INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL
IQAC Role and Responsibilities
Since its inception, Govt. Polytechnic Narwana has been a quality conscious institution in all its actions and dealings and it has been the uppermost concern and thrust, and its motto:
The core values, GPN abides by are derived from the vision and the efforts to realize it, are
1. Accountability and service to all stakeholders
2. Integrity and fairness in all practices
3. Instill innovation and creativity
4. Inclusiveness and care for the marginalized
5. Resilience and sustainability
6. Striving for quality and excellence in all actions
7. Thought leadership and quality consciousness
The prime responsibility of R.G. Govt Polytechnic Narwana is to initiate, plan and supervise various activities that are necessary to increase the quality of the education imparted in an institution.
IQAC Objectives:
1. To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
2. To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
IQAC Responsibilities:
1. Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks.
2. The relevance and quality of academic programmes.
3. Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society.
4. Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning.
5. The credibility of evaluation procedures.
6. Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services.
7. To complete the NBA-pre qualifier every year for the departments not accredited by the NBA and notifies the principal and concerned when any department becomes eligible for accreditation.
8. To keep track of the departments that is accredited by the NBA and ensures that those departments maintain the standards of the NBA.
IQAC Functions:
1. Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
2. Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process.
3. Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
4. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles.
5. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement.
6. Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality.
7. Development of Quality Culture in the institution.
8. Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters.
IQAC Benefits
IQAC will facilitate / contribute to
1. Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus on institutional functioning towards quality enhancement.
2. Ensure internalization of the quality culture.
3. Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices.
4. Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning.
5. Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication.