• The Governing Council of the college is the supreme administrative body.
• It is constituted as per the norms fixed by AICTE, New Delhi; Affiliating University and Govt. Of Karnataka.
• The Governing Council is ambitious and converts aspirations into outcomes with a rigorous framework of governance.
• The Head of the Institution is appointed as the Chief Executive of the Institution and suitable arrangements are made to monitor his/ her performance.
• The council ensures the establishment and monitoring systems of control and accountability including financial & operational controls and risk assessment; clear procedure for handling internal grievances.
• Governing Council monitors the institution's performance against the plans approved; and also benchmarks this against other institutions wherever possible.
• The Governing Council should ensure the achievement of the mission and vision of the organization; future academic plans and research activities should be promoted by providing direction of implementation and overall monitoring of the activities.
• Governing Council must approve the budgetary allocation towards infrastructure, staffing and R &D.
• The Chairperson is responsible for leading the governing body, he is also responsible for its effectiveness and should ensure that the institution is well connected with the stakeholders.
• The Chairperson should support the head of the institution in the execution of the programmes.

The Governing Council shall exercise powers and discharge the functions as follows:
• Ensure proper management, maintenance and custody of the institution in relation to land, infrastructure, equipment and funds, including loans and grants received from AICTE, Central Government and Government of Karnataka.
• To ensure the good condition of the campus.
• Instructions are imparted in accordance with norms and standards prescribed by the Government of Karnataka and affiliating University.
• To ensure approval of the appointment of staff by way of the selection committee of the institute in accordance with the norms prescribed by AICTE and Government of Karnataka.
• To ensure implementation of the provision of acts, instructions, rules and regulations prescribed by AICTE and Government of Karnataka in matters of service conditions of the staff relating to the appointment, leave, Provident Fund, age of retirement and disciplinary actions.
• To ensure observance and compliance of instructions issued by AICTE, Government of Karnataka and affiliating University.
• To ensure that the building, land, furniture and facilities are not being used for any other purpose (such as holding political meetings, communal meetings), except for running AICTE approved courses in the institute.
• To submit reports and returns from time to time to AICTE, Government of Karnataka and affiliating University.
• Create a peaceful and favorable atmosphere for study free from ragging.

The Academic Council of the institution consists of Heads of the departments of all the branches and basic sciences. It meets twice in a month to discuss the various curricular and co-curricular activities that are planned for the academic year. It plans the Calendar events for the academic year and ensures that all the activities are run as per the plan. It takes appropriate measures for any deviation in the plan. The amount of coverage of the syllabus and the progress of various activities will be discussed at the end of every month. It also looks after the proper functioning of the various college committees that are put in place for the effective functioning of the institute by giving proper directions from time to time. It also conducts various staff meeting and class representative meetings from time to time to take stock of the academic progress and also to find out any difficulties faced by the student community in the institution.

In order to draw inspiration and resource to our current students, the Sai Vidya Institute ofTechnology Alumni Association was formed in the year 2014. All students of SAI VIDYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY become members of this Association by registering themselves. A one-time, life membership fee is charged towards membership.
The annual Alumni Meet –SAMMILANA is held during the even semester of every academic year which sees coming together of alumni and provides an informal ambience for networking and knowledge exchange.
The goals of the Alumni Association are:

• Organizing 'Alumni Interaction day' every year to interact and guide their juniors.
• Training and helping the process of Placement of Juniors by interaction over weekends and also to enable useful knowledge exchange.
• Contribute to the intellectual infrastructure of SVIT by contributing
• Encourage merit among SVIT students by instituting scholarships

The strength of our institution is the proctorial system. In the proctor system, the faculty members will be assigned with a group of 20 students who take care of them in academic and non-academic matters and gives valuable guidance to improve student performance. All the teachings staffs act as proctors.
It is instrumental in providing students, a sense of security and belongingness, through elderly and enlightened guidance and to keep at bay, negative feelings of alienation, loneliness and void that are so common among fresher’s and to bring them into the healthy fold of campus community of the institution.
The objectives of the Proctor Committee are:

• Close monitoring of the student's progress in terms of his / her attendance, punctuality, learning capabilities, utilization of facilities and overall academic performance as part of curriculum requirements.
• On the extracurricular front, help identify and correct student's distractions and deviations, attitudinal aberrations and instil positive growth in them.
• Stimulate a healthy and mutually inclusive relationship between teacher and student.
• Monitoring and correction of any deviant behaviour in students.
• Monitoring student activities and building self-confidence, self-reliance.
• To provide single window contact of information to all parents about their wards during their student life on campus.

