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Convener: Dr. Sushil Kumar

Quality Initiatives by Internal Quality Assurance Cell Session 2021-2022

Annual Planning:

 Academic Calendar:

Internal Quality Assurance Cell prepared the Institutional Academic Calendar at the beginning of the session as per the schedule and guidelines provided in the academic calendar issued by the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for the session 2021-2022.

 Annual Action Plan:

Following the Strategic Plan (5 Year plan) of the SD College prepared after the NAAC accreditation in the Cycle III for the next five years of the accreditation period and inputs taken from Head of the department/Incharges of each department and Principal of the College, IQAC chalked out the Annual Plan for the session 2021-2022.   

Setting up the Benchmarks:

After the analysis of performance of the institution in the Annual Quality Assurance Reports of last four sessions submitted to NAAC, IQAC set up the benchmarks for each metric falling under Key indicators of all seven criterions for the session 2021-2022 for quality enhancement in the institution.

Designing/Updating PO’s,PSO’s & CO’s & its attainment mechanism

IQAC facilitated the design/revision of Programs Outcomes, Program Specific Outcomes and Course outcomes by each department for their respective programs & courses and published them on the college web site for the information of the students. IQAC also conducted the Orientation program for the staff for designing the PO’s , PSO’s and CO’s and its attainment.

 Handbook on Code of Conduct

Handbook for code of conduct for students, staff and management has been published on the college website . Code of conduct for students has also been published in the e-Prospectus of the college.

Curriculum Enrichment Initiatives

 Conduct of Add on/Certificate/value added programs for the holistic development of students

Ninety Two Add on /Certificate/value added courses on Technical Skills, Communication & Soft Skills , Life Skills & Cross Cutting issues have been offered to the students during the session as per their interests and inclinations for their holistic development.

Sr. No

Type of Skill

No of Courses

1.

Communication Skills

09

2.

Life Skills

16

3.

Technical Skills

59

4

Cross Cutting Issues (Environment Sustainability, Gender Sensitization, Human Values )

08

 

Total

92

Comprehensive Feedback System:

 IQAC facilitated the collection of Feedback for the design and review of curriculum from stakeholders viz Students, Teachers, Employers & Alumni department wise using structured and comprehensive mechanism. Feedbacks from students and teachers are collected at the end of the semester. Feedback from employers is taken during placement drives and through personal visits in their organizations. Feedback from alumni is collected during departmental alumni meets. Feedbacks collected are analyzed by the Head of the respective departments. Inputs given by the various stakeholders are handled on two levels:

  1. College Level
  2. University Level

Suggestions given by the stakeholders for the changes or up gradation of syllabus are documented and submitted to respective Board of study of the university for further action by the HOD of the respective departments after the approval of the governing body of the college. Other Suggestions given by the stakeholders for the enrichment and delivery of the curriculum is implemented by the Head of the departments and action taken reports are prepared and submitted to principal and IQAC for the review.

Quality Initiative in Evaluation Process:

 Rubric has been defined for the assessment of attainment of Learning Outcomes of Programs and courses this year.

Quality initiatives in Teaching-Learning Process:

 Set up of Lecture Recording Studio

New sound proof Lecture recording studio has been set up with chroma and video mixing set up to facilitate teachers to develop e-resources for the hybrid learning of the students.

Online Certificate Courses on LMS

20 online courses have been conducted through LMS by Department of Computer Science for the students, house wives, professionals, research scholars on national level and raised a fund of approximately 5,50,000/- for the college.

Quality Initiative for Institutionalization of Research & Innovation Culture in the College

S.No

Activity

No. of Participants

1.

Financial Assistance provided to Faculty Members to attend conferences/ workshops

52 faculty members have been provided financial assistance of amount Rs 51838/- to motivate them to participate in national/international/conferences /seminars/webinars/workshops/symposium and develop research culture in the institution.

2.

Research Publication in High impact Journals

14 Teachers published 14 quality research papers in UGC Care Journals

3.

