AQAR 2007-2008 - Madras Christian College

ANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT 

2007 - 2008 

Submitted to 

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL 

BANGALORE 

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL 

MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) 

Tambaram, Chennai – 600 059

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MISSION STATEMENT 

he Madras Christian College with the 

inspiration of the love of God offers to 

people of all communities education of the 

whole person which is congruous with God’s 

revelation in Christ of the true nature of 

humanity and is appropriate to the needs of India 

and the world. 

National Conference at the Anderson Hall

AQAR 2007-2008, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI 

ANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT 

2007 - 2008 

The college has seen an impressive increase in the demand for various courses and the 

number of students enrolled. Hence, in addition to the ongoing quality enhancement 

in areas of curriculum, teaching and learning, the focus area for the academic year 

2007-2008 was to enhance academic quality through increase in research projects and 

development of infrastructure to meet the increase in number of students. Efforts were 

also made to enhance academic programmes through improving library services, 

establishing centres and providing scholarships and prizes for students. 

Bell Tower 

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Part A 

Plan of Action: 

To encourage departments to apply for research projects 

Outcome: 

The Department of Zoology has been granted a total funding of Rs.62.8 lakhs from 

CSIR, DBT and UBCHEA. The Department of Economics is working in 

collaboration with Malcolm Elizabeth Adhiseshiah Trust, Chennai with a funding of 

Rs. 50,000. The Department of Commerce has been sanctioned Rs. 90,000. The 

Department of Social Work in collaboration with Bridge Water State University 

undertook research based on Tsunami with a funding of Rs. 25,000. The Department 

of Statistics has been sanctioned Rs. 75,000 by the UGC. The Department of 

Chemistry has been sanctioned Rs. 1 lakh by the UGC and has also been sanctioned 

SAP to strengthen its research base. The college has also been granted five minor 

research projects and two major research projects. 


Improving infrastructure 

Outcome: 

Turning of the sod for the new Women’s Hall (partially funded by UGC) on campus 

and the Centre for International Social Work, Construction of a new Dormitory at the 

Estuarine Biological Laboratory, Pulicat, Construction of a classroom in Zoology 

Department, Extension of MacNicol Lounge and Martin Hall to meet the needs of 

growing number of non-resident and resident women students, furniture for new class 

rooms and hall, Renovation and modification of laboratories and offices on campus, 

improvements in ICT facilities, and developmental activities in the farm on campus 

have been undertaken. 


To continue the efforts to enhance academic programmes 

Outcome: 

Improving the Library facilities in the department and central library. 

New books and journals were added to the library based on the needs of departments. 

E-resources in the library and the bioinformatics centre was made available and 

library data was computerized. 

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Upgrade the Business Education programmes to international standards. 

Madras Christian College has constantly strived to be a forerunner in quality 

education. Often students find that what they have learned in class will be a poor 

replica of the industry and even the employees feel that applicants are generally 

uninformed of how the systems of business work. To this end in view, one of our 

distinguished alumni, Ms. Chandrika Tandon has provided financial and moral 

support and the college has launched a series of measures to upgrade business 

education in the college and help the students of Business Studies (B.Com. and 

B.B.A) under the banner of ‘World Class Business Education Programme in MCC’. 

To build the Social Work programme to meet international standards. 

There has been a steady increase in the need for providing a curriculum on 

International Social Work. In response to this, the Centre for International Social 

Work was envisaged to harness the potential of international partnerships. In addition 

to this, curriculum revision was made to meet international standards and a ‘Study 

Abroad Programme’ for a semester from the academic year 2007-2008 at the 

University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia was introduced to expose students 

to cross-cultural social work practice. 

Enhance the support for students through scholarships and prizes offered by the 

college. 

In addition to numerous prizes and scholarships that already exist, a total of Rs. 6.50 

lakhs was raised to provide scholarships and prizes for students. 

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Part B 

1. Activities reflecting the goals and objectives of the institution: 

Academic Excellence 

• Ensuring the position of the college as one of the premier institutions of higher 

education in the country. 

• Developing a teaching and learning system of national and international standards. 

• Providing a student centric education with teacher as facilitator. 

• Encouraging research and consultancy among the members of the faculty. 

• Increasing the number of research publications. 

• Encouraging student’s participation in academic and co-curricular activities to 

enhance classroom learning. 

Social Relevance 

• Carrying forward the pioneering efforts of offering an education relevant to the 

needs of the society by fostering social involvement among students. 

• Fostering sensitivity to the needs of the neighbourhood community. 

• Caring for the under privileged and the socially marginalized. 

• Creating an environment where the needs of the differently-abled are given 

importance. 

Spiritual Vitality 

• Anchoring the education and service provided at MCC in Christian values, 

through various activities like the Staff Study Circle, Campus Ministry, Student 

Christian Movement, etc. 

• Fostering the values of the college - love, unity, brotherhood, industry and 

courage - in creating a wholesome personality through various activities. 

• Inculcating principles of social justice and rights which will serve the community 

at large. 

• Facilitating inter-faith dialogue through the Staff Study Circle. 

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2. New academic programmes initiated by the college (UG & PG): 

Introduction of the M.Phil Programme in Commerce: 

The Department of Commerce (aided stream) was recognized by the University of 

Madras for conducting research leading to the M. Phil degree from the academic year 

2007-2008. 

3. Innovations in curricular design and transaction: 

The following recommendation made at the Academic Council Meeting held on 27 

April 2007, were implemented in the academic year 2007-2008: 

• The Department of Tamil made innovative changes in their curriculum by 

introducing a general elective paper Tamil for Civil Service Examinations and also 

introducing practical training in the paper on Computer Training. In addition to 

this, two prose books were compiled for Part-I Tamil and changes were made in 

the course on Modern Christian Literature for I M.A. Tamil. 

• The PG Department of Social Work (aided stream) introduced for the first time, a 

‘Study Abroad Programme’ for a semester from the academic year 2007-2008 at 

the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. The first batch of students 

under this programme went on exchange in June 2007. In addition to this, an 

innovative paper on Integrated Social Work Practice incorporating the skills 

content from the primary methods of social work practice namely, Case Work, 

Group Work and Community Organization was introduced. Based on the mission 

of the department and the needs in the field, the elective paper on Human Rights 

was changed to a compulsory paper to be offered in Semester II. The Department 

of Social Work, was the first department at the PG level (even before the 

University of Madras had introduced it) to offer 6 credits for need-based soft skills 

courses spread over four semesters in a workshop pattern. The programme being a 

professional master’s degree was also designed for 90 credits as against 72 credits 

for other M.A/M. Sc courses. 

• The Department of Physics (aided stream) introduced new syllabus for a paper on 

Solid State Physics (for PG) and for Allied Physics for Mathematics and 

Chemistry (for UG). 

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• The Department of Chemistry (aided stream) made changes in the content of two 

papers, Allied Chemistry I & II. 

• The Department of Plant Biology & Plant Biotechnology (aided stream) 

introduced major changes in the following papers: General Course: Plant and 

People; Medical Botany, Industrial Microbiology and Medical Microbiology; 

Mushroom Cultivation; Evolution and Biodiversity; Ethnobotany and Ecology, 

Environment, Forestry and Remote Sensing. At the M. Phil level the syllabus for a 

new paper on Research Methodology for Plant Biotechnology was introduced. 

• The Department of Computer Science (MCA) introduced major changes in their 

syllabus under the Choice Based Credit System to ensure that the curriculum meets 

the demands of the industry. For instance, the introduction of Programme 

Laboratory in C++ and the updating of the course on Computer Architecture. 

• The Department of Computer Science (BCA) updated the curriculum based on the 

new trends in the field. A course on ‘Programming in Java’ as a core paper and a 

general elective (open to students of all departments) on ‘Web Designing’ was 

introduced. In addition to this, revision was also carried out in other papers like 

Multimedia Systems and System Software. 

• The Department of Geography, Tourism & Travel Management restructured the 

curriculum for semester V & VI. The highlights of the final year courses are: Core 

Papers -World Geography, Tourism & Human Rights, GIS in Tourism; and Five 

Specialized papers with a choice of any two – Health & Well-Being Tourism, 

Cuisines of India, Festivals and Fairs in India, Ecotourism and Adventure 

Tourism; Role of Information Technology. 

• The Department of Plant Biology & Plant Biotechnology under the self-financed 

stream introduced the curriculum for II and III year. 

• World Class Business Education Programme for the Departments of Business 

Administration and Commerce was introduced: The modalities of this process are 

to be on two fronts focusing on students on one level and the faculty on the other. 

On the student front, the alumni have identified a number of MNCs that the 

students can visit in an attempt to bring in industry-student interface. The 

‘Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series’ are being arranged to improve the 

standard of Business Education in the college both for faculty and students. This 

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lecture series was inaugurated by Mr N. Vaghul, Chairman, ICICI Bank on 21 

August 2007 in the Anderson Hall of the College. In his speech, Mr Vaghul 

emphasized that the students should be on par with the international standards of 

business. The second lecture under this programme was delivered by Dr A. Besant 

C. Raj, Chairman and Managing Director, Besant Raj International Ltd and the 

Chairman of the Madras Christian College Association. He spoke on the two 

fastest growing economies of the World – India and China. Several other 

programmes are on the anvil under this ‘World Class Business Education 

Programme’. 

4. Inter-disciplinary programmes started: 

Under the CBCS, Inter-disciplinary courses are offered in the following three ways: 

General Courses: 

General courses are offered in all the departments for I UG students as a compulsory 

component, where by any student can choose a course from other departments except 

his/her parent department. 

Inter-Disciplinary Courses: 

Inter-disciplinary courses are offered in all the departments for II UG students as 

compulsory components where by any student can choose a course from his/her 

department or other departments. 

General Elective: 

It is a compulsory component for III UG students whereby they choose the paper 

from within the department or other departments in the fifth semester. 

Innovative Inter-disciplinary Courses continue to be offered in the CBCS: 

Discipline 

English 

Tamil 

History 

Political Science 

Economics 

Courses Offered 

Eco-criticism 

Literature and Psychology 

Indian Culture 

Civil Services in India 

Entrepreneurship Development 

Political Economy of India 

Health Economics 

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Philosophy 

Commerce 

Mathematics 

Statistics 

Physics 

Chemistry 

Botany 

Zoology 

Business Administration 

Computer Application 

Media Studies 

Microbiology 

Physical Education 

Geography, Tourism & Travel 

Management 

Geography, Tourism & Travel 

Management 

Introduction to Christian Theology 

Tourism Marketing 

Accounting Package – Tally 

Business Economics 

Advertising Theory and Practice 

Human Resource Management 

Web Application 

Mathematics for Competitive Examinations 

Actuarial Statistics 

Astrophysics 

Biophysics 

Environmental Chemistry 

Biological Chemistry 

Biodiversity 

Ethnobotany 

Plants in International Affairs 

Plant-Animal Interaction 

Wildlife Management 

Business Economics 

Multimedia Systems 

Media Management 

Presentation Skills 

Public Relations 

Floriculture 

Research Methods and Report Writing in 

Physical Education 

Computer Integrated Geography 

Computer Integrated Geography 

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5. Examination reforms implemented: 

Awarding of degree using transferred credits obtained from a foreign university has 

been facilitated. 

6. Candidates qualified for NET/SLET/GATE etc: 

A considerable number of students clear these competitive examinations. However, 

the college does not maintain any record of these results. 

7. Initiative towards faculty development programme: 

Refresher Course: 

• Mekala Rajan, Department of English, attended a Refresher Course in English, 

organized by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 11 September to 01 

October 2007. 

• Hannah Fredrick, Department of Commerce, attended a Refresher Course, 

organized by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 04 to 24 July 2007. 

• P. Wilson, Department of Chemistry, attended a Refresher Course, organized by 

Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 2008. 

• M. Baluswami, Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology attended a 

Refresher Course organized by the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 

February 2008. 

• R.W. Alexander Jesudasan, Department of Zoology, attended a Refresher Course 

in ‘Biotechnology’, UGC, CAS in Botany, University of Madras, 02 to 22 


Orientation Course: 

• Y. Gnana Chandra Johnson, Department of Tamil, participated in the Orientation 

Course organized by the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 14 

November to 11 December 2007. 

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• S. Balusami, Department of Tamil, participated in the Orientation Course 

organized by the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 14 November to 

11 December 2007. 

• Pauline Edyson, Department of Tamil, participated in the Orientation Course 

organized by the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 2007. 

• R. Venkataramanujam, Department of History, attended the Orientation Course 

conducted by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 2007 - 2008. 

• K. Ashok, Department of History, attended the Orientation Course conducted by 

Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 2007 - 2008. 

• S. Mathivanan, Department of Philosophy, attended the Orientation Course, 

conducted by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 14 November to 11 

December 2007. 

• Sarprasatha Joe, Department of Commerce, attended the Orientation Course at 

Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 29 August to 25 September 2007. 

• Renchy Koshy Verghese, Department of Social Work, attended an Orientation 

Course for Teachers at the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 01 to 30 

November 2007. 

• Jaya Kishore Panda, Department of Chemistry, attended the Orientation Course 

held at Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 01 to 28 February, 2008. 

Other Faculty Development Programmes: 

• Ann Thomas, Department of English, attended the ‘Gender Committee Executive 

Meeting’ of the Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCA at Hong Kong, 2007 and was 

also invited as a Guest Speaker at the ‘Gulf Regional Conference’ at Abu Dhabi, 

UAE, June 2007. 

• P. David Prabhakar, Department of Tamil, attended (i) workshop on ‘Tamil 

Computing Technology' organized by Tamil Virtual University at Crescent 

Engineering College, Chennai, 03 August 2007; (ii) International symposium on 

‘Tamil as Classical Language’ conducted by Institute of Asian Studies & CECT 

Mysore, at Chennai, 17 to 20 January 2008. 

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• C. Joseph Barnabas, Department of History, attended (i) UGC Sponsored Regional 

Workshop on ‘Human Rights Education’, Loyola College, Chennai, 11 & 12 July 

2007; (ii) Main session of the ‘Question Bank Workshop on General Awareness 

(Humanities)’, Staff Selection Commission (Southern Region), Ministry of 

Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India, Chennai, 08 & 

09 January 2008. 

• J. Ramesh Sundar, Department of Political Science, participated in one day 

Seminar on ‘Gender Issues’, organized by MCC and United Board for Christian 

Higher Education in Asia, March 2008. 

• H. Crosby Vijayakumar, Department of Political Science, attended ‘The Summer 

Session-2007’ of the Institute for Advanced Study in Asian Cultures and 

Theologies (IASCT 2007), at the Chinese University of Hong Kong organized by 

the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, USA, for six weeks, June 

to July 2007. 

• V. Maher Spurgeon Nesapandian, Department of Philosophy attended (i) ‘The 

Anglican Bishops Conference’, held at South Africa, 2007; (ii) ‘The Faculty 

Training Seminar’, held at Haggai Institute, Singapore, August 2007; (iii) ‘The 

Planning Committee of ACFF’, held at Jakarta, March 2008. 

• Charles Suresh David, Department of Commerce, attended the ‘Behavioural Train 

the Trainer Programme-Oscar Murphy International’, Singapore, held at 

Bangalore, 24 to 27 March, 2008. 

• Hannah Fredrick, Florence John and Annet Pearl, Department of Commerce, 

‘Training in Application of SPSS for Data Analysis’, Everonn Systems India 

Limited, 2007. 

• Janet John, Department of Commerce, (i) attended the ‘Gender Fair Education’ at 

Manila, Philippines, May 2008; (ii) Participated in the Seminar on ‘Advanced 

Leadership’ conducted by Haggai Institute held at MCC, 02 to 04 April 2008. 

• Anli Suresh, Florence John and Annet Pearl, Department of Commerce, completed 

the ‘Faculty Development Programme in the area of Banking and Financial 

Services’ conducted by ICICI Bank at Khandala, Mumbai, 04 to 10 June 2007. 

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• Anli Suresh, Nirmala Mohan, Vimal Kurian, Department of Commerce, 

participated in the National Workshop on ‘Data Analysis Using SPSS’ in 

Presidency College, Chennai, 08 to10 February 2008. 

• Miriam Samuel, Department of Social Work, (i) attended the ‘First Asia-Pacific 

Conference on Service-Learning’, held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 31 

May to 01 June 2007; (ii) Participated as Co-investigator in a WHO funded project 

on ‘Dengue Prevention in a Community of Practice Workshop’, Bangkok, 

Thailand, 11 to 15 June 2007; (iii) Visited the University of South Australia, under 

‘Faculty Exchange Programme’, June to July 2007; (iv) attended a ‘Post-Tsunami 

Conference’, organized by the School of Social Policy & Planning and the 

HAWKE Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, June 2007; (v) 

attended a Workshop on ‘Women and Social Work in Asia’, organized by United 

Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) & Co-hosted by Fujian 

Nan Women’s College & College of Sociology and History, Fujian Normal 

University in Fuzhou, P.R. China, 16 to 18 December 2007. 

• Prince Annadurai, Department of Social Work, visited (i) Appalachian State 

University, USA, under ‘Faculty Exchange Programme’, August to December 

2007; (ii) St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA, under the ‘Visiting Scholar 

Programme’, January to May 2008. 

• Prince Solomon, Department of Social Work, attended the ‘Gender Fair 

Education’ at Manila, Philippines, May 2008. 

• Marthal Thanga Packiam, Elizabeth Sangeetha T. and G. Manimannan, 

Department of Statistics, attended a ‘Workshop’, conducted by the Department of 

Statistics, Pondicherry University, 14 & 15 March 2008. 

• N. Lakshminarayan, Department of Physics was an Invited Professor at the School 

of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 

Republic of South Korea, March to December 2007. 

• E. Caroline Victoria, Department of Physics, attended a two day Workshop on ‘PG 

Teaching in Materials Science’ at the Department of Nuclear Physics, University 

of Madras, 06 to 08 March 2008. 

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• S. Janet Priscilla, Department of Physics, attended a two day Workshop on ‘Recent 

Trends in Advanced Ceramics’ organized by Madras Institute of Technology, 

Anna University, 27 & 28 September 2007. 

