7.2.1 Describe two best practices successfully implemented by the Institution as per NAAC format provided in the Manual.

 

BEST PRACTICE – 1

1. Title of the Practice

Amalgamation of Personality and Behavioral Development through Grooming Classes

 

2. Objectives of the Practice

The motto of the College is ‘To Grow with Education and Innovation’. LPCPS offers grooming classes at free of cost to its students as part of their curriculum. Through grooming classes the college aims to prepare the children as well- behaved ones and responsible citizens. The main objectives of grooming classes are:

1. To introduce students to business etiquette and communication.
2. To familiarize students with dress and grooming in a formal set up.
3. To explain the importance and the use of courtesy.
4. To introduce e-mail etiquette, telephone manners and overall conduct at the place of work.
5. Exhibit seriousness towards career goals.

 

3. The Context

Lucknow Public College of Professional Studies has a continuous policy of inclusivity and plurality. It is the vision of the college to empower its students through holistic and innovative education system. Hence, the college reaches out to its students as it is challenging for them to cope with the feelings and clarify beliefs and expectations, when they enter a corporate environment. This is reflected in their low selections in corporates at under- graduate level throughout the city.

 

The Management, in consultation with The Governing Body, decided that the best way to solve the problem is to provide grooming classes within the college premises. As a result several MoU were signed between College and outside parties.

 

The result of this experiment was tangible and students overcame their fear of facing interviews and qualifying competitive exams.

 

4. The Practice

Grooming classes are provided by LPCPS with an aim to benefit each and every student. Apart from their academic curriculum college also provides personality development classes for grooming the confidence to dress up, look presentable and confident every day while hitting their workplace. The best part of a grooming class is real-time experience, where students get a good platform to learn and implement the skills learnt. Senior students become role models for fresher’s which ultimately helps to maintain college culture of sharing the work of others.

 

Grooming classes are divided in various fields which include courses related to student’s interest and necessary for their future job related interviews. Following is the detail of grooming classes:

S. No.	Title of Programme
1	Hindi Language
2	IIT Bombay
3	WU- Shu
4	YOGA & Meditation
5	Videography & Photography
6	Short Term Course for Effective Communication Skill
7	Programming in Python
8	NISM (National Institute of Securities Markets)
9	Income Tax Return Filing & Assessment
10	GST
11	Personality Development Program
12	French Language
13	Cyber Security
14	Artificial Intelligence
15	Tally Accounting

 

The college has various LTF and student clubs various LTF viz. Academic, Discipline and Management and clubs viz. Happening Souls, Artificial Intelligence club, Anchors Club, Arts & Craft Club, Dance Club, Dramatic Club, Music Club, Sports Club, E-Cell, Communicators, Which caters to technical, cultural, social, recreational, health and welfare needs and interests of the students. These clubs at LPCPS are joined and run by the students from across the programmes, where they drive various techno, management, and cultural activities throughout the year.

S. No.	Club Name	Faculty In-charge
1	Sports Club	Dr. Lav Srivastava
2	Drama Club	Mr. Neeraj Kumar Singh
3	Dance Club	Ms. Akanksha Rastogi
4	Arts & Craft Club	Ms. Saloni Agarwal
5	Music Club	Ms. Ankita Singh
6	Artificial Intelligence Club (A.I. Club)	Prof. L.S Awasthi
7	Anchors Club	Mrs Aanchal Praveen
8	The Communicators Club	Mr. Neeraj Singh
9	Happening Souls Head	Mr. Aditya Vikram Singh
10	Happening Souls Media	Mr. Aditya Vikram Singh
11	Happening Souls Publishing	Mr. Aditya Vikram Singh
12	E-Cell	Mr. Rohit Kapoor

 

The combination of the new exposure (i.e., academics and grooming activities) helped the students to confidence in their actions.

 

5. Evidence of Success

To cite the success stories of these grooming sessions many students have successfully completed LIBRE- OFFICE suite base test offered by the Spoken Tutorial Project IIT Bombay. This exam is funded by National Mission on Education through ICT; MHRD, Government of India. Students of LPCPS have started qualifying IIM entrance exam, qualify IIT JAM exam, paid internship and final placements in various companies even before the completion of their Graduation Programmes.

 

The data of placed students of last five year is given below:

2020-21	2019-20	2018-19	2017-18	2016-17
86	62	84	80	9

Table: Placed Students of last five years

 

The data of students qualified/selected in various exams/competition is given below:

Exams/Competition	Year	Name of the Student
CAT	2020-21	Abhinav Srivastava
		Arya Srivastava
		Samarth Srivastava
	2019-20	Kritika Agarwal

 

Exams/Competition	Year	Name of the Student
JAM	2020-21	Shivangi Mishra
	2019-20	Ansh Madheshiya
	2018-19	Ashish Kumar

 

Exams/Competition	Year	Name of the Student
CMAT	2019-20	Arpit Yadav

 

Exams/Competition	Year	Name of the Student
CMAT	2020-21	Sameeksha Gupta

 

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

There is no insurmountable problem faced by the college in following this practice.

• It is true that the college needs greater financial support to reach out to more students.  As a result, at the outset limited number of grooming classes were operational.
• Teachers had to coax students to offer and participate in grooming classes.
• Additional value added courses are required to be added to bridge the gap between academics and industry.
• The Covid-19 lockdown not only pushed ahead with the academic calendar but also was one of the biggest obstacles to run online grooming classes.
• Under the shadow of Covid-19, the lives of millions of children temporarily shrunk to just their homes and their screens. As result, college found it difficult to navigate students with this new reality.

 

BEST PRACTICE – 2

1. Title of the Practice

An Exceptional Activity of Conducting Major Research Projects (MRPs) by the College with the help of Faculty Members as Principal Investigator (PI)/ Co- PI in various departments.

 

2. Objectives of the Practice

Although, the Universities has a network of science and technology laboratories for research and development, but Lucknow Public College of Professional Studies make every effort to promote teaching and research. To promote excellence in research in higher education the college supports research programmes of the college and college teachers in various disciplines. The MRPs are purely based upon the practical exposure, innovation and their application that could contribute positively to the society having long lasting impact toward the human race.

3. The Context

Research, by its nature, is a critical challenging task requires in depth knowledge of the subject matter, planning, care, and hard work. The common challenges/difficulties during the research proposals and projects are as follows:

1. difficulty in deciding the topic for research,
2. lack of good knowledge of the methodology,
3. inability of finding modern,
4. specialized and related references,
5. lack of interest in research, and
6. lack of understanding of the subject matter, lack of time, and research guiding.

 

At LPCPS the faculty members are fully research oriented along with teaching caliber. Overall, four MRPs were conducted by the two departments, viz., department of computer science and department of science jointly.

4. The Practice

Major Research Project practice divide research aim into several parts and address each part separately:

• What needs to be studied?
• How research target will be achieved?

The intention of conducting the Major Research Projects was to add knowledge in the area, to devise and test a solution to an existing problem and to address the existing gap in the knowledge. The benefits of research projects are highly useful for the society in general and developing countries like India in particular. The following Four MRPs were funded by Lucknow Public Educational Society, A- Block, Rajaji Puram, Lucknow under the R&D Grant-in-Aid Scheme.

S.No	Project No.	Project Tenure	Project Cost	Project Name
1	2016/MRP/01/LPES	April 01, 2016 – March 31, 2019	~ ₹ 10.00 Lacs	Drone- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2	2017/MRP/02/LPES	April 01, 2017 – March 31, 2020	~ ₹ 5.00 Lacs	Snowboy Smart Speaker
3	2018/MRP/03/LPES	April 01, 2018 – March 31, 2021	~ ₹ 5.00 Lacs	Automatic Hand Sanitizer Machine
4	2018/MRP/04/LPES	April 01, 2018 – March 31, 2021	~ ₹ 5.00 Lacs	Smart Dustbin

5. Evidence of Success

The Four MRPs has tremendously benefited the research scholars, academicians and the society.

S.No.	Project No.	Outcome of the Project Through Link
1	2016/MRP/01/LPES	Artificial intelligence to another stature in a real sense: unmanned aerial vehicle, Webology, 17, 550-556, 2020.
2	2017/MRP/02/LPES	Arrangement and technique for exploring an appeal to deliver a customized voice recognition service towards the user: snowboy smart speaker, Webology, 17, 91-98, 2020.
3	2018/MRP/03/LPES	The desperation to think of a savvy arrangement: automatic hand sanitizer machine, Webology, 18, 1968-1974,2021.
4	2018/MRP/04/LPES	The smart dustbin focused via computerized reasoning: an advanced invention in the field of man- machine linking technology, Webology, 18, 2294-2301, 2021.

 

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

Research by its nature is a critical challenging task requires in depth knowledge of the subject matter, planning, care, and hard work. From the Principal Investigator (PI) point of view, attempts to explore the challenges that are faced when they are writing proposals and research projects at the early stages. Some key points have been provided below:

• Lack of knowledge of research methodology.
• Facing obstacles in formatting research proposals and projects.
• Shortage of funds required for good research.
• Shortage of time.

 

In spite of above challenges Lucknow Public Educational Society (LPES), ‘A’ Block, Rajajipuram, Lucknow provided not only financial assistance under a research grant, but also motivated its faculty members to conduct research.  The best part of the above activities is to provide the research platform to embark on the journey of innovations which will consequently help in availing the funds from the Government.