Chapters/Papers/articles in Books/Proceedings

49 Teachers published 32 chapters/papers/articles in 03 Books/Proceedings.

4.

Proceedings for National Seminar

IQAC published eleven Proceedings titled:

1.     Proceedings of National Seminar on Pandemic and Future of Business

2.     Role of Digitization during COVID-19

3.     Proceedings of National Webinar on Quality Initiatives in Higher Education

4.     Road Safety Awareness in India

5.     Women Entrepreneurship and inclusive growth

6.     Emerging Trends of Technologies in Current Era

7.     Yoga in Modern Era

8.     Science, Technology and Innovation efforts to address COVID-19

9.      Indian Writing in English: Contemporary Trends and Concerns

10.   Gender Sensitive Issues and Women Empowerment

5.

Research Projects Funding

With the motivation of IQAC for interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research activities 19 Faculty members of 12 Departments had applied for research projects to non government agencies and an amount of Rs 2,60,000/- had been approved by various non government agencies to these departments.  

Innovation Ecosystem:

IQAC has facilitated the development of institutional innovation council and Entrepreneurship Development cell for creating the innovation ecosystem in the college. Under the cells 14 seminars/webinar/workshops have been conducted on Entrepreneurship, IPR and research related topics.

Collaborations & Functional MOU’s

Total 18 Memorandum of Understanding have been signed with industry, institutes of high eminence & other colleges for skill training of students & staff and conduct of collaborative academic activities.

  • 3 MoU’s with Industry
  • 1 MoU with Sanatan Dharma Education Board
  • 1 Mou with Rotary Club
  • 12 MoU with Affiliated ,Technical , Government & Engineering Colleges
  • 1 MOU for E-waste Management

Quality Initiatives in Infrastructural up-gradation & Promoting Green Practices:

For providing the conducive, safe, healthy & eco friendly environment for learning, following facilities have been created in the college for the students:

  • Fire Hydrant Safety System has been installed in the whole campus to keep students & staff safe from any type of damage and destruction by fire.
  • New Fire Extinguishers have been installed and existing Fire Extinguishers are refilled for the life safety of students and staff.
  • Institution’s Innovation Council cum Meeting Room has been constructed for facilitating the Incubations, start-ups and industry-academia practices.
  • To enhance water conservation facilities, four additional Rainwater Recharging Borewells have been installed in the college campus.
  • 06 additional Vermi-Compost Units have been installed for organic waste management.
  • To strengthen the energy conservation measures, Sensor based lights have been installed in the campus to save energy.
  • New Home Science Laboratory has been constructed.
  • Drinking Water facilities have been strengthened by installing 02 Water Coolers.
  • Classrooms, Seminar Halls and Office have been refurnished with new furniture.
  • For providing the right lighting conditions in ground, Flood Lights gave been installed in the ground.
  • Provision of Green House has been added to provide protected & safe environment to plants.
  • Digital display system has been installed in the library.

Faculty Enrichment Initiatives:

To enrich faculty with knowledge of respective subject, latest technological developments, NAAC Accreditation Process, Documentation & Report Writing, pedagogies, ICT Tools & Life Skills, IQAC has facilitated conduct of 11 seminars & 04 Workshops have been conducted.

Preparation/Submission of Institutional Reports:

IQAC has facilitated:

  1. College Annual Report to be published on College website.
  2. Preparation & submission of Annual Quality Assurance Report (2020-21) to NAAC
  • Preparation of Institutional data for NIRF-2022, submitted to Ministry of Education, Government of India for NIRF ranking. NIRF report is published on college website.
  1. Preparation and Submission of AISHE Report

 Institutional Awards & Ranking

Following awards have been awarded to the institution for the extension activities under the guidance of IQAC :

Name of the activity

Name of the Award/ recognition

Name of the Awarding government/ government recognised bodies

Blood Donation

Certificate of Recognition

Indian Red Cross Society

Legal Services Awareness and Outreach Programmes as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

Outstanding Contribution

District Legal Services Authority, Ambala

Promoting Gender Sensitization and Female Literacy under Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

Outstanding Contribution in flagship project of Government of Haryana

Haryana Kala Parishad Ambala Mandal

Swachh Survekshan 2022

Best College award

Municipal Council Ambala Sadar

College has been ranked at 37th position in science and at 48th position in commerce in the list of Best Colleges of North India by India Today 2020-21.

