A+ grade by NAAC for SD College

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 1

GGDSD College, Sector 32, has become the first college in the city to get A+ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) by the peer team of the council. This is the third cycle of institutional assessment of the college and the meeting of the NAAC Standing Committee was held on February 22 to share the grade.

But this top college also has areas where the college management has to work as per the NAAC report. The NAAC pointed out that there is a limited number of post-graduate programmes in the college. The workload on teachers is more and many positions have been filled with temporary staff. The college has not explored fully the research dimension. It has limited linkages with industries.

College principal Dr Bhushan Kumar Sharma shared this report in which the NAAC also recommended that the college has to introduce choice-based credit system. He said a suggestion was also given that more innovative courses and new post-graduate courses should be introduced in the college. The college should work towards attaining an autonomous status by consulting all stakeholders.

The three-member NAAC team had visited the college campus on January 30-31 and assessed the college under the new grading system. The meeting of the NAAC Standing Committee was held on February 22, where the new grade for SD College was announced.

Dr Bhushan said, “This time, the college has seen an elevation of 37 points in the score given by the NAAC team, taking us from grade ‘A’ to ‘A+’. In the last four years, the college has gone in for complete automation and is now a paper-free campus. The NAAC team observed that the college has the finest ICT-enabled infrastructure for teaching and learning in the region and that it boasts of high demand ratio for all courses.”

“We are fully prepared to become an autonomous college after taking all stake holders into confidence,” he said.