The Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) of the IQAC

Name of the Institution: MUC WOMEN’S COLLEGE, BURDWAN

Year of Report : 2006 – 2007

Part B:

1. Activities reflecting the Goals and Objectives of the Institution:

The College has formulated its goals and objectives towards which all its activities throughout the year have been oriented.

The professed goals are empowerment of women, acquisition of better personality, skill-development, college-society interface, and life-long belongingness to the institution.

During 2006-07 academic session the college organized an interdepartmental lecture competition on ‘Law and Emancipation of Women’ on 15/12/06. Besides, two students, Barsha Chakraborty and Samayeeta Biswas, represented the college to a three-day awareness Camp entitled ‘Understanding gender’, organized by School of Women Studies, Jadavpur University on 11-13 January 2007. The College also sent a team of 15 advanced learners to a Workshop on ‘Adolescent Crisis & Prevention’ held at Zilla Parishad Hall, Burdwan on 21/4/07 of which Dr. Asit Patra and Dr. Mainak Mukherjee, both eminent psychiatrists, were speakers. Through the competition and workshop the goal of women empowerment was addressed.

With the help of Chirayata, the College Alumni Association a talent profile of the mentally and physically challenged students of five local schools for the disabled was organized in the college. This was an endeavour to promote the causes of the ‘Otherwise able’ children not belonging to the main stream.

The College organized a Thalassemia Carrier Detection Camp with the help of Himadri Memorial Cancer

Welfare Trust on 26/8/06. As many as 804 students and staff benefited from the Programme.

Another programme on mushroom cultivation and demonstration regarding use of smokeless oven was carried out on 24/02/07.

Mushroom cultivation

Apart from these, through Blood Group detection Programme on 26/02/07, sight power determination Programme on 28/02/07, deworming of children Programme on 28/02/07, – all programmes carried out by the NSS Unit of the college, helped the college to reach out to the community to which it belongs.

Deworming of children Programme on 28/02/07

The skill orientation of learners was effectively pursued by introducing Crash Course in Communicative English and Basic Computer Literacy for all students. Besides, the students of

Zoology Hons. were specially trained up in the skill of testing human Blood Group and as NSS volunteers many of them under the guidance of a Doctor tested the Group of Blood of 251 students of two primary schools in the adopted ward at Goda (Ward no. 26), Burdwan.

Participation of some students of this college in a Seminar ‘Healthy Youth Healthy India’ held at B.U on 11-12 February 2007, of two NSS volunteers – Juin Adhikari & Banti Roy in National Integration Camp at New Delhi on 7-11 May 07 and the involvement of general students in interactive social programmes on auspicious occasions like Independence Day and Republic Day have helped them a lot to emerge as better personalities.

The infra-structural development, academic ambience, welfare schemes, extension activities and co-curricular activities of the college have enabled the students to leave the college with a sweet memory. Many of them have joined the Alumni Association out of an emotional bond with this college.

2. New academic programmes initiated:

In order to enhance the expressive competence of the learners in English and make them computer literate the college introduced two Crash Courses in Communicative English and Computer Basics. Both the courses are customized for general students and are likely to be immensely helpful to the learners.

3. Innovation in curricular design and transaction

Student centred learning activity is always prioritized by the faculty. On 15 December 2006 a competition was held on the topic ‘Law and Emancipation of Women’. Students were helped with materials and encouraged to deliver a talk on the topic. Sweta Singh of the Department of English received the 1^st prize for her impressive talk on the topic.

4. Inter-disciplinary programmes started:

Inter-disciplinary mode of teaching is generally practised in some overlapping components in the curriculum designed for the departments of Microbiology, Environmental Studies and Statistics. An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Bio-Diversity was held on 12 April 2006. It was inaugurated by Prof. Aurobinda Das, Vice-Chancellor, Kalyani University. Prof. Amit Kr. Mallick Vice-Chancellor B.U. was the Chief Guest and Dr. Subrata Gupta, District Magistrate was the Guest of Honour. It was resolved that the college faculty, especially of the Departments of Zoology, Botany, Geography will help preparing a Bio-Diversity Map of the District of Burdwan.