Quality Initiatives in E-Waste management, Disabled friendly and barrier free environment

  • E-Waste Bins have been installed in the college at various places for the E-Waste Management.
  • New Ramp connecting to the humanities block at First Floor has been constructed.
  • Signage including tactile path, lights, display boards and signposts have been installed in the college campus.

12 meetings have been conducted by the IQAC throughout the session to have deliberations on quality related issues and to plan various activities from time to time.

Development of Dedicated Micro Sites:

  • Alumni Micro Site: To facilitate the connection with the old alumnus of the college & to share the success stories of alumni a dedicated micro website of Alumni has been developed.
  • Scholarship Micro Web Site: To provide the information about various government & private scholarship schemes to the students and to provide information of the beneficiaries of the schemes to various stakeholders, a micro website of Scholarship Cell has been developed.
  • Institutional repository to showcase intellectual output of the college has been developed.

Convener: Dr. Sushil Kumar

Qualitative Initiatives by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) for the session 2020-21

Initiative: 1- Conduct of National Seminars/webinars on quality enhancement in Higher education Institutions .

Productive Deliberations among all the stakeholders of higher education institutions is the key to develop quality culture in HEI’s. With the objective of internalization & institutionalization of innovative and best practices in the higher institutions, IQAC organized three national level seminars on quality related issues – Two seminars were held in collaboration with NAAC, Bangaluru on NAAC revised framework and one seminar was conducted by the eminent resource person on National Education Policy 2020. About 733 principals, IQAC members and faculty members from the affiliated/government colleges from all over nation participated and had deliberations.

S.No

Title of Seminar/Webinar

Date Duration

No. of

participants

1.

NAAC sponsored one day National conference on Quality Enhancement in HEI & Evaluation with RAF of NAAC. Resource persons:

Dr. Ganesh A. Hegde, Advisor, NAAC, Bangalore.

Dr. Shyam Singh Inda, Assistant Advisor , NAAC, Bangalore

3 Feb,2021

One Day

300

2.

One Day workshop on NAAC Assessment & Accreditation

Resource persons:

Dr Jagannath Patil, Advisor NAAC , Bangaluru

Dr. Shyam Singh Inda, Assistant Advisor , NAAC, Bangalore Dr Vinita Sahu, Assistant Advisor , NAAC, Bangalore

12 Feb,2021

202

3.

Online Webinar on National Education Policy

Resource person:

Dr. Shakila.T. Shamsu, Formerly officer on special duty(New Education Policy)

25 Mar,2020

231

Initiative : 2- Initiatives for overall quality enhancement of Mentee Institutions under UGC scheme of Paramarsh.

i) Conduct of Training sessions/Workshops/Webinars for the College staff and mentee institutions under UGC scheme of

With the objective to enhance overall quality of mentee institutions and their overall profile, IQAC conducted Eighteen webinars/training sessions/workshops for the staff of mentee institutions and staff of Sanatan Dharma College.

S.No

Title of Program

Date/Duration

No. of Participants

1.

SSR Awareness Program for Criteria-VII Resource person

Dr. Sonika Sethi, Assistant Prof. in English Sanatan Dharma College

Ambala Cantt.

04 Sep,2020

One Day

25

2.

Webinar on SSR Awareness Program for Criteria VII

Resource person

Dr. Sonika Sethi, Assistant Prof. in English Sanatan Dharma College,Ambala Cantt.

June 24,2020

76

3.

Online Training Session on Criteria-I for mentee institute Government College, Israna

Resource person

Ms. Amandeep Kaur Mehta Assistant Prof. in Computer Sc.

