SECTION-B : PREPARATION OF SELF-STUDY REPORT

1. Profile of the Affiliated / Constituent College

1. Name and Address of the College:

Name: SARSUNA COLLEGE

Address: 4/HB/A HO-CHI-MIEN SARANI, SARSUNA UPANAGORI,

SARSUNA

City: KOLKATA Pin:700061 State:-WEST BENGAL

Website: www.sarsunacollege.ac.in

2. For communication :

Designation Name Telephone Mobile Fax Email

Teacher-in-

charge

Arun

Kumar

Dawn

O: 033-

24524104

R:-033-

24452721

+9109432299379 033-

24523699

arunkumandawn8@gmail.

com

Steering

Committee

Co-

ordinator

Sarottama

Majundar

O:-033-

24523699

R:-033-

24023656

+919830603755 033-

24523699

sarrottama@yahoo.com

3 . Status of the Institution: Affiliated College

4. Type of Institution:

a. By Gender: Co-education b. By Shift: Day

5. It is a recognized minority institution? No

6. Sources of funding: Grant-in-aid

7. a. Date of establishment of the college: 29/09/1999

b. University to which the college is affiliated /or which governs the college (If it is a

constituent college):- University of Calcutta, Kolkata

c. Details of UGC recognition:

Under Section Date, Month & Year Remarks(If any)

1) 2f 5/1/2007

2) 12B 5/1/2007

(Enclose the Certificate of recognition u/s 2 (f) and 12 (B) of the UGC Act)

d. Details of recognition/approval by statutory/regulatory bodies other than UGC (AICTE,

NCTE, MCI, DCI, PCI, RCI etc.):- N.A.

8. Does the affiliating university Act provide for conferment of autonomy (as recognized by

the UGC), on its affiliated colleges? Yes

If yes, has the College applied for availing the autonomous status? No

9. Is the college recognized

a. by UGC as a College with Potential for Excellence (CPE)? No

b. for its performance by any other governmental agency? No

10. Location of the campus and area in sq.mts:

Location *:- Semi-Urban

Built up area in sq. mts.- 6559.0

(* Urban, Semi-urban, Rural, Tribal, Hilly Area, Any others specify)

11. Facilities available on the campus (Tick the available facility and provide numbers or

other details at appropriate places)

seminar room with infrastructural facilities

Sports facilities

play ground

swimming pool

Gymnasium

Hostel

Boys’ hostel

i. Number of hostels ii.

Number of inmates

iii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

Girls’ hostel

i. Number of hostels

ii. Number of inmates

iii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

Working women’s hostel

i)Number of inmates

ii. Facilities (mention available facilities)

Residential facilities for teaching and non-teaching staff (give numbers available

— cadre wise)

Cafeteria —

Health centre – The College is affiliated to the “Student Health Home” established by the

University of Calcutta with the main centre at Maulali. Students get medical facilities and

specialised treatment from there.

First aid, Inpatient, Outpatient, Emergency care facility, Ambulance: -First aid and

sick room facilities are provided to allstudents, teaching and non-teaching staff as

and when required.

Health centre staff – Doctor on call facility is available

Facilities like banking, post office, book shops:-banking, cheap store, Xerox centre. Also all

students are provided with Students’ safety policy.

Transport facilities to cater to the needs of students and staff:-Though the college has no direct

transport facility, however there are some buses and autos depart from the Sarsuna College stand

Animal house:-

Biological waste disposal:-

Generator or other facility for management/regulation of electricity and voltage

Solid waste management facility-

Waste water management-

Water harvesting-

12. Details of programmes offered by the college (Give data for current academic year) SI. No.

Programm

e Level

Name of the

Programme/ Course

Duration Entry Qualificatio

n

Medium

of instructio

n

Sanctioned/

approved

Student strength

No. of

studen

ts admitt

ed 1. Under-

Graduate BIOCHEMISTRY 3years 50% in total ENGLIS

H 37 25

CHEMISTRY 3years 55% in total and 55% in Chemistry

Or 60% in Chemistry

ENGLISH

42 41

COMPUTER SC. 3years 50% in total and 45% in Computer Science

or in both Physics and

Maths

ENGLISH

37 33

ECONOMICS 3years 55% in total and 55% in Economics.

Or

60% in

Economics

Or 55% in total

ENGLISH

32 04

(for those who did not

have Economics

in 10+2 level

GEOGRAPHY 3years 60% in total

and 65% in

Geography

Or

70% in

Geography

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

65 71

MICROBIOLOGY 3years ) 50% in

total and

45% either

in

1)

Biology and

Chemistry(b

oth)

Or

2)

Biology and

Physics

(both)

Or

B) 55% in

following

1)

Biology and

Chemistry

(both)

or

2)

Biology and

Physics

(both)

ENGLISH

42 35

ZOOLOGY 3years 50% in total and 45% in

Biology Or

55% in Biology

ENGLISH

37 44

BOTANY 3years 50% in total and 45% in Biology or

related subject

Or 55% in

Biology or related subject

ENGLISH

32 36

PHYSICS 3years 50% in total ENGLIS 22 28

and 45% in Physics

Or 55% in Physics

H

MATHS 3years 50% in total and 45% in Mathematic

s Or

55% in Mathematic

s

ENGLISH

17 13

ACC & FINC 3years 50% in total and 50% marks in

Accountancy /

Mathematics

Or

55% in Accountanc

y/ Mathematic

s

ENGLISH

167 124

MARKETING 3years 50% in total and 50% marks in

Accountancy

Or 55% in

Accountancy

ENGLISH

57 17

BENGALI 3years 50% in total and 50% marks in Bengali

Or 55% in Bengali

BENGALI

67 72

ENGLISH 3years 60% in total and 55% marks in English

Or 65% in English.

ENGLISH

57 54

HISTORY 3years 50% in total and 50% marks in History

Or 55% marks in History

Or 50% in

total if History was not a subject

in 10+2

examination.

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

57 52

POLITICAL SC. 3years 50% in total and 45%

ENGLISH/BENG

57 54

marks in Political Science.

Or 55% in Political Science

Or 55% in total if Political

Science was not a subject

in 10+2 examination

ALI

EDUCATION 3years 50% in total and 45% marks in

Education / related

subjects. Or

55% in Education /

related subjects

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

42 44

B.A. GEN 3years Qualified in 10 + 2 level

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

- 620

B.SC GEN 3years Qualified in 10 + 2 level

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

- 125

B.COM GEN 3years Qualified in 10 + 2 level

ENGLISH/BENG

ALI

- 269

2. Post-Graduate

COMPUTER SC 2years 55% in Computer

Sc.

ENGLISH

30 22

GEOGRAPHY 2years 55% in Geography

ENGLISH

20 20

13. Does the college offer self-financed Programmes? No

14. New programmes introduced in the college during the last five years if any? Yes.

Number:- Post Graduation (2) and Distance education (11)

15. List the departments: (respond if applicable only and do not list facilities like Library,

Physical Education as departments, unless they are also offering academic degree awarding

programmes. Similarly, do not list the departments offering common compulsory subjects for

all the programmes like English, regional languages etc.)

Faculty Department UG PG Resear

ch

Science BIOCHEMISTRY

(HONS ADN

GEN), BOTANY

(HONS AND

GEN),

CHEMISTRY(HONS

AND

GEN), COMPUTER

SCIENCE

(HONS AND

BIOCHEMISTRY

(HONS ADN

GEN), BOTANY

(HONS AND

GEN),

CHEMISTRY(HON

S AND

GEN), COMPUTER

SCIENCE

(HONS AND

COMPUTER

SCIENCE,

GEOGRAPH

Y

Nil

GENERAL),

ECONOMICS

(HONS AND GEN),

ELECTRONICS

(GEN),

GEOGRAPHY

(HONS AND GEN),

MATHEMATICS(HO

NS AND

GEN),

MICROBIOLOGY

(HONS

AND GEN),

PHYSICS (HONS

AND

GEN), STATISTICS

(GEN),

ZOOLOGY

(HONS AND

GEN)

GENERAL),

ECONOMICS

(HONS AND GEN),

ELECTRONICS

(GEN),

GEOGRAPHY

(HONS AND GEN),

MATHEMATICS(H

ONS AND

GEN),

MICROBIOLOGY

(HONS

AND GEN),

PHYSICS (HONS

AND

GEN), STATISTICS

(GEN),

ZOOLOGY

(HONS AND

GEN)

Arts BENGALI (HONS

AND GEN),

EDUCATION

(HONS AND GEN),

ENGLISH (HONS

AND GEN),

FILM STUDIES

(GENERAL),

HISTORY (HONS

AND GEN),

POLITICAL

SCIENCE (HONS

AND GEN)

BENGALI (HONS

AND GEN),

EDUCATION

(HONS AND GEN),

ENGLISH (HONS

AND GEN),

FILM STUDIES

(GENERAL),

HISTORY (HONS

AND GEN),

POLITICAL

SCIENCE (HONS

AND GEN)

Nil

Commer

ce

ACCOUNTS AND

FINANCE

(HONS AND GEN),

MARKETING

(HONS AND

GEN)

ACCOUNTS AND

FINANCE

(HONS AND GEN),

MARKETING

(HONS AND

GEN)

Nil

16. Number of Programmes offered under (Programme means a degree course like

BA, BSc, MA, M.Com…)

a. annual system-B.A.,B.Sc.,B.Com

b. semester system:-M.Sc in Computer Sc, Geography

c. trimester system:-Nil

17. Number of Programmes with

a. Choice Based Credit System-0

b. Inter/Multidisciplinary Approach-0

c. Any other ( specify and provide details)- 0

18. Does the college offer UG and/or PG programmes in Teacher Education? No

19. Does the college offer UG or PG programme in Physical Education? No

20. Number of teaching and non-teaching positions in the Institution

Positions Teaching Faculty

(Through college service commission

(csc)/Not through college service

commission)

Non-

Teaching

staff

Technical

Staff

Professor(cs

c)

Associate

Professor(c

sc)

Assistant

Professor(t

hrougf csc)

Contractual

Teacher(not

csc)

Part-time

teacher(no

t csc)

Guest

lecturer

(not csc)

M F M F M F M F M F

Sanctioned by the

UGC / University /

State Government

0

0

0 0 13

10

7 1 3 0

Recruited

0

2 20 20 14 16

Yet to recruit 0 0 15 13

0 0 0

Sanctioned by the

Management/

society or other

authorized bo

dies

Recruited

-

-

-

-

-

-

21

1

12

1

2 2 - - -

Yet to recruit - - - -

21. Qualifications of the teaching staff:

Highest

qualification

Professor Associated Professor Assistant Professor Total

Male Female Male Female Male Female

Permanent teachers

D.Sc./D.Litt.

Ph.D. 0 0 0 1 5 4 10

M.Phil 0 0 0 0 1 1 02

P.G. 0 0 1 0 6 4 11

Temporary teachers(Guest Lecturer)

Ph.D. 2 1 3

M.Phil 1 1 2

P.G. 11 14 25

Part-time teachers

Ph.D. 05 03 08

M.Phil. 01 04 05

P.G. 13 14 27

Contractual teachers

Ph.D. 0 3 03

M.Phil 0 0 00

P.G. 1 3 04

22. Number of Visiting Faculty /Guest Faculty engaged with the College.-30

23. Furnish the number of the students admitted to the college during the last four academic

years.

Categories Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

M F M F M F M F

SC 162 126 172 129 181 122 163 146

ST 0 3 5 5 2 7 2 2

OBC 0 0 0 0 5 1 14 3

General 580 364 741 445 679 509 853 568

Others - - - - - - - -

24. Details on students enrolment in the college during the current academic year:

Type of

students

UG PG M.Phil. Ph.d Total

Students from the

same

state where the

college is located

1762 42 0 0 1804

Students from other

states of India

0 0 0 0 0

NRI students 0 0 0 0 0

Foreign students 1 0 0 0 1

Total 1763 42 0 0 1805

25. Dropout rate in UG and PG (average of the last two batches)

UG :-12.42% PG:-0

26. Unit Cost of Education

(Unit cost = total annual recurring expenditure (actual) divided by total number of

students enrolled )

(a) including the salary component Rs. 10148.34

(b) excluding the salary component Rs. 3137.36

27. Does the college offer any programme/s in distance education mode (DEP)?Yes

a. is it a registered centre for offering distance education programmes of another

University? Yes

b. Name of the University which has granted such registration. Directorate of Distance

Education(DDE), Vidyasagar University

c. Number of programmes offered: 11

M.A. (BEN, ENG, HIS, POL)

M.Com.

M.Sc.(PHY, CHEM, MATH, BOT, ZOO, GEO)

d. Programmes carry the recognition of the Distance Education Council: Yes

28. Provide Teacher-student ratio for each of the programme/course offered

Subject Ratio

Honours General

Bengali 1:14 1:60

Education 1: 8 1:120

English 1:21 1:40

Film Study N.A. 1:75

History 1:12 1:120

Political Sc. 1:8 1:120

Commerce 1:29 1:43

Bio-Chemistry 1:6 -

Botany 1: 5 1: 15

Chemistry 1:11 1:50

Computer Sc 5:1(UG)

7.5:1(PG)

N.A.

Economics 1:3 1:89

Mathematics 1:4 1:20

Microbiology 1:9 1:4

Electronics N.A. 1:15

Geography 1:22(UG)

1:3(PG)

1:17

Physics 1: 8 1: 20

Statistics N.A. 1:10

Zoology 1:13 1:20

29. Is the college applying for

Accreditation : Cycle 1

(Cycle 1refers to first accreditation and Cycle 2, Cycle 3 and Cycle 4 refers to re-

accreditation)

30. Date of accreditation* (applicable for Cycle 2, Cycle 3, Cycle 4 and re-assessment

only) N.A.

Cycle 1: ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result….…....

Cycle 2: ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result…….....

Cycle 3: ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy) Accreditation Outcome/Result…….....

* Kindly enclose copy of accreditation certificate(s) and peer team report(s) as an

annexure.

31. Number of working days during the last academic year.-223 32. Number of teaching days during the last academic year:-114

(Teaching days means days on which lectures were engaged excluding the examination days)

33. Date of establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell : N.A.

(IQAC) IQAC …………………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

34. Details regarding submission of Annual Quality Assurance Reports (AQAR) to

NAAC. N.A.

AQAR (i) ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (ii) ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

AQAR (iii) ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy) AQAR

(iv) ……………… (dd/mm/yyyy)

35. Any other relevant data (not covered above) the college would like to include. (Do not

include explanatory/descriptive information)

CRITERION I: CURRICULAR ASPECTS

1.1 Curriculum Planning and Implementation

Vision, Mission and communication methods

Sarsuna College was established in 1999 as an undergraduate institution

affiliated to a reputed university(university of Calcutta)and the primary

purpose was to provide the socially and economically backward populace

of this semi- urban locality access to affordable standard higher education,

the meritorious students opportunity and modern infrastructure to study

new age subjects like microbiology and computer science within travelling

distance and all students the wherewithal to be economically independent,

ethically upright socially responsible citizens of the country. Since it’s

inception, the college has followed a policy favouring transparent and open

declaration of the college’s aim, growth potential and dialogue between

students, teachers, staff members, parents, local residents and members of

the larger community is encouraged. The first is accomplished by annual

publication of detailed report of student and college performance and future

plans of developement in the college prospectus, college magazine, close

daily interaction between representatives of the elected students’ Union and

the institutional head, the teacher’s council , the staff council and other

constituted bodies. There are regular parents teachers meetings arranged by

various departments and all stakeholders are invited to contribute to any

dialogue related to the developement and betterment of the College by the

Governing Body of the College. All suggestions are considered

democratically by the body and due weightage given to positive advice for

betterment.

How the Curriculum is Implemented:

The College has a duly constituted body which devices and implements

policies for curriculum implementation. This body; the academic sub-

committee constituting of the head of institution(ex-officio),the Teachers

Council Secretary and all heads of departments, meet at the beginning of

every academic session to finalise the academic calendar which is calibrated

with the university academic schedule. The dates of college examinations,

class and room allocation finalisation of the routine for all three years for the

present academic session (tabled by the routine committee) are the decisions

taken in the first academic sub-committee meeting of the session.

Subsequently, the committee meets for general meetings atleast once every

quarter to finalise evaluation criteria, selection criteria, attendance and

promotion issues or any other academic agenda. The chief decisions of the

meetings are discussed as agenda and ratified by the Teacher’s Council in

their General meeting and implemented. The individual departments discuss

syllabus distribution (the college follows the university curricula) and classes

are allocated keeping in mind the number of working days, college event

calendar, availability and specialization of faculty and departmental routines

are published, circulated among all stakeholders at the commencement of the

academic year. Every quarter the academic sub-committee at its general

meeting reviews academic pregress as well as transacting other business.The

university allocates 15/16 honours classes per year per subject and 5/6 general

classes as well as compulsory language classes for English and Bengali

departments. The UGC and the university requires every full time teacher to

take a minimum of 22 classes and part time teachers 10 classes per session.

These have to be adjusted to provide foe the 64/72 classes for the working

weeks available.

External Support to Faculty for Curriculum Improvement:

The university publishes academic curricula, schedule of university and

college examinations, for minor or major curriculam reforms the university

organises workshops which the college causes the relevant faculty members

to attend. Full time teachers are regularly permitted by the college to attend

orientation and refresher courses at university academic staff colleges.

Also, the college actively supports the organisation of collaborative UGC

sponsored seminars, publish departmental journals which are actively

syllabus oriented. Teachers encourage and accompany students to

conferances, exhibitions, excursions(both compulsory and voluntary)

lectures which would enhance their conceptual space and make better

interpretation and innovation of academic practices possible. The teachers

often take interdisciplinary classes within the college(English teachers

teach political Science students and economics teachers regularly undertake

modules for accountancy courses) faculty from Botany and Zoology

undertake modules for the recently opened post graduate Geography dept,

statistics faculty take Bio-Statistics classes in the departments of Zoology,

Microbiology, Biochemistry and a number of lecture series’ by eminent

personalities have been arranged by various departments which are open to

all students for the better understanding of general curricular aspects.

Effective Curriculum Delivery

The college takes the following steps to proactively encourage

curriculum delivery and curriculum implementation recommended

by the University of Calcutta:

The academic sub-committee monitors class allocation, class

attendance and academic schedule maintenance. Problems arising

from discrepancies between number of classes allocated and number

of actual working days, non availability of faculty, non attendance of

students which may result in non compliance in the matter of

syllabus completion are dealt with as soon as they are brought before

the committee by any stakeholder( head of Department, faculty,

student body representative or any other).

The committee recommends and the department allocates special

classes at the end of the academic session (including the period

marked as study leave after selection examinations every year in the

case of those departments which need to augment their teaching of

the curriculum, need to give special assistance to academically weak

candidates or extra encouragement to bright students.

The college actively supports curriculum oriented activities like film

viewing, organising science exhibitions, excursions to sites of topical

interest, seminar lecture competitions(for students) on topics related

to the syllabus so that there is an enhancement of the academic

horizon while adhering to the curriculum.

Intraction with External Benificieries:

The college has regular interfaces with it’s benificieries in the following

trajectories:

The college is in direct and regular correspondence with the board of studies

of departments present in the college, inspector of colleges, controller of

examinations, and academic and administrative functionaries of the

University of Calcutta on a daily basis not only to facilitate the smooth

opration of the college but also to ensure that the two institutions are able to

have a fruitful partnership each benifitting from the other’s resources.

Many of the faculty of the college are engaged in active research either for

academic enrichment(M.Phil, PhD, Post Doctoral)or engaged in various

projects attached to research institutes and universities across the city and the

state. There is interaction between these institutes and the college and

resource sharing in terms of laboratory usage, library usage, senior faculty

invitation for lectures and talks which is doubtless an invigorating sign of

intellectual stimulation.

The college has successfully conducted campus interviews in the past few

years and the industry(specially the IT sector) has shown encouraging interest

in recruiting students from the college. Also the college has in the past

organised seminars on career counselling and niche skill development at

which important leaders of industry have spoken to and answered queries put

by the students regarding the scopes and opportunities in various service

sectors and intrepeunership goals.

College Faculty Contribution to University Curriculum Design:

There are no members of the faculty of this college who are members of the

boards of study in the subjects taught under the purview of the university but

the board invites feedback and organises workshops every time there is a

proposal for any change in any portion of the syllabi and before attending any

such workshop the College ensures that the attending teachers receive

feedback from their respective departmental collegues and students which can

be conveyed at an opportune moment to the board. Also the faculty of the

college maintains extremely cordial and close relationship with the respective

university departments and there is constant exchange of ideas and feedback.

The college at present does not design or develop the curriculum for

any subject but follows the curriculum design and execution

directives of the affiliating university.

Method of analyzing effectiveness of Curriculum Implementation

An attempt is made by the college to assiduously adhere to and inculcate the

objectives of curriculum implementation stated in the prospectus, website

and verbally in orientations and convocations of the University following the

recommendations made by NAAC by the following methods:

The college as stated in its prospectus tries to keep up with the fast paced

changes in academia and socio economic needs of the contemporary world

without making compromises with the unique traditions that it is committed

to preserving. The laboratories have extremely sophisticated, cutting age

equipment which are maintained and calibrated where required regularly, the

library offers e – resources , audio visual facilities for enhanced or digital aid

to learning is available, there are an adequate number of computers(laptops

and desktop),the office is automated and transparency of information sharing

is ensured through the constantly updated college website. However, the

college ensures that the students are grounded in discipline, regularity and

courteous exchange of ideas in a conducive environment, that all national

traditional and regional cultural festivals are ceremoniously celebrated and

that all students and staff irrespective of class, caste and gender can at at all

times conduct their respective business in the college freely, fairly and

safely. The college is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities,

with no compromises and no exceptions.

1.2 Academic Flexibility

.

Twinning/Dual Courses/Diplomas

The College does not offer diploma or certificate courses of study.

The institution does not offer autonomous courses and /or courses which

facilitate twinning/dual degrees since this college only offers courses in its

affiliated capacity and this provision is not a part of the regular system of the

University of Calcutta.

Academic Flexibility and Methodology of Implementation with Details:

The college is academically divided into three faculties; science, humanities (languages and social

sciences) and commerce. The college offers 19 subjects as core options(honours and general). All

details regarding subject options are a part of the college prospectus and college website The college

does not yet offer any subject options (from among choices offered by the university) from the

departments of Agricultural Science, Ancient History, ancient languages, any language literature

option other than English and

Bengali,History,Languages,Linguistics,Museology,Philosophy,Sociology,South East Asia studies etc.

Two new post graduation departments (Computer Science and Geography) affiliated to and following

the curriculum of the Calcutta Universityhave commenced from 2014-2015 details of which are

available in a separate post graduate prospectus and is shortly to be uploaded to the college website.

The college allows students to opt for elective options (three in the case of the three year general

course students and two electives and one honours subject in the case of three year honours courses).

Every student has the option of lateral movement i.e transferring from one elective option to another

within the first three months of commencement of classes provided the options and combinations

adhere to the clusters designated by the University curriculum setters(each of the three subjects should

belong to separate clusters and two subjects from the same cluster cannot be opted for by a single

undergraduate student ). Also credit transfer or accumulation are not supported by the University

evaluation norms therefore the college though agreeing in principle that this allows students greater

opportunity for extending their intellectual scope and preparing them for diverse employability

training , has not instituted this system in their own evaluation structure. However a kind of vertical

mobility plan is already in place because the University allows students unsuccessful in elective

subjects to sit for supplementary examinations and if successful, they are inducted in the promoted

year, thus preventing the loss of an academic year for the students. This is also applicable in the case

of unsuccessful candidates who apply for a re-examination of scripts and are thereby declared

successful. To promote smooth transition and minimise loss of academic time, the college allows

students (though without attendance credit) to attend classes in the higher year until they attain

eligibility or otherwise. There is no system in place for vertical movement between courses. Again,

the academic plan of each department is framed at the beginning of each academic year, and modules

for the facilitation of dividing teaching time and teaching responsibility among faculty are fixed and

maintained on the responsibility of the Head of respective departments. If there is any problem with

time management, the head with permission from the head of the institution arranges for extra classes

and manages module distribution for the optimum utilisation of academic time and the completion of

the entire syllabus. The curriculum for some subjects are divided formally by the university and for

some the division is done by the college departments. The University has not yet commenced with the

semester system. The students of all departments are encouraged (funds are provided for the same

from the college budget) for the creation of syllabus oriented wall magazines, conducting of seminar

lecture presentations, arranging for single day talks or lecture series’, science exhibitions organised

departmentally. Students are involved in the seminars(UGC sponsored or otherwise)organised by

college departments and short slot presentations are encouraged. Students are encouraged and assisted

to participate in subject based quizzes, panels and socially relevant debates and essay competitions

organised by other HEIs, government agencies or NGOs.Students are inspired to participate in

socially relevant voluntary activities like blood donation camps, thalassemia awareness camps and

sapling plantation projects which the college firmly believes are very much an integral part of

academic enrichment in a holistic manner.

Self Financed Courses:

The college does not offer self financed programmes though the

college offers new age subjects like microbiology, biochemistry,

computer science to students from socially and economically

backward areas and believes that premium quality teaching and

market worthy employability should be available to all on the basis

of merit only. The college believes that affordable higher education

(without quality compromises) for all without exceptions or

prejudices should be attempted and that this is the aim of this

institution.

study Report Affiliated

Integration of Curriculum with goals of Institution, Contemporary Socio-

Economic Climate, Enrichment Programmes to Implement the above and

Feedback from Stakeholders to Monitor the Process:

The college being an affiliated institution, does not have the authority or

necessary autonomy to frame its curriculum but certain efforts are constantly

made to :

Prepare students for the needs both conventional and emerging needs in the

job market. To this end, students are counselled about preparing themselves

for all India competitive examinations personally in classes. The commerce

department regularly take classes in which mock interviews and group

discussions to prepare students for job interviews at various levels. The

Compulsory English classes especially for commerce students train students

in communicative English to make them job ready, and for the development

of the personality; a very necessary aid to our underpriviledged students who

come from semi rural backgrounds and for whom lack of confidence and

poor communicative skills in English is a deterrent to gaining employment

even with the requisite skill set. Students are encouraged to attend career

counselling workshops organised by the college and other agencies. Students

are taught as a part of their language training(compulsory for all first year

students) the methodology of CV writing and the best formats for application

writing for jobs. Thus providing soft skills to our students is one method of

ensuring that they are not at a disadvantage among students from priviledged

backgrounds in the job market.

The curriculum is taught in the social science and language departments

with the view to creating student skills in written and spoken communication

and in collating , analyzing and interpreting data, through theoretical or field

work (for example the History department regularly arranges field trips to

historical and archeological digs in West Bengal. The Education Department

and the English department arranges trips to the Indian Museum, The

Victoria Memorial Museum ). The Science departments organise

exhibitions(for example, the Chemistry Department organised an exhibition

on Chrystallography ) and industrial tours to Chembiotech( a chemical

company)organised by the Chemistry Department. The Commerce

department tries to ensure that the students through their compulsory projects

do original research in the areas of corporate taxes, the share market etc in

the course of which the students are guided by the faculty to interact with

industry personnel and gain valuable experience in field. These are methods

of enlarging, enriching and expanding upon the curriculum within the

academic framework to enhance learning, create interest, inspire desire for

further research among students while adhering to the set curricular frame

and preparing students for university evaluation processes leading to the

gaining of a viable degree.

The college has provisions for the teaching and project report presentation

required compulsorily by the University in environment al science.Also the

NSS of which the college has undertaken membership. conducts programmes

such as college and surroundings cleanliness and beautification drive. The

college organises awareness programmes on the benefits of blood donation ,

awareness about blood group matching before marriage and psychological

guidance and counselling workshops to increase awareness about gender

equations, awareness of environment and community issues. Since the

college is geographically located in a residential area (satellite township),and

draws a large section of its students from the locality and surrounding semi-

urban residential areas, there is a close connection and frequent interaction

between the residents living within the immediet vicinity and the students

which is mutually beneficial in increasing community awareness. The

college has an active disciplinary committee and a grievance cell which also

looks into issues or allegations of sexual harassment, gender prejudice,

allegations of discrimination and other such offences. Though the existence

of committees is a measure for safety, and containment; they also serve in

enforcing awareness and inculcates the values and benefits of conducting

oneself as a law abiding, socially responsible member of the regional,

national and global community.

The college takes extremely seriously the responsibility of inculcating habits

of free, fair and rational decision making and communal responsibility

sharing in it’s students through learning to make ethically viable choices for

the welfare of the community. Since the college is a community in a

microcosm, the responsibility of electing and conducting a student’s union,

by, of and for the students is a test for the students in training themselves in

the public arena.The college feels that these extracurricular activities along

with cultural and academic enrichment programmes enhance the curriculum

and encourages character and personality building so as to make students

viable, employable, responsible and caring citizens ; a credit to their families,

institutions and their community.

The enrichment drives are often aimed at and includes as commentators and

observers, external members of the community; parents,local residents, small

businesses directly dependent on the college who are invited to participate in

cleanliness drives around the campus, tree plantation drives to name but two.

Direct feedback in the form of face to face communication is encouraged to

gauge feedback about the enrichment efforts and needs for improvement.

Naturally our efforts are not sufficient to the needs of our community and

we often achieve much less than we aim for but with sincerity and the help

and good wishes of the diverse local community of which the college is a

part, no dream is too big for us to achieve.

1.4 Feedback System

Collecting Feedback from Stakeholders for Curriculum

Improvement and Contributing to the University Curriculum

Formation Process by Implementing the Same and Evidence

Thereof in College Courses:

The faculty of each department and often the head of the vinstitution

is invited to take part in discussions, panels and workshops

regarding curriculum reform. The college has unfortunately, no

formal method for recording student feedback on proposed or

instituted curricular reforms. However, the college ensures that the

teachers who represent the department at curricular reform or

implementation meetings are sufficiently briefed and are prepared

with suggestions pertaining to the specific needs, benefits or

preferances of their students and make the opinions of the college or

department known.

The college has introduced on the basis of increasing demand

Honours options in Mathematics, Botany and Physics (the elective

options were already available)and the study of Elective Statistics.

Also, two Post Graduate departments(Geography and Computer

Science) in the regular course affiliated to the University of Calcutta

and ten distance Post Graduate courses(in all three

faculties)affiliated to the University of Bidyasagar have commenced

operations in the session 2014-2015.All subjects were introduced

after demand for them were strong enough for the governing body

to acknowledge them and after due deliberation permission for

affiliation and/or introduction were sought and obtained after

inspection for each by relevant authorities returned favourable

reports about the available infrastructure(details given in relevant

sections)and assurance of funding for improvements(now

completed)proved satisfactory.

CRITERION II: TEACHING – LEARNING AND EVALUATION

Admission Procedure: Procedural Transparency, Efficiency and

Comparibility with similar HEIs

The college has a structured admission procedure in place which is

both transparent and efficient. The admission criteria(cut off

percentages for form collection)in every subject is advertised in flex

banners at all local vantage points within the radius of the college. It

is also uploaded in the college website. There is a students help desk

outside the college maintained by the Student’s Union to answer

queries at the time of form collection. The forms are distributed after

inspection of marksheets and counselling by teachers from relevant

faculties. All available subject combinations and other relevant data

is available in the very detailed college prospectus, a document

which is scrupulously updated and reedited every year. The

prospectus is available at the time of form collection or form

submission.The form can also be downloaded online. The process

for online submission is complete and awaits permission from

relevant authorities to be functional.On submission, the data is

collated according to the weightage system decided on by the

admission sub-committee(total marks+subject or related subject

marksx2=grand total).There is no provision for intake of students

through a common entrance test since the University of Calcutta

makes no such provision. The data of individual students is digitally

entered and tabulated and a merit list drawn according to the number

of sanctioned seats per department. The scrutiny of merit list forms

for cross checking purposes is undertaken by each department and

on designated dates, the selected candidates appear for counselling at

appointed hours(faculty wise, department wise). After successful

counselling, the candidates are given provisional admission slips and

the designated time of admission is mentioned in it. The office

completes admission formalities(department wise)on the designated

dates. The hard copies of the merit lists are published on a giant

notice board erected for the purpose of admission immedietly outside

the Campus wall and the soft copies have been uploaded since the

2011-2012 session(2011-2012, 2012-2013 sessions in the centralised

college merit listings uploaded through the efforts of the Ministry of

Higher Education Government of West Bengal and in and from

2013-2014 onwards on the college website). The admission process

is handled by the college office through a fully automated process.

The admission criteria for Sarsuna College is as below( 2014-2015,

2013-2014)

ADMISSION NOTICE, 2014-15

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

FOR ADMISSION TO 1ST

YEAR HONOURS CLASS (2014-15)

HONOUR

S

SUBJECT

SUBJECT

COMBINATI

ON

SUBJECT/S NEEDED TO PASS

IN LAST EXAM TO APPLY FOR

A HONS.

MINIMUM CUT-OFF

MARKS NEEDED BY

GENERAL CANDIDATES

TO APPLY FOR A HONS.*

Botany Chemistry,

Zoology

Must pass in Chemistry and Biology

/ Biotechnology in last exam.

Biotechnology should be treated as

related subject.

50% in total and 45% in Biology

or related subject

Or

55% in Biology or related

subject

Botany Zoology,

Microbiology

Must pass in Biology /

Biotechnology in last exam.

Biotechnology should be treated as

related subject.

,,

Biochemistr

y

Botany,

Physics

Must have passed Physics,

Chemistry, Biology / Bio-technology

and Maths in last Examination.

50% in total

Biochemistr

y

Zoology,

Mathematics

Must have passed Physics,

Chemistry, Biology / Bio-technology

and Maths in last Examination.

,,

Biochemistr

y

Zoology,

Botany

Must have passed Physics,

Chemistry, Biology / Bio-technology

and Maths in last Examination.

,,

Chemistry Physics,

Mathematics

Must have passed Physics,

Chemistry and Maths in last

Examination.

55% in total and 55% in

Chemistry

Or

60% in Chemistry

Chemistry Electronics,

Mathematics

Must have passed Physics,

Chemistry and Maths in last

Examination.

,,

Computer

Science

Electronics,

Mathematics

Must have passed Computer

Applications/ Computer

Science/Physics, and Maths in last

Examination.

50% in total and 45% in

Computer Science

or in both Physics and Maths

Computer

Science

Physics,

Mathematics

Must have passed Computer

Applications/ Computer

Science/Physics, and Maths in last

Examination.

,,

Economics Statistics,

Mathematics

Must have passed Mathematics in

last Examination.

55% in total and 55% in

Economics.

Or

60% in Economics

Or

55% in total (for those who did

not have Economics in 10+2

level)

Economics

Political

Science,

Mathematics

Must have passed Mathematics in

last Examination. ,,

Geography Economics,

Statistics

Must have passed Geography,

Statistics or Mathematics in last

Examination.

60% in total and 65% in

Geography

Or

70% in Geography

ADMISSION TEST ON

18.6.14

Geography

Economics,

Political

Science

Must have passed Geography in last

Examination. ,,

Geography Economics,

Bengali

Must have passed Geography in last

Examination. ,,

Mathematic

s

Chemistry,

Physics

Must have passed in Maths, Physics

and Chemistry in last Examination.

50% in total and 45% in

Mathematics

Or

55% in Mathematics

Mathematic

s

Statistics,

Physics

Must have passed in Math and

Physics in last Examination. ,,

Mathematic

s

Computer

Science,

Physics

Must have passed in Maths and

Physics in last Examination. ,,

Microbiolog

y

Chemistry,

Zoology

Must have passed in Physics ,

Chemistry, Maths and Biology in last

Examination.

A) 50% in total and 45% either

in

1) Biology and

Chemistry(both)

Or

2) Biology and Physics

(both)

Or

B) 55% in following

1) Biology and Chemistry

(both)

or

2) Biology and Physics

(both)

Microbiolog

y

Chemistry,

Botany

Must have passed in Physics ,

Chemistry, Maths and Biology in last

Examination.