5. Examination reforms implemented:

The performance of the learners in Class-Tests is taken into account where due to illness or on any other valid ground they fail to appear in the Test Examination preceding the University Examination.

6. Candidates qualified: NET / SET / GATE / SSC/ CSC / PSB

NET: 04

SET: 03

SSC: 45

CSC: 06

OTHERS: 17

7. Initiative towards faculty development programme:

The College feels that all other developments in the field of Higher Education are meaningless minus faculty development. MUC Women’s College encourages faulty development through –

· Grant of Study Leave

· Releasing teachers and other staff to attend Orientation Course, Refresher Course etc.

· Encouraging teaches to attend seminars, symposia, workshops, academic conferences organized by various academic bodies.

· Organizing seminars in the college and thus giving them scope for better interaction with Resource Persons from various fields.

· Motivating the faculty to take up Minor Research Projects and publish papers regularly.

Staff-members who enriched themselves during 2006 – 07 academic session from all such Faculty Development Programmes are:

ORIENTTION / RERESHER PROGRAMME:

Sl. No.	Name & Department	Programme	Period
1	Barnali Mitra, Dept. of Geography	OP	5^th to 31st March, 2007
2	Sisir Garai, Dept. of Physics	RC	10/3/07 to 30/3/07
3	Pinaki Majumder, Dept. of Mathematics	RC	16 Feb – 09 March 2007
4	Sanjukta Maity, Dept. of Botany	RC	5^th to 25^th March, 2007
5	Siddhartha Bhadra, Dept. of Economics	RC	8^th to 28^th March 2007
6	Mallika Chakraborty, Dept. of History.	RC	2^nd to 22^nd December, 2006

ATTENDANCE OF SEMINAR / SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP:

The following teachers of the College attended Conference / Seminar / Symposium / Workshop during 2006 – 07 Academic Session.

Name of Teacher	Nature / Title of Seminar	Held at	Date
Debashis Bandyopadhyay Swati Mukhopadhyay	Mathematics & Applications: Recent Trends – National Conference	Dept. of Maths B.U.	10-12 January 2007
Pinaki Majumder	International Conference on Fuzzy Mathematics and its Applications.	Dept. of Maths. Ahmednagar	December 2006
Bibekananda Mukhopadhyay	Workshop on Disaster Management	Katwa College	3^rd December 2006
Aparna Dey	Globalization & Democratic Governance	Dept. of Pol-Science, B.U.	27 – 28 Feb, 2007
Krishna Ghosh	Recent Trends in Geography	Dept. of Geo, B.U.	10 – 11 Feb. 2007
Kana Biswas	Poverty & Development in South Asia- International Seminar	Dept. of Geo, C.U.	11 – 13 Jan, 2007
Abhijit Banerjee Bibekananda Mukhopadhyay	Modern Trends in Eco-toxicological Research	Dept. of Zoology, BCC, Bankura	25-26 Sept. 2006
Bibekananda Mukhopadhyay Abhijit Banerjee Rama Mondal	Retrospective Effect on Green Revolution	Shyam Sundar College, Burdwan	28-29 Nov. 2006
Mallika Chakraborty Mahuya Dutta Gupta	The Role of Women in Islam	Dept. of History, Burdwan Raj College, Burdwan	12 April 2007
Munshi Azimbor Rahman	150 years of great Revolt of 1857	WBCUTA, Bankura Sammilani College,	18-19 Nov. 2006
Munshi Azimbor Rahman	Conference on NET Examination	Dept. of History, NSOU, Hotel Hindustan	19 Oct. 2006
Mahuya Dutta Gupta & Indrani Paul	Evaluation System of Under graduate level	Dept. of History, St. Xavier’s’ College	1^st & 2^nd April 2007
Anindita Roy Rama Mondal	Microbial Resources	Visva Bharati	05/11/06
Arpita Banerjee	International Seminar on Issues in Development Economics	B.U	28-29 Nov. 2006
` Arpita Banerjee Siddhartha Bhadra	State Level Seminar on Economic & Political Compulsions in Policy Making	Chandannagar College	18^th November
Siddhartha Bhadra	Panchyaet & Rural Development	B N Dutta Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan	18-19 April 207
Indrani Paul Kakali Halder	Seminar on Bio-Remediation - UGC Seminar	Burdwan Raj College	2006
Barnali Mitra	Natural Calamity & Its Aftermath	Sammilani Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata	4-5 April 2007
Rama Mondal	National Seminar on Environment & Sustainable Development	B B College, Asansol	9-10 March, 2007
All Teachers of the Department of Bengali	National Seminar on Stage performance: Cinematography: Literature	B U	29-30 March 2007
Tapati Banerjee Debika Sen Mousumi Sengupta	Philosophy Science & Technology	B.U.	17 November, 2006

