With advanced innovation in digital technology, demand for virtual assistants is arising which can assist a person
and at the same time, minimize the need for interaction with the human. Acknowledging the requirement, we
propose an interactive and intelligent student assistant, StuA, which can help new-comer in a college who are
hesitant in interacting with the seniors as they fear of being ragged. StuA is capable of answering all types of
queries of a new-comer related to academics, examinations, library, hostel and extra curriculum activities. The
model is designed using CLIPS which allows inferring using forward chaining. Nevertheless, a generalized
algorithm for backward chaining for CLIPS is also implemented. Validation of the proposed model is presented
in five steps which show that the model is complete and consistent with 99.16% accuracy of the knowledge
model. Moreover, the backward chaining algorithm is found to be 100% accurate