,,

Physics Chemistry,

Mathematics

Must have passed in Maths, Physics

and Chemistry in last Examination.

50% in total and 45% in Physics

Or

55% in Physics

Physics

Computer

Science,

Mathematics

Must have passed in Maths and

Physics in last Examination. ,,

Zoology Chemistry,

Botany

Must have passed Chemistry,

Biology / Bio-technology in last

Examination

50% in total and 45% in Biology

Or

55% in Biology

Zoology Botany,

Microbiology

Must have passed Chemistry,

Biology / Bio-technology in last

Examination

,,

Accounting

& Finance

Must pass Mathematics / Statistics /

Economics for the Science stream

candidates.

50% in total and 50% marks in

Accountancy / Mathematics

Or

55% in Accountancy/

Mathematics

Marketing

Must pass in B.O. or Management in

last examination. Must pass

Mathematics / Statistics / Economics

for the Science stream candidates.

50% in total and 50% marks in

Accountancy

Or

55% in Accountancy

Bengali Education,

History

50% in total and 50% marks in

Bengali

Or

55% in Bengali.

Bengali Film Studies,

English ,,

Bengali Education,

English ,,

Bengali Film Studies,

History ,,

History

Political

Science,

Economics

50% in total and 50% marks in

History

Or

55% marks in History

Or

50% in total if History was

not a subject in 10+2

examination.

History

Political

Science,

Education

,,

History

Political

Science, Film

Studies

,,

English

Economics,

Political

Science

60% in total and 55% marks in

English

Or

65% in English.

English

Education,

Political

Science

,,

English

Film Studies,

Political

Science

,,

Political

Science

History,

Economics

50% in total and 45% marks in

Political Science.

Or

55% in Political Science

Or

55% in total if Political Science

was not a subject in 10+2

examination.

Political

Science

History,

Education ,,

Political

Science

History, Film

Studies ,,

Education English,

Bengali

Related subjects are Political

Science, Maths,

Philosophy,Sociology, History,

Economics

50% in total and 45% marks in

Education / related subjects.

Or

55% in Education / related

subjects

Education

English,

Political

Science

Related subjects are Political

Science, Maths,

Philosophy,Sociology, History,

Economics

,,

Education

History,

Political

Science

Related subjects are Political

Science, Maths,

Philosophy,Sociology, History,

Economics

,,

Education History,

Bengali

Related subjects are Political

Science, Maths,

Philosophy,Sociology, History,

Economics

,,

*CUT-OFF MARKS FOR SC/ST/OBC/PC Relaxation of Cut-off Marks for SC/ST/OBC/PC

candidate as per University rules and practices.

All candidates seeking admission in Science Honours subjects must secure 24 in theory

and 06 in practical (in all lab based subjects in the last examination).

e subject or related subject or 55% in subject for eligibility in application for honours courses .The

college usually creates merit lists on the basis of marks obtained in the last examination passed which

for undergraduate courses is the 10+2 Board examination except in the cases of the department of

Geography from the 2011 session onwards and for the case of English 2011 and 2012 later

discontinued, where admission tests were conducted and the merit list created by the summation of

the GT with admission test results(taken on 100). In intradepartmental comparative analysis for the

two featured years it is seen that, while the departments of Chemistry, Economics, Geography,

Bengali, History and English there is a tendency to consistently raise the eligibility criteria for subject

marks and total above the university minimum requirement while in the case of the Commerce

Departments the criteria was raised above the minimum in the last year and in the case of Zoology

while in their first year of intake the criteria was increased above the minimum , it was decreased to

the minimum requirement in 2014. The Department of English commenced with and then

discontinued admission tests as it was perceived that no significant qualitative difference was

occasioned by the exercise as evaluation of quality of linguistic proficiency (the reason for taking

admission tests) did not lead to better quality intake. Thus it is seen that in the case of fluctuation of

eligibility criteria the overwhelming concern is demand for seats in the college. It is a concern for the

college which is geographically located in a residential semi urban locality where the demographic

majority is economically backward. The western hinterland is an industrial belt along the Hoogly

where the demographic majority belong to the minority communities. These are the areas from which

the majority of the students of the college come. Many among them are first generation learners. Thus

there is a wide diversity in terms of socio-economic background, gender, culture and religion and in

order to maintain this diversity and encourage the disadvantaged to profit from the facilities available,

the college adjusts the criteria accordingly.

On comparative analysis between the eligibility criteria of Sarsuna College vis-a vis Vivekananda

College for Women, Vivekananda College Thakurpukur, Maheshtala College, Budge Budge College

it is observed that except for Vivekananda College for Women where in the last two sessions several

departments like English, Geography and several science departments, the eligibility criteria was

raised above the minimum all the other mentioned college retained the minimum eligibility criteria.

The area is densely populated and the demand for quality higher learning consequently high. Sarsuna

College in its intake policy attempts to maintain a balance between quality control and social

responsibility for community upliftment.

1.1.4 Student Profile Analysis at the time of Admission and Effective Use

of the same

1.1.5 The admission form collates data about the economic

background(BPL/non BPL), educational background(first generation

learner),caste, race, nationality etc. This data is available for analysis

to understand the diversity quotient of the college and if it is felt that

the profile of students is skewed or there is a discrepancy between

requirement and intake, the eligibility criteria or method of

intake(admission test to be taken or not)may be reformed accordingly

in the following session as shown above.

Commitment to maintainence of Diversity in Student Profile

The college maintains the reservation quota for admission of SC/ST, designated by the Govt of

India, the UGC and CU (SC- 22% ST,6%,OBC-17%) and as per Govt Order No.846-SE(P&Y)Dtd-

12.8.98,3% reservation for disabled persons, all of which is subject to proper production of

documentation as recommended. All these details are clearly stated in the college prospectus and in

the college website. There are no minority or gender reservations but strict vigilance is kept on the

admission process so that discrimination on the ground of gender or religion cannot exclude eligible

candidates from admission.

∗ ∗ ∗ Student Demand Ratio: Number of enrolled / number of applications Courses 2011 2012 2013 2014 Ratio Commerce 143/ 395 , 197/577, 179/DU, 142/388 BCom(G) 181/DU , 179/434, 226/DU, 269/295 BA(G) 464/DU, 578/DU, 600/DU, 620/827 BSc(G) 138/258, 150/DU, 94/DU, 125/280 Beng 59/ 102, 54/ 218, 58/DU, 72/223 Biochem 12/ 84, 11/ 61, 14/DU, 25/54 Bot 13/DU, 19/DU, 36/98 Chem 12/ 111, 11/105, 14/DU, 25/139 Eco 4/10, 4/10, 5/DU, 4/13

Edu 19/ 93, 34/ 154 , 25/DU, 44/185 Eng 31/134 , 35/151, 50/DU, 54/139 Geo 56/ 412, 60/337, 59/DU, 71/284 His 30/ 224, 44/188, 43/DU, 52/98 Math 10/ 31, 13/DU, 13/58 Micro 25/ 132, 28/ 103, 22/DU , 38/98 Phy 12/DU, 15/95, 28/117 Pol Sc 23/105, 41/ 177, 21/DU, 54/117 Zoo 33/191, 33/ 123, 23/DU, 44/100 Comp SC 17/ 46, 14/ 48, 21/DU, 33/338 Analysis and ratio: It is observed that for most programmes in most years, the ratio varies between 1:2 and 1:3 sometimes going upto as much as1:5 or even in exceptional circumstances upto 1:10.In the absence in some cases of some data a more exact figure cannot be arrived at. NAAC for Quality and Excellence in Higher Education

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Differently Abled Students

The college strictly follows the Government norms regarding admission of

SC/ST, OBC students according to the quota regulations recommended by

the relevant authorities. There is no conversion of seats from reserved to

general catagories and the admission criteria recommended by The

government for enrolling reserved category candidates is strictly followed.

Also the quota recommended for the differently abled(physically challenged

only as the college does not have the necessary infrastructure to cater to

mentally challenged individuals) is maintained and the college maintains

facilities like an elevator to facilitate movement of individuals with mobility

problems. As per university directive, students with motor difficulties and

visual/auditory/speech difficulties are given extra time, extra coaching to

allow them equal opportunity. However there is no Braille facility in the

college.

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Assessment before Admission

The college takes admission test in Geography to assess preparedness of

applicants . The test is advertised in the admission notices and taken by the

department. It assesses students on the basis of their last examination syllabi.

The marks awarded are summed with the GT arrived at by computation on

the basis of previous examination(details given above).The merit list is

prepared on the basis of equal weightage to previously scored marks and

admission test results.

Bridge or Remedial Courses

There is no provision for remedial/bridge coaching but the departments

identify students with specific lacunae (i.e linguistic inability in the case of

English students, conceptual difficulties in the case of pure science students )

by the end of the first half of the first year(i.e after the mid term

examinations) and then extra classes and assignments are allotted to these

students to enable them to stay on par with the rest.

Sensitization to Socio-environmental Issues

The college prospectus and the college website makes the social commitment

of the college to equal opportunity, economic and social upliftment and

environmental preservation very clear. Also the college is affiliated to the

NSS and they undertake a number of projects(details given in relevant

portion)towardsensitization.

Advanced Learners

The departments identify students with potential to excel and these are

encouraged to avail of physical and digital resources of the library and

laboratories, are sent to participate in conferences to increase exposure and

encouraged to make creative endeavours to expand their horizons. To this

end, each department has provisions for maintaining a certain number of

advanced texts as seminar libraries especially for the use of advanced

learners.

Drop out Risk Assessment

The college conducts mid-term examinations. Some departments conduct unit

assignments. On the basis of performance until mid term, the departments

conduct interfaces with parents, guardians of students and try to identify

problem areas : academic, social or economic. The vulnerable sections often

come from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or (are)first generation learners.

The departments with the help of the college authorities try to identify the

potential drop outs and try to strike a balance between counselling students

and guardians while respecting their self respect and need for independence.

The student’s welfare fund is used to help retain economically vulnerable

students.

2.3 Teaching-Learning Process

Organization of Academic Plan

The college academic sub-committee devices an academic plan at the

beginning of every academic session. The individual departments on the basis

of these formulates a textwise/topic wise/ module wise as applicable. This is

disseminated to the students along with the routine via the notice board and

hard copies. The classes are taught using a combination of conventional

lectures, project and field work based learning, using audio –visual

mechanisms, soft copies of learning materials are disseminated in

departments(like English) which have created a departmental id for this

purpose. The college conducts two examinations(departments often have

additional evaluative methods like tutorials and assignments)mid-term

examination and Selection Examination. The results are collected and

collated by the Result Sub-Committee and duly published on the notice

boards. Soft copies are maintained by the same Committee while the exam is

centrally conducted by the Internal Exam Committee. The departments make

the scripts available for inspection by students and their parents and meeting

results in counselling and formation of strategies for improvement of

performance. Often students and guardians sign an undertaking pledging

better effort in the University finals. These are mathods of exerting moral

influence for improving performance. The evaluation process is structured,

transparent and efficient in time management.

Contribution of the IQAC

The IQAC is newly formed and have already, by inspecting particulars of

teaching and nonteaching performance(in the former case, CAS regulations

make this inspection mandatory) made suggestions about maintainence of

records on teaching duties,leave restrictions, duties outside teaching like

evaluation. Committee duties etc is helping to structures the academic

process for maximum utilization of resources.

Student Centric Learning

The college encourages the use of a combination of conventional lecture

methods and independent learning incentivization. to that end assignments in

the form of minor projects, seminar lectures,tutorial method of supplementary

teaching is encouraged.The central library has adequate student seating, the

UGC sponsored network resource centre, othet ICT enabled teaching methods

are adopted like the use of DTU, LCD Projectors in several laboratoty and

model classes.Eclassrooms have not yet been introduced but has been

proposed as the infrastructure is present already in atleast two

departments(Commerce and Geography)

Nurturing Creative, Analytic and Innovative Thinking in Students

The institution has a large number of well equipped laboratories, and through

a combination of grants from the UGC and other sources such as the MP

LAD scheme have managed to aquire an impressive array of equipment

(details provided in individual departmental profile reports and in Section 3

of the SSR.)Also the ICT facilities are varied and numerous. Not only is the

college fully WiFi enabled, each department has and uses atleast one PC and

one netbook for classroom teaching. There are more than three LCD

projectors in the college, a network resource Centre(part of UGC grant). The

library is a repository of more than 12000 books and efforts are on to digitise

the catalogue and through the facility of INFLIBNET the college students

and teachers will soon secure the services of a large number of digital

academic journals. These are the methods through which by the providing of

necessary infrastructure and observing enthusiastic researchers (the teachers

are in a majority research fellows or involved in projects; details in Section 3

of SSR),who lead from the front,the college is commited to the production of

a student body whowill be enthused to pursue higher academics in innovative

ways.

Enriched Academic Inputs

More than 5 departments in the college have organised UGC sponsored state

level or National Level Seminars, students and naturally teachers regularly

attend and present papers at National and International conferences across

India and publish regularly(details available in individual departmental SSRs

and in Section 3 of the college SSR). The college arranges talks and lecture

series by eminent persons. These are some methods by which the college is

attempting to inspire intellectual enthusiasm in its students.

Academic and Psycho-social Guidance and Support

All attempts to guidance of students whether academic or psycho-social are

made informally on a case to case basis based on personal acquaintance with

students involved and involving stakeholder participation. There is yet no

formal mechanism in place though there is a grievance redressal cell etc,

guidance and counselling is done through the establishment of personal

rapport. Though in the pipeline, the proposal for professional psychological

mentoring has not yet materialised.

Innovative Teaching and Teaching Tools

The faculty of different departments take up varied methods but the

common innovations used are:

Organising seminar lecture competition among students every year

Every department publishes a wall magazine highlighting concepts

from individual disciplines.

Setting assignments designed as small research projects to

encourage the learning of methodological approaches to

research.9Education, Commerce)

Excursions to relevant sites as field visit even when not

ompulsory.(History)

Industry laboratory visits(Chemistry)

Augmentting textual with audio visual inputs as in film

viewing(English, Bengali, History)

These are the common endeavours but there are others. Teachers in

this college firmly believe that to prevents staleness is to encourage

energy and innovation.

2.3.9 How are library resources used to augment the teaching- learning

process?

Syllabus Completion and Challenges.

The institution(all departments therein) face the common problem of syllabus

incompleteness. This is partly due to:

Loss of teaching time due to examinations, cocurricular and extra curricular

activities.

Non attendance of students and poor class attendance leading to disruption of

lesson plans.

Loss of resources through resignation of temporary teaching staff and delay

in completing process of reappointment of replacement.

There is a constant attempt to readjust the academic routine, assign and take

extra classes in study breaks take on additional class duties by the

permeanant staff to complete the syllabus in time for the examinations. It is a

very challenging task.

Institutional Evaluation of Teaching Learning The institution takes constant feedback from all stakeholders in the teching learning process through various channels: Students are encouraged to approach the Departmental Head,the institutional head. The Academic Committee or through the Governing Body Students representative, the GB itself

to make feedback reports and evaluate or offer comments on academic processes. Teachers can make feedback reports through the Academic Sub Committee , the Head of Institution and teachers representatives in the Governing body. The IQAC AND THE Teachers Council also collect, collate and analyze information . Parents and Guardians are encouraged during parent teacher meetings and at any time to seek interview with the head of institution to provide their feedback. All feedback is given due weightage and discussed according to degree in the appropriate forum.

2.4 Teacher Quality

Highest

qualification

Professor Associated Professor Assistant Professor Total

Male Female Male Female Male Female

Permanent teachers

D.Sc./D.Litt.

Ph.D. 0 0 0 1 5 4 10

M.Phil 0 0 0 0 1 1 02

P.G. 0 0 1 0 6 4 11

Temporary teachers(Guest Lecturer)

Ph.D. 2 1 3

M.Phil 1 1 2

P.G. 11 14 25

Part-time teachers

Ph.D. 05 03 08

M.Phil. 01 04 05

P.G. 13 14 27

Contractual teachers

Ph.D. 0 3 03

M.Phil 0 0 00

P.G. 1 3 04

Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

2.4.3 Providing details on staff development programmes during the last four

years elaborate on the strategies adopted by the institution in enhancing

the teacher quality. NAAC for Quality and Excellence in Higher Education

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nominated

All full time faculty(23) have attended atleast one refresher and one Orientation

and some have attended two refreshers or one refresher and one summer/ winter

school.

The college has not yet organised any faculty development exercise yet nor have

any faculty from the college been invited as resource person yet, to faculty

enrichment programmes.

Evaluation Reforms

The college follows University reforms like preparing students who are

unsuccessful in an elective subject in a year to sit for supplementary

examinations so as to prevent year loss. Also the college prepares Honours

students who have been granted Honours without the requisite percentage on

the understanding that the backlog will be cleared in the following

examination. All reforms in the form of project preparation as a part of

internal marking is assiduously and scrupulously followed in the case of the

Sciences, Environmental Science and Commerce subjects.

Formative and Summative Assessments and Weightages

The formative assessment is made during the Mid Term Examination

evaluation. If required the student is counselled to take extra classes or to

change an elective subject to another which will help him/her score better

(elective English may be replaced by history if language is a problem for

example). This helps in ascertaining that the final evaluation and the

summation of both is an effective an error free as well as just evaluation of

the student. Also student potential can be summatively judged if gradual

progress in academic terms is seen together with other attributes like extra

curricular achievements(a state level table tennis player can be given certain

relaxations in academic evaluation in view of her sport potential, the same

applies for a part time television actor) and attendance as well as discipline.

Also, the evaluation process is extremely transparent as script showing is

mandatory in most departments and relaxations if any from the announced

norms is done within a stated frame decided on by the Academic Sub

Committee. There is no scope for individualdiscretion in evaluation process

as the decisions, scripts, results are all in the public domain.

Graduate Attributes

The graduate attributes specified in the prospectus. The website of the

college and the University state that asHEIs they feel duty bound and

committed to the creation of socially responsible,morally just and balanced,

economically viable and productive members of the community. The college

believes that by encouraging diversity among students, creating a

challenging, envigirating and exciting intellectual atmosphere encouraging

healthy competition these goals may be approached if not achieved. The

college learns by making mistakes but never giving up on its vision.

Grievance Redressal in Evaluation

The university allows re-examination of scripts on demand or if production

in court for self examination by examinee on application under the RTI

Act.If marks are found to be changed(or unchanged) in the case of re-

examination, new marksheets are issued. In the case of the college,

examinees are always shown examined scripts, allowed to clear doubts about

evaluation and if complaint is found valid changes in marking are duly made

and noted in the published result.

2.6. Student performance and Learning Outcomes

Stated Learning Outcomes

The college announces examination promotion criteria(which is the same

as the University) and Honours retention criteria in the prospectus and in

the website. The same is reiterated in class. The selection criteria for Test

Examination is similarly announced. If the College Academic Sub

Committee makes an exception or relaxation it is announced after the

Promotion Criteria meetings by the individual departments.

Course Wise Evaluation Analysis( four years )

Numberof students who passed as compared to number who

appeared:

Departments 2011 2012 2013 2014

B.A(G) 156/232 , 66/205, 79/236, 119/336

B Com(G) 91/133, 22/86

BSc(G) 37/58, 23/48 , 46/88 , 36/86

Bengali 43/48 , 38/39, 40/44 , 36/47

Bio Chemistry 13/13, 3/7, 8/10, 7/9

Chemistry 9/9, 1/3, 11/11, 11/12

Commerce 65/67, 83/91, 46/46

Computer Science 12/12 , 12/14 , 11/13, 5/11

Economics 2/2, 3/3, 2/2 , 1/1

Education 17/19, 14/20, 22/27, 7/11

English 25/25, 13/19, 17/18, 10/10

Geography 33/34, 23/24, 34/34 , 45/45

History 30/34 , 19/29, 24/31, 23/26

Microbiology 19/22, 12/12, 14/16, 14/14

Political Science 25/25, 29/37, 25/26, 17/17

Zoology NA , 11/13, 16/19, 29/30

Analysis: The findings are that the results are more or less consistent

with a few variants in particular years which since the general trend

is constant may be taken as aberrations. Also, the Honours results are

expectedly better. The real challenge for the college is not the

academic results of those who take the finals but retaining the drop

outs and ensuring that all students who are admitted are retained intil

they gain their degrees.

Learning Outcome and Analysis

The institution assigns a result committee whose task it is to collect,

collate and publish the results of Mid Term and Selection

Examinations. This data is stored digitally and data through the

session is departmentally and generally discussed in the final

Academic Sub-Committee meeting to decide strategies of evaluation

and selection criteria, attendance criteria ,changes if required in

teaching pattern, necessity of counselling or extra classes. The aim

always is to use self assessment to identify loopholes in student

instruction and strategising as to how it can be overcome in the next

session. CRITERION III: RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION

3.1 Promotion of Research

3.1.1 Does the institution have recognized research center/s of the affiliating University or

any other agency/organization?

Nil

3.1.2 Does the Institution have a research committee to monitor and address the issues

of research? If so, what is its composition? Mention a few recommendations made by the

committee for implementation and their impact.

NIL

3.1.3 What are the measures taken by the institution to facilitate smooth progress and

implementation of research schemes/ projects?

The college provides complete autonomy to the principal researcher regarding his/her research

work. It also offers infrastructural services as much possible within the college. The researcher

is allowed to use the college resources in terms of library, laboratory and e-resources if

required by the investigator. The college also looks into the easy and speedy disbursement of

funds when sent by the funding authorities. The college facilitate timely auditing and

submission of utilization certificate to the funding authorities: College provides necessary

support to the researcher in terms of preparing the utilization certificate and submitting it to the

funding authorities.

3.1.4 What are the efforts made by the institution in developing scientific temper and

research culture and aptitude among students?

a) All the departments of the college encourage the students to attend/ participate in various

seminars and workshops organised within the college and elsewhere from where the students

can gain knowledge regarding latest research and developmental work done in the respective

fields.

b)Departments like Education and History have often organised educational excursions, going

beyond the prescribed curriculum activities of the Undergraduate courses of the University of

Calcutta.

c) Voluntary projects are also often undertaken by departments to inculcate scientific

temperament among the students.

3.1.5 Give details of the faculty involvement in active research (Guiding student research,

leading Research Projects, engaged in individual/collaborative research activity, etc.

Guiding student research: Presently two of our faculty members are involved in guiding

research scholars registered under

Leading Research Projects/ engaged in collaborative research activities: Currently two

Assistant Professors of Education (Dr. Pintu Kumar Maji) and Geography (Smt. Prashasti

Bhattacharya) departments are engaged in Minor Research Projects and One Assistant

Professor of the department of Bengali, Dr. Tanmay Bir has been sanctioned a Major Research

Project under UGC.

An exhaustive list of minor research projects undertaken by the faculty members in the recent

years is given in 3.______

3.1.6 Give details of workshops/ training programmes/ sensitization programmes

conducted/organized by the institution with focus on capacity building in terms of

research and imbibing research culture among the staff and students.

Workshops/ training programmes/sensitization programmes have not been conducted

by the institute. However, the college has organized various departmental seminars

at state and national levels funded by the UGC or self financed.

3.1.7 Provide details of prioritised research areas and the expertise available with the

institution.

The GIS laboratory set up by the department of Geography is proposed to be developed as a

prioritized research area.

3.1.8 Enumerate the efforts of the institution in attracting researchers of eminence to

visit the campus and interact with teachers and students?

Lecture series or One-day talks are organised from time to time by various departments where

eminent personalities are invited to interact with the students. The institution encourages such

programmes and if and as much possible allows financial aids as well. The college also tries

to create and maintain environment congenial to conducting such lectures and interactions.

Some of such organised activities are listed here as examples:

Bengali department has organized in 2014 a lecture on Bengali Literature from

Bangladesh by Dr. Prakash Dasgupta, Lecturer, University of Chittagong

Department of Biochemistry has organized a one day talk on Environmental toxicity

by Dr. Aditi Nag Choudhury, Associate Professor, Lady Brabourn College.

Department of English organized lecture by Dr. Srimati Mukherjee, Basanti Devi

college, Associate Prof, delivered a lecture on Feminist Readings of the Indian English

Literature.

3.1.9 What percentage of the faculty has utilized Sabbatical Leave for research activities?

How has the provision contributed to improve the quality of research and imbibe

research culture on the campus?

No sabbatical leave has been utilized by any of the faculties of this college.

3.1.10 Provide details of the initiatives taken up by the institution in creating

awareness/advocating/ transfer of relative findings of research of the institution and

elsewhere to students and community (lab to land)

Nil

3.2 Resource Mobilization for Research

3.2.1 What percentage of the total budget is earmarked for research? Give details of

major heads of expenditure, financial allocation and actual utilization.

Research work undertaken by the faculties of this college is chiefly facilitated by the funding

agencies. The college budget does not have any provision for research.

3.2.2 Is there a provision in the institution to provide seed money to the faculty for research? If

so, specify the amount disbursed and the percentage of the faculty that has availed the facility in

the last four years?

The institution does not have any provision to provide seed money to the faculty members to

undertake any research projects. Most of the research projects carried on by the college faculties are

funded by other agencies like UGC or other universities.

3.2.3 What are the financial provisions made available to support student research

projects by students?

The college at the present is unable to provide any such assistance to the students

3.2.4 How does the various departments/units/staff of the institute interact in undertaking

inter-disciplinary research? Cite examples of successful endeavors and challenges faced

in organizing interdisciplinary research.

The college organises various state-level and national-level seminars and inter-disciplinary

participations are highly encouraged. College faculties also interact regarding paper presentations and

participations in seminars or workshops organised by other institutes. However, since the college

offers primarily core subjects in the undergraduate level, it does not have much scope and

infrastructure for inter-departmental research programmes within the campus.

The college publishes inter-departmental academic journals to create a common platform for the

related subjects to showcase their research. It also provides students a window into the world of

interdisciplinary research.

Some of the relevant activities are listed below.

i) Robotics and Embedded System Design in collaboration with Computer Science and Physics

departments of Sarsuna College and IIT Bombay organised a two-day workshop and a competition on

Robotics on 9th

and 10th

of March, 2015.

ii)In the two-day state level seminar organised by the department of Geography, Sarsuna College in

collaboration with Kolkata Municipal Corporation and CAD centre of Jadavpur University in 2011 on

Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s Environmental Well-being, papers were presented by

Madhab Sarkar (Asstt Prof. Bengali), Piyali Dasgupta (Asstt. Prof. Economics)

iii) Sarottama Majumdar of English department presented a paper in the UGC sponsored National

level seminar organised by Economics department on Sustainability and Environment.

iv) Dr. Tanmay Bir of Bengali department of this college presented a paper in the UGC sponsored

two-day National Seminar organised by the department of Political Science of this college.

v) College allowed participation of a large number of faculties from a number of departments in the

seminar organised to promote and provide guidance regarding Bengali Wikipedia organised by

Wikimedia, India chapter, in collaboration with Jadavpur University on occasion of ten years

celebration of Bangla Wikipedia. Dr. Tanmay Bir, of the department of Bengali, Sarsuna College, also

the Joint convenor of the seminar was the chief facilitator between the college and the department.

3.2.5 How does the institution ensure optimal use of various equipment and research

facilities of the institution by its staff and students?

The responsibility of maintaining the laboratories and their equipments rests with the respective

departmental staff complete with the teachers and technical assistants. They work as a group to

ensure that the laboratories are being optimally used and any such practice that might lead to

misuse of instruments are not only discouraged but also penalised on a case to case basis and at

the discretion of the laboratory in-charge and the teacher-in charge.

3.2.6 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other

beneficiary agency for developing research facility? If ‘yes’ give details.

A few departments of the college has received grants from various beneficiary agencies for

developing research facility.

i) The MLA LAD has sanctioned and disbursed a sum of 17 lakhs for setting up of GIS

and Remote Sensing laboratory in the first phase and 15 lakhs have been sanctioned

for the second phase. This has helped the department of Geography of this college

to set up GIS and Remote Sensing laboratory with future plans of providing students

training in this area and also generating revenue for the college.

ii) Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, sanctioned project on active targeting of

nanoparticles grafted with ligands to cells of the reticuloendothelial system by receptor

mediated endocytosis and their application against macrophage-associated diseases.,

sanctioning rupees 36.75 lakhs for the duration of 2008-12 to Dr. Samchaita Lala of the

Botany department. This project has helped her to contribute greatly to the development of

research facility in the college.

3.2.7. Enumerate the support provided to the faculty in securing research funds from

various funding agencies, industry and other organisations. Provide details of ongoing

and completed projects and grants received during the last four years.

MINOR RESEARCH PROJECT

Nature of

the project

Duration Title Funding

agency

Total grant Total grant

received till

date Sanctioned

(in Rs.)

Received

(in Rs)

Minor

Research

Project

March 2012

to March

2014

Topological

Entropy of a

Compact/

Non compact

set (via

measure

theory): An

Overview

and

Estimation

UGC 159599 159599 Full

amount

disbursed

March 2012

to March

2014

Chemistry of

the Platinum

Metals

Incorporating

Organosulfur

azo and

Schiff Base

Ligands:

Synthesis,

UGC 1,48,000 1,48,000 Full

amount

disbursed

Structure and

Exploration

of Reactivity.

November

2011 to

November

2013

Two

dimensional

warranty

analysis:

some issues

UGC 1,54,000 1,54,000 Full

amount

disbursed

February

2012 to

February

2013

Inclusive

growth in

West Bengal

with Special

Reference to

Howrah

District

UGC

1,02000 1,2000 Full

amount

disbursed

78,000 61,500

February

2015 to

February

2017

Prasasthi UGC 260000 190000 190000

January2012

to February

2013

Ishwar

sandhan o

prakriti

sambhog

UGC 1,12,000 1,12,000 Full

amount

disbursed

2011-12 “Impact of

Socio-

Economic

Determinants

on Mental

Health

Outcomes in

West

Bengal”

UGC 2,70,000 2,70,000 Full

amount

disbursed

2012-13 .“Inclusive

Growth in

West Bengal

with special

UGC 2,70,000 2,70,000 Full

amount

disbursed

reference to

Howrah

District”

Major

Research

Project

3.3 Research Facilities

3.3.1 What are the research facilities available to the students and research scholars

within the campus?

There is a well-stocked library with access to internet and e-journals. Internet facility with

INFLIBNET connection is made available to both teachers and students.

The Chemistry laboratory has facility to analyse unknown samples and compounds for medical

research and industrial research purpose with the help of FTIR spectrophotometer (Perkin

Elmer) and UV-visible spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer).

Department of Geography has a laboratory on GIS and Remote Sensing to facilitate further

research on this subject.

Various laboratories with modern set-up are there to help students carry on various projects as

prescribed by the University.

3.3.2 What are the institutional strategies for planning, upgrading and creating

infrastructural facilities to meet the needs of researchers especially in the new and

emerging areas of research?

The college regularly seeks grants from various sources like UGC and other government

agencies to create new infrastructure and upgrade the existing ones. Outcomes of such

endeavours are mentioned below:

The Chemistry laboratory has plans to analyze unknown samples and compounds for medical

research and industrial research purpose with the help of FTIR spectrophotometer (Perkin

Elmer) and UV-visible spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer). This would in future help in

generating revenues and seeking new collaborations with medical and chemical research

centers.

Computer Science departments have plans to further collaborate with the IIT Bombay, IIT

Kharagpur, IIT Roorkie and IIM Calcutta for faculty and student exchange programme. It has

already collaborated with the IIT Bombay Robotics Research Group and organised a workshop

cum competition as the first step towards this venture.

3.3.3 Has the institution received any special grants or finances from the industry or other

beneficiary agency for developing research facilities?? If ‘yes’, what are the instruments /

facilities created during the last four years.

No such grants have been received from the industry.

3.3.4 What are the research facilities made available to the students and research

scholars outside the campus / other research laboratories?

The institution does not have any such tie-up/ agreement with any research institute. However,

the faculties through their personal relations are able to organise interaction and observation in

various research institutes or universities on a case to case basis.

3.3.5 Provide details on the library/ information resource center or any other facilities

available specifically for the researchers?

The library as a resource centre is available for all the faculties involved in research. The

library as well as the staff-room work-stations have access to the research journals through

INFLIBNET.

Being an undergraduate college the library nevertheless lacks in the sophisticated educational

infrastructure required in promoting doctoral or post-doctoral or other research projects.

3.3.6 What are the collaborative research facilities developed/ created by the research

institutes in the college. For ex. Laboratories, library, instruments, computers, new

technology etc.

Robotics

GIS laboratory of the college is seeking a collaboration with Geological Survey of

India, Kolkata and doing the needful in this regard.

3.4. Research Publications and Awards

3.4.1 Highlight the major research achievements of the staff and students in terms of

Patents obtained and filed (process and product)

Original research contributing to product improvement:

Research studies or surveys benefiting the community or improving the services:

1. Piyali Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, economics of this college has

done substantive research on mental health and community. A few such projects are: a. A

minor research project entitled “Impact of Socio-Economic Determinants on Mental Health

Outcomes in West Bengal” funded by UGC. It has provided important insights regarding

mental health issues as these affect individual capabilities, freedoms and economic welfare

which in turn are the key to rationality, perception and wellbeing in consumption and

production behaviour.

b. A project entitled as “Realizing the Significance of Socio-Economic Triggers for Mental

Health Outcomes in India” with the association of Antonio Rodríguez Andrés, Assistant

Professor, AUI (Morocco), Bidisha Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Department of

Economics J.U and Siddhartha Mitra, Professor, Department of Economics, J.U and this

project has been funded by CAS, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University. This study

estimates the impact of socio economic triggers (urbanization, unemployment, poverty,

education and crime against women) on suicide rates on the basis of Indian state level panel

data for the period 1992 to 2009 using Fixed Effect Panel estimation and finds that

urbanization and crimes against women increase suicide rates, regardless of gender.

c. Dr. Tanmay Bir has contributed greatly in the field of standardization of Bengali style sheet,

development of Bengali e-zine and web-zine and has presented a number of papers on this

topic at various seminars as well as have a number of published papers.

d. Dr. Chameli Pandit has done her research project on “Inclusive growth in West Bengal with

special reference to Howrah district”.

3.4.2 Does the Institute publish or partner in publication of research journal(s)? If ‘yes’,

indicate the composition of the editorial board, publication policies and whether such

publication is listed in any international database?

Several departments of the college bring out research journals though they are not yet listed in

any international database yet. This is one of the recent practices adopted by the college to

allow departments to come out with their research journals in order to provide the faculty a

wider platform to showcase their research work and also help enhance the research quality. It

also allows our students to easily access important research work being done in their respective

fields. Efforts are being made to make these journals peer-reviewed and obtain issn nos for

them.

Following is a list of college published journals:

Journal

name

Department Year of first

publication

No. Of volumes

published

Editorial board Publication

policy

Ecosta Economics and

statistics

2014 1 Chameli

Mondal Pandit

and Sanjib

Gupta

College

published.

Contributor

y insts were

given.

Saparja Bengali 2005 7 There is an

advisory board

comprising of

eminent

scholars of

Bengali

literature. The

editorial board

comprises of

the teachers of

this college, Dr.

Tanmay Bir and

Published

by the

college.

Sri Madhab

Sarkar.

Sarsuna

Journal of

Political

Science

Political Science 2010 2 Arun Kumar

Dawn,

Sushmita

Medha and

Arpan Mondal

Published

by Sarsuna

College

DJCS Comp sc 2015 (to be

published)

Publication per faculty:

Number of papers published by faculty and students in peer reviewed journals (national /

international):

Number of publications listed in International Database(for Eg: Web of Science, Scopus,

Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory,

EBSCO host, etc.)

Economics

Piyali Das Gupta:

i) Andrés, A.R., Chakraborty, B. Dasgupta, P., Mitra, S. (2014), Realizing the

significance of socio-economic triggers for mental health outcomes in India, Journal of

Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Elsevier), June,50 - 57.*IFI

8.349,

Geography

Arpita Bhattacharjee:

1. “The World Trade Organization (WTO) and Developing countries: A Fact File in Brief”,

Proceeding Vol-I, pg 14-20, International Conference on Globalization and sustainable Development:

Perspective of Digital Revolution and Environmental Management. August 23-25, 2002.

2. “The impact of climatogenetic Zones and Pedogeomorphic surfaces on landuse pattern in a

Profile section of Godavari-Mahanandi Basin”, XXV Indian Geography Congress, National

Association of Geographers, India, Dec 27-29, 2003.

3.“Geomorphological Appraisal of Upper Wunna Watershed, Nagpur district, Maharashtra”, Indian

Journal of Landscape systems and Ecological studies, Institute of Landscape, Ecology, and Ekistics,

Volume:- 2 pg 97-102, 2006 June [ISSN NO. 0971-4170].

4. “Land resource and management, sustainable development through agriculture in the 21st century”,

proceeding volume of UGC sponsored National Seminar on Sustainable development: An

interdisciplinary approach, Sept. 23-24, 2011, pg 30-38.

5. “Climate change and threat to environment: Problems and Prospects of sustainable water

management”, proceeding volume of UGC sponsored State level Seminar on Environmental

Degradation and Strategies for conservation and management, Nov. 24-25, 2011, pg 56-

6.“Climate change and Eco-tourism- a strategy for nature conservation”, proceeding volume of UGC

Sponsored National Seminar on changing Environmental Scenario of Indian Subcontinent:

AGeographical Appraisal, Nov. 25 -26th

, 2011, Pg- 61-67.

7. “Solar UV radiation and global climate change: interactive effects on Biogeochemical cycling”,

UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development in 21st century,

Oct – 4 –5th

, 2012, pg- 231-238.

Debasmita Ghosh

1) Debasmita Ghosh. “Child Labours in West Bengal: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis.” Geographical

Review of India, Volume 70; Number 1; March 2008; pp71-79.

2) Debasmita Ghosh, Sanyukta Roy. “Micro-level Study about a Buddhist Agglomeration-A Case

Study of Maheshtala Municipality, 24 Paraganas (south).” Indian Journal of Landscape Systems

and Ecological Studies, Volume 33; Number 2; December 2010; pp679-684.

Prashasti Bhattacharyya

1. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, A Brief Appraisal of Transforming Living Space of South Kolkata, The

International Journal of Humanities & Social Science, April Issue, 2014. [ISSN 2321-9203; IF:

0.587]

2. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, Crimescape Analysis of Kolkata, the City of Joy, International Journal

of Innovative Research & Development, Vol. 3, Issue 4, March, 2014. [ISSN: 2278 – 0211; IC

Value: 6.19]

3. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, A Geographical Perusal of Deviance in Kolkata, Abstract in Pre-Seminar

Proceeding Volume and Paper in Post–Seminar Proceeding Volume of National Seminar on

Contemporary Research in Geography, 14th

- 15th

March, 2014

4. Prashasti Bhattacharyya and Sumana Ghatak, A Transforming City and its Changing State of

Environmental Wellbeing: A Special Emphasis on South Kolkata; Abstract in Pre-Seminar

Proceeding Volume and Paper in Post –Seminar Proceeding Volume of UGC sponsored State-level

Seminar on Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s Environmental Wellbeing , 2012, Kolkata.

5.The Crime Component of Kolkata’s Social Environment: A Brief Study, Asian Studies, Vol.XXV,

June-December 2007, pg.47-69, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata.

Rituparna Hajra

Journals:

Hajra, R. and Ghosh, T. (2014). Formulation of Methodological Approach for Sustainable Tourism

Using ‘GSTC’ Criteria: A Case Study of Sagar Island, India. International Journal of Innovative

Research & Development, Vol 3, Issue 1, p. 305-309. [ISSN: 2278 – 0211; IC Value: 6.19]

Hajra, R., Mitra, R., Ghosh, T., (2014). Assessing the Indicator Based Sustainability: A Pragmatic

Approach. The International Journal Of Humanities & Social Studies Vol 2, Issue 1, p. 39-43.

[ISSN 2321 – 9203; IF: 0.587]

Hajra, R., Mitra, R., and Ghosh, T. (2012). Impact of Gangasagar Mela on Sustainability of Sagar

Island, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Research in Chemistry and Environment, Vol.

2, Issue 1, pp. 140-144 [ISSN 2248-9649].[IC Value (2012) - 5.35]

Book Chapter:

Ghosh, T., Hajra, R. and Mukhopadhyay, A. (2014). Island Erosion and Afflicted Population: Crisis

and Policies to Handle Climate Change. In: International Perspectives on Climate Change: Latin

America and Beyond. Ed: Filho Leal, Fátima Alves, Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Azeiteiro, IX, 217-

226, Springer. [ISBN 978-3-319-04488-0]

Papers in Proceedings and Edited Volumes:

Hajra, R., Mukhopadhyay, A., Huq, H., Rahman, Md, R. and Ghosh, T. (2013). Crisis and Policy for

the Environmental Refugees in Ghoramara Island (India). 4th

International Conference on Water

and Flood Management, ICWFM-2013, 9-11 March 2013. Institute of Water and Flood

Management, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Vol. 2, pp. 459- 465. [ISBN: 978-984-33-7310-6].

Hajra, R., Mitra, R., Ghosh T.,[2011] Pollution Potential of Annual Religious Gathering of Sagar

Island and The Issue of Coastal Sustainability, Proceedings of National Seminar on Advances in

Environmental Science and Technology, Kolkata,5th & 6th February, 2011. 106- 111.

Hajra, R., Das, D.,(2009) Impact of conversion of Agricultural Land into Fisheries, Sarberia-

Agarhati Gram Panchayat, North 24 Parganas ,Journal of Indian National Cartographic

Association, Volume 29, 2009, pp. 342- 349.

Satabdi Das

1.A Study on Trend of Air Quality in Some Industrial Cities of West Bengal; in proceedings of

International Seminar On Environmental Perspectives And Resource Management 19th

-20th

December, 2014, organised by Institute Of Landscape Ecology And Ekistics, Kolkata, 2014. ISBN:

978-81-928047-4-3

Computer Science

Arijit Choudhury: a) A NOVEL SCHEME FOR DATA ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE, IJMA, ISSN 2229 – 5046,

2013

Saptarshi Naskar as a Co-author:

a) “Obscure History of Graphs”, S.S.Sarma, S.Naskar, K.Basuli, and R.Halder, The ICFAI

University Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol. III, No. 2, pp.74-78, 2009.

b) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Designs using Linear Feedback Shift

Register(LFSR)-based Locking”, R.Halder, P.S.Dasgupta, S.Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, SBCCI’09,

August 31st - September 3rd, 2009, Natal, RN, Brazil, Copyright 2009 ACM 978-1-60558-705-9.

c) “Generation of All Spanning Trees of a Simple, Symmetric Connected Graph”, K. Basuli, S.

Naskar, S.S.Sarma, SSRN, id: 1529902, December 30, 2009

d) “Generation of All Spanning Trees”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and S.S.Sarma, SSRN, id: 1433035,

December 30, 2009

e) “A Close Encounter with Intractability”, S.S.Sarma, S. Naskar, and K. Basuli, SSRN, id: ,

December 30, 2009

f) “An internet-based IP protection scheme for circuit designs using linear feedback shift register

(LFSR)-based locking.”, Raju Halder, Parthasarathi Dasgupta, Saptarshi Naskar, Samar Sen-

Sarma, In Ivan Saraiva Silva, Renato Perez Ribas, Calvin Plett, editors, Proceedings of the 22st

Annual Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design: Chip on the Dunes, SBCCI 2009,

Natal, Brazil, August 31 - September 03, 2009. ACM, 2009.

g) “Connectedness of a Graph from its Degree Sequence and it is Relevent with Reconstruction

Conjecture”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer

Science, Vol.1, No.1, ISSN-2229-371X, August 2010.

h) “Role of Degree Sequence in Determination of Maximal Clique of a Graph”, K. Basuli, S.

Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol.1, No.2, ISSN-

2229-371X, October 2010.

i) “Generation of All Spanning Trees a Combinatorial Approach”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and

S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 68-74, ISSN-2229-

371X, November 2010.

j) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Design using Linear Feedback Shift

Register-based Locking”, R. Halder, P.S. Dasgupta, S. Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, IAENG, 2010.

k) “Application of MODBUS Protocol in Serial Port Data Communication”, S.Sarkar, S. Naskar,

and K. Basuli, European Conference for Academic Discipline, Organized by The International

Journal of Arts and Science, Gottenheim Germany, November 29 - December 3, 2010.

l) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Design using Linear Feedback Shift

Register-based Locking”, R. Halder, P.S. Dasgupta, S. Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, Engineering

Letters, Engineering Letters Year: 2011 Vol. 19 Issue: 2 Pages/record No.: 84-94.

m) “Extracting Plain Text from Corrupted Word Document”, S. Naskar, S. Sarkar, and K. Basuli,

Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 21- 23, ISSN-2229-371X,

August 2011.

n) Spanning Tree Generation in the Limelight, CCSIT, LNICST 86, pp 188-192, 2012.

o) Reconstruction Conjecture, CCSIT, LNICST 86, pp 17-25, 2012.

p) Minimizing Boolean Sum of Products Functions Using Binary Decision Diagram, IJCSEA,

Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 73-86, February 2012.

q) A NOVEL SCHEME FOR DATA ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE, IJMA, ISSN 2229 – 5046,

2013.

r) Cell Phone Operated Land Rover a Novel Approach. IJAIM 2.3 (2013): pp 47-50.

s) An Efficient Data Encryption Technique, Euro-American Conference, 3-April-2014.

Chemistry

Ashis Dey :

“A novel technique for the fabrication of Near-Net-Shape CMCs” by A. Dey, M. Chatterjee, M. K.

Naskar, S. K. Dalui and K. Basu, Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 25, No. 6, 2002.

“Near-net-shape fibre reinforced ceramic matrix composites by the sol infiltration technique”, A.

Dey, M. Chatterjee, M. K. Naskar, K. Basu, Materials Letters, 57 (2003) 2919-2926.

“Effects of processing parameters on the fabrication of near-net-shape fibre reinforced oxide ceramic

matrix composites via sol-gel route” M. K. Naskar, M. Chatterjee, A. Dey and K. Basu, Ceramic

International, 30 (2004), 257-265.

“Characterization and dielectric properties of polyaniline-TiO2 nanocomposites”; Ashis Dey,

Sukanta De, Amitabha De and S. K. De; Nanotechnology, 15 (2004) 1277-1283.

“Charge transport mechanism of vanadium pentoxide xerogel - Polyaniline nanocomposite”; Sukanta

De, Ashis Dey and S. K. De; The European Physical Journal B., 46 (2005) 355-361.

“Electrical transport and dielectric relaxation in Fe3O4-polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites, Ashis

Dey, Amitabha De and S. K. De, J. Phys: Condens. Matter, 17 (2005) 5895-5910.

“Proton and electron conduction in polymer intercalated vanadium pentoxide xerogel”, Sukanta De,

Ashis Dey, and S. K. De, Solid State Ionics, 177 (2006) 245.

“Characterization and transport properties of intercalated polypyrrole - vanadium pentoxide xerogel

nanocomposite”; Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S. K. De; Solid State Communications, 137 (2006)

662.

“Giant dielectric constant in titania nanoparticles embedded in conducting polymer matrix”, Ashis

Dey, Sukanta De, Amitabha De and S. K. De, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol, 6 (2006) 1427-1436.

Impedance and dielectric spectra in zirconia-polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites, Ashis Dey and S. K.

De, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 39 (2006) 4077-4086.

Conductivity relaxation in zirconia nanoparticles dispersed in conducting polymer, Ashis Dey and S.

K. De, J. Appl. Poly. Sci. 105 (2007) 2225-2235.

Large dielectric constant in zirconia polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites, Ashis Dey and S. K. De, J.

Nanosci. Nanotechnol, 7 (2007) 2010-2015.

Structure, morphology and ionic conductivity of solid polymer electrolyte Arup Dey, S. Karan, Ashis

Dey and S.K. De, Mater. Res. Bull. 46 (2011) 2009-2015.

Suparna Pal

1."Dimeric Phenanthrenes from the orchid Bulbophyllum reptans" by Majumder.P.L.,Pal.S. &

Majumder.S. Phytochemistry,1999,50,891-897

2. "Rigidanthrin,a new dimeric phenanthrene derivative of the orchid Bulbophyllum rigidum"

by Majumder.P.L.,Bandyopadhyay.S & Pal. S.,J.Indian chem..Soc.,2008,85,1116-1123

3."A Steroidal ester from Coelogyne Uniflora" by Majumder P.L.&

Pal.S.,Phytochemistry,1990,29(8),2717-2720.

4. "Occurrence of lignans in the orchidaceae plants Lusia volucris and Bulbophyllum triste" by

Majumder.P.L.,Lahiri.S.& Pal.S.,J.Indian Chem.Soc.,1994,71,645-647.

5."Rotundatin,a new 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene derivative from Dendrobium rotundatum" by

Majumder.P.L. & Pal.S.,Phytochemistry,1992,31(9),3225-3228.

6."Cumulatin and tristin,two bibenzyl derivatives from the orchids Dendrobium Cumulatum

and Bulbophyllum triste"by Majumder.P.L. & Pal.S.,Phytochemistry, 1993,32(6),1561-1565.

7. "A novel method of carbon-carbon bond formation at the benzylic carbon of 9,10-

dihydrophenanthropyrans with methyl ketones by the action of phosmolybdic acid on silica gel

support" by Majumder P.L. & Pal.S.,J.Indian Chem.Soc.,1993.

Dr. Ujjwal Das :

RhCl3-Assisted C-H and C-S Bond Scissions: Isomeric Self-Association of Organorhodium(III)

Thiolato Complex. Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemistry

K. Pramanik, U. Das, B. Adhikari, D. Chopra and H. Stoeckli-Evans, Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 429–438.

Botany

Chapter in Books

Mithu Biswas (Das):

i) Singh A, Das M, Bal S and Banerjee R. (2014) Rice Processing (Chapter 4) In: Engineering

Aspects of Cereal and Cereal- Based Products Ed. Raquel de Pinho Ferreira Guine’ Paula

Maria dos Reis Correia; CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. (ISBN 13: 978-1-4398-8702-8)

ii) Bhanja T, Das M, Banerjee R.(2008) Downstream Processing of Biologicals: A Strategic

Approach.(Chapter 9) In: Advances in Fermentation Technology Ed. A. Pandey, C.

Larroche, C. R. Soccol and C. Dussap; Asiatech Publishers Inc., . (ISBN 13: 978-8-1876-

8018-5 )

Sanchaita Lala:

i) Basu M.K. and Lala S. (2006) Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery to the Reticulo-endothelial

System and to Associated Disorders.(Chapter 21) In: Nanoparticulates as Drug Carriers. Ed.

Torchilin V.P. Imperial College Press, London pp. 463-480. (ISBN 1-86094-630-5)

Publications in National and International Journals :

Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das) :

i) Das M., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties of Enzyme

Treated Brown Rice (Part B) J. of Food Science and Technology, 41 (10): 2092-2097.

(*Citations 30 *SNIP 0.380 *SJR 0.210 *IF 2.545)

ii) Das M., Gupta S., Kapoor V., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Enzymatic Polishing of Rice – A

New Processing Technology (Part A), J. of Food Science and Technology, 41 (10): 2079-2084.

(*Citations 37 *SNIP 0.380 *SJR 0.210 *IF 2.545)

iii) Das M., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Multivariable parameter optimization for endoglucanase

production by Trichoderma reesei Rut C-30 from Ocimum gratissimum seed J. Braz. Arch.

Biol. Technol. 51 (1): 35 – 41. (*Citations 11 *SNIP *SJR: *IF 0.45)

iv) Roy R, Das M., Banerjee R., Bhowmick AK.(2006) Comparative studies on crosslinked and

uncrosslinked natural rubber biodegradation by Pseudomonas sp., Bioresource Technology, 97

: 2485-2488. (*Citations 7 *SNIP 1.988 *SJR 1.342 *IF- 4.980)

v) Roy R., Das M, Banerjee R., Bhowmick AK. (2006) Comparative studies on rubber

biodegradation through solid-state and submerged fermentation, Process Biochemistry, 41

:181-186.(*Citations 13 *SNIP 1.562 *SJR 1.172 *IF- 2.627)

Sanchaita Lala :

i) Maity A., Hazra A., Palit P., Mondal S., Lala S., Mondal N.B.(2013) The cytotoxic effects

of diketopiperazines against Leishmania donovani promastigotes and amastigotes. Medicinal

Chemistry Research 22(7): 3452-3458.(*Citations 3 *SNIP 0.800 *SJR 0.355 *IF 1.612)

ii) Bhowal S.K, Lala S., Hazra A, Paira P., Banerjee S., Mondal N.B., Chakraborty S.(2008)

Synthesis and assessment of fertility-regulating potential of 2-(2''-chloroacetamidobenzyl)-3-

(3'-indolyl) quinoline in adult rats as a male contraceptive agent. Contraception. 77(3): 214-

222. (*Citations 10 * SNIP 1.096 *SJR 1.333 *IF 2.327)

iii) Lala S., Gupta

S., Sahu

N.P., Mandal

D., Mondal

N.B., Moulik

S.P., Basu

M.K.(2006)

Critical evaluation of the therapeutic potential of bassic acid entrapped in oil-in-water

microemulsions and poly-lactide nanoparticles against experimental leishmaniasis. Journal

of Drug Targeting 14(4):171-179. (*Citations 20 *SNIP 0.671 *SJR 0.715 * IF 1.699)

iv) Gupta S., Lala S., Sanyal S.K., Dutta S., Basu M.K., Moulik S.P.(2005) Designing and

testing of an effective oil-in-water microemulsion drug delivery system for in vivo

application. Drug Delivery. 12(5): 267-273. (*Citations 29 *SNIP 0.534 *SJR 0.385 *IF

1.067 )

v) Tyagi R., Lala S., Verma A.K., Nandy A.K., Mahato S.B., Maitra A.N., Basu M.K.(2005)

Targeted delivery of arjunglucoside I using surface hydrophilic and hydrophobic

nanocarriers to combat experimental leishmaniasis. Journal of Drug Targeting. 13(3): 161-

171. (*Citations 48 *SNIP 0.615 *SJR 0.706 *IF 1.569 )

vi) Basu M.K. and Lala S. (2004) Macrophage specific drug delivery in experimental

leishmaniasis. (Review) Current Molecular Medicine. 4(6):681-689.(*Citations 51

*SNIP 1.095 *SJR 1.779 *I.F. 4.94 )

vii)Lala S., Pramanick S, Mukhopadhyay S., Bandyopadhyay S., Basu M.K (2004). Harmine:

Evaluation of its antileishmanial properties in various delivery systems. Journal of Drug

Targeting. 12(3): 165-175.(*Citations 68 , *SNIP 0.609 *SJR 0.696 *IF 1.907)

viii)Lala S., Nandy A.K., Mahato S.B., Basu M.K. (2003) Delivery in vivo of 14-deoxy-11-

oxoandrographolide, an antileishmanial agent, by different drug carriers. Indian Journal of

Biochemistry and Biophysics. 40(3):169-174.(*Citations 18 *SNIP 0.267 *SJR 0.187 *IF

0.252 )

ix) Chakraborty S. and Lala S. (1998) Assessment of the antifertility effect of phaseolinone, an

antileishmanial agent, in male rats. Contraception. 58(3):183-

Zoology

Indraneel Saha

1. Saha I, Das J, Maiti BR, Chatterji U.(2014?) A Protective Role of Arecoline Hydrobromide in

Experimentally Induced Male Diabetic Rats. BioMed Research International.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/136738 (*Citations 0 *IF 2.706)

2. Saha I, Chatterjee A, Mondal A, Maiti BR, Chatterji U. (2011) Arecoline augments cellular

proliferation in the prostate gland of male Wistar rats. J Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.255

(2):160-8. (*Citations 9 *SNIP 1.376 *SJR 1.569 *IF 4.141)

3. Pradhan D, Saha I, Chatterjee A, Mondal A, Sarkar S, Maiti BR. (2011) Alterations of circadian

rhythms of thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyroid, adrenal and insulin hormones, and blood glucose

profiles following lithium treatment in alternate Light-Dark, constant Light and constant Dark

regimens in rats. Biol. Rhy. Res. 43 (3), 301-322 (*Citations 0 *SNIP 0.416 *SJR 0.173 *IF 0.654)

4. Saha I, Chatterji U, Chaudhuri-Sengupta S, Nag TC, Nag D, Banerjee S, Maiti BR. (2007)

Ultrastructural and hormonal changes in the pineal-testicular axis following arecoline administration

in rats. J Exp Zool Part A Ecol Genet Physiol. 307(4): 187-98. (*Citations 13 *SNIP 0.640 *SJR

0.540 *IF 1.27)

5. Saha I, Chatterji U, Chaudhuri_Sengupta S, Maiti BR. (2007) Suppression of circadian rhythm of

pineal and testicular hormones following lithium treatment in normal and reversed light-dark cycles,

constant light and constant dark in rats. Biol. Rhy. Res. 38 (1): 19-32. (*Citations 2*SNIP 0.377 *SJR

0.195 *IF 0.545)

6. Dasgupta R, Saha I, Pal S, Bhattacharyya A, Sa G, Nag TC, Das T, Maiti BR. (2006)

Immunosuppression, hepatotoxicity and depression of antioxidant status by arecoline in albino mice.

Toxicol. 227(1-2): 94-104. (*Citations 43 *SNIP 1.355 *SJR 1.021*IF 3.048)

Rituparna Biswas

1. Biswas R, Ghosh P, Banerjee N, Das JK, Sau T, Banerjee A, Roy S, Ganguly S, Chatterjee M,

Mukherjee A and Giri A.K. Analysis of

T cell proliferation and cytokine secretion in the individuals exposed to arsenic. Human and

Experimental toxicology, 27 (2008) 381-386. (Impact factor : 1.407)

2. Biswas R, Poddar S and Mukherjee A. Investigation on the genotoxic effects of long term

administration of sodium arsenite in bone marrow and testicular cells in vivo using the comet

assay. Journal of environmental pathology, toxicology and oncology, 26 (2007) 29-37.

(Impact factor : 0.877)

3. Biswas R and Mukherjee A. Effect of sodium arsenite on the induction of apoptosis of

peripheral blood mononuclear cells of mice. Perspective in cytology and genetics. 13 (2007)

309-314.

Banerjee M, Sarma N, Biswas R, Roy J, Mukherjee A and Giri AK. DNA repair deficiency leads to

susceptibility to develop arsenic induced premalignant skin lesions. International Journal of Cancer,

123 (2008) 283-287. (Impact factor : 5.007)

Physics

Suman Sinha :

Magnetoimpedance of a glass-coated amorphous microwire, Journal of Applied Physics, 105, 07A311

(2009), S. Sinha, B. Das and K. Mandal.

Magnetization dynamics in wire-shaped amorphous magnetic materials as probed by Barkhausen noise

measurement, Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, 40, 2710 (2007), S. Sinha, K. Mandal and B.

Das.

Study of magnetic barkhausen noise from amorphous Fe70Ni8Si10B12 and Fe40Ni40B20 Ribbons, Journal

of Non destructive Testing and Evaluation, 5, 49 (2006), S. Sinha and K. Mandal.

Giant magnetoimpedance in amorphous (Co0.93Fe0.07)63Ni10Si11B16 glass-coated microwire, Journal of

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 302, 223 (2006), S. Sinha, K. Mandal and M. Vazquez.

Contributions to giant magnetoimpedance from different domain regions of Co68.15Fe4.35Si12.5B15

amorphous wire, Journal of Applied Physics, 99, 033901 (2006), K. Mandal, S. Sinha and P. Anil

Kumar.

Size and temperature dependent cationic redistribution in NiFe2O4(SiO2) nanocomposites : positron

annihilation and Mossbauer studies, Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, 39, 4228 (2006), Subarna

Mitra, K. Mandal, Suman Sinha, P M G Nambissan and S. Kumar.

Effect of tensile stress on the magnetic Barkhausen noise in amorphous Fe70Ni8Si10B12 ribbon, Indian

Journal of Physics, 79(9), 991 (2005), S. Sinha and K. Mandal.

Tapati Banerjee :

1.The crystal and molecular structure of N-(3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamoyl)-Δ3-piperidine-2-one, an

amide alkaloid (piperlongumine), C17H19NO5.’ Banerjee T; Chaudhuri, S. Canadian Journal of

Chemistry, 1986, 64(5), 876-80.

2. ‘Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of nickel(II) complexes with 3,5-dimethyl-1-(o-

aminophenyl)pyrazole (DApPz): x-ray crystallographic studies of [Ni(DApPz)2(H2O)2]Cl2.H2O

and [Ni(DApPz)2(NCS)2].H2O.’ Saha, N; Saha, A; Chaudhuri, S; Mak, T. C. W.; Banerjee, T;

Roychoudhury, P. Polyhedron, 1992, 11(18), 2341-9.

3 ‘N-benzenesulfonylglycylglycine, (I),andtetrakis(μ-Nbenzenesulfonylglycyl glycinato)

bis[aquacopper(II)](Cu-Cu)-water (1/4), (II).’ Mukherjee, K; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P;

Yamane, Takashi. Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, 1995,

C51(10), 2025-8.

4.‘N-benzenesulfonylglycylglycine,(I),andtetrakis(μ-Nbenzenesulfonylglycyl glycinato)

bis[aquacopper(II)](Cu-Cu)-water (1/4), (II).’ Mukherjee, K; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P;

Yamane, Takashi. Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, 1995,

C51(10), 2025-2028

5 ‘X-ray crystal structure of bis-(p-nitroacetophenone-4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidyl hydrazone)copper(I)

perchlorate.’ Mitra, A; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P; Saha, N; Das, S. Polyhedron, 1996, 15(19),

3371-3375.

6 ‘Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of cobalt(III) complexes with S-benzyl

dithiocarbazate of 5-methyl-3-formyl pyrazole (HMPzSB): x-ray crystal structure of

[Co(MPzSB)2]Cl.’ Mitra, A; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P.; Chaudhuri, S; Bera, P; Saha, N.

Polyhedron, 1997, 16(21), 3735-3742.

7 ‘Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure analysis of bis (pyridine-2-carbaldehyde

thiosemicarbazonato)cobalt(III) thiocyanate monohydrate.’ Chattopadhyay, S. K.; Banerjee, T;

Roychoudhury, P; Mak, Thomas C.W.; Ghosh, S. Transition Metal Chemistry (London), 1997, 22(3),

216-219

8 Studies of nickel(II) complexes of 3-hydroxyiminobutanone thiosemicarbazone and 3-

hydroxyiminobutanone (4-phenylthiosemicarbazone). Crystal structure of bis[3-

hydroxyiminobutanone (4-phenylthiosemicarbazone)]nickel(II) nitrate, monohydrate,

[Ni(C11H14N4OS)2](NO3)2•H2O.’ Chattapadhyay, S. K; Chattopadhyay, D; Banerjee, T; Kuroda,

R; Ghosh, S. Polyhedron, 1997, 16(11), 1925-1930.

9. ‘X-ray elucidation of 17α-pregna-2,4-dien-20-yne-(2,3-d) isoxazole-17β-ol.’ Dey, R; Banerjee, T;

Chowdhury, P. Roy; Chaudhuri, S. Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 2001, 31(5), 263-266.

10. ‘5-Amino-1-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl]-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide’. Dey, R; Banerjee, T;

Langer, V; Ray, S; Roychowdhury, P. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online ,

2006, E62(2), o814-o816.

Biochemistry

Manaroma Polley Mondal

1.Kalkier mK9: A prorenin converting enzyme, in hypertensive mice. Uddin, M. Polley-Mandal, M.

and Beg, O.U. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 304: 724-728, 2003.

2.Elevation of oxidative stress in aorta of genetically hypertensive mice. Mukarram Uddin, Hong

Yang, Mingjian Shi, Manorama Polley-Mandal and Zhing Mao Guo. (Mechanism of ageing and

development,vol 124 Issue- 7,2003 811-817)

3.Brain regional adenylate cyclase activity: Effect of Theophylline under nontolerant and tolerant

conditions.M.Mandal and M.K. Poddar. Biogenic Amines, 16, No. 3,(2001) 251-268.

4. Possible mechanism of interaction of GABAergic Adenosinergic systems in the regulation of

theophylline- Research induced locomotor activity under its nontolerant and tolerant conditions. M.

Mandal and M.K. Poddar. Neurochemical, 24 (1999) 757-765.

5. Hippocampal Serotonin: Effect of theophylline in nontolerant, tolerant and withdrawal rats. M.

Mandal and M.K Poddar. Biogenic Amines, 15 (1999) 217-228.

6. Theophylline withdrawal stimulates brain regional serotonin. M. Mandal and M.K. Poddar.

Journal of Serotonin Research, 4 (1998) 273-282.

7. Brain regional serotonergic activity: Effects of theophylline in nontolerant and tolerant rats. M.

Mandal and M.K. Poddar. Journal of Serotonin Research, 4 (1998) 283-293.

Surajit Sinha

1. Bandyapadhyaya,G.,Sinha,S.,Chattopadhyay,B.D.,Chakrabarty,A.,2008.Protective role of

curcumin against nicotine induced genotoxicity on rat liver under restricted dictary protein,Europian

Journal of Pharmacology,588,151-157.

2. Sinha,S.,Maity,M.,Chattopadhyay,K., Chattopadhyay,B.D.,2012,Potential Amelioration of

Curcumin against Nicotine-induced toxicity of protein malnourished female rats. Journal of

Pharmacology,7(4),166-180.

Swagatika SamantaRay

1.Using phosphorus of MoO3/ZSM-5 to modify performance in methane dehydoaromatisation. S.

Burns, J.S.J. Hargreaves, P.Pal, K. M. Parida, S. Parija, J. Molecular catalysis, A: Chemical 245

(2005) 141-146.

2.The effect of dopants on the activity of MoO3/ZSM-5 catalysts for the dehydroaromatisation of

methane. S. Burns, J.S.J. Hargreaves, P.Pal, K. M. Parida, S. Parija, Catalysis Today, 114, 4 (2006)

383-387.

3. Photocatalytic degradation of phenol under solar radiation using microwave irradiated zinc oxide,

K.M. Parida, Swagatika Parija. Solar Energy 80, 8 (2006) 1048-1054.

4. Preparation, characterization of molybdophosphoric and tungstophosphoric acid intercalated zinc

aluminium hydrotalcite like compounds and their catalytic evaluation towards the oxidative

bromination of phenol. K.M. Parida, S. Parija, J.Das, P.S. Mukherjee. Catalysis communication 7, 11

(2006) 913-919.

Microbiology

Kirat Kumar Ganguly-

1. Trerotola, M.; Ganguly, K. K.; Fazli, L.; Lu H.; Fedele, C.; Dutta, A.; Liu, Q.; Angelis, T.

D.; Riddell, L. W.; Riobo, A. N.; Gleave, M. E.; Zoubeidi, A.; Pestell, R. G.; Altieri, D. C.;

Languino, L. R. The Trop-2 / α5β1 integrin complex is up-regulated in invasive prostate

cancer and displaces FAK from focal contacts ( accepted for publication,under revision for

the journal Oncotarget, December, 2014)

2. Nanda, D.P., Dutta, K., Ganguly K.K., Hajra, S., Mandal, S.S., Biswas, J., Sinha, D. MMP-

9 as a potential biomarker for carcinoma of oral cavity: a study in eastern India. Neoplasma.

2014 Aug 23.

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3. Sinha, D.; Dutta, K.; Ganguly, K.K.; Biswas,J.; Bishayee, A. A novel synthetic

oleanane triterpenoid suppresses adhesion, migration, and invasion of highly metastatic

melanoma cells by modulating gelatinase signaling axis. Mol Carcinog. 2014 Feb 10. doi:

10.1002/mc.22136. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24510625.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mc.22136/abstract

4. Sen, T.; Ganguly, K. K.; Biswas, J.; Chatterjee, A. Focal Adhesion Kinase Induces Matrix

Metalloproteinase-2 by Involving α5β1-Mediated Signaling in Breast Cancer Cell, MCF-7 (in

press, Acta Medica International, December, 2014).

5. Sayeed, A.; Fedele, C.; Trerotola, M.; Ganguly, K. K.; Languino, L. R. IGF-IR Promotes

Prostate Cancer Growth By Stabilizing α5β1 Integrin Protein Levels, Levels. PLoS ONE, 8

(10):e76513. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076513.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0076513

6. Pal, S.; Ganguly, K. K.; Chatterjee, A. Extracellular matrix protein fibronectin

induces matrix metalloproteinases in human prostate adenocarcinoma cells PC-3. Cell

Communication & Adhesion, Early Online: 1–10, 2013

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15419061.2013.833193

7. Ganguly, K. K.; Pal,S.; Moulik, S.; Chatterjee, A. Integrin and Metastasis. Journal of Cell

Adhesion and Migration. Volume 7, Issue 3, May/June 2013.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23563505

8. Pal, S.; Ganguly, K. K.; Moulik, S.; Chatterjee, A. Modulation of MMPs by cell

surface integrin receptor α5β1. Anti-cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 2012,

12 (7): 726-732. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22292746

9. Ganguly, K. K.; Sen, T.; Mandal, S.; Biswas, J.; Chatterjee, A. Studies on expression of Focal

Adhesion Kinase (FAK) in Human Breast Cancer tissue. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 2012, 3,

7-19. http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=17211

10. Ganguly, K. K.; Sen, T.; Pal, S.; Biswas, J., Chatterjee, A. Studies on Focal Adhesion

Kinase (FAK) in Human Breast Cancer cell MDA-MB-231. Advances in Biological

Chemistry, 2012, 2, 29-42.

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=17274

11. Maity, G .; C h o u d h u r y , P . R .; Sen, T.; Ganguly, K. K.; S i l , H ., C h a t t e r j e e , A .

Culture of human breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231) on fibronectin-

coated surface induces pro-matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression and activity.

TumourBiol.2011Feb;32(1):129-38.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/23388t7h4748mj82/?MUD=MP

Lopamudra Choudhury (Roy):

Number of paper published in peer-reviewed international journal – 1.

Dasgupta, M., Das, R., Haque, G., Banerji, I., Nandy, S., Mitra, A. K. and Roy, L.

(2014) Modification in Asphalt Texture by Heavy Metal Tolerant Bacteria Isolated

From Industrial Effluent. Nature Environment and Pollution Technology. 13(4):787-

790. [ISSN: 0972-6268; NAAS Rating of the Journal (2014) = 4.94; Index Copernicus:

4.47; Scopus H-Index = 2; Scopus SJR = 0.166; Cites per Doc. (2Yr) equivalent to

Impact FactorTM

= 0.086 as per www.scimagojr.com].

Education

Indrani Nath:

Articles:

1. Nath,I. and Halder,K. (2007). Poverty and illiteracy: tarnishing twins of time, Anwesa,

vol 2, pp 12-19 (ISSN: 0973-5895).

2. Nath,I., Halder,K. and Maiti, N.C. (2013). Elementary education of slum children : an

attempt to reach the un-reached, Indian Journal of Educational Research, vol 2, pp 68-81

(ISSN: 2277-3819).

3. Nath,I. and Halder, K.(2014). Public private partnership in Indian education, Magis,

Xaverian Journal of Education, vol 3, pp 52-66 (ISSN: 2319-3239).

Book:

1. Halder, K. and Nath, I. (2014). Bharatiyo Sikshar Samprotik Bishoy, K. Chakraborty

publication, Kolkata (ISBN: 81-904263-9-7).

Pintu Kumar Maji :

.

1. Maji, P.K., and Ali, R. (2014). Locus of Control, Environmental Attitude and Environmental

Action amongst School Students, MAGIS’ – Xaverian Journal of Education, v3, p

67-76 (ISSN: 2319-3239).

2. Maji, P.K., and Sengupta, M., and Banerjee, D. (2013).The Effect of Inclusion on the Locus of

Control and Environment Related Behaviour of the Students with Visual

Impairment. International Research Journal Persons with Special Needs and

Rehabilitation Management, v3, p74-84 (ISSN: 2321-9254).

3. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2012). Environment Related Behaviour of

Students with Visual Impairment: An Exploratory Factor Analysis. Indian Journal

of Educational Research, v1, p 65-81(ISSN: 2277-3819).

4. Sengupta, M., and Maji, P.K. (2011). Ecological value and pro-environmental behaviour

amongst secondary school students living in the Sundarbans. ANWESA, A Journal

of Education, v 6, p 8-21 (ISSN: 0973-5895).

5. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2010). Environmental awareness and Action

amongst visually impaired students. Indian Journal of Special Education, v 1, n 1,

p 54-66 (ISSN: 2229-3612).

6. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2010). Environmental attitude, ecological value

and pro-environmental behaviour amongst secondary school students with visual

impairment. Educatum, Journal of Education and Behavioural Science, v 4, n 1, p

8-16 (ISSN: 0975-2641).

Ranu Roy:

Book:

Banerjee,D. and Roy,R. (2013). Study on working women in higher education and their freedom in

decision making. Pp 1-7, Victorious publishers (India) (ISBN: 978-81-92474-4-1)

History

Anamitra Chattopadhyay

Ouponobesik Banglay Dakati: Prasanga Hooghly Zella(Dacoity in

Colonial Bengal:District Hooghly) in Hooghly Zella Sekal O Ekal

(Hooghly District: Past and Present), August 2010, pub.

Kanakshali Recreation Club, Chinsura, Hooghly, ISBN no.978-

81-908627-0-7.

Crime in Pre and Early Colonial Bengal, The Quarterly Review of

Historical Studies, ISSN -0033-5800. (To Be Published)

Subhashis Ghosh

Drozu Saheber Bichar (Trial of Drozu Sahib),Sahitya Darpan, (Puja

Oct-Dec) 2012.

Ekti Bibahabichhed O Englande Dharma Sanskar (A Divorce and A

Religious Reform in England), Sahitya Darpan, (Puja Oct-Dec) 2013.

Dwarakanath- Bangiyo Renaissance er Bismrito Pothikrit

(Dwarakanath- The Unsung Hero of Bengal Renaissance), Ekhan

Roddur, (April 2011).

Drakula- Uponyaser Charitra Ebong Itihas ( Drakula- A Fictional

Characterv and History), Ekhan Roddur, (Puja 2011).

Sohorer Aaloy Ek Bhabaghure (A Vagabond In The Light Of A City),

Ekhan Roddur, (Puja 2012).

English

Swati Roy Choudhury

Roy Choudhury,S. Race, Gender and Disability: Problematising Physical and Mental Disability in

Mahesh Dattani’sTara and Bravely Fought the Queen. Wizcraft Journal of Language and

Literature.Vol.1, Issue 1 (Sept, 2012)ISSN 2319-4952

Roy Choudhury,S. The Darkest Land: Australian Landscape in the early Bush Ballads. New

Academia Journal .Vol.1, Issue 4. (October, 2012 ISSN-2277-3967

Roy Choudhury,S.Sengupta,S. The Fairies and the Elizabethan World Politics in A Midsummer

Night’s Dream. Critical Essays on A Midsummer Night’s Dream:Setu Publication.ISBN- 978-93-

80677-50-7

Sarottama

That Sublime “old Gentleman”: India’s Shakespeare: Translations, Interpretations Newark:

University of Delaware Press ,Shakespeare’s plays in Calcutta and Performance.(eds.) Poonam

Trivedi and Dennis 2005. 260-268. 1775-1930 Bartholemeusz ISBN-87413-881-7

Intricate Impression, Sublime indifference: West Bengal.(ed) Satinath Ray Vol XLII No 10

The many faces of Tagore in contemporary (16th May-1st June 2000), 87-96. Press.(Co-authored by

Sudeshna Banerjee)

Nime Dutta o tatkalin Bangasamaj: ekti Saparya.(ed)Tanmaay Bir Vol IV ( 2008), 54-59.

Punarmulyayan. (Journal for Bengali, Sarsuna College)

Multiculturalism and “Pride and Prejudice” Journal of Ananda Mohan College Vol III ( 2008), 14-

17(eds.)Prasanta Bandopadhyay ,Sandipan Sen

Bhabishyamukure Joshodebir mala: Kalottirno(ed)Subhashish Ghose Vol III(2009) 45-49

Derozio o tar kabyacharcha (Journal of History, Sarsuna College)

Theseus ,the cusp of the Minoan Hellenic Kalottirno.(ed)Shubhashish Ghose Vol III (2010) 31-34

Commerce

Sanjib Mitra: 3

(i) Mitra, S. (2014). Socio-Economic Drivers of Financial Inclusion: An

Empirical Study. Contemporary Issues in Business Studies, Ed. Prof.

Sharmistha Banerjee, UGC-ASC-CU and Department of Business

Management-CU, Kolkata, 5-15. [ISBN 978-81-927807-3-3].

(ii) Mitra, S. (2012). Taxation of Mutual Funds and Investors: A

Theoretical Analysis. Mutual Funds, Retail Investors and SEBI. Ed. Dr.

Sujit Kr. Das, Department of Commerce, New Alipore College,

Kolkata, 212-227 [ISBN-978-81-924140-9-6].

(iii) Mitra, S. (2012). IFRS Implementation in Indian Banks: Some Key

Issues. Seminar Volume on Indian Accounting Standards: Convergence with

IFRSs, Ed. Amal Kr. Bhakat, Department of Commerce, P. N. Das College,

Palta and Indian Accounting Association, Law Point Publication, Kolkata,

185-200 [ISBN 978-93-82472-68-1].

3.4.4 Provide details (if any) of

research awards received by the faculty:

recognition received by the faculty from reputed professional bodies and agencies, nationally

and internationally incentives given to faculty for receiving state, national and international

recognitions for research contributions.

Nil

3.5 Consultancy

3.5.1 Give details of the systems and strategies for establishing institute-industry

interface?

The college has a thriving placement cell which helps in inviting a number of reputed

companies to the campus for placement of the students.

Several departments such as Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry has industrial visit as part

of their curriculum which are regularly undertaken. This provides the students an opportunity

to directly learn from the industries.

3.5.2 What is the stated policy of the institution to promote consultancy? How is the

available expertise advocated and publicized?

The college offers the service of its guidance cell to any of the students in need of or willing

to avail its services. The college maintains a strict confidentiality regarding information of

the concerned individual. Information regarding the working of this cell is provided in the

college prospectus which is mandatory for each candidate taking college admission form. So

any student taking admission in this college is made aware of this cell.

The career and guidance cell has also organised an UGC sponsored seminar in 2010 to

educate the students regarding the need and various aspects of guidance and counseling.

3.6.1 How does the institution promote institution-neighbourhood- community network

and student engagement, contributing to good citizenship, service orientation and holistic

development of students?

The responsibility to form the interface between college and the community through students’

participation in various extended social activities are taken up by the NSS unit of this college.

Though newly established in 2014, NSS unit here is already very active in its functioning.

There is a body of teachers and a teacher coordinator who help to chalk out the programmes to

be undertaken by the NSS with the help of the students.

Already the NSS unit has undertaken activities like plantation of trees both within and outside

the campus and a very important activity in the form of Thalasemia Awareness Programme.

The NSS has chalked out plans to engage more directly with the surrounding community and

extend social welfare to all the sections of the society. There is a plan to extend the NSS

activity to the nearby villages as well.

The students and the staff are encouraged to participate in the annual blood-donation camp

organised by the Sarsuna College Students’ Union. Through this activity the college students

learn their responsibilities towards their society and also make meaningful contribution to their

society.

Just before the blood donation Camp, an Awareness Camp is also organised to spread

awareness regarding this activity. An eminent speaker delivers speech on the importance of

blood donation in our society and thereby creates a sense of awareness and social responsibility

among the students of our college.

3.6.2 What is the Institutional mechanism to track students’ involvement in various social

movements / activities which promote citizenship roles?

We encourage our students to report their participation in any such event and try and highlight

them in our college magazine. If it is outstanding we felicitate during award ceremony.

3.6.3 How does the institution solicit stakeholder perception on the overall

performance and quality of the institution?

Through conducting meetings with the guardians of the students of the college; meeting with

the local people to get their feedback

All students use their phone or e-mail or personal meetings to convey their grievances or

achievements.

3.6.4 How does the institution plan and organize its extension and outreach programmes?

Providing the budgetary details for last four years, list the major extension and outreach

programmes and their impact on the overall development of students.

The college does not have much scope for extension and outreach programmes. However we

have started with the NSS wing in the last academic year.

3.6.5 How does the institution promote the participation of students and faculty in

extension activities including participation in NSS, NCC, YRC and other National/

International agencies?

The college has a thriving NSS unit and students are constantly encouraged to participate in

these. Awareness camps and lectures are given to create awareness among the students. The

college prospectus also provides information regarding NSS.

3.6.6 Give details on social surveys, research or extension work (if any) undertaken

by the college to ensure social justice and empower students from under-

privileged and vulnerable sections of society?

Nil

3.6.7 Reflecting on objectives and expected outcomes of the extension activities organized

by the institution, comment on how they complement students’ academic learning

experience and specify the values and skills inculcated.

These extension activities complement the students’ academic learning. These activities teach

the students that they are a part of the community and inculcate in them a sense of social

responsibility. The institute encourages the students to actively participate in these programmes

so that they can emerge as better individuals and be more productive to the society.

3.6.8How does the institution ensure the involvement of the community in its reach out activities

and contribute to the community development? Detail on the initiatives of the institution

that encourage community participation in its activities?

The institution does not have much scope for this however the NSS wing of the college acts as an

interface through its various activities.

3.6.9 Give details on the constructive relationships forged (if any) with other institutions

of the locality for working on various outreach and extension activities.

Not much has been done in this regard

3.6.10 Give details of awards received by the institution for extension activities

and/contributions to the social/community development during the last four years.

Nil

3.7 Collaboration

3.7.1 How does the institution collaborate and interact with research laboratories, institutes and

industry for research activities. Cite examples and benefits accrued of the initiatives -

collaborative research, staff exchange, sharing facilities and equipment, research

scholarships etc.

Not much has been done on this regard

3.7.2 Provide details on the MoUs/collaborative arrangements (if any) with institutions of

national importance/universities/ industries/Corporate (Corporate entities) etc. And how they

have contributed to the development of the institution.

Nil

3.7.3 Give details (if any) on the industry-institution-community interactions that have

contributed to the establishment / creation/up-gradation of academic facilities, student and

staff support, infrastructure facilities of the institution.

The Department of Computer Science and Physics in collaboration with IIT Bombay

has plans to set up robotics lab for its students.

Apart from that nothing much has been done in this regard.

3.7.4 Highlighting the names of eminent scientists/participants who contributed to the

events, provide details of national and international conferences organized by the

college during the last four years.

1. Career guidance and counseling cell of Sarsuna College

Status: UGC sponsored state level seminar

Venue: Sarsuna College

2. Department of economics

In collaboration with Khantra College, Bardhwan

Status: UGC sponsored National Level Seminar

Topic: Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Date: September 23-24, 2011

Venue: Sarsuna College

4. Departments of Geography

in collaboration with KMC and CAD Centre, JU.

Status: UGC state level seminar

Topic: “Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s Environmental Wellbeing”

Date: 17-18th Jan, 2012

Venue: Kolkata Town Hall

5. Department of English

in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi

Status: the UGC sponsored National Seminar

Topic: Transposing Cultures Translating Texts: A Reappraisal of Indian

English Literature(s)

Date: February 2-3, 2012

Venue: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture

6. Department of Bengali

in Collaboration with Banaras Hindu University

Status: U.G.C Sponsored National Seminar

Topic: An Introspection of Bengali Language and literature

Outside West Bengal (in India) and its Destiny

Date: 17th & 18th February, 2012

Venue: Sarsuna College, Kolkata

7. Department of Political science

Topic: Inauguration of a new political culture based on the politics of non violence and

assimilation in violence and terror hit areas of Midnapore(East & West) , Bankura and Purulia districs

in South West Bengal

Date: 24th and 25th March, 2012 erupting in last years i.e 2005-2011

Venue: Sarsuna College

3.7.5 How many of the linkages/collaborations have actually resulted in formal MoUs and

agreements ? List out the activities and beneficiaries and cite examples (if any) of the

established linkages that enhanced and/or facilitated -

Curriculum development/enrichment

Internship/ On-the-job training

Summer placement

Faculty exchange and professional development

Research

Consultancy

Extension

Publication

Student Placement

Twinning programmes

Introduction of new courses

Student exchange

Any other

Nil

3.7.6 Detail on the systemic efforts of the institution in planning, establishing and

implementing the initiatives of the linkages/ collaborations.

None as of now

3.6Extension Activities and Institutional Social Responsibility(ISR)

3.6.1 How does the institution promote institution-neighbourhood-

community network and student engagement, contributing to

good citizenship, service orientation and holistic development of

students?

3.6.2 What is the Institutional mechanism to track students’ involvement in

various social movements / activities which promote citizenship roles?

3.6.3 How does the institution solicit stakeholder perception on the overall

performance and quality of the institution?

3.6.4 How does the institution plan and organize its extension and outreach

programmes? Providing the budgetary details for last

four years, list the major extension and outreach programmes and

their impact on the overall development of students.

3.6.5 How does the institution promote the participation of students and

faculty in extension activities including participation in NSS,

NCC, YRC and other National/ International agencies?

3.6.6 Give details on social surveys, research or extension work (if any)

undertaken by the college to ensure social justice and empower students

from under-privileged and vulnerable sections of society?

3.6.7 Reflecting on objectives and expected outcomes of the extension

activities organized by the institution, comment on how they complement

students’ academic learning experience and specify the values and skills

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3.6.8How does the institution ensure the involvement of the

community in its reach out activities and contribute to the

community development? Detail on the initiatives of the

institution that encourage community participation in its

activities?

3.6.9 Give details on the constructive relationships forged (if any) with other

institutions of the locality for working on various outreach and extension

activities.

3.6.10 Give details of awards received by the institution for extension

activities and/contributions to the social/community development

during the last four years.

3.7 Collaboration

3.7.1 How does the institution collaborate and interact with research

laboratories, institutes and industry for research activities. Cite examples and

benefits accrued of the initiatives - collaborative research, staff exchange,

sharing facilities and equipment, research scholarships etc.

3.7.2 Provide details on the MoUs/collaborative arrangements (if any) with

institutions of national importance/other universities/ industries/Corporate (Corporate entities) etc. and how they have contributed to the development of the institution.

3.7.3 Give details (if any) on the industry-institution-community

interactions that have contributed to the establishment / creation/up-

gradation of academic facilities, student and staff support, infrastructure facilities of the institution viz. laboratories / library/ new technology /placement services etc.

3.7.4 Highlighting the names of eminent scientists/participants who

contributed to the events, provide details of national and international

conferences organized by the college during the last four years.

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3.7.5 How many of the linkages/collaborations have actually resulted in

formal MoUs and agreements ? List out the activities and beneficiaries

and cite examples (if any) of the established linkages that enhanced and/or

facilitated -

a. Curriculum development/enrichment

b. Internship/ On-the-job training

c. Summer placement

d. Faculty exchange and professional development

e. Research

f. Consultancy

g. Extension

h. Publication

i. Student Placement

j. Twinning programmes

k. Introduction of new courses

l. Student exchange

m. Any other

3.7.6 Detail on the systemic efforts of the institution in planning, establishing

and implementing the initiatives of the linkages/ collaborations.

Any other relevant information regarding Research, Consultancy and

Extension which the college would like to include.

4.1.1 What is the policy of the Institution for creation and enhancement of infrastructure that

facilitate effective teaching and learning?

The institution tries to provide the students with cut-age modern technologies, state-of-the-art

laboratories and proper access to the e-resources to enhance the student quality and increase

their employability. Some facilities are listed below:

The college has set up classrooms with audio-visual facilities.

It has well-equipped laboratories and a well-stocked library with easy access to both physical

and e-resources.

The departments have seminar library facilities to cater to the more refined aspects of the subjects.

4.1.2 Detail the facilities available for

a. Curricular and co-curricular activities – classrooms, technology enabled learning spaces,

seminar halls, tutorial spaces, laboratories, botanical garden, Animal house,

specialized facilities and equipment for teaching, learning and research etc.

Number of class room: 35

Laboratory: 21

Botanical garden: nil

Animal house: nil

Specialised facilities and equipment for teaching, learning and

research etc: audio visual teaching aids, well equipped laboratories, well stocked library

with e-resource, wi-fi enabled campus.

b. Extra –curricular activities – sports, outdoor and indoor games, gymnasium,

auditorium, NSS, NCC, cultural activities, Public speaking, communication

skills development, yoga, health and hygiene etc.

4.1.3 How does the institution plan and ensure that the available infrastructure is in

line with its academic growth and is optimally utilized? Give specific examples

of the facilities developed/augmented and the amount spent during the last four

years (Enclose the Master Plan of the Institution / campus and indicate the existing

physical infrastructure and the future planned expansions if any).

The picture of the college building plan is given below:

The College campus, measuring 70,600 sq.fit(approx), is situated besides a massive water body and

amidst tranquil greenness. The building consists of four floors, housing large spacious classrooms and

laboratories, staff room, library, office etc.

1. AUDITORIUM : The College boasts of a large auditorium and stage where many programmes are

held annually.

2. CANTEEN : The College canteen serves substantial and nutritious meals at reasonable prices. It is

a favourite rendezvous of students and standards of hygiene are strictly maintained.

3. COMMON ROOM : Separate common rooms have been provided for boys and girls and there is

provision in each for indoor games and other co-curricular activities.

4. CHEAP STORE : The College provides a cheap store within the campus to enable students to buy

stationery at a reasonable price.

5. PLAY GROUND : The College fronts a large play ground that is used by the institution for all co-

curricular activities.

6. PHOTOCOPIER : For the benefit of the students, there is a photocopier inside the College

campus where reading materials can be photocopied at a low price. There is also a telephone booth.

7. COMPLAINT BOX : As per the directives of the University, there is a Complaint Box within the

College premises where students can express their views and grievances, if any.

8. CYCLE STAND : There is a cycle stand and car parking zone within the college campus where

students may keep their conveyances.

9. ELEVATOR: There is an elevator, which is used for the benefit of the physically handicapped and

the sick.

10. COMPUTER ROOM: There is separate computer room for the teachers in the staff room.

FUTURE PLAN:-

The College has taken positive initiatives to expand the college building

4.1.4 How does the institution ensure that the infrastructure facilities meet the

requirements of students with physical disabilities?

Elevator

4.1.5 Give details on the residential facility and various provisions available

within them:

Hostel Facility – Accommodation available : Nil

Recreational facilities, gymnasium, yoga center, etc. : Nil

Computer facility including access to internet in hostel : Nil

Facilities for medical emergencies: first aid facilities, doctor on call, student health home card, ESI

facilities for the non-teaching staff.

Library facility in the hostels: Nil

Internet and Wi-Fi facility: available

Recreational facility-common room with audio-visual

Equipments : Nil

Constant supply of safe drinking water : 24 hours pure drinking water facilities available from water

purifying plant installed within the college campus.

Security: 24 hours security guard appointed on rotational basis. Resolution taken by the purchase

committee of the Sarsuna college to install web camera in the college campus.

4.1.6 What are the provisions made available to students and staff in terms of health

care on the campus and off the campus?

First aid facilities and call for doctor for students and staff. ESI facilities for non teaching

staff.

4.1.7 Give details of the Common Facilities available on the campus –spaces for special

units like IQAC, Grievance Redressal unit, Women’s Cell, Counselling and Career

Guidance, Placement Unit, Health Centre, Canteen, recreational spaces for staff and

students, safe drinking water facility, auditorium, etc. IQAC: room no. 203 Grievance redressal unit: room no. room no. 413 A Women’s cell: Nil Counselling and career guidance: room no. 413-B Health unit: Nil Canteen: separate space has been allotted Recreational spaces for staff and students: Boys common room : room no.101, Girls common room : room no.103, Recreational facilities for non-teaching staff :room no. 411A, for teaching staff: part of the staff room. Water facility: Water plant Auditorium: room no.411 & 412 4.2 Library as a Learning Resource

4.2.1 Does the library have an Advisory Committee? Specify the composition of such a

committee. What sigcnificant initiatives have been implemented by the committee to render the

library,student/user friendly?

Our college have a library committee, consist of principal, librarian and teacher representatives.

According to library advisory committee existing library will be shifted to more spacious area for

providing reading room facility. Library automation has been started recommendation of the library

committee.

4.2.2 Provide details of the following:

* Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.)

* Total seating capacity:50

* Working hours (on working days, on holidays, before examination days, during examination days,

during vacation)

Working days: Monday to Friday:10.30AM -5.00PM

Saturday:10.30AM -2.00PM

Before examination days 10AM -5.00PM

During examination10.30AM -5.00PM

During vacation10.30AM -5.00PM

* Layout of the library (individual reading carrels, lounge area for browsing and relaxed reading, IT

zone for accessinge-resources)

4.2.3 How does the library ensure purchase and use of current titles, print and e-journals and

other reading materials? Specify the amount spent on procuring new books, journals and e-

resources during the last four years.

Library

holdings

Year -1

Year -2

Year -3

Year -4

Numb

er

Total

Cost

Num

ber

Total

Cost

Numb

er

Total

Cost

Numb

er

Total

Cost

Text

books

1475 3,03,668 911 2,68,085 977 2,87,567 461 2,15,426

Reference

Books

86 1,30143 112 1,04255 124 1,17,456 74 71,808

Journals/

Periodical

s

3 3,500 3 3,500 3 3,500 3 3,380

e-

resources

- - - - - N-

LIST

5000

Any other

(specify)

- - - - - - - -

4.2.4 Provide details on the ICT and other tools deployed to provide

maximum access to the library collection?

* OPAC:Present with in college campus.

* Electronic Resource Management package for e-journals

* Federated searching tools to search articles in multiple databases

* Library Website:Using college website.

* In-house/remote access to e-publications

* Library automation : In initial stage.

* Total number of computers for public access:03

* Total numbers of printers for public access: 01

* Internet band width/ speed 2mbps 10 mbps 1 gb (GB)

* Institutional Repository:No(planning to install D-space as IR)

* Content management system for e-learning:No

* Participation in Resource sharing networks/consortia (like

Inflibnet):No

4.2.5 Provide details on the following items:

* Average number of walk-ins: 350@day

* Average number of books issued/returned:170

* Ratio of library books to students enrolled: 1:4

* Average number of books added during last three years:2659

* Average number of login to opac (OPAC): No

* Average number of login to e-resources:10@day

* Average number of e-resources downloaded/printed:160

* Number of information literacy trainings organized

* Details of “weeding out” of books and other materials:

380 out of syllabus and out dated books are weeded out on 12.02.15 form library.

4.2.6 Give details of the specialized services provided by the library

* Manuscripts No

* Reference:Yes

* Reprography:Yes

* ILL (Inter Library Loan Service):No

* Information deployment and notification (Information Deployment and Notification);No

* Download:Yes

* Printing:Yes

* Reading list/ Bibliography compilation:Yes

* In-house/remote access to e-resources

* User Orientation and awareness:Yes

* Assistance in searching Databases:Yes

* INFLIBNET/IUC facilities:INFLIBNET/NLIST programme facilities provided to students and

teachers.

4.2.7 Enumerate on the support provided by the Library staff to the students and teachers of

the college.

i.Book circulation service(Issue return)

ii.reference Service

iii.Bibliographic service

iv.OPAC service

v.Reprographic service

vi.CAS(Current Awareness Service) service.

4.2.8 What are the special facilities offered by the library to the visually/physically challenged

persons? Give details.

As library located in 1st floor lift is provided for visually/physically challenged users.

Doorsills are avoid in library floor for smooth and easy movement for them.

4.2.9 Does the library get the feedback from its users? If yes, how is it analysed and used for

improving the library services. (What strategies are deployed by the Library to collect feedback

from users? How is the feedback analysed and used for further improvement of the library

services?)

i.Suggesion register is providing to collect user opinion,

ii.Survey method also followed by questionnaire distribution.

4.3 IT Infrastructure

4.3.1. Give details on the computing facility available (hardware and software) at the

institution.

Number of computers with Configuration (provide actual number with exact configuration of each

available system):- 124

1 Server:-Intel-wordcore processor, 8gb ram, 1 tb scsl hard disk, RHPL-5

1-Dual core, 4gb ram, 500gb hard disk, mac

18-4I3,2gb ram, 500 gb hard disk,ubuntu-11.5

20-4I3,2gb ram, 500 gb hard disk,xp fedora

30-4I3,2gb ram, 500 gb hard disk,xp Windows 8

5- pentium-4, 512vram, 350 hard disk, windows xp

49-4I3,1gb ram, 350 gb hard disk,xp Windows 8

Computer-student ratio: 30:1.5

Stand alone facility: 60 (approx)

LAN facility: All the computers

Wifi facility: all

Licensed software: 20

Number of nodes/ computers with Internet facility: 61

4.3.2 Detail on the computer and internet facility made available to the faculty and

students on the campus and off-campus?

Wi-Fi enabled campus and adequate computers.

4.3.3 What are the institutional plans and strategies for deploying and upgrading the IT

infrastructure and associated facilities?

Future Plan of the Department

To arrange for more campus recruitment

To arrange for inter-college seminars and programmes

To open a research group in collaboration with IITs’, IISc., ISI, IIMs’

4.3.4 Provide details on the provision made in the annual budget for procurement, upgradation,

deployment and maintenance of the computers and their accessories in the institution (Year

wise for last four years)

Sections 2009-

2010

2010-

2011

2011-

2012

2012-

2013

Building, furniture and

equipment

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4.3.5 How does the institution facilitate extensive use of ICT resources including

development and use of computer-aided teaching/ learning materials by its staff and

students?

The institute has plans to develop smart class rooms and smart audio-visual room.

4.3.6 Elaborate giving suitable examples on how the learning activities and technologies

deployed (access to on-line teaching learning resources, independent learning, ICT

enabled Classrooms/learning spaces etc.) by the institution place the student at the

centre of teaching-learning process and render the role of a facilitator for the teacher.

The college has taken step towards setting up ICT enabled class rooms or learning places but is

yet to have any concrete online teaching resource. However we offer e-resources to our faculty

and students in their learning.

4.3.7 Does the Institution avail of the National Knowledge Network connectivity directly

or through the affiliating university? If so, what are the services availed of?

INFLIBNET 4.4Maintenance of Campus Facilities

4.4.1 How does the institution ensure optimal allocation and utilization of the available

financial resources for maintenance and upkeep of the following facilities

(substantiate your statements by providing details of budget allocated during last four

years)?

The college keeps a part of its budget allocated to maintain the following facilities which are

integral to the proper functioning of the college. The financial resource is allocated only after

an informed estimation of the possible expense under these heads:

Sections 2009-

2010

2010-

2011

2011-

2012

2012-

2013

Building, furniture and

equipment

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Computers 8440 36669 57018 84416

Any other:

Generator 14154 15263 9306 23966

EPABX 2427 7501 4001 3640

Electrical 26174 53723 23743 18084

Water treatment plant 4084 11544 16236 3894

Pump 1500 1800 - -

Airconditioners 3000 6700 4091 10,000

Lift - 7966 23715 -

4.4.2 What are the institutional mechanisms for maintenance and upkeep of the

infrastructure, facilities and equipment of the college?

No permanent staffs is employed for the maintenance and repair of infrastructure. Higher expert and

labourers are appointed for this purpose. For the maintenance of computers and other electronics

accessories college has annual maintenance contracts (AMC).

CRITERION V: STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION

5.1 Student Mentoring and Support

5.1.1 Does the institution publish its updated prospectus/handbook annually?

If ‘yes’, what is the information provided to students through these

documents and how does the institution ensure its commitment and

accountability?

Every year our college publish its updated prospectus. Through this, our

students become aware about the facilities that the college will provide to

them during the pursuit of their course. Our college has honours in 17

subjects. This information is given in the prospectus. With this, future scope

of the subjects is also mentioned separately. These informations help the

students to choose subject according to their eligibility. In the prospectus

subjects’ combination has also been tabulated for the benefits of the students.

Along with this, the varied financial aids including stipend of the minorities

group, concession in tuition fees in the form of Half-free studentship to a

limited number of students of our college who are in acute financial

hardship, have also been mentioned separately. Along with all the above

facilities, students are also warned about the norms of the college that our

institution followed strictly.

All the commitments that are placed before the students through this

prospectus are strictly followed. Our institution has its apex body called

Governing body. All the issues regarding students, staff is handled very

delicately and carefully by this body.

5.1.2 Specify the type, number and amount of institutional scholarships / freeships given to the

students during the last four years and whether the financial aid was available and disbursed

on time?

College is the facilitating and disbursing agent for the following funds:

a) sc/st/obc/ minority fund from the West Bengal govt.

Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Scholarship/ Stipend is granted by the Director

of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare from the Office of the Special Officer,

S.C. & S.T. Welfare.

b) Student welfare fund: money collected from every student during the time of admission

and given to the students asking for concession at discretion of the TIC

c) Memorial prizes given to various students for academic performances.

1) Debapriya Sengupta Memorial Scholarship is awarded by Smt. Indira

Sengupta in memory of her son to a college student securing highest marks in

Computer Science (Hons.) in university Examination from this college.

2) Late Santosh Kumar Banerjee Memorial Award donated by Dr. Dipendra

Banerjee, younger son of Late Santosh Kumar Banerjee is awarded to a

student, securing highest marks among the college students in English in

University Final Examination.

3) Late Anurupa Roy Chowdhury Memorial Award to a student for securing

highest marks in Micro biology in University Final Examination among the

College students.

In addition to the above our college also provide the following benefits to the

students:

1) Poor and meritorious students having regular attendance and good

performance in the periodical and annual examinations are provided with

financial assistance from Students’ Welfare Fund and Students Aid Fund and

Fund of the Teachers’ council.

2) College prizes are awarded to students who secure the highest marks in

every Honours subjects, B.A. (General), B.Sc. (General), B.Com (General) in

final University Examinations.

3) Special prize of a book grant worth Rs. 2500 and scholarship of Rs 200/

month for a period of 2 years (provided he or she be a student of Post

Graduation ) is awarded to a student ranking first in the University

Examination.

4) Special prize of a book grant worth Rs. 1000 and scholarship of Rs. 100/

month for a period of 2 years (provided he or she be a student of Post

Graduation ) is awarded to a student ranking between 2nd

to 10th

in the

University Examination.

5) Certificates, prizes and medals are also awarded to students on the basis of

their performances in various Departmental Seminars, Sports and talent Hunt

Competitions.

8) Teachers’ Council prizes are awarded to students who secure the highest

marks in B.Sc. (Hons.), B.A. (Hons.) and B.Com (Hons.) in University

Examination.

About 2 students of our college have got one of these scholarship in the last

four years.

There are committees formed by the apex body of our college i.e. Governing

Body with students, non-teaching staff and teaching staff as members to look

into the process of selection and distribution of available fund.

5.1.3 What percentage of students receive financial assistance from state

government, central government and other national agencies?

20 to 30%

5.1.4 What are the specific support services/facilities available for

Students from SC/ST, OBC and economically weaker Sections

- Poor and meritorious students having regular attendance and good

performance in the periodical and annual examinations are provided with financial assistance from

Students’ Welfare Fund and Students Aid Fund and Fund of the Teachers’ council.

- Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Scholarship/ Stipend is

granted by the Director of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe

Welfare from the Office of the Special Officer, S.C. & S.T.

Welfare.

Students with physical disabilities - there is an elevator, which is used

for the benefit of the physically handicapped and sick persons including

students, teachers and non-teaching staff.

Overseas students

Students to participate in various competitions/National and International- every year our students participate in various inter-

college, district, state and National level competitions. For these

purposes, our college provides financial supports to all the participants

and the organisers. This financial assistance is provided from the

College Fund in discretion with the Teacher- in Charge. 82

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Medical assistance to students: health centre, health insurance etc. – The college is affiliated to

the “Students Health home” established by the University of Calcutta. Students can get medical

facilities and specialised treatment in lieu of an annual subscription of Rs. 4/ per head.

Organizing coaching classes for competitive examinations.

Skill development (spoken English, computer literacy, etc.,) third year students have to do some

projects in their course. While persuing this task the students have to equipped themselves with the

computer and this facilities are given to them in our computer lab. In the process our students are well

equipped with the computer. They can access the internet and can do work in the excel Sheet.

Therefore in the process they develop skill in computer.

Support for “slow learners” – special care is given to the students who are slow learners by the

respective teacher of the department. Class tests are taken periodically and on the basis of assessment

slow learners are identified and they are under vigilance by the faculties of the respective department.

Exposures of students to other institution of higher learning/ corporate/business house etc. -

faculties from other colleges or Universities are very often invited to deliver lectures. In this process

students get some exposures.

5.1.5 Describe the efforts made by the institution to facilitate entrepreneurial skills, among the

students and the impact of the efforts.

The undergraduate curriculum of the University of Calcutta has provisions to teach official

communications. The teachers encourage students to develop proficiency in this regard to make them

more job-ready.

The college provides public platform to the students in terms of various competitions and

extracurricular activities which help in development of their soft skills.

The college also encourages computer proficiency and proficiency with e-resources to enable them

keep up with the technologies. For this purpose the college has a large number of computers,

computer and IT laboratories and wifi enabled campus for the students.

It also encourages campus placements and other industry-college interfaces.

These efforts have brought a positive impact upon the students. Since most of them are from the rural

background, these efforts of the college help them improve their employability.

5.1.6 Enumerate the policies and strategies of the institution which promote participation of

students in extracurricular and co- curricular activities such as sports, games, Quiz

competitions, debate and discussions, cultural activities etc.

additional academic support, flexibility in examinations

special dietary requirements, sports uniform and materials

any other

Our college has taken the strategies to develop competitive attitudes of the students by participating in

any inter departmental and intra departmental competition related to indoor sports, cultural events, etc.

The institution provides benefits of flexibility in examination to those students who performed in any

inter college cultural or sports competition.

Food allowance are given to the students who participate in any inter college cultural and sports.

Sufficient funds are also maintained to provide sports uniform and materials to the students.

5.1.7 Enumerating on the support and guidance provided to the students in preparing for the

competitive exams, give details on the number of students appeared and qualified in various

competitive exams such as UGC-CSIR- NET, UGC-NET, SLET, ATE / CAT / GRE / TOFEL

/ GMAT / Central /State services, Defense, Civil Services, etc.

The college does not have an infrastructure to directly facilitate or guide students in this regard

but the library is well-stocked with such resources and our alumni may gain access to them as

and when required.

5.1.8 What type of counselling services are made available to the students (academic, personal,

career, psycho-social etc.)

Career counselling is made available to the students, mainly organised by the department of

Computer Science, English and Commerce. Apart from that we have Grievance Redressal Cell

where the students get councelled on the psycho- social ground. Personal Concelling has also

been done under the guidance of both the teachers and the parents.

5.1.9 Does the institution have a structured mechanism for career

guidance and placement of its students?

If ‘yes’, detail on the 8

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services provided to help students identify job opportunities and prepare themselves for

interview and the percentage of students selected during campus interviews by different

employers (list the employers and the programmes).

– persons from various corporate sectors like TCS DAKSH,TCS

,IGNITE,WIPRO,BPO,HCL,SBI,SBI LIFE come to our college for campusing purpose. On an

average 50 students appeared and 3 to 16 students get job in this process.

CRITERION VI: GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

6.1Institutional Vision and Leadership

6.1.1 State the vision and mission of the Institution and enumerate on how the mission

statement defines the institution’s distinctive characteristics in terms of addressing

the needs of the society, the students it seeks to serve, institution’s traditions and value

orientations, vision for the future, etc.?

The institute thinks high about serving a section of students who are first generation learners. It

has designed the fees structure in such a way that it is affordable and makes necessary payment

options to help the poor sections. Moreover it looks to help specially the students with BPL

certificates.

The institute has a tradition of having prayer every day at 10.25 am sharp to start the day with

some holy thoughts. In every department the introductory lecture is delivered by the

departmental in charge and the head of the institute on the first day of college to make the

students oriented toward the values and responsibilities of them in the college and society.

The institute plans for setting up a computer centre for the students belonging to backward

classes to make them trained them in some basics of computers. It has also sent up proposals to

open SC/ST cell in the college to UGC for funding. The institute has also trying to open some

new departments like food and nutrition, psychology etc in near future.

6.1.2 What is the role of top management, Principal and Faculty in design and

implementation of its quality policy and plans?

Head of institute along with the convenors and members of different sub committees set up and

design various policies and principles for betterment of the college. After the formulation of the

policies, the head of the institute makes them sanctioned in the General Body and take immense

responsibilities to implement them judiciously.

6.1.3 What is the involvement of the leadership in ensuring :

the policy statements and action plans for fulfilment of the

stated mission

formulation of action plans for all operations and

incorporation of the same into the institutional strategic plan

Interaction with stakeholders

Proper support for policy and planning through need

analysis, research inputs and consultations with the

stakeholders

Reinforcing the culture of excellence

Champion organizational change

6.1.4 What are the procedures adopted by the institution to monitor and

evaluate policies and plans of the institution for effective implementation and

improvement from time to time?

Time to time evaluation reports are submitted to the head of institute by the

each sub- committee convenors regarding the policies in action.

6.1.5 Give details of the academic leadership provided to the faculty by the top

management?

Head of the institute under the guidance from GB and consultation in academic sub- committee

provide full authority to the Departmental in charge regarding the academic leadership. The

departmental in charge allot classes to the others faculties of the department along with

distribution of syllabus. Regular meetings are conducted by the departmental in charge with his

colleagues to discuss matters like completion of syllabus, requisition books and journals etc.

Parent’s teacher meetings are conducted after declaration of results on internal examinations

like class tests, selection tests etc. to make the parents aware of the performance of their wards.

6.1.6 How does the college groom leadership at various levels?

GB guides the head of the institute to recruit teachers in different sub committees and give them

different responsibilities. The convenor of each sub- committees select other teaching and non-

teaching members of that group and formulate different policies and plan of work. They take care of

the execution of the plans as well. The college provide full autonomy to the departments which are

working under the guidelines decided in the academic sub- committee.

6.1.7 How does the college delegate authority and provide operational autonomy to the

departments / units of the institution and work towards decentralized governance system?

6.1.8 Does the college promote a culture of participative management?If ‘yes’, indicate

the levels of participative management.

(6.1.7 and 6.1.8 together)

College promote participation management. The every department have one class representative from

each year elected by the students’ union who can interact with the teachers of the respective

department regarding any problem or matter arising in classes. The teachers try to solve the matter

and if he or she fails in doing so, then the matter is discussed in the academic sub- committee in

presence of the head of the institute and there also if it is not resolved then it is deferred to GB for

resolutions. 6.2 Strategy Development and Deployment

6.2.1 Does the Institution have a formally stated quality policy? How is it developed,

driven, deployed and reviewed?

6.2.2 Does the Institute have a perspective plan for development? If so, give the aspects

considered for inclusion in the plan.

(6.2.1 and 6.2.2 together)

The institute have perspective plan for development. It has built up new annexe building in the

last year to increase number of class rooms and enrol more number of students in each

department. It also plans to open more PG departments in near future under regular ciriculum

of the University of Calcutta to engage more students in higher degrees.

Other than providing academics help the institute also plans to provide safe drinking water to

every members of the college by installing water coolers with purifiers. The plan is approved

the work is in progress.

6.2.4 Describe the internal organizational structure and decision making processes .

6.2.4 Give a broad description of the quality improvement strategies of the institution for

each of the following

Teaching & Learning

Modern teaching methods have been opted by the institute to enhance the quality of teaching. LCD

projector and OHP are frequently used to teach in classes. Often printed hand outs, notes in CD or pen

drive given to the students. Wi-Fi connections in the college help the students to clear up their doubts

with their teacher in the laptop or note pad.

English department has its own email id in which the study materials are posted for the students and

even students can send up mails to inyteract with faculties. English department also had a faculty

exchange programme with Sushil Kar college and now has collaborated with them and send a

proposal for seminar. As a part of curriculum the students of all the streams have to submit project on

environmental aspects in their final year under supervision of one of the faculty recruited for this

purpose.

The students of Zoology, Botany and Geography of the final year have to submit a detail report on the

educational excursion as part of their course.

Biodiversity studies are done by the students of zoology and botany under supervision of teachers

every year followed by submission of a detailed report.

Research & Development

Science, arts and commerce departments carry out several minor research projects in their respective

departments. Botany department in collaboration with IICB carried out a DST sponsored major

project with a scholar fellow.

The college has several sophisticated instruments to carry out more research works in future and plan

for awarding Ph.D.

Dr. Tanmay Bir of Bengali department has already working with a scholar in a UGC sponsored major

project.

Geography department plans to give open access to the newly set up GIS laboratory to students other

than our college after the college hours with prior permissions.

Community engagement

NSS of the college carries out several camps like Thalassemia screening in the college. The

enthusiasms of students’ union help us to collect blood of different blood groups through a whole day

blood donation camp. For the last few years there is science exhibition to make people aware of small

scientific facts like adulteration, blood group screening etc.

Recently chemistry department organised an exhibition on crystals which attract several school

students and the enthusiast locals.

Zoology department carried out a biodiversity study of localities close to the college under guidance

of ENDEV to perform a people biodiversity register.

Human resource management

Guest lecturer appointment, TC meeting and sending up faculties for workshop and seminars are part

of the institute.

Industry interaction

Microbiology department and chemistry department have visited several industries with their

students and interacted well with them to share thoughts and knowledge.

6.2.5 How does the Head of the institution ensure that adequate information (from

feedback and personal contacts etc.) is available for the top management and the

stakeholders, to review the activities of the institution?

Adequate information are uploaded to the website or send to the top management and stakeholders through email. The informations are also discussed in the GB meeting as well with the top management and stakeholders.

6.2.6 How does the management encourage and support involvement of the staff in

improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the institutional processes?

The management encourages GL recruitment and support staffs to initiate different methods of

teaching practices for effectiveness and efficiency of the institute.

6.2.7 Enumerate the resolutions made by the Management Council in the last year and

the status of implementation of such resolutions.

GB has resolved to take GL to all the departments those who are lacking manpower. A

bundle of well-educated enthusiastic teachers are newly appointed as GL to take the allotted

classes in the routine.

Opening of PG regular courses in Geography and Computer science was resolved which have

been started in this session.

Opening of PG under Distance learning of VU was also started from this session as resolved

in the GB.

Opening of other undergraduate courses under CU has also been resolved which is yet to start

as the permission from the university is yet to be received.

6.2.8 Does the affiliating university make a provision for according the status of autonomy to an affiliated institution? If ‘yes’, what are the efforts made by the

institution in obtaining autonomy?

Yes.

The Institution has not been applied for autonomy.

6.2.9 How does the Institution ensure that grievances / complaints are promptly attended

to and resolved effectively? Is there a mechanism to analyse the nature of grievances for

promoting better stakeholder relationship?

With the development of science and technology at a rapid pace life has become more challenging

and complex day by day. Every individual must develop the ability to adapt and cope up with those

challenges day in and day out both within and outside the family. Guidance and counseling aimed at

helping individuals to gain insight into themselves and in maximizing their endowed potentials. Since

the aim of education in broader perspective is all round development of an individual therefore

guidance is an integral part of the educational system as it helps in achieving the said goal. Ours is an

under graduate co-educational college mostly consisting of students belonging to the age group of

18/19 years to 21/22 years . This is a transitional phase very delicate and crucial in nature. Student

faces all sorts of emotional crisis, conflicts related to values, attitudes, problems related to academic

choice, vocational choice and so on particularly at this stage. One striking observation is that we

usually find more number of girl students rather than boys who approaches us with problems related

to crisis in relationship (love affairs), tension and anxiety (related to examination), stress, family and

peer pressure, depression (often low self esteem caused by academic failure and social rejection in the

form of criticism leads to pessimistic notion about life). Social relationships constitute a major

problem area for many students which includes broken family, unhealthy family environment,

parental discord, unsuccessful love affairs and likewise. That more girls than boys approaches us

however does not mean that boys do not face such problems but what we feel is that boys are more

desperate and does not feel comfortable to talk about these issues with the teachers rather they feel

free to discuss such issues with their peer groups. The girls on the other hand are still more vulnerable

and insecure and feel free and more approachable to the teachers for help and guidance. The boys

who approaches us mostly comes with academic related problems like poor concentration level, poor

performance in the examination, peer rivalry and so on. We find quite a large number of student both

in honours and general stream who are first generation learners and therefore gets hardly any

academic related assistance or guidance at home. Guidance and counseling helps the students to have

better self understanding and proper adjustment to self and society. We also try to identify and

motivate specially the students from weaker sections of the society. If required we call the parents,

peers or the teaching as well as non teaching faculty to get detailed information regarding the

concerned student so that we can provide necessary help or assistance as per requirement. In case of

critical problems which require more experts intervention we even call parents and advise them to

consult professional counsellors or psychiatrist.

6.2.10 During the last four years, had there been any instances of court cases filed by and

against the institute ? Provide details on the issues and decisions of the courts on these?

No

6.2.11 Does the Institution have a mechanism for analyzing student feedback on

institutional performance? If ‘yes’, what was the outcome and response of the institution

to such an effort?

There is no feedback form as such but the students’ union has the power to provide feedback through

the class representatives to the departmental in charge or directly to the head of institute at any time .

There is an open access of the students to the head and he encourages all the stakeholders of the

college to provide feedback for betterment and upliftment of all the departments of the college.

6.3Faculty Empowerment Strategies

6.3.1 What are the efforts made by the institution to enhance the professional development

of its teaching and non teaching staff?

For faculty development the head and the top management provide permission to the teachers to

attain seminars, refreshers’ course, orientation programmes and workshops.However not only the

teachers but the non teaching staffs are also allowed and encouraged to attain seminars and

workshops related to admission, administration and finance.

6.3.2 What are the strategies adopted by the institution for faculty empowerment through

training, retraining and motivating the employees for the roles and responsibility they perform?

6.3.3 Provide details on the performance appraisal system of the staff to evaluate and

ensure that information on multiple activities is appropriately captured and considered

for better appraisal.

Besides teaching the faculty members are ascertained with other duties like conducting internal and

university examinations, maintenance of discipline, grievance cell, counselling, campusing etc under

different sub- committtees.

All these duties are taken into consideration during Career advancement of the teachers as per DPI

norms and regulation formulated by UGC.

6.3.4 What is the outcome of the review of the performance appraisal reports by the

management and the major decisions taken? Howare they communicated to the

appropriate stakeholders?

6.3.5 What are the welfare schemes available for teaching and non teaching staff? What

percentage of staff have availed the benefit of such schemes in the last four years?

For teachers there are no welfare schemes but for non- teaching staffs there is EPF and ESI health

schemes under which all of them are enrolled and get benefitted as and when required.

6.3.6 What are the measures taken by the Institution for attracting and retaining eminent

faculty? Recruiting faulties is not possible and permitted by the institute. The head can only invite eminent speakers, scientists to deliver lectures on special topics or seminars. 6.4Financial Management and Resource Mobilization

6.4.1 What is the institutional mechanism to monitor effective and efficient use of

available financial resources?

The institute has a strong finance sub-committee which makes policies, budget and decisions to

monitor the efficient use of available funds received from different funding agencies like UGC

, SAAC, DST, MLA-LAD, Higher Education Department.

6.4.2 What are the institutional mechanisms for internal and external audit? When was

the last audit done and what are the major audit objections? Provide the details on

compliance.

Bursar keeps regular information regarding financial position of the college from the office

staffs. Ledger books are maintained to keep the income and expenditure from the college and

different funds. Internal and external audit is done at the end of every financial year.

Last audit report was received on March’14 for the year 2012-2013.

The audit of 2013-14 is due in March ’15 and soon be processed. There is no such major audit

objection ( please check it from sidhu …as what ever I got from suparna di all are same)

Form No. 10BB

Audit Report under section 10 23© of the Income Tax Act,1961, in the case of any Fund or

Trust or Institution or any University or other educational institution or any hospital or other

medical institution referred to in sub-clause (iv) or sub-clause (vi) or sub-clause (via) of section

10(23).

i. We have examined the Balance Sheet as at 31st MARCH,2013 and the Income and

Expenditure or Profit and Loss Account for the year ended on that date attached herewith

of SARSUNA COLLEGE (name of fund or institution or any university or other

educational institution or any hospital or other medical institution).

ii. We certify that the Balance Sheet and the Income and Expenditure Account or Profit and Loss

Account are in agreement with the books od account mainted by the head office at

4/HB/A, Ho-Chi-Minh Sarani, Kolkata-700061.

iii. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standard generally accepted in

India.Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable

assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement(s). An

audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures

in the financial statement. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used

and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial

statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our

opinion.

iv. Subject to the comments below :-

(a) We have obtained all the information and explanation which to the best of our

knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of theaudit.

(b) In our opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the head office and

brances of the above-named fund, or trust, or institution or any university or other

educational institution or any hospital or other medical institution so far as appears

from our examination of the books of accounts.

(c) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the information

given to us, the said accounts resd with notes thereon, if any, given a true and fair

view—

(1) In the case of Balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the above-named fund or

trust, or institution or any university or other educational institution or any

hospital or other medical institution as at 31st March, 2013.

(2) In the case of Income and Expenditure Account or Profit and Loss Account,

surplus or deficit or profit or loss for the year ended on that date.

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6.4.3 What are the major sources of institutional receipts/funding and how is the deficit

managed? Provide audited income and expenditure statement of academic and

administrative activities of the previous four years and the reserve fund/corpus

available with Institutions, if any.

The major sources of fund are UGC, SAAC, DST sponsored MRP in Department of Botany,

Students,MLA – LAD for GIS lab and Higher education department sanctioned fund to

purchase software in geography department. The funds are totally utelised and timely

utelisation certificates are issued and send to the funding agencies.

The deficit is managed by the revenue generated by conducting different competitive

examinations, rent from BSSN,UBI bank, Canteen and Cheep store.

The Institution does not have the provision for the academic and administrative activities audit .

6.4.4 Give details on the efforts made by the institution in securing additional funding

and the utilization of the same (if any).

We applied for additional grant (Rs. 10 lakh) to state Govt. (SAAC). The grant has not been yet

received.

CRITERIA VII: INNOVATIONSAND BEST PRACTICES

7.1Environment Consciousness

7.1.1 Does the Institute conduct a Green Audit of its campus and facilities?

Not Done.

7.1.2 What are the initiatives taken by the college to make the campus eco-friendly?

Plantation

Students’ Union of Sarsuna College through NSS unit has taken an initiative to give the

college an eco-friendly atmosphere. With this noble idea the volunteers (students of our

college) have planted about 200 plants around the college campus. Along with this many

indoor plants are also taken into account. This involvement of the students gives all the

stakeholders of our college a refreshing atmosphere. This activity will develop a sense of

awareness towards environment among the students. Watering of these both outdoor and

indoor plants regularlyhelps the students to inculcate among themselves a sense of social

responsibility toward environment. It also helps to develop a sense of cleanliness towards the

environment. Students of our college have done this job with great enthusiasm. Cleanliness

Cleanliness programme are also taken into account by the Students Union of our college. Students

volunteers of our college have cleaned the surrounding area of the college campus with the objective

to make our college a pollution free environment.

Since students spend most of their crucial time in the college so it becomes the responsibility of every

stakeholder to make the college campus free of pollution.

7.2Innovation

7.2.1 Give details of innovations introduced during the last four years which have created a

positive impact on the functioning of the college.

1) The decision regarding Rotational Headship was taken in the apex body of our college i.e., in

Governing Body and it was activated for the first time in the year 2013. This decision was taken only

for those departments who have at least one full time teacher.

This decision was noble in the sense that it gives equal opportunities to all the full time teachers to

develop competent attitude among them. It also helps to distribute the work load equally and helps to

remove in discrepancies (if any) between teachers and also between teachers and students.

2) Very few department of our college (e.g., English Department) has developed their own email-id

with the objectives that any departmental queries could be solved as early as possible. The respective

department could understand their own problems and it could be solved in short period of time. With

the formation of this id, students of the respective department are benefitted and they can

communicate with their respective departmental teachers.

3)In the year 2014, Sarsuna College has formed a NSS unit with a basic objective to arouse and enrich

the social consciousness of students.

Thalassemia camp was set up in our college campus with the objectives to make the students aware of

this disease. It was done with the assistant of doctors from the renowned institution i.e.,SCHOOL OF

TROPICAL MEDICINES. This camp was set up periodically with some objectives. In the first phase

it was organised to make the students aware about this disease. In the second phase, blood samples

were collected to enquire about the numbers. These samples were taken from the students along with

the teaching and nonteaching staff of our college. This camp gives us a great satisfaction as the

students of our college are benefitted most. Along with the students, teachers and non-teaching staff

of our college came to know about this disease. Parents of the thalassemia detected students are also

invited so that they could know about the causes and the necessary steps for diagnosis of their

children. 7.3Best Practices

7.3.1 Elaborate on any two best practices which have contributed to the achievement of the

Institutional Objectives and/or contributed to the Quality improvement of the core activities of the

college. 1. Title of the Practice

1) Plantation and Cleanliness Programme

2) Health Camp organised by the students’ union of and NSS unit ofSarsunaCollege.

2. Goal

1) The Programme of Cleanliness and Plantation :

These programme is done very frequently by the Students’ Union of Sarsuna College with an

aim to understand the importance of environment and to inculcate among themselves the

practice of remains clean. This initiatives will necessary develop a sense of responsibility

toward the environment, towards the society, awareness about the environmental

pollution,develop competence required for group living and sharing of responsibilities, gain

skills in mobilizing community participation;

2) Blood Donation Camp:

This camp has beenarranged last year by Students’ Union of Sarsuna College.Blood

donation is the best service to the human kind. By donating the blood, one helps the

needy and may save a precious life.This initiative has a positive impact among the

students.Through this camp volunteers have develop leadership quality and democratic

attitude within them, helps to develop social responsibility among the students. This

camp helps the students aware about their blood group also.Truly this initiative will have

a great positive impact on the society.

3) Thalasemmia Camp

Sarsuna College NSS unit and Students’ Union had organised Thalassemia camp last year in our

college campus with the objectives to make the students aware of this disease. Students along

with the teachers and staff of our college are benefitted most.All the participants came to know

about the causes of this disease and the measures that have to be taken when needed. Truly this

was a noble task taken by our college towards nation building. As we all know that health is

wealth so it is our prime responsibility to enquire about the diseases and its pros and cons.

Therefore we think that our college has gone ahead towards nation development. Both students,

teachers and non teaching staff through their combined participation get a sense of involvement

in the tasks of nation building.

3. The Context

Blood donation camp which was organised last year by the Students’ Union of Sarsuna

College with the association of Health Point, a Blood Bank,is a challenging task before

the students. This noble objective cannot be done forcefully. Regular counselling is

needed so that they could voluntarily donate the blood to serve the purpose. Organisers

were very careful about the needles that are to be injected to the human bodyas any

contamination may lead to deadly disease like AIDS. Special care is needed to avoid this

contamination so that no infected bloods are stored in the Blood Bank. Therefore before

this camp blood sample were taken to test HIV or Thalassemia. The students of our

college have done this task successfully with the help of Health Point, a Blood Bank. If

for some students the results come out negative, the parents are invited and made them

aware of it. Identified students along with their parents are counselled in a separate

event.They are told about the diseases, how it spreads and about the necessary steps taken

to prevent further contamination. As most of the students of our college are coming from

marginalised families and most of them are first generation learners, this noble initiative

will be a great help for them. It develops a sense of responsibility towards the society.

These are the first steps that were handled very carefully by the volunteers of the

Students’ Union of our college.

Another challenging task before the Students’ Union is to remove the fear of needles. It is

found that most of the students who are eager to voluntarily donate the blood are afraid of

needle.Organisers have very successfully overcome this issue.

4. The Practice

NSS unit and Students’ Union ofSarsuna College in association with the SCHOOL OF

TROPICAL MEDICINES had organized a thalassemia camp last year. Our Teacher-in- Charge

had officially inaugurated the camp and appreciated the efforts of the volunteers towards this

noble cause. There was a great deal of enthusiasm among the students during the camp. It was

the first time in our college and great many people comprising of students, teachers and

nonteaching staff had participated. Refreshments, Certificates & Donor Cards were given to all

the donors. It is undoubtedly a noble task by the students to come forward to organize such

events of social benefit.

However this camp was a challenging task before the NSS unit and Students’ Union of our

college. It is because of the fact that most of the students do not have the sense of awareness

about this disease. They are very much ignorant and did not take it seriously. They do not even

have the inquisitiveness about the programme. For them they come to college to serve the

purpose of education. Even if the organisers are able to gather the students they are not at all

ready to give sample of their blood to test for the disease. They are of the opinion that they are

young and there is no chance to have this diseasewithin themselves. Moreover the parents of the

thalasemmia identified (about 5%,mainly carrier) students were not very much informative

about this disease. After this camp, the situations have changed. Students now have acquired

responsibility towards their health, towards the health of the society. Parents of thalassemia

identified (mainly carrier) students were regularly counseled and now they are very much

aware of this disease.

Definitely, this task was a challenging issue before the organisers and they are able to overcome

these hurdles. The attitudes of the students towards this health camp have now changed.

Today everyone is talking about Human Development Index (HDI). In today’s world a nation is

developed if this HDI has highest value. This HDI is nothing but the index of three items-

income, education and health. So health is one of the constituents for the development of the

nation. So if this health is ignored a nation could not be developed. A healthy student and a

conscious students could only take the nation towards the path of development.

Definitely, through these type of programme students have developed skill within themselves

and attitudes towards community. The outcome of a nation depends on a persons skill and

attitudes. At the lower level skill cannot help to generate greater output per worker than the

higher level skilled workers. Therefore the rate of social progress and development depends

naturally on the level of education. The higher the level of education is, the faster the socio

economic, political and cultural could take place.

5. Evidence of Success

Provide evidence of success such as performance against targets and benchmarks and

review results. What do these results indicate? Describe in about 200 words.

It is no doubt that organising a health camp is a noble task by the Students’ Union and NSS unit

of Sarsuna College. All the participants consisting of students, teachers and nonteaching staff

had actively participated in this programme. Volunteers had worked enthusiastically to make

this programme a great success.Great success in the sense that during the ongoing process

volunteers had to overcome many challenges. The first and most important challenge was the

students’ participation ratio. This ratio was likely to be lower in the sense that most of the

students possess a negative attitude toward such type of events. The percentage of absenteeism

was also lower during this period. Another most important problem that the organisers faced

was shortage of fund. Mainly due to this problem, the organisers could not conduct the

programmeat a large scale. About 17%(comprising both Blood Donation camp and Thalassemia

Camp) of the total stakeholders had participated actively in this programme and made it a

success. Though the participation figure in this programme is not up to the mark however we

would call it a success. This is because organizing the students in one cell is not an easy task for

the organisers. Even if they succeed in this part they had to step back in organizing the

programme at large scale for financial crunch. However, at the end we could say that our

students now have understood the positive impact about this programme. Most of the time they

enquired about the next camp for such type of programme. If we now have an adequate fund

then the organisers may conduct the programme at large scale.

6. Problems Encountered and Resources Required

Please identify the problems encountered and resources (Financial, Human and other)

required to implement the practice in about 150 words.

This practice is no doubt a noble venture of the Students’ Union and the NSS unit of our

college. All the volunteers comprising students, teachers and nonteaching staff had participated

actively and made it a great success. Success in the sense that all the volunteers faced massive

hurdles to organise such events. During the process of on-going event it had become a general

tendency of most of the students not to come to college. Most of the students are of the opinion

that such practices are of no help to them. College are meant only for studies. If they feel any

difficulties about their health they will go to any clinic for testing. They are of the opinion that

no measures will be taken by the volunteers at the time of need. Moreover most of the students

were not willing to give blood for testing. They were giving vague issues for not to give

blood.To overcome such situations, volunteers had conducted a counselling centre before such

events to counsel all those students who possessed negative attitude towards such events. This

was first hurdle that the organisers faced. The next most important hurdle come from the side

of those parents whose child was identified (about 5%) as the carrier of such diseases. The

organisers also counselled all those parents and they were succeed in the process. Now they are

benefitted most and their children are undertreatment. Such events made the students very

activce and had develop among themselves a sense of awareness. The last hurdle was the

financial crunch in conducting such programme.

7. Notes (Optional)

Any other information that may be relevant and important to the reader for adopting/

implementing the Best Practice in their institution (about 150 words).

8. Contact Details

Name of the Principal: SRI ARUN KUMAR DAWN, TEACHER – IN -CHARGE

Name of the Institution: SARSUNA COLLEGE

City: KOLKATA

Pin Code: 700061

Accredited Status:

Work Phone : 033- 24524104

Fax: 033- 24523699033-

24523699

Website: www.sarsunacollege.ac.in Mail:arunkumandawn8@gmail.

com

Mobile: +9109432299379

3. Evaluative Report of the Departments

ARTS

BENGALI:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

1. Name of the department BENGALI DEPARTMENT

2. Year of Establishment 1999 (GEN), 2001 (HONS)

3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) UG

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved No

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) ANNUAL

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments

taking compulsory Bnengali classes in BSc, BCom faculty in our college

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. NO

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons NA

9. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate 0

0

Professors 0

0

Asst. Professors

2

2

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10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Dr. Tanmay Bir

MA, Ph.D

Asst. Prof. HOD

Modern Indian Literature

12+ One

not yet registered

Sri Madhab

Sarkar MA. Asst. Prof.

Literature of Bangladesh

9+ 0

Sri Ishita Dutta

MA. PTT

Novel & short story

14+ 0

Sri Debabdrata Chakraborty

MA. (Ph.D pursing)

PTT Novel & short

story 14+ 0

Sri Somnath Mondal

MA, MPhil, (PhD

Pursuing) Guest 2+ 0

11. List of senior visiting faculty Dr. Shakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyaya ( Honorary) Dr. Kanonbihari Goswami

12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme

wise) by temporary faculty

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) Hons 14 : 1 Gen 60:1

14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled 0

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.

PhD - 01

PhD - 01 (pursuing)

16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received

1. UGC sponsored Major Research Project has been awarded to Dr. Tanmay

Bir in the year 2015

17. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received

Two day National Seminar on the Rs.1,50,000

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University No

19. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor

h-index

20. Areas of consultancy and income generated NO

21. Faculty as members in

a) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards….

Dr. Tanmay Bir 1. Exicutive Member of SEW (NGO) 2.

Member of editorial board SEW Magazine (ISSN) 3.

Member of editorial board Saparja, (ISSN Jounal) 4.

Member of editorial board ARATRIK (ISSN Magazine).

Sri MAdhab Sarkar 1.Member of editorial board Saparja

(ISSN Journal)

Sri Debabrata Chakraborty 1. Member of editorial board

Saparja, (ISSN Journal)

Smt Ishita Dutta 1. Member of editorial board Saparja,

(ISSN Journal)

Sri Somnath Mondal 1. Member of editorial board

Saparja, (ISSN Journal)

22. Student projects

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme NO

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies

23. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students

24. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

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25. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

a. National

UGC National Seminar in Collaboration with Banaras Hindu University on An

Introspection of Bengali Language and Literature outside West Bengal (in India) and

its Destiny

b. International UG Department Not eligible for International seminar.

26. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

B.A (H) BENGALI 200 65 15 44 76.6

*M = Male *F = Female

27. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

B.A (HONS AND GEN) BENGALI

100% ------ ------

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. NET- 3 .

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29. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

30%

PG to M.Phil. 1%

PG to Ph.D.

1%

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

-------

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities

a. Library: Total Books = 3810 ( College Library = 3550 copy & Departmental

Library = 260 copy).

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: One Laptop & Desktop computer with

Internet facilities for Staff.

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: NIL.

d. Laboratories : NIL.

31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts: A series of special lectures have

been done in every year in different topics by eminent professor.

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning lecture, audio visual,

educational tour.

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: NIL 35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

Every year the department of Bengali of Sarsuna College publishes two wall magazines (one on

21 February & other on 22 se shraban) and Saparja--a departmental journal (ISSN). Already we have a huge number of books for honours as well as pass courses. The number of books are being increased in every year in college library, where not only test-books but also some extra knowledge books are being increased. Apart from that there is a

departmental library where from every students can collect their necessary books as early as possible.

Instead of lecture method, the students get the facilities of audio-visual method and extra classes

also. We arrange Seminar Lecture by the visiting eminent professor every year for the benefit of our

students. We would like to increase this kind of Seminar.

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EDUCATION:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

Name of the department : EDUCATION

1. Year of Establishment : 1999

2. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.): UG

(i) B.A. (Education General-)-Since 1999

(ii) B.A. (Education Honours) - Since 2003-2004 ;

3. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

4. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

5. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: N.A.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. :

Nil

7. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

8. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Nil

Nil

Associate Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors Two

Two

9. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

No. of No. of

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

Years of Experience

Ph.D. Students

guided for the last 4

years

Dr. Indrani Nath

M.Phil; B.Ed; Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Mental Hygiene and

Special Education

11 Two (jointly)

Dr. Pintu Kumar Maji

M.Phil; B.Ed; Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Evaluation in Education and

Educational Technology

4 Nil

Jayeeta Pal M.A., B.Ed. Govt. Approved Part-time Lecturer

Curriculum studies &

Special Education

10

Nil

Ranu Roy M.A. Guest lecturer

Teacher education &

Envirormental education

2 Nil

Shree Chatterjee

M.A., B.Ed. Guest lecturer

Special education &

Environmental education

1 Nil

10.List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

11. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise) by

temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

Education Honours 15% Nil

Education General 20% N.A.

12. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

Education (Hons.): 1: 8 Education (General) : 1:120

13.Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned and

filled : Sanctioned : N.A. Filled - N.A.

14. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

M.Phil & Ph.D.: Two PG : Three

15. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received:

Dr. Pintu Kumar Maji: National: one International: Nil

01. Research focused on the ‘Measuring 3‘R’s (Reuse, Reduce and Recycle) Practices for

Sustainable Lifestyle in the context of Environmental Education of college students, UGC

Minor Project, New Delhi, India

16. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants

received : Nil

17. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: N.A.

18. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

Dr. Indrani Nath : 4

Dr. Pintu Kumar Maji : 6

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) by faculty and students

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor (IF)

h-index

Publications :

Dr. Indrani Nath:

Articles:

4. Nath,I. and Halder,K. (2007). Poverty and illiteracy: tarnishing twins of time,

Anwesa, vol 2, pp 12-19 (ISSN: 0973-5895).

5. Nath,I., Halder,K. and Maiti, N.C. (2013). Elementary education of slum children :

an attempt to reach the un-reached, Indian Journal of Educational Research, vol 2,

pp 68-81 (ISSN: 2277-3819).

6. Nath,I. and Halder, K.(2014). Public private partnership in Indian education,

Magis, Xaverian Journal of Education, vol 3, pp 52-66 (ISSN: 2319-3239).

Book:

2. Halder, K. and Nath, I. (2014). Bharatiyo Sikshar Samprotik Bishoy, K.

Chakraborty publication, Kolkata (ISBN: 81-904263-9-7).

Dr. Pintu Kumar Maji :

.

7. Maji, P.K., and Ali, R. (2014). Locus of Control, Environmental Attitude and Environmental

Action amongst School Students, MAGIS’ – Xaverian Journal of Education, v3, p

67-76 (ISSN: 2319-3239).

8. Maji, P.K., and Sengupta, M., and Banerjee, D. (2013).The Effect of Inclusion on the Locus of

Control and Environment Related Behaviour of the Students with Visual

Impairment. International Research Journal Persons with Special Needs and

Rehabilitation Management, v3, p74-84 (ISSN: 2321-9254).

9. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2012). Environment Related Behaviour of

Students with Visual Impairment: An Exploratory Factor Analysis. Indian Journal

of Educational Research, v1, p 65-81(ISSN: 2277-3819).

10. Sengupta, M., and Maji, P.K. (2011). Ecological value and pro-environmental behaviour

amongst secondary school students living in the Sundarbans. ANWESA, A Journal

of Education, v 6, p 8-21 (ISSN: 0973-5895).

11. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2010). Environmental awareness and Action

amongst visually impaired students. Indian Journal of Special Education, v 1, n 1, p

54-66 (ISSN: 2229-3612).

12. Sengupta, M., Banerjee, D., and Maji, P.K. (2010). Environmental attitude, ecological value

and pro-environmental behaviour amongst secondary school students with visual

impairment. Educatum, Journal of Education and Behavioural Science, v 4, n 1, p

8-16 (ISSN: 0975-2641).

Ranu Roy:

Book:

1. Banerjee,D. and Roy,R. (2013). Study on working women in higher

education and their freedom in decision making. Pp 1-7, Victorious

publishers (India) (ISBN: 978-81-92474-4-1)

19.Areas of consultancy and income generated: NA

20.Faculty as members in

a) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards:

Dr. IndraniNath life member of All India Association for Educational

Research.

21.Student projects:

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme:

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: N.A.

22. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

23. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department: Nil

24.Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding: Nil

c. National

d. International

25.Student profile programme/course wise: 2013-2014

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

Education Honours 93 40 11 8 63%

*M = Male *F = Female

26. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

Education Honours 100% 0% 0%

Education General 100% 0% 0%

27. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such

as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ? Net cleared 4 (four) students.

28. Student progression:

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

25%

PG to M.Phil. Nil

PG to Ph.D.

0.01

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Nil

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

Exact data not available

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

Data not available

29.Details of Infrastructural facilities:

a.Library: Central Library and Departmental Library

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with wireless Broadband

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

d. Laboratories: N.A.

30. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government

or other agencies:

Approximately 10

31. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar) with

external experts: Nil

32. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

i) Use of overhead projectors for 5% lectures.

ii) Use of PowerPoint presentations and LCD projector for selected lectures.

iii) Use of computer animations and multimedia for selected lectures.

33. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 34. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The Education department is successfully conducting the Education General Course since 1999 and Education Honours course since 2003 under University of Calcutta.

The Department consists of young and dynamic faculty who always sincerely and dedicatedly looks after the academic requirements of each and every student with utmost care and affection. The department has a well-stocked seminar library with a good collection of valuable reference books which the teachers as well as students can consult as and when required. The central library allows students to borrow sufficient number of books to fulfil their requirements. Day issue facility of books are also available for the students. Two of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees from University of Calcutta and have a very good research career behind them. Others hold post-graduate degrees among them two holds B.Ed degree also. Lectures and practical classes are held with utmost regularity and meticulous care. Overhead projectors are often used for lectures and occasionally LCD projector is employed for power point presentations for selected lectures. Computer facility with wireless and broadband internet access is provided to all faculty members and students. Excursions and field trips though not prescribed in the under graduate C.U. syllabus but are still quite often under taken specially for the honours students. Those places/ locations/institutions are chosen for the field trip that are somehow related to their syllabus so that the students can have a firsthand experience of what they are taught in the class room. Students are always very enthusiastic in this regard and they really enjoys such kind of educational trips. But since most of the students comes

from economically weaker families and the department does not get any financial assistance from college or else where in this regard so because of the monetary constraints on the part of the students the department has to organise such trips to near by places therby curtailing the travelling expense.. Project work which is again not included in their syllabus are assigned to the students. Topics are selected from their syllabus. The objective of assigning such task is to provide the students ample opportunity for self study, freedom to work independently, providing basic training to carry research work, writing reports, systematically presenting their findings, analysing and drawing conclusion, helping them in bibliography writing. Departmental seminars are also organised regularly where the students presents paper using power point or OHP , followed by open discussion on it by the students as well as the teachers. Students of the department also puts up wall magazine where they expresses their views on various topics or current issues.

The main weakness of the Department is shortage of full time faculty. In comparison to the huge enrolment particularly in the general course the teacher pupil ratio is quite poor. Secondly, if more fund was allocated for book purchase then we could have provided our students with more variety of books as such exposure to good and variety of books will definitely help them to improve the quality of self study, to improve the answer quality and so on. Thirdly, there is acute shortage of rooms particularly for conducting practical classes. Fourthly, if we could have provided our students with a computer laboratory then we could have taught them how to use computer for various statistical analysis which woud have helped them in near future as such kind of basic knowledge is very essential these days. Fifthly, the quality of students admitted is not of a very high standard yet our faculty members really works hard and tries to guide and motivate them constantly so that they can produce their best in them. We are very proud that the very first honours batch of our department obtained three ranks in the final University examination 1st, 5th and 10th position respectively. In the consecutive years also almost regularly students are getting some position/rank in the final University examination. Many students have completed their post graduation course. Many of them have completed B.Ed course and are working in schools as para teachers as well as appointed by School Service Commission as full time faculty. One of our ex student is pursing Ph.D course under University of Calcutta. Many of our ex-students are teaching in colleges as well as in post graduate level in distance mode as guest lecturer, part time lecturer, full time faculty or PCP instructor. Many of our ex-students after completing their post graduation have also joined the college and served as a part time or guest lecturers.

We also intend to improve our research infrastructure to become self-sufficient as much as possible. In future, we aspire to introduce a regular M.A. course and offer facilities for Ph.D. research to qualified candidates.

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Affiliated/Constituent Colleges HISTORY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

1. Name of the department HISTORY

2. Year of Establishment 1999

3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) UG

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved NIL

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)ANNUAL

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments NIL

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

NIL

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

9. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned Filled

Professors Associate

NIL

NIL

Professors NIL

NIL

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10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of Years of Experience

No. of Ph.D. Students guided for the last 4 years

ANAMITRA CHATTOPADHYAY COLONIAL INDIA 14 NIL NAMITA BOSE GOVT. APPROVED PART-TIME LECTURER ANCIENT INDIA 16 NIL SUBHASHIS GHOSH GOVT. APPROVED PART-TIME LECTURER MODERN EUROPE 11 NIL AMIT KUMAR CHATTOPADHYAY GOVT.APPROVED PART-TIME LECTURER MEDIEVAL INDIA 10 NIL CHANDRANI ROYCHOWDHURY GUEST-LECTURER MEDIEVAL INDIA 4 NIL MOUSHUMI HALDER GUEST-LECTURER MODERN INDIA 1 NIL

11. List of senior visiting faculty NIL

12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by

temporary faculty GUEST LECTURERS- LECTURES DELIVERED: 99.99%

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 1:12

14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned

and filled -NIL

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.- PG

16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received -NIL

17. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received UGC SPONSORED STATE-LEVEL SEMINAR ON MARCH21, 2015

(2014-15)

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University NO

19. Publications:

a) Publication per faculty

Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) by faculty and students

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

Monographs

Chapter in Books 1)Anamitra Chattopadhyay, Ouponobesik Banglay Dakati: Prasanga Hooghly Zella(Dacoity in Colonial Bengal:District Hooghly) in Hooghly Zella Sekal O Ekal (Hooghly District: Past and Present), August 2010, pub. Kanakshali Recreation Club, Chinsura, Hooghly, ISBN no.978-81-908627-0-7.

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers:

Anamitra Chattopadhyay

Ouponobesik Banglay Dakati: Prasanga Hooghly Zella(Dacoity in Colonial Bengal:District Hooghly) in Hooghly Zella Sekal O Ekal (Hooghly District: Past and Present), August 2010, pub. Kanakshali Recreation Club, Chinsura, Hooghly, ISBN no.978-81-908627-0-7.

Crime in Pre and Early Colonial Bengal, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, ISSN -0033-5800. (To Be Published)

2) Subhashis Ghosh,

Drozu Saheber Bichar (Trial of Drozu Sahib),Sahitya Darpan, (Puja Oct-Dec) 2012.

Ekti Bibahabichhed O Englande Dharma Sanskar (A Divorce and A Religious Reform in England), Sahitya Darpan, (Puja Oct-Dec) 2013.

Dwarakanath- Bangiyo Renaissance er Bismrito Pothikrit (Dwarakanath- The Unsung Hero of Bengal Renaissance), Ekhan Roddur, (April 2011).

Drakula- Uponyaser Charitra Ebong Itihas ( Drakula- A Fictional Characterv and History), Ekhan Roddur, (Puja 2011).

Sohorer Aaloy Ek Bhabaghure (A Vagabond In The Light Of A City), Ekhan Roddur, (Puja 2012).

Jamidar Dwarakanath (Zamindar Dwarakanath), Ekhan Roddur (April 2013).

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20. Areas of consultancy and income generated

21. Faculty as members in

a. National committees b) International Committees c)

Editorial Boards….

22. Student projects

c. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme

d. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies

23. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students

24. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

department: Eminent Academician Dr. Saktisadhan Mukherjee, Reader, Dept. Of Bengali, Khiderpore College,

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25.Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

e. National

f. State: UGC Sponsored State-Level Seminar on ‘Colonial Calcutta: Varied Faces- A Retrospection’ to be held on March 21, 2015.

26. Student profile programme/course wise: (2011-14)

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

History Honours 224 55 18 12 88.46%

*M = Male *F = Female

27. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

History Honours 100% 0% 0%

History General 100% 0% 0%

27. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ? 10 students

have cleared School Service Commission Test.

28. Student Progression:

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

40%

PG to M.Phil. Nil

PG to Ph.D.

Nil

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Nil

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

Exact data not available

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

70%

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29. Details of Infrastructural facilities

e. Library: no. of Books- 1450

f. Internet facilities for Staff & Students : Internet wi-fi facility available in Staff Room. Desktop for each Department and Notepad to the Head of the Department. Students can access internet in Library.

g. Class rooms with ICT facility

h. Laboratories

Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university,

government or other agencies: SC Stipend from Government- 14

Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)

with external experts:

30.Special lecture by Dr. Saktisadhan Mukherjee, Reader, Khidirpur College on Italiyo

Renaissance o Banglar Renaissance (Comparative Study of Renaissance in Italy and

Bengal Renaissance) in 2006.

31. Departmental Seminars arranged. In 2005 Seminar Lecture on ‘Acharya Jagadish

Chandra Bose and History’ delivered by Professor Chittabrata Palit.

32. In 2006 Departmental Seminar Lectures on Banghadip Parajay ( An Old Text- A

Testimony Of The History of Kolkata with special reference to Sarsuna) Delivered by

Professor Anirudhha Ray ( on Historical context) and Dr. Saktisadhan Mukherjee (on

Literary context).

These lectures enormously benefit the students in getting knowledge of the various

nuances of history.

Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

The students of the Department of History are shown films based on history every year to enable them study history in an interesting manner. They have been shown films like ‘Gandhi’, ‘The Great Dictator’, ‘Bose- The Forgotten Hero’, ‘Apocalipto’, ‘Jodha Akbar’, ‘1942’(Bengali), ‘’Vidyasagar’(Bengali).

The Department of History has arranged educational Excursion-

1. Serampore, Hooghly, Chinsura, Chandannagar(2004)

2. Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata (2004)

3. Indian Museum (2005)

4. Museum of Sabarna Roychoudhuri Sangrahasala (The Zamindar family from whom the British received Kolkata)

5. Khana- Mihir Dhibi (Remnants of the palace of Barahamihir and Khana) and Chandraketugarh (2005)

6. National Library (2006)

7. Murshidabad (2007)

8. Nabadwip, Mayapur, Lakshman Sener Dhibi (Palace of the last Sena King of Bengal Lakshman Sen)(2008)

9. Murshidabad (2009)

10. Malda, Gour, Pandua (2010)

They have been shown a presentation on rare artefacts preserved in the Libraries and Museums of the U.S.A.

Students are encouraged to wall up their Departmental Wall- Magazine ‘Kristi’ every year which helps them gather an idea of research and presentation.

Students are encouraged to present Seminar lectures on variety of Historical facts every year.

Students are encouraged to engrave sculptures on historical subjects like Indus Valley Civilization and Khajuraho temple structure.

Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities

SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

To the students the study of history as a bookworm can only be too boring. Feeling the essence of history is most necessary in order to get into the subject. This feeling of history can come only if we encourage students visit various historical sites including museums. The University Syllabus does not sanction any help (both financial and academic) to augment such projects . However the Department of History, Sarsuna College has always endeavoured to organise visits to various historical sites as well as museums to cater to their students’ need who come from semi-urban areas, financially weak families, minority communities and yet have exhaustive interest in taking part in these projects. Our College has been providing a limited portion of the expense the major portion being expensed by teachers and students. Following is the list of excursions undertaken by the Department:

1. Serampore, Hooghly, Chinsura, Chandannagar(2004)

2. Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata (2004)

3.Indian Museum (2005)

4.Museum of Sabarna Roychoudhuri Sangrahasala (The Zamindar family from

whom the British received Kolkata)

5. Khana- Mihir Dhibi (Remnants of the palace of Barahamihir and Khana) and Chandraketugarh (2005)

6. National Library (2006)

7. Murshidabad (2007)

8. Nabadwip, Mayapur, Lakshman Sener Dhibi (Palace of the last Sena King of Bengal Lakshman Sen)(2008)

9. Murshidabad (2009)

10. Malda, Gour, Pandua (2010)

The Department of History also has published a departmental journal named ‘Kalottirno’ in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Enormously enriching articles from eminent historians have been put into these volumes which cater the students with knowledge other than the regular text syllabi. However as the College is unable to grant the money any further and as no provision has been given of any financial help to encourage this move from any institution other than our College the Department has failed to continue the publication of such enriching journal.

POLITICAL SCIENCE:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

1 Name of the Department: Political Science

2. Year of Establishment: 1999

Name of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D.,

Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.): UG

(i) B.A. General - Since 1999

(ii) B.A. Honours - Since 2001

3. Name of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: NA

4. Annual/ Semester/Choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

5. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other departments: N.A.

(a) Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign

institutions, etc. : N A

(b) Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: N A

(c) Number of teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professor Nil

Nil

Associate Professor One

One

Asst. Professor One

Nil

6. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Arun Kumar Dawn

M.A (Ph D

pursuing)

Associate Professor

International Relations

33 N A

Susmita Medda (Dutta)

M.A Part Time Lecturer

(Govt. Approved)

India and Her Neighbours

12 N A

Swagata Saha M.A. Guest lecturer

International Relations

04

N A

Arpan Mandal M.A. M.Phil Guest lecturer

Research Methodology

03 N A

7. List of senior visiting faculty: N A 8. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise) by temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

Political Science

Honours

75% N A

Political Science

General

75% N.A.

8. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

Honours: 1: 8 General: 1:120

9. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned

and filled : Sanctioned : N A Filled – N A

10. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

M.A: Three, M. A. & M. Phil : One

11. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received:

Arun Kumar Dawn: National (UGC/Minor)) - One

International: N A

Name of the Project: Eradication of Poverty and the role of some specific ‘Self

Help Groups’ (SHGs) in the region adjacent to Kolkata

City in the District of South 24 Parganas

12. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received : N A

13. Research Centre /Facility recognized by the University: N A

14. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals

(national /international) by faculty and students

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Monographs

Chapter in Books,

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor (IF)

h-index

Publications :

Arun Kumar Dawn:

Books:

1. Dawn, Arun Kumar, Policy of the Government of India and the Question of

Sustainable Development in the Eleventh Plan Period, 2007-2012: A

Perspective, in Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach,

Jointly Edited by Chakraborty, Dr. Pinaki, Dasgupta Smt.Piyali. Mandal (Pandit)

Dr. Chamelli pp - 111-123, 2011 (ISBN: 978-81-924076-8-5)

Articles:

7. Dawn, Arun Kumar, Sachar Committee Recommendations and its Implications

in West Bengal, New Man & Society, Vol-02, No. 01, January-June 2011 pp 66-74

(ISSN 2231-6698)

8. Dawn, Arun Kumar, Decentralised Planning and the Formation of a District

Planning Committee in West Bengal: An Overview, Sarsuna College Journal of

Political Science, Vol-1, March 2010, pp-94-100

9. Dawn, Arun Kumar, Quantitative Research: Introduction to the Sampling

Process in Sarsuna College Journal of Political Science, Vol-2, March 2014, pp-76-

86

15. Areas of consultancy and income generated: N A

16. Faculty as members in:

Arun Kumar Dawn as

(i) Founding member and Vice President of the Kolkata Centre for Contemporary Studies

(ii) Life time member of the West Bengal Political Science Association

(iii) Former Member of the Ethical Committee of Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College & Hospital, Kolkata

(iv) Treasurer (2009-2013), South 24- Parganas District Committee, WBCUTA

(v) Member of the WBCUTA & AIFUCTO

17. Student projects:

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme: N A

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: N A

18. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: N A

19. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department:

1. Prof. Radha Raman Chakraborti, Former V C, Netaji Open University

2. Prof. Samir Kumar Das, Former V C, North Bengal University

3. Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay, University of Calcutta

4. Prof. Arunava Ghosh, Rabindra Bharati University

5. Prof. Anirudh Despande, Delhi University

6. Prof. Apurba Barua, North Eastern Hill University

7. Prof. Ashokendu Sengupta, WB Higher Education Service

8. Prof. Sujato Bhadra, Kolkata based Human Rights Activist

9. Sri Gautam Navlakha, Delhi based Human Rights Activist

10. Sri Prasant Rahi, Uttarakhand based Human Rights Activist

11. Sri Subir Bhowmik, Former Journalist, BBC

12. Sri Rajat Ray, Journalist, Kolkata TV

13. Prof. Amit Bhattacharjee, Jadavpur University

14. Prof. Dwaipan Bhattacharjee, Centre for Studies in Social Science (ICSSR)

15. Sri Naba Dutta, Kolkata based Human Rights Activist

16. Prof. Apurba Mukhopadhyay, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies

17. Dr. Subrata Bagchi, Kidderpur College, Kolkata

18. Sri Santosh Chowdhury, Kandi Raj College, Murshidabad

19. Sri Saugata Ray, Former Central Minister

20. Sri Santosh Rana, Leftist Political Leader

20. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding:

g. National: ‘Inauguration of a New Political, Culture based on the Politics of Non

Violence and Assimilation in Violence and Terror hit areas of Midnapore (East &

West), Bankura and Purulia District in South West Bengal erupting in last few years

i.e. 2005-2011’ on 23rd & 24th March 2012 (UGC Funded)

h. International: N A

21. Student profile programme/course wise: 2011-2014

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

Political Science Honours

105 55 12 11 100%

Political Science General

*M = Male *F = Female

22. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

Honours 100% 0% 0%

General 100% 0% 0%

23. How many students have cleared national and state competitive

examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services,

etc. Data not available

24. Student progression:

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

25%

PG to M.Phil.

PG to Ph.D.

Do

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Do

Employed

Campus selection

* Other than campus recruitment

Exact data not available

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

Data not available

25. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

Library: Central Library and Departmental Library

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with

wireless Broadband

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

d. Laboratories: N.A.

26. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university,

government or other agencies: Data not available with the Department

27. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar)

with external experts: Various Seminar, workshop and Interface Programmes

28. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

iv) Use of overhead projectors for 5% lectures.

v) Use of PowerPoint presentations and LCD projector for selected lectures.

vi) Use of computer animations and multimedia for selected lectures.

29. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: N A

30. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The Department of Political Science is one of the finest ones in our college not only in contents but also in forms. In spite of absence of good number of teachers thanks to the policy of the Govt. of West Bengal, our department has been successfully conducting both the General and Honours courses since 1999 and 2001 respectively. The college has recruited Part Time, Guest and Contractual teachers several times on the basis of academic merit and interview. The process seems to be much conducive to the interests of student. We organise seminar, workshop and interface programmes regularly for the students where most of the resource persons are usually invited from different segments of the society in order to enrich them. We have also recently started publishing Departmental Journal which tends to gather knowledge under a single roof. We have in the meantime collected/purchased a good number of reference books in the Seminar as well as Central Library where the students even at Post Graduate level could avail of the benefits. We also subscribe to many national periodicals/journals regularly so that the students can be accustomed to a better academic environment.

We believe that our Discipline helps the students to know the process of decision making with the help of understanding government and political affairs at local, regional, national and international levels. We also orient our beloved students to develop capacity of analysis, interpretation and evaluation.

The Department badly needs a sizable amount of teachers, financial assistance for procuring books, journals and technical devises both for the students and staff. We need more and more workshop, seminar and academic interface programmes. It is also our

humble ambition to introduce training programme for the students for different competitive examination.

Only then, we will remain content with our mission.

COMMERCE:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4

pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

10. Name of the department: COMMERCE

11. Year of Establishment: 1999

12. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.): UG

(i) B. Com Pass/General since 1999

(ii) B. Com Honours in Accounting since 2001

(iii) B. Com Honours in Marketing since 2003

13. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: Nil

14. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

15. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Nil

16. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc: Nil.

17. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

18. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate Nil

Nil

Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors Three

Two

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11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D.

/ M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of Experience

No. of Ph.D. Students

guided for the last 4 years

Sanjib Mitra

M. com Assisstant Professor

Accounting 14 Nil

Uttam Kumar Bhakta

M. com, M. Phill

Assisstant Professor

Marketing Management

14 Nil

Rupa Mukherjee

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 15 Nil

Prasanta Parai

M.A. (Economics)

Ph. D.

Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Econometrics

15

Nil

Smarajit Bhaumick

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 15 Nil

Subrata Sarkar

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 13 Nil

Netai Biswas

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 13 Nil

Partha Mitra M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 13 Nil

Raja Dey M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 11 Nil

Shibsankar Naskar

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 10 Nil

Rima Banerjee

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 7 Nil

Leenapriya De M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 6 Nil

Piyali Chatterjee

M. com Part Time Teacher(govt.)

Accounting 6 Nil

Swapna Das M. Sc (Math) Guest Lecturer

Algebra & Analysis

01 Nil

20. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

21. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by

temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Com. (Honours) 50% 70%

B.Com. (General) 55% 100%

22. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Com. (Honours): 28.57 : 1 B.Com. (General): 42.85 : 1

23. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and

filled: Nil

24. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Ph. D: One, M. Phil: One, PG: 12

25. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received: Nil

26. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants

received: Nil

27. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: Nil

28. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty

(i) Sanjib Mitra: 03

(ii) Uttam Kumar Bhakta:

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) by faculty and students

Faculty: Nil Students: Nil

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) : Nil

Monographs : Nil

Chapter in Books :

Sanjib Mitra: 3

(iii) Mitra, S. (2014). Socio-Economic Drivers of Financial Inclusion: An

Empirical Study. Contemporary Issues in Business Studies, Ed. Prof.

Sharmistha Banerjee, UGC-ASC-CU and Department of Business

Management-CU, Kolkata, 5-15. [ISBN 978-81-927807-3-3].

(iv) Mitra, S. (2012). Taxation of Mutual Funds and Investors: A Theoretical

Analysis. Mutual Funds, Retail Investors and SEBI. Ed. Dr. Sujit Kr. Das,

Department of Commerce, New Alipore College, Kolkata, 212-227

[ISBN-978-81-924140-9-6].

(iii) Mitra, S. (2012). IFRS Implementation in Indian Banks: Some Key Issues.

Seminar Volume on Indian Accounting Standards: Convergence with IFRSs, Ed.

Amal Kr. Bhakat, Department of Commerce, P. N. Das College, Palta and

Indian Accounting Association, Law Point Publication, Kolkata, 185-200 [ISBN

978-93-82472-68-1].

Uttam Kumar Bhakta:

Books Edited : Nil

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers : Nil

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22. Areas of consultancy and income generated : Nil

23. Faculty as members in

b) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. : NIl

23. Student projects

e. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including

inter departmental/programme : 100% students of B. Com (Honours)

Final Year (143 students for the session 2014-15). About 14% of total

students.

f. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other

agencies : Nil

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i. National

j. International

27. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

Honours 393 143 106 37 100%

*M = Male *F = Female

28. Diversity of Students

Name of the Course

% of students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

Honours 100%

General 100%

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30. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

PG to M.Phil.

PG to Ph.D.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

31. Details of Infrastructural facilities

i. Library: Plenty of Text and Reference books on each subject in the Central library.

j. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Yes

k. Class rooms with ICT facility: The department has no permanent class room with ICT facility.

The department has one LCD Projector, one DTU, one Laptop computer and two Note books (mini

laptop). With the help of above, smart classes with Power Point Presentations are arranged as and when

required. Moreover, the college has two common class rooms with ICT facility. Smart classes are also

held there.

l. Laboratories: There are 24 desk top computers fully equipped with latest version of required

softwares (Windows 7, Tally etc.). The IT Laboratory has a broadband connection for Internet

facility.

36. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies

37. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts: Occasionally special lectures on

contemporary topics are delivered by external experts. Again seminar lecture

competition of honours students are also held in the department.

38. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

(i) Use of laptop computer and LCD Projector in the class room.

(ii) Use of Internet facility (particularly UGC Inflibnet E-Resource) for literature survey of B.

Com Honours Project Work.

(iii) Often Project copies are sent by the students to the respective Supervisor-Teacher

through e-mail and the same are sent back to the students after necessary corrections.

39. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension

Activities: Students regularly participate in all such programmes organised by the NSS

wing of the college.

40. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

S (Strength): Experienced as well as young, energetic & dynamic faculty; Well equipped IT Lab; Rich collection of text and

reference books; Special lectures and tutorial classes; career counselling and placement programme; Departmental journal and wall

magazine.

W (Weakness): Lack of permanent faculty; Inadequate fund allocation for expansion of Lab and acquisition of modern

teaching–learning aids; Insufficient budgetary support for books and journals.

O (Opportunity): Scope for establishment of departmental library; to utilize the IT lab along with the faculty for conducting

allied courses and also for undertaking research projects.

C (Challenge): To impart quality and value education so that more number of students can go for PG and/or Professional

courses ; to develop the application skill to enable the students for employment in general and self employment in particular and

last but not the least, to motivate and train the students in entrepreneurship development so that they can establish their own

business unit and become a future industrialist of the country.

Future Plans: To Introduce Post Graduate course on regular basis; To arrange for short term On-the-job training

(Internship) in collaboration with the industry; To conduct Professional/job oriented courses; To organise greater number of special

lectures and seminars for the students; To Interact regularly with the Professional Institutes for improvement of students

knowledge, skill and thereby employment opportunity.

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BIO CHEMISTRY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

1. Name of the department – Biochemistry (H+G)

2. Year of Establishment – 2004 (JULY)

3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) – UG and Pass

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved- Nil

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) - Annual

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments –

Microbiology and Chemistry

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.- Nil

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons- Nil

9. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate

Professors

Asst. Professors NIL

NIL

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10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of Experience

No. of Ph.D. Students guided for the last 4 years

Monorama

Polley

Mondal

MSc, PhD Part time

lecturer

Biochemistry 12 years NIL

Surajit Sinha

MSc, PhD Part time

lecturer

Physiology 10 years NIL

Swagatika

Samantaray

MSc, M.Phil Part time

lecturer

Organic

chemistry

6 years NIL

Sarbari

Mukherji

MSc, PhD Part time

lecturer

Physical

chemistry

10 years NIL

Arijita Sen MSc Guest

lecturer

Biochemistry 1 year NIL

11. List of senior visiting faculty-NIL

12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by

temporary faculty- Arijita Sen

Theory class- 57 , Practical- 21

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) – 31:5

14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned

and filled- one (college appointed)

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.

Name

Qualification

Monorama Polley Mondal

MSc, PhD

Surajit Sinha

MSc, PhD

Swagatika Samantaray

MSc, M.Phil

Sarbari Mukherji

MSc, PhD

Arijita Sen MSc

16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received-NIL

17. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received-NIL

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University-NIL

19. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students

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Monographs

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Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

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PAPERS ( MANORAMA POLLEY MONDAL)

1. Kalkier mK9: A prorenin converting enzyme, in hypertensive mice. Uddin, M. Polley-Mandal, M. and

Beg, O.U. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 304: 724-728, 2003.

2. Elevation of oxidative stress in aorta of genetically hypertensive mice. Mukarram Uddin, Hong Yang,

Mingjian Shi, Manorama Polley-Mandal and Zhing Mao Guo. (Mechanism of ageing and development,vol 124

Issue- 7,2003 811-817)

3. Brain regional adenylate cyclase activity: Effect of Theophylline under nontolerant and tolerant

conditions.M.Mandal and M.K. Poddar. Biogenic Amines, 16, No. 3,(2001) 251-268.

4. Possible mechanism of interaction of GABAergic Adenosinergic systems in the regulation of theophylline-

Research induced locomotor activity under its nontolerant and tolerant conditions. M. Mandal and M.K. Poddar.

Neurochemical, 24 (1999) 757-765.

5. Hippocampal Serotonin: Effect of theophylline in nontolerant, tolerant and withdrawal rats. M. Mandal and

M.K Poddar. Biogenic Amines, 15 (1999) 217-228.

6. Theophylline withdrawal stimulates brain regional serotonin. M. Mandal and M.K. Poddar. Journal of

Serotonin Research, 4 (1998) 273-282.

7. Brain regional serotonergic activity: Effects of theophylline in nontolerant and tolerant rats. M. Mandal and

M.K. Poddar. Journal of Serotonin Research, 4 (1998) 283-293.

ABSTRACTS

1. Kalkrein-like enzymes modulation in genetically inbred hypertensive mice. Uddin, M. and Polley-Mandal,

M. FASEB Meeting, April 11-15, 2003, San Diego. CA

2. Sequencing and restriction enzyme analysis of the promoter region of kallikrein-like prprenin converting

enzyme C in hyper, hypo and Normotensive mice. Uddin, M. and Polley-Mandal, M. 8 th RCMI International

Symposium on Health Disparities, Dec. 8-11, 2002, The University of Hawaii, Hawaii.

3. Elevation of oxidative stress in the aorta of hypertensive mice. Uddin, M., Hong Yang, Yingehun Zhang,

Mingjian, Shi, Polley-Mandal, M. and Zhing Mao, Guo. American Heart Association’s. 56th Annual Fall

Conference on High Blood Pressure Research. Sep. 18th 2002, Orlando, FL.

4. Binding of HeLa nuclear transcription factor to promoter regions of prorenin converting enzymes mK9,

mK13, mK22 in normotensive, hypertensive and hypotensive mice.FASEB Meeting, April, 20-24, New Orleans,

2002.

5. Withdrawal of theoohylline: Effect of hippocampal GABA ergic system and Ca 2+ - ATPase in relation to

locomotor activity. Mandal. M. and Poddar M.K. IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience and Federation of

Asian Oceanian Neuroscience Socities (FAONS). Symposium. 20th Scientific Meeting. Dec. 7-10 2000.

6. Brain regional adenosinergic activity: Withdrawal effect of theophylline. M.K.Poddar and M. Mandal. 4th

International Congress, Polish Neuroscience Society, Poland. Sep. 5-12, 1999

7. Withdrawal effect of theophylline on brain regional gamma-aminobutyric acid. M.K. Poddar and M.

Mandal. 5th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience. Jerusalem, Israel. It was held on July 11th-16th, 1999.

8. Theophylline withdrawal reduces locomotor activity: Possible mechanism of involvement of central

GABAergic- Serotonergic interaction. M.K. Poddar and M. Mandal. International Colliquium on “Brain

Research” Organized by National Brain Research Centre(NBRC) Oct. 1-3, 1999.

9. Is hippocampal serotonin involved in theophylline-induced locomotor activity under nontolerant, tolerant and

withdrawal conditions ? M.K. Poddar and M. Mandal. Neuropharmacology FAOPS. Congress, Brisbrane,

Queenstand, Australia. Sept. 27 to 1st Oct. 1998.

10. Brain regional GABA: Effect of theophylline in nontolerant and tolerant rats. M. Mandal and M.K. Poddar.

J. Pharmacol. Presented in the 1st Asia pacific international colliqullum on neuroscience. Singapore, Dec. 15-17,

1994

11. Effect of repeated administration of theophylline on adenosine deaminase activity in mammalian brain

regions. M.K. Poddar and M. Mandal. J. Neurochemistry, 61 (Suppl.), S 81, 1993.

12. Effect of theophylline on adenylate cyclase activity in mammalian brain regions. M K. Poddar, M. Mandal

and S. Mukhopadhyay. Proc. 1st APSN Meeting Oct. 22-23 (1992) p. 106, Nagoya, Japan.

Chapter

M.K. Poddar, M. Mandal and S. Mukhopadhyay. Theophylline-induced locomotor activity in nontolerant and

tolerant mammals: Involvement of central serotonergic activity. In: Environment and Physiology. B.N. Mallick

and R. Singh (Eds.) (1993) pp. 80-90. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, India.

PAPERS ( SWAGATIKA SAMANTARAY)

List of Publications

1. Using phosphorus of MoO3/ZSM-5 to modify performance in methane

dehydoaromatisation. S. Burns, J.S.J. Hargreaves, P.Pal, K. M. Parida, S. Parija, J. Molecular catalysis, A: Chemical 245 (2005) 141-146.

2. The effect of dopants on the activity of MoO3/ZSM-5 catalysts for the dehydroaromatisation of methane. S. Burns, J.S.J. Hargreaves, P.Pal, K. M. Parida, S. Parija, Catalysis Today, 114, 4 (2006) 383-387.

3. Photocatalytic degradation of phenol under solar radiation using microwave irradiated zinc oxide, K.M. Parida, Swagatika Parija. Solar Energy 80, 8 (2006) 1048-1054.

4. Preparation, characterization of molybdophosphoric and tungstophosphoric

acid intercalated zinc aluminium hydrotalcite like compounds and their catalytic evaluation towards the oxidative bromination of phenol. K.M. Parida, S. Parija, J.Das, P.S. Mukherjee. Catalysis communication 7, 11 (2006) 913-919.

20. Areas of consultancy and income generated -NIL

21. Faculty as members in

c) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards….-

NIL

22. Student projects

g. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including

inter departmental/programme- NIL

h. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies- NIL

23. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students- NIL

24. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department

Dr.Sandip Kumar Bandhopadhay( Reader,department of

biochemistry,IPGM,Kolkata): He gave series of lectures on clinical biochemistry on one day per

week.

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25.Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

k. National: NIL

l. International: NIL

26. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

B.Sc (H)

Biochemistry(BCMA)

84 35 04 13 53

*M = Male *F = Female

27. Diversity of Students Name of the Course

% of students from the same state

% of students from other States

% of students from abroad

B.Sc (H)

Biochemistry(BCMA

100 NIL NIL

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such

as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?

NET - ONE

SLET - NIL

GATE- TWO

CIVIL SERVICE- NIL

DEFENCESERVICE-NIL

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29. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

65

PG to M.Phil. NIL

PG to Ph.D.

10

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

3

Employed

Campus selection Other than campus

recruitment

NIL 62

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment 2

30.Details of Infrastructural facilities:

m. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: YES

n. Class rooms with ICT facility: YES

o. Laboratories:

A) INSTRUMENT:

Sl.No. DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENT QUANTITY

1. UV SPECTROMETER 1

2. COLORIMETER 2

3. PH METER 2

4. INCUBATOR(AT 37o) 2

5. LAMINAR 1

6. POTENTIOMETER 1

7.

8.

CENTRIFUGE

MICROCENTRIFUGE

1

2

9. ELECTRONIC WEIGHING MACHINE

2

10. ORDINARY WEIGHING MACHINE 1

11. DISTILLED WATER PLANT 1

12. AUTOCLAVE 1

13. INCUBATOR WITH SHAKER 1

14. OVEN 1

15. CONDUCTIVITY METER 1

16. ANALYTICAL BALANCE 6

17. MICROSCOPE 2

18. POLARIMETER 1

19. FURNACE 1

20. ELECTROPHORESIS TANK 4

21. MICROPIPPETE 4

22. STIRER 1

23. VORTEX 1

24. UV ILLUMINATOR 1

B) ASSET OF LABORATORY:

Sl.No DESCRIPTION QUANTITY

1. COMPUTER 1

2. LAPTOP 1

3. LASER PRINTER 1

4. UPS 1

5. WHITE BOARD 1

6. WOODEN WALL CABINET 6

7. STUDENT WORKING BENCHE AND TABLE 3

8. WORKING TABLE 3

9. EXHAUST FAN 2

10. FIRE EXTINGUISHER 1

11. FRIDGE 2

12. ALMIRAH 1

C) DESCRIPTION OF THE LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT:

The area of laboratory is near about 800 sqft. The room is airy. Available water supply is there. The lab is divided into four chambers and has well equipped gas line and well designed drainage system. 4 wooden working table is there for the students.

D) LIBRARY:

SEMINAR CENTRAL

Around 70 books Around 300 books

41. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies – 0

42. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts: Seminar and student reunion

come competition.

A) STUDENT SEMINAR COME COMPETITION ON 2005,2006 &2009

B) SEMINAR BY PROFESSORS FROM DIFFERENT COLLEGES

21.09.2006- Prof. A .B. Banerjee, (department of Biochemistry,CU)

Dr.Sandip Kumar Bandhopadhay( Reader,department of

biochemistry,IPGM,Kolkata)

01.12.2006- (World’s Aids Day :

Avik Mukherjee (Research Scholar ,West Bengal University Of

Technology)

08.12.2007- Biochemistry- Dr. Aditi Nag Chowdhury (Lady Brabourne College

HOD of microbiology department)

43. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning-

a) Chalk & Talk(maximum). b) Overhead Projection

44. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities- NIL 45. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans – STRENGTH:

Biochemistry department set up at 2004. From 2004 till now the lab has been remodelled. The laboratory is well equipped with all kinds of old and new instruments as well as apparatus. This lab can accommodate quite a good number of students to work together.

The list of instruments has already been given in tabular form. Apart from laboratory our departmental library is also well known for varieties of books of Indian as well as International authors, which can guide our students in theatricals as well as practical aspects. To build up keen interest on this subject students are allowed to give postal presentation as well as seminars upon various topics of their own scientific interest.

Weakness:

1) Laboratory setup should be upgraded if we plan to commence the Post Graduate programme.

2) As this is a new invented subject we are getting less number of students and also some

student drop out.

Opportunity:

Here students get different kinds of theoretical as well as practical knowledge on clinical,

molecular as well as enzymological technique.

Challenges:

To give students keen interest on this newly invented subject and helping them to build up a

competitive attitude, so that they can carry forward their career on this subject in India as well as

in abroad.

Future plan:

1) To organise state level and national level seminar for the sake of students by renowned

professor of biochemistry from different university and institute.

2) Every year we want to organise seminar competition among students.

3) We want to arrange summer project and workshop for the students sponsored by UGC

4) Thinking about starting Post Graduate programme on biochemistry in distance.

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about 3-4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

19. Name of the department : BOTANY

20. Year of Establishment : 2002

21. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D.,

Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):

(iii) B.Sc. (General)-Since 2002 (ii) B.Sc. (Honours) - Since 2012-2013 ;

22. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

23. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

24. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Some classes of the Biochemistry and Geography departments are taken by our faculty members, when invited.

25. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign

institutions, etc. : Nil

26. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

27. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Nil

Nil

Associate Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors One

One

12. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Dr. Sanchaita Lala

Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics ;

Nanomedicine

Eight One (jointly)

Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das)

Ph.D. Contractual Full-time Lecturer

Plant Taxonomy;

Plant Biotechnology

Two Nil

Subhamoy Chatterjee

M.Sc. Govt. Approved Part-time Lecturer

Cell Biology, Molecular

Genetics and Plant

Biotechnology

Eight

Nil

29. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

30. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme

wise) by temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Sc. (Honours) 24.48% 18.18%

B.Sc. (General) 80% 64.28%

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Sc. (Hons.): 1: 5 B.Sc. (General) : 1:15

17. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned

and filled : Sanctioned : Nil Filled - One (temporary)

18. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Ph.D.: Two PG : One

19. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received: Nil

20. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received :

DBT One (joint) ` 51.75 lakhs

21. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: No

22. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

Dr. Sanchaita Lala : 10

Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das) : 7

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) by faculty and students

Faculty:

a) Dr. Sanchaita Lala : 10

b) Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das) : 7

Students: Nil

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Dr. Sanchaita Lala: 9

Dr. Mithu Biswas(Das) : 5

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Dr. Sanchaita Lala: 1

ii) Basu M.K. and Lala S. (2006) Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery to the Reticulo-

endothelial System and to Associated Disorders.(Chapter 21) In:

Nanoparticulates as Drug Carriers. Ed. Torchilin V.P. Imperial College Press,

London pp. 463-480. (ISBN 1-86094-630-5).(*Citations 3)

Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das): 2

iii) Singh A, Das M, Bal S and Banerjee R. (2014) Rice Processing (Chapter 4)

In: Engineering Aspects of Cereal and Cereal- Based Products Ed. Raquel de

Pinho Ferreira Guine’ Paula Maria dos Reis Correia; CRC Press, Taylor &

Francis. (ISBN 13: 978-1-4398-8702-8) (*Citation 1 )

iv) Bhanja T, Das M, Banerjee R.(2008) Downstream Processing of Biologicals:

A Strategic Approach.(Chapter 9) In: Advances in Fermentation Technology Ed.

A. Pandey, C. Larroche, C. R. Soccol and C. Dussap; Asiatech Publishers Inc., .

(ISBN 13: 978-8-1876-8018-5 )

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Publications in National and International Journals :

Dr. Sanchaita Lala :

i) Maity A., Hazra A., Palit P., Mondal S., Lala S., Mondal N.B.(2013) The cytotoxic

effects of diketopiperazines against Leishmania donovani promastigotes and

amastigotes. Medicinal Chemistry Research 22(7): 3452-3458.(*Citations 3 *SNIP

0.800 *SJR 0.355 *IF 1.612)

ii) Bhowal S.K, Lala S., Hazra A, Paira P., Banerjee S., Mondal N.B., Chakraborty

S.(2008) Synthesis and assessment of fertility-regulating potential of 2-(2''-

chloroacetamidobenzyl)-3-(3'-indolyl) quinoline in adult rats as a male

contraceptive agent. Contraception. 77(3): 214-222. (*Citations 10 * SNIP 1.096

*SJR 1.333 *IF 2.327)

iii) Lala S., Gupta S., Sahu N.P., Mandal D., Mondal N.B., Moulik S.P., Basu

M.K.(2006) Critical evaluation of the therapeutic potential of bassic acid

entrapped in oil-in-water microemulsions and poly-lactide nanoparticles

against experimental leishmaniasis. Journal of Drug Targeting 14(4):171-179.

(*Citations 20 *SNIP 0.671 *SJR 0.715 * IF 1.699)

iv) Gupta S., Lala S., Sanyal S.K., Dutta S., Basu M.K., Moulik S.P.(2005) Designing

and testing of an effective oil-in-water microemulsion drug delivery system for

in vivo application. Drug Delivery. 12(5): 267-273. (*Citations 29 *SNIP 0.534

*SJR 0.385 *IF 1.067 )

v) Tyagi R., Lala S., Verma A.K., Nandy A.K., Mahato S.B., Maitra A.N., Basu

M.K.(2005) Targeted delivery of arjunglucoside I using surface hydrophilic and

hydrophobic nanocarriers to combat experimental leishmaniasis. Journal of Drug

Targeting. 13(3): 161-171. (*Citations 48 *SNIP 0.615 *SJR 0.706 *IF 1.569 )

vi) Basu M.K. and Lala S. (2004) Macrophage specific drug delivery in

experimental leishmaniasis. (Review) Current Molecular Medicine. 4(6):681-

689.(*Citations 51 *SNIP 1.095 *SJR 1.779 *I.F. 4.94 )

vii)Lala S., Pramanick S, Mukhopadhyay S., Bandyopadhyay S., Basu M.K (2004).

Harmine: Evaluation of its antileishmanial properties in various delivery

systems. Journal of Drug Targeting. 12(3): 165-175.(*Citations 68 , *SNIP 0.609

*SJR 0.696 *IF 1.907)

viii)Lala S., Nandy A.K., Mahato S.B., Basu M.K. (2003) Delivery in vivo of 14-

deoxy-11-oxoandrographolide, an antileishmanial agent, by different drug

carriers. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 40(3):169-174.(*Citations 18

*SNIP 0.267 *SJR 0.187 *IF 0.252 )

ix) Chakraborty S. and Lala S. (1998) Assessment of the antifertility effect of

phaseolinone, an antileishmanial agent, in male rats. Contraception. 58(3):183-191.

(*Citations 7 *SNIP 1.107 *SJR 1.098 *IF 1.615)

Citation indices All Since 2010

Citations 256 156

h-index 7 7

i10 index 7 6

Dr. Mithu Biswas (Das) :

vi) Das M., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties of

Enzyme Treated Brown Rice (Part B) J. of Food Science and Technology, 41 (10): 2092-

2097. (*Citations 30 *SNIP 0.380 *SJR 0.210 *IF 2.545)

vii) Das M., Gupta S., Kapoor V., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Enzymatic Polishing of Rice

– A New Processing Technology (Part A), J. of Food Science and Technology, 41 (10):

2079-2084. (*Citations 37 *SNIP 0.380 *SJR 0.210 *IF 2.545)

viii) Das M., Banerjee R., Bal S.(2008) Multivariable parameter optimization for

endoglucanase production by Trichoderma reesei Rut C-30 from Ocimum gratissimum

seed J. Braz. Arch. Biol. Technol. 51 (1): 35 – 41. (*Citations 11 *SNIP *SJR: *IF 0.45)

ix) Roy R, Das M., Banerjee R., Bhowmick AK.(2006) Comparative studies on

crosslinked and uncrosslinked natural rubber biodegradation by Pseudomonas sp.,

Bioresource Technology, 97 : 2485-2488. (*Citations 7 *SNIP 1.988 *SJR 1.342 *IF-

4.980)

x) Roy R., Das M, Banerjee R., Bhowmick AK. (2006) Comparative studies on rubber

biodegradation through solid-state and submerged fermentation, Process

Biochemistry, 41 :181-186.(*Citations 13 *SNIP 1.562 *SJR 1.172 *IF- 2.627)

Citation indices All Since 2010

Citations 99 83

h-index 5 4

i10 index 4 4

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil

25. Faculty as members in

b) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards: Nil

26. Student projects: Nil

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme: N.A.

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: N.A.

27. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

28. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department: Nil

29. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding: Nil

m. National

n. International

28. Student profile programme/course wise: 2013-2014

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

B.Sc. (Honours) 90 23 17 6

B.Sc.(General) 15 15 12 3

*M = Male *F = Female

29. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

B.Sc. (Honours) 100% 0% 0%

B.Sc. (General) 100% 0% 0%

30. How many students have cleared national and state competitive

examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ?

31. Student progression: Our first B.Sc. (Honours) batch has not yet graduated.

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

Not Applicable (N.A.).

PG to M.Phil. N.A.

PG to Ph.D.

N.A.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

N.A

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

N.A

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

32. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

a. Library: Seminar Library with Reading facility

No. of books: 185 (approx.)

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with wireless Broadband

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

d. Laboratories: The Botany laboratory is equipped with refrigerated ultracentrifuge, clinical centrifuge, distillation plant, digital microbalance, digital balance, magnetic stirrer, cyclomixer, pH meter, digital colorimeter, digital spectrophotometer, light microscope with photographic attachment, laminar air flow cabinet, thermostatic and B.O.D. incubators, autoclave, thermostatic water bath along with simple and compound microscopes , stage and ocular micrometers and camera lucidas for all students as well as a good collection of permanent slides, herbarium sheets and preserved jar specimens.

46. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university,

government or other agencies:

B.Sc. (Honours): 7 (SC stipend) B.Sc (General) : 7 (SC stipend)

47. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar)

with external experts: Nil

48. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

vii) Use of overhead projectors for 90% lectures, especially to show diagrams.

viii) Use of Powerpoint presentations and LCD projector for selected lectures.

ix) Use of computer animations and multimedia for selected lectures.

49. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 50. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The Botany department is successfully conducting the B.Sc. (General) Course of the University of Calcutta since 2002. The B.Sc.(Honours) course has been introduced in the session 2012-2013 and its first batch is about to graduate.

The Department prides itself on its modern infrastructure and young and dynamic faculty. It has a well-stocked seminar library with a good collection of valuable reference books. Its lending library, integrated with the main college library, allows students to borrow sufficient books for their academic needs. The sincerity and efficiency of our faculty members is lauded throughout the college. Two of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees from premier Institutes and have a very good research career behind them. Others hold post-graduate degrees. Lectures and practical classes are held with utmost regularity and meticulous care. Overhead projectors are used regularly for lectures and occasionally an LCD projector is employed for Powerpoint presentations. A few lectures use multimedia and computer animations. Computer facilities with wireless broadband internet access is provided to faculty and students. The laboratory is well equipped with scientific instruments and specimens as mentioned earlier. Our department is probably the only undergraduate department in the city of Kolkata to have a refrigerated ultracentrifuge. Excursions and field studies are organised regularly as prescribed in the Syllabus.

The main weakness of the Department is that, the quality of students admitted not being of a very high standard, their academic performance is often unsatisfactory. Moreover, the research facilities in the Department are in the process of being developed and are not yet adequate. The lack of sufficient laboratory space is a serious constraint in expansion.

The Department is at present in the process of expanding its academic activities. The B.Sc. (Honours) course has just gained foothold. The M.Sc.(Distance Education) course of the Directorate of Distance Education, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal is about to be introduced from the current session (2014-2015). Occasionally, the Department endeavours to conduct vocational training courses and workshops to prepare students for employment, especially self-employment. A proposal for such a workshop on cultivation of edible mushrooms has been submitted to UGC for approval and funding.

We also intend to improve our research infrastructure to become self-sufficient as much as possible. A tissue culture facility is in the anvil. We are making efforts to procure funds to purchase some sophisticated research instruments like a lyophilizer, sonicator, carbondioxide incubator etc. In future, we aspire to introduce a regular M.Sc. course and offer facilities for Ph.D. research to qualified candidates.

CHEMISTRY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4

pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

28. Name of the department : CHEMISTRY

29. Year of Establishment : 2001

30. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):

(iv) B.Sc. (General)-Since 2001-2002 (ii) B.Sc. (Honours) - Since 2002-2003

31. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

32. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

33. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Some classes of

the Biochemistry department are taken by our faculty members, when invited.

34. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. :

Nil

35. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

36. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Nil

Nil

Associate Professors One

One

Asst. Professors Two

Two

13. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of

Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students

guided for

the last 4

years

Dr. Suparna Pal

Ph.D. Associate

Professor

Organic

Chemistry

Eighteen Nil

Dr. Ashis Dey Ph.D. Assistant

Professor

Physical

Chemistry

Eight Nil

Dr. Ujjwal Das Ph.D Assistant

Professor

Inorganic

Chemistry

Seven

Nil

Sipra Sen M.Sc. Part-

timer(Govt.a

pproved

Organic

Chemistry

Ten Nil

Subholakshmi

Ghosh

M.Sc. Part-

timer(Govt.a

pproved)

Organic

Chemistry

Nine Nil

Dr. Niren Ch.

Gayen

Ph.D Guest

Lecturer

Inorganic

Chemistry

Forty Nil

Dr. Sharmistha

Dhatt

Ph.D Guest

Lecturer

Physical

Chemistry

Two Nil

31. List of senior visiting faculty: l (Dr. Niren Ch. Gayen)

32. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise) by

temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Sc. (Honours) 27.7% 12.5%

B.Sc. (General) 70% 60% 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Sc. (Hons.): 11:1 B.Sc. (General): 50:1

23. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned and filled

: Sanctioned : 1 Filled - Three ( One sanctioned and Two temporary )

24. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Ph.D.: Five PG : Two

25. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received: One

26. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants

received :

UGC Two 03.43 lakhs

27. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: No

28. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

Dr. Suparna Pal : 7

Dr. Ashis Dey : 13

Dr. Ujjwal Das : 1

Dr. Sarmistha Dhatt : 10

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national

/international) by faculty and students

Faculty: 31

Students: Nil

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Monographs

* Chapter in Books

* Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor (IF)

h-index

Publications in National and International Journals :

Dr. Suparna Pal

1."Dimeric Phenanthrenes from the orchid Bulbophyllum reptans" by Majumder.P.L.,Pal.S.

& Majumder.S. Phytochemistry,1999,50,891-897

2. "Rigidanthrin,a new dimeric phenanthrene derivative of the orchid Bulbophyllum

rigidum" by Majumder.P.L.,Bandyopadhyay.S & Pal. S.,J.Indian chem..Soc.,2008,85,1116-

1123

3."A Steroidal ester from Coelogyne Uniflora" by Majumder P.L.&

Pal.S.,Phytochemistry,1990,29(8),2717-2720.

4. "Occurrence of lignans in the orchidaceae plants Lusia volucris and Bulbophyllum triste"

by Majumder.P.L.,Lahiri.S.& Pal.S.,J.Indian Chem.Soc.,1994,71,645-647.

5."Rotundatin,a new 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene derivative from Dendrobium rotundatum"

by Majumder.P.L. & Pal.S.,Phytochemistry,1992,31(9),3225-3228.

6."Cumulatin and tristin,two bibenzyl derivatives from the orchids Dendrobium Cumulatum

and Bulbophyllum triste"by Majumder.P.L. & Pal.S.,Phytochemistry, 1993,32(6),1561-

1565.

7. "A novel method of carbon-carbon bond formation at the benzylic carbon of 9,10-

dihydrophenanthropyrans with methyl ketones by the action of phosmolybdic acid on silica

gel support" by Majumder P.L. & Pal.S.,J.Indian Chem.Soc.,1993.

Dr. Ashis Dey :

1. “A novel technique for the fabrication of Near-Net-Shape CMCs” by A. Dey, M.

Chatterjee, M. K. Naskar, S. K. Dalui and K. Basu, Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 25, No. 6,

2002.

2. “Near-net-shape fibre reinforced ceramic matrix composites by the sol infiltration

technique”, A. Dey, M. Chatterjee, M. K. Naskar, K. Basu, Materials Letters, 57

(2003) 2919-2926.

3. “Effects of processing parameters on the fabrication of near-net-shape fibre

reinforced oxide ceramic matrix composites via sol-gel route” M. K. Naskar, M.

Chatterjee, A. Dey and K. Basu, Ceramic International, 30 (2004), 257-265.

4. “Characterization and dielectric properties of polyaniline-TiO2 nanocomposites”;

Ashis Dey, Sukanta De, Amitabha De and S. K. De; Nanotechnology, 15 (2004)

1277-1283.

5. “Charge transport mechanism of vanadium pentoxide xerogel - Polyaniline

nanocomposite”; Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S. K. De; The European Physical

Journal B., 46 (2005) 355-361.

6. “Electrical transport and dielectric relaxation in Fe3O4-polypyrrole hybrid

nanocomposites, Ashis Dey, Amitabha De and S. K. De, J. Phys: Condens. Matter,

17 (2005) 5895-5910.

7. “Proton and electron conduction in polymer intercalated vanadium pentoxide

xerogel”, Sukanta De, Ashis Dey, and S. K. De, Solid State Ionics, 177 (2006) 245.

8. “Characterization and transport properties of intercalated polypyrrole - vanadium

pentoxide xerogel nanocomposite”; Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S. K. De; Solid State

Communications, 137 (2006) 662.

9. “Giant dielectric constant in titania nanoparticles embedded in conducting polymer

matrix”, Ashis Dey, Sukanta De, Amitabha De and S. K. De, J. Nanosci.

Nanotechnol, 6 (2006) 1427-1436.

10. Impedance and dielectric spectra in zirconia-polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites,

Ashis Dey and S. K. De, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 39 (2006) 4077-4086.

11. Conductivity relaxation in zirconia nanoparticles dispersed in conducting polymer,

Ashis Dey and S. K. De, J. Appl. Poly. Sci. 105 (2007) 2225-2235.

12. Large dielectric constant in zirconia polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites, Ashis Dey

and S. K. De, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol, 7 (2007) 2010-2015.

13. Structure, morphology and ionic conductivity of solid polymer electrolyte Arup Dey,

S. Karan, Ashis Dey and S.K. De, Mater. Res. Bull. 46 (2011) 2009-2015.

Dr. Ujjwal Das :

1.

RhCl3-Assisted C-H and C-S Bond Scissions: Isomeric Self-Association of Organorhodium(III)

Thiolato Complex. Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemistry

K. Pramanik, U. Das, B. Adhikari, D. Chopra and H. Stoeckli-Evans, Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 429–438.

Dr. Sarmistha Dhatt :

Thesis publications

1. A perturbation theory without energy corrections.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, Int. J. Quantum .Chem. 111 (2011) 1950

2. Concurrent multiple-state analytic perturbation theory via supersymmetry.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, J. Math. Phys. 52 (2011) 042101

3. Surprises in nonlinear perturbations: Case of a multiple well potential problem.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, Int. J. Quantum. Chem. 112 (2012) 171

4. Infinite square well with a sinusoidal bottom: a candidate for the Klauder

phenomenon?

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, J. Math. Chem. 50 (2012) 9

5. Embedding Scaling Relations in Pade Approximants: Detours to Tame Divergent

Perturbation Series.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, Int. J. Quantum. Chem 113 (2013) 916.

6. Asymptotic response of observables from divergent weak-coupling expansions: A

fractional- calculus-assisted Padé technique.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, Physical Review E 86 (2012) 026711.

7. Single-substrate Enzyme Kinetics: The Quasi-steady-state Approximation and

Beyond.

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, J. Math. Chem. 51 2013) 1467.

Post-thesis publications 8. Accurate estimates of asymptotic indices via fractional calculus

S. Dhatt and K. Bhattacharyya, J. Math. Chem. DOI 10.1007/s10910-013-0258-0

9. Enzyme Kinetics: A critique of the Quasi-Steady State-Approximations.

K. Bhattacharyya and S. Dhatt, MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 70 (2013)

759-784

10. Understanding malignancy and viral action: An extended Michaelis Menten type

model for T-cell proliferation (Communicated) 2014.

S. Dhatt

Ciation indices

Citations

h-index

i10 index

27. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil

28. Faculty as members in

c) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards: Nil

29. Student projects: Nil

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme: N.A.

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution

i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: N.A.

Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

30. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department: Nil

31. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding: Nil

o. National

p. International

29. Student profile programme/course wise: 2013-2014

Name of the

Course/programme

(refer question no.

4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

B.Sc. (Honours)

B.Sc.(General)

*M = Male *F = Female

30. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course

% of

students

from the

same state

% of students

from other

States

% of

students

from abroad

B.Sc. (Honours) 100% 0% 0%

B.Sc. (General) 100% 0% 0%

31. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such

as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ? 32. Student progression:.

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

PG to M.Phil. N.A.

PG to Ph.D.

N.A.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral N.A

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

N.A

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

33. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

a. Library: Seminar Library with Reading facility

No. of books: 300(approx.)

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with wireless

Broadband

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

d. Laboratories: The Chemistry laboratory is equipped with centrifuge, distillation plant, digital

microbalance, digital balance, magnetic stirrer, pH meter, digital colorimeter, FT-IR &VIS UV

spectrophotometer, potentiometer, conductivity meter, vacuum pump & oven, & various

glasswares and organic & inorganic chemicals that can be used in UG & PG courses.

51. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or

other agencies:

B.Sc. (Honours): B.Sc (General) :

52. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar) with

external experts: Nil

53. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

x) Use of overhead projectors for 90% lectures, especially to show diagrams.

xi) Use of Powerpoint presentations and LCD projector for selected lectures.

xii) Use of computer animations and multimedia for selected lectures.

54. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension

Activities: Nil

55. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

Strengths: Inspiring team of students and teachers- to work together.

Senior faculty members

Well equipped laboratory facility

Modern instrumental facility.

Weaknesses: Lack of teachers

Lack of space

Syllabus bound work no apprenticeship

Opportunities: Projects to meet reality with targets

Involve students for training and apprenticeship

Collaboration efforts

Challenges: To make classes more technology intensive

Extra class and student communication

Future Plans: Introduction of Faculty Exchange programmes with other institutions Organizing

National/International seminars.

COMPUTER SCIENCE:

1. Department COMPUTER SCIENCE 2. Establishment

a. Pass Course was introduced in the 2002

b. Honours Course was introduced in 2002

3. Programmes offered

Under Graduate and Post Graduate only

4. Interdisciplinary courses and the departments involved

The department is involved with the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and

Electronics to run the B.Sc. (Hons.) course which is interdisciplinary in nature

5. System followed

For undergraduate studies the department follows annual system

For post graduate studies the department follows semester system (as per CU)

6. Participation in the courses offered by other departments

No such practice

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign

institutions, etc.

IIM Calcutta, ISI Calcutta, and Kalyani University

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

No such practice

9. Teaching posts

Number of Posts Total Sanctioned Total Filled up Total Vacant

Professor NA NA NA

Associate Professor NA 0 NA

Assistant Professor 2 2 1(Freezed)

* Entry level posts are of Assistant Professor, upgraded to Associate Professor through CAS

The filled in strength is not adequate to provide teachers to all classes in the routine (as per

university rule) and hence the department has arranged service of

a. Government approved part time teachers : 1

b. College appointed temporary guest faculty (part of the year) : 3

c. Government approved contractual teachers : 0

d. College appointed permanent teachers (round the year) : 2

10. Faculty profile :

Name Designation Qualification Specialization

Experience No. of

Ph.D.

fellows UG PG

Saptarshi Naskar Asst. Professor PG

Discrete Math,

Graph Theory,

Coding Theory

9 5

Piu Bera Part Time Lecturer

(Govt. Approved) PG Networking 8 -

Arijit Choudhury CWTT PG Graph Theory,

Cryptography 3 3

Aradhita Mukherjee CWTT PG

Mobile

Computing,

DBMS

3 -

Suchandra Das Guest Lecturer PG DBMS 4 -

Monodeep Banerjee Guest Lecturer PG Microprocessor,

Electronics 1 -

Sourav Das Guest Lecturer PG OS 1 -

Dipak Sen Guest Lecturer B. Tech. Digital

Electronics 8 -

11. List of senior visiting faculty

No such visiting faculty

12. Dependence on temporary faculty

% of classes taken by the Temporary Teachers 100

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise)

Students Teacher ratio (without PTTs) UG NA

Students Teacher ratio (with PTTs) UG 5:1

Students Teacher ratio (without PTTs) PG NA

Students Teacher ratio (with PTTs) PG 15:2

14. Number of academic support staff

Technical support staff Academic support staff

Sanctioned posts 2 -

Filled up posts 1 -

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty

Teachers With Number Percentage

D.Sc. 0 0

D.Litt. 0 0

Ph.D. 0 0

M. Phil 0 0

PG 7 87.5

Total number of Teachers 8 87.5

16. Faculty with ongoing/completed projects

None

17. Departmental projects funded and total grants received

None

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University

None

19. Publications: Selected list of papers and books published and/or accepted during last five years:

By Saptarshi Naskar as a Co-author:

t) “Obscure History of Graphs”, S.S.Sarma, S.Naskar, K.Basuli, and R.Halder, The ICFAI

University Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol. III, No. 2, pp.74-78, 2009.

u) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Designs using Linear Feedback Shift

Register(LFSR)-based Locking”, R.Halder, P.S.Dasgupta, S.Naskar, and S.S.Sarma,

SBCCI’09, August 31st - September 3rd, 2009, Natal, RN, Brazil, Copyright 2009 ACM 978-

1-60558-705-9.

v) “Generation of All Spanning Trees of a Simple, Symmetric Connected Graph”, K. Basuli, S.

Naskar, S.S.Sarma, SSRN, id: 1529902, December 30, 2009

w) “Generation of All Spanning Trees”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and S.S.Sarma, SSRN, id:

1433035, December 30, 2009

x) “A Close Encounter with Intractability”, S.S.Sarma, S. Naskar, and K. Basuli, SSRN, id: ,

December 30, 2009

y) “An internet-based IP protection scheme for circuit designs using linear feedback shift register

(LFSR)-based locking.”, Raju Halder, Parthasarathi Dasgupta, Saptarshi Naskar, Samar Sen-

Sarma, In Ivan Saraiva Silva, Renato Perez Ribas, Calvin Plett, editors, Proceedings of the

22st Annual Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design: Chip on the Dunes,

SBCCI 2009, Natal, Brazil, August 31 - September 03, 2009. ACM, 2009.

z) “Connectedness of a Graph from its Degree Sequence and it is Relevent with Reconstruction

Conjecture”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer

Science, Vol.1, No.1, ISSN-2229-371X, August 2010.

aa) “Role of Degree Sequence in Determination of Maximal Clique of a Graph”, K. Basuli, S.

Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol.1, No.2, ISSN-

2229-371X, October 2010.

bb) “Generation of All Spanning Trees a Combinatorial Approach”, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and

S.S.Sarma, Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 68-74, ISSN-

2229-371X, November 2010.

cc) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Design using Linear Feedback Shift

Register-based Locking”, R. Halder, P.S. Dasgupta, S. Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, IAENG, 2010.

dd) “Application of MODBUS Protocol in Serial Port Data Communication”, S.Sarkar, S. Naskar,

and K. Basuli, European Conference for Academic Discipline, Organized by The International

Journal of Arts and Science, Gottenheim Germany, November 29 - December 3, 2010.

ee) “An Internet-based IP Protection Scheme for Circuit Design using Linear Feedback Shift

Register-based Locking”, R. Halder, P.S. Dasgupta, S. Naskar, and S.S.Sarma, Engineering

Letters, Engineering Letters Year: 2011 Vol. 19 Issue: 2 Pages/record No.: 84-94.

ff) “Extracting Plain Text from Corrupted Word Document”, S. Naskar, S. Sarkar, and K. Basuli,

Journal of Global Research in Computer Science, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 21- 23, ISSN-2229-371X,

August 2011.

gg) Последовательный порт передачи данных с использованием протокола MODBUS,

Авторы: Saptarshi Naskar, Krishnendu Basuli, Samar Sen Sarma, Перевод: Скрыпник Д.В,

2011.

hh) Spanning Tree Generation in the Limelight, CCSIT, LNICST 86, pp 188-192, 2012.

ii) Reconstruction Conjecture, CCSIT, LNICST 86, pp 17-25, 2012.

jj) Minimizing Boolean Sum of Products Functions Using Binary Decision Diagram, IJCSEA,

Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 73-86, February 2012.

kk) A NOVEL SCHEME FOR DATA ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE, IJMA, ISSN 2229 – 5046,

2013.

ll) Cell Phone Operated Land Rover a Novel Approach. IJAIM 2.3 (2013): pp 47-50.

mm) An Efficient Data Encryption Technique, Euro-American Conference, 3-April-2014.

By Arijit Choudhury: b) A NOVEL SCHEME FOR DATA ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE, IJMA, ISSN 2229 – 5046,

2013 20. Consultancy

The Department does not provide any consultancy

21. Academic Involvement beyond Campus

Trying to collaborate with IIT Bombay, IITKGP, IIMC for student-faculty exchange

program.

22. Student projects:

All third year Students are involved in Project work on Analysis of Algorithm and

Social network.

23. Awards/ Recognitions

Nil

24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the department

Sw. Suparna Nanda Ji Maharaj, Former Principal RKMRC, Narendrapur.

Prof. Samar Sen Sarma, Professor, Dept. of CSE, CU

Prof. Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, Professor, MIS Department of IIMC.

Prof. Jyotshna Kr. Mondal, Professor, University of Kalyani.

Prof. Nabendu Chaki, Professor, Dept. of CSE, CU.

25. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized

None

26. Student profile:

Demand, Utilization, Female Enrolment and Success scenario

Demand Ratio Utilisation Enrolled–Male Enrolment-Female Pass Ratio

PG Hons Gen

27. Diversity of Students

Locational profile of the students

%

students enrolled

from

Own

District

Other

District Own State Other State Abroad

UG 70 0 70 0 0

PG 24 0 24 0 0

Social profile of the students:

% of students belonging

to General SC ST OBC Minority

UG

PG

28. Students Success in Competitive Examination

Number of successful students during 2005-

13

NET/SET 2

GATE 4

Civil Service 0

Banking 2

SSC 2

Others 25

29. Student Progression

Student progression Against % enrolled

UG to PG 45

PG to M.Phil. 0

PG to Ph.D. 4

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral 0

Campus selection 25 Other than campus recruitment 40

Self-employment 4

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities Department has a separate library having books with Reading facilities

Department has separate internet facility used by Teachers and Student

Department has one ICT based classrooms having the following facilities

Smart Board Smart Pen Laptop Projector

Department has two laboratories having the following facilities:

Computer Software Lab (computers,Internet,printers,projector,Scanners)

Hardware (digital lab)

31. Financial Assistance to Students

Percentage

% of students receiving SC ST OBC stipend 100

% of students receiving state government stipend 100

% of students receiving UGC stipend 0

32. Student enrichment programmes

a) Inter college/ Intra college coding championship

b) Workshops by IITB.

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning

Teaching methods practiced by the department are as follows - Chalk and talk /black board based teaching

ICT based teaching

Group study / Collaborative learning

Home assignment / Open book assignment

Students’ group discussion

Students quiz

Differentiated assignment and homework

Problem solving or case studies

Simulations

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities

Working for NSS, Sarsuna College Unit 35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

Strength :

Good reputation of the department

Good inter personal relationship

Good teacher student relationship

Good discipline

High propensity towards use of Technology

High demand for admission

Strong interdisciplinary attitude

Good infrastructural base

Research Facilities

Weakness :

Limited space

Opportunity :

Revised syllabus enables the students to remain updated

Increasing digitization enhances departmental efficiency and performance

Constraint :

Financial constraint due to government's policy of remittance of 50 % tuition

Space constraint

Future Plan of the Department

To arrange for more campus recruitment

To arrange for inter-college seminars and programmes

To open a research group in collaboration with IITs’, IISc., ISI, IIMs’

GEOGRAPHY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4 pages,

avoiding the repetition of the data.

37. Name of the department : GEOGRAPHY

38. Year of Establishment : Under Graduate Pass Course on 2001

Under Graduate Honours Course on 2002

Post Graduate Course on 2014

39. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) :

Undergraduate

Post Graduate in Regular Mode

Post Graduate in Distance Mode

40. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved:

Zoology, Botany, Computer Science, Chemistry, Commerce, Economics, History

departments are involved in teaching interdisciplinary topics in Post Graduate course

41. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) :

Annual at UG level

Semester at PG level

42. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments:

Departmental faculty takes compulsory Environmental Science classes of all other

Departments.

43. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc:

PG in Distance Mode under Vidyasagar University

44. Details of courses / programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons : None

45. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate 0

0

Professors 0

0

Asst. Professors

3 (1 frozen)

2

14. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,):

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of

Years of

Experien

ce

No. of Ph.D.

Students

guided for

the last 4

years

Prashasti

Bhattacharyya

M.Sc. in

Geography

Assistant Professor,

Head of the Dept.

Environmental

Geography

8 NA

Dr. Arpita

Bhattacharjee

PhD, M.Sc. in

Geography

Assistant Professor Agricultural

Geography 10 NA

Rituparna

Hajra

M.Sc. in

Geography

Contractual

Whole time (Govt.

approved)

Population

Geography

5 NA

Dr. Debasmita

Ghosh

PhD, M.Sc. in

Geography Contractual Whole time

Regional

Planning 6 months NA

Satabdi Das M.Sc. in

Geography Contractual Whole time

Environmental

Geography

6 months NA

Sumana

Ghatak

M.Sc. in

Geography

Permanent

Part-time (Govt. approved)

Geomorphology

7 NA

Angana Basu

M.Sc. in

Geography

Guest Lecturer

Population

Geography

4 NA

Sangita Paul

M.Sc. in

Geography

Guest Lecturer Regional

Planning 3.5 NA

Soma Sarkhel

M.Sc. in

Geography

Guest Lecturer

Environmental

Geography

6 months NA

33. List of senior visiting faculty:

Senior visiting faculty for PG Section:

Prof. Apurba Rabi Ghosh, eminent Cartographer and Retired Professor, University of Calcutta

Prof. Malay Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Viswabharati University

Prof. Saswati Mookherjee, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Lady Brabourne College

Prof. Lakshmi Shivaramakrishnan, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Burdwan

Prof. Sunando Bandopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Calcutta

Prof. Uttam Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Vidyasagar College

Dr. Asit Sarkar, NATMO

Prof. Snehamanju Basu, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Lady Brabourne College

Prof. Pranam Dhar, Professor, Dept. of Commerce, West Bengal State University.

34. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by

temporary faculty

UG (Hons.) UG (Pass) PG

% of

lectures

delivered

% of

practical

classes

handled

% of

lectures

delivered

% of

practical

classes

handled

% of

lectures

delivered

% of

practical

classes

handled

73.26 % 61.54 % 63.16% 60% 46.67% 0

35. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) :

Undergraduate - 7 : 1

Postgraduate – 3 : 1

36. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned

and filled :

EXISTING LAB ATTENDANTS: 2 (Casual)

SANCTIONED : 2

FILLED : 0

37. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Teachers with Number

DSc 0

DLitt 0

PhD 2

MPhil 0

PG 7

Total number of

Teachers

9

38. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received:

One faculty with Minor Research Project under National funding agency, Grant of Rs.

2,60,000/-

39. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received:

Name of

Faculty

Funding

Agency

Topic Grant

received

(Rs.)

Year Status

Prashasti

Bhattacharyya UGC

Analysis of the

Changing

Environment &

Livability of

South Kolkata, the

Once Fringe Areas

2,60,000/- 2014

-15 Ongoing

40. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University : Nil

41. Publications:

A. Prashasti Bhattacharyya

1. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, A Brief Appraisal of Transforming Living Space of South

Kolkata, The International Journal of Humanities & Social Science, April Issue, 2014.

[ISSN 2321-9203; IF: 0.587]

2. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, Crimescape Analysis of Kolkata, the City of Joy, International

Journal of Innovative Research & Development, Vol. 3, Issue 4, March, 2014. [ISSN: 2278

– 0211; IC Value: 6.19]

3. Prashasti Bhattacharyya, A Geographical Perusal of Deviance in Kolkata, Abstract in Pre-

Seminar Proceeding Volume and Paper in Post–Seminar Proceeding Volume of National

Seminar on Contemporary Research in Geography, 14th

- 15th

March, 2014

4. Prashasti Bhattacharyya and Sumana Ghatak, A Transforming City and its Changing State

of Environmental Wellbeing: A Special Emphasis on South Kolkata; Abstract in Pre-Seminar

Proceeding Volume and Paper in Post –Seminar Proceeding Volume of UGC sponsored State-

level Seminar on Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s Environmental Wellbeing ,

2012, Kolkata.

5.The Crime Component of Kolkata’s Social Environment: A Brief Study, Asian Studies,

Vol.XXV, June-December 2007, pg.47-69, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata.

B. Dr. Arpita Bhattacharjee:

1.“The World Trade Organization (WTO) and Developing countries: A Fact File in Brief”,

Proceeding Vol-I, pg 14-20, International Conference on Globalization and sustainable

Development: Perspective of Digital Revolution and Environmental Management. August 23-

25, 2002.

