QlM 7.3 .1

Portray the performance of the Institution in one area distinctive to its priority and thrust within 1000 words

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Govt. Degree College for Women, Nalgonda is the only public funded educational institution for women at undergraduate level in the erstwhile Nalgonda district, which is now divided into three districts. As such it is the first choice of many intermediate/ +2 passed out women students in the district to pursue higher education. Keeping in view of the huge demand for the seats of the college, the Commissioner of collegiate Education enhanced the intake of the 1st year students’ in a phased manner from 390 seats in the year 2015-16 to 1050 in the year 2018-19 and to 1320 in the year 2019-20.

Degree Online Services Telangana (DOST) was introduced in the year 2016 as an e-governance initiative of the Telangana government for centralized admission process into Undergraduate colleges in the state of Telangana. The information of all the programs available in the colleges across the state, seats available in each program, fee structure of the programs is available in the DOST portal. Students can exercise any number of options of their choice and they can prioritize their options and the seats will be allotted to them as per their merit cum roster reservation system as per their choice. The online admission system enables the students to get admissions in the college in a transparent, free and fair manner due to which the admissions of the college have been significantly increased.

Now the college ranked first in the admissions among all the affiliated colleges of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda. The college is placed in top five women’s colleges in the admissions across the state of Telangana. The demand for the admissions in the college exhibits the confidence of the society in the college and in turn encourages the faculty to carry out the activities in the college with great enthusiasm.

This institution became a resource centre for those who hail from the villages and semi urban areas. As majority of them are from financially challenged, marginalized and under privileged conditions, the college is helpful in fulfilling their goals.

The college, being a state government institution, has a nominal fee structure. Faculty members are appointed through the State Public Service Commission, which ensures high quality of teachers, thus providing quality education under nominal fee structure. Most of the students get scholarships from the State Government, which further ensures quality education for the economically challenged students.

The vision of the college is “To encourage, educate and empower the young women through dissemination of knowledge”. As envisioned, the Government Degree College for women, Nalgonda strives to fulfil the aspirations of the young women honing the different skills of their interested areas to make them self-sufficient. To accomplish our vision, the committees constituted for various purposes like IQAC, CPDC, AEC, TSKC, NSS, ICC actively involved in the implementation of the plans to shape the future of the students and to bring out the hidden talents of the individuals.

The institution thrives on utilisation of available resources at optimal level ensuring the students to experience the best learning ambiance. The classes are interactive with a constant endeavor to train students to face the global challenges which lay ahead of them. It’s not just the use of technology which is in the focus, clear analysis and understanding of the outcomes of the teaching learning process is of paramount importance. This gives the teachers a clear idea of how, where and when the entire process is heading and how the students are going to benefit from it. Learning experience for the future prospects of the students is emphasized in all the curriculum and co-curricular activities of the college.

The transaction of the curriculum for the future needs includes equipping the students with the knowledge, know-how, required skill set, decision making, attitude to be winners, adaptability, negotiability, problem solving skills, critical thinking, helping them to understand their peers better, working together in teams and having the sensitivity to understand others. Various activities are conducted to translate the aspirations of students into goals to achieve success in their efforts.

Mentor Mentee system is introduced to provide guidance to the students and to build rapport between the students and the faculty for better understanding of the aspirations, goals, challenges of the students and fine tuning the same to excel in the areas of their interest. As the student strength is high, the mentor mentee system is very much helpful to reach out to every student and to address their grievances regarding academic issues. Resultantly, the students have come forward to participate in various activities conducted in the college, overcoming their inhibitions.

The class representatives system (CRS) is introduced in the college, in which one Class Representative, one Class Captain and 3 other Executive members were elected from each section by the students in the process of instilling the democratic spirit and inculcating leadership qualities in the students. These representatives will plan and execute the activities of the class and represent the views/ ideas of the students to their mentor. It is also very much helpful to reach out to the heavy strength of the college.

Digital Technology is aptly utilized to cater to the needs of huge student strength. Apart from DOST at the admission process, ePASS (Electronic Payment & Application System of Scholarships) government of Telangana portal is utilised to process the scholarships of the students, biometric devices are used to capture the attendance of the faculty and students. A separate Student Data Management System is prepared at college level to find the information of the student in an easy and accessible way. The College Administration and Information Management System (CAIMS) portal of the Commissioner of Collegiate Education is used to issue transfer certificates to the students online.

In addition to having the highest student strength, the college also achieved the highest pass percentage among all the nonresidential affiliated colleges of Mahatma Gandhi University, which is a testimony of the quality of the college.

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