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 Biometric attendance system has been put in place for staff.
 Attendance, marks and other academic details are updated on the automation
software and are available for students, parents and teachers online via college
website.
 Most class rooms are ICT-enabled.
 Teachers are encouraged to participate in IT-oriented courses to get familiar with
the new developments in the IT field.
 Increase in the number of computers according to the requirements of the
departments.
 Office Computerization

4.3.3. What are the institutional plans and strategies for deploying and
upgrading the IT infrastructure and associated facilities?

College has enjoyed autonomy since 2006 and with it came changes in curriculum,
nature of assignments given, practicals designed, monitoring student progress and
several other activities. The multiplying number of databases produced by processes
such as College admissions, announcement of results, transfer and migration
certificates, the need for online verification of past students, functioning of library and
placement activity has made the use of IT imperative to bring in accountability and
efficiency in administration. College thus considers IT as an integral part of its regular
functioning, and makes institutional plans and strategies for deploying and upgrading
the IT infrastructure and associated facilities in the most effective way.
This plan takes into consideration various criteria, such as courses, curriculum,
student and staff requirements varying from department to department and also
college as a whole. IT facilities have been upgraded in several phases during the past
five years. The old computers are shifted for web practicals and new software has
been purchased. Recently College has increased the speed of internet connectivity, to
number of Wi-Fi routers, and ERP app for mobiles in Knowledge Pro software.

4.3.4. Give details on access to online teaching and learning resources and other
knowledge, and information provided to the staff and students for quality
teaching, learning and research.

 Faculty members and students have free and unlimited access to Wi-Fi internet and
computers at college.
 Many teachers use internet resources like INFLIBNET, YouTube, some use
MOOCs, MOODLE, Blogging, microblogging resources such as Tumblr and other
allied tools.
 Students use internet facilities for completing their learning assignments.
 Scanned copies of question papers are mailed to the students on request.
 The library has an OPAC facility for the users to access the bibliographical details
of books .
 The library is a member of INFLIBNET‘s NLIST e-resources database and users
can access e-resources available in the NLIST e-resource database both in-house and
from remote places.
 Online resources such as Course Portal, R-Software, InDesign are also accessed.

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