepare a skilled mathematician who can work at
primary, secondary, college or University level.
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the department.
Strengths:
1. In last four years the department has emerged as a significant place for research in the
field of graph theory.
2. The department is catering the need of Ph. D. aspirants across the state.
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3. The faculties have published 93 research papers in peer reviewed and scholarly journals in short span of 4 years.
Weaknesses:
1. Due to less number of sanctioned posts it is not possible to offer more elective subjects.
Opportunities:
1. To arrange an international conference.
2. To start collaborative and interdisciplinary research work.
Challenges:
1. To emerge as a center of excellence for the research work in Graph Theory.
52. Future plans of the department.
1. To develop a laboratory for computation.
2. To earn international repute which can attract foreign students to join research study at the campus of Saurashtra University.
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Evaluation Report of Department
1. Name of the Department: Gujarati
2. Year of Establishment: 1967
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes
4. Names of Programmes offered: M.A., M. Phil. (Gujarati), M. Phil. (Indian Literature
), Ph. D.
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: M. Phil. (Indian literature
)(2009-2010)
6. Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign institutions etc.
Nil
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: M. Phil. in Indian literature
As pear uni. Policy
8. Examination system: CBCS
9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: Yes
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 2 1 1+3=4
Associate Professor 2 2 1
Assistant Professor 3 2 -
Others - - -
11. Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./ M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. Balvant
Jani
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Medual
Literature, Folk
Literature, Charni
Lit., Jain Lit.
34 Ph. D. - 6
M. Phil.- 22
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Dr. Nitin
Vadagama
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Gujarati Poetry
and Criticism
31 Ph. D. - 4
M. Phil.- 20
Dr. Bipin
Ashar
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Gujarati Novel
Criticism
31 Ph. D. - 08
M. Phil.- 21
Dr.
Ambadan
Rohadiya
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Folk Literature
and Charni Lit.
31 Ph. D. - 6
M. Phil.- 21
Dr. Manoj
Joshi
M.A., Ph. D. Professor Music and
Gujarati Poetry
22 Ph. D. - 5
M. Phil.- 21
Dr. Deepak
Patel
M.A., Ph. D.,
NET
Associate
Professor
Gujarati Novel
Criticism, Folk
Lit., Tribal Lit.
13 Ph. D. - 7
M. Phil.- 21
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
Sr.
No.
Name of Faculty Visiting Fellow/ Vinimay
Yojna
Year
1. Dr. Bhagirath Brahmbhatt Visiting Fellow 2009-2010
2. Dr. Kirtida Shah Vinimay Yojna 2010-2011
3. Dr. Nootan Jani Vinimay Yojna 2011-2012
4. Dr. Neeta Bagat Vinimay Yojna 2012-2013
5. Dr. Bharat Pandya Vinimay Yojna 2012-2013
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise information: Nil
14. Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
Year Course Name Student Teacher Ratio
2009 M.A. 48 6 1/8
M.Phil 13+24 6 1/6
2010 M.A. 38+18 6 1/9
M.Phil 18 6 1/3
2011 M.A. 19+20 6 1/6
M.Phil 20 6 1/3
2012 M.A. 17+19 6 1/6
M.Phil 24 6 1/4
2013 M.A. 11+10 5 1/4
M.Phil 25 5 1/5
15. Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
Post Sanctioned Filled Actual
clerk 1 1
typist 1
peon 1 Temporary
Sweaper 1 1
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16. Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
1. Folk Literature Recognized
2. Jain – Jain Trust
3. Charni Literature
4. Diaspora Literature
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) total grants received. Give Names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise
Sr.
No
.
Name Major/
Minor
Title Funding
Agency
Grant
Received
Year
1. Dr. Neetin Vadgama Major Indianness in
Gujarati
Poetry
UGC,
New
Delhi
7,01,200/- 1-2-11 to
31-1-13
1. Dr. Deepak Patel Minor Gujarati
Kanthastha
parmpara lok
mahakavo :
Ek abhyas
UGC New
Delhi
120000/- 1-2-10 to
31-7-11
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: yes
(a) National collaboration: Birmingham college, United Kingdom
(b) International collaboration
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE etc. total Grants received: Nil
20. Research facility/centre with:
State Recognition : Yes, 1. Jain academy
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies:
Nil
22. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals : 129
Dr. N. R. Vadgama
2009
1. Rangin Mijajna Shayar : Ashim Randeri Tadarthy March-2009
2. Aa Aekant Marune Tara Samran Uddesh May-2009
3. Jayanti Dalalni Varnakala Buddhiprakash August-2009
4. Lyo, Ame Beshi Gazalni Palakhima
Nikalya
Uddesh October-2009
2010
5. Jayanti Dalalna Sahityama Manavmooliyo Tathapi Dec.-Feb.-2010
6. Narottam Palan : Sada Sat Dayakani Safar Navneet Samrpan August-2010
7. Rajkot Jillani Kavita Samruddhi Shabadsar September-2010
8. Gazalkavi Kalapi Shahide Gazal Dec.-Jan.-2011
477
9. Narmadni Kavitama Samajik Nishbat Vividhasanchar Sep.-Nov.-2010
10. Kavishahaj Khumarinu Buland Byan Dhabak December-2010
2011
11. Aashavadni Abhinav Abhivyakti Parab Jan.-Feb.2011
12. Prakrutina Saundarya ane paramna
Aaichvaryani Abivyakti
Kavilok Jan.-Feb.-2011
13. Lokhaiye Birajata Kavishree Indulal
Gandhi
Gujaratdhara 15-05-2011
14. Viyogni Vedanani Karungarbh Abivyakti Tadarthy July-2011
15 Shabadni Sampava Seva Mane Koi Jagade
chhe
Shabadsrushti October-2011
16. Aa Badhu Tyare Lakhtu Hoy Chhe Akhand Anand December-2011
2012
17. Kavitani Mashal : Suresh Dalal Gujaratdhara September-2012
18. Mukundarai V Parashary Smrutiganth Parab September-2012
2013
19 Moraribapuni Ramkatha : Antar-Bahya
Jagrutino Jyot
Akhand Anand June-2013
Dr. Bipin Ashar
2009
20 Dovctorna Chhutacheda (Yahudi Varta)
Author: Shyudel Yosheph Anu: Dr. Bipin
Ashar
Jalaramdeep Jan.-2009
21 Kathasahityamo Aek Judo Pravah Shabadsrushti April-2009
22 Gujarato Sahitya Aur Gandhiji Samanvay (Hindi) April-2009
23 Shramasadhy Sanshodhit Sampadan :
'Daxshin Gujaratni Koonkani Vartao
Parab April-2009
24 Vadne J Aagal Dharati Krutio Same
Mukava Jevi Adhunik Navalkataho : 'Chha
Bay Tran'
Shabadsar May-2009
25 Be Samrth Sarjakona Gadhni Aek
Vishishtata : Asharkarak Vistari Vakay
Parab July-2009
26 Chekhovni Aek Vilkshan Varta :
'Kastanaka'
Tadarthy September-2009
27 Premjivanni Karunata Ane Samajni
Vashtaviktane Alekhti Navalkatha :
'Nisharg'
Tathapi Sep.-Nov.-2009
28 Prachin Jain Munioni Ujali Parmparanu
Tejshvi Anusandhan : Deepratansagar
Maharaj
Prabuddh Jeevan October-2009
29 Bhartiya Sahitya Samvedana Ane
Sarjakatano Thalvayelo Kosh : 'Album'
Parab November-2009
30 1857na Muktisamma Gujaratna Pradanne
Alekhti Navalkatha : 'Satavanno Sathi'
Swadhyay December-2009
31 Bhogilal J. Sandesara Aek Anokhi Pratibha Buddhiprakash December-2009
32 Bahushyam (Nimbhan Samiksha) Adhit-31 2009
33 Dakshin Gujaratnu Vanvashi Katha Sahitya Lokgurjari-21 2009
34 'Postmaster' Ane 'Triyo' (VartaSangrah) Samidh-3 2009
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2010
35 Fagu : Sangna, Swarup ane Sarchana Vividhasanchar December-
February-2010
36 Ahankarna Viglan, Ardhashna Parajay Ane
Bhramnirshanni Katha : 'Sajja'
Vividhasanchar March-May-2010
37 Charani Sahitya Marmgan : Dr. Ambadan
Rohadia
Times of Kuchchh 13/07/2010
38 'Dharathi Gagan Sudhi' : Girijanona Samaj,