• R. Wilfred Sugumar, Department of Chemistry, attended the ‘First Asia Pacific 

Regional Conference on Service-Learning’, Hong Kong, 31 May to 01 June 2007. 

• K. Mohandoss, Department of Chemistry, attended the Workshop on ‘Nuclear 

Energy for National Development and Environmental Sustainability’, sponsored 

by Loyola College, & Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, 19 to 21 July 2007. 

• A.S. Prince Edwin Das, Department of Chemistry, participated in workshops on (i) 

‘Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)’, organized by NRCFOSS & Life Sciences 

Group, AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, at Chennai, 

September 2007; (ii) Three-day Workshop on ‘Data Analysis and Data Reduction’ 

Organized by IUCAA (An Autonomous Institution of the University Grants 

Commission), held at PG & Research Department of Physics, The American 

College, Madurai, February 2008. 

• Shyamala Lionel, Department of Chemistry, attended the Facilitator Certification 

Programme in Human Resource Development, College for Leadership and Human 

Resource Development, Mangalore, Karnataka, Mangalore, 2007. 

• P. Selva Singh Richard, Department of Botany, participated in 10 days training on 

‘Master Facilitator in Leadership and Human Resource Development’, at College 

for Leadership and Human Resource Development, Mangalore, Karnataka, 13 to 

22 May 2008. 

• R. Moses Inbaraj, Department of Zoology, attended the 8 th International 

Symposium on ‘Reproductive Physiology of Fish at Saint Malo’, France, June 

2007. 

• C. Joyce Priyakumari, Department of Zoology, Workshop-cum-Training on 

‘Bioinformatics Application in Agricultural Research’, organized by Unit of 

Simulation and Informatics, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, 25 

to 27 February 2008. 

• Ananthi Rachael Livingstone, Department of Zoology, attended the ‘Facilitator 

Certification Programme in Human Resource Development’, College for 

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Leadership and Human Resource Development, Mangalore, Karnataka, 

Mangalore, 04 to 13 November 2007. 

8. Total number of seminars / workshops conducted: 

Endowment lectures 

• M. Abel Endowment Lecture on ‘Rebellion in South India and their Political 

Significance’ by Dr.S. Gopalakrishnan, Founder-Director, Centre for 

Contemporary Studies, Chennai; conducted by the Department of Political 

Science, 2007. 

• M. Abel Endowment Lecture on ‘Politics and Tamil Cinema’ by Mr. Randor Guy, 

Cultural Historian; conducted by the Department of Political Science, February 


• Chandran D. S. Devenesan Endowment Memorial Lecture on ‘Ethical Dimension 

of Governance’, by Mr. N. Vittal, IAS (Retd.), former Central Vigilance 

Commissioner, Government of India; conducted by the Department of Political 

Science, March 2008. 

• P. J. Sanjeev Raj Endowment Lecture on ‘Coastal Ecology’ by Dr. Ramesh, 

Director & Professor, Institute of Ocean Development, Anna University, Chennai; 

conducted by the Department of Zoology, 04 December 2007. 

Regional 

• Gender Issues – Sensitizing the Student Community: a one day seminar organized 

by the Department of History, 27 March 2008. 

• Mental Health Training for School Teachers of Government Schools in 

Kancheepuram District and for 12 th Std. Children from Government Schools in 

Sadras, Kancheepuram District, organized by the Department of Social Work 

(Aided Stream), MCC, in collaboration with Mediant Mental Health Centre, The 

Netherlands, August 2007. 

• International 16-Day Campaign to End All Forms of Violence against Women: 

organized by the Department of Social Work, 24 November to 10 December 2007. 

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• Social Justice Chapter: Established by the Department of Social Work, in 

collaboration with an International NGO, International Justice Mission on the 

World Human Rights Day, December 2007. 

• ‘Plant Biotechnology-Current Trends’: A State Level One-day Seminar was 

organized by the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology with Dr. 

Joel Christopher as the Organizing Secretary. This seminar was co-sponsored by 

the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and Tamil Nadu State Council for 

Science and Technology (TNSCST), Chennai, 18 February 2008. 

• ‘Introduction to Bioinformatics’: A Workshop was conducted for the Biology 

Teachers of Higher Secondary Schools by the Department of Zoology, with Mrs. 

Joyce as the Organizing Secretary, 14 to 16 June, 2007. 

• ‘Utility of Bioinformatics Facility Established at MCC’: A Workshop by the 

Department of Zoology for the faculty of Madras Christian College, 13 August 

2007 

National 

• Two day national consultation in ‘HIV/AIDS: Response of Christian Colleges’ 

organized by MCC in collaboration with United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, 

USA, with Dr. K. Joshua, Department of Philosophy, as the Organizing Secretary, 

16 & 17 October, 2007. 

• Human Development: National Conference organised by Madras Christian 

College; sponsored by the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission and the 

College Union Society, with Dr. C. Joseph Barnabas, Department of History, as 

the Coordinator, 25 & 26 January 2008. 

• ‘Christian Tamil Studies’: A National level seminar conducted by the Department 

of Tamil, 29 February 2008. 

• Women, Violence & Human Rights: National level Study Conference organized 

by the Department of Social Work (Aided Stream), in collaboration with 

International Foundation for Crime Prevention & Victim Care with 

Mr. Ninan John as Conference Coordinator, September 2007. 

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• ‘TECHWOODS 2008’: A National level Symposium conducted by the 

Department of Computer Science for college students to provide a platform to 

Sharpen Problem-Solving, programming and teamwork skills, February 2008. 

• ‘Business and Technology – Vision Ahead’: A National Level Conference 

organised by the Department of Commerce (SFS), September 2007 

International 

• The 1 st International Partners Meet of the Centre for International Social 

Work organized by the Department of Social Work (Aided Stream), where seven 

international partners attended to discuss and chart action plan for the centre, 

August 2007. 

9. Research projects: 

• An Investigation into Possible Etymological and Grammatical Connection between 

Tamil and North Indian Languages: Project led by Dr. G. Rajendran, Department 

of Tamil, Madras Christian College, Sponsored by Central Institute of Indian 

Languages, Mysore with a grant of Rs. 2.5 lakhs 2006-2009 (Ongoing Project). 

• Developing Computational Tool for Tamil Hyphenation: Project led by Dr. P. 

David Prabhakar, Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, UGC Project, 

Rs.72, 000; 2007-2009 (Ongoing Project). 

• A Study on Working Women in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu: Project led 

by Dr. A. Annadurai, Department of Economics, Madras Christian College, 

Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust, Chennai with a grant of Rs. 10,000; 2007. 

• A Study on Working Women in Chennai City: Project led by Dr. A. Annadurai, 

Department of Economics, Madras Christian College, Malcolm & Elizabeth 

Adhiseshiah Trust, Chennai with a grant of Rs. 40, 000; 2008. 

• Statistical Analysis of Water Quality data with special reference to Tambaram and 

Kancheepuram District: Project led by Dr. I Joshua, Principal Investigator, 

Department of Statistics, Madras Christian College, and Sanctioned by UGC with 

a grant of Rs.75, 000; 2007. 

• Survey on the Environmental Issues and Protection of Birds during the Breeding 

Season at Vedanthangal: A student research project, Department of Statistics, 

Madras Christian College, January 2008. 

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• ‘Water Quality Studies’ by Dr. R. Wilfred Sugumar, Co-Investigator, Department 

of Chemistry was granted a Minor Project by UGC, Rs. 1 Lakh, 2007 & 2 years. 

• Structure, Activity, Relationship of Aerogel Derived Ago Supported Chromia 

System: Dr. P. Wilson, Principal Investigator, Department of Chemistry, Madras 

Christian College; Minor Research project sanctioned by UGC for a grant of 

Rs.1 Lakh; 2007 & 2 years (Ongoing Project). 

• Endemic and Threatened Trees of Western Ghats of Kanyakumari District: 

Biology, Population and Mapping: Dr. D. Narasimhan, Department of Plant 

Biology and Plant Bio Technology, major UGC Project with a grant of Rs. 

6,09,600 May 2006 to May 2009. 

• Projects funded by Corporate Sectors: Sree Ramcides Chemicals Pvt.Ltd., 

Chennai, Dr R.W. Alexander Jesudasan, Department of Zoology (i) Screening of 

STOP repellent against Culex quinquefasciatus; (ii) Screening of ROACHTOX 

(bait) against Periplaneta Americana; (iii) Screening of coded liquidators against 

Culex quinquefasciatus; (iv) Screening of MIK insecticide against Periplaneta 

Americana, November 2007. 

• Implications of Surrogate Motherhood among College Students: Project led by 

Mrs. Anne Sudir, Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College, funded by 

United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia with a grant of Rs.50, 000; 

March 2008. 

• Sequence Analysis and Expression of Maturation Inducing Steroid Receptor Gene 

in an Indian Major Carp, Labeo Rohita: Project led by Dr. Moses Inbaraj, 

Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College, funded by Council for 

Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with a grant of Rs. 5.8 Lakhs. 

• Star College Scheme: Project led by Dr. D. Arul Samraj, Department of Zoology, 

Madras Christian College, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology with a 

grant of Rs. 36 Lakhs; 2008 (For 2 years) (Ongoing Project). 

• Herbivorous Arthropod Fauna Associated with Ferns of Western Ghats of 

Southern India: Dr R.W. Alexander Jesudasan, Department of Zoology, Sponsored 

by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi, 

Sanctioned Amount is Rs. 12, 56, 000, 2006-09. 

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10. Patents generated, if any: 

No patents were generated for this year. 

11. New collaborative research programmes: 

• Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College, in collaboration with 

Indian Council for Medical Research, Madurai for a WHO funded multi-country 

research project on ‘Eco-Bio-Social aspects of Dengue Control and Prevention’ 

with Ms. Miriam Samuel as Co-investigator, 2008 

• Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College, in collaboration with 

Bridge Water State University, USA; Research project on ‘Resilience of Women 

Survivors of the Tsunami 2004 in Tamil Nadu’ with Ms. Miriam Samuel and Mr. 

Prince Solomon as Co-investigators; Sanctioned amount of Rs. 25.000, 2007-08. 

• Centre for International Social Work, Department of Social Work, Madras 

Christian College, in collaboration with Mediant Mental Health Centre, 

Netherlands; Project on DOORS – Community Mental Health Initiative- A Post 

Tsunami Project, sanctioned amount of Rs. 10 lakhs, 2007-09. 

12. Research grants received from various agencies: 

The college has received grants from various organisations both National and 

International. There is a substantial increase in the number and amount of grants 

received for projects in the year 2007-2008. Below is a sample of the grants received: 

• UGC Project on ‘Developing Computational Tool for Tamil Hyphenation’, 

Department of Tamil, Rs. 72, 000, 2007-2009. 

• Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Project on ‘An Investigation into 

Possible Etymological and Grammatical Connection between Tamil and North 

Indian Languages’, Department of Tamil; Rs. 2.5 lakhs, 2006-2009 

• UGC Minor Research Project grant on ‘Statistical Analysis of Water Quality Data 

with Special Reference to Tambaram & Kancheepuram District’, Department of 

Statistics, Rs.75. 000, 2007. 

• UGC Minor Project grant on ‘Water Quality Studies’, R. Wilfred Sugumar, Co- 

Investigator, Department of Chemistry; Rs. 1 lakh, 2007 & 2 years 

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• UGC Major Research grant on ‘Endemic and Threatened Trees of Western Ghats 

of Kanyakumari District: Biology, Population and Mapping’, Department of Plant 

Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Rs. 6, 09, 600, May 2006-2009. 

• Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi, Project on 

‘Herbivorous Arthropod Fauna Associated with some Ferns of Western Ghats of 

Southern India’, Department of Zoology, Rs. 10,60, 400 for a period of 3 years. 

• Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Project on ‘Sequence Analysis 

and Expression of Maturation Inducing Steroid Receptor Gene in an Indian Major 

Carp, Labeo rohita’, Department of Zoology, with a grant of Rs. 5. 8 lakhs for 3 

years. 

• Bridge Waters State University, USA; ‘Research project on Resilience of Women 

Survivors of the Tsunami 2004 in Tamil Nadu’; Department of Social Work, 

Sanctioned amount of Rs. 25, 000, 2007-08. 

• Mediant Mental Health Centre, Netherlands; Project on DOORS – Community 

Mental Health Initiative- A Post Tsunami Project, Department of Social Work, 

Sanctioned amount of Rs. 10 lakhs, 2007-09 

13. Details of research scholars: 

Enrollment in Research Programmes (both Part-Time and Full Time) 

Name of the Department 

Recognized 

Guides 

M. Phil Ph. D 

Students 

Enrolled 

Recognized 

Guides 

Candidates 

Registered 

History 6 4 3 - 

Political Science 6 1 4 8 

Public 

Administration 

4 2 4 2 

Economics 4 3 2 1 

Philosophy 8 - 5 4 

Tamil Literature 9 5 9 12 

English Literature 10 12 8 6 

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Mathematics 10 9 10 3 

Statistics 6 - 5 1 

Physics 7 9 6 - 

Chemistry 8 6 7 4 

Plant Biology and Plant 

Biotechnology 

6 3 3 3 

Zoology 9 4 8 - 

Commerce - 1 1 

Name of the Department 

M. Phil Ph. D 

Candidates who 

completed 

M. Phil (2007-08) 

Candidates who 

completed 

Ph.D (2007-08) 

History 6 - 

Political Science 5 - 

Public Administration 4 6 

Economics 6 - 

Philosophy 5 - 

Tamil Literature 7 1 

English Literature 6 - 

Mathematics 7 4 

Statistics 5 1 

Physics 5 - 

Chemistry 6 - 


Biotechnology 

5 1 

Zoology 5 1 

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14. Citation index of faculty members and impact factor: 

Title Author Citation 

Index 

Local and Recognizable Iso Picture 

Languages 

Iso Array A Grammatical Inference 

Authorship Attribution Using Neural 

Network 

T. Kalyani and D.G. 

Thomas 

T. Kalyani and D.G. 

Thomas 

G. Manimannan and M. 

Bagavandas 

3316 

(2004) 

4201 

(2006) 

7391 

(2008) 

15. Honors / awards to the faculty: 

• M. Suresh Babu, Former Head of the Department of Public Administration has 

been awarded ‘Emeritus Fellowship’, in Political Science by the University Grants 

Commission, New Delhi, 2008. 

• K. Joshua, Department of Philosophy, (i) appointed as ‘Member of the Governing 

Body of Institute for Asian Studies’, in Chennai, November 2007. 

• Bala Srinivasan, Department of Statistics, (i)‘Elected Member of the Academic 

Council’, University of Madras, during 2007-10; (ii)‘Member of the Board of 

Studies in Statistics’, University of Madras, 2007-10. 

• Miriam Samuel, Department of Social Work, Special Editor, Journal of School 

Social Work special issue on ‘Human Rights & Education’, November 2007. 

• R. W. Alexander Jesudasan, Department of Zoology, received Smt. Edita David 

Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions in a research work 

entitled ‘Effect of Mutualistic Ants on Whitefly Fauna Occurring in some Locales 

of the Indian Ghats’ and AZRA Fellow Award for his significant contributions in 

the field of Applied Zoology in 2007. 

• Manu Thomas Mathai, Department of Zoology is the ‘Vice-Chairman of Board of 

Directors and Association’, Christian Counselling Centre, Vellore, 2008. 

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• S. Yagna Sekar, Department of Languages, Coordinator and Programme Officer, 

NSS was awarded ‘The Best NSS programme Officer’, award for the year 2007- 

08. 

16. Internal resources generated: 

Grants and projects 

• The different departments were able to generate funds for purchase of new 

scientific equipments for the laboratories and also to enhance class room teaching/ 

learning through various grants. 

Alumni and well wishers 

• The alumni and well wishers of the concerned departments have instituted prizes 

and scholarship for students and also provided accessories like LCD, laptops, 

printers, camera etc. to promote and improve teaching and learning environment. 

• Special scholarships and prizes instituted this year by alumni and well wishers of 

the college are: 

• Dr. R. Gopalan Endowment Prize for the best outgoing student in M. Sc Chemistry 

(Aided Stream) - Rs. 25, 000 

• Hannah and Ninan John Gold Medal for the best outgoing student from the 

Department of Social Work (Aided Stream) - Rs. 25, 000 

• Cecilia Thomas Memorial Scholarship for economically disadvantaged women 

students from the Departments of English and Journalism (M.A. English – 2 

Scholarships; B.A. English – 3 Scholarships; and B.A. Journalism – 3 

Scholarships) – Rs. 5 lakhs 

• Special Scholarship Instituted by the 1975-78 Batch of B. Sc Statistics students for 

economically challenged undergraduate statistics student with academic merit, in 

the second and third year – Rs. 1 lakh. 

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17. Details of departments getting SAP, COSIST (ASSIST)/DST, FIST, etc: 

Funds for Improvement of Science and Technology (FIST) 

Department of Zoology (2004 – 2009): FIST funding agency sponsored Rupees 19 

lakhs towards the purchase of equipments for Endocrinology and Molecular Biology, 

special papers offered by the Department of Zoology. The staff members as well as 

students were able to avail this facility which includes an internal networking of five 

computers with a server. Students have published scientific papers in different areas 

of Zoology. The work on neurosteroids has also been initiated. Many students of the 

nearby college have been benefited because of this facility. 

Department of Chemistry (2004 – 2009): FIST funding agency sponsored Rs. 32 

lakhs towards the purchase of equipments and the students were exposed to Computer 

aided Chemistry and Scientific Research methodology. The UG and PG students and 

staff members use this facility. M. Phil Scholars from Madurai Kamaraj University, 

Bharathiar University and Bharathidasan University avail instrumentation facility of 

the department for their research projects. 

Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility 

The Centre has been established in the Department of Zoology with the help of Rs.20 

lakhs released by DBT during the year 2006-07 and commissioned on 22, March 

2007. An Extension Facility was also established in the Department of Botany during 

April 2007. The facility is well utilized both for teaching and for carrying out P.G. 

and M.Phil dissertation work. LAN and Broadband networking along with WiFi 

service has been provided to make net accessibility in all classrooms. Dry lab 

research at PG and M.Phil. were conducted in this infrastructure. 