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.

29 Dec,2020

23

4.

Online Training Session on Criteria-II for mentee institute –Government College, Israna

Resource person

Dr. Rajinder Singh,Principal

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.

5 Jan,2021

23

5.

Online Training Session on Criteria-III for mentee institute –Government College,Israna

Resource persons

Dr. Gulshan ,Assistant Prof. in Chemistry Sanatan Dharma College,Ambala Cantt. Ms. Zeenat Madan,

Assistant Prof. in Zoology

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.

19 Jan,2021

23

6

Online Training Session on Criteria-IV for mentee institute –Government College, Israna

Resource persons :Dr.SushilKumar

Assistant Prof. in Chemistry

Sanatan Dharma College Ambala Cantt.
22 Jan,2021 23
7

Online Training Session on Criteria-VI for mentee institute –Government College,Israna

Resource persons Dr. Sonika Sethi

Assistant Prof. in Chemistry

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.
4 Feb,2021 23
8

Online Training Session on Criteria-VII for mentee institute –Government College,Israna

Resource persons Dr. Sonika Sethi

Assistant Prof. in Chemistry Sanatan Dharma College

Ambala Cantt.
22 Feb,2021 23
9

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria –V for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Girdhar Gopal

Assistant Prof. in Computer Science,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
12 Mar,2021 13
10

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria –II for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Arti Arora

Assistant Prof. in Electronics,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt Ms. Kavleen Bharej

Assistant Prof. in Commerce,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
13 Mar,2021 13
11

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria–III for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Gulshan

Assistant Prof. in Chemistry,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt Ms. Zeenat Madan

Assistant Prof. in Zoology,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
15 Mar,2021 13
12

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria–IV for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Rajinder Singh Principal,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
16 Mar,2021 13
13

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria –I for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Satbir

Assistant Prof. in Commerce,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
17 Mar,2021 13
14

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria –VI for mentee institute Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Sonika Sethi, Assistant Prof. in English,

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
18 March,2021 13
15

Training on Revised Assessment & Accreditation Framework-Criteria –VII for mentee institute Seth Navrang Rai Lohia Jairam Girls College,Lohar Majra , Kurukshetra

Resource person:

Dr. Sonika Sethi, Assistant Prof. in English, Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
19 Mar,2021 13
16 Webinar on SSR Awareness Program for Criteria– III September 2,2020 30
17 Webinar on SSR Awareness Program for Criteria–V September 3,2020 31
18

One Day Online Workshop on Self Study Report Preparation for NAAC: Criteria I & II

Resource person:

Ms. Amandeep Kaur Mehta Assistant Prof. in Computer Science

Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt
10 Feb , 2021 95

ii) Conduct of Faculty Development Programs for the College staff and mentee institutions under UGC scheme of Paramarsh. IQAC in collaboration with E-resource development cell of Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt organized four faculty development programs for the training of development of E-resources and NAAC Accreditation Framework for mentee institutions and faculty from other affiliated and government institutions.

S.No

Title of Program

Date/Duration

No. of Participants

1

Faculty Development Program on How to prepare SSR and AQAR in collaboration with

IQAC, MSM,Kerela

15-22 Feb,2021

85

2.

One Week Faculty Development Program on ‘How to Prepare SSR and AQAR for NAAC Organized by IQACs of G.N.Khalsa College

and Guru Nanak Girls College, Yamuna Nagar

27th January to 2nd

February, 2021

90

3.

Faculty Development Program on E-Content

Development in collaboration with Higher Education Department , Panchkula

14 Dec-15 Dec,2020

Faculty from Haryana

4.

National level Faculty Development Program on E-Content Development for MSM College,

Kerela

24 Sep-30 Sep,2020

Faculty from all over India

5.

Faculty Development Program on E-Content Development in collaboration with Guru Angad Dev Teaching-Learning Centre of MHRD (PMMMNMTT) under UGC PARAMARSH

Scheme.

