Saturday 13 December 2014

Bengal

NAAC report reveals VU’s poor record


  • The Statesman
  • 13 Dec 2014
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Midnapore, 12 December
The performance of Vidyasagar University was extremely poor as revealed through a recent report of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) which placed the varsity in the last position among seven Indian universities accredited by its peer teams in their third cycle of assessment in 2014.
The seven member NAAC peer team which visited the varsity during 11-14 November 2014 under the chairmanship of Professor Bharat Chattoo, founder Vice Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu.Vidyasagar University has been awarded a cumulative grade point average (CPGA) of 2.86 and was placed under ‘B Grade’ at the fourth meeting of the Standing Committee of NAAC held on 10 December 2014 at Bangalore and published the grade point averages of the universities in the official website of the council.
Interestingly, all the other six universities have secured ‘A Grade’ with CPGA varying between 3.51-3.08 and belonged to  Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil
Nadu.
The highest CPGA was secured by Guru Nanak Dev University of Amritsar followed by Guru Jambheswar University of Science and Technology, Hisar (CPGA 3.28) and Shivaji University of Maharashtra(CPGA 3.16).Incidentally, Guru Jambheswar University of Science and Technology which secured the second position was established in the year 1990 while Vidyasagar University was founded in 1985.
It may be mentioned in this connection that in the second cycle of NAAC report which came out after the NAAC peer team visit in 2009, Vidyasagar University was in the B Grade and secured a CPGA 2.81 and was in the 13th  position among the 18 universities which were ranked by NAAC.

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