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Activity Points For Award of Degree Preamble

To be awarded a degree, students must earn a minimum number of activity points in addition to academic grades. These activity points are meant to develop students' soft skills, leadership, entrepreneurship, and commitment to society. Students must complete various extracurricular activities like helping local schools, developing business proposals, sustainable projects, and skill training for rural populations. A range of activities are suggested with minimum hours for each. Activity points do not affect GPA but are required for degree conferral.

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Activity Points For Award of Degree Preamble

To be awarded a degree, students must earn a minimum number of activity points in addition to academic grades. These activity points are meant to develop students' soft skills, leadership, entrepreneurship, and commitment to society. Students must complete various extracurricular activities like helping local schools, developing business proposals, sustainable projects, and skill training for rural populations. A range of activities are suggested with minimum hours for each. Activity points do not affect GPA but are required for degree conferral.

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Activity Points for Award of Degree

Preamble:

Apart from technical knowledge and skills, to be successful as professional, students should have
excellent soft skills, leadership qualities and team spirit. They should have entrepreneurial capabilities
and societal commitment. In order to match these multifarious requirement, AICTE has created a
unique mechanism of awarding Activity points over and above the academic grades.

Table 1: Activity point requirement

Sl.No. Student category Activity points


prescribed by
AICTE
1 Day college regular student admitted to the 4 years 100
Degree programme
2 Student entering 4 years degree programme through 75
lateral entry
3 Students transferred from other Universities to fifth 50
semester
• The Activity Points earned shall be reflected on the students eighth semester Grade card
(duration of the programme), anytime during the semester weekends and holidays, as per the
interest and convenience of the student from the year of entry to the programme. However,
minimum hours specified must be satisfied.
• Activity Points (non-credit) have no effect on SGPA/CGPA and shall not be considered for
vertical progression.
• In case students fail to earn the prescribed activity points, Eighth semester Grade Card shall be
issued only after earning the required activity points. Students shall be admitted for the award
of degree only after the release of the Eighth semester Grade card.
• The consolidated report of activity points earned by the students will be sent to the University.
A notification in this respect will be issued by Registrar (Evaluation), VTU, Belagavi.

Table 2: Following suggestive activities may be carried out by students in teams as per their choice:

Sl. Activity Head Minimum duration Performance


No Weeks Hours appraisal/Maximum
. points/activity
1. Helping local schools to achieve
good result and enhance their
enrolment in Higher/technical/
vocational education. 2 80-90 20
2. Preparing an actionable business
proposal for enhancing the village
income. 2 80-90 20
3. Developing Sustainable Water
management system.
2 80-90 20
4. Tourism approaches through
innovative approaches. 2 80-90 20
5. Promotion of appropriate
technologies. 2 80-90 20
6. Reduction in energy consumption. 2 80-90 20
7. To skill rural population. 2 80-90 20
8. Facilitating 100% digitized
money transactions. 2 80-90 20
9. Setting of the information
imparting club for women leading
to contribution in social and 2 80-90 20
economic issues.
10. Developing and managing
efficient garbage disposable 2 80-90 20
system.
11. To assist the marketing of rural
produce. 2 80-90 20
12. Food preservation/ packaging.
2 80-90 20
13. Automation of local activities. 2 80-90 20
14. Spreading public awareness under
rural outreach program. 2 80-90 20
15. Contribution to any national level
initiative of Government of India.
For eg. Digital India, Skill India, 2 80-90 20
Swachh Bharat Intership etc.

Evaluated by NSS/youth Red cross Co-ordinators/Chair person-CICC(College Internal complaints


committee)/SAGY(Sansad Adarsh Gram yojana, Govt. of India) of the institute/ Mentor.

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