18. Community and support services: 

CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES 

The focus of the Centre for Women’s Studies was on sensitizing men and women 

about the barriers that divided men and women through its academic, outreach and 

training programmes. The two-semester credit course on Gender Studies is an 

optional paper under Value Education and is open to the first year under-graduate 

students. It is encouraging that quite a few men students also opt for the course. 

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The 8 th Annual Sale for the benefit of the women’s workers of the college was held 

on 08 February 2008. The proceeds of the same of Rs. 35, 000 were credited to the 

‘Women Workers Welfare Fund’ which was instituted in 2002. The interest from this 

fund is used for the medical expenses for the women workers on campus. 

The Centre continues to closely work with and NGO Navajothi, for the welfare of 

women in three slum clusters at Durganagar, about 10 kms away from MCC and 

provides them help whenever needed. 

SCRUB SOCIETY 

The Scrub Society of Madras Christian College continues to be an integral part of the 

rich legacy of the college in making the campus environmentally sustainable. Some 

of the activities for the academic year 2007-2008 are: 

• The Scrub society members did voluntary work at the Vandalur Zoo during the 

weekends. They were also involved in doing voluntary service on Kanum Pongal 

Day at the Guindy Park, guiding the sea of visitors. 

• Another noteworthy voluntary service was the campus cleaning during the 

Deepwoods 2007. They also put up a food stall promoting nutritious and healthy 

food during Deepwoods 2007. 

• The Scrub members organized a Turtle Walk for the conservation of Olive Ridley 

Turtles. They were involved in taking a census of the deer population on the MCC 

campus. 

• The members also participated in Inter-Collegiate competitions organized by the 

Indian Coast Guard, NIOT, Loyola College and Tree Foundation and won the First 

Prize in Street Play Competition. 

• They also participated in the UN Peace Day Coastal Clean up Programme. 

• The finale of the Scrub Society’s programmes was ‘Prakriti 2008’- an Inter- 

Collegiate and Inter-School competition School Exhibition on environmental 

issues. 

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STUDENT SERVICE FOR THE BLIND 

The Student Service for the Blind has been instrumental in reaching out to the 

visually challenged students who pursue their higher education in Madras Christian 

College. The activities of the SSB for the academic year 2007-2008 include: 

• Preparation of study material in audio format for all disciplines. 

• One-day tour/orientation programme to induce experimental learning through 

tactile approach for the blind. 

• Revamping of the SSB centre housed in the Miller Memorial library and 

acquisition of new equipment. 

• Regular support for the academic activities of the visually challenged like scribing 

and reading of class notes are done effectively by a band of dedicated volunteers. 

STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT 

The Student Christian Movement established its identity on campus with a new theme 

for the academic year, 2007-2008 'Joshua Generation'. Some of the activities of SCM 

were: 

• The Staff-Student Retreat was held on 26 August, 2007 in which the SCM band 

led the worship with lively songs. Rev. Charles Dawson who is an alumnus of 

MCC and an active member of SCM in his time, shared the word with clarity and 

illustrations. The highlight of the day was the lively debate, moderated by Dr. 

Moses Michael Faraday, Head of the Department of Tamil. The hot topic for the 

debate was -Reason for Disinterest in Today's Youth towards God is 'Failure of the 

Church' or 'Fantasy of the World'? 

• The staff advisors and the office-bearers had a time of interaction with the former 

SCMers of MCC at the International Guest House in September 2007. The words 

of encouragement from their forerunners and their counsel based on their 

experience motivated the current office bearers. 

• A group of SCMers participated in the Christian Cultural 'Loaded' at Women's 

Christian College. The SCM team won several prizes and cash awards worth 

Rs.5, 500. 

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• SWAWSA members, the SCM staff advisor and a team of SCM members visited 

an AIDS home, PACT, a project of YWAM at Tambaram Sanatorium on 06 

December 2007. The SCMers interacted with the inmates and cheered them with 

their compassion, conversation and a lively entertainment programme. The 

Christmas programme in college was held on 17 December, 2007 at the Anderson 

Hall, MCC. 

• SCM members had a lively and useful interaction with 20 students from Elmhurst 

College at the International Guest House on 06 January, 2008. 

• A Leadership Camp for the students was conducted. 37 students representing all 

the departments attended the camp at Manna Farm, Padappai. 

MCC RURAL SERVICE LEAGUE SCHOOL 

The RSL school has been doing well in academics which is evident from the 

Memorial Shield awarded to the school for increasing the pass percentage in X and 

XII standards from the Chief Educational Officer for the year 2006-2007. 

Lakshmipriya, Standard XII has received the third prize for essay competition held at 

Natesan Vidhysalai Matric School from the CEO at Kanchipuram. 35 students 

received prizes in the inter-school competition conducted by TMG College, 

Manimangalam. Students participated in the AIDS Awareness Camp conducted by 

the Lions Club and received certificates. The RSL Primary School teachers were 

awarded ‘Sigaram Thotta Asiriyargal’. 

NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS) 

The NSS unit continues to be vibrant being involved in the various Social Activities 

such as Manual Labour, Tutorial Classes, Blood Donation Camps, Awareness Camps, 

Campus Cleaning, etc. 

• All the five Programme Officers attended District Level Programme Officers’ 

meeting, University of Madras, 24 September, 2007. 

• 96 NSS Volunteers participated in the Inaugurated of NSS activities, by Mr. 

Samuel Chelliah, Youth Officer, NSS Regional Centre, Ministry of Youth Affairs 

and Sports Development, Chennai, 10 September, 2007 

• Rally organized by BODY FOCUS, an NGO to mark Anti-Obesity Day. 

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• The unit organized a one-day Seminar on Leucoderma Awareness and Organ 

Donation on 21 July 2007. NSS and Leucoderma Awareness Campaign, 

Tambaram Unit, jointly organized a human chain in Tambaram. 

• Dr. S. Yagnashekar, Coordinator of NSS, represented University of Madras as a 

Contingent Leader in the South Indian Inter University Cultural Competition 

organized by Sri Padmavathy Mahila Vishwa Vidyalaya, November 2007. 

• A 10 day Special Camping Programme was organized in Kayar Village in 

Kancheepuram District. Volunteers organized a Medical Camp, HIV/AIDS 

Awareness Programme, Yoga, etc. The highlight of the camp was that Mr 

Mohanraj adopted the Panchayat Union Middle School based on the request from 

our NSS unit, January to February 2008. 

• Special Camping Programme in the Adopted Village Kumizhi in Kancheepuram 

District. More than 100 Volunteers attended this Camp which was useful in 

exposing these Volunteers to Rural Realities, February 2008. 

Other special programmes conducted by NSS unit include: 

• One-day AIDS Awareness Programme conducted in association with American 

Consulate, August 2007 

• Blood Donation Programme organized with the Tamil Nadu Red Cross Society, 

Tamil Nadu Branch, 215 units of blood was collected, December 2007. 

• Inaugurated Red Ribbon Club which has trained nearly 200 volunteers in AIDS 

Awareness; this Club organized a Mass AIDS Awareness programme for Train 

Passengers between Chengalpat and Tambaram, 31 January 2008. 

• NSS volunteers take Tutorial Classes and Survey in the adopted village 

Kokilamedu, near Mahabalipuram. 

• Free Eye Screening programme was conducted for all students and staff in which 

about 2000 students and 150 staff members participated and were benefited, 


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NATIONAL CADET CORPS (NCC) 

Infantry: 

• 25 cadets and Major D. Julius Rajendran, Company Commander, NCC attended 

the CATC-cum- RDC/TSC Selection Camp at Triveny Academy, September 2007; 

20 cadets attended the CATC at Vijayalakshmi College, Avadi, September 2007. 

• Four II year cadets, Cpl. Arvind R. Kaushik, Cpl. D.S. Saciliusundarlal, Capt. 

S. Arunkumar and Cpl. D. Joel Singh were selected to attend the Inter-group NCC 

Competitions held in Trichy, October 2007. 

• Cp1.Arvind R. Kaushik was selected to represent the Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and 

Andaman Directorate, NCC, at the prestigious Republic Day Camp and Prime 

Minister's Rally, New Delhi, January 2008. 

• The cadets actively participated in the Traffic Awareness Programme conducted 

by NCC Directorate in Chennai in January 2008. They also took part in the NCC 

Day Celebrations held at Kalaivanar Arangam, January 2008. 

Navy - Boys Wing 

• Cadet Captain V. Srinath, III B.Sc. Physics and Vikrarn, III B.A. History attended 

the SIM Attachment Camp in Vishakapattinam. 

• V. Arun, II B.A. Political Science. M. Murali, II B.Sc. Chemistry, S. N. Rajiv, II 

B.A. Political Science, C. Oliver, II B.A. Philosophy, N. Suresh, II B. Sc. Physics 

progressed up to IGC of Republic Day Camp held in Coimbatore. 

• S.N. Rajiv received Cherry Blossom Award for Best Turn out in this Camp in 


• S.N. Rajiv, II B.A. Political Science, and Murali, II B.Sc. Chemistry, attended 

Pre-R.D.C. held at Avadi, November 2007. 

• Cadet Captain V. Srinath, III B.Sc. Physics attended the Ship Attachment Camp in 

Kochi, November 2007. 

• V. Anand, III B. Com. Nova Charles, II B.Com. R. Francis Xavier, III B.Sc. 

Zoology, attended tine National Integration Camp in Meerut, U.P, November 


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• C.R. Arunkumar, III B.Sc. Plant Biology & Plant Bio Technology, K. Stephen, III 

B.A.History, A.Vinoth Kumar, III B.Com attended Sea Training Camp in 

Vishagapattinam, December 2007. 

• I. Enoch, III B.Corn attended All India Ocean to Sky Trek Camp in Goa, 

December 2007 to January 2008. 

• A. Vinoth Kumar, III B.Com., and J. Krishnakumar, III B.Sc. Statistics, attended 

Annual Leadership Camp in Tuticorin, December 2007 to January 2008. 

• M. Deepan Chander, II B.Sc. Chemistry, and D. Joshua Ezekiel, II B.Com. 

attended the Pre-Nausainik Camp in Naval Cost Battery, Chennai, and M. Deepan 

Chander, II B.Sc. Chemistry, won the Gold Medal in sailing competition. 

• M.Murali, III B.Sc. Chemistry, attended National Integration Camp in Haryana in 

January 2008. 

• S.N. Rajiv, II B.A. Political Science, attended the Republic Day Camp 2008 held 

at Delhi. He received the Bronze Medal for cultural programme. 

• Under the Youth Exchange Programme, Cadet Captain V. Srinath, III B.Sc. 

Physics took part in the prestigious Naval Cruise to Andaman, Singapore, 

Indonesia and Thailand and brought laurels to the College, January to March 2008. 

• Ten cadets attended Marina Republic Day Parade in Chennai in the esteemed 

presence of the Governor and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, January 2008. 

Navy - Girls Wing 

• Two of our Cadets, S. Sushma, II B.Sc. (Physics) and A. Vidhya Priya, II B.Com, 

attended the Summer Camp, held at Trichy, May 2008. 

• S. Monolisha, II B.Sc. Plant Biology & Plant BioTechnology, and Madhu Smitha 

Bahadi, II B.Sc. Zoology attended Nausainik Camp in Chennai, August 2007. 

• P. Karthiga, II B.Sc. Physics, P. Ramya, II B.Sc. Zoology, and Madhu Smitha 

Bahadi, II B.Sc. Zoology attended Inter-Group Competition in Coimbatore, 


• R. Vidhya, III B.A. History, P. Ramya, II B.Sc. Zoology, S.Monolisha, III B.Sc. 

Plant Biology & Plant Bio Technology, attended National Integration Camp in 

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Meerut, U.P. in November 2007. In this Camp P. Ramya received a prize for 

Debate. 

• S. Saranya, I B.Com. S. Sushma, I B.Sc. Physics, B. Nithya, I B.Sc. Zoology 

attended the Annual Training Camp in Goa in November 2007. 

• P. Karthiga, II B.Sc. Physics and Madhu Sumitha Bahadi, II B.Sc. Zoology 

attended Republic Day Camp in Delhi; P. Karthiga participated in the Guard of 

Honour event. Madhu Smitha Bahadi won the Bronze Medal in cultural events and 

she participated in Para Sailing in the presence of Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. 

She is the only Tamil Nadu Naval Cadet to participate in this event. 

• Ten cadets participated in the Marina Republic Day Parade in Chennai. 

CAMPUS MINISTRY 

The activities of the Campus Ministries for the academic year 2007-2008 began with 

the staff retreat on 10 June 2007, followed by a retreat for the non-teaching staff on 17 

June 2007. The Staff – Student retreat was held in the month of August 2007. The 

Staff Study Circle of the College organized several meetings at which retiring staff 

members shared their experiences in MCC. This year the choir has been very regular 

and constant and the Carol Service in Bishop Heber Chapel attracted a huge crowd. 

The retreat for the teachers of the schools (MCC Matriculation Higher Sec. School, 

MCC RSL School, MCC Campus School, MCC Oxfam School and FLI) was 

organized on 05 January 2008 at the MCC Matriculation Higher Secondary School. 

Mr. S.W. Chandrasekar, former student of the college, led the devotion. The SCM has 

been judiciously balancing social outreach work with spiritual concern of the students. 

All the units of the Campus Ministries work for the welfare of the College community 

and serve as instruments to enhance the goal of spiritual vitality on the campus. 

MCC SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION 

In the six full-time courses (two Diploma and four PG Diploma Courses), there are 

110 students and in the seven part-time Diploma and Certificate Courses there are 150 

students, totally 260 students as against 200 last year. The computer related courses 

and the Human Resource Management Programme are in demand, particularly from 

our regular College students who take up these value added courses in their spare 

time. The Printing Press continues to undertake official printing works of the College. 

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The Printing Technology Course is also doing better than the last few years. The 

Annual Convocation of the School was held on 12 October 2007 in which 150 

students were awarded diplomas and certificates. 

COLLEGE UNION SOCIETY 

The College Union Society began the year 2007-2008 with the Hon. Finance Minister 

of Tamil Nadu, Thiru K. Anbazhagan formally inaugurating the CUS activities. 

The other activities included Campus Walk, the Freshers' and College Auditions, and 

for the first time, Theatre Auditions, participation in events like Spandan (JIPMER), 

Pegasus (CMC, Vellore) and Saarang (IIT-M) along with the election of the Class 

Representatives for the student general body. In addition, a team was sent for a theatre 

competition in National Law School University, Bangalore, which won major prizes. 

In addition to these activities, CUS also celebrated UN Day (24 October) along with 

the Lion's Club of Madras. The event was graciously presided over by the Deputy 

High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Chennai, His Excellency Mr. Amza. Folk artists 

were invited to showcase folk dances and drama on Folk Evening. Radio Mirchi 

conducted a one-day fun show and Radio One conducted a RJ search competition in 

the College. The American Consulate in Chennai also invited a few of the Council 

members for an interactive session with other colleges. 

On the sports front, CUS hosted the David Chandran Memorial Inter-School Athletic 

Meet and the Danis Esau Inter-Collegiate Football Tournament. The CUS also 

conducted intercollegiate and inter-departmental competitions such as chess, cricket, 

handball, volleyball, basketball and football. 

On 06, 07 and 08 December 2007, CUS hosted its biggest event, Deepwoods-2007. 

Keeping in touch with the ecological crises the world faces today, Deepwoods 

adopted 'Nature Conservation' as its theme and embarked on a cooperative 

undertaking with WWF and Crocodile Bank. The show was used as a platform to 

inculcate awareness about nature and its problems to students. In addition, the US 

Consulate also helped organize the screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ along with a 

short talk by Mrs. Ragini Gupta, the Consul for Cultural Affairs in the Consulate. 

Deepwoods was attended by 25 colleges with up to 15,000 students participating and 

competing for total prize money of Rs.2.5 lakhs. 

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In January 2008, CUS helped the College in organizing a National Conference on 

Human Development, sponsored by the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission. The 

CUS contributed Rs.1 lakh for the programme. The Conference was a huge success 

with more than eighty participants from outside Chennai along with leading scholars 

presenting some thought provoking papers. 

OXFAM SCHOOL 

The Oxfam Nursery and Primary School was a natural outcome of the Maternity and 

Child Welfare Center founded by Mrs. Barnes in the late 1930's. When the babies 

were born in the maternity ward, there arose a need to nurse them and provide for 

their basic education. Therefore, an English Nursery school with a Child Care Centre 

and Crèche was started in the year 1962. As the school was initially receiving a grant 

from the Oxfam, it was named after it. The school's popularity can be gauged by the 

statistics for the year 2007-08: Balwadi (35 kids), Crèche (15 kids), Pre-Nursery (9 

kids), LKG (21 kids), UKG (17 kids), I Standard (33 kids), II Standard (21 kids), III 

Standard (9 kids). 

THE MCC-FAMILY LIFE INSTITUTE 

The MCC – Family Life Institute School was started as part of the community 

outreach programme in the neighbourhood villages of MCC Campus. The school 

caters to the marginalized and oppressed sections of the village community. The 

School provides quality English medium education at a nominal fee. It continues to 

provide a 24-hour maternity care centre, dispensary, a tailoring unit and SHG for 

women. Field work training is also provided for students of Social Work. 

PAMMAL MEDICAL CENTRE 

Pammal Medical Centre has been an integral part of Student Christian Movement unit 

of Madras Christian College. It was established in 1968 by the then SCMers of MCC 

in collaboration with the Leprosy Mission to cater to the need of Leprosy patients 

around Chromepet, Pallavaram and Pammal. Today, it has become a medical centre 

catering to the various medical needs of Pammal residents. 

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ESTUARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, PULICAT 

The Estuarine Biological Laboratory, Pulicat was founded by Dr. Sanjeeva Raj, 

Former Head of the Department of Zoology. The lab encompasses an area of 8.9 acres 

including the estuarine water front. A socio-economic survey was conducted by the 

Department of Statistics in 2007. The laboratory continues to be used by the 

departments of Zoology and Marine studies. 