Samshya Ane Samvedanone Aalekhti
Navalkatha
Shabadsar September-2010
39 Manash Matra Fanfane Patra : 'Famfeshwar' Vividhasanchar September-
November-2010
40 Swanmokshni Satmi Ghadi (Varta Swad) Tardathy 2010
41 Loksanshkrutina Kaladharo :
Loksanshkritina Vahkona Vartiko
(Abhyashlekho)
Lokgurjari-22 2010
42 Charani Sahityano Aachho Parichay
Karavatu Pustak (Lekh)
Samidh-5 2010
2011
43 Laghu Chantanatamak Nimbandho
'Aksharna Ajavala'
Dwani April-2011
44 Umashankar Joshini Toonkivartao Shabadsrushti June-2011
45 Laghu Chantanatamak Nimbandho
'Aksharna Ajavala'
Olakh July-2011
46 Mrutatmana Bramnirshanane Dwanit Karti
Varta 'Deekara'
Samvedan Augest-2011
47 Vrukshni Beejne Janva-Manvani Prakiya
Aetle Kavyaswad
Shabadsar October-2011
ISSN No. 2249-
2933
48 Narivad, Narana Badlata Roopo Ane
Gujarati Navalkatha
Vividhasanchar Dec.-Feb.-,
March-May-2011
49 'Kavyani Sahkti' : R. V. Pathakni
Kavyagnatano DhotakGranth
Swadhyay Feb.-Nov.-2011
50 Jeevanyudh (Dongari Varta) : Author Om
Goswami Anu. : Dr. Bipin Ashar
Jalaramdeep December-2011
51 Sahitya Sanskruti ka Ansh Hai Sahitya Parikrama
(Hindi)
July-Augest-2011
52 Anugandhiyugna Kathasarjakni
Navalkathaonu Punmoolyankan
Adhit-33 2011
53 Vidtapurna Vivechana ane Vahivati
Kaushyno Viral Samnvay
Adhit-33 2011
54 Cahrani Sahityana Mamrgan : Dr. Ambadan
Rohadiya
Vicharbharti 2011
55 'Romeromma' (Gazalsangrah) Samidh-5 2011
2012
56 'Amarkosh'nu Mahtavnu Anusandhan :
'Harijasnam Mala'
Rajbhasha (Charni
Sahitya
February-2012
479
Vishashank)
57 Atruptina Khatakane Halvi Sailima Vyanjit
Karti Varta : 'Majja'
Tadarthy February-2012
ISSN-2278-4640
58 Vidta Ane Vinamratano Shubhag Samanvay Patnagar Prakash 08-03-2012
59 Pandityugna Khandkavya Swaroopni
Sanshkrik Bhoomika
Surashtriya Oct.-March-2012
ISSN No. 2249-
4383
60 Sudharak Yugnu Nombadh Sahitya :
Sanskrutik Sandarbhe
Vividhasanchar June-August-
2012
61 Saksharyugna Kavyaswarooponi Sanskrutik
Bhoomika
Surashtriya Oct.-March-2012
ISSN No. 2249-
4383
62 Uttar Gujaratni Bhasha : Boli Vignan Ane
LokVidyavignan
Lokgurjari-25 31-12-2012
63 Charni Kathamoolak Dirghkrutioma Hasya-
Kataksha
Lokgurjari-24
2013
64 Samprat Ane Vaishvik Samshyane Saprshti
Navalkatha : 'Virus'
Shabadsrushti Feb.2013 ISSN
No. 2319-3220
65 Samprat Ane Vaishvik Samshyane
Sapasharti Navalkatha : 'Virus'
Kavyanjali 2012
66 Pun:Ugayo Prafull Ameevasharan
Chandraraj : Ganthavali -1 : Urmikavyo
Parab Feb-2013 ISSN
No. 0250-9747
67 Samajik Satya Ane Vaiyaktik Satya
Vachcheno Takrav
Tardatya March-2013
68 Antim Jodi Champal (Marathi Varta)
Author : Anand Yadav Anu: Dr. Bipin
Ashar
Hayati March-2013
69 Bhagyachakra (Telugu Barta) Author
:Balasauri Reddy Anu: Dr. Bipin Ashar
Chhalak April-2013
70 Atitkalin Gramjivanma Vihrati Kavichetna :
'Ae Vihla'
Shabdsrushti April-2013
71 Anudit Laghukavya Swarupni Rachnao Shabdsrushti May-2013
72 Vashiyatnamu (Author: Mudulla Sinha)
Anu: Dr. Bipin Ashar
Jalaramdeep June-2013
73 Mantoni Sarjakpratibhani Aek Zalak : Kali
Salvar (Varta Ashwad)
Buddhiprakash June-2013
74 Tabibi Marjivani Kalame Marjivaono
Parichay : 'Tabibi Marjivao'
Olakh July-2013
75 Facebook (Malayalam Varta) Author:
Akabar Dakkatel, Anu: Bipin Ashar
Jalaramdeep September-2013
76 Vaheta Vadalo - Nandini Shatpathi Anu:
Bipin Ashar
Shabdasar September-2013
ISSN No. 2249-
2933
77 Manavjivanna Vastavne Alekhti Vartao Jalaramdeep 2013
Dr. Ambadan Rohadia
2009
78 Loksanshkrutina Udagata : Kavishree Dad Bhatigal June-2009
480
Saurashtra
79 Prachin Parmpara Ane Kanthasth
Parmparana Charan : Arthsanketono Ane
Arthaghatano Bhag-1
Times of Kuchchh 24-06-2009
80 Prachin Parmpara Ane Kanthasth
Parmparana Charan : Arthsanketono Ane
Arthaghatano Bhag-2
Times of Kuchchh 15-08-2009
81 Arajkara Karan Sambhale Aav Amba Patanagar
Prakashan
Dipotsvi Anak-
2009
2010
82 Shikshan ane Sanskar Charan -1 May-2010
83 Aekadashini Anubhuti Nootan Kuchchh Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
84 Shreshth Bhartiy Kathanako Nootan Kuchchh Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
85 Ravindranath Sathe Vachanyatra Times of Kuchchh Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
86 Lokgurjari-20 Times of Kuchchh Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
87 Shradhha Ane Bhaktini Kavyatamak
Abhivyakti : Krushnayan
Charan Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
88 Madhykalin Charni Kavya Parmpara ane
Bhartiya Jivanmooliyo
Patanagar Prakash Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
89 Charni Sahityma Vishvsantino Sandesh Suvash Dipotsvi Anak-
2010
2011
90 Anand-Karama Mishan Marudharana
Mahamoola Moti
Vicharbharti
(Charni Sahitya
Visheshank)
2011
91 1857na Svatantyveer : Kandash Mahedu Vicharbharti
(Charni Sahitya
Visheshank)
2011
92 Hardash Mishan : Charni Akhyan
Parmparana Janak
Vicharbharti
(Charni Sahitya
Visheshank)
2011
93 Sanyaji Zoola : Param Vaishnav Bhaktkavi Vicharbharti
(Charni Sahitya
Visheshank)
2011
94 Charni Sahityana Prayojak, Poojak ane
Parikshak : Ratudan Rohadia
Vicharbharti
(Charni Sahitya
Visheshank)
2011
95 Charni Sahityama Gandhiji Patanagar
Prakshan
Dipotsvi Ank-11
2012
96 Charnoni Vashnvalinu Adhyayan Vicharbharti 2012
97 Sarshvatina Upasako : Charan Ane Barot Vicharbharti 2012
98 Sanskrutik Sangamtirthnu Yatharthdarshan :
Vahivancha Barot : Parichay ane Pradan
Vicharbharti 2012
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99 Charni Sahityana Duhaoma Hashya-Vyang Lokgurjari-24 2012
100 Charno Sahitya : Mudda ane mahtra Lokgurjari-26 2012
101 Hardash Mishan : Mool Kathanakma Potiki
Pratibha
Lokgurjari-27 2012
102 Charni Bhasha : Sangna, Swaroop ane
Sahitya
Rajbhasha 2012
2013
103 Hardash Mishan : Potiki Kathankala Lokgurjari-29 2013 ISSN No.
2320-8872
104 Cahrni Sahitya Ane Sanskrutinu Jangamtirth
: Shankardan Detha
Times of Kuchchh Dipotsavi -2013
105 Charnoni Dharmik Parmpara : Mahima
Manvatano
Kavyanjali-10 November-2013
Dr. Manoj Joshi
106 Manasganga (News Paper -
Panchamrutpoorti - Wenseday)
Foolchhab Weekly
Katarlekh
107 Book X-Ray (News Paper - Madhuvanpoorti
Sunday)
Foolchhab Weekly
Katarlekh
Dr. Deepak Patel
2009
108 Gujarati Kavitavishayak Kekhono Sanchay :
'Chetosparsh'
Tadarthya Vol-10 March - 2009
109 Gujarati vanvasee Sahitya : Kathamulak
Sampadano Uttar Gujarat
Lokgurajari
Vol.21
2009
110 Narmad : Sudharano Agrim Mashalchee Vichar Bharti,
Vol.7
July 2009
111 Moticharani Varta : Dharmik, Samajik Ane
Sahityik Sandarbhe
Bheelee Sahitya
Ek Adhayan
2009
112 Jijeevisha : Jeevan Vastavna Samgharsshu
Nirapankarti Varta
Samidha -3 2009
2010
113 Joravarsinh Jadav Sampadit Lokvartaoma
Prem Ane Itihasnu Nirupan
Lokgurjari Vol.22 2010
114 Bharatiya Sanskrutinu Anuranan : Bheelee
Pauranik Lokakhyano
Tathapi, Vol-18 Dec-Feb., 2010
115 Nindastuti - Nindastuti - Kavya
purampurannu Annusandhan
Samidha-4 2010
2011
116 Kavi Rajena Padoma Premlaxna Bhakti Surashtriya Vol.I Oct-March-2011
117 Rajkavi Shambhudanjinee Sargshaktinu
Sarvochecha Shrung : Kachchha Darshan
Vichar Bharti
Vol-6
June - 2011
118 Bheelee Pauranik Lokakhyano Vividh Pasao Bheelee
Mahakavyo Ek
Mulyankan
2011
119 Charankul Paramparani Pratibaddnta Ambadan Rohadia 2011
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: Parichay ane Pradan
120 Vairagayno Mahima : Nishkulanand Samidha-5 2011
2012
121 Englandni Musagarinu varnan : Sanskrit
Vimarsh Sandarbhe
Surashitriya Vol.4 April-Sept. 2012
122 Gora : Bhartiyata na Sandarbhe GORA 2012
123 'Dhad' Vinesh Antani Adheet Parva-1 2012
124 Mor Pichchhnu Madhuvan : Gunvant Vyas Adheet Parva-2 2012
125 Vishti, Virras no samnvay atle 'Angadvishti' Rajbhasha-
Gujarati
(Charni Sahitya)
2012
125 Gujarati Literary Historiography Multiple
Angles of Modern Era.