8. Total Number of Seminars / Workshop conducted :

Seminar held in College during the Year 2006 - 2007

Date	Nature	Subject	Speaker
26/8/06	College Seminar	Thalassemia: Detection & Prevention	Dr.Ashis Mukhopadhyay,NSCBCRI Dr. R Mistri, Tata Cancer Research Centre
13/9/06	College Seminar	Adolescent Health Problem	Dr. Munmun Banerjee
27/8/06	College Seminar	The Challenges of SSC Test	Dr. Tapan Dutta, Ex-Chairman, SSC
14/02/06	College Seminar	Women & Human Rights	Dr. Mainak Chakraborty, Dept. of Law
07 & 08 September 2006	UGC Sponsored National Seminar organized by the Department of Math, MUC Women’s College, Burdwan	UAMA- Uncertainty of Mathematical Approach	Chief Guest : Dr. Subimal Sen, Vice-Chairman, WBSC HE Key note : Prof. A K Srivastava, BHU Prof. Anjan Mukherjee, Tripura Univ. Prof. T Som, Assam Univ. Prof. A R Roy, IIT, Kharagpur, Prof. M K Chatterjee, C.U. Prof. K C Chattopadhyay, B.U.
15/12/06	College Seminar	Religion & Communalism in India	Dr. Amitabha Chanda, Scottish Church College.
09/01/07	College Seminar	Application of the Concept of Dravidian Cycle of Erosion to Peninsular India	Prof. Manjari Bhattacharya, Visva Bharati
15-16 /01/07	UGC Sponsored National Seminar organized by the Department of English	Lit. Theory Spectre & Aura	Prof. Sanjay Banerjee, Sourastra University Prof. Krishna Sen, C.U. Prof. L N Gupta, B.U. Prof. Rama Kundu, B.U. Prof D N Banerjee, B.U. Dr. Sumit Chakraborty, RBU Dr. Amrit Sen, Viswa Bharati Dr. Angshuman Kar, B.U.
08/3/07	College Seminar	Higher Education in America	Mr.Sunrit Mallick, American Center, Kolkata.

9. Research Projects in Progress :

Minor Research Project Approved by the UGC

UGC granted Minor Research Project entitled ‘Applications of Lie-group Analysis to Boundary Layer Flows’ in favour of Dr. Swati Mukherjee, Department of Mathematics.

Formal Academic Research under the University :

a) Bhaskar Goswami, Department of Economics, continuing his research at CU

b) Arpita Banerjee, Department of Economics, continuing her research at BU

c) Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Department of Zoology, continuing his research at Burdwan University.

d) Suranjana Bhadra continuing her research at BU.

e) Arijit Bhattacharya, Dept. of Pol Science continuing his research at B.U.