19. Teachers and officers newly recruited: 

Department Name Month & Year 

History 

Robin Vegas Muthu 

Kumar 

June 2007 

Public Administration Gladstone Clifford Joe June 2007 

Public Administration Vijaya Devanesan June 2007 

Physics Lijo Elizabeth Abraham September 2007 

English Charulatha January 2008 

Public Administration S. Kalyani January 2008 

20. Teaching - non-teaching staff ratio: 

The teaching and non-teaching staff ratio is 3:2 

21. Improvements in the library services: 

Library services are available for students and faculty at Miller Memorial Library and 

at the departmental libraries. E-journals and e-texts are subscribed for the benefit of 

students engaged in research. CD ROMs and Video lectures are also made available 

in the library. The entire catalogue is computerized making the search for books and 

journals easy. 

22. New books/journals subscribed during 2007 – 2008 and their value: 

1. Number of books added : 1975 

2. Number of journals subscribed : 107 

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3. Amount spent for books : Rs.5,62,525/- 

4. Amount spent for journals : Rs.1,17,000/- 

5. Amount spent for periodicals and dailies : Rs.14,179/- 

6. Total amount spent : Rs.6,93,704/- 

23. Courses in which student assessment of teachers is introduced and the action 

taken on student feedback 

The Annual assessment of the performance of the staff is being done. The parameters 

include punctuality, subject knowledge, communication skills and the like. The course 

evaluation form given to the students during Annual Convocation is another feedback 

mechanism which the college employs. The feedback is used for enhancing the 

curriculum and improvement of the teachers. 

24. Unit cost of education 

Unit cost of education : Rs. 26,133/- 

Total expenditure during 2007-08 including the salary : Rs. 11, 58, 63,356/- 

Total no. of students enrolled 2007-08 :1900 

25. Computerization of administration and the process of admissions and 

examination results, issue of certificates: 

The Principal’s Office, the Bursar’s Office, the Admissions’ Office, the Student 

Records and the Exams Office have all been computerized to enable efficient 

administration and easy retrieval of data. All the aspects concerned with 

administration, admission and publication of examination results and issue of 

certificates have been computerized. The data concerned with the Student’s Record 

Office have also been computerized and made student friendly. Student Profile is 

incorporated so as to get details without delay. 

26. Increase in the infrastructural facilities: 

• Zoology Department Room No. 7 was constructed during this year. 

• Internal roads were improved which include IGH Road, Martin Hall Road and 

Heber Gate Road. 

• Additional desks and benches were purchased for students. 

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• Increase in the number of computer facilities in various departments. 

• Developmental activities were carried out in the college farm. 

• In addition to the existing lab facilities in the science departments, new facilities 

were added in all the departments. 

27. Technology up-gradation: 

• Internet Connections, Scanners, LCD, Fax Machine, Photostat Machine, PA 

Systems, TV with Dish antenna in all the halls, Wi-Fi connections in Zoology, 

Social Work, Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology and Statistics Departments, 

Teleconferencing mode facility and use of digital media to disseminate knowledge 

are among the major technological up-gradations carried out in 2007-2008. 

• Software: License for the softwares Symantec Endpoint Protection, Microsoft 

Campus Agreement, Adobe - Flash Pro CS3, Adobe - Photoshop Extended CS3 

and Abode Premier Pro CS3 were purchased and the utilities put to use for 

teaching, learning, practice and execution. 

28. Computer and internet access and training to teachers and students: 

There is a student internet centre inside the college where students can go and access 

free of cost. This centre opens at 9.00 am and closes at 4.30 pm on all working days. 

Apart from this a exclusive staff internet centre facilitates teaching staff to update 

themselves both on computer skills and lesson content. Computer training 

programmes and courses are available for the students to learn about computer and 

internet access. The college offers various diploma courses in Computer Science. 

29. Financial aid to students: 

Students get more than 250 scholarships both from the Government and also 

Management scholarships. 

Government Scholarship 

• Financially Backward Students 

• Scholarships Based on Reservation 

• BC Welfare Scholarship 

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• DCE Rs. 76, 000 

• Adidravidar and Tribal Rs.1,08,150 

• National Rs. 820 

• Other States Rs.48,850 

• TN Farmers Rs.700 

30. Activities and support from the alumni association: 

The support of the alumni to the College, particularly during the last few years, has 

been phenomenal. Meetings were held in Chapters such as Coorg, Ooty and 

Tirunelveli and the response of the alumni and alumnae in these meetings was very 

encouraging. On 10 August 2007 students who graduated in 1982 celebrated their 

Silver Jubilee Reunion by visiting the College and meeting their teachers. They 

honoured their teachers which exemplified the spirit of bonding that the College has 

with former students. Another group of former Chemistry students returned for a day 

to the fold of MCC to bring back nostalgic memories. The Alumni Carol Concert held 

on 10 and 11 December 2007 heralded the spirit of carols in Chennai. The Old Boys' 

Cricket match took place on 09 February 2007, of the many who witnessed the match 

were a few alumni who were students in MCC in the 1940s. Despite the fact that the 

Self-Financed Stream is only eight years old, its Department of Social Work (HRM) 

had a memorable reunion on campus in 2007. 

Prof. S.R.S. Varadhan an alumnus of the Department of Mathematics of our college, 

who did the Intermediate Course during 1950’s, was awarded the prestigious Abel 

Prize in Maths, by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, a prize equivalent to the 

Nobel Prize in other Sciences. He has also been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the 

Government of India in 2008. 

31. Activities and support from the Parent-Teacher Association: 

All parents and guardians are required to sign in the student’s records during the time 

of enrolment and check the progress of their son/daughter. The Dean of Student 

Affairs will periodically contact the students’ parents based on academic and 

disciplinary aspects. The parents of those students who have not cleared 75% 

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attendance as well as pass percentage are intimated and are asked to meet the Deans 

concerned. 

At the department level parents are invited as and when needed to discuss the progress 

of the students. In addition to this, a few departments also have an orientation for the 

parents during the admission process. 

32. Health services: 

• A resident medical officer caters to the needs of the student and faculty on campus. 

• Basic medical treatment is provided for all the members of staff and students. 

• The medical officer also visits the college extension centers to provide health 

services for the poor and the marginalized. 

33. Performance in sports activities: 

National Level: 

Athletics: 

• In the Open State meet G. Suresh, III B. Sc. Mathematics, won the Silver Medal in 

Long Jump and Samuthrapandi, I B. A. Philosophy, won Silver Medal in Pole 

Vault, November 2007. 

• V. J. Kudilarasan, II B.Sc. Physical Education, bagged the Silver Medal in the 

Triple Jump event at the Junior National Meet. 

• Jemirenswickseeelan, I B. A. History (Vocational), won the Gold Medal in the 

South Zone Athletic meet held at Pondicherry, August 2007. 

• Joseph Prem Chandran, III B. Sc. Physical Education, won the Gold Medal in 

Hammer Throw at the A. L. Mudaliar Meet. 

• Joseph Prem Chandran, III B.Sc. Physical Education,, V. J. Kudilarasan, II B. Sc. 

Physical Education, Sathish, G. III B. Sc. Physical Education, Pradeep Kumar, II 

B. Sc. Physical Education and Dileepan, I B. A. Political Science represented the 

Madras University. 

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Basketball 

• The College team won the prestigious Madras University Inter-Zone Basketball 

Tournament for the fifth Consecutive year by defeating Loyola College. 

• The College Team won the South India Level Inter-Collegiate Basketball 

Tournament organized by Karunya Institute of Technology and Science, 

Coimbatore. 

• D. Puviyarasan, II B. A. Political Science, T. Lingeshwaran, III B.A. Political 

Science, Su Praveen, III B. A. Political Science, R. Sudhakaran, III B. A. 

Philosophy, R. Prabhakaran, II, B. A Political Science and R. Madhavan, II B. A. 

Philosophy represented the Madras University. 

Football 

• The College team was placed runner-up in the State level Inter Collegiate Football 

Tournament organized by ‘Jesus Redeems’ at Nalumavadi. 

• The college team was placed third in the South India level Inter- Collegiate 

Football tournament organized by Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. 

• The team was the runner-up in 'B' zone and inter-zone Football tournaments. 

• The following players of the College represented Madras University which was 

placed runner-up in the All India Universities Football tournament held at 

Chidambararn: Arun Pradeep, I M.A. Public Administration, Shankar, III B.A. 

Political Science, Martin, II B.A. Philosophy, Udhavasuriyan, III B.Sc. Physical 

Education and Jacob Rajan, II B.Sc. Physical Education. 

Handball 

• The College Handball Team won for the first time in the history of MCC in the 'B' 

Zone Handball Tournament organized by the Madras University; and also was 

runner-up in the inter-zone tournament. 

• Mageswaran, II B.S.W., Santhosh, I B.Com. Ananthavenkatesh, II B.Sc. Physical 

Education, and Vijayakumar, I B.Sc. Physical Education represented Madras 

University. 

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Best Physique Event 

• Vignesh of II B.Com. won the first place (rolling trophy) in the Best Physique 

competition organized by RKM Vivekananda College; 

• Vignesh also won the Silver Medal in the State level Best Physique Competition 

and represented the Madras University 

34. Incentives to outstanding sportspersons: 

To encourage the sportspersons boarding and lodging are provided free of cost in the 

halls wherein a special diet is provided. Scholarships are awarded to outstanding 

sportspersons. Academic assistance like special coaching and continuous assessment 

tests are provided to meritorious sports persons to enable their participation. 

35. Student achievements and awards: 

Department of Political Science 

Vidya, II M.A was placed first in the Inter-Collegiate Elocution Competition held at 

Loyola College. She was also awarded the best speaker award in this competition. She 

also secured the first place in the Inter-Collegiate Elocution Competition held at the 

University of Madras; Philip Varghese, I M.A. was selected for the ‘Liberty and 

Society’ seminar conducted by the Centre for Civil Society held at Cochin and Arjun 

Vidhu and Ranjini Devi, III B.A. were selected to the same Seminar held at Chennai; 

Jayapriya, III B.A. secured the first place in the Inter-Collegiate Debate Competition 

held at Ethiraj College, Chennai; second place in the Inter-Collegiate Debate 

Competition held at Ethiraj College, Chennai; second place in the Inter-Collegiate 

oratorical competition held at the University of Madras. She also presented a paper 

titled ‘Good Governance’ at a Seminar organized by Anna Adarsh College for the 

Republic Day Celebrations and another paper on ‘Reservation for Transsexuals’ at 

Annamalai University, February 2008; A one-day student seminar on ‘Political 

Dynamics in India and Contemporary International Issues’ was organized by the 

Association of Political Science, MCC, February 2008. 

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Department of Economics 

The students of the department participated at the Asian Economic and Entrepreneur 

Summit 2008 organized by St Joseph’s Arts and Sciences College, Bangalore, at 

which Ann Mary John, II B.A. won Young Economist award (I Prize), and C. Kannan 

of I M.A. won the runner’s up (II Prize) in the Young Economist category; Pratish 

Prasad Thomas, Elsa T. Oommen, Sandhya Rachael Alexander participated and 

bagged the overall 2 nd position in the Summit; students also participated in the 

Economics Fest ‘Arthaki’ at the Madras School of Economics – Sandhya Rachel and 

John Thankamai won the I prize in Debate, C. Kannan and K. Nitya won the II Prize 

in Debate, John, Prashanth and Sandhya won the I prize in Adzap, John and Prashanth 

won the I Prashanth and Sandhya won the I prize I Adzap, John and Prashanth won 

the I prize and Sandhya and Ruth won the II prize in ‘What’s the Good Word’ contest; 

Prashanth and Sandhya won the I and II prizes respectively in JAM, John, Prashanth 

and Kannan won the III prize in Quiz, Prashanth won the II prize in Shipwreck and 

Prashanth won the Best Participant award. 

Department of Social Work 

The students of the department won the Overall Championship in the State Level 

Social Work Meet organized by Bishop Heber College, Trichy. 

Department of Mathematics 

S. Kalaiarasi, II M.Sc., presented a paper on ‘Constructible Numbers’ and won the 

third prize in the Inter-Collegiate programme held at Mar Gregarious College, 

Chennai. Sundaramanikandan, III B.Sc., won the first prize in Math Sketching in the 

Inter-Collegiate Competition ‘Chanakya’ held at Hindu College, Chennai. Ann Susa 

Thomas, S. Kalaiarasi, II M.Sc. and Roshan George, III B.Sc., won the first prize in 

Quiz and Roshan George won the second place in Debugging at ‘Mathrix’ at the 25 th 

State Level Inter-Collegiate Event held at Anna University, Chennai. N.Dhivya, R. 

Deepika, S. Kasthuri, III B.Sc. won prizes at ‘Mecostar’, an Inter-Collegiate event 

conducted by the Department of Mathematics, Women’s Christian College, Chennai. 

Sophia Ponmalar, Sonia Gnanamalar, S. Jenilal, II B.Sc. won the second place in 

‘Rhythmic Curves’. Uma and Preethi, I.B.Sc., won first place in Rangoli in the same. 

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B. Kannan, III B.Sc. Mathematics, released a book of Tamil poems titled 

‘Pancha Pandavargal – Part II’, February 2007. M. Deepan Kumar, III B.Sc. 

Mathematics, released a book of Tamil poems titled, ‘Maradhi’, February 2007. 

Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology 

II and III B.Sc. students of Plant Biology and Bio Technology have participated 

actively in the various inter-collegiate competitions organized by City Colleges and 

won prizes, trophies and overall shields for their performance in events such as 

debate, paper presentation, quiz, biocartooning, floral arrangement, vegetable carving, 

ad-zap, plant identification, rangoli etc. Lavanya and Md. Syed Abdul Hammid were 

the outstanding students with the former walking away with Best Individual 

Performer Shield at LANTANA, Ethiraj College and followed by Ms. MADULIKA 

award at S.D.N.B. Vaishnav College. Together they won I and II prizes in paper 

presentation at various colleges. 

Over all shields were also won by the students of Plant Biology and Biotechnology at 

LANTANA, Ethiraj College, Chennai, GENOSTAV, Loyola College, Chennai and 

CYNOSURE, Stella Maris College, Chennai. 

Department of Zoology 

Eighteen UG students of the department participated in the cultural events conducted 

by the Department of Advanced Zoology & Biotechnology, Women’s Christian 

College, Chennai, and won prizes in the events like Quiz, Crossword, Photography, 

Creative Writing, Block & tackle; Face painting, Dumb Charades, Adzap and 

Treasure Hunt. 

Department of Business Administration 

Chandy Kanianthra of III B.B.A was selected as Campus Ambassador for INFOSYS 

through Campus Recruitment conducted by the College. This is the third consecutive 

year that a student from the department has been selected for this most coveted 

position. Ehambaram Sanjeev of III B.B.A was placed as resource associate in DE 

SHAW Ltd., Chandy Kanianthra and Ahamed Riaz were placed in Goldman Sachs 

Ltd as Operational Analyst; Students of the department were crowned as overall 

champions in an Inter-collegiate Management Meet at Women’s Christian College. 

The Students of the Department participated in an Inter-Collegiate Management 

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Meets at Ethiraj College and S.S.N College and have won prizes in various 

competitions. 

Department of Microbiology 

Balaji and Kousalya won first prize in the quiz competition in the Microfest 

conducted by the Ethiraj College. 

Department of Journalism 

Arun Eswaran of II B.A. Journalism won a Radio Jockey competition organized by 

‘Radio One’ – an FM Station. Rohan Sen and Vikram Vivekanand of the same class 

are part of a Rock Band which has won several prizes in competitions conducted in 

and around the city, including ‘Yamaha Rocks’. 

Department of Social Work (HRM) 

Students of the department participated in a competition known as ‘Corporate 

Etiquette’ and won the first prize at the Madras School of Social Work, Chennai. 

Department of Marine studies and Coastal Resource Management 

The students of the Department of Marine Studies won first prize in an exhibition on 

‘Biodiversity Conservation on Agricultural Basis’ organized by National Biodiversity 

Authority (NBA), Chennai at Presidency College, Chennai, 12 to 17 May, 2008. 

Students’ Participation and / or Paper Presentation in Conference / Seminars 

Department of Chemistry 

Franco Mayanglambam, I M.Sc Chemistry, presented a paper on ‘In defence of Life 

on Earth Against Global Warming’ in Melange 2008 at National level Industry and 

Academia meet held at Vel’s college of Science, Chennai, 31 January to 01 February 


S. Manoj Solomon, III B.Sc Chemistry, participated in the workshop on ‘Vicissitudes 

in the Science of Bioinformatics’ organized by Department of Bioinformatics, Guru 

Nanak College, Chennai, 04 & 05 February 2008. 

Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology 

Dheeraj Reddy Chillakuru who completed M.Phil degree in July 2004 presently 

completing his M.S. in Forest Tree Physiology at the University of British Columbia, 

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Canada presented a paper at the Canadian Society of Plant Physiology on 08 June 

2007. The title of the paper was ‘Seed Ecology of Two Tropical Dry-evergreen Forest 

Lianas in India’. The paper was awarded a merit travel grant to a tune of 300 dollars 

from the Canadian Society of Plant Physiology. 

Thirty three post graduate students participated in a ‘Seminar on Biotechnology-UK 

& Indian Perspectives’ organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Anna 

University on 11 & 12 September 2007 in collaboration with the British Council and 

received participatory certificates. 

II M. Sc. students attended a three day Workshop organized by the Centre for 

Knowledge Systems (CIKS) on invitation. 

Anu Annamma Mammen (II M.Sc.), Muthu Karthick (I M. Sc.) and Lavanya (III 

B.Sc.) have participated in a one day conference organized jointly by United States 

Information Service (USIS) and Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology 

(VINSTROM), Vivekananda College, Mylapore. 


Poornima. V. (M.Sc.), presented a research paper entitled ‘Identification of 

Ecdysterone and JH Acid Methyltransferase Gene in the Naiads of the Dragonfly, 

Bradinopyga geminata’ at the National Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology 

and Reproductive Physiology: Insights and Challenges, Department of Zoology 

(Centre for Advance Study), Visva Bharathi, Santiniketan 731 235, West Bengal. 

Page No. 77, Abstract No. pp-1626, 28 November 2007. 

Eleazer. C.J. (M.Phil.), presented a research paper entitled ‘An analysis of 

Neurosteroids and its receptors in Gallus gallus brain’ at the National Symposium on 

Comparative Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology: Insights and Challenge 

held from 26 to 28, November, 2007 at the Department of Zoology (Centre for 

Advance Study), Visva Bharathi, Sentiniketan 731 235, West Bengal. Page No. 66, 

Abstract No. pp-5. 

Prabhakran N. et al., ‘Factors affecting the low diversity of molluscs in the Pulicat 

lake area, north east coast of Tamil Nadu’, at the International Conference on 

Biotechnology and Biodiversity RTBB 2007, November 15 to 17, Aurangabad. 

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Department of Marine studies and Coastal Resource Management 

Best poster presentation award was conferred to D. Adhavan for his poster 

‘Production of monoclonal antibodies - mariculture biotechnology’ in the National 

Seminar on ‘Therapeutic and industrial applications of marine resources with 

biotechnological potentials’ in the Department of Biotechnology, Prof. Dhanapalan 

College for Women, Kelambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, held on 28 January, 2008 

36. Activities of the guidance and counselling unit: 

Department Level 

At the department level, based on the needs, the department staff members guided the 

students. The departments also conducted career development programmes for higher 

studies and employment opportunities. 

College Counselling Unit 

The students who need counselling can avail the help of the counsellor by fixing 

appointments. The students are also referred to the counsellor by the department staff, 

disciplinary committee, Dean of Student Affairs and Dean of Women Students. 

Placement cell services for Students 

Realizing the need and the mandatory requirement, the college has appointed Mr. 

Leve Louis of the Department of Social Work, as the Officer-in-Charge of the 

Placement Cell. MCC has always been one of the most preferred sources of 

recruitment for the corporates in India. The academic year 2007-2008 showed a 

tremendous response from the corporates and also from students in relation to the 

campus recruitments. 50 companies visited the College and selected roughly about 

241 students. The highest preferred recruiter in terms of pay is D.E Shaw which pays 

close to Rs. 30,000 per month. Infosys conducted the Campus interview for five 

Colleges in Chennai, including MCC, on 04 February 2008. The Placement Cell along 

with Dr. Chandran Devanesan Centre for HRD proposes to organize Career Guidance 

and Placement Preparation Programmes for the final year PG students this year. It 

would be extended to all the final year students in the next academic year 

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37. Development programmes for non-teaching staff: 

A forum exists for the non-teaching staff members of the college. Members of this 

forum meet at regular intervals to discuss the various issues pertaining to their 

progress. Annual retreat is organized for non-teaching staff members every year to 

promote spiritual vitality. Every year non-teaching staff tour is organized to bring 

about unity and brotherhood among the staff members. MCC- Miller fund meets the 

needs pertaining to education of the children of non teaching staff. Special 

dispensation is given in the form of waiving of fee for the children of the nonteaching 

staff. Children of the non-teaching staff members are given special 

concession during admission. Sports events are exclusively conducted for nonteaching 

staff during the Sports Day to encourage comradeship. 

38. Healthy practices of the institution: 

GENERAL 

A comprehensive network of neighbourhood ministries which involve faculty and 

students in both academic and social outreach activities. 

Social transformation brought about in the neighbourhood in education, employment 

and social life through programmes organized by various units of the college. 

Student representation in various decision making bodies of the college like the 

Academic Council, Board of Studies, Senatus, Student Centre Committee, 

Disciplinary Committee, Library Committee, etc. 

The College Union Society creates opportunities for leadership development among 

students. The Students enjoy freedom of expression, which is unique to MCC through 

the College Union Society. 

Hostel life in MCC is unique due to its democratic functioning. The students are 

provided single rooms. Many a student has honed his spoken skills by being in the 

Hall. The hall life reinforces the spirit of oneness, fosters team work, exposes students 

to decision making and crisis management and builds the confidence of the students. 

ADMINISTRATION 

• The hierarchy is well structured. There are Five Deans: one each for Humanities, 

Sciences, Student Affairs and Women Students and for International Programmes. 

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• All decisions are made without any arbitrariness. 

• The Student’s Records Office is unique in its structure and execution of work. 

• The office of the Bursar is also unique. The Bursar not only takes care of the 

finances but is also a member of important decision making bodies. 

SUPPORT SYSTEMS 

Following are support system are exclusive and some of them provide unique 

openings for to the College student and staff: 

• The Scrub Society – monitors cleanliness on Campus 

• Anti-Ragging Committee – prevents ragging on campus 

• MCC Miller Fund – helps meet educational needs of the children of non-teaching 

staff. 

• The Office of the Curator protects the flora and fauna in the campus. 

• Staff Study Circle – a forum for loud thinking on several subjects. 

• The Students Centre, which also houses the College Cafeteria – is a special place 

for students to congregate. 

CULTURALS 

• Deepwoods, the main cultural event of the College is very popular among students. 

Events are entirely managed by students. 

• Each Hall has its own Cultural Programmes : 

Bishop Heber Hall : Octavia 

St. Thomas’s Hall : Utsav 

Selaiyur Hall 

Martin Hall 

: Moon Shadow 

: Galarompics 

• Non-resident women students participate Non-Resident Women’s Day organized 

annually. 

• These diverse cultural programmes provide opportunities for an overall 

development of the students and thereby enhance their life skills that are crucial 

for employability and living. Some of the areas are: 

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Organizing skills 

Interacting with people persuasively 

Problem solving skills and coping skills 

Financial Management 

Public Relations 

39. Linkages developed with National /International Academic /Research /bodies 

MoU for Academic Co-operation was signed with Furman University, South 

Carolina, USA 

40. Any other relevant information the institution wishes to add: 

The quality of education in an institution for higher education rests largely on the 

expertise of the teaching faculty. The information provided here highlights the 

academic interests and expertise of our faculty. Scrolling through the pages below 

gives the reader a glimpse into the many facets of our faculty. Constant involvement 

in academic pursuits like publication, conferences and workshops enables the faculty 

at MCC to be updated thereby ensuring that the teaching and curriculum in MCC 

meets emerging national and global needs. 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE FACULTY 

Department of Tamil 

Moses Michael Faraday, published Text Books, (i) ‘Konrai’ (ed) A collection of 

Tamil essays for UG students, MCC (2007); (ii) ‘Ezheni’ (ed) A collection of Tamil 

plays for UG students, MCC (2008) 

Moses Michael Faraday, published a Book, ‘Ettil Vaditha Edan’: A collection of 

Christian poems and songs, kiruba publishers, November2007 

Moses Michael Faraday, published an Article, ‘Christava Keerthanaigal 

Velippaduthum Aanmigam’- Special Souvenir, CSI St. Mark’s Church, Selaiyur, 

Chennai, August 2007. 

G. Rajendran, published Articles, (i) ‘In the Foot Step of Caldwell’, Christian Tamil 

Studies, MCC, 2007; (ii) ‘Etymology in Tamil’ – Pulamai Journal, Chennai Research 

Forum, 2007; (iii) ‘Comparison of Aryan languages and Tamil’, Palamai Journal, 

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Chennai Research Forum, 2008; (iv) ‘From where the Universe came’, MCC 

Magazine, 2007-2008. 

Y. Gnana Chandra Johnson, published Books, (i) ‘Christ–era Tamiliyal Aaivukkovai’ 

(Part I&II) (Publishing Editor), 2007; (ii) ‘H.A Krishnapillai’, Sahitya Academy, New 

Delhi, 2008; (iii) ‘Chirtayanam’, Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai (Publishing 

Editor), 2008; (iv) ‘Christava Tamil Ilakkaim’ - An introduction, Institute of Asian 

studies (Publishing Editor), 2008. 

Y. Gnana Chandra Johnson, published Articles, (i) ‘Maylaid Thartha Magangal’, 150 

Anniversary Souvenir CLS Chennai, 2008; (ii) Christava kavignar S. Asirvatham 

‘THESOBAGARI’, CSI kanyakumari Diocesan Journal, 2008. 

S. Balusami, Text Books Authored/ Editor, (i) Konrai (ed) – A Collection of Tamil 

Essays for Part I Tamil UG students, 2007; (ii) Ezheni (ed)- A collection of Tamil 

One Act Play for Part I Tamil UG students, 2008. 

P. David Prabhakar, Books Published, (i) ‘Kuravai (a Collection of Christian Tamil 

Dramas)’, Department of Tamil, MCC, 2008; (ii) ‘KiRitavat Tamiziyal’ Vol. II (Co- 

Ed), Department of Tamil, MCC, 2008. 

P. David Prabhakar, papers published, (i) ‘Thirutthondar Kappiyatthil Iakkanac 

Ceythikal’, Thirutthondar Kappiyattiran Kavyaa, 2008; (ii) ‘Christian Minor 

Literatures: An introduction’, C.S.I. St. Mark’s Church Souvenir, 2007; (iii) 

‘Christian Minor Literature’, Thiruccabai Thuthan–ALC journal, Cuddalore, 2008; 

(iv) ‘Tamil Prose Movement : Contribution of Christian Scholars’ Kritthavat 

Tamizhiyal –vol-2 (Collection of National Seminar Papers), MCC, 2007; (v) ‘Nature 

of Language Data and Computational Environment’, Jeeva Nootrandu Vizha Malar 

Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Association, Chennai , 2007; (vi) ‘maNavar 

Kavithaikal Kavanappatuttum Ilangnar Cikkalkal’ Mullum Malarum, (collection of 

National seminar papers) Bishop Heber College, Trichy, 17 October 2007. 

P. George, Co-editor for a Book, ‘Christian Tamilology’, Department of Tamil, MCC, 


P. George, Articles / papers published, (i) ‘V.O Childambaranars Contribution to 

Tamil’, published in Jeeva’s Commemoration volume, compiled by The Tamil Nadu 

Progressive Writers & Artist Association, Tambaram- South Chennai, August 2007; 

(ii) ‘Parithimarkalaignar’s view on Education’ published in the Madras Christian 

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College magazine, Chennai, 2007; (iii) ‘The Myth of kaarai-k-kaal Ammaiyar a 

Womenistic Approach’, published in The Madras Christian College Magazine, 

Chennai, 2008; (iv) ‘Sangam Literature and Buddhism’, published in the Book 

entitled VENIL by the Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, 2008. 

D. Arul Padmarajan, Article published, ‘Christavargalin Ilakkana Pani’, Madras 

Christian College Magazine, 2007 – 2008. 

D. Meshak, published a Book, ‘Christava Tamil Ilakkiya Valarchiyil Tamil Magalir’, 

Carthleen Publishers, Chennai, December 2007. 

D. Meshak, Article published, ‘Tamil Veviliya Mozhi Payarpugal’, Madras Christian 

College Magazine, 2007 – 2008. 

Department of History 

V. Chitra, Department of History, (i) ‘Students Participation in the Nationalist 

Struggle in Tamil Nadu - 1920-47’, Proceedings of the 27 th Annual Session of the 

South Indian History Congress, 2007, pp. 174-86; (ii) ‘Role of NABARD in Self Help 

Groups’, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Session of the Tamil Nadu History 

Congress, 2007, pp. 211-13; (iii) ‘Economic Empowerment of Rural Women through 

Self Help Groups’, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Session of the Tamil Nadu 

History Congress, 2008, pp. 185-87. 


W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, Department of Political Science, ‘India’s Options for 

Ballistic Missile Defences: An Inevitable Choice’, Strategic Affairs Vol. 2 Issue 9, 

May 2008. 

W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, Department of Political Science, Books authored, (i) ‘The 

Maritime Convergence in Sino-Pakistan Relations’ in Swaran Singhs’ (ed) book on 

China-Pakistan Strategic Cooperation: Indian Perspectives New Delhi: Manohar, 

2007; (ii) ‘The Regional Dimension of Territorial and Maritime Disputes in South 

East Asia: Actors, Disagreements and Dynamics’, in Kwa Chong Guan & John K. 

Skogan (eds) book on Maritime Security in Southeast Asia (London: Routledge), 

2007; (iii) BOOK: Lawrence W.Prabhakar (eds) Maritime Security in the Indian 

Ocean Region: Critical Issues in Debate (New Delhi: McGraw Hill 2008). 

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Department of Commerce 

S.John Gabriel, Department of Commerce, (i) ‘Strategic Dimensions of Indo-US 

Economic Cooperation’ - A study by the Indian Journal of Public Affairs and Policy 

Research, Academy of Public Affairs, Madras University Campus, Chennai-600 005, 

Vol. IX; Nos. 1-4 published in September 2007; (ii) ‘Globalization and Curriculum’ 

published in Madras Christian College magazine, Vol. LXXIV for 2007-08. 

Department of Statistics 

R. Chandrasekaran and G. Manimannan (i) ‘Neural Network Classification and 

Authorship Attribution of Articles of Unknown Authorship Using Radial Basis 

Function’, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 

Neural Networks, pp. 246-256, SRM University, Kattankulathur, February 2008. (ii) 

‘Use of Generalized Regression Neural Network in Authorship Attribution’, 

Proceedings of the National Conference on Research Areas in Computer Science, pp. 

242-253, SRM University, Ramapuram, April 2008. 

Miriam Kalpana Simon, ‘The Quasi-Stationary Distribution of a Complex Two-Unit 

Repairable System’, Scientific Report No. 81, Department of Statistics, Madras 

Christian College, January 2008. 

G. Manimannan and M. Bagavandas, (i) ‘Style Consistency and Authorship 

Attribution: A Statistical Investigation’, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 

Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, Germany, pp. 100-110, 2008 


D. Gnanaraj Thomas, Department of Mathematics, Research paper on ‘Pattern 

Generation and Stochastic Table Hexagonal Grammars’, in Proceedings of the 3 rd 

Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI 2007), Pune, India, 

December 2007, 235 – 254 (With S.C. Samuel and P.J. Abisha). 

P. Abisha Jeyanthi, Department of Mathematics, published research papers on (i) 

‘Parallel Communicating Pure Pattern Grammars with Filters’, (With Sindhu J. 

Kumaar), Proceedings of National Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its 

Applications (NSDMA 2007), September 2007, 137 – 144; (ii) ‘Simple Splicing on 

Pattern and Pure Pattern Grammar Systems’, (with Sindhu J. Kumar) Proceedings of 

the National Conference on Applied Mathematics (NCOMA 2008), January 2008, 

129-135 

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Department of Physics 

J Yoo, Kyunghae Kim, M Thamilselvan, N. Lakshminarayan, Young Kuk Kim, 

Jaehyeong Lee, Kwon Jong Yoo and Junsin Yi, ‘RIE Texturing Optimization for Thin 

c-Si Solar Cells in SF 6 /O 2 Plasma’, Journal of Applied Physics ‘D’, 41(12) May 2008, 

1-7. 


R. Wilfred Sugumar, Research papers/Articles (i) Adsorption Assisted Biodegradation 

of Dyes’, Eco-Chronicle, 2, pp 87-90, 2007 (with T. Jaba Priya); (ii) Review on ‘Risk 

Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities’, Academic International Ltd., 2008 

R. Joel Karunakaran, Research paper on ‘Activity–guided Isolation and Identification 

of Free Radical – Scavenging Components from an Aqueous Extract Coleus 

aromaticus’, Food Chemistry, 100, 2007, 146 – 151. 

P.S. Raghavan and C. Amirthavalli Research paper on ‘Characterization of Ferrites 

and Chromites prepared by Solid-state methods: XRD, XPS and Mossbauer study’, 

Power Plant Chemistry, 9 (7), 432 – 440, 2007. 


R. W. Alexander Jesudasan (2008), ‘Significance of Insect genomics in 

Agroecosystems’, Proceedings of National Workshop on Molecular modelling and 

Protein Docking, February 25-29, 2008, Eds. M. Balakrishnan & R. C. Srivastava, 

SDIC, Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar 

Islands, 18-25. 

R.W. Alexander Jesudasan and M.K. Mini (2008), Herbivorous arthropods associated 

with some ferns of Western Ghats of Southern India, 5 th Meeting of the Expert Group- 

A on Conservation and Sustainable utilization of Natural Resources under Eastern & 

Western Ghats programme, 07 February, 2008. 

M. Anto Claver & R. W. Alexander Jesudasan (2007), ‘Impact of whitefly honeydew 

exudation and host plant leaf surface chemicals on whitefly ant interaction’, 

Hexapoda 14 (2): 73-77 

C. Joyce Priyakumari & R. W. Alexander Jesudasan (2007), ‘Impact of feeding by the 

whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Aleyrodidae: Hemiptera) on some 

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phytochemical constituents of Solanum melongena L. (Solanaceae)’, Hexapoda 14 

(2): 78-82 

T. N. Ananthakrishnan & R. W. Alexander Jesudasan (2007); Entomology Academy 

of India (Meeting Report), Current Science 93 (11):1476-1477. 

Inbaraj Moses and Santosh Winkins ‘Sexual changes in the neurosteroids of Indian 

Major Carp Labeo rohita (Ham.)’, 8 th International Symposium on Reproductive 

Physiology of Fish, June 3 to 8, 2007, Saint Malo, France, P-18, p109. 

Santosh Winkins and Inbaraj Moses; ‘Levels of Estradiol-17 beta (E2) and 

Immunolocalization of Estrogen Receptor alpha (ER-alpha) in the different regions of 

the brain of Indian Major Carp Labeo rohita’, 8 th International Symposium on 

Reproductive Physiology of Fish, June 3 to 8, 2007, Saint Malo, France, P-14, p105. 

Ramalakshmi K and Inbaraj R.M ‘Identification of Maturation Inducing Steroid 

Receptor gene in Three Indian Major Carps’, National Symposium on Comparative 

Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology: Insights and Challenges, November 26 to 

28, 2007, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan PP-18, p79. 

