Research and Consultancy Policy

Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar

Accredited by NAAC, An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Institution, Amritsar 143001  (Punjab)

Research & Consultancy Policy

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Research work is of paramount importance for the reputation of any educational institution. The research culture depends on three domains viz. 1) Trifocal function of Faculty (Teaching, Research & Development, Community Service and Extension), 2) Faculty attributes and Output (Knowledge, skills, values, and attitude) and 3) Institutional Attributes and Policies which influence each other. The purpose of research is to bring advancement in the existing body of knowledge and create new knowledge in all the disciplines. it is a pre-requisite for the development of society as a whole be it in social science, medical science, behavioural science and linguistics. Research and teaching are complimentary to each other.

At Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, Research & Consultancy Policy is formulated to create and support research culture among faculty and students. The policy ensures enhancement of professional competence, promote scientific temper and research aptitudes of all learners. With this objective KCW established a Research Committee in the year 2015.  Further, the Research & Development Cell has been established as per the guidelines issued by UGC on 4^th March, 2022.

The R&D Cell enables the faculty and students to pursue research and participate in consultancy works. At Khalsa College for Women, the faculty is engaged in discovering or creating new knowledge and sharing that knowledge in a systematic manner with students, society and nation and society. It gives an opportunity to teachers and students to explore their interest in greater depth.

Objectives of Research and Development Cell:

·      To ensure high ethical standards in research;

·   To facilitate and encourage the quality publications of the research work and share the results to the entire research community;

·    To build long term relationships with industries and academia at national and international level through MOUs for widening the scope of research options and funding opportunities for faculty and students;

·     To develop, prescribe and administer rules and regulations to ensure the compliance of research quality assurance framework and the research code.

 Promotion of Research

The faculty and students are given freedom to choose the research area of their choice. There are different committees under Research and Development Cell providing guidance and assistance to faculty to apply for various govt. and non-govt. funding agencies and pursue their research. The college management has initiated Best Researcher and Best Teacher Award for the faculty to encourage them for publications in reputed journals, consultancy works, writing books and filing patents. All the necessary infrastructural facilities and encouraging environment to promote research, consultancy, innovation and intellectual capital are provided. The UG and PG students are encouraged to take up a specific task in the research projects under the guidance of faculty investigators.

Sponsored Research Projects

The faculty can submit Research Project proposals to various funding agencies like ICSSR, UGC and DST and DBT. The proposals to be submitted are scrutinized at the department level by the concerned committee constituted under RDC before submitting the same to funding agency. The Institute provides all kinds of infrastructure facilities required for conducting a preliminary Research for Project. The funding by the agency must cover all aspects which include equipment, testing facilities, specialized manpower resources etc. The system to be adopted for conducting the research will be discussed and approval of the Principal is obtained before such an effort is undertaken. Every department faculty may associate with the Industry for collaborative research, which lead to publications and patents in collaboration with industry.

Collaborative Research & Consultancy Projects Policy

(i)             Industry Sponsored Research Project: A public/private industry can utilize expertise of the fcaulty of the institution to conduct research. If any patent is registered, then there shall be a sharing of income generated from patenting among the industry, researcher and institute. This will lead to three kinds of benefits:

 a. The researcher will get an exposure to the concerned area of research.

b. The industry will get solutions to their problem.

c. The institute and industry can earn money and at the end, the society will be ultimately benefited.

Consultancy Projects: The Institute allows staff to engage in Research, Non-research and/or Private Consultancies provided they do not affect the regular duties. Consultancies shall be undertaken only with the approval of the designated  Principal/ R&D Cell. No limit is placed on earnings. However there is a limit on the time spent on Consultancy. The collaborative research and consultancy projects are divided into three categories. These are as follows:

Category I: Complete use of infrastructure for Projects Completion – This type of projects use major infrastructure available in the college and based on use, the fund is shared equally by the institute and the human resource.

Category II: Partial use of infrastructure for Project Completion – this type of projects use few college resources and accordingly the incentive is paid to college by the consultant.

Category III: No resources of college are used- this type of projects does not require college resources. The consultant needs to pay the minimal amount as incentive for permitting the consultant to avail the benefit of flexibility in rendering the services to college.

(ii)      Interdisciplinary Research: Interdisciplinary research is the need of the day. Moreover, every research requires interaction with other departments. Therefore, the Institute has decided to conduct interdisciplinary research activities for which the following actions will be taken:

a. Identify the interdisciplinary area.

b. Identify the different experts from concerned disciplines who can work together.

c. Study the requirement of the infrastructure to conduct the concerned interdisciplinary research.

d. Explore possibilities to find resources for such interdisciplinary research.

iii)   Inter-institutional Research: The faculty is encouraged to prepare the proposals in collaboration with well-established research institutes such as IIT’s, Central Universities and other colleges having research interest. The faculty may be as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator depending on the contribution towards the research with the collaborating Institute.