10. Patents generated, if any : Nil

11. New collaborative research programmes : Nil

12. Research grants received from various agencies:

Grant for Minor Research Project sanctioned in favour

of Swati Mukhopadhyay, Lecturer in Mathematics. Rs. 30,000/-

13. Details of research scholars :

· Antara Mukherjee, Lecturer in English, Chandannagore Govt. College continuing her research under Dr. Sukriti Ghosal, Principal.

· Sri Buddhadeb Mukherjee, Part-time Research Scholar, has been continuing his research under Dr. Sukumar Ghosh, Reader in Botany.

· Debashis Roy has started his research work entitled ‘Sorosh Shatak Theke Astadsh Shatak parjyanta Aprdhan Baishnab Kabider Kabi Krititya’ under the supervision of Dr. Geeta Paul on 12/4/07.

14. Citation index of faculty members and impact factor :

Nothing worth mentioning at present.

15. Honours / Awards to the faculty.

· Dr. Sukriti Ghosal, Principal, published a paper entitled ‘Role of Academic Staff College in Quality Assurance Programme” in Academy (6:1), February 2006.

· Dr. Sukumar Ghosh, Reader in Botany, published a paper entitled ‘In vitro pollen Germination – A Tool for Measuring Pollutants in Water’ in Environment & Ecology

25(1), 2007. Dr. Ghosh published another paper ‘A Study On the Spermatogenesis in Impatiens balsaminaL’ published in Applied & Pure Bio 22 (2), 2007. He also co-authorized a Book Levant’s Q-A Series published by Milinda De.

· Bhaskar Goswami, Department of Economics, presented a paper entitled ‘Contemporary Issues in Development Economics’ at R B U, on 8-9 March 2007 at Jadavpur University on 16-17 December 2006.

· Dr. Indrani Paul, Lecturer in Chemistry, published a paper in P N A S (USA) October 2006.

· Kakali Dutta, Lecturer in Chemistry, published two papers, One in ‘The Journal of Chemical Physics’ (124, 144509, 2006)) and the other in Spethochimica Acta A (Part A, 65 (2006).

· Suranjana Bhadra, Lecturer in English, published a paper ‘ Problematics of Place and Home in Martin Flanagan’s Sun Shine Orange Shadow’ in Australian Literature ( November, 2006) and another paper ‘ Negotiating Decolonization in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease’ in University Journal of English, Burdwan University (2007).

· Kana Biswas, Lecturer in Geography, presented a paper entitled ‘Levels of Socio Economic Development of SC & Non-Sc of Ausgram Block II, Burdwan’ at International Seminar on Poverty & Development in South Asia, Department of Geography, B.U. on.11-13/01/07.

· Dr. Bikas Krishna Sinha & Dr. Sukumar Ghosh, Department of Botany presented a paper on ‘Green Revolution and its Consequences: A Genetical Approach’. at Shyamsundar College on 28-29 November 2006.

· Dr. Geeta Pal, Reader, Department of Bengali, has been recognized by the University as Research Guide. One student has got registered under her supervision.w.e.f. 12/4/07.

· DR. Swati Mukhopadhyay, Department of Mathematics, has got invitation from Cleveland State University for working on fluid dynamics (letter dt. June 25, 2007) and from NINU, Norway, for post-Doctoral research in fluid mechanical problem in industry & environment (letter dated 21/6/07).

· Chandranath Bandyopadhyay Sl. Gr. Lecturer in Physics, hs been engaged in Science Popularization programme as an active member of Paschim Banga Vijnan Mancha.

· Dr. Abhijit Bandyopadhyay published paper entitled ‘Cyto toxicity of Platinated Anti-Cancer Drug on Bone Marrow Cells of Swiss Albino Mice and its Modulation by Anti-fungal Agent’ in Environment & Sociobiology, 4(1), 1997.