Poornima V, Thomas M.T, Laltanpuji and Inbaraj R.M ‘Identification of Ecdysterone 

and Juvenile Hormone Acid Methyltransferase Gene in the Naiads of Dragonfly, 

Bradinopyga geminata’, National Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology & 

Reproductive Physiology: Insights and Challenges, November 26 to 28, 2007, Visva 

Bharati, Santiniketan PP-16, p77. 

Eleazer C.J. and Inbaraj R.M. ‘An analysis of Neurosteroids in Gallus gallus Brain’, 

National Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology: 

Insights and Challenges, November 26 to 28, 2007, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan PP-5, 

p66. 

Akila E. and Inbaraj R.M. ‘Evaluation of endocrine toxicity of cypermethrin, a 

synthetic pyrethroid in a freshwater teleost, Esomus danricus’, National Symposium 

on Comparative Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology: Insights and Challenges, 

November 26 to 28, 2007, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan PP-1, p62. 

Daniel Wesley S, Raveen R and Mohan Daniel A, ‘Ultramorphological studies on the 

forelegs of Cylas formicarius (Fabr.) (Brentidae: Coleoptera)’, J. Ent. Research 2007; 

31(1): 79-81. 

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Raveen R, Prabhakaran N and Deepak Samuel V, ‘Factors affecting the low diversity 

of molluscs in the Pulicat lake area, north east coast of Tamil Nadu’, Proceedings of 

the International Conference on Biotechnology and Biodiversity RTBB 2007. 

Prabhakaran N, Raveen R and Deepak Samuel V, ‘Loosing sea fan (Echinogorgia 

reticulata) and the associated winged oyster (Pteria tortirostris)’, Proceedings of the 

International Conference on Biotechnology and Biodiversity RTBB, 2007. 

Anne Stevens, published an article on ‘Implications of Surrogate Motherhood among 

College Students’, UBCHEA, March 2008. 

Department of Computer Science 

Feminna Sheeba, ‘RFID Implementation in Libraries – Data Model, Integrity and 

Security’, published in page 77 of the Souvenir of the workshop on RFID in Libraries 

held in Allahabad Agricultural Institute, 03 November 2007. 

Department of Chemistry, (SFS) 

B. Revathy, ‘A mild and efficient method for the oxidation of benzyl alcohols by two 

phase electrolysis’, Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 48, 3681-3684, 2007. 

Department of Marine Studies and Coastal Management 

V. Deepak Samuel (2007) published, (i) ‘Identification of scheduled marine molluscs 

- Capacity building in identification of marine scheduled animals’, Training cum 

information manual, GOMBRT Pub. No. 8: 54 – 59; (ii) ‘Marine mammals of the 

Indian waters - Capacity building in identification of marine scheduled animals’, 

Training cum information manual, GOMBRT Pub. No. 8: 74 – 82; (iii) ‘Identification 

of scheduled marine molluscs - Capacity building in identification of marine 

scheduled animals’, Training cum information manual, GOMBRT Pub. No. 9: 31 - 

33. (In Tamil); (iv) ‘Marine mammals of the Indian waters - Capacity building in 

identification of marine scheduled animals’, Training cum information manual, 

GOMBRT Pub. No. 9: 51 – 54, In Tamil. 

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PAPER PRESENTATION 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES / SEMINAR 


Moses Michael Faraday, ‘The contribution of European scholars in Translating Tamil 

classics’, in the International symposium on Tamil as a Classical Language held at 

Institute of Asian studies, Chennai, January 2008. 

P. George, ‘Thaninayagam Adigal’, in the seminar on The Contribution of the 

Professors in the field of Tamilogy Research on South and South East Asian 

Countries’, conducted by The Department of Tamil literature, University of Madras, 


P. David Prabhakar, ‘Bridal Mysticism as Depicted in Hebrew and Tamil Bakthi 

Tradition', in the International seminar jointly organized by Central Institute of Indian 

Languages and AVC College, Myladudurai, March 2008. 


C. Joseph Barnabas, presented a paper on ‘Value Based Education – An 

Instrumentation for Social Transformation’, International Conference on Developing 

Competitive Strength in Institutions of Higher Learning in Changing Scenario, 16 to 

18 January 2008, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai. 

V. Chitra, presented a paper on ‘Role of Self Help Groups in Promotion of E- 

Governance’, Silver Jubilee – UGC International Seminar on Public Affairs and 

Governance – Challenges & Strategies, Anna Centre for Public Affairs, University of 

Madras, Chennai, 24 & 25 January 2008 


J. Ramesh Sundar, presented a paper on ‘Public Affairs and Governance with Special 

Reference to the Right to Information’ in the Silver Jubilee- UGC International 

Seminar on Public Affairs and Governance: Challenges and Strategies, Anna Centre 

for Public Affairs, University of Madras, 24 & 25 January 2008. 

W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, presented papers on (i) ‘Maritime Security Triangulation 

of ASEAN-Australia-India: An Indian Perspective’, International Workshop on 

Security Dimensions of the ASEAN-Australia-India Triangle, Canberra, Research 

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School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Australian National University, February 2008; (ii) 

‘Issues and Challenges in India’s Grand Strategy in the New Century’, International 

Conference on Emerging India in the New Century, School of International Relations 

and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam & Ministry of External Affairs, 

New Delhi at Kottayam, March 2008; (iii) ‘China’s Maritime Trade and Security 

Strategy in the Southern Asia-Indian Ocean Region: A String of Pearls’: Implications 

for India and Taiwan’, International Conference on Taiwan in the 21 st Century, 

Department of Political Science, Bangalore University & Taiwan Economic and 

Cultural Centre, New Delhi at Bangalore, April 2008; (iv) ‘Global Nonproliferation 

Dynamics: An Indian Perspective’, International Conference on Bridging Strategic 

Asia: United States, Japan and India, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 

Washington DC, 28 & 29 June 2007; (v) ‘The Indian Navy in Southeast Asia’, 

International Seminar on Maritime Powers in the Malacca Straits, Maritime Institute 

of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, July 12 2007; (vi) ‘The Templates and Trends in the 

Maritime Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific’, Asia-Pacific Homeland Security 

Summit, United States Government & State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 

October 2007; (vii) Global Nanoproliferation Dynamics: An Indian Perspective in 

Derek Mitcheel & Tersita Schaffer (2009) Bridging Strategic Asia: The Rise of India 

in East Asia and the Implications for the U.S. Japan Alliance, Washington D.C. 

Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS Press Winter 2008. 

R. Sridhar, presented a paper on ‘Indian Scenario of Security Sector Reforms’, at the 

International Workshop on ‘Security Sector Reforms’, held in Bangkok, Thailand, 

April 2008. 

S. Sudha, presented a paper on ‘Self Help Groups and the Rural Bazaar’ at UGC 

International Conference on Digitalizing Administration: Challenges and Issues in E- 

Governance, organized by Department of Public Administration, Presidency College, 

Chennai, 17 & 18 March 2008. 


Merlin Juliet .D, presented a paper on ‘Banking Insurance and Financial Services’, in 

the International conference on Globalisation – Impact, Challenges and Opportunities 

held at St .Joseph’s college of Arts and Science, Cuddalore, March 2008 

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Adeline S. presented a paper on ‘Changing Relationship between Globalization and 

Medicaid’ at the International Conference on Globalisation – Impact, Challenges and 

Opportunities, held at St. Joseph’s College of Art and Science Cuddalore, March 


Department of Philosophy 

M. Gabriel, presented a paper on, ‘Reinventing Paradigms in Liberal Arts Education’, 

in an International Conference organized by Women’s Christian College, Chennai, 10 

& 11 August 2007. 

V. Maher Spurgeon Nesapandian, presented a paper in the International Conference 

of IAPCHEA held at Taipei, Taiwan, 03 to 06 May 2008. 


E. John Suriya Kumar, presented papers on (i) ‘International Commercial Law and its 

Role in Economic Governance’; (ii) ‘Corporate Excellence Through Governance’ at 

International Seminar conducted by Anna Centre for Public Affairs and Policy 

Research. University of Madras, 24 & 25 January 2008. 

S. John Gabriel, “Corporate Excellence through Governance” at International seminar 

conducted by Anna Centre for Public affairs and policy research. University of 

Madras, January 2008. 

Tabitha Durai, presented a paper in the organizing committee of the National 

Consultation on HIV/AIDS Response of Christian Colleges organized by MCC in 

Collaboration with the United Methods Global Aids fund USA and Centre for the 

church and global AIDS, USA, October 2007. 

Anli Suresh presented a paper on ‘Brand Management–Emerging Issues’ at the 

International Conference held at Sri Sairam Institute of Management, Chennai, 21 & 

22 September 2007. 


Miriam Samuel, presented papers on, (i) ‘Cross-cultural Service-learning: A Process 

of Conscientization in the Global Era’, at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Service- 

Learning held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 31 May to 02 June 2007; (ii) 

‘Social Reconstruction Post-Tsunami: From a Gender Perspective’, organized by the 

School of Social Policy & Planning and the HAWKE Institute, University of 

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Australia, Adelaide, June 2007; (iii) ‘Mainstreaming Gender Issues into Social Work’ 

& Chaired a Panel on Case Studies in the workshop on Women and Social Work in 

Asia, organized by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) 

& Co-hosted by Fujian Nan Women’s College & College of Sociology and History, 

Fujian Normal University in Fuzhou, P.R. China, 16 to 18 December 2007. 


V. R. Dare, paper on ‘P Systems’, International Conference on Trends in Information 

Sciences and Computing, Chennai, December 2007 

P. J. Abisha, D. Gnanaraj Thomas and D. Jayaseelan Samuel, paper on ‘Public Key 

Cryptosystems and Line Pictures Graph Theory Day – III’, International Conference 

on Recent Developments in Combinatorics and Graph Theory held at Kalasalingam 

University, Krishnankoil - 626 190, 10 to 14 June, 2007. 


N. Josiah Solomon presented a paper on ‘Advanced Leadership’, Mid-Pacific Center, 

Hawaii, USA, July to August 2007. 


N. Lakshminarayan, presented a paper on, ‘Silicon Photovoltaics’, in the Workshop 

on Materials Science organized by the Department of Physics, Saveetha Engineering 

College, Chennai, 20 February 2008. 

N. Lakshminarayan co-presented the following papers in the 17th International 

Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC 17), Japan, 3 to 7 

December , 2007: (i) ‘Selective emitter using porous silicon for crystalline silicon 

solar cells’, (Inyong Moon,Youngkuk Kim, Kyumin Han, Minkyu Joo, Kyungsoo 

Lee, Heejae Kim, Kyunghae Kim, N. Lakshminarayan, Junsin Yi); (ii) ‘Novel 

approach of tri-crystalline silicon surface texturing,’ (Kyumin Han, Min Kyu Ju, 

Youngkuk Kim, Inyong Moon, Kyungsoo Lee, Heejae Kim), Kyunghae Kim, N. 

Lakshminarayan, Junsin Yi 

N. Lakshminarayan co-presented a paper on ‘Characterization of transparent 

conducting ZnO:Al thin films formed on pet by dc Magnetron sputtering’, (Dao Vinh 

Ai, Kyunghae Kim, Jaehyeong Lee, N. Lakshminarayan, Junsin Yi), European 

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Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, 26 to 30 May, 


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R. Wilfred Sugumar, presented papers on, (i) ‘Role of Service Learning in water 

quality studies’: Paper presented at Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Service 

Learning, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 31 May to 2 June, 2007; (ii) ‘Removal of 

Basic Blue and Jade Green Vat Dyes by Absorption with Cucurbituril’, International 

Conference on Biophysicalorganic and Inorganic Chemistry, Bharath University, 26 

to 30 August, 2007. 

NATIONAL CONFERENCES/ SEMINARS 

Department of English 

Manohar Samuel, ‘Enjoying Poetry’, A Literary Seminar, organized by the Chennai 

Mathematical Institute, Chennai, October 2007. 


Y. Gnanachandra Johnson, ‘Chrithava puthezhuchipadalgal’ in a Seminar organized 

by Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, November 2007. 

S. Balusami, presented papers on (i) ‘P. Jeevanandam and Tamil Literature’, 

organized by Department of Tamil Literature, Madras University and New Century 

Book House(p) , Ltd., Chennai, January- 2008; (ii) ‘Principals of Tinai’, organized by 

Classical Tamil Higher Research Centre, Central Institute for Indian Languages, 

Mysore, and Sankara Kandasami Kandar College, Velur (Namakkal), January 2008; 

(iii) U.Ve.Sa. and Parithimalkalaignar organized by Classical Tamil Higher Research 

Centre, Central Institute for Indian Languages, Mysore, and Tamil Nadu Progressive 

Writers Association, Chennai, April 2008. 

Pauline Edyson, ‘Doctor Dhayavin Kavithaigal’, in a seminar organised by Madras 

Christian College, Department of Tamil, February 2008. 

P. David Prabhakar, (i) 'Contribution of Ziegenbalg to Tamil Linguistics', in the All 

India Conference of Linguistics, CAS in Linguistics, Annamalai University,12 to 14 

December 2007; (ii) ‘Media and language’, in the seminar on ‘Media – Panmuga 

Paarvai’ held at Madras Christian College, Chennai, March 2008. 

P. George & Prof. Xavier S. ‘Cultural Women’ in the seminar on Current Trends in 

Social Science and Youth Related Researches – A National Perspective, conducted by 

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Loyola Institute of Social Science Training and Research (LISSTAR) Loyola College, 

Chennai, 7 & 8 March 2008. 

N. Ilango, presented a papers on (i) ‘Identifying Christian Discourse’, in the seminar 

organized by the Department of Tamil, University of Madras, December 2007; (ii) 

‘Dravidian Movement Drama Texts’, in the UGC sponsored conference organized by 

the University of Madras, February 2008. 

Y. Paul Prabu Santharaj, presented a paper on, ‘Nenjuruvu Katkam’ organized by the 

Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, December 2007. 

D. Arul Padmarajan, presented papers on, (i) ‘Ingulab Kavithaigali Ilaignar 

Sikkalgal’, in a seminar organized by Bishop Heber College, Trichy, October 2007; 

(ii) ‘Tamil Kaapiyam Oru Arimugam’ organized by Department of Tamil, Madras 

Christian College, December 2007. 

D. Meshak, presented a paper on, ‘Christava Siruvar Kadhaigal’ for Christava 

Tamilial AaivuKovai, organized by Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, 

December 2007. 


R. Venkataramanujam, presented a paper on, ‘Higher Education and Amartya Sen’s 

Capabilities Approach’, National Conference on Human Development, Madras 

Christian College (Autonomous), 25 & 26 January 2008. 

V. Chitra, ‘Role of NABARD in Self Help Groups’, Fourteenth Annual Session of 

Tamil Nadu History Congress, Department of Indian History, University of Madras, 

Chennai, 14 to 16 December 2007. 


W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, (i) ‘Defence Transformation: Conceptual and Policy 

Issues’, National Seminar on Economic Growth and National Security, Co-organized 

by the United Services Institution of India, New Delhi & Centre for Security 

Analysis, Chennai October 2007; (ii) ‘Borders and Frontiers in South Asia: Towards 

new trends of Transformation’, National Seminar on Emerging Challenges in South 

Asian Regional Cooperation, Centre for South Asian Studies, Pondicherry Central 

University, Pondicherry April 2008. 

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J. Diviyan, ‘Discourses And Exchanges For Better Understanding Among 

Neighbours’, National Seminar, Pondicherry University, April 2008. 

Department of Public Administration 

T. Johnson Sampathkumar, presented a paper on ‘Post Cold War And Post 

Capitalistic Implications in the South Asian Region’ in the two day National Seminar 

organized by the Centre for South Asian Region, Pondicherry University, 15 & 16 

April, 2008. 

T. Johnson Sampathkumar, presented a paper on ‘Globalization And Socio-Cultural 

Development’, in the Seminar Organized by the Department of Public Administration, 

Anna Adarsh College for Women, Chennai, 19 September, 2007. 


A. Duraisamy, presented papers on (i) ‘Production Function and its Applications’, 

Gandhigram Rural University, October 2007; (ii) ‘Quantitative Applications in 

Business Research’, ICFAI National College, Chrompet, December 2007; (iii) 

‘Measuring Development – An Empirical Analysis’, February 2008. 

Merlin Juliet .D and Adeline S., presented a paper on ‘Gender Parity –A Precondition 

for Inclusive Growth’, at the National conference conducted jointly by Madras 

Christian college and State Planning Commission, 2008. 

A. Annadurai, participated and presented papers on (i) ‘Rural Credit Market – A 

field study’ in the National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Rural Economy : Post 

Globalisation Dimensions organized by the Department of Economics, Kakatiya 

University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, 3 & 4 November 2007; (ii) ‘Higher Education 

and Human Development’ in the National Seminar on Human Development 

organized by Madras Christian College, Chennai 25 & 26 January 2008; (iii) ‘Human 

Development in India – An Analysis of Aggregate indicators’ organized by the 

Department of Econometrics, University of Madras on 6 March 2008; (iv) 

‘Occupational Distribution : Structural Changes’ organized by the Department of 

Economics, S.V. University, Tirupati, 14 & 15 March 2008; (v) ‘Globalisation and 

Human Rights with Special reference to Drinking Water’ organized by the 

Department of Economics, Gandhigram Rural University, 27 March 2008. 

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S. John Gabriel, presented papers on (i) ‘Chaired a Technical Session of paper 

presentation’ in the International Conference organized by Madras University, 

January 2008; (ii) ‘Challenges of International business before SAARC Nations’, at 

National seminar conducted by Department of Politics and International Studies, 

Pondicherry University, 15 & 16 April, 2008. 

Anli Suresh, Presented a paper on ‘Retail Banking In India’ at the National 

Conference held at Women’s Christian College, Nagercoil, 28 March 2008. 


V. R. Dare, (i) ‘Trajectory P Systems’, National Conference on Discrete Mathematics 

and its Applications, Madurai, September 2007; (ii) ‘Membrane Computing’, National 

Conference on Emerging trends in trends in Automata, Pondicherry, October 2007; 

(iii) ‘Computing with Biological Models’, National Conference on Emerging trends in 

Applications of Mathematics, Madurai, February 2008. 

V.R. Dare, Geethalakshmi and K.G.Subramanian, ‘Cooperative Grammar System and 

Picture Languages’, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Applications of 

Mathematics, Madurai, February 2008. 

V.R. Dare and A. Jansi, ‘Some Characteristic Properties of Sturmian Arrays’, 

National Conference on Emerging Trends in Automata, Pondicherry, October 2007. 

V.R. Dare and Balasangu, (i) ‘Fuzzy Approach on the Analysis of Health Hazards 

faced by Agricultural Labourers due to Chemical Pollution’ and (ii) ‘A fresh look at 

tree automata using PetriNets’, Indian Conference on Intelligent Systems , Chennai, 

June 2007. 

V.R. Dare and Huldah Sathyaseelan; ‘On Generalized Parikh Vectors’, National 

Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Madurai, September 2007. 

D. Gnanaraj Thomas, (i) ‘Tree Automata and Tree Languages’, National Conference 

on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, 27 

to 29 September, 2007; (ii) ‘Splicing in DNA Computing’, National Conference on 

Emerging Trends in Automata, Rajiv College of Engineering, Pondicherry, October 


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P. J. Abisha and Sindhu. J. Kumar, (i) ‘Parallel communicating pure pattern grammars 

with filters’ and (ii) ‘Simple splicing on pattern and pure pattern grammar systems’, 

National Conference on Applied Mathematics, Chennai, 03 & 04 January, 2008. 


R.Chandrasekaran, presented papers on, (i) ‘Statistics and Packages’, National 

Seminar on Interdisciplinary Approach to Invasive Research, MGR-Janaki College 

for Women, Chennai, August 2007; (ii) ‘Classification and Clustering’, Department 

of Statistics, SDNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, 18 March, 2008; (iii) 

‘Pattern Generation Schemes and Kolam Designs’, Department of Computer Science, 

SDNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, 27 March, 2008; (iv) ‘Artificial 

Neural Networks’, National Conference on Research Areas in Computer Science, 

Department of Computer Applications, SRM University, Ramapuram, 24 & 25 April, 


R.Chandrasekaran and G. Manimannan, presented papers on, (i) ‘Neural Network 

Classification and Authorship Attribution of Articles of Unknown Authorship Using 

Radial Basis Function’, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Neural 

Networks, SRM University, Kattankulathur, 21 & 22 February, 2008; (ii) ‘Use of 

Generalized Regression Neural Network in Authorship Attribution’, National 

Conference on Research Areas in Computer Science, pp. 242-253, SRM University, 

Ramapuram, 24 & 25, April 2008. 

Bala Srinivasan and E. Joanna Kezia presented a paper on, ‘An Inventory Model for 

Deteriorating Items with Price Dependent Demand and Shortages’, National 

Conference on Statistics, Computer and Applications, St Thomas College, Palai, 

November 2007. 

Shankar Bhat K and Miriam Kalpana Simon, presented paper on, ‘The Quasi- 

Stationary Distribution of a Complex Two-Unit Repairable System’, UGC sponsored 

National Seminar on Statistical Methods and Reliability Analysis, Department of 

Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, 28 to 30 January 


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P. Wilson, ‘Vapour phase dehydration and dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol over 

copper modified hydroxyapatite (HAP) catalyst’, at National Level conference on 

Recent Trends in Chemistry, held in Bishop Heber College, Trichy, during October 


Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology 

S. Ravi Shankar, Presented a poster in the National Seminar on ‘Empowering Grain 

Processing Sector through Recent Technological Interventions’, organized by Paddy 

Processing Research Centre, Thanjavur held at Chennai Trade Centre, 

Nandambakkam, Chennai, 25 & 26 January 2008 


R. W. Alexander Jesudasan & M.K. Mini (2008) presented a paper on ‘Herbivorous 

arthropods associated with some ferns of Western Ghats of Southern India’, 5 th 

meeting of the Expert Group-A on Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of 

Natural Resources under Eastern & Western Ghats Programme, New Delhi, 07 

February, 2008. 

N. Blessy & R.W.Alexander Jesudasan (2007) presented a paper on, ‘Impact of 

fumigated herbal products supplemented with silica on the biology of Lasioderma 

serricorne (Anobiidae: Coleoptera)’, at the National Conference on Applied Zoology 

and Sustainable Development, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 

13 & 14 July, 2007, Abstract No. 42, 51-52. 

P. Jancy Joy Christy & R.W.Alexander Jesudasan (2007) presented a paper on, 

‘Influence of herbal fumigation on Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Silvanidae: 

Coleoptera) infesting dates on storage’. Paper presented in the National Conference 

on Applied Zoology and Sustainable Development, Indian Institute of Chemical 

Technology, Hyderabad, 13 to 14 July, Abstract No. 43, p. 52 

M. K. Mini & R.W.Alexander Jesudasan (2007) presented a paper on, ‘Investigations 

on some phytophagous arthropods associated with pteridophytes in some localities of 

Western Ghats of Southern India’. Paper presented in the National Conference on 

Applied Zoology and Sustainable Development, Indian Institute of Chemical 

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Technology, Hyderabad, July 13 to 14, Abstract No. 71, p. 73. The paper was 

awarded the Best Research Paper presented by young scientists to M.K.Mini. 

R. W. Alexander Jesudasan (2007) presented paper on, (i) ‘Significance of 

systematics in whiteflies (Aleyrodidae: Homoptera : Insecta), a complex insect group 

encompassing vectors of some plant viral diseases’. Paper presented in the 1 st 

Conference on Medical Arthropodology on Taxonomy in Biodiversity, Bioterrorism 

and Biotechnology, organised by the Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, 

Madurai, 01 & 02 September, 2007, Abstract No. 13, 29 & 30; (ii) ‘Development: A 

massacre of nature leading to global warming?’, presentation in a symposium on 

Global Warming: A Threat to Humanity – An Ecological response, Sacred Heart 

Seminary, Poonamallee, Chennai, 14 & 15 September, 2007; (iii) Whiteflies infesting 

Rice-Paper presented in the National Conference on Rice Pest Management, Central 

Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, 8 & 9 December, 2007, p.4 

Department of Marine Studies and Coastal Resource Management 

V. Deepak Samuel, ‘Living on the edge – Threats to fishery resource of Pulicat Lake’, 

in the National Symposium on Marine and Coastal Ecosystems held at Centre for 

Marine and Coastal Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 27 to 29 August, 


D. Adhavan, N. Thirunavukkarasu and V. Deepak Samuel, ‘Marine biotechnology - 

monoclonal antibody’ in Young Scientists’ Conference on Environment, Health and 

Food at Loyola College, Chennai, 03 & 04 December, 2007. 

P. Davidraja, N. Prabhakaran, V. Deepak Samuel and N. Thirunavukkarasu, ‘Marine 

organisms - possible natural pollutant traps’, in Young Scientists’ Conference on 

Environment, Health and Food at Loyola College, Chennai, 03 & 04 December, 2007. 

N. Prabhakaran, P. Davidraja, V. Deepak Samuel and N. Thirunavukkarasu, ‘Poverty, 

Science and Politics’ in Young Scientists’ Conference on Environment, Health and 

Food at Loyola College, Chennai, 03 & 04 December, 2007. 

M. P. Amina Nazli, N. Thirunavukkarasu and V. Deepak Samuel, ‘Salt marsh - food 

in plenty’ in Young Scientists’ Conference on Environment, Health and Food’ at 

Loyola College, Chennai, 03 & 04 December, 2007. 

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D. Adhavan, N. Thirunavukkarasu and V. Deepak Samuel, Production of monoclonal 

antibodies - mariculture biotechnology’, in the National Seminar on Therapeutic and 

Industrial Applications of Marine Resources with Biotechnological Potentials, 

Department of Biotechnology, Prof. Dhanapalan College for Women, Kelambakkam, 

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 28 January, 2008. 

R. Dinesh Kumar, K. Merline Jayamalar, M. P. Amina Nazli, V. Deepak Samuel and 

N. Thirunavukkarasu, ‘Marine enzymes - an overview’, National Seminar on 

Therapeutic and Industrial Applications of Marine Resources with Biotechnological 

Potentials, Department of Biotechnology, Prof. Dhanapalan College for Women, 

Kelambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 28 January, 2008. 

P. Davidraja, N. Prabhakaran and V. Deepak Samuel, ‘Bioactive compounds, source - 

marine organisms’, National Seminar on Therapeutic and Industrial Applications of 

Marine Resources With Biotechnological Potentials, Department of Biotechnology, 

Prof. Dhanapalan College for Women, Kelambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 28 

January, 2008. 


Florence John, presented a paper on, ‘Risk Management Practices’, in National 

Conference held at Kamala Nehru College, New Delhi, 24 & 25 January 2008. 

INVITED LECTURES / RESOURCE PERSONS 


Moses Michael Faraday, (i) Delivered series of lectures on Thirukkural in Pothigai 

TV (Dooardharshan), November 2007, January and February 2008; (ii) Guest 

lectures on Inter-Faith Dialogue’ to the M. Div Students of Acts Theological Institute, 

Bangalore, February 2008; (iii) Series of lecture on the Holy Bible and Siddha 

Literature in FEBA radio Bangalore, March 2008. 

Y. Gnana Chandra Johnson, Lecture delivered on ‘Christhava kappiangal’ in Tamil 

Christian Literature department, University of Madras, 2007. 


J. Ramesh Sundar, delivered Dr. C.A. Perumal Endowment Lecture in the Department 

of Public Administration, DDE, M.K. University, Madurai, 29 November 2007. 

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W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, lectures (i) ‘Trends and Challenges in India’s Foreign 

Policy’; (ii) ‘India’s Security: Change and Continuity in the 21 st Century’ ;(iii) ‘Issues 

and Challenges in India-United States Nuclear Deal’ at the UGC Academic Staff 

College, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 10 & 11 January 2008. 

R. Sridhar, delivered a lecture on ‘Indo-US Relations’ at the Orientation Course 

organized by the Department of History, Stella Maris College, for newly recruited 

College teachers, 23 January 2008. 

Department of Public Administration 

D. William Gnanasekaran, Guest Lectures on Human Resource Management (HRM) 

for MBA Global Management Students in the Bremen University of Applied 

Sciences, Bremen, Germany, 1 to 7 June 2007. 


A. Annadurai, lecture on ‘Gender Concerns in Food Security’, organized by M.S. 

Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2007. 


M. Gabriel, chaired a session in the International Seminar on the Italian Contribution 

to Asian Culture and Religion, organized by the Department of Asian Christian 

Studies, Pondicherry, February 2008. 

V. Maher Spurgeon Nesapandian, (i) Delivered the Key Note Address at the 

Indonesian National Conference of Higher Education, Indonesia, November 2007; (ii) 

Conducted five sessions on the theme ‘Biblical Mandate for Evangelism’ in the 

International Leadership Training of the Haggai Institute held at Maui, USA, 27 

March to 1 April 2008. 

S. Mathivanan, lecture on ‘Buddhism in India’, Elmhurst College, USA in their J- 

Term India Programme on Music, Religions and Culture of India at Madras Christian 

College, 2007. 

P. Joseph Sathiaraj, lectures on (i) ‘The Expectations of the College Communities 

from the Chaplains’ in the Refresher Course for Christian College Chaplains of India, 

held in MCC and sponsored by UBCHEA, April 2008; (ii) ‘Contemporary Religions 

in India’, for Davidson College, USA – Semester in India Programme held at MCC, 


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Kumari Sunitha. V, delivered a lecture on ‘Gender and Sexuality’ at the Department 

of Social Work, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, August 2007. 


Miriam Samuel, (i) Special Invitee, Curriculum Development and Research 

Programme in Disaster Management, Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies, 

University of Madras, 26 July 2007; (ii) Chairperson, Organizing Committee, 

‘National Consultation on HIV/AIDS: the Response of Christian Colleges’, at Madras 

Christian College, Chennai, 16 & 17 October, 2007; (iii) Resource person, 

Contemplation Day, Women’s Christian College, Chennai, 5 March 2008; (iv) 

Member, Organizing Committee & Chairperson, session on Impact of Globalization 

on the Marginalized, at the National Seminar on ‘Current Trends in Social Science & 

Youth Related Researchers – A National Perspective’, organized by Loyola Institute 

of Social Science Training & Research (LISSTAR), Chennai & Rajiv Gandhi 

National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur, 7 & 8 March 

2008; (v) Resource person, Women’s Day Celebration, St. Peter’s Engineering 

College, Avadi, Chennai, March 2008; (vi) Presented the Field Work Model of MCC 

at a Two-Day UGC sponsored National Level Workshop for Social Work Educators 

on Field Work Practicum, held at Madras School of Social Work, Chennai, 26 & 27 

March, 2008; (vii) Lecture on Mental health in India & Social Analysis of Indian 

Society, Davidson’s College, USA, Semester–in-India program, 2008; (viii) Resource 

person for ‘Contemplation Day’ for outgoing students of Women’s Christian 

College,Chennai April 2008. 

Prince Annadurai, (i) Delivered lectures in Appalachian State University, USA, 

Saxion School, Netherlands during social work faculty exchange programme in 

December, 2007; (ii) Gave a Lecture on ‘Health Systems in India-an over view’ to the 

students of Davidson’s College, USA, Semester–in-India program– 2008 term; (iii) 

Delivered a lecture on the topic ‘India and China as Emerging Super Powers’ at 

Thomson River’s University, Canada, 03 April 2008. 

Prince Solomon Devadass, resource person for (i) ITEC (International Training and 

Education) for HIV, on the topic ‘Conflict Resolution for Nurses’, April 2008; (ii) 

Service Learning Program for Staff and students of Maryville College, USA, 2008. 

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M. K. Viswanath, lecture on ‘Complex Analysis’, GKM Engineering College, 

Chennai. January 2008. 

D. Gnanaraj Thomas, lectures on (i) Formal Languages and Applications, Noorhul 

Islam College of Engineering, 20 June, 2007. 

T. Robinson, lectures on (i) Mathematic Puzzles and Games, Refresher Course in 

Teaching Mathematics and Use of Special Appliances – Primary level, S.B.T. College 

of Special Education, 30 January, 2008; (ii) Teaching of Mathematics for Secondary 

School Students with Visual Impairment, Refresher Course in Teaching Mathematics 

and Use of Special Appliances – Secondary level, NIVH, Chennai, 25 & 26 

September 2007; (iii) Introduction to Automata Theory, One day Seminar on 

Mathematics and its Applications, Mark Ivanios College, Trivandrum, Kerala; (iv) 

Teaching of Geometry Constructions through Tactile Graphic Tool, Workshop on 

Teaching Geometry concept to Visually Impaired Students organized by AICB and 

ICEVI at AICB, Delhi, 01 December 2007. 

B. Adolf Stephen, General Mathematics, MIT, Anna University, Chennai, November 



R. Chandrasekaran, (i) Resource person, Workshop on SPSS, Department of 

Statistics, Presidency College, 09 & 10 February, 2008; (ii) Resource person, 

Refresher Course in Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, 8 

March, 2008. 

R. Chandrasekaran, invited lectures (i) Classification and Clustering, Department of 

Statistics, SDNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, 18 March, 2008; (ii) 

Pattern Generation Schemes and Kolam Designs, Department of Computer Science, 

SDNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, 27 March, 2008; (iii) Artificial 

Neural Networks, National Conference on Research Areas in Computer Science, 

Department of Computer Applications, SRM University, Ramapuram, 24 & 25 April, 


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Bala Srinivasan, resource person for Scholar-in-Residence Programme sponsored by 

United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia conducted by the Department of 

Mathematics, Stella Maris College, Chennai, February 2008. 

Miriam Kalpana Simon, Resource person for (i) Workshop on Statistical Methods at 

the Department of Communication, Madras Christian College, October 2007; (ii) 

three-day Workshop on Advanced Statistical Methods at the Cognizant Technology 

Solutions, 2007; (iii) Workshops on Basic Statistics at the Cognizant Technology 

Solutions, 2007; (iv) Resource person for Leadership Training Programme for the XI 

standard students of Bharathiar Matriculation School, Guduvancheri, 2007. 


S. I. A. Philomin Raj, Resource person for (i) Orientation Course organized by TRB 

and Madras University, 2007 to 2008; (ii) Summer Training program for I PG 

students conducted by Madras University, 2007 to 2009. 

N. Lakshminarayan, lecture on ‘Silicon Photovoltaics’ in Workshop on Materials 

Science organized by the Department of Physics, Saveetha Engineering College, 20 

February 2008 

Caroline Michael, Faculty, Christian Studies, Institute for Advanced Christian 

Studies, MCC from 2008 to till date. 


Wilfred Sugumar, Lectures on (i) Chemicals in Communication, Crescent 

Engineering College, Chennai, March 2008; (ii) Insect Communication, SIVET 

College, Chennai, April 2008. 

P. S. Raghavan, Resource person for the training programme for the science teachers 

of the ATR Group of Schools, organized by the Tata McGraw Hill Publishers at the 

ATR Matriculation School, Neelamangalam, Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu, 06 June 2007. 


D. Narasimhan, (i) Delivered a lecture on ‘Green Cover - A panacea for Global 

Warming?’ in a seminar on ‘Cooling the Globe, A Campaign to Arrest Global 

Warming’, organized by FICCI Ladies Organization Chennai Chapter and M.O.P. 

