Committee

Academic Committee - Research (TAC-R)

Academic Committee’ / Technical Advisory Committee- Research (TAC-R)

Academic Committee or Technical Advisory Committee will be constituted at each Centre to meet Bi-annually to take care of programme of work, quality and progress of work at each stage. The committee would be constituted as follows:

‘Academic Committee’ Or Technical Advisory Committee
1	Nominee of the Vice–Chancellor	Chairman	Ex-Officio
2	Secretary Agriculture/ Representative of State Government	Member	Ex-Officio	Director of Agriculture or his Representative
3	Head of the Department of Economics	Member	Ex-Officio	HOD, Economics, SPU
4	Representative of The Directorate Of Economics And Statistics	Member	Ex-Officio	Aer Division, DES, MOA & FW, GOI
5	Two Experts from the related discipline	Member	Nominated By Hon VC, SPU
5	Two Experts from the related discipline	Member	Nominated By Hon VC, SPU
6	Head of AER Centre	Convenor	Ex-Officio	Director & Professor, AERC, SPU

D-IQAC

Departemental Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

Objective: The Prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of our Centre. It would also aim to promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices. Besides, IQAC would certify the Academic Performance Indicators (API) required for the faculty while submitting the application in other Institutions (as per respective Institute/University adopted API format- Under approval).

IQAS-Departmental Internal Quality Assurance Cell for AERC (DIQAC) Composition

Sr. No.	Composition	Nature of Membership	Term of Membership	Nominating authority	Name of the Member
1	Chairperson- Head of the Department/Centre Director, AERC, SPU, VVN	Ex-Officio	—	Ex-Officio	Ex-Officio
2	A few senior administrative officers · Director/Professor · Dy. Director/Asso. Professor	Ex-Officio	—	Ex-Officio	Ex-Officio
3	Three to eight teachers (all faculty members of AERC) · Director/Professor · Deputy Director/Asso. Prof. · Research Officer/Asst. Prof. 1 · Research Officer/Asst. Prof. 2	Ex-Officio	—	Ex-Officio	Ex-Officio
4	One member from the Management	Member	Three years	Vice-Chancellor, SPU, VVN
5	One/two nominees from local society, Students and Alumni (Ph.D. Student)	Member	Three years	Director, AERC, SPU	To be nominated by the Director
6	One/two nominees from Employers/ Industrialists/ stakeholders	Member	Three years	Vice-Chancellor, SPU, VVN
7	One of the senior teachers as the coordinator of DIQAC	Member	Three years	Director, AERC, SPU	To be nominated by the Director
Notes: The membership of nominated members shall be for a period of three years. The IQAC should meet at least once in every quarter. The quorum for the meeting shall be two-thirds of the total number of members.

Library

AERC LIBRARY COMMITEE

Objectives: Centre has its own small library which is being used by the insider as well as outside researchers. In order to address the various issues related to Library, AERC Library Committee was constituted in 2013.

Sr. No.	Composition	Nature of Membership	Name of the Member
1)	Hon. Adviser, AERC
2)	Director/Hon. Director (AERC/CCS)	Ex-Officio	Dr. S. S. Kalamkar
3)	Hon. Dy. Director, AERC	Ex-Officio	Dr. Kinjal Ahir (w.e.f 01.09.2017)
4)	Field Officer, CCS	Ex-Officio	Dr. S. R. Bhaiya
5)	Research & Ref. Asstt. – Library, AERC	Ex-Officio	Shri Deep K. Patel

Woman Cell

Women Cell

Objective: With an aim of creating awareness of women’s right and duties as well as to take up women’s issues and problems. It also provides a platform for women to share their experiences and views regarding their status in the society and to suggest ways to improve and empower themselves. Aiming at intellectual and social upliftment of the female students, the cell stands for facilitating women’s empowerment.

Composition		Nature of Membership	Nominating /appointing authority	Name of the Member
1)	Director/ Hon. Director	Ex-Officio	—	Dr. S. S. Kalamkar
2)	One Female Faculty	Member	Director/ Hon. Director	Dr. Kinjal Ahir
3)	One female non-teaching staff representative from AERC	Member	Director/ Hon. Director	Ms. Kalpana Kapadia
4)	One female non-teaching staff representative from CCS	Member	Director/ Hon. Director

Recreational Club

AERC Recreational Club’

The major aim of club is to arrange/organise cultural/sport/social activity in a group manner for and by the staff of the Centre. The following staff members are on the organising body of this club.

Sr. No	Composition
1	Shri Deep K Patel
2	Shri D. N. Thakkar
3	Ms. Kalpana Kapadia
4	Shri Thansigh Parihar
5	Shri Mihir R Rana (Invitee)
6	Shri Bhavesh M. Solanki (Invitee)