Indian Literary
Historiography
and Counter
Currents in
Portcoloniality
2012
2013
127 Jain Religion in North Gujarat and
Saurashtra
Development &
Impact of Jainism
in India &
Abroad-
2013
128 Sorthi Santvani : Asvad Ane Avbodh LokGurjari - 28 2013
129 Parampar Nisath Vartao : Premdivp Tadyarth- Vol. 3 Aug., 2013
Chapter in Books List : 42 Dr. N. R. Vagdama
2009
1. Maitrina Soorajnu Ajvalu : Anil
Khambhayata
Maitrino Soory - Ed. Suresh
Dalal
2009
2010
2. Saurashtrani Kavitasamrudhi Sanjsamachar Visheshank - Ed.
Purvibahen Shah
2010
2011
3. Narmadni Kavitama Samajik Nisbat Narmad Adhyyan - Ed. Jagdish
Gurjar
2011
4. Aa Badhu Tyare Lakhatu Hoy Chhe Lakhyu Etle Ke.... Ed. Kaushik
Maheta
2011
5. Saurashtrani Kavitasamrudhi Saurashtrani Ashmita - Ed.
Vishnu Pandya
2011
2013
6. Shabad Sathe Etle Sambhandh Chhe Shabab Satheno Maro
Sambhandha, Ed. Harsh
Brahmbhatt Ane Anil Chavda
2013
Dr. Bipin Ashar
2009
483
7. Nishthapoorvak Adhyayanni Falshruti (Parichaylekh)
Bhilisahitya : Kruti ane Sanskruti
2009
8. Hathvago Mahitigranth
(Parichaylekh)
Prasangik 2009
9. Paramtatva Vishe Karela
Undanchintanni Upalabdhi
(Ashwadlekh)
Aashvadprashad 2009
10. Navalkatha:2004 (Lekh) Gyansatra Vyakhyano 2009
11. Nivrutima Ujali Nidarshan Karto
Granth (Prashtavana)
Sabdayana 2009
12. Parichay Zalak (Parichaylekh) Vibhavilash 2009
2010
13. Dadanu Vashvik Ane
SamvedanPoorna Chitra Upajavati
Kruti (Parichylekh)
Chalo Dadajina Deshma 2010
14. Vivechantamak Sanganane Vishad
Apatu Abhyash Samruddh Pustak
Rachanariti : Sangna, ane
Sampratyay
2010
15. Sahityakshetre Pa...Pa.. Pagali
(Parichaylekh)
Kavi Dad L Vyaktitva ane
Vagmay
2010
16. Shodh ane Sahsana Kathanako (Lekh) Shree Joravarshinh Jadav
Adhyayangranth
2010
2011
17. 'Va', 'Majja' ane 'Sankad' (Vartasvad) Bahadurbhai J. Vankni
Vartashushi
2011
18. Saurashtrana Vartakaro (Lekh) Saurashtrani Ashmita 2011
2012
19. 'Ranzanvu' (Vartasvad') Adhit Prav-1 2012
20. Bahusyam (Nimbandh Samiksha) Adhit Prav-2 2012
21. Bhavakne Bhinjave Aevo Bhavkosh
(Prashtavana)
Aek Lilipal Atitni
(Gazalsangrah)
2012
22. Hasyalekhkni Vishishtramugra
(Prashtavana)
Ramoojcharit Manash (Hasya
Lekho)
2012
23. Muktak Lekhanni Parmaparani
Agekooch (Prashtavna)
He Sakhi ke Zankhana Tat
mane (Gazal Sangrah)
2012
2013
24. Tabibi Marjivane Kalme Marjivano
Parichay (Prashtvana)
'Tabibi Marjivao' (Medical
Sciencenu Pustak)
2013
25. Nidarbh, Premal ane Karyanishth
Patel Sahen
Amrutdhara (Smaranika) 2013
26. Nidarbh, Premal ane Karyanishth
Patel Saheb
Aan Rahyo Vijay
(SamranGanth)
2013
27. Rashtriy Chetanane Sparashti
Natyakruti (Prashtavana)
Samarange Gauravgatha
(Natyakruti)
2013
28. Aa to Chaptik J Chhe (Pustak
Parichay)
Chaptik (Dayanaya
Aashvadhyantra)
2013
Dr. Ambadan Rohadiya
2010
484
29. Svantratay Samgram me Charno ka Yogdan
Bhartiya Svatray Sangram (Pra. Akhil Bhartiya Aetihashik
Sampadan)
2010
30. Rajkotne Angane Charnoni
Shabdopashana
Rajkot Jillo : Gaikal, Aaj ane
Avatikal
2010
31 Shraddha ane Bhaktini Kavyatamak
Abhivyakti : Krushnayan
Krushnayan 2010
2011
32. Loksahityakretre Saurashtranu Pradan Saurashtrani Ashmita 2011
2012
33. Charnibhasha : Sangna, Swaroop ane
Sahitya
Bhartiyabhasha : Sarvaighatan 2012
2013
34. Charnoni Ashmitanu Ujjaval
Anusandhan
Charan Digdarshan 2013
Dr. Deepak Patel
2009
35. Moticharani varti dharmik,samajik
ane sahityik sandarbhe
Bheelee sahitya: EK
Adhyayan Ed. Hasu yagnik,
pp.147-162
2009
2011
36. Bheelee pauranik lokakhyano vividh
apasa
Bheelee mahakavyo EK
mulyankan Ed.Bhagvandas
patel pp.95-135
2011,
ISBN-978-
81-260-
2777-4
37. Charankur paramparani pratibaddhta , Ambadan Rohadiya : parichay
ane pradan Ed.Bipin ashar
pp.128-143
2011
36. Gujarati Literary Historigraphy :
Multiple Angles of Modern Era.
Indian Literary in
Historiography and Counter
currents in postcoloniality, Etd.
by Asha Sushan Jacob, Tom
Thomas, PP. 195-201
2011, ISBN
978-81-
7821-436-8
37. Arvachin Gujarati Sahitya Khetre
Saurashtrana Natyakaronu Pradan
Saurashtrani Ashmita, Ed. S.
V. Jani and Others, pp. 153-
162
2011, ISBN
- 978-93-
81090-40-4
2012
38. Vishti, Virrashno Samnvay atle
'Anagd Vishti'
Rajbhasha Gujarati, Charani
Visheshank, Ed. H.M.
Gadhavi, pp. 115-123
2012
39. Gora : bhartiyatana sandarbhe Ravindranath tagore krut ‗gora‘
Ed.Bharat Mehta , P.138-167
2012, ISBN
978-93-
82124-44-3
40. ‗Dhad‘ veenesh antanee Adheet parva-1
Ed.J.M.Chandravadia et al
2012
485
pp.150-173
41. ‗Morpichchhnu madhuvan Gunavat
vyas ,
Adheet parva-1
Ed.j.m.chandravadia et al
pp.180-187
2012
2013
42. Jain Religion in North Gujarat and
Saurashtra
Development & Impact of
Jainism in India & Abroad, Ed.
Gautam Barvalia, pp. 76-89
2013
List of Edited Books: 36
Dr. B. S. Jani
2009
1. Mohanlal Maheta 'Sopan'ni
vartasushtri
Gujarat Sahitya Akademy 2009
2. Vallabh Nandhani daispora Vartao Parshv Prakashan 2009
2010
3. Deepak Bardolikarni Diaspora Kavita Parshv Prakashan 2010
4. Adam Tankarvini Diaspora Kavita Parshv Prakashan 2010
5. Pankaj Vorani Diaspora Kavita Parshv Prakashan 2010
6. Gujarati Loksahityavirmash Parshv Prakashan 2010
7. Gujarati Santsahityavirmash Parshv Prakashan 2010
8. Charni Barmashi Kavita Saurashtra University 2010
9. Phool Varsadakrut 'Vakhat Baland' Saurashtra University 2010
10. Gujarati Charnisahityavirmash Parshv Prakashan 2010
11. Chafekar Bandhu Triputi Gujarat Sahitya Academy 2010
2011
12. Ismayali Praja, Peer Parmpara ane Peer
Shamskrut Raja Goverchandno
Akhyan
Mumbai University 2011
2012
13. Arvachin Gujaratisahityavirmash Devine Prakashan 2012
14. Madhurainu Diaspora Sahityavishv Parshv Prakashan 2012
15. Panna Nayaknu Diaspora Sahityavishv Parshv Prakashan 2012
16. Pritisen Guptanu Diaspora
Sahityavishv
Parshv Prakashan 2012
17. Adil Mansoorinu Diaspora Kavyavishv Parshv Prakashan 2012
18. Goorjari Diaspora Chuntela
Sampadakiya
2012
2013
19. Madhykalin Gujarati Sahityavirmash Devine Prakashan 2013
20. Harivallabh Bhayani : Vyktitav ane
Vagmay
Parshav Prakashan 2013
21. Shakur Sarvaiyanu Diaspora
Sahityavisha
Parshv Prakashan 2013
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22. Anandrav Lingachatnu Diaspora Vartavishv
Parshv Prakashan 2013
23. Harnish Janinu Diaspora Hasyrachna
vishv
Parshv Prakashan 2013
23. Shikshan: Samprat Sandarbh Parshv Prakashan 2013
Dr. N. R. Vadgama
2009
24. Kal Sachave Pagla (Ed.) Prakashak : Ramesh Parekh
Parivar Sellor : Navbharat
Sahitya Mandir
2009
2011
25. Swarnim Kavyakumbh (Ed.) Prakashak : Saurashtra
University, Rajkot
2011
Dr. N. R. Vadgama
2009
26. Kal Sachave Pagla (Ed.) Prakashak : Ramesh Parekh
Parivar Sellor : Navbharat
Sahitya Mandir
2009
2011
27. Swarnim Kavyakumbh (Ed.) Prakashak : Saurashtra
University, Rajkot
2011
Dr. Bipin Ashar
2009
28. Samidh-3 (Edited) Sau. Uni. Gu. Adh. Sangh
Prakashan
2009
2010
29. Samidh-4 (Edited) Sau. Uni. Gu. Adh. Sangh
Prakashan
2010
30. Samidh-5 (Edited) Sau. Uni. Gu. Adh. Sangh
Prakashan
2010
2011
31. Dr. Ambadan Rohadiya : Parichay ane
Yogdan (Edited)
p.p. j.j. memorial Trust 2011
32. Gujarati Kavita : Ashvad ane Avabodh
(Ed.)
Parshv Prakashan 2011
2013
33. Svashu Chhu Hun Gazalma (Ed.) 2013
Dr. Ambadan Rohadiya
2010
34. Kuchchhdarshan (Ed.) 2010
2012
35. Charni Sahitya(Ed.) Rajbhasha 2012
Dr. Deepak Patel
487
2010
36. Keshubhai Desai no Varta Vishes
(Editor)
R. R. Sheth & Co. Pvt.
Ltd.
2010 ISBN 978-
93-80868-67-7
List of Books : 20
Dr. B.S. Jani
2013
1 Navnidhi Parshv Prakashan 2013
Dr. N. R. Vadgama
2009
2. Ramanlal Joshi (Parichay Pustika) Parichay Trust,
2009
2010
3. Mareez (Hindi) Hindi Sahitya Academy 2010
2011
4. Aarpar (Gazal Sangrah) Navbharat Sahitya Mandir 2011
5. Aparampar (Gazal Sangrah) Navbharat Sahitya Mandir 2011
Dr. Bipin Ashar
2010
6. LoksahityaBahni (Vivechan-
Sanshodhan)
Divine Publication 2010
7. Bhartiyanvalkatha (Vivechan) Divine Publication 2010
8. Shabdashan (Vivechan) Gujarat Sahitya Akadamyni
Sahaythi
2010
9. Rashtrayan: (Vivechan) Saurashtra University 2010
2011
10. Navalkatha : Charcha ane Chikitshah
(Vivechan)
Saurashtra University 2011
2012
11. Toonkivarta : Abhyash ane Aashvad
(Vivechan)
Parshv Prakashan 2012
12. Anveshan ane Akalan (Sanshodhan-
Vivechan)
Parshv Prakashan 2013
Dr. Ambadan Rohadiya
2009
13. Charni Sahitya : Pooja ane Pariksha 2009
2011
14. Shabdayan 2011
Dr. Manoj Joshi
2011
15. Manas Mahatma 2011
16. Ame Avya, Ame Teva 2011
17. Shabdashoorni Shathiya 2011
488
2013
18. Manasganga 2013
Dr. Deepak Patel
2009
19. Bheelee Sahityakruti Ane Sanskruti Saurashtra University,
Rajkot
2009 ISBN No :
978-80101-65-1
2011
20. Nibandhalok Saurashtra University,
Rajkot
2011 ISBN 978-
81-921413-7-4
23. Details of patents and income generated: Nil
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil
25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: Yes
1) Dr B.S. Jani Barmingham college,Sorobon University Briten(2009-2011
2) Dr N.R. Vadgama Advanstudies & Research Center( Simla)(2010)
3) Dr M.H. Joshi Advanstudies & Research Center( Simla) (2010,2012)
26. Faculty serving in:
l) National Committees
1) Dr. Balvant Jani, National Chairman, Akhil Sahitya Parishad,
New Delhi, 2009 to 2013
2) Dr. Balvant Jani, UGC-NET Subject Committees, New Delhi,
2009 to 2013
3) Dr. Nitin Vadgama, UGC-NET Subject Committees, New Delhi,
2009 to 2013
4) Dr. Bipin Ashar, UGC-NET Subject Committees, New Delhi,
2009 to 2013
5) Dr. Bipin Ashar, SLET Subject Committees, Vadodara, 2009 to 2013
6) Dr. Ambadan Rohadia, Nominated a Member of Gujarati Advisory Board,
Sahity Akadamy, 2013 to 2018
7) Dr. Manoj Joshi, UGC-Minor/ Major Project Expert Committees, New Delhi,
2009 to 2013
8) Dr. Deepak Patel, A Member Of Post Doctoral Committees Award
Fellowship, 2010-2011 in Subject of Gujarati
b) International Committees :
1) Dr B.s Jani Ginan(2009-2012)
c) editorial board
1) Dr. Balvant Jani, VAAK Journal, Saurashtra University
Dr. Balvant Jani, Folk literature, Maisur
2) Dr. N. R. Vadgama, Sayujay, Saurashtra University, Rajkot (2009-2012)
3) Dr. N. R. Vadgama, VAAK Journal, Saurashtra University (2013-2014)
4) Dr. B. V. Ashar, Samidh (2009-2012)
5) Dr. A. K. Rohadiya, VAKK Journal Huminity , Saurashtra University
(2012-2013)
6) Dr. Deepak Patel, VAAK Journal, Saurashtra University
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27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes,
workshops, training programmes and similar programmes):
a) UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation programmes
Dr. Deepak Patel
1. Special Summer
School-2012 (RC)
Rajkot 9/7/2012
to
29/7/2012
UGC-
ASC
Rajkot
Special Summer
School-2012
(RC)
b) UGC, ASC training programmes and similar programmes):
Dr. Deepak Patel
Sr.
No.
Programme Duration
With dates
Organized by
1 P.C. Hardware & Future
Technology
26/12/2011 to
01/01/2012
UGC-ASC Rajkot
2 Gandhi Vichar 25/10/2012 to
31/12/2012
UGC-ASC Rajkot
3 Search & Research 21/10/2013 to
27/10/2013
UGC-ASC Rajkot
28. Student projects: M.Phil - 142 Total Thesis
29. Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by :
1) Dr. N. R. Vadgama, Shoonay Palanpuri Award, 2010
2) Dr. Ambadan Rohadia, "Pravashi Rajshthani Sahityakar Award", Rajshtahni
Bhasha-Sahitya Ane Sanskruti Academi, Bikaner,(Raj.) 10-03-2013, Rs.
51,000/-
30. Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
National :
1) "Gujarati Sahitya Swaroop" Parisamvad, 24/25-03-2009, UGC
2) Umashankar Joshi Ane Sridhraninu Sahityakshetre Pradan, 17-03-2011,
Gujarat Sahitya Academi, Gandhinagar
3) Pushkar Chandarvakarnu Loksahitya Kshetre Pradan, 14-02-2012, Zaverchand
Meghani Loksahitya Kendra,Rajkot
4) Internation Saraswat Swand, Parishamvad, 24-12-2012
5) "Madhykalin Gujarati Katha Sahitya", 22/23-03-2013, UGC
Workshop :
1) 'Folk Literature in Gujarati', 10-02-2011 to 19-02-2011
31. Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
1. JADA VINOD J. OBC 2009-2010 (UGC: JRF)
2. Chauhan Vinu SC 2011-2012 (Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship)
32. Student profile programme-wise:
Selected Pass Percentage
490
Name
of the
Program
(refer to
question
no. 4)
Application
received
M.A. 2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
107 45 51 42
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
40+36=
76
21+41=
66
19+20=
39
13+19=
32
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
100% 100% 100% 100%
M. Phil. 2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
56 62 57 66
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
13 18 22 25
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
100% 100% 100% 100%
Ph. D. 2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
13 58 62 80
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
13 30 35 20
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
100% 100% 100% 100%
33. Diversity of students:
Name
of the
Progr
am
(refer
to
questi
on
no.4)
% of students From the
Same University
% of student From other
Universities Within the
state
% of
students
From
Universi
ties
Outside
the state
% of
studen
ts
From
other
countr
ies
PG
to
M.
Phil.
200
9-
201
0
201
0-
201
1
201
1-
201
2
201
2-
201
3
92 90 89 91
200
9-
201
0
201
0-
201
1
201
1-
201
2
201
2-
201
3
08 10 11 09
_ _
Ph. D.
200
9-
201
0
201
0-
201
1
201
1-
201
2
201
2-
201
3
98 97 99 98
200
9-
201
0
201
0-
201
1
201
1-
201
2
201
2-
201
3
02 03 01 02
_ _
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,
NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations ? Give details category-wise.
1. Jada Vinod J. Obc 2009-2010
2. Chavda Piyush Obc 2010-2011
3. Kanpariya Ketan Open 2010-2011
4. Mankodi Stuti Open 2011-2012
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5. Babriya Suresh Open 2011-2012
6. Odedara Geeta Obc 2011-2012
7. Bhanderi Parul Open 2011-2012
8. Zapdiya Kanti Obc 2011-2012
9. Kanzariya Sunita Obc 2011-2012
10. Memkiya Labhu Obc 2012-2013
11. Pandya Kaushik Open 2012-2013
35. Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG 2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
- - - -
PG to M. Phil. 2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
40% 45% 38% 30%
PG to Ph. D.
2009-
2010
2010-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-
2013
5% 7% 6% 2%
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral -
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
_
Entrepreneurs:
_
36. Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 05
From other universities within state 01
From universities from other states Nil
From universities outside the country Nil
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: Nil
38. Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library : Yes 2375 Books
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
c) Total number of class-rooms: 05
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 01
e) Students‘ Laboratories: No
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f) Research Laboratories:
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates:
Dr. Neetin Vadgama
1. Nivya Patel 2009
2. Jagdish Trivedi 2009
3. Mayur Jani 2012
Dr. Bipin Ashar
1. Haresh Jobanputra 2009
2. Hariyani Natvarlal A. 2009
3. Paresh K. Jani 2012
4. Urmila Patel 2012
5. Nayna Ardeshna 2012
6. Ravindra Mehta 2013
7. Sumita Akbari 2013
Dr. Ambadan Rohadiya
1. Bharti Patel 2010
2. Chetna Pandya 2010
3. Vaghela Virbhadrasinh 2011
4. Jadeja Anandba Hemantsinh 2010
5. Darshana D. Vyash 2011
6. Nilesh Bhatt 2013
7. Kishordan Lalubhai Gadhavi 2013
Dr. Manoj Joshi
1. Trivedi Vaibhavi Joshi 2011
2. Toliya Vinodrai Maheshkumar 2011
3. Vadadodariya Nayana Popatbhai 2012
Dr. Deepak Patel
1. Chavda Jagdish R. 2011
2. Chaudhary Harindra V. 2012
3. Bagda Madhur P. 2013
40. Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University :
Fellowship & Merit Scholarship
2009-10 M.Phil Student Fellowship
1 Dave Rajesh Bhimajibhai SC 25000/-
2. Solnaki Devjibhai Bijalbhai SC 25000/-
3. Vaja Ketan Poonjabhai SC 25000/-
4. Rathod Anil Nathabhai SC 25000/-
5. Bagada Madhurbhai Premjibhai SC 25000/-
2010-11 M.Phil Student Fellowship
1 Ravliya Shobhana Mavjibhai SC 25000/-
2. Solnaki Somabhai Bhikhabhai SC 25000/-
3. Vagh Dinesh Govindbhai SC 25000/-
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2011-12 M.Phil Student Fellowship
1. Makwana Meena SC 25000/-
2. Ranva Sneha SC 25000/-
3. Parmar Jayesh Chhaganbhai SC 25000/-
4. Parmar Narendra Batuklal SC 30000/-
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology.
