OUR HERITAGE (UGC Care Journal) ISSN: 0474-9030Vol-68, Special Issue-60 Tw o-Day Nat ional Sem inar on Teaching, Learning and Evaluat ion Held on February 22-23, 2020 Or gani zed by: JEEVAN VIKAS M AHAVIDYALAYA, DEVGRAM, Tah. Narkhed, Distt . Nagpur - 441301 (MS) Page | 74 Copyright ⓒ 2019Authors Challenges And Opportunities Of HEIS Towards Quality Excellence And NAAC Assessment And Accreditation In Revised Manual Dr. K J Sibi IQAC Coordinator Shivprasad Sadanand Jaiswal College Arjuni-Morgaon Dist Gondia Abstract: Uniform quality education without discrimination for all citizens from primary level to higher education level is most necessary for quality excellence in the country in the globalized context. India cannot go forward with its higher education discarding global tendencies. From offline process into online process of NAAC’s assessment is revolutionary but it emerges new challenges and opportunities for HEIs. Electronically retrievable MIS is most needed and information and documents must be at the click of a mouse. Appointment of IQAC Coordinator should be through the external expert panel from the existing staff. Teachers who did coordinator ship for accreditation of the institution should be placed into the level of professor grade for quality leadership of the institution. Onsite visit should be revised with a third party observer from the affiliated university. An in service IQAC Coordinator should be included as fourth member in Peer Team for better coordination. MOOCs should be included under the scanner of assessment. Reimbursement of fees and other expenses should be in time bound. Transparency and accountability should be a corner stone for quality assessment. Prevalent wisdom is needed for it. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.