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objective has been to provide an efficient and effective examination system which
enhances the quality of the inclusive education the College provides.

 To reduce the wastage of paper from examinations, ruled answer scripts with 28
lines per page are provided to the students in the answer booklet. Used answer scripts
are sent for recycling (Environment & Recycling Solutions, India). The old answer
papers with leftover writing space are being supplied to ITC Ltd which uses it for
preparing notebooks which are distributed to poor students. Unused sides of the
answer scripts are detached, bound and given to poor children in orphanages. These
are also used to prepare booklets for workshops. The unused sides of photocopied
sheets are further used in the administrative office for typing notices. Examination
booklets are now bar-coded.
 A state-of-the-art software was purchased for maintaining the examination and
attendance records of students. It has helped in improving the quality of the services
provided like error free attendance entry and marks entry. The facility that enables
teachers and mentors to view attendance and marks has resulted in better mentoring of
students. Departments are better positioned now to examine the results of their subject
online and find possible explanations for the outcomes. One of the many advantages
of this system is that now all eligible candidates can directly download their
examination hall tickets from the College Website. This software also helps in
collecting student feedback on individual teachers, infrastructure services and library
services. A student can now view his or her attendance and marks online according to
their convenience. Parents and Guardians are alerted by SMS of the absence of their
wards from classes on a daily basis.
 Online verification of certificates for students graduated from College can be done
on www.sjc.directverify.in from anywhere across the world. Results of end semester
examination are announced within a week of the conduct of the examinations and can
be viewed online.
 The examination reforms include the conduct of Make-up Tests for the students
who missed the tests due to valid reasons like the contraction of a contagious disease,
dengue, chikungunya, accidents; or those who have represented the College for sports
and games. A minimal fee is charged for this service. Visually challenged students
answer their examinations with the use of designated software on computers assigned
for this purpose. Development of a hearing aid software system for the physically
challenged is underway.

Research, Consultancy and Extension
College research committee was set up during the academic year 2016-17 with a
budget of Rs. 50,00,000 for providing seed money for research to young researchers.
An MoU for Research and Student Exchange program has been signed with St. Louis
University, USA and Namur University, Belgium. Two international conferences
have been conducted due to this collaboration. Three members of the staff have
visited these universities under the faculty exchange program. A student exchange
program was also conducted where our students visited Namur University and vice
versa.
The College has a sophisticated Central Instrumentation Laboratory to augment the
instruments available in the departmental laboratories.
The newly founded Josephite Research Forum set up under the DBT star program
encourages students and teachers from different disciplines to work together, leading
to interdisciplinary approaches to research.

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