1) Entire Folk Literature PG
2) A Culture Study Centre
42. Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback: Yes
b) Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ? Yes
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ? Yes
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1) Dr. Jagdish Dave, London
2) Dr. Naresh Ved, Ex. Vice Chancellor, V.V. Nagar
3) Dr. Vinod Joshi, HOD. Bhavnagar
4) Dr. Usha Upadhyay, HOD, Ahmedabad
5) Dr. Hashu Yagnik, Ahmedabad
6) Dr. Balvant Jani, Ex. Vice Chancellor, Rajkot
7) Shree Rajendra H. Gadhavi, Addi. Collector
8) Dr. Jagdish Trivedi, Artist
9) Dr. Jayesh Bhogayata, Prof. M.S. University, Baroda
10) Dr. Nirjan Rajyaguru, Bhajnik
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshops/seminar)
involving external experts:
Special Lecture: 1. Dr. M. H. Patel 2009
2. Dr. V. H. Joshi 2009
3. Rajul Dave 2010
4. Dr. Satish Vyash 2010
5. Dr. Neeta Bhagat 2011
6. Dr. Hashu Yagnik 2011
7. Dr. Pyarali Jiva 2012
8. Dr. Niranj Rajayguru 2012
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Lecture
LCD – PPT
Diction
Assignment
Seminar
Group Decisions
46. How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored? Yes
1. Classroom Seminar, Assignment, Internal Exam
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2. Coaching
3. Visit to Old age Home
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities
1. Radio Toke - Dr. Nitin Vadgama, Dr. B.V.Ashar, Dr. A.k. Rohadia, Dr. Manoj
Joshi
2. T.V. Programme - Dr. Nitin Vadgama, Dr. B.V.Ashar, Dr. A.k. Rohadia, Dr.
Manoj Joshi
3. Ph. D., M. Phil. & M.A. Refresh in Various University/Pepersetting - All
Faculty Members
4. Uni. Ex Co-ordinator - Dr. Deepak Patel
5. NET & Remedial Coaching - Dr. Deepak Patel & All Faculty Members
6. 1) Naheru Chair - Dr. Nitin Vadgama
2) Gujabdas Broker Chair - Dr. Manoj Joshi
3) Rajchandra Chair - Dr. Balvant Jani
4) Jain Academy - Dr. Balvant Jani
48. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
Seminar, Workshop, Other Competition, Social Welfare Camp., Group Diction
49. State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other agencies? If
yes, give details. Yes, NAAC
50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge,
basic or applied
Menue Script ology, Folk Literature, Editing & Research
51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of
the Department
1. Strengths:
1. Collection of Reference Book related M.A./M. Phil. Course.
2. Collection of rear Books in the Subject Charni And Folk Literature.
3. Collection old Charni 20000 Manu Script.
4. Collection of rear musical Instrument and Music.
5. Collection of ethnic Embroidery
2. Weakness
1. Less student Enrolled M.A.
2. Recent Teaching Position
3. Strength of the students is decreased
4. Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
1. Good number of professor
2. Well-equipped computer facilities
3. Funding Facility of Research
4. Good Number of Ph. D. Students
52. Future plans of the Department
1. History of Gujarati Folk tell and Folk Song.
2. Charni Menu Script Publication
3. Collection of Gujarati Pro-word
4. Encyclopedic of Gujarati Bhajan
5. Research Tribal Literature of Saurashtra and Kuchchh.
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1. Name of the Department Biosciences
2. Year of establishment: 1969
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes (Faculty of Science)
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated Masters; Integrated
Ph. D., D. Sc., D.Litt., etc.)
The Department offers full time Post Graduate programmes like
M.Sc in Botany, Zoology and Microbiology
M.Phil in Botany, Zoology, Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology & Plant Molecular
Biology
Ph. D. in Botany, Zoology, Microbiology
M.Sc in Biotechnology is running in the Institute of Biotechnology being coordinated by
Prof. S.P. Singh, HOD Department of Biosciences
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved:
Interdisciplinary research is very much promoted by encouraging the faculties to go for
inter-Departmental projects, consultancy projects. The collaborative projects with the
prominent National and International Institutes are the testimony of the collaborations of
the multi-instituions.
The Department has conducted two multi-institute major research projects involving IIT-
Delhi, Delhi University-South Campus and Wild-Life Institute, Dehradun in recent past.
Multi institutional approach is also reflected in some projects sponsored by the
Government of Gujarat.
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: NIL
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons NIL
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/: Choice Based Credit System :
Semester System
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Yes, partial
involvements with few Departments like Physics etc.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Asst. Professors/others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 3 1 5
Associate Professors 4 3 1
Asst. Professors 7 2 4 (Contractual)
Others
11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience
and research under guidance
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Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
Years of
Experience
No. of Ph.
D./ M. Phil.
students
guided for
the last 4
years
Dr. S.P. Singh Ph. D. Professor &
Head
Microbiology,
Biotechnology,
Extremophiles
26 M.Phil : 12
Ph. D. : 08
Dr. Vrinda S. Thaker Ph. D. Professor Plant Physiology, Plant
Biotechnology
23 M.Phil : 18
Ph. D. : 06
Dr. Sumitra V.
Chanda
Ph. D. Professor Plant Physiology,
Biochemistry, Herbal
Technology, Nano
Biotechnology
21 M.Phil : 02
Ph. D. : 08
Dr. Rahul Kundu Ph. D. Professor Zoology, Marine Diversity
& Ecology, Eco-
Toxicology, Marine
Biotechnology
20 M.Phil : 10
Ph. D. : 06
Dr. Nilesh S. Panchal Ph. D. Professor Plant Ecology, Desert
Ecology
18 M.Phil : 1
Dr. BRM Vyas Ph. D. Associate
Professor
Environmental
Microbiology, Food and
Agriculture Microbiology
16 M.Phil : 16
Ph. D. : 03
Dr. Varsha M Trivedi Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Avian Biology,
Arachnology, Entomology,
IPM
21 M.Phil : 02
Ms. Jigna H. Patel M.Sc. Assistant
Professor
Microbiology 04
Dr. V.C. Soni
(Retired &
Reappointed)
Ph. D. Professor Wildlife Biology,
Ornithology
42 M.Phil : 07
Ph. D. : 01
Dr. Mital Kaneria
(Contractual)
Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Botany 1
Dr. Kiran Chudasama
(Contractual)
Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Botany 1
Dr. Shweta Pathak
(Contractual)
Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Zoology
Dr. Vikram Raval
(Contractual)
Ph. D. Assistant
Professor
Microbiology
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors:
Prof. A.N. Pandey : Professor Emeritus, UGC
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information
Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio
M.Sc. : 10:1
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M. Phil : 2:1
Ph. D. : N/A
14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled
and actual:
Technical 04 03 04 (1Contractual)
Administrative 10 06 09 (3 Contractual)
15. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies:
Thrust Area identified in the CAS Programme of the UGC: Arid Zone Biology
i. Plant diversity and ecology
ii. Faunal diversity and ecology
iii. Microbial diversity
iv. Desertification and bio-resource utilization
The research thrust area of the Department is :
• Marine diversity, distribution and ecological status, evolutionary ecology, Sustainable eco-tourism, Marine Bio-resources
• EIA, environmental monitoring and ecological impact of industries on the coastal areas in this industrially developed coastal zone.
• Ecotoxicology, in respect to industrial impact on the biota. Toxicity bioassay &
Toxicity Testing for Pharma Industries, Herbal Technology, Nano Biotechnology
• Plant immunology, development of useful antibodies for botanical research, Plant molecular biology and medicinal values of certain plant species
• Microbial diversity of the haloalkanophilic bacteria and actimomycetes which thrive in the saline habitats.
• Xenobiotic degradation of the dyes used by the cotton dyeing and printing industries
16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise.
Name Project Funding Agency Tenure Total
Outlay
Prof. V.S.
Thaker
Plant Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering
Department of science and
technology, Government of
Gujarat
2007-2013 147.82
Prof. V.S.
Thaker
BIT Virtual. The Virtual
Institute of Bioinformatics.
Collaborative Research
Project with various
Universities of State and
APBioNet, Singapore DST,
GSBTM
2008-2013 173.64247
Prof. V.S.
Thaker
Molecular marker studies
on plant pathogenicity and
development of pathogen
diagnostic kit.
GSBTM, (DST), Gandhinagar 2011-2013 19.86960
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Prof. S.V. Chanda
Utilization of fruit and vegetable peels as a
potential source of
antimicrobial and
antioxidant agent with
their phytochemical
analysis
UGC Major Research Project 2010-2013 10, 25,760
17. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received
f) National collaboration b) International collaboration :
a. National Collaboration : Screening of biotechnologically Useful Enzymes in
Halophiles/haloalkaliphiles from Coastal Areas of Gujarat: Molecular and
Functional Characterization for Industrial Application DBT New Delhi-Multi-
Institution-al Project, 4 years + 6 months extension (August 2007-August
2010) Extension till March 2012, 32.54
b. International collaboration: Nil
18. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received. :
Research Projects: During the last 5 years, the grant received from the
funding agencies for 14 MRP and 4 Industry sponsored consultancy projects was Rs 5.70
Crore. The Department is also extending its expertise on rapid EIA and Environmental
Monitoring Studies, especially in the areas of marine and coastal ecology for the major
industries located around the Saurashtra coastline since more than a decade. Mega
industries like Reliance Petroleum Ltd., Essar Oil Limited, GHCL, Digvijay Cement Ltd.,
Dyeing and Printing Industries of Jetpur and few Salt Works included in this list. Break-
up estimate is Infrastructural and R&D Projects from central funding agencies (DST,
DBT, UGC, CSIR etc.), State funding from GSBTM, Gujarat Govt., and consultancy
projects from Industries : Total Financial Assistance received during last five years: 570
Lacs. (Central Govt. Funded: 131.79 Lacs, State Govt. Funded: 413.71 Lacs, Industries
Funded: 32.5 Lacs).
