Internal Quality Assurance Cell – Sahrdaya College of Engineering & Technology

To keep up with the changes in higher education, educational Institution must actively engage themselves in the development and implementation of quality benchmarks in all their key performance areas.

Committed to sustain its top ranking position, Sahrdaya College of Engineering & Technology has established the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in 2015 to institutionalize the process of quality enhancement and sustenance in all the key areas of its delivery.

The IQAC is acting as the nodal agency entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring total quality management by ushering in innovations leading to achieving excellence and adoption of intervention strategies for monitoring their successful implementation. Ever in quest for excellence, the IQAC functions to assure institutional accountability with probity to all the stakeholders, funding agencies in particular and society as a whole.

Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC has become a part of the institution’s system and work towards realization of the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance. The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance; which would channelize all efforts and measures of the institution towards promoting its holistic academic excellence.

To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for Higher Education Institutions through
institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.

The primary aim of IQAC is

To develop a system for conscious, consistent, and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for
a) Ensuring timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic,
administrative, and financial tasks;
b) Relevant and quality academic/ research programs;
c) Equitable access to and affordability of academic programs for various sections ofsociety:
d) Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
e) The credibility of the assessment and evaluation process;
f) Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance, and proper allocation of support structure and
services;
g) Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and
abroad.

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:
a) Development and application of quality benchmarks
b) Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
c) Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education
and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory
teaching and learning process;
d) Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related
institutional processes;
d) Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders;
e) Organization of inter and intra-institutional workshops, and seminars on quality-related
themes and promotion of quality circles;
f) Documentation of the various programs/activities leading to quality improvement;
g) Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related
activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
h) Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the
purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
i) Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up
j) Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per
guidelines and parameters of NAAC.

IQAC will facilitate/contribute to:
a) Ensure clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement;
b) Ensure internalization of the quality culture;
b) Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and
institutionalize all good practices;
c) Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning;
d) Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs;
e) Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication

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