Vaishanv College for Women, Chennai, 16 August 2007; (ii) Resource Person in the 

Panel Discussion on ‘Scientific Research and its impact on Environment- Non – 

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Invasive Techniques in Scientific Research’, organized by Dr. MGR – Janaki College 

of Arts and Science for Women, Chennai, 01 September 2007; (iii) Resource Person 

for the Refresher Course in Biological Science held by UGC – Academic Staff 

College, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 25 September, 2007; (iv) Delivered a 

Lead Lecture on Reevaluation of Endemic Genera of Flowering Plants in India in 

XVII Annual conference of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and 

International Seminar on Changing Scenario in Angiosperm Systematics, organized 

by Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 19 to 21 November, 2007; (v) Delivered a Special 

Lecture on Legacies and the Legend- Carl Linnaeus in the XVII Annual conference of 

Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and International Seminar on 

Changing Scenario in Angiosperm Systematics, organized by Shivaji University, 

Kolhapur, 19 to 21 November, 2007; (vi) Participated as Resource person and 

delivered a lecture on Convention on Biodiversity in a training programme on Legal 

and Regulatory Frame Work Relating to Natural Resources Management organized 

by Centre of Indian Knowledge System, Chennai, 26 to 28 November 2007; (vii) 

Invited as an expert to participate in a consultative meeting on Establishment of a 

Centre for Conservation of Heritage Plants (CCHP) based primarily on Hortus 

Malabaricus, the 17 th century classic, organized by the Tropical Botanic Garden and 

Research Institute, at Calicut, 06 and 07 of December 2007; (viii) Participated as an 

expert in the 3 rd consultative workshop for the preparation of Action Plan for the 

development of Medicinal Plant Sector at Forest Research Centre, Kolapakkam, 

organized by Tamil Nadu State Medicinal Plants Board, 10 January, 2008; (ix) 

Delivered a Lecture on Bioresources, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights 

for a Refresher Course, organized by the Center for Advanced Studies in Botany, 

University of Madras, 12 February, 2008; (x) Delivered a Lecture on Traditional 

Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights, at a DBT sponsored Training 

Programme on Conservation of Biological Resources Using Biotechnology Tools for 

Under Graduate College Teachers organized by The Rapinat Herbarium and Centre 

for Molecular Systematics, St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli, 16 February 2008; 

(xi) Participated as a Panelist in a discussion on Access and Excellence in Sciences as 

part of a three day National Conference on Higher Education at Cross Roads: Access 

and Academic Excellence in Higher Education, organized by the Loyola College, 

Chennai, 07 to 09 February, 2008. 

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G.A.I. Ebenezer, Lectures on (i) ‘Role of Tissue Culture in Plant Biotechnology’, 

J.B.A.S. College for Women, Chennai, February 2008; (ii) ‘Plant Biotechnology: 

Tissue Culture’, C.S.I. Ewarts College for Women, Mellrosapuram, Chengalpattu, 

August 2007; (iii) ‘An Introduction to Biotechnology’, St. Mary’s Girls Higher 

Secondary School, Chengalpattu, November 2007; (iv) ‘Plant Tissue Culture and its 

Application’, D.G. B. N. Vaishnav College for Women, Chromepet, Chennai, March 


S. Ravi Shankar, Resource person for one session on 14 February 2008 for the DBT 

sponsored Training programme on Conservation of Biological Resources using 

Biotechnological Tools for U.G. teachers organized by the Rapinet Herbarium for 

Molecular Systematics, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Thiruchirapalli, 06 to 19 



J. Logamanya Tilak, Potentials of a Degrading Ecosystem – Pulicat Lake in National 

Conference on Biotechnology & Conservation of Endangered Species for the National 

Biological Association for Students, Chennai, on 19 November, 2007. 

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES 

Department of English 

Franklin Daniel, National Conference on Innovative Trends in General English 

Curriculum, Loyola College, Chennai, 2007. 


N. Ilango, Workshop on Civil Services Examinations Coaching held at All India Civil 

Services Coaching for I.A.S. and I.P.S. in Chennai, March 2008. 


Jacquiline Raja Bai, (i) 3 rd Annual workshop on ‘Quantitative Techniques and 

computer applications in Social sciences’ held at the Department of Econometrics, 

University of Madras, February 2008; (ii) National Conference on Human 

Development jointly organized by MCC and State Finance Commission in 2008; (iii) 

National Seminar on Current Trends in Social Science and Youth Related Researches 

– A National Perspective, organized by LISSTAR in collaboration with RGNIYD and 

SIFE held at Loyola College, March 2008. 

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P. Joseph Sathiaraj, International Conference on Reinventing Paradigms in Liberal 

Arts Education at Women’s Christian College, Chennai, 10 & 11 August 2007. 

Spurgeon Nesapanadian, (i) Faculty Training Seminar held at Haggai Institute, 

Singapore, August 2007; (ii) International conference of IAPCHEA held at Taipei, 

Taiwan, 3 to 6 May, 2008; (iii) CUAC Triennial Conference held at Hong Kong, 25 

May to 1 June 2008. 


R. Chandrasekaran I. Joshua, Shankar Bhat K, N. Josiah Solomon, Miriam Kalpana 

Simon, G. Manimannan Marthal Thanga Packiam, Joanna Kezia and Elizabeth 

Sangeetha. T, National Conference on Human Development, Madras Christian 

College & Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission, 25 & 26 January, 2008 

Miriam Kalpana Simon, Seminar for Advanced Leadership, organized by Haggai 

Institute for Advanced Leadership, conducted at Madras Christian College, 2 to 4 

April 2008 

G. Manimannan, and Marthal Thanga Packiam, Workshop conducted by the 

Department of Statistics, Pondicherry Central University, March 14 & 15, 2008. 


E.Caroline Victoria, (i) ‘International Conference on Reinventing Paradigms in 

liberal arts education’, organized by Women’s Christian College, Chennai, UBCHEA 

and UCBW, 10 & 11, August 2007; (ii) Two day National Consultation on 

‘HIV/AIDS: Response of Christian Colleges’, organized by MCC in collaboration 

with United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, USA, 16& 17 October, 2007. 

P Subashini, National Conference on Human Development, organized by Madras 

Christian College & Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission, 25 & 26 January, 2008. 

S. Janet Priscilla, Two day workshop on ‘Recent Trends in Advanced Ceramics’, 

organized by Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, 27 & 28 September 


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Wilfred Sugumar, A.S. Prince Edwin Das & Shyamala Lionel, National Conference 

on Human Development, jointly organized by MCC and Tamil Nadu State Planning 

Commission, 26 & 27 January, 2008 

J. K. Panda & T. Jaba Priya, National seminar on HIV/AIDS - Response of Christian 

Colleges held at MCC, 16 & 17 October 2007. 

K. Mohandoss, Nuclear Energy for National Development and Environmental 

Sustainability, sponsored by Loyola College and Department of Atomic Energy, 

Mumbai, at Loyola College, Chennai, 19 to 21 July 2007. 

A.S. Prince Edwin Das, (i) Workshop on ‘Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)’, 

organized by NRCFOSS & Life Sciences Group, AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT 

Campus, Anna University, at Chennai. September 2007; (ii) Three-day workshop on 

‘Data Analysis and Data Reduction,’ organized by IUCAA (An Autonomous 

Institution of the University Grants Commission), held at PG & Research Department 

of Physics, The American College, Madurai. February 2008. 

Shyamala Lionel, (i) Haggai Institute seminar for Advanced Leadership Training, 

2008; (ii) National Conference on Chemistry – The essential Science of the 21 st 

Century, Women’s Christian College, 2008; (iii) National symposium on 

Antioxidants and Human Health, organized by Karpagam Arts and Science College, 

Coimbatore, February 7 & 8 2008. 

E. Iyyappan, Workshop on Christian Counselling at Mahabalipuram, 2007. 


R.W. Alexander Jesudasan, (i) National Conference on Applied Zoology and 

Sustainable Development, CSIR, IICT, Hyderabad, 13 & 14 July, 2007; 

(ii)Symposium on Global Warming: A Threat to Humanity–An Ecological Response, 

Sacred Heart Seminary, Department of Philosophy, 14 & 15, September 2007; (iii) 

National Conference on Rice Pest Management, ICAR, Division of Entomology, 

CRRI, Cuttack, 8 & 9 December 2007; (iv) Meeting of Principal Investigators of 

MoEF projects – Review Meeting, New Delhi, 07 February 2008: (v) National 

Workshop on Molecular Modelling and Protein Docking, DBT, Central Agricultural 

Research Institute, Port Blair, 24 to 28 February 2008 

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R. Raveen, C. Joyce Priyakumari and Ananthi Rachel Livingstone, National 

Conference on Human Development jointly organized by Madras Christian College 

and State Planning Commission at Madras Christian College, Chennai, 25 & 26 

January 2008. 

C. Joyce Priyakumari, (i) State Level Seminar on Plant Biotechnology-Current 

Trends, organized by the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, 

Madras Christian College, 18 February 2008. 

Ananthi Rachel Livingstone and J. Logamanya Tilak, (i) Workshop on ‘Introduction 

to Bioinformatics’, conducted for the Biology Teachers of Higher Secondary Schools 

by the Department of Zoology, 14 to 16 June, 2007; (ii) Workshop on ‘Utility of 

Bioinformatics Facility Established at MCC’, by the Department of Zoology for the 

faculty of Madras Christian College, 13 August 2007. 


H. K. P. Devadoss, One-day state level seminar on Plant Biotechnology: Current 



D. Narasimhan, (i) Co – Chairperson of a National workshop to Identify Stakeholders 

and Capacity Building Needs in Forest Genetic Resource Conservation under Asia 

Pacific Forests Genetic Resources Programme (APFORGEN), organized by the 

Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education at the Institute of Forest Genetics 

and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore, 11 July 2007; (ii) Participated in the discussion on 

First Preliminary Working Plan Report for revision of working plans for Trichy, 

Tanjore, Dharmapuri, Kallakurichi, Coimbatore and Harur, organized by the Tamil 

Nadu Forest Department, 6 and 7 August, 2007. 

G.A.I. Ebenezer, (i) National Conference on Current Trends in Medicinal Plants 

Research and Herbal Technology organized by the PG and Research Department of 

Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai from March 7 to 8, 2008; (ii) ‘Grain Tech 

2008’, National Seminar on Empowering Grain Processing Sector through Recent 

Technological Intervention, Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, January 25 & 26, 2008; 

(iii) National Consultation on HIV/AIDS: Response of Christian Colleges, Madras 

Christian College, Chennai, 16 & 17 October, 2007; (iv) Workshop-cum Training on 

‘Bioinformatics Applications in Agricultural Research’ (sponsored by the Department 

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of Biotechnology, Government of India), Unit of Simulation and Bioinformatics Post 

Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 25 to 27 

February, 2008. 

E. Joyce Sudandara Priya, (i) ‘Biotechnology UK & Indian Perspective’, jointly 

organized by British Council & Anna University at Vivekananda Auditorium, 11 & 

12 September 2007; (ii) One-day state level seminar on Plant Biotechnology: Current 



S. Ravi Shankar, (i) National Workshop on Biodiesel, conducted by the School of 

Energy, Environment & Natural Resources at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 

17 & 18 October 2007. 

S. Ravi Shankar, J. Jeyarathi and P. Selva Singh Richard (i) National Conference on 

Human Development jointly organized by Madras Christian College and State 

Planning Commission at Madras Christian College, Chennai, 25 & 26 January 2008; 

(ii) One-day State Level Seminar on Plant Biotechnology: Current Trends, organized 

by the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Madras Christian 

College, 18 February 2008. 

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Part C 

Institutional plans for 2008-2009 

The following are planned to enhance the quality of academic programmes 

offered at MCC: 

• Restructuring the Choice Based Credit System. 

• Enhancing employability of students by introducing career thrust in all the 

courses. 

• Appreciation of Tamil culture and language. 

• Completion of the projects on residential halls, dormitory facility at the 

Estuarine Biological Laboratory, Pulicat, Lounge for non-resident women 

students and the Centre for International Social Work. 

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GENERAL INFORMATION 

Name and Address of the College 

Madras Christian College 

(Autonomous) 

Tambaram, Chennai 600 0 

Phone 

Fax 

E-mail 

Name and Address of the Faculty member 

in-charge of the IQAC 

044-22390675 

044-22394352 

iqac@mcc.edu.in 

principal@mcc.edu.in 

Dr. V. Rajagopalan 

Head of the Department 

of English 

Year of Establishment 1837 

Type of College 

Status 

Whether the College has been assessed and 

accredited by NAAC 

If yes, what is the star or grade award 

Aided and Self-financing 

Autonomous 

Yes 

A+ Grade 

Year in which assessed 2003 - 2004 

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Number of Academic Programmes Offered by the College 

Level Aided Unaided 

(Self-Financing) 

Under Graduate (Regular) 13 11 

Under Graduate (Vocational) 3 - 

Post Graduate (including MCA) 16 6 

PG Diploma, Diploma & Certificate 

(including 

Add -on courses) 

3 (with UGC 

Assistance) 

6+6 

Student Strength (Number of Students Studying in 2007-08) by Gender: 

The total student strength of the College is as follows: 

Course Men Women Total 

AIDED 

UNDER GRADUATE 

B.A 496 276 772 

B.Sc. 393 405 798 

B.Com. 194 99 293 

Total 1083 780 1863 

POST GRADUATE 

M.A. 162 143 305 

M. Sc. 138 149 287 

M.Com. 32 38 70 

Total 332 330 662 

M. Phil 34 60 94 

Grand Total 1449 1170 2619 

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SELF FINANCED STREAM 

UNDER GRADUATE 

B.A. and B.B.A 256 120 376 

B.Sc. 518 218 736 

B.Com. 239 52 291 

Total 1013 390 1403 

POST GRADUATE 

M.A. 76 69 145 

M. Sc. 76 70 146 

M.Com 14 4 18 

M.C.A 65 24 89 

Total 235 180 415 

Grand Total 1248 570 1818 

The total student strength of the School of Continuing Education is as follows: 

S. No. Course Name Women Men Total 

Full- Time Diploma Courses 

1 Diploma in Printing Technology 1 33 34 

2 Diploma in Medical Laboratory 

Technology 

3 Post-Graduate Diploma in Medical 

Laboratory Technology 

4 Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer 

Applications 

5 Post-Graduate Diploma in 

Journalism and Mass 

Communication 

6 Post-Graduate Diploma in Human 

Resource Management 

7 Post-Graduate Diploma in Business 

Administration 

11 4 15 

8 6 14 

7 14 21 

5 9 14 

- - - 

- 7 7 

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Part – Time ( Morning /Evening) Diploma Courses 

1 Diploma in Human Resource 

Management 

2 Diploma in Advertising and Public 

Relations 

3 Diploma in English Communication 

Skills 

4 Diploma in Montessori and Primary 

School Teaching 

30 53 83 

1 6 7 

15 16 31 

6 13 19 

5 Diploma in Bioinformatics 11 - 11 

Certificate Courses 

1 Financial Accounting and Tally - - - 

2 MS Office and C Programming - - - 

3 C, C++ and JAVA Programming 4 1 5 

Total 99 162 261 

Level Aided Self Financed 

Men Women Total Men Women Total 

Under Graduate 1083 780 1863 1013 390 1403 

Post Graduate + 

M.Phil 

366 390 756 235 180 415 

PG Diploma, 

Diploma 

&Certificate 

Courses 

- - - 99 162 261 

Grand Total: (Day college) + (Evening college) + (Diploma and Add-on) = 4148 

An increase of 396 students while compared to last year 

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Demand for UG Courses for the Academic year 2007-08 

Name of the Course/ 

Programme 

Candidates 

Applied 

Aided Courses 

Sanctioned 

Strength 

Candidates 

admitted 

History (Reg.) 82 45 43 

History (Voc.) 17 30 13 

Political Science 119 70 66 

Economics 277 70 61 

Philosophy 35 35 27 

Tamil 66 70 39 

English 292 70 48 

Commerce (Reg.) 1827 70 69 

Commerce (Voc.) 280 30 30 

Mathematics 372 70 61 

Statistics 95 50 32 

Physics 239 50 40 

Chemistry 154 50 37 


Biotechnology 

218 50 39 

Zoology (Reg.) 126 50 44 

Zoology (Voc.) 50 30 17 


Programme 

Candidates 

Applied 

Self Financed Courses 

Sanctioned 

Strength 

Candidates 

Admitted 

Business Administration 599 70 69 

Commerce 752 70 118 

Computer Applications 1217 50 50 

Microbiology 67 50 43 

Visual Communication 173 50 49 

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Physics 35 50 44 

Physical Education 14 50 23 

Journalism 43 70 45 

Social Work 52 70 63 

Geography 54 50 48 

Demand for PG Courses for the academic year 2007 -2008 


Programme 

Candidates 

Applied 

Aided Courses 

Sanctioned 

Strength 

Candidates 

admitted 

History 29 40 20 

Political Science 27 20 12 

Public Administration 59 40 31 



Tamil Literature 31 20 17 

English Literature 152 40 28 





Physics 154 26 26 



Biotechnology 

143 26 24 

Zoology 44 16 16 

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Programme 

Candidates 

applied 

Self Financed Courses 

Sanctioned 

Strength 

Candidates 

admitted 

Mass Communication 54 40 32 


Social Work 172 26 44* 


Applied Microbiology 102 26 29 

Marine Studies and Coastal 

Resource Management 

34 26 24 


Students’ Performance in the Examinations in the UG Courses (Final year 

students appeared in April/May 2008 only) 

Name of the Course/ Programme 

Students 

Appeared 

Aided Courses 

Students 

Passed 

Pass 

percentage 

History (Reg.) 23 7 30 

History (Voc.) 11 2 18 

Pol. Science 43 26 60 





Commerce (Reg.) 64 56 88 

Commerce (Voc.) 28 20 71 





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Biotechnology 

45 39 87 

Zoology (Reg.) 36 30 83 

Zoology (Voc.) 20 11 55 


Students 

Appeared 

Self financed Courses 

Students 

Passed 

Pass 

percentage 

Business Administration 56 43 77 




Geography, Tourism and Travel 

Management. 

4 4 100 


Microbiology 36 30 83 

Physical Education 9 8 89 


Visual Communication 41 35 85 

Students’ Performance in the Examinations in the PG Courses 

(Final year students appeared in April/May 2008) 


Students 

Appeared 

Aided Courses 

Students 

Passed 

Pass 

percentage 

History 16 14 88 

Pol. Science 14 14 100 

Public Administration 19 18 95 




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Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology 25 15 60 

Zoology 20 12 60 



Self-Financed Courses 

Students Students Pass 

Appeared Passed percentage 

Mass Communication 28 24 86 




Applied Microbiology 26 23 88 

Marine Studies and Coastal 

Management 

14 12 86 

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