27-Jul- 30 Jul,2020

4 Days

Faculty from all over India

6.

Faculty Development Program on E-Content Development for DAV College, Chandigarh

21 July-26th July,2020

6 Days

 

7.

Faculty Development Program on E-Content

Development in Collaboration with DHE

26th June-11th July,2020

Faculty from all over

India

Formal meetings of members IQAC with IQAC of Mentee institutions for the training and queries handling of DVV Process

Five formal meetings have been conducted by the members of the IQAC with IQAC of mentee institutions to clarify doubts, analyze performance in data matrices for each criterion to assist them in preparation of AQAR and SSR.

S.No

Mentee Institution

Date of Meeting

Agenda

1.

Khalsa College, Yamunanagar

19 Dec,2020

To discuss the data templates of quantitative metrics.

To setup the implementation plan for NAAC Accreditation Process.

2.

DAV College, Pundri

24 Dec,2020

To discuss the data templates of quantitative metrics.

To provide mechanism to improve in

performance of quantitative metrics.

3.

DAV College, Pundri

18 Jan ,2021

To evaluate the performace of data matrics.

4.

IGN College, Ladwa

28 Dec,2020

To evaluate performance in all criterions. To suggest further improvements.

5.

DNMM ,Kurukshetra

2 Feb,2021

Discussion Criteria wise.

Performance output of Mentee Institute

With the constant guidance and training of IQAC, Sanatan Dharma College, under mentioned two institutions have submitted their pending AQAR’s and are ready to submit their SSR for NAAC accreditation within coming two months.

  1. MM College, Fatehabad has submitted their pending AQAR’s of the session 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20.
  2. DNMM College, Kurukshetra has submitted its all pending AQAR’s and are ready to submit SSR in the month of July, 2021.

Initiative: 3 : Initiative to promote Research Culture in the institution

S.No

Activity

No. of Participants

1.

Financial Assistance provided to Faculty Members to attend conferences/ workshops

36 faculty members have been provided financial assistance of amount Rs 64550/- to motivate them to participate in national/international conferences/seminars/webinars/workshops/symposium and develop research culture in the institution.

2.

Research Publication in High impact Journals

28 Teachers published 41 quality research papers in UGC Care Journals

3.

Chapters/Papers/articles in Books/Proceedings

35 Teachers published 63 chapters/papers/articles in

14 Books/Proceedings.

4.

Proceedings for National Seminar

IQAC published four Proceedings titled:

1.     Proceedings of NAAC sponsored Online National Conference on Quality Enhancement in HEIs and Evaluation with RAF of NAAC

2.     Entrepreneurship and Economic Development of India

3.     APPLICATION OF RASA AND DHAVANI THEORIES ON FILM MUSIC

4.     Contribution of Haryanvi folk music in the construction of national consciousness

Initiative: 4 Initiatives to enhance Collaborative work

S.No

Activity

1.

Total 10 Memorandum of Understanding have been signed with industry, institutes of high eminence & other colleges for skill training of students & staff and conduct of collaborative academic activities.

·       5 MoU’s with Industry

·       1 MoU with Skill University

·       4 MoU with Affiliated Colleges

2.

8 Programs on IPR, Research Methodology, Entrepreneurship and skill training have been

conducted under innovation ecosystem.

Initiative: 5 FDP/Workshops/Webinars/Professional & Administrative Training of Teaching & Non teaching Staff

S.No

Title

Date /Duration

Target

Audience

No. of

participants

1.

Workshop on Programming with R for Computer Science, Maths, Physics & Commerce teaching staff.

27 Mar,2021

One Day

Teaching Staff

39

2.

18 Webinars on NAAC , SSR and AQAR preparation were conducted

Throughout the session

Teaching Staff

20

3.

5 Administrative training programs on under mentioned topics were conducted for non-teaching staff

i.   Document Management Level-I

ii.  First Aid and Disaster Management

iii. ICT Skills Level-2

iv.  Document Management Level-II

v.   Care and Maintenance of Laboratory Equipments, Chemicals, Stock and Safety Measures to be followed in the Laboratory

16 Mar,2021

22 Mar,2021

10 Apr,2021

15 Apr,2021

03 Mar,2021

Non Teaching Staff

15

19

20

15

17

4.

83 teachers attended 114

workshops/FDP/Webinar/Certificate

Courses/Refresher courses for knowledge up gradation.

Throughout the session

Teaching Staff

83

Initiative: 6 Internal & External Audits

IQAC has facilitated various internal & external audits for the enhancement of the performance of the institution in the field of finance, academics, administration and environment.

Type of Audit

Agency

Stock Audit

Stock verification Committee (Internal)

Financial Audit

Chartered Accountant

(Management)(External)

Academic & Administrative Audit

External Committee

Library Audit

Library Committee (Internal)

Initiative: 7 Preparation/Submission of Institutional Reports

During the session 2020-21 following reports have been prepared and submitted to respective agencies for evaluation/ranking/accreditation or published on the website for the various stakeholders:

 

  1. College Annual Report to be published on College
  2. Submission of Annual Quality Assurance Report (2018-19) to NAAC
  • Preparation of Annual Quality Assurance Report (2019-20) to be submitted to NAAC before 31stAugust.
  1. Preparation of Institutional data for NIRF-2021, submitted to Ministry of Education, Government of India for NIRF NIRF report is published on college website.
  2. AISHE Report

Initiative: 8 Comprehensive feedback Mechanism

IQAC facilitated the collection of Online Feedback for the design and review of curriculum from stakeholders viz Students, Teachers, Employers & Alumni department wise using structured and comprehensive mechanism. Feedbacks from students and teachers are collected at the end of the semester. Feedback from employers is taken during placement drives and through personal visits in their organizations. Feedback from alumni is taken during convocation in the normal time but during this session, due to Covid-19 pandemic online Feedbacks are collected from the alumni agt the end of the year. Feedbacks collected are analyzed by the Head of the respective departments. Inputs given by the various stakeholders are handled on two levels:

  1. College Level
  2. University Level

Suggestions given by the stakeholders for the changes or up gradation of syllabus are documented and submitted to respective Board of study of the university for further action by the HOD of the respective departments after the approval of the governing body of the college. Other Suggestions given by the stakeholders for the enrichment and delivery of the curriculum is implemented by the Head of the departments and action taken reports are prepared and submitted to principal and IQAC for the review.

Initiative: 9 Preparation of Guidelines/Policies/SOP

  1. Handbook for code of conduct for students, staff and management has been published on the college website. Code of conduct for students has also been published in the e-Prospectus of the
  2. Institutional Academic calendar prepared by the IQAC and published on College
  3. Institutional Annual Plan chalked out by the IQAC at the beginning of the
  4. Conduct of 16 IQAC Meetings to chalk out action plans for various
  5. Standard operating procedure developed for NAAC Coordination
  6. Policies for the administrative office and library have been designed like Admission policy, Fee Concession Policy, E-Governance Policy, Internal Quality Assurance Policy, Scholarship Policy, Recruitment Policy, Grievance Redressal policy

Initiative 10 : Initiatives to upgrade infrastructure.

  1. Library is upgraded with SuperNova Magnifier & Screen reader and braile software for the visually impaired
  2. Seminar Hall is equipped with Interactive Flat Panel Display
  3. NAAC conference hall is equipped with Video conferencing equipment(Interactive Flat panel Display- Pro X5).
  4. IQAC facilitated the subscription 28 EBooks and 10 E-Journals by SAGE publications India Ltd.
  5. IQAC facilitated the Institutional Membership of DELNET to access various E-Resources/Databases.

Initiative 11 : Curriculum Enrichment initiatives

Faculty Participation in Academic Council/Board of Study of KUK.

 With the motivation of the IQAC, following members have been able to be part of Board of studies of their respective subjects in the Kurukshetra University to become instrumental in the design and review of syllabus and help college to upgrade the curriculum as per the latest market trends and demand of the stakeholders.