Faculty
Name
Title of the Project Funding Agency Period of
Operation
Grant/
Amount
Mobilized
(Rs. Lakh)
Departmental
Projects
Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS)
FIST Phase-I Programme (DST)
UGC
DST
2013-
2018
2006-
2011
136.00
55.00
S.P. Singh
Screening of biotechnologically
Useful Enzymes in
Halophiles/haloalkaliphiles from
Coastal Areas of Gujarat: Molecular
and Functional Characterization for
Industrial Application
DBT (Multi-
Institutional
Project)
2007-
2012
32.54
Studies in Plant Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering
Govt. of Gujarat 2007-
2013
147.82
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V.S.Thaker BITVirtual
. The Virtual Institute of Bioinformatics. Collaborative
Research Programme with various
Universities of State and APBioNet,
Singapore
GSBTM (Govt. of Gujarat)
2008-2013
173.64
Molecular marker studies on plant
pathogenicity and development of
pathogen diagnostic kit.
GSBTM (Govt.
of Gujarat)
2011-
2013
19.87
S.V.Chanda
Utilization of fruit and vegetable peels
as a potential source of antimicrobial
and antioxidant agent with their
phytochemical analysis
UGC Major
Research Project
2010-
2013
10.26
R.S.Kundu
Tourism and coastal health: An
ecological study of the key intertidal
macrofauna at anthropogenically
influenced Somnath and Diu coasts of
South Saurashtra coastline.
UGC Major
Research Project
2007-
2010
4.01
Marine Wealth of Saurashtra Coast:
Coastal Biodiversity and the Status of
Marine Living Resources of
Saurashtra.
Govt. Of Gujarat
Major Research
Programme
2007-
2010
25.55
Monitoring of the marine environment
for the water quality at the refinery
complex of Essar Oil limited. PHASE-
III. (Consultancy Project)
ESSAR OIL
LTD.
Jamnagar
2008-
2009
6.50
Monitoring of the marine environment
for the water quality at the refinery
complex of Essar Oil limited. PHASE-
IV (Consultancy Project)
ESSAR OIL
LTD.
Jamnagar
2009-
2010
6.50
BRM Vyas
Effects of Waste-waters on Crops and
Ground Water Quality (Consultancy
Project)
Jetpur Dying &
Printing
Association,
Jetpur
2008-
2009
7.00
V.C.Soni Ecology, behavior and highly dense
populations (Melursus ursinus) and
conflict in Jessore wildlife Gujarat and
Mount Abu Rajasthan Phase I & II
With Wildlife
Institute of India
(Grant-in aid)
2007-
2012
57.50
N.S. Panchal Botany Seed Money
Project
Saurashtra
University
2011-
2012
0.50
J.H. Patel Microbiology Seed Money
Project
Saurashtra
2011-
2012
0.50
500
University
19. Research facility / centre with :
state recognition Nil
national recognition : UGC-Centre of Advance Studies (CAS)
international recognition Nil 20. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies :
NIL
21. Publications:
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) :
National 66, International 79
∗ Monographs : National: 4, International: 2
∗ Chapters in Books : National: 2, International: 21
∗ Edited Books : NA
∗ Books with ISBN with details of publishers : 2([ISBN 987-3-8484-8302-0,
ISBN 987-3-8466-8665-4].
∗ Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences
Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) : NA
∗ Citation Index – range / average : - NA
∗ SNIP : - NA
∗ SJR : - NA
∗ Impact Factor – range / average : Total 5 year : 78.117, Range 0.204 -3.25 Avg. 15.6234/year
2010
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
5.826 8.646 16.437 22.633 24.463
∗ h-index : - NA
22. Details of patents and income generated:
Patents Developed and applied
• Rohan Pandya & Prof. Dr. Vrinda S. Thaker : 704/MUM/2009, November 23, 2009
• Madhvi Joshi & Prof. Dr. Vrinda S. Thaker : 144/MUM/2011, 17th Jan 2011
23. Areas of consultancy and income generated :
The Department is also extending its expertise on rapid EIA and Environmental
Monitoring Studies, especially in the areas of marine and coastal ecology, to the major
industries located around the Saurashtra coastline like Reliance Petroleum Ltd., Essar Oil
Limited, GHCL, Digvijay Cement Ltd. few Salt Works, Dyeing and Printing Industries
and toxicity bioassay and toxicity testing for Pharma Industries Total resources generated
as consultancy is 32.5 Lacs.
24. Faculty selected nationally/internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions /
industries in India and abroad : Around 1-2 every year
25. Faculty serving in :
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National Committees : 6 Faculties
International Committees : 3 Faculties
Editorial Boards : 5 Faculties
Any other (please specify) : Nil
Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops,
training programs and similar programs).
26. Student projects
percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-
departmental projects : 100%
percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities
/ industry / institute : 20 %
27. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
a. Faculty : 2 Faculties
b. Doctoral / post-doctoral fellows : Doctoral Fellows : 36, Post-Doctoral Fellow
: 7
c. Students : Nil
28. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.
Three Seminars conducted.
1. National Seminar on ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,
14th December, 2009.
2. SWARNIM GUJARAT SYMPOSIUM ON TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,
16-17 September, 2010
3. THIRD ANNUAL RESEARCH SEMINAR: ARS - 2013, 17-18 January, 2013
29. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments : The Department has an open
system for publication. No case of plagiarism has been reported so far. The Department
also has a plagiarism committee.
30. Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the Program
(refer to question no.4)
Application
received
Selected Pass Percentage
Male Female Male Female
M.Sc. 1460 98 210 91.83 91.42
M. Phil. 158 24 48 83.33 70.83
Ph. D. 175 21 25 --- ---
31. Diversity of students
Name of the % of students % of student % of students % of students
Program From the From other From Universities From other
(refer to question no.4) Same Universities Outside the state countries
University Within the state
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M.Sc 80 10 10 Nil
M. Phil -- -- -- Nil
Ph. D. -- -- -- Nil
32. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,
NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.
Around 6
33. Student progression
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG --
PG to M. Phil. 24
PG to Ph. D. 20
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral
Employed
• Campus selection
• Other than campus recruitment
05
42
Entrepreneurs 06
34. Diversity of staff
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
of the same University 03
from other universities within the State 04
from universities from other States 02
from universities outside the country Nil
35. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period : 1 Faculty
36. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library: Yes
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes
c) Total number of class rooms: 01
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d) Class rooms with ICT facility: Yes
e) Students‘ laboratories: 03
f) Research laboratories: 09
37. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates
a) from the host institution/University : Doctoral -24, PDF - 01
b) from other institutions/universities : Doctoral-08, PDF – Nil
38. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University. :
NA
39. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.
The development of new programmes are always within the existing programmes of the
Department which are already most modern.
40. Does the department obtain feedback from
41. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Frequent feedback in Staff Council meetings. Recommendations are implemented
immediately.
students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback?
Feedback from the students are regularly taken at semester end using faculty feedback
form of UGC. The feedback received are communicated to the faculties for their perusal.
Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback?
Feedback received are presented in the Staff Council for discussion and implementation.
42. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10):
1. Dr. S. C. Sharma, Former Head, Division of Forest Ecology, Forest
Research Institute of India (FRI), DEHRADUN, Uttaranchal.
2. Dr. N. R. Maknkad, Senior Scientist, NISCOM (INSDOC) - CSIR,
NEW DELHI.
3. Dr. K.C. Paliwal, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
Madurai Kamraj University, MADURAI, Tamil Nadu.
4. Dr. M.A. Kawosa, IFS, Chief Conservator of Forests, Jammu and
Kashmir State, SRINAGAR, J&K.
5. Dr. M. K. Ranjitsingh, IAS (Retired), INTACH, NEW DELHI.
6. Dr. P.K. Mathur, Professor & Head, Department of Landscape
Planning & Management, Wildlife Institute of India, DEHRADUN,
Uttaranchal.
7. Dr. A. B. Bhatt, Professor, Department of Botany, HNB University of
Garhwal, SRINAGAR, Uttranchal.
8. Dr. D. P. Vashishth, Department of Botany, HNB University of
Garhwal, SRINAGAR, Uttranchal.
9. Dr. G. V. Saratbabu, Additional Director (CS), Ministry of
Environment & Forests, (DoEn), Govt. of India, Paryavaran Bhavan,
CGO Complex, NEW DELHI.
10. Dr. Subhash Naithani, Professor, Department of Life Sciences,
Bundelkhand University, JHANSI, M.P.
43. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
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involving external experts.
Key note addresses in the seminar and conferences and guest lectures by external
resource persons are a regular feature of the Department. This activity is looked after by
the LSA of the Department.
44. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Classical Class room teaching
Teaching with PowerPoint presentation
Teaching using audio-visual aids.
Computer Assisted teaching
Computer aided teaching with extensive uses of on line materials.
45. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored?
By periodic feedback from the stakeholders concerned.
46. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
The students participate in the extension work through the Life Science Association of
the Department. The LSA is a students body headed by a faculty appointed by the Staff
Council of the Department.
47. Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the department. Seminars on burning topics
Group discussions
Notice board publications
Quiz
48. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes,
give details.
The department, over the years has contributed greatly to the cause of teaching and
Research in varied areas of biological sciences and with time it has adapted newer
approaches into its curriculum and research activities.
·EIA, Environmental Monitoring and ecological studies on the sensitive zones were
standardized and the expertise was utilized by the industries which are situated on the
coastal areas in the industrially developed coastal zone of Saurashtra region of the
Gujarat State.
·Developed artificial seeds of garlic. Medicinal Importance of the plants
·Copy rights obtained for the software developed for leaf area measurement, ©
Muchhadia D. and Thaker V. (2006)
·Cloning, sequencing and over expression of saline- tolerant proteases from cultivable
and non-cultivable halophilic bacteria from the saline habitats of Coastal Gujarat in
India. The work includes improvement of enzymatic properties through molecular
evolution mediated by sequence optimization of the potential saline- tolerant proteases
and other enzymes.
Xenobiotic degradation &
·Toxicity Bioassay & Toxicity Testing for Pharma Industries, Wild life Biology and
Insects diversity
49. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic
or applied.
Major Strengths :
Research Outputs in terms of high quality of research publications
Large number of research projects sanctioned from almost all funding agencies of
Government of India.
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Besides, many industries and NGO's have also recognized our standing in the field and
have granted projects and consultancy services
Our infrastructure and quality of the education has been constantly increasing as
reflected by the acceptance of pour students by various sectors for employment
On account of research quality, the department is well known on national and
international platforms, as also reflected by the fact that many of our faculty and students
are awarded international fellowships.
Around 30 Meritorious Research Fellowships have been given by UGC.
Weaknesses :
Inadequate space in terms of increasing research areas and student strength
Inadequate faculty strength
Limited academic flexibility
Insufficient facilities to the differently abled people
Absence of the academic audit.
Opportunities :
Developing competent human resources to meet the emerging challenges
Offering quality consultancy/ extension services using available expertise.
consolidating and strengthening of self-financing courses
ICT enabled / aided teaching learning process.
Value added courses and research programmes
Challenges :
Novel teaching learning methods
Newer horizons or research
Channelizing human resourcesDetail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
and Challenges (SWOC) of the department.
50. Future plans of the department.
(a) To make the teaching more effective newer audio-visual technologies and on line teaching
methods are to be incorporated.
(b) The teaching learning processes to be more research oriented in the PG level.
(c) Research areas are to be expanded in the following areas:
• Coastal marine diversity, distribution and ecological status, Sustainable eco-tourism.
• Marine Bioresources and Marine Biotechnology .
• EIA, environmental monitoring and ecological impact of industries on the coastal
areas in this industrially developed coastal zone.
• Ecotoxicology, in respect to industrial impact on the biota. Toxicity bioassay & Toxicity Testing for Pharma based and other Industries
• Plant immunology, development of useful antibodies for botanical research, Plant molecular biology and medicinal values of certain plant species
• Microbial diversity of the haloalkanophilic bacteria and actimomycetes which thrive in the saline habitats.
• Xenobiotic degradation of the dyes used by the cotton dyeing and printing industries
• Medicinal plants and usefulness
• Insect diversity and Avian biology
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Evaluative Report of the Department
1 Name of the Department: Department of Business Management
2 Year of Establishment: 1996
3 Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University? Yes
4 Names of Programmes offered:
Programs Name of the Programmes
PG MBA
M. Phil. Management
Ph. D. Management
Diploma PGDBA
Executive Course MBA Executive Programme
5 Interdisciplinary programmes and Departments involved: Yes, PGDHM
6 Courses in collaboration with other Universities, Industries, Foreign
institutions etc. None
7 Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: None
8 Examination system: Semester with Choice Based Credit System
9 Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments:
Teaching through faculties from other departments
10 Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate
Professors/Assistant Professor/Others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (Including CAS &
MPS)
Professor 1 1 3
Associate Professor 2 - -
Assistant Professor 3 1 2
Others 3 3 3
11 Faculty Profile with Name, Qualification, Designation, Area of Specialization,
expertise and research under guidance:
Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of
years of
experience
No. of Ph.
D./
M. Phil.
students
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr.
Pratapsinh
Chauhan
M. Com.
Ph. D., FDP
From IIMA
Professor
and Head
Finance and
Accounting
25 20
Dr.
Sanjay
Bhayani
M. Com.
M. Phil.
Ph. D., FDP
Professor Finance and
Accounting
22 20
Dr. Hitesh
Shukla
M. Com.
Ph. D., FDP
from IIMA
Professor Finance and
Accounting
21 18
507
Mr. Mayur
Parmar
MBA Asst. Professor
Finance and Marketing
5
Mr.
Vishal
Javiya
MBA Asst.
Professor
Marketing 5
Ms. Dhara
Jethwa
M. Com
M. Phil.
MBA
Asst.
Professor
Finance and
Marketing
5
Mr. Vaju
Jadav
MBA Asst.
Professor
Finance and
H. R.
2
12 List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Emeritus Professor:
Senior Visiting Fellow: 01
13 Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty: Programme-wise
information: NIL
14 Programme-wise student Teacher ratio:
Name of Programme Student Teacher Ratio
MBA 1:25
M. Phil. Management 1:5
PGDBA 1:12
Ph. D. 1:8
15 Number of Academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:
sanctioned, filled and actual:
Support and Administrative
Staff
Sanctioned Filled
Clerk 1 1
Peon 1 1
Clerk (Contractual) 3 3
Peon (Contractual) 2 2
16 Research thrust area as recognized by major funding agencies:
Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Mergers & Acquisition,
Corporate Governance and Disclosure
17 Number of faculty with ongoing projects from
a) National : 2
b) International Funding Agencies
c) Total Grant Received: 11.54 Lac
Name of the Projects:
1. Empirical Evidence on Corporate Governance in India: The effect on firm
value and performance funded Rs. 5 Lac by the University Grant Commission, New
Delhi, for the period of 2012-14
2. A Study of Relationship between corporate social responsibility and
Financial Performance funded Rs. 6.54 Lac by University Grant Commission (UGC),
New Delhi, for the period of 2013-2015
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18 Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received: NIL
(a) National collaboration (b) International collaboration
19 Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE, DBT,
ICRAR, AICTE etc. total Grants received: NIL
20 Research facility/Centre with: Nil
21 Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies: NIL
22 Publications:
Number of paper published in peer reviewed journals National /
International : 25
Chapter in Books: 02
Books Edited: 01
Books published: 02
23 Details of patents and income generated: NIL
24 Areas of consultancy and income generated: ―wiptech‖, Management
consultancy and free
25 Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/
institutions/industries in India and abroad: NIL
26 Faculty serving in: Nil
a) National committee : 03
b) International committee: 03
c) Editorial boards: 04
27 Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/ orientation
programmes, workshops, training programmes and similar programmes): Nil
28 Student projects: Nil
29 Awards and recognition received at the national and international level by: Nil
30 Seminar/conferences/workshops organized and the source of funding
(National/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any:
All India Accounting conference and International Seminar on Accounting
Education and Research on January 5-6, 2013, organized by Indian Accounting
Association Saurashtra University Branch and Department of Business Management,
Saurashtra University, Rajkot
31 Code of ethics for research followed by departments:
32 Student profile programme-wise:
Name of the
Programme
Application
Received
Selected Pass Percentage
Male Female Male Female
MBA Through
Central
Admission
Process
57 30 98 100
M. Phil. Through
Entrance
Test
9 4 100 100
PGDBA - 10 3 100 100
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33. Diversity of students:
Name of
Programme
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the state
% of students
from
universities
outside the
state
% of students
from other
countries
MBA 100 - 0 0
M. Phil. 100 - 0 0
Ph. D. 94 6 0 0
PGDBA 100 - 0 0
34 How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services
examinations, NET, SET, Gate and other competitive examinations?
Give
details category-wise.
35 Student progression:
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG -
PG to M. Phil. 5
PG to Ph. D. 2
Ph. D. to Post-doctoral -
Employed
• Campus selection
• Other than campus recruitment
70
20
Entrepreneurs:
36 Diversity of Staff:
Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 57
From other universities within state 43
From universities from other states -
From universities outside the country -
37 Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D. and D.Litt. during the
assessment period: NIL
38 Present details of Department infrastructural facilities with regard to:
a) Library: 5800 Books
b) Internet facilities for staff and students: 100%
c) Total number of class-rooms: 6
d) Class-rooms with ICT facility: 6
e) Students‘ Laboratories: Nil
f) Research Laboratories: Nil
39 List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates: 2
40Number of post-graduates students getting financial assistance from the University:
As Per University Rule
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41 Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so highlight the methodology: No
42 Does the Department obtain feedback from:
a) faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how
does the department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, to make curriculum competitive
b) students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, for the faculties‘ betterment
c) Alumni and employers on the programme offered and how does the
Department utilize the feedback ? Yes, at the time of revision of curriculum
43 List the distinguished Alumni of the Department (maximum 10):
1. Mr. Shailesh Pandit, Manager, Asian Paints, Kerela
2. Dr. Benny Joseph, Manager, Industry, Kochi
3. Mr. Sanket Rajani, B.M. Reliance Insurance, Ahmedabad
4. Dr. John Mathew, Consultant, Dubai
5. Dr. Alka Kshtriya, Member of Parliament
6. Mr. Mitesh Shah, Deputy Director, GTU
7. Ms. Hetali Gandhi, Consultant
8. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Manager
9. Mr. Daksh Trivedi, Industrialist
44 Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/
workshops/seminar) involving external experts:
Personality development
How to write effective resume
How to appear in interview
Research Methodology 45 List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes
Case Method
Presentation
Role Play
Quiz
Seminar
Assignment
Lecture
Group Discussion
Industrial Visit
46 How does the Department ensure that programme objectives are constantly
met and learning outcomes are monitored?
At the end of the programme, head and faculties seat together to review the
outcome of the programme and made changes as per the requirement.
47 Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
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Faculties and students joined hands with various industries like: Indian
Railway, Department of Income Tax, Rajkot Municipal Corporation and Local
community.
48 Give details of ―beyond syllabus scholarly activities‖ of the Department
General group meetings and discussions on yoga, sprituality and
their application to society.
49 State whether the programme/Department is accredited / graded by other
agencies ? If yes, give details
Contemporary Issues in management
Summer Training
Comprehensive Project
Live Project 50 Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new
knowledge, basic or applied
Through Ph. D. and M. Phil. Programmes, the department generales
naw knowledge in the field of classical and contemporary Indian
philosopher.
