Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was set up to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.  The prime task of the IQAC, as envisaged by NAAC, is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institution. IQAC of Balwant Vidyapeeth Rural Institute, Bichpuri, Agra

will channelize all efforts and measures of the institution towards promoting its holistic academic excellence.

Value Framework :

• Contributing to National Development
• Fostering Global Competencies among Students
• Inculcating a Value System among Students
• Promoting the Use of Technology
• Quest for Excellence

Strategies IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

1. Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks;
2. The relevance and quality of academic and research 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. Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

Functions Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

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. Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education;
5. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
6. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
7. Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
8. Development of Quality Culture in the institution;
9. Preparation of the Self Study Report (SSR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.

Benefits

IQAC will:

1. Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in 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. Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in the institution;
6. Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication