Hectic days are a part and parcel of a UGC visit to confirm the autonomy status and today, the visit of the six UGC panel members was the most hectic of them all. Add to it, the college is swarming with outsiders in connection with the counting to be taken up. 

The expert panel interacted with the HODs, faculty, admin staff and the students to assess our preparedness for autonomy. Questions flew in from all directions from them and at some point of time, you feel like throwing down the gauntlet and saying Que Sera Sera. But, then the hard work that's gone in to prepare for the visit, the Commissioner's support for the effort and the fear of going back to a University set up impel one to go on through the day, following the gruelling sessions, because one realises that the intention of the panel is to find out how prepared we are to receive autonomy and whether we are mature and experienced enough for the process of examination. If you ask me why autonomy is needed, I'd say, the fact that the End Semester Examination has been rescheduled for a particular day, because a company is visiting for campus recruitment, something which one cannot dream of,  if it had been a University examination, is proof of the pudding. 


JSW CEO, Shri Ravichandran and Prof.P M Kavimani, Addl.Director were there to support the instituion in their meeting with the committee.

Well, we shall know in a day or two. 

In the meantime, one can give up all claim to the college, since we are going to be the outsiders for the next two days. It's tough to see that one's workplace is taken over by another body. 

What's really enthused me through the last few days has been the sight of policepersons on duty, vigilant and alert or of them sleeping in narrow, anywhere available kinda spaces, in between their shifts. At times like these, one cannot but be intensely proud of the manner in which the institution called democracy respects the individual and gives each one a space to express themselves. I'm proud of you, my country, your constitution, your respect for the will of the people and the immense care that the Election Commission takes to ensure that every common man is given the opportunity and ambience to vote. I Love My India.