College Staff Council

The Staff Council is the topmost advisory body established in the college to advise the Principal on academic and administrative matters. It consists of Principal as its ex-officio Chairperson and heads of all academic departments as members. The office superintendent will represent the office staff in the council. Besides these members, based on the staff strength (number of teachers) , one or two persons will be elected from the teaching staff to represent them in the council. One member of the council will be nominated by the Principal as its Secretary to co-ordinate the affairs of the council.

Nature and Functions of College Council

  1. The College council shall consist of the Principal and Heads of the Department of each

subject of study, two persons elected from the staff members, Librarian of the General Library

and the Ministerial Head of Administrative Staff of the College Office.

  1. The Principal shall be the ex-officio President of the Council. The council shall appoint one

of the members as the Secretary and the member so appointed shall hold office for one year,

but shall be eligible for re-election.

  1. The general administration of the college shall vest in the Principal subject to the control of

the Director of Collegiate Education. Some of the general administrative work of the College

may be distributed by the Principal among the members of Council to be done under the

general supervision of the Principal e.g. Library, Athletics, Maintenance of Building and the

ground etc.

  1. The Council is empowered to consider and report of any question concerning

accommodation, course of instruction, or rules of discipline referred to it by the Principal but is

shall not interface in any manner with the general administration of the college which is vested

in the Principal acting under the orders of the Director of Collegiate Education.

  1. All questions of promotion, term certificates and scholarships shall ordinarily be decided by

the Council.

  1. All cases of serious misconduct on the part of students involving loss of their term certificates

or their removal or expulsion from the College shall be dealt with by the Principal, ordinarily in

consultation with the College Council.

  1. Meeting of the Council shall be convened at such time as the Principal may consider

necessary. He shall also convene a meeting when required to do so by the Director of

Collegiate Education or on the written requisition of not less than two third of the members.

  1. Not less than three day’s notice of a meeting shall ordinarily be given to each member. The

notice ordinarily be accompanied by the agenda.

  1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to give notice of the meeting of the Council, to keep a

record of the proceedings of such meeting and to forward to the Director of Collegiate

Education through the Principal a copy of the proceedings of each meeting.

  1. The Principal or in his absence, the Vice Principal shall take the Chair at all meeting of the

Council.

  1. Not less than majority of the members shall form the quorum and all questions shall be

decided by a majority of the votes of members present. If the votes including the vote of the

chairman are equally divided, the Chairman shall have a casting vote. The Principal may over

rule the decision of the College Council, but in such case he shall make a report to the Director

of Collegiate Education setting forth the reason for doing so.

  1. The chairman shall be the sole judge of any point of order. He may call any member to

order and shall have power to take any action as may be necessary to enforce his decision.

  1. The Budget shall be framed by the Principal in consultation with the members of the

Council and forward to the Director of Collegiate Education.

  1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing rules it shall be competent to the

Principal to dispose of any matter which should ordinarily be disposed by the Council.

College Staff Council Members (2022-2023)

Sl. No Name Designation and Department Status
1 AMALA A K PRINCIPAL Ex-officio Chairperson
2 CHRIBUNA VISWAS HOD – ENGLISH Ex-officio Member
3 Dr. SEETHALEKSHMI M P HOD – COMMERCE Ex-officio Member
4 Dr. VIJAYAN K T V HOD- MICROBIOLOGY Ex-officio Member
5 UMAMAKHESWARI K HOD – TAMIL Ex-officio Member
6 BINDU HOD – MALAYALAM Ex-officio Member
7 Dr. NISHALAKSHMI HOD – HINDI Ex-officio Member
8 SAJEESH KUMAR HOD- PHYSICAL EDUCATION Ex-officio Member
9 Dr. VIPIN P SIVARAM HOD- BIOCHEMISTRY Ex-officio Member
10 PRASANTH K V ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Elected Staff Member and Secretary
11 Dr. ROBERT ANTONY Assistant Professor of Microbiology Elected Staff Member
12 REKHA C C Junior Superintendent Office Representative
13 RAMESH K IQAC COORDINATOR Invited Member
14 Dr. SRIVIDYA S NAAC COORDINATOR Invited Member
15 VINEETH LIBRARIAN Invited Member