16. Internal resources generated :

Rent

Room : Rs. 62,150/-

Cycle Stand: Rs. 13,700/-

Special Courses:

Microbiology: Rs. 10,67,780/-

Statistics: Rs. 12,225/-

Physical Education: Rs. 53,340/-

PG (English) : Rs. 1,56,000/-

Donation: Rs. 1,65,720/-

17. Details of departments getting SAP, COSIST (ASSIST)/DST.FIST, etc

assistance /recognition

Nothing at present

18. Community Services :

· The NSS volunteers and some other students and staff of the college participated in a

mass de-worming programme of the children of Goda area of Burdwan. One hundred

and eighty students were fed with de-worming capsules prescribed by a registered

medical practitioner and successfully dewormed.

· The NSS volunteers of the College carried out an awareness programme regarding the use of ‘Smokeless’ Chula’ (Oven) and distributed fifty complete sets among the local inhabitants on 24 & 25 February 2007.

Smokeless oven Demonstration

· The NSS Volunteers arranged for Blood Group detection Camp at Goda, the adopted Ward of the college, on 26/02/07. Two hundred and fifty one (251) students from two local primary schools benefited from the Camp.

· With the help of a local physician the NSS Unit of the college organized a sight-power (Vision) check-up camp at Goda on 28/02/07. One hundred and ten (110) senior citizens benefited from this extension programme.

· The College observed the Forest Week with Afforestation Programme in the campus on 18 & 19 July 2006.

19. Teachers & Officers newly recruited: (2006 – 07)

Teacher (Permanent): 2005-06 = 05

2006-07 = 08

Non-teaching (Permanent) = 6

20. Teaching-Non-teaching staff ratio :

4.11: 3

Teaching & Library Staff : Non-Teaching Staff :

College Hostel

Total No. of fulltime teachers : 48 Permanent : 38 Full Time : 10

Graduate Lab. Instructor: 05 Contractual: 02 Contractual: 01

Contractual teachers: 04 Casual : 03

Part-time teachers : 15

Asst. Librarian: 02

Total : 74 Total : 43 11

21. Improvement in the Library services: 2006-07

· New Books and Journals are fairly displayed for general notice

· Seminar Library facility now covers all the existing departments.

· Dialogue is on to explore the possibility of overhauling the entire system of book-

· entry, book lending & return by using a new Library specific software like SOUL or

COHA.

· The Book Bank Service for needy students has been restored and quite a few recent

editions have been purchased. The number of copies has been increased to cater to larger

number of students from under- privileged classes.

22. New Books / Journals subscribed and their value:

Books, Journals added to Library stock during 2006-2007

New Books purchased: Text & Reference – 802

Book Bank : 1148

A few important Journals & periodicals regularly subscribed:

i) Atlantic Literary Review ii) Current Science iii) University News iv) Bulletin of the Calcutta

Mathematical Society v) Science Reporter vi) Resonance vii) Dialogue viii) E P W ix) Lokosanskritam

x)Socialist perspective xi) Mathematical Intelligencer

Approximately 140 users visit the Library on an average.

Value of books & journals purchased during 06-07 :

College : Rs 1,19,461

UGC : Rs 86,971

News Paper &

Periodicals : Rs 10,897

Total Rs 2,17,329/-……………………………..

23. Courses in which student assessment of teachers has been introduced and the action taken on the student feedback:

Student feedback was taken on all UG Honours courses and PG course in English. Teaches who scored less than average on any point of evaluation were asked to improve their performance.

24. Unit cost of education:

Total Expenditure: Rs. 23669335 (unaudited)

Number of students : 2935

Unit Cost: Rs. 8064.50

25. Computerization of administration :

In addition to the computerization of Office & Accounts, Day Cash Collection has been fully computerized.

26. Increase in the infrastructural facilities:

· The structural work of the Ground Floor of a Multistoried Building has been completed.

· Construction of two large rooms (RM 11 & 12) were completed and made ready for use.

· Wiring & plumbing works of the rooms were completed.

· 56 pairs of benches were purchased to furnish the newly constructed rooms.

· The toilets of the Main Hostel have been modernized.

· The account-software was updated and made compatible for progressive calculation of

PF deposit and withdrawal.