Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

Composition

Sr. No.	Composition	Members
1.	Chair person : Head of the Institution	1. Dr. Lalitbhushan Waghmare, Vice Chancellor
2.	One Member from Management	1. Shri Anil Parakh
3.	One of the Senior Teachers as the Co-ordinators /Director of the IQAC	1. Dr. Tripti Srivastava
4.	Convener of the IQAC	1. Dr Pawan Bajaj
5.	External Expert	1. Dr Manish Shrigiriwar, CMS, AIIMS, Nagpur 2. Dr Mohana Majumdar, NKP SIMS & RC, Nagpur
6.	A Few Administrative Officers	1. Dr Gaurav Mishra , Pro Vice Chancellor 2. Dr. Shweta Kale Pisulkar, Registrar, Member 3. Dr. C. Mahakalkar, Member 4. Dr. Priyanka Banode, Member 5. Dr. S. Z. Quazi, Member 6. Dr Dr Adarshlata Singh, Member 7. Mrs Padmapriya Samuel , Member 8. Mr. Ajay Punvatkar, Member 9. Miss Himanshi Bhatnagar , Member
7.	Teachers (Three to Eight)	1. Dr Anil Pethe, Member 2. Dr. Alka Rawekar, Member 3. Dr. Gaurav Sawarkar, Member 4. Dr Tanvi Jaiswal, Member 5. Ms. Darshna Kumari, Member 6. Dr Surendra Agarwal , Member
8.	One / Two nominees from Local Society, Students and Alumni	1. Employer – Mr. Ganesh Kharode, Nelson Hospital 2. Industrialist – 1. Mr. Praveen Mittal, CAE 2. Dr. Kapil Waghwani 3. Stake Holder – Dr. Manish Shrigiriwar
9.	One / Two nominees from Employers / Industrialist / Stakeholders	1. Employer : Dr. Soumya Rathi 2. Industrialist : Dr. Kapil Wadhwani 3. Stake Holder : Dr. Manish Shrigiriwar
10.	Member Secretary	1. Dr Pawan Bajaj
11.	Permanent Invitees	1. Dr. Vedprakash Mishra, Pro Chancellor 3. Dr Rajeev Borle 6. Director EAE 7. All Head of the Institutions 8. All Dean Faculties

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, has proposed that every accredited institution must establish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) as a quality sustenance measure. Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, IQAC must become a part of the Institution’s system and work towards realisation of the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance and the work of the IQAC must be the first step towards internalization and institutionalization of quality enhancement initiatives.

A. Functional Units of IQAC, DMIHER (DU)

The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institutions. Based on the functions of IQAC, as identified by National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) , Dec 2017; it is proposed that the Internal Quality Assurance cell of DMIHER (DU) shall have four functional units (wings) as stated below :

1. Rankings and Accreditations
2. Quality benchmarks & Best Practices
3. Quality dissemination and Quality circles
4. Feedbacks, Audits & Program Evaluation 

       Various Activities of IQAC at DMIHER(DU) can be grouped under the above mentioned 4 functional units.

The functional units and related activities are as follows;

DMIHER(DU) IQAC activities under various functional units

Functions of various IQAC Units

1. Rankings and Accreditations

• Strategize Institutional growth in National and International level through planning and participating in various Accreditations and Rankings
• Coordinate the preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR)

Related DMIHER initiatives :

• NAAC
• NIRF
• TIMES
• QS
• IQMC

2. Quality benchmarks & Best Practices:

• Identify emerging areas in Higher Education and Quality benchmarks thereof.
• Ensure application of quality benchmarks in all academic and administrative functions
• Document, Analyse and Recommend strategies leading to quality improvement for various programmes/activities in tune with the Core values of NAAC
• Ensure adoption and dissemination of best practices
• Promote use of technology in various functions and processes of the University
• Act as a catalyst in Internalisation of Quality culture and institutionalization of best practices

Related DMIHER initiatives :

• Perspective Developmental Plan (PDP)
• College & Departmental presentations & PDP
• Evolving Best Practices
• Bench Marking & Impact analysis

3. Audits , Feedbacks & Evaluation  :

• Encourage self and external evaluation, accountability, autonomy and innovations in higher education
• Ensure periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and standardise mechanisms to bridge the gaps as identified in the audit reports.
• Collect, analyse  and suggest remedial initiatives on the basis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes

Related DMIHER initiatives:

• Stakeholder’s Feedback
• Student Satisfaction survey
• Student Interactions
• Audits

4. Quality dissemination and Quality circles:

• Organize inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles
• Provide Leadership in the higher education arena in terms of Mentoring of the other HEIs through various Customized Quality Enhancement initiatives. 
• Ensure adoption and dissemination of best practices

Related DMIHER initiatives:

• Quality related events and activities
• Mentoring activities : eg. Paramarsh , UGC

Dr Tripti Waghmare

Director, IQAC, DMIHER(DU)