The two-day workshop on NAAC has started in the Arya Bhatt seminar hall of Vinoba Bhave University Hazaribagh on Wednesday. This was jointly inaugurated by VC Gurdeep Singh, national assistant advisor of NAAC Ganesh Hegde of Karnataka and former VC of Kalyani University, West Bengal Arbinda Kumar Das. The workshop was divided into seven technical sessions in two days.In the inaugural session the Vice chancellor of the VBU Dr. Gurdeep Singh said that five universities are functional in Jharkhand but none has been accredited by the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council). He further said that the VBU is the first university, that has started the process of getting accreditation from the council.
NAAC’s Dr Ganesg Hegde said that Vinoba Bhave University has started the process of getting the accreditation from the council and the process will be completed in two months. He also rendered the details about how to get the accreditation from the council during the first technical session.As a main resource person of the workshop former vice chancellor of the Kalyani Uninversity Dr. AK Das said that the main objectives of the NAAC are to make the quality the defining elements of the higher education in India through the combination of self and external quality evaluation promotion and sustained initiatives.Pro vice chancellor of VBU MP Sinha welcome the guest and all diginatories in the workshop. The workshop was organised jointly by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of VBU and sponsored by the NAAC and HRD department of Jharkhand Government. The topic of the workshop was “Awareness Programme Under National Quality Renaissance Initiative (NQRI ) of NAAC”.