  1. Ashutosh Angiras has been nominated as Associate Professor representative in the faculty of Indic studies for the period of two years w.e.f 18 Feb,2020
  2. Sonia Batra has been nominated as Member UG Board of Studies Zoology.
  3. Roshan Lal Dhiman has been nominated as PG College teacher representative in PGBOS in Physics for the duration of two years w.e.f from 11 Feb, 2020.
  4. Nirvair Singh has been nominated as College Teacher representative in U.G.B.O.S in Punjabi for the duration of two years w.e.f 21 October, 2020.

Subject related Certificate/Add on courses for the skill enhancement of students.

 41 certificate courses on Hard/Soft/Life skills have been offered to students to enrich the curriculum with latest demands of the market and yet producing skilled manpower for the industry.

Initiative 12: Fund Generation

E-Resource development cell has executed 11 skill oriented certificate courses on nominal charges for the outside students, kids, professionals and house wives and generated handsome fund for the institution.

Initiative 13: Institutional Awards and Recognition for the initiaitives for the society

  • Award of Recognition by MGNCRE, MHRD, Government of India for the college’s initiatives for community
  • First Prize for Energy Conservation by
  • Awarded ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 14001:2015

Convener: Dr. Sushil Kumar

Keeping the idea of service quality at its core, the IQAC aims to develop a heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards creation, sustenance, and enhancement of quality through better decision making, greater coordination amongst the constituents of College, and enhanced communication with stakeholders. The IQAC is developing parameters for excellence and a process of monitoring in all the areas. It is setting up various feedback mechanisms related to the College.

Following events were organised by the cell:

1.Organized One day National Seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights: Emerging Issues and Challenges” sponsored by DGHE, Haryana in collaboration with Central Library, Sanatan Dharma College Ambala Cantt on 25-Jan-2020 at Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.
2.Organized One day Seminar on “Environmental Issues: Threats and Mitigation” in collaboration with NSS & Energy Management Cell D, Ambala Cantt on 14-Feb-2020 at Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt.
3.Coordinated re-designing, collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders for design and review of the curriculum for the session.
4.Facilitated establishment of Sanatan Dharma College as SWAYAM Local Chapter on 04-Oct-2019.
5.Coordinated enrollment of 44 faculty members of Computer Science, Commerce and Chemistry and one librarian in online refresher course on ARPIT-SWAYAM platform-initiative of Government of India from Sep-2019 to Dec-2019.
6.Facilitated signing of 36 Functional Memorandum of understanding with industry and institutions of high eminence.
7.Conducted Internal Academic and Administrative audit for the session 2019-20 in the month of February to identify areas of improvement and chalked out the action plan for the session 2020-21.
8.Conducted 15 meetings comprising members of IQAC and various cell to chalk out the action plan for quality improvements in various areas of curriculum planning & delivery, Teaching learning processes, Research, Extensions , Infrastructure , Student support services , Governance & administration and human values development.
9.Conducted Energy Audit of the college in association with Energy Management Cell for the analysis of energy utilization and assessment of energy conservative measures adopted and identification of corrective measures to be taken for further improvements.
10.Conducted Green Audit in association with Environment Cell to design the framework of Environment Sustainability in compliance with the applicable national policies.
11.Conducted External Academic and Administrative audit for the evaluation of institutional processes to enhance the quality of education.
12.Submitted the Institutional information on All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) portal on 27-Feb.
13.IQAC submitted the institutional data for participation in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), India Rankings 2020 in Nov-2019.
14.Following the mission of UGC to enable all non-accredited higher education institutions to get accredited by 2022, IQAC has started mentoring Nine Government & Aided Colleges for the NAAC Accreditation process under the UGC Scheme of “PARAMARSH” for Mentoring NAAC Accreditation Aspirant Institutions to promote Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

Convener: Dr. Sushil Kumar

Qualitative Initiatives by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC):

1. Financial Audit for the session 2017-2018 was conducted in the month of May-2018 to review the balance sheet and plan out the budget for the Session 2018-2019.
2. 7 Informal and 3 formal meetings of Internal Quality Cell under the chairman ship of Head of the institution, Dr. Rajinder Singh were held in the month of Nov & Dec-2018 to have brainstorming sessions on Revised Accreditation Framework for the better understanding of 7 Criteria, 32 Key Indicators, 121 Qualitative & Quantitative metrics and their importance in the order of weightage to chalk out the action plan for the coming session.
3. IQAC applied for National Institutional Ranking framework 2019 approved by MHRD for the ranking of our institution across the country in Nov-2018.
4. IQAC in association with Central Library of the College organized One Day Workshop on “Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism” on 17-Feb-2019 under the financial assistance of UGC Scheme of “College with Potential for Excellence”, Phase- II for the faculty of Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt. The faculty was on treat as three eminent personalities Dr. Naresh Vats, Registrar and Professor of Law, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Patiala, Dr. Rahul Taneja, Scientist, Department of Science and Technology, Haryana. Dr. Priya Rai, Deputy Librarian & Officer In-charges were resource persons of the workshop. They very effectively shared their experiences and gave insightful knowledge about procedure of filing IPR, Challenges and remedies of patent laws, plagiarism ethics, UGC plagiarism regulations and other IPR issues.
5. IQAC facilitated the conduct of one day Workshop on the topic “Awareness and Need of NAAC Assessment and Accreditation of the Colleges” organised by Haryana State Higher Education Council and sponsored by RUSA at Sanatan Dharma College, Ambala Cantt. The workshop was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chairman, Haryana State Higher Education Council, Prof. Brij Kishore Kuthiala. Technical Session-I started with the insightful talk on “Revised Assessment and Accreditation Framework” by Prof. Gulshan Lal Taneja, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak which set the tone for one day workshop and emphasized that Quality Assurance is must and therefore quality assessment is to be accepted as a pleasant and productive challenge. Audience was delighted by NAAC Documentary Video and Video Tutorial after the talk. Prof. N. Narasimhamurthy, Dean Faculty of Arts, Bengaluru Central University enlightened the audience with his wonderful presentation on Self Study Report in Technical Session–II. Technical session-II was followed by a panel discussion and interactive session wherein participants from various colleges raised their questions and sought clarification on issues related to logistic fee, Peer team visit, IIQA submission and also shared the problems faced by them in the process of assessment and accreditation by NAAC. The workshop witnessed the presence of 247 principals from the colleges of Haryana.
6. IQAC subscribed for Digital Library in the month of Mar-2019 to be accessed online by the students of the college for 24 hours, 365 days from anywhere at any time.
7. Feedback from the students is collected in the month of Mar-2019 through Online College Information Management System and Action Taken Report is prepared after the analysis of the feedback responses by the feedback committee

Quality Initiatives undertaken by Internal Quality Assurance Cell:

  1. With the untiring efforts of IQAC, College was accredited with Grade “A+” at CGPA 3.51 in Oct,2017 in the third cycle.
  2. 11 meetings were conducted by the IQAC to plan and monitor the activities for quality improvements of the college
  3. Facilitated the conduct of External Academic audit by inspection committee from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for running B.Vocational programs under UGC scheme of DDUKK on 20th Aug,2017.
  4. Submitted the Institutional Information on All India Survey on Higher Education(AISHE) portal on 2nd May,2018.
  5. Conducted Energy Audit of the college in association with Energy Management Cell for the analysis of Energy conservative measures adopted and identification of corrective measures to be taken for further improvements.
  6. Conducted Workshop on E-Content Generation  on 12th Sep,2017
  7. Seminar on Culture of Yoga Defining Healthy Life Practices In 21st Century Organized By Department of Sanskrit
  8. Two Days National Workshop on E-Learning, MOOC and Basic ICT Tools for Educators Organized By Department of Computer Science and Electronics & IT On 10-11 March, 2018