The Cultural committee helps the students to distinguish themselves apart from their curriculum. Students are encouraged to take part in various cultural events in our college and other colleges to showcase their talents. The committee ensures a creative involvement in various events and it is committed to giving a platform to explore their talents by encouraging them to participate in any sort of competitions. We also have our own college fest called ‘SANCHALANA’ that claims a comprehensive cultural feed for all the students.

Indiscipline is a serious aspect of concern amongst students owing to peer pressure and other kinds of distractions around them. Their behaviour changes and they react differently to various situations. This committee monitors the students and ensures that no indiscipline happens. Also, in the event of any indiscipline activities, the action is taken by the committee. There is a dedicated team which frequently monitors the discipline of the students on the campus.

This committee monitors the university examinations conducted in the college. The committee manages all the activities in coordination with the office ensures the smooth running of the entire process.

This committee was constituted to ensure that all the standards with regard to the academics issues are met. Any discrepancies with respect to internal valuation, quality of the question paper, maintain of course file, maintenance of attendance registers are addressed by this committee. The Principal is the Chairman of this committee and it is comprised of the following members.

The National Service Scheme is an Indian government-sponsored public service program conducted by the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. Popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in 1969. Aimed at developing student's personality through community service, NSS is a voluntary association of young people in Colleges, Universities and at +2 level working for a campus-community linkage. The social activities aim to include social welfare in students and to provide service to society without bias. NSS volunteers work to ensure that everyone who is needy gets help to enhance their standard of living and lead life of dignity. The Sai Vidya Institute of Technology students actively participated in events conducted on behalf of Sai Vidya Institute of Technology NSS unit.
The NSS unit of the college has more than 100 student members and approved by VTU. The unit is headed by Dr. Harish H T, Chief Librarian & NSS Program Officer

Parallel to studies, in order to give motivation and an opportunity to excel in sports to interested students, this committee looks into the needs of budding sportspersons. The college campus has facilities and equipment for a number of sports, for which there is good participation of boys and girls, pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Students participate in the sports, helping them to perform well in college events at state and national levels.

This committee in the college is set up to look into the welfare of the SC/ST students admitted for the various courses. Besides this, the committee assists the students to apply for the scholarship offered by various schemes of the government of Karnataka and Government of India so as to help them to pursue their education.

This committee in the college was formed to address all the internal issues of the faculties so that they get solutions to the various problems. Suggestions and remedies are given by the members so that the problems are tackled by the faculties.

“SARA”, The Women's Cell of SVIT was established on March 8th 2017, in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling of 1997 on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.
“SARA” is committed to,

• Sensitizing the community on gender issues
• Observing the law on Sexual Harassment
• Educating and empowering the women community

• To make women aware of their rights,
• To help women in knowing the importance of good health, nutrition and facilities available for them,
• To help women in developing decision-making abilities and be self-dependent,
• To help women in raising their voice against all kinds of discrimination,
• To help women in changing their mind set up to lead a life,
• To assist women in the overall development of their personality

Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) was established to assist students, aspiring entrepreneurs, including Institutes, faculty, with pre-venture, start-up or existing business with financial management, marketing, technology and product development and commercialization issues.

There is an exclusive test coordination committee which consists of one member from each department for the smooth conduction of internal assessment tests which looks after collecting and printing of the question papers from all the departments, allotment of rooms to students, invigilation duties.

To utilize the various scholarship schemes offered by national and state governments, the committee predominantly works for giving comprehensive information for both students and parents and assure to aware of each beneficiary and also functions as E-Attestation officers to approve the documents submitted by the students.

The institution has an effective student council comprising of a class representative from each class as a member of the council. This council represents their respective student community by bringing those peer issues into consideration and report to the Proctor HODs and Principal. They also act as a first information messenger to the concern teachers for the smooth conduction of the classes.
The class representatives of all the classes are members of the student council. A sample class Representative list and meeting is attached herewith.

Research and Development (R & D) plays a major role in the development of any organization, which also includes educational institutions. The research committee headed by the Principal was constituted for the same reason. The committee encourages faculties and students publish technical papers and articles, write textbooks, apply for support for project work, get grants for research, apply for patents, etc. The committee Co-coordinator oversees all the activities.
The members of this committee are as follows.