51 Detail five major Strenghts, Weaknesses, Oppotinities and Challenges
(SWOC) of the Department
Strength
High quality of Infrastructure
IIM trained experience faculty
Autonomy for development of curriculum and examination pattern
Use of innovative teaching methods in class
Financial assistance from various government agencies
Weakness
Shortage of faculty
Locational disadvantages Opportunities
Good Placement opportunity in SMEs and family based organization
Entrepreneurship skill development Challenges
Overall competition from professional private institute
Economic down trend
52 Future plans of the Department
Department is planning to launch specialized programme in the area of
International Business, Human Resource Management, Retails chain management etc.
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Evaluation Report of Department
1. Name of the Department : Law
2. Year of Establishment : 1979
3. Is the Department part of a Faculty
of the University : Law
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, : LL.M., Ph. D., PGDBL, PGDFS,
PG, M. Phil. , Ph. D., Integrated PGDEL, PGDLPO.
Masters; Integrated Ph. D., D.Sc. D.Litt., etc.)
5. Interdisciplinary Programmes and : PGDFS, Law & Bio-Science
Departments involved.
6. Courses in collaboration with other : PGDFS, Saurashtra University
Universities, industries, foreign & PDUMC
Institutions etc.
7. Details of programmes discontinued : PGDFT – Co-operation of other
If any, with reasons. Departments could not be
obtained
8. Examination System : Annual / : Continuing Evaluation + Semester
Semester/Trimester/Choice Based End
Credit System.
9. Participation of the department in : With Home Science Department
the courses offered by other Departments.
10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors /
Associate Professors / Asstt. Professors / others)
Sanctioned Filled Actual (including
CAS & MPS)
Professor 1 1 2
Associate Professor 1 1 1
Asst. Professors 2 1 NIL
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11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,
experience and research under guidance.
Name Qualificat
-ion
Designation Specialization No. of
Years
of
Exper
ience
No. of
Ph. D./
student s
guided
for the
last 4
years
Dr. N.K.
Indrayan
LL.M., Ph.
D.
Professor &
Head
Principles of
Legislation
38 4
Dr. B.G.
Maniar
LL.M., Ph.
D.
Professor Constitutional
Law
26 5
Dr. K.P.
Joshipura
LL.M.
Ph. D.
Associate
Prof.
Labour Law 25 1
Dr. K.G.
Vaishnav
LL.M.
Ph. D.
Asst. Professor
(Visiting
Teacher)
Criminal Law 19 0
Mr. Gaurang
Thaker
LL.M. Asst. Professor
(Visiting
Teacher)
Criminal Law 1 0
Mr. Amit Mehta LL.M. Visiting
Teacher
Business Law 0 0
12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors.
Visiting Fellows: 1. Prof. (Dr.) G.P. Verma – 2009-2010
2. Principal R.R. Vadodaria – 2010-2011
3. Prof.(Dr.) D.D. Dhamelia – 2011-2012
13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information.
LL.M. – 60
PGDBL- 00
PGDFS- 00
PGDEL -00
14. Programme-wise Students Teacher Ratio.
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LL.M. - 6:57
PGDBL - 1:6
PGDEL - 1:1
PGDFS - 1:6
15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff : sanctioned,
filled and actual.
Administrative Staff.
Sanctioned Filled Actual
4 4 4
16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies.NONE
17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding
agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project
title and grants received project-wise.
2 - National
Rs. 63,500=00
18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received.
National, BPR& D, New Delhi.
19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS,DPE; DBT, ICRAR,
AICTE, etc.; total grants received.
20. Research facility / centre with
National recognition.
21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate
bodies.
22. Publication
National International
Journals 12 1
Chapters in Book 4
Books with ISBN 8
Number of listed International Database
23. Details of patents and income generated.
24. Areas of consultancy and income generated.
Labour Law, Income - NIL
Family Law,
Revenue Law,
25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions
/ industries in India and abroad.
On Panel of National Level Highest Examining Body – Confidential – Civil Service All
Indian Level Competition.
26. Faculty serving in
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a) National committees b)International committees c)Editorial Boards
d) any other (please specify)
1. Dr. N.K. Indrayan – Chief Editor, Journal Indian Legal System.
2. Dr. B.G. Maniar - Associate Editor, Journal of Indian Legal System.
3. Dr. K.P. Joshipura – Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Indian Legal System.
27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,
workshops, training programs and similar programs.)
2009 -Electoral Reforms, Seminar. 2011-
Secularism & Law, Workshop.
28. Student projects.
Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects - 70
Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other
universities / industry / institute - 30
29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by.
Faculty - 2 Dr. N.K. Indrayan – Issued The Cambridge Certificate for outstanding educational
achievement.
Dr. K.P. Joshipura – Appointed VC of this University.
30. Seminars / Conferences /Workshops organized and the source of funding (national /
international) with details of outstanding participants, if any – 2 UGC
1. Electoral Reforms.
2. Secularism & Law
Outstanding Participants:
1. Dr. B.M. Shukla, Ex-Emeritus Professor.
2. Mr. H.S. Pathak, Ex-Director, University School of Law, Gujarat University.
3. Prof.(Dr.) K.C. Sunny, Head, Department of Law, Trivandrum
University, Trivandrum.
31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments.
a) Topics decided strictly in consultation with Faculty so that there is no
repeatition.
b) Candidates are advised to make thorough and exhaustive survey of literature before deciding the topic.
c) Data is checked at every stage.
32. Student profile programme-wise :
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Name of the programme
(refer to question no.4)
Applications
received
Selected Pass percentage
Male Female Male Female
LL.M. 69/106 20/19 11/12 100 100
PGDBL 6/10 4/5 2/5 100 100
PGDEL 1/11 6 4 100 00
PGDLPO 2/5 2/2 0/3 100 00
PGDFS 4/11 4/6 0/4 100 100
33. Diversity of students
Name of the
Programme
(refer to
question no.4)
% of students
from the same
University
% of students
from other
universities
within the State
% of students
from
universities
outside the
State
% of
students
from other
countries
LL.M. 93/90 7/10 3/3 00
PGDBL 100 00 00 00
PGDEL 100 00 00 00
PGDLPO 100 00 00 00
PGDFS 100 00 00 00
34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services
examinations, NET,SET,GATE and other competitive examinations ? Give details
category-wise.
8 have passed judiciary exam.
35. Student progression.
Student progression Percentage against enrolled
UG to PG N.A.
PG to M. Phil. N.A.
PG to Ph. D. 30
Ph. D. to Post-Doctoral N.A.
Employed
Campus selection
Other than campus recruitment
NI
L
20
Entrepreneurs 40
36.Diversity of staff
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Percentage of faculty who are graduates
Of the same University 80
From other universities within the state 00
From universities from other states 20
From universities outside the country 00
37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil. , Ph. D., D.Sc. and D.Litt.
during the assessment period.
38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to
a) Library : 1,000 Books departmental library
4,000 Books in Central Library.
b) Internet facilities for : 3 Data Cards are available.
Staff and students.
c) Total number of class : 10
rooms
d) Class rooms with ICT : 8
facility
e) Stude ts laďoratories : 1
f) Research laboratories : 1
39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates.
a) From the host institution / University.
1) Mr. Samir Runja
2) Ms. Bharati Rathore
3) Ms. Ridhdhi Sommanek
4) Ms. Pannaba Basiya
5) Ms. Akta Mehtga
6) Mr. Ashutosh Thaker,
7) Mr. Ashwin Sakhiya,
8) Mr. Bhumik Dave,
9) Ms. Kiran Moongra,
10) Mr. Om Prakash Pandey,
11) Mr. Kireet Pathak,
12) Ms. Dhara Thaker,
13) Ms. Avani Kanan.
14) Ms. Jagruti A. Parmar
b) From other institutions / universities.
1. Mr. Suresh Engineer, Gujarat University.
2. Ms. Parna Mukherji, Colcutta University.
3. Mr. P.M. Patel,SP University.
4. Mr. Maruti Kotwal,Gujarat University.
5. Ms. Asha Vanani,Gujarat University.
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6. Mr. Suketu Shah,Gujarat University.
7. Mr. Suryakant Solanki,Kutch University.
8. Mr. Harsha Dave, Gujarat University.
9. Mr. Dharmang C. Baxi, Gujarat University.
40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the University.NIL
41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new
programme(s) ? If so, highlight the methodology. NO
42. Does the department obtain feedback from,
a) Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation ? If yes, how does
the department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, Discuss in the meeting of Staff-Council Members.
b) Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the
department utilize the feedback ?
Yes, Discuss in the meeting of Staff-Council.YES
c) Alumni and employees on the programmes offered and how does the department
utilize the feedback ?
Discuss in the meeting of Alumni Association.
43. List the distinguished Alumni of the department (maximum 10).
Alumni List.(2012)
1. Justice J.N. Bhatt – Chief Justice, Bihar
2. Justice Sonia Gokani – Judge, High Court
3. Shri Shakti Singh Gohel – Opposition Leader in Assembly
4. Dr. K.P. Joshipura – Vice-Chancellor
5. Prof.(Dr.) B.L. Sharma – Vice-Chancellor
6. Dr. K.T. Trivedi – Pro-Vice-Chancellor
7. Prof.(Dr.) Yogesh Mehta – Acting Vice-Chancellor
8. Prin.(Dr.) J.A. Pandya – I/c. Vice-Chancellor
9. Mr. A.P. Thaker – Member Secretary, Gujarat State Legal Service Authority
10. Dr. D.D. Dhamelia - Dean
44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures /
workshops / seminar ) involving external experts.
Special Lecture – Branch Manager, CBI.
45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes are monitored ?
47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Legal Literacy Camp - Munjka Village.
48. Give details of ďeyo d syllaďus sĐholarly aĐtivities of the departŵe t.
49. State whether the programme / department is accredited / graded by other agencies ? If