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Sudalaimuthu, Vice Chancellor. Annual report was presented by Alumni Cell
advisor Dr. V. Senthil Kumar. Department wise alumni coordinators from all the
batches participated in the meet. Alumni association members were selected. The
following points were discussed 1. Activities and events conducted in the
previous year was reviewed. Alumni participation in career counselling was
appreciated. 2. Alumni association appreciated alumni members who had actively
involved in conducting personality development trainings, mock interviews and
confidence building programs. 3. Alumni association appreciated alumni members
for their contribution in arranging guest lectures. 4. Alumni association
appreciated alumni members who associated in providing internship and
placement. 5. New initiatives were planned for the current academic year. It
was planned to conduct health awareness programmes and women empowerment
programmes. It was decided to go for tree plantation in the adopted villages.
6. Alumni association readily accepted to work with NSS to improve the
sanitization in the villages and it was decided to provide necessary goods such
as bed sheet, cloths, and pillows to the government hospitals. 7. With the aim
of building drug free nation, it was proposed to conduct one drug awareness
programme every year in association with alumni. 8. Internships are planned
with existing alumni entrepreneurs. 9. It was planned to start new alumni
chapters in few more states. Alumni were appreciated and felicitated for their
involvement in the institutional enhancement. After the lunch, department level
interactive session was arranged. Concerned Head of the department, faculty
members, alumni and pre final year students attended. Total No of Alumni
enrolled: 1085 Total No of Alumni Attended: 981 Alumni members shared their
industrial experience. They discussed about the higher studies, internship and
placement opportunities. Feedback was collected from alumni on programme
outcomes to enhance infrastructure and teaching/learning. At the end of the
session, games and cultural were organised for the Alumni.

CRITERION VI – GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

6.1 – Institutional Vision and Leadership
6.1.1 – Mention two practices of decentralization and participative management during the last year (maximum 500
words)

The Vice-Chancellor is the Chief Executive Authority of the University and
executes the directions issued by the Board of Management and Government
agencies. For effective and efficient management of the institution, the Vice-
Chancellor delegates and decentralizes some of his power and authority to other
officials of the institution. Again, for taking effective decisions he
practices participative management where the connected people are involved and
it is a team which takes decision. As far as academic domain is concerned, the
Heads of academic departments are given freedom to introduce new courses and
frame Regulations and curricula after taking into consideration the opinions of
the stakeholders such as peer group, students, employees and Alumni, which is
subject to approval by the statutory bodies such as Board of Studies and
Academic Council and their effective implementation. The responsibility of the
University administration is restricted to providing necessary infrastructure,
equipments, learning resources, and favourable environment. Identifying the
learning levels of students, categorizing them as slow to advanced learners,
and conducting remedial coaching to slow learners and providing special
privileges to advanced learners are the responsibilities of the respective
departments. It is the responsibility of the teaching faculty to prepare lesson
plan, teaching diary, maintaining log books, and to adopt suitable modern
teaching methods including use of ICT. The continuous assessment and evaluation
of students are done at individual faculty level. Based on the feedback, the
required actions to be taken are considered for implementation. The action
taken report is placed to the Board of Management for approval. Similarly, the
administrative wings of the University such as Establishment, Finance,