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I Minutes of 61st Meeting of Ee

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL BANGALORE

The 61 st Meeting of the Executive Committee of NAAC was held on September 15,2012 at 02:30 a.m. at NAAC, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore.

A: Members present

1. ProLVed Prakash Chairman,EC Chairman (Actg) & Vice-Chairman, UGC

2. Dr. (Mrs. ) Niloufer A Kazmi Member Secretary, UGC

3. Prof. A.S. Brar, VC, GNDU, Amritsar Member

4. Prof. R. Lalthantluanga, Member Vice-Chancellor, Mizoram University

5. Prof. Sudhanshu Bhushan Member Professor, NUEPA

6. Prof. R.P. Kaushik Member Former Commission Member, UGC

7. Prof. A.P. Padhi Member Former VC, Berhampur University

8. Rev. Dr. Sebastian Anand SJ Member Principal, St.Xavier's College, Jaipur

9. Dr. Latha Pillai Member Adviser, NAAC

10. Dr. Renu Batra, Joint Secretary, UGC Special Invitee

11. Shri Sandeep Jain Nominee of ES, MHRD Under Secretary, MHRD

12. Prof. H.A. Ranganath, Director, NAAC Member-Secretary

13. Dr. M. P. Ravindra Member Advisor- Education and Research Infosys Technologies Limited

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B: The Following members could not atte~:1d the meeting due to other engagements.

1. Shri Ashok Thakur/ lAS Secretary, Dept. of Higher Education, MHRD

2. Dr. (Mrs.) Meenakshi Gopinath Commission Member, UGC

Prof. H. A. Ranganath, Director, NAAC welcomed all the members and requested Chairman-EC to chair the session.

Prof. Ved Prakash extended a warm welcome and requested members for self­introduction. The Chairman-EC asked the Director to start the proceedings.

The Executive Committee also recorded its appreciation of the contributions made by outgoing member of the Executive Committee namely, Prof. R. C. Sobti and requested the Director to send the appreciation letter.

Item No.1: Confirmation of the minutes of the 60th Meeting of the Executive COIDmittee held o~n July 5, 2012.

Minutes confirmed.

Item No.2: Action Taken report

The Director reported on the actions taken on the decisions of 60 rh EC.

1. The Director briefed the members on the process of reviewing the performance of UGC-ASCs by NAAC. The Director also stated that NA.A..C has received feedback from one of the EC members and also from 9 ASCs. Prof. Sudhanshu Shushan explained his views on the report submitted by the National Committee. After deliberations, the Chairman informed that the report was submitted to UGC and MHRD and the purpose behind this exercise is to recognize the challenges, concerns and gaps in the existing ASCs and aJ.so measures to be undertaken to strengthen them. The feedback from Prof. Sudhanshu Bhushan and other Academic Staff Colleges to be forv.rarded to UGC.

Item No.3: Report by the Director on activities of NAAC since last EC meeting held on July 5, 20112.

The Director informed the committee that he will present a consolidated report during the GC meeting.

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Item No.4: (a) Consideration of recommendations of the Peer Teams on Assessment and Accreditation of the institutions visited since the last EC meeting held on July 5, 2012

The recommendations of the Peer Teams on Assessment and Accreditation of the institutions visited since the last EC meeting were considered.

The EC approved the accreditation of 68 Colleges and Re-accreditation of 03 Universities and 79 Colleges (04 College in 3rd Cycle) (Enclosure-I).

A few members of the EC voiced some concerns about the process of selection of assessors. The Chairman informed that there is a well balanced selection criteria which is fine-tuned from time to time. Further it was resolved to authorize the Director to form a committee with members of Executive Committee and in-house representation to look into the selection of assessors.

The EC deferred the accreditation of the following institutions. (Also refer agenda item 4 (d)

1. Department of Teacher Education, City Public PG College, Fatehgarh, UP 2. Usha Educational Institute, Mathura, UP

(b) Assessment and Accreditation of Aravali Teachers Training College

The Director briefed the EC about the episode where the PTR of Aravali Teachers Training College was placed before the 60th EC and the accreditation results were communicated on website as A grade with CGPA of 3.11. Later Dr. Neena Sawhney, Member of the Peer team irifonned that the team, which visited the above college has awarded B grade with a CGPA 2.835. One set of original Confidential Score sheet and Worksheets were sent to the Chairman of the team to validate all the entries as well as signatures on all the sheets. The Chairman was also requested to take feedback from other members of the team and submit a final report.

The report by the Chainnan indicates that the entire team agrees that they have awarded Grade B with CGPA 2.835 and not Grade A with 3.105. Also signatures on the originals are not authentic. Copy of the report by the Chairman and other members was placed on table.

After a lengthy discussion the Chairman constituted a committee to look into it. Also it was suggested that the committee to get the documents reviewed by forensic experts.

1. Prof. R.P. Kaushik - Chairman 2. Prof. A. P. Padhi - Member 3. Dr. M. P. Ravindra - Member

The process should be completed within 3 months.

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(c) Assessment and Accreditation of Bharat College of Education

The Director is authorized to constitute a committee to look into this entire matter within 3 month.s.

(d) Assessment and Accreditation of D.P.M. Institute of Education

A peer team with the following members visited D. P. M. Institute of Education, Behsuma, Meerut, UP during July 20-21,2012 and submitted its report Lo NAAC.

1. Prof. D. N. SansanwaJ, Former Director & Dean, Institute of Education, Devi Ahilya University - Chairman

11. Dr. S. Sebastian, Principal & Secretary, Loyola College of Education ­Member Co-ordinator

lll. Prof. G. C. Bhattacharya, Professor, Faculty of Education, Banaras Hindu University - Member

Subsequently, the Chairman and the Member Coordinator opined that the SAR of this college resembles with the SAR of Loyola College of Education, Chen.nai from page 38 to 139. In view of this the Director advised the internal coordinator to scrutinize the SAR of both the colleges and submit his report. After getting the report from the internal coordinat~~ The matter was examined by the Co­ordinator & subsequently by Prof. K.Y. Unny.

The committee considered the report of Prof. Unny and resolved not to accredit the institution. After one year from the date of EC's decision the institution can approach for fresh assessment and accreditation.

NAAC has received yet another letter from the Members of Peer team which visited 2 colleges namely

1. Department of Teacher Education, City Public PG College, Fatehgarh, UP - August 21-22, 2012

Prof. D. N. Sansanwal- Chairperson Dr. Chandrakumar - Member Coordinator Prof. Umaji Akoba Nayakwadi - Member

2. Usha Educational Institute, Mathura, UP - August 24-25, 2012 Prof. K. B. Budhori - Charrperson Dr. Chandrakumar - Member Coordinator Prof. Umaji Akoba Nayakwadi - Member

Informing that the SAR of these colleges resembles from Page 49-165 and 48­157 respectively.

The committee resolved to defer the accreditation of above two institutions.

Also, the director was requested to initiate the same process which was adopted for DPM Institute of Education to compare the SARs of these 2 colleges.

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Item No.5: Project on "Regional Inter-operability of National Qualification Frameworks (NQF)"

Dr. Latha pillai gave a detailed presentation about the concept paper for Development of NQF for India. The EC resolved that as per the Honble Minister's commitment Regional Inter-operability of National Qualification Frameworks (NQF) needs to be addressed flrst as decided in the Indonesia and NQF for India may be taken up later.

After deliberations it was resolved to wait for further advice from UGC in this regard.

Item No.6: Administrative matters

(a) Officiating allowance drawn by the then In-charge Finance Officer, Mr. V. Um.a Shankar for a period from 17th October 2007 to 28th February 2009.

The payment of officiating allowance to the then in-charge Finance Officer was ratified.

(b) In-charge Administrative Officer & Finance Officer

The following arrangements are made at NAAC for smooth functioning of office subject to the approval of Executive Committee (EC) of NAAC

1. Mr. M. Arun was given In-charge Administrative Officer with applicable in-charge allowance till further orders.

ii. Consequent upon relieving of Mrs. Cynthia D' Mello, Finance Officer on deputation, Mr. V. Uma Shankar, Academic Professional, NAAC was given in-charge as Finance Officer with applicable in-charge allowance till further orders.

Approved

(c) Extension of Contract for Librarian and Deputation for Junior Engineer

The services of Mr. r. H. Jahagirdhar, Librarian and Mr. Nagesh, Junior Engineer is extended for a further period of one year with effect from September 16, 2012 and September 03, 2012 respectively subject to the approval of Executive Committee of NAAC.

Approved

(ei) Post retireD1ent m.edical benefits

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It was resolved that the provisions applicable in the UGC should be adopted to NAAC.

Item No.7: Initiation of Regular Departlnental Action as directed by MHRD Vigilance Section against Dr,. (Mrs.) K. Rama

The Director briefed the EC about the communication received from MHRD and also the request he has made to MHRD to provide information, which was missing to take further steps.

Item No.8: Any other matter with the permission of Chair

Item No. 8.1 Consideration of recoIDitnendations of the 24th meeting of the Finance Committee held today Le. September 15, 2012

The minutes of the finance committee were placed before the Executive Committee and the same is approved.

Item No.9: Evaluation of the meeting

Nil

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.

H4-Rcu..q 0." -r ~ Prof. H. A. RaIilganath Prof. Ved Prakash Director, NAAC Chairman - EC

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