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CRITERION III: RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION

STRENGTHS  Large number of research publications in SCI, ISSN and
ISBN categories
 Large number of externally funded projects
(UGC/DST/ICSSR/BRNS/SERB)
 Resource mobilisation for research from governmental
agencies (DST-FIST)
 Increase in the number of consultancy projects
 Recognised as DBT-STAR College
 Culture of regular seminars/workshops/guest lectures
 Corpus available for funding research by younger faculty
 Regular outreach program built into the curriculum
 Many teachers are invited as resource persons for national
and international seminars/conferences
 Mandatory term paper for all undergraduate courses
 Dissertation/project work in all postgraduate courses in the
Social Sciences and several Science courses
WEAKNESSES  Percentage of younger faculty involved in research is small
 Dependence of faculty on government funding
 Time constraints with academic demands to carry out
research
 Time constraints with academic demands and availability of
faculty to accompany students on village visits
 Faculty expertise not adequately tapped for resource
generation
OPPORTUNITIES  To initiate young teachers into research for developing future
researchers
 To increase the number of externally funded projects and to
fund projects internally
 Incorporating outreach learning into the core courses and
designing expertise-based outreach activities
 To make college a referral centre for expertise in various
disciplines
 To encourage students to pursue research and learn research
skills for employability
CHALLENGES  Training faculty to write successful grant applications
 Balancing academic time with research time
 To increase collaboration with other institutions of higher
learning with matching value framework
 To make the expertise known in industry circles
 To maintain quality and to ascertain ethical practices

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