The Institution’s Innovation Council of Kongunadu Arts and Science College (KASC-IIC), with IIC ID: IC201810336, has secured a prestigious 4-Star Rating in the recently released IIC 7.0 (AY 2024–2025) Star Ratings for IIC-registered institutions across the country.
The college received the rating in recognition of its various innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup-related activities conducted both on and off campus.
The Star Ratings were released by the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) Innovation Cell (MIC) in collaboration with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Under IIC 7.0 (AY 2024–2025), the institution secured an overall score of 75.45 out of 100, comprising 69.41 out of 80 from activities conducted during Quarters 1 to 4 and 6.05 out of 20.00 from the institution’s participation and performance across various IIC initiatives and programmes.
These initiatives included YUKTI – Innovation and IP Repository, Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025, the constitution and strengthening of the IIC Student Council, the adoption of the National Innovation and Startup Policy (NISP), collaborations with Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) ecosystem enablers through memoranda of understanding (MoUs), mentoring support for Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) and School Innovation Councils (SICs), intellectual property (IP) generation, commercialisation and technology transfer efforts, and other innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives.
Based on its overall performance and score, the college has been awarded a 4-Star Rating.
Congratulations to faculty and students
-C. A. Vasuki, Secretary and Director, KASC
C. A. Vasuki, Secretary and Director of the college, and Sangeetha, Principal, congratulated the faculty members and students who contributed to the successful implementation of KASC-IIC activities and appreciated their collective efforts in achieving the 4-Star Rating.
They also expressed their appreciation to Dhandapani, Assistant Professor of Botany and President of KASC-IIC, and Divya Priya, Associate Professor of Commerce and Convener of KASC-IIC, for their persistent efforts, effective coordination, and commitment towards accomplishing the assigned IIC activities and strengthening the institution’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
About KASC-IIC and its performance
The Institution’s Innovation Council of Kongunadu Arts and Science College (KASC-IIC) was established in the academic year 2018–2019 with the objective of systematically fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and creating a vibrant local innovation ecosystem within the institution.
KASC-IIC further promotes innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and technology-driven initiatives through various activities, thereby strengthening an innovation-oriented ecosystem on the campus. The institution is also promoting the generation of tribal and rural start-ups.
“Several Idea generation workshops are provided to the stakeholders to promote student and faculty-led start-ups. Aligning with the National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP), the institution has adopted the KASC Start-up and Innovation Policy, and through this, several benefits are made available to potential student aspirants who would like to explore new product development.
The institution has two Pre-Incubation support centres, namely the KASC Tech Hub for IT and IT-related start-up generation and KASC i-Hub for life science-related product development,” the college stated in a press release.
“These achievements reflect the institution’s sustained commitment to promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, research, intellectual property, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem among students and faculty,” noted the release.
The press release further highlighted that the achievement reflects KASC-IIC’s sustained efforts to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup culture among students while nurturing their creative and entrepreneurial potential.
“Students have actively participated in various hackathons and innovation challenges, presented their innovative ideas, developed prototypes, and gained opportunities to further incubate their ideas and prototypes through various incubation centres in and around Coimbatore. These initiatives have encouraged students to transform their innovative ideas into viable ventures and emerge as young entrepreneurs and startup founders,” the college stated.