2.“The impact of climatogenetic Zones and Pedogeomorphic surfaces on landuse pattern in a

Profile section of Godavari-Mahanandi Basin”, XXV Indian Geography Congress, National

Association of Geographers, India, Dec 27-29, 2003.

3.“Geomorphological Appraisal of Upper Wunna Watershed, Nagpur district, Maharashtra”,

Indian Journal of Landscape systems and Ecological studies, Institute of Landscape, Ecology,

and Ekistics, Volume:- 2 pg 97-102, 2006 June [ISSN NO. 0971-4170].

4.“Land resource and management, sustainable development through agriculture in the 21st

century”, proceeding volume of UGC sponsored National Seminar on Sustainable

development: An interdisciplinary approach, Sept. 23-24, 2011, pg 30-38.

5.“Climate change and threat to environment: Problems and Prospects of sustainable water

management”, proceeding volume of UGC sponsored State level Seminar on Environmental

Degradation and Strategies for conservation and management, Nov. 24-25, 2011, pg 56-61.

6.“Climate change and Eco-tourism- a strategy for nature conservation”, proceeding volume

of UGC Sponsored National Seminar on changing Environmental Scenario of Indian

Subcontinent: AGeographical Appraisal, Nov. 25 -26th

, 2011, Pg- 61-67.

7.“Solar UV radiation and global climate change: interactive effects on Biogeochemical

cycling”, UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development

in 21st century, Oct – 4 –5

th, 2012, pg- 231-238.

C. Rituparna Hajra

Journals:

1. Hajra, R. and Ghosh, T. (2014). Formulation of Methodological Approach for

Sustainable Tourism Using ‘GSTC’ Criteria: A Case Study of Sagar Island, India.

International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, Vol 3, Issue 1, p. 305-

309. [ISSN: 2278 – 0211; IC Value: 6.19]

2. Hajra, R., Mitra, R., Ghosh, T., (2014). Assessing the Indicator Based Sustainability:

A Pragmatic Approach. The International Journal Of Humanities & Social Studies

Vol 2, Issue 1, p. 39-43. [ISSN 2321 – 9203; IF: 0.587]

3. Hajra, R., Mitra, R., and Ghosh, T. (2012). Impact of Gangasagar Mela on

Sustainability of Sagar Island, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Research

in Chemistry and Environment, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 140-144 [ISSN 2248-9649].[IC

Value (2012) - 5.35]

Book Chapter:

1. Ghosh, T., Hajra, R. and Mukhopadhyay, A. (2014). Island Erosion and Afflicted

Population: Crisis and Policies to Handle Climate Change. In: International

Perspectives on Climate Change: Latin America and Beyond. Ed: Filho Leal, Fátima

Alves, Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Azeiteiro, IX, 217-226, Springer. [ISBN 978-3-319-

04488-0]

Papers in Proceedings and Edited Volumes:

1. Hajra, R., Mukhopadhyay, A., Huq, H., Rahman, Md, R. and Ghosh, T. (2013). Crisis

and Policy for the Environmental Refugees in Ghoramara Island (India). 4th

International Conference on Water and Flood Management, ICWFM-2013, 9-11

March 2013. Institute of Water and Flood Management, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Vol. 2, pp. 459- 465. [ISBN: 978-984-33-7310-6].

2. Hajra, R., Mitra, R., Ghosh T.,[2011] Pollution Potential of Annual Religious

Gathering of Sagar Island and The Issue of Coastal Sustainability, Proceedings of

National Seminar on Advances in Environmental Science and Technology,

Kolkata,5th & 6th February, 2011. 106- 111.

3. Hajra, R., Das, D.,(2009) Impact of conversion of Agricultural Land into Fisheries,

Sarberia- Agarhati Gram Panchayat, North 24 Parganas ,Journal of Indian National

Cartographic Association, Volume 29, 2009, pp. 342- 349.

Paper Presented in Conference

1. Hajra, R., Mitra R., Ghosh T.,[2012] Socio-economic variability and sustainability of

Sagar Island, West Bengal, National Conference on Integrated Coastal Zone

Management (ICZM-12), February 24-25, 2012, Department of Marine Sciences,

Berhampur University, Berhampur- 760007, Odisha.

Abstract Accepted in Journal

1. Hajra, R., Szabo, S., Ghosh, T., Matthews, Z. and Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (2015).

Abstract submitted to special issue ‘sustainable deltas: livelihoods, ecosystem services

and policy implications’ of Sustainability Science January 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1.

Abstract Submitted to Conferences

Hajra, R. and Ghosh, T. (2015). ‘Migration as Adaptation’ for the vulnerable Agricultural

Community of Sagar Island, India. Abstract submitted to 21st International Symposium on

Society and Resource Management (ISSRM 2015), Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

D. Dr. Debasmita Ghosh

Journal:

1) Debasmita Ghosh. “Child Labours in West Bengal: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis.”

Geographical Review of India, Volume 70; Number 1; March 2008; pp71-79.

2) Debasmita Ghosh, Sanyukta Roy. “Micro-level Study about a Buddhist Agglomeration-

A Case Study of Maheshtala Municipality, 24 Paraganas (south).” Indian Journal of

Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies, Volume 33; Number 2; December 2010;

pp679-684.

Paper Presented:

1) Debasmita Ghosh, “Sex Disparity of Child labour in West Bengal”, International

Conference on Environment, Resource and Regional Development, Burdwan, India, 8th

and 9th March, 2010; pp20.

2) Debasmita Ghosh, “Occupational Disparity of Child labour Between Rural and Urban

areas of West Bengal”, National Seminar on Applied Geography: Issues and techniques,

14-15 January, 2011.

3) Debasmita Ghosh, “Educational Profile of Child Labour in West Bengal”, UGC

Sponsored National Level Seminar on Resource Management and Sustainable

Development, 23-24 September, 2011.

4) Debasmita Ghosh, “Poverty and Dropout – The Sorrow States of Child Labourers in

India”, National Association of Geographers, India(NAGI), 33rd Indian Geography

Congress, 11-13 November, 2011.

5) Debasmita Ghosh, “The Quest for Food : A Critical Appraisal of Various Occupations

of Working Children – West Bengal”, UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on

Changing Environmental Scenario of Indian Sub-Continent: A Geographical Appraisal,

25-26 November, 2011.

E. Satabdi Das

1. A Study on Trend of Air Quality in Some Industrial Cities of West Bengal; in

proceedings of International Seminar On Environmental Perspectives And Resource

Management 19th

-20th

December, 2014, organised by Institute Of Landscape Ecology

And Ekistics, Kolkata, 2014. ISBN: 978-81-928047-4-3

30. Areas of consultancy and income generated:

Prashasti Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor is acting as a consultant on honorary basis

in Santi Infotech, 41 Hem Chandra Naskar Road, Kolkata- 700010 from July, 2014. The

Company deals with GIS solutions and application development.

31. Faculty as members in a) National Committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards….

A. Prashasti Bhattacharyya : Two National Committees

1. Geographical Society of India

2. Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics

B. Dr. Arpita Bhattacharjee : Four National Committees

1. National Association of Geographers

2. Indian Institute of Geographers

3. Indian Institute of Geomorphologists

4. Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics

C. Dr. Debasmita Ghosh : One National Committee

1. Geographical Society of India

32. Student projects:

i. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme :

100 % of students are every year engaged in in-house field work based projects

incorporated in their UG course of study.

Year Location of Field-based Project work

2014 Nainital, Uttarakhand (3rd

Yr. Hons.)

2013 Ooty-Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu (3rd

Yr. Hons.)

2012 Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh (3rd

Yr. Hons.)

2011 Vasco-Panjim, Goa (3rd

Yr. Hons.)

2010 Namchi-Rabangla, Sikkim (3rd

Yr. Hons.)

2014 Pujali, S 24 Parganas (2nd

Yr. Gen)

2013 Harindanga, S 24 Parganas (2nd

Yr. Gen)

2012 Digha, Medinipur (2nd

Yr. Gen)

2011 Bakrahat, S 24 Parganas (2nd

Yr. Gen)

2010 Digha, Medinipur (2nd

Yr. Gen)

21 % (12) students of UG course were involved in a voluntary field work based

project on the effects of Phailin in Gopalpur, Odisha in 2012.

j. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution

i.e.in Research laboratories / Industry / other agencies : Not yet

32. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students:

AWARDS:

Faculty:

Debasmita Ghosh : PhD. awarded in 2014 from University of Calcutta on the topic

“Socio-economic Appraisal of Child Labour- A Case Study of Kolkata”

Rituparna Hajra : Awarded with Certificate of Excellence and Silver Medal as

National Winner in Rio+ 20 India Program, Short Term Course in

Sustainable Development.

Students:

Rohit Bhattacharya, 3rd

Year Hons. student was awarded 1st prize for the project based

Poster “ Coping with a Severe Cyclone at Gopalpur, Odisha, in the Under Graduate

level Science Poster Competition of Kolkata District Student-Youth Science Fair,

2014, organised by Youth Services Department, Govt. of West Bengal in collaboration

with School Education Department, Higher Education Department, W.B.State Council

of Science & Technology, Govt. of West Bengal & Birla Industrial & Technological

Museum.

33. List of eminent academicians and scientists /visitors to the department:

Academicians / Scientists / Visitors as resource person and felicitated in 2012 on

the occasion of Seminar :

Sri Partha Chatterjee, Hon’ble Minister-in-charge, Industry, Commerce, Information

Technology, Government of West Bengal.

Dr. Abhirup Sarkar, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and President of the then

Governing Body, Sarsuna College, Kolkata.

Dr. Dipankar Chakroborty, Director, The School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur

University.

Dr. Arun Kanti Biswas, Former Head and Deputy Director, NEERI, Kolkata.

Dr. Kalyan Rudra, Chairman, West Bengal Wasteland Development Corporation.

Sri Devendra Pradhan, DDGM, Regional Meteorological Centre, Alipore, Kolkata.

Ganesh Kumar Das, Scientist, Regional Meteorological Center, Alipore, Kolkata.

Dr Dipak Chakroborty, Former Chief Scientist, West Bengal Pollution Control Board.

Sri Jayanto Basu, Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta and Director

of ENGIO Organisation, Kolkata.

Sri Tapan Saha, Senior Scientist, Institute of Environmental Studies & wetland Management,

Department of Environment, Govt. Of West Bengal.

Dr. Chitta Ranjan Pathak, Former Professor, Department of Architecture and Regional

Planning, IIT, Kharagpur.

Dr. Ranjan Basu, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta.

Dr. Sukla Bhaduri, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta.

Dr. Joy Sen, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture & Regional Planning & RCG

School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Priyotosh Dutta, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Anandomohan College.

Kolkata.

Smt Sanchita Mondal, (Member, Mayor-in-Council, Environment and Welfare Services)

Sri Nilangshu Bhusan Basu, Principal Chief Engineer (Civil) & Chief Municipal Engineer

(Planning Development), KMC.

Dr. Malay Mukhopadhyay, Head, Department of Geography, Visva Bharati University.

Dr Debashis Basu, MD, President, Diabetes Awareness and You.

Dr Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Head, Department of Environmental Science, University of

Calcutta.

Dr. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of

Burdwan.

Dr. Annapurna Shaw, Professor, Public Policy & Management, IIM, Joka.

Sri Basudeb Bhatta, Sr. Systems Engineer, Computer Aided Design Centre, Computer Science

and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University.

Sri Tapas Ghatak, Geophysicist, Former Director and in-charge, Environment Cell, KMDA,

Govt of WB; Sr. Consultant UNICEF, World Bank, DFID

Sri Vivek Bharadwaj, IAS and CEO, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.

Academicians invited or to be invited to take classes/guest lectures or other

administration-related purpose in PG Section of the Dept. :

Prof. Subhas Ch. Mukhopadhyay, eminent Geomorphologist and Retired Professor, University

of Calcutta

Prof. Himangshu Ranjan Betal, eminent Cartographer and Retired Professor, University of

Calcutta

Prof. Apurba Rabi Ghosh, eminent Cartographer and Retired Professor, University of Calcutta

Prof. Sunando Bandopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Calcutta.

Prof. Lakshminarayan Satpati, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of

Calcutta.

Prof. Sutapa Chaudhuri, Professor, Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Calcutta.

Prof. Subrata Kumar Midya, Professor, Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, University of

Calcutta.

Prof. Jayanta Bandopadhyay, Eminent environmentalist and Retired Professor, IIM Joka.

Prof. Joy Sen, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT, Kharagpur.

Prof. Lakshmi Shivaramakrishnan, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Burdwan

Prof. Malay Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Viswabharati University

Prof. Kalyan Rudra, Chairman, West Bengal Pollution Control Board.

Prof. Asit Sarkar, NATMO

Dr. Devendra Pradhan, DDGM, Alipur Meteorological Office.

Prof. Anindita Ghosh, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Vidyasagar College

Prof. Uttam Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Vidyasagar College

Prof. Saswati Mookherjee, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Lady Brabourne College.

Prof. Snehamanju Basu, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Lady Brabourne College

Prof. Pranam Dhar, Professor, Dept. of Commerce, West Bengal State University.

Prof. Subhamita Chowdhury, Dept. of Geography, West Bengal State University.

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding:

One UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on “Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s

Environmental Well-being” was organised by the Department of Geography, Sarsuna

College in collaboration with Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Computer Aided

Design (CAD) Centre of Jadavpur University on 17th

& 18th

January, 2012 at the Town

Hall, Kolkata.

30. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme

(refer question no.

4)

Applications

received Selected

Enrolled Pass

percentage *M *F

UG Geog. Hons.

.

450 (2011-12) 415 22 34 100% (pass out of

2014)

393 (2012-13) 330 33 32 Not yet

307 (2013-14) 238 20 47 Not yet

366 (2014-15) 284 35 35 Not yet

PG in Geog. 146 (2014) 146 9 11 Not yet

*M = Male *F = Female

31. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course

% of

students

from the

same state

% of students

from other

States

% of

students

from abroad

UG Geog. Hons. 99% 1% 0

PG in Geog. 100% 0 0

32. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such

as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc.?

Competitive Examination No. of successful students ( 2008 – 2014)

NET (UGC / CSR) 6

SET 2

Civil Services 2

Banking 2

SSC/TET 15

Other Govt. Service 7

Airlines, Navy, Police,

Technical

10

33. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

Pass out year Percent

2014 39.29

2013 10.91

2012 21.82

2011 27.27

2010 23.64

PG to M.Phil. 0

PG to Ph.D.

0

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

0

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus

recruitment

2

Mostly all

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

Many

31. Details of infrastructural facilities:

Library

No. of Laboratories : 5

Equipments in concerned subject

Internet

facilities for

Staff &

Students

Class rooms with

ICT facility

Name of Equipment Numbers

1. Main

College

Llibrary with

both reading

and lending

facilities

2. Seminar

Library with

both reading

and lending

facilities

GIS LAB EQUIPMENTS & SOFTWARES

Wifi networking

in all

classrooms and

laboratories of

the Department

5

1. Computers (Desktop) 35

2. Laptop 2

3. GIS Software : 21st Century 6 users

4. GIS Software: MapInfo Professional GRANT

SANCTIONED

IN FINANCIAL

YEAR 2014-15.

FUND NOT

YET

DISBURSED.

5. GIS Software: ERDAS IMAGINE Edukit

6.GIS Software: ArcGis Master Lab Kit V10.3

7. Geomatica

8. Coloured Printer 2

9. A4 Scanner & A4 Portable Scanner 2

10. A3 Scanner 1

TEACHING AIDS

11. DTU Interactive Pen Display/ Teaching Aid 1

12. LCD Projector & Electronic Screen 3 , E.Screen 2

13. Overhead Projector & Screen 1

SURVEYING & OTHER EQUIPMENTS

14. Garmin GPS 2

15. Dumpy Level & Accessories 8 sets

16. Prismatic Compass & Accessories 6 sets

17. Theodolite & Accessories 2 sets

18. Altimeter 2

19. Clinometer 2

20. Abney level 2

21. Planimeter 2

22.Rotameter 9

23. Mirror stereoscope 4

24. Pocket stereoscope 6

MAPS, PHOTOS & IMAGES

25. Air Photos (3photo sets) 4 x 10copies=40

26. Satellite imagery (1:50,000) 2 x 10copies=20

1 x 9copies= 9

6 x 1 copy=6

Total - 35copies

27. Topographical Maps 18 maps(Total

copies=410)

ROCKS & MINERALS 72 specimens

All other drawing & measuring instruments,

accessories

31.Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government

or other agencies

Government’s Backward Caste Scholarship :

24 Male Geog. Hons. students

38 Female Geog. Hons. students ( 2013-14 session)

Minority Scholarship : 2 Geog. Hons. students ( 2013-14 session)

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)

with external experts:

SEMINAR :

One UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on “Geographical Appraisal of the City of Joy’s

Environmental Well-being” was organised by the Department of Geography, Sarsuna College in

collaboration with Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Computer Aided Design (CAD) Centre

of Jadavpur University on 17th

& 18th

January, 2012 at the Town Hall, Kolkata.

Eminent resource persons including honourable Minister Sri Partha Chattopadhyay , the Mayor and

other MICs, academicians from different allied disciplines and from different universities and

institutes like IIT Kharagpur and IIM Joka, Alipur Meteorological Department,experts, administrators

and bureaucrats from KMC, KMDA, Pollution Control Board, West Bengal Wasteland Development

Corporation, Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Management, technical experts from

NATMO, CAD Centre etc, doctor delivered valuable lectures and engaged in debates with

participating teachers and students who came from nearly every college of the city. All departmental

students and some others also actively participated in the seminar.

The seminar was attended by 364 participants of whom 28 were resource persons and 44 papers were

submitted, some presented and all published in the proceeding volume.

The Seminar gave us new avenues to collaborate with different prestigious institutes and thereby

further our aim to make this college a dynamic centre of higher education with an emphasis on

interdisciplinary and technical knowledge development. A highly technocentric GIS laboratory was

henceforth been proposed and is nearing completion under the funding of Bidhayak Elaka Unnayan

Prokalpo (BEUP) so that the College can deliver sound technical knowledge and prepare students for

the technical job market.

SPECIAL LECTURES:

Special lecture by Dr. Malay Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Viswabharati

University on 12th

November, 2014 on “Application of Geomorphology in feasibility of

engineering and industrial projects: A Geomorphic approach to hazard studies.”. Post

Graduate students and Third Year Hons. students were the listeners and they benefitted a lot

by the lecture and the discussion following it.

Special lecture by Sri Subhamoy Chatterjee, Permanent Part-time Faculty, Dept. of Botany,

Sarsuna College on 14th

November, 2014 on “ Forest & Biodiversity Conservation in India”.

Post Graduate students and Third Year Hons. students were the listeners.

Special lecture by Dr. Saswati Mookherjee, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Lady Brabourne

College on 18th

November, 2014 on “ The Development of Indian Geography and Recent

Trends”. Post Graduate students and Third Year Hons. students were the listeners.

Special lecture by Dr. Pranam Dhar, Professor, Dept. of Commerce, West Bengal State

University on 9th

December, 2014 on “ Globalisation, WTO and Indian Economy”. Post

Graduate students and First Year, Third Year Hons. students were the listeners.

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

Chalk and talk / black board based teaching

ICT based teaching

Group study and collaborative learning

Home and open book assignments

Students’ seminar

Students’ group discussion

Students’ quiz and debates

Field work and surveys

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension

Activities:

Students and teachers of the Dept. participated in programmes arranged by NSS :

Blood Donation Camp,

Thalassemia Testing Camp,

Cleaning of neighbourhood,

Gardening

Prashasti Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor of the Dept. is a member of the college NSS

Committee.

35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

STRENGTHS :

1. The Department has dedicated teachers who emphasise on good inter-personal

relationship and teacher-student relationship with a priority always on the students and

their academic enhancement with rendering them all types of assistance.

2. The Department maintains a very disciplined educational environment with

regularity of the teaching-learning process and have identified the needs of making

continuous formative assessment of students.

Teachers take extra classes during slack session to compensate for classes

lost and specially to help students practice practical topics better.

The department have introduced a formal mechanism of conducting an

admission/ aptitude tests for both UG and PG courses and profile mapping

exercises are given to identify the diversity amongst students.

Teachers make use of web resources to provide better learning resources to

both UG and PG learners.

The department also provides academic plans with question banks,

instructional note sheets and maintains continuous internal assessment.

The department maintains a sound database of all student groups so that all

information can be communicated at ease and through SMS communication.

Course allocation is made amongst the teachers within the department.

Lesson plan is prepared by each teacher in the respective portions of their

allotted syllabus by way of i) Modularization of the syllabus; ii) Month wise

teaching plan; iii) Internal Assessment plan.

The Department aims at improving teaching-learning process by identifying

the diverse needs of the students and evolving strategies for catering diverse

needs. We aim at adoption of learner centric learning strategies and exploring

the multiple intelligences

We also encourage different methods other than classroom teaching i.e.

group discussion, student seminar, term paper preparation and preparing

departmental wall magazine, etc.

Even after completion of regular classes and after their Test Examination, the

students are allowed to make use of laboratory equipments for preparation of

final examination.

We practice a regular communication of the faculty with students and their

guardians to share about improvement status, problems and prospects of

students through the arrangement of meetings.

3. We are in the process of constantly improving our already excellent infrastructure,

i.e. laboratories and classrooms so that they are always sufficient and even more with

respect to the needs. Teaching learning process is made easy, interesting and

acceptable by the use of the Interactive Teaching Aid and projector, laptop, Wi-Fi

facilities in all the classrooms and laboratories of the Department.

4. We are already concentrating on technocentric aspect of the subject and hence the

development of a very modern and well equipped Geographical Information

System laboratory.

5. The Department counsels the students at the time of admission to guide them about

the prospect of the subject. Classroom related academic counseling is always

provided by the teachers by way of providing individualistic attention. Outside

classroom counselling, personal counseling is also provided by teachers, as students

personally visit faculty members seeking guidance for their personal problems.

Teachers offer mentoring services to students after college hours whereby they guide

them on their personal or social concern.

6. Teachers have access to Open Book Resource through INFLIBNET. Teachers also

provide reading materials from online sources like e-books and journals.

7. The Department enjoys a very good reputation and hence a constant high demand

for admission. Inspite of stiff competition from other colleges, admission is on the rise

in UG level in the college. The first admission in PG course also saw a considerable

demand for entry into the course with applications coming from students all over

Kolkata and surrounding districts.

8. The introduction of Post Graduate Section of the Department in 2014 here in this

peripheral part of the city adds to the strengths of the Department. It may be added that

in Kolkata the number of seats in post-graduate studies in Geography taking into

consideration all centres of learning giving this opportunity is far less than students

succeeding with good results in UG level, especially for male students.

9. The course fee of Post Graduation in this College have been kept the minimum

amongst such self-financed courses in the subject in other institutions. Besides it has

been fixed that 2 financially challenged meritorious students out of 20 students will be

given financial concessions.

10. Here persists a strong interdisciplinary acceptance in the teaching- learning

process. The department is already inviting academicians and experts of the special

areas of the subject from other departments of the College and even eminent professors

of the subject and allied subjects from different colleges, universities and other centres

of learning for special lectures. Mutual exchange of teaching and knowledge is highly

being encouraged and practiced on regular basis.

11. We ascribe extreme importance to field-based teaching of the subject and applying

methods learnt in geographical appraisal of different areas of the country.

WEAKNESSES :

1. Sanctioned posts for more teaching and laboratory attendant will help maintaining

overall efficiency in every aspect with rising student numbers.

2. A large student group in each class is sometimes striking with academic and socio-

economic diversity making the maintenance of quality difficult. Vernacular mode

of studying being more prevalent amongst the students studying in this college limits

them in understanding and accepting quality study material.

3. There is very little time available after the completion of the syllabus oriented

teaching-learning to involve in extension activities and other career advancement

related activities.

4. Financial stress of a section of students and absence of institutional assistance prevent

regular trips and field-based teaching of this very much field oriented subject. A single

field trip in a 3 Year Course as per the University syllabus is highly regarded as

insufficient.

5. The College or the Department has not yet established collaboration and networking

with industry and research organization for lab sharing, collaborative research etc.

OPPORTUNITY :

1. Rejuvenating existing infrastructure with expensive modern GIS and Remote sensing

softwares and lab equipments will be made possible with the availability of funds from

different State and National agencies, always made available at application.

2. There is timely recommendation of contractual and guest teachers and non-teaching

staff in this college as and when required and suggested by approving authorities.

3. Although there is compulsion to totally follow UG syllabus formulated by the affiliating

university, there is the opportunity to formulate new syllabus, make necessary

alterations and diversifying in techniques in near future for Post Graduate Section as

academic autonomy is provided by the affiliating university.

4. The department is fortunate enough to invite academicians and experts of the special

areas of the subject and allied subjects from different colleges, universities and other

centres of learning for special lectures. The college have already accepted suggestions and

made communications with institutions like departments of Geography and allied

departments of the Universities of Calcutta, Burdwan, Viswabharati, Jadavpur, Lady

Brabourne College, IIM Joka, etc. for faculty exchange specially for Post Graduate

Section.

5. There is scope for departmental seminars involving debates and communication

between scholars and students forming an interface that will supplement regular teaching

and discover avenues of higher education and research.

6. We always had a high propensity towards the increased use of technology in the

subject and guiding the students to learn the technical methods and diversify their career

avenues. We are fortunate enough to receive large funds to develop our laboratories for the

purpose.

7. The faculty members hope to be engaged into UGC minor and major projects in relevant

topics that will add to the dimensions of practicable teaching and also involve aspiring

students. There are also valuable suggestions from resource persons who came to this

college during UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on Geographical Appraisal of the

City of Joy’s Environmental Wellbeing organised by the department in collaboration with

Kolkata Metropolitan Corporation and CAD Centre of JU that we may enter into

collaborative projects with administrative organisations like KMC, KMDA etc. once we

have built the desired infrastructure.

8. The department intends to publish a yearly journal with the increase of fund that will

publish dissertation papers and write-ups of academicians to add to our library resource

and knowledge base.

CONSTRAINT :

1. A little more better accessible location would have attracted more better quality students and

increased prosperity of the college.

2. Inadequacy of full time posts increases the burden of duties on a small group of staff.

3. The intake capacity for a laboratory based subject at UG level is already very high and

should not go on increasing.

FUTURE PLANS :

1. We dream of initiating very soon a training programme in GIS and Remote Sensing

software and application herein the Department outside regular college hours. We intend to

rise beyond only imparting syllabus oriented formal education to cope with the needs of the

dynamic employment market. We are planning for collaboration and networking with industry

and research organization for lab sharing, collaborative research etc. We specially want to

collaborate with any GIS and RS based national or international organisation for the purpose.

2. We shall make conscious effort for developing and sharing expertise for revenue earning

purposes in future.

3. We hope to arrange for campus recruitment inviting companies and industrial organisations

who are involved in GIS and remote sensing solutions and application development. Once we

prepare our UG and PG students with training in GIS we shall proceed for the purpose.

4. We hope to develop linkages with industries, trading houses, Govt departments, training and

research institutes to enable our students to go for summer training/programme of

internship/live projects.

5. We are also planning to organise a National / International Seminar on environmental and

urban developmental issues.

6. We hope to modernise and enrich our Seminar Library, specially for the PG students with

the purchase of more specialised books and journals.

7. We hope to concentrate in research at different levels from utilising departmental

resources. Teachers will be encouraged to submit more research proposals to different funding

agencies to enhance research activities.

8. We shall try to organise more frequent field studies, especially for the Post Graduate

section.

MICROBIOLOGY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

46. Name of the department :- Department of Microbiology(H+G)

47. Year of Establishment:- July 2001

48. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):- UG and PASS

49. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved:-Nil

50. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise):- Annual

51. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Biochemistry

52. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: Nil

53. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons:- Nil

54. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate -----

----

Professors ---- ---

Asst. Professors ONE

NIL

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15. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4 years

Swapna

Dey

M.Sc

(Microbiology)

Part time

lecturer(Go

vt

approved)

Microbiology 13 yrs Nil

Lopamudra

Choudhury

M.Sc

(Microbiology),

M.Phil

(Microbiology),

Persuing Ph.D

in Microbiology

From Calcutta

University

Part time

lecturer

(Govt

approved)

Microbiology 9yrs Nil

Abhishek

Chatterjee

M.Sc Guest

lecturer

Microbiology 4yrs Nil

Sugata

Dutta

M.Sc, Guest

lecturer

Microbiology 4yrs Nil

Kirat

Kumar

Ganguly

M.Sc,Ph.D,

Post-Doc

Guest

lecturer

Microbiology

and cancer

biology

6months Nil

Rajdeep

Das

M.Sc, Guest

lecturer

Microbiology 6 months Nil

42. List of senior visiting faculty:- Nil

43. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise)

by temporary faculty:- 100%

Since the only sanctioned post in the department is yet to be filled, the department is

fully run by the temporary faculties.

44. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):-

Student- Teacher Ratio

Honours General

54:6(Part-I+Part-II+Part-III) 21:6 (Part-I+Part-II+Part-III)

45. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled:- technical staff(sanctioned)-one and filled-one

46. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG:-PG-4,

M.Phil- 1,

Ph.D -1

47. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received: - Nil

48. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received:- Nil

49. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University:- Nil

50. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty:

Faculty

1. Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

International) by faculty and students: 11

Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly-

12. Trerotola, M.; Ganguly, K. K.; Fazli, L.; Lu H.; Fedele, C.; Dutta, A.; Liu, Q.; Angelis, T.

D.; Riddell, L. W.; Riobo, A. N.; Gleave, M. E.; Zoubeidi, A.; Pestell, R. G.; Altieri, D. C.;

Languino, L. R. The Trop-2 / α5β1 integrin complex is up-regulated in invasive prostate

cancer and displaces FAK from focal contacts ( accepted for publication,under revision for

the journal Oncotarget, December, 2014)

13. Nanda, D.P., Dutta, K., Ganguly K.K., Hajra, S., Mandal, S.S., Biswas, J., Sinha, D. MMP-

9 as a potential biomarker for carcinoma of oral cavity: a study in eastern India. Neoplasma.

2014 Aug 23.

http://www.elis.sk/download_file.php?product_id=3971&session_id=1ek83bq6u18hopbjdf35vk7m30

14. Sinha, D.; Dutta, K.; Ganguly, K.K.; Biswas,J.; Bishayee, A. A novel synthetic

oleanane triterpenoid suppresses adhesion, migration, and invasion of highly metastatic

melanoma cells by modulating gelatinase signaling axis. Mol Carcinog. 2014 Feb 10. doi:

10.1002/mc.22136. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24510625.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mc.22136/abstract

15. Sen, T.; Ganguly, K. K.; Biswas, J.; Chatterjee, A. Focal Adhesion Kinase Induces Matrix

Metalloproteinase-2 by Involving α5β1-Mediated Signaling in Breast Cancer Cell, MCF-7 (in

press, Acta Medica International, December, 2014).

16. Sayeed, A.; Fedele, C.; Trerotola, M.; Ganguly, K. K.; Languino, L. R. IGF-IR Promotes

Prostate Cancer Growth By Stabilizing α5β1 Integrin Protein Levels, Levels. PLoS ONE, 8

(10):e76513. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076513.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0076513

17. Pal, S.; Ganguly, K. K.; Chatterjee, A. Extracellular matrix protein fibronectin

induces matrix metalloproteinases in human prostate adenocarcinoma cells PC-3. Cell

Communication & Adhesion, Early Online: 1–10, 2013

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15419061.2013.833193

18. Ganguly, K. K.; Pal,S.; Moulik, S.; Chatterjee, A. Integrin and Metastasis. Journal of Cell

Adhesion and Migration. Volume 7, Issue 3, May/June 2013.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23563505

19. Pal, S.; Ganguly, K. K.; Moulik, S.; Chatterjee, A. Modulation of MMPs by cell

surface integrin receptor α5β1. Anti-cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 2012,

12 (7): 726-732. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22292746

20. Ganguly, K. K.; Sen, T.; Mandal, S.; Biswas, J.; Chatterjee, A. Studies on expression of Focal

Adhesion Kinase (FAK) in Human Breast Cancer tissue. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 2012, 3,

7-19. http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=17211

21. Ganguly, K. K.; Sen, T.; Pal, S.; Biswas, J., Chatterjee, A. Studies on Focal Adhesion

Kinase (FAK) in Human Breast Cancer cell MDA-MB-231. Advances in Biological

Chemistry, 2012, 2, 29-42.

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=17274

22. Maity, G .; C h o u d h u r y , P . R .; Sen, T.; Ganguly, K. K.; S i l , H ., C h a t t e r j e e , A .

Culture of human breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231) on fibronectin-

coated surface induces pro-matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression and activity.

TumourBiol.2011Feb;32(1):129-38.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/23388t7h4748mj82/?MUD=MP

Faculty 2: Smt Lopamudra Choudhury (Roy):

Number of paper published in peer-reviewed international journal – 1.

Dasgupta, M., Das, R., Haque, G., Banerji, I., Nandy, S., Mitra, A. K. and Roy, L.

(2014) Modification in Asphalt Texture by Heavy Metal Tolerant Bacteria Isolated

From Industrial Effluent. Nature Environment and Pollution Technology. 13(4):787-

790. [ISSN: 0972-6268; NAAS Rating of the Journal (2014) = 4.94; Index Copernicus:

4.47; Scopus H-Index = 2; Scopus SJR = 0.166; Cites per Doc. (2Yr) equivalent to

Impact FactorTM

= 0.086 as per www.scimagojr.com].

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly: - 11(list as above)

Smt Lopamudra Choudhury (Roy) - (Scopus and EBSCO) – 1.

Citation Index-67

Impact factor Faculty-

Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly

Total Impact Factor for 09 publications: 19.816

h-index- 5

33. Areas of consultancy and income generated

34. Faculty as members in

d) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. Smt Lopamudra Choudhury– Member of The Indian Science

Congress Association (National committee).

24. Student projects

k. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme:- 60%

l. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies: All (industrial visit as a compulsory part of 3rd

yr paper-VII practical)

34. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students:-

1. Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly

a. Received Senior R e s e a r c h Fellowship (SRF) from Defense

Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Government of

India.

b. Received Senior R e s e a r c h Fellowship (SRF) from Chittaranjan

National Cancer Institute f r o m Ministry of Health & Family

Welfare-Government of India.

c. Received Post-Doctoral Research Associateship (NIH, USA) from

Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

2. Lopamudra Choudhury:-Qualified in the GATE Examination (in Life

Sciences), 2006

3. Sugata Dutta- Qualified in the GATE Examination (in Life Sciences), 2012

4. Rajdeep Das- Qualified in the GATE Examination (in Life Sciences), 20

35. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

department

i) Prof. J.J.Ghosh visit on 2002

(Professor, Department of

Biochemistry)

ii) Dr. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay visit on 2005

(Pro Vice Chancellor academic, CU)

iii) Prof. A. B. Banerjee Visit on 2006

(Department of Biochemtry,

University College of science, kol)

iv) Dr.Sandip K.Bandhopadhyay Visit on 2006

(Reader Department of

Biochemtry IPGME)

v) Dr.Arup kumar Mitra visit on 2012

(Associate prof. and ex head

Department of Microbiology

(UG+PG),

St.Xavier’s College)

vi) Dr.Madhumita Moitra visit on 2012

(Assistant prof.

Department of Microbiology

(UG+PG),

St.Xavier’s College)

vii) Dr. Swati Roy Gangopadhyay visit on 2012

(Head department

Of Microbiology (UG+PG),

Rastruguru

Surendranath College

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31. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

q. National:- Nil

r. International:- Nil

32. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

Microbiology(Hons)

UG

(Session-2011-2014)

132 40 9 16 100%

*M = Male *F = Female

32. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

Microbiology (H+G) undergraduate course

100% Nil Nil

33. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc.?

72 Students (from 2001 to 2014)

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34. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

95%

PG to M.Phil. 2 to 3%

PG to Ph.D.

50 to 60%

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

40 to 45%

Employed

Campus selection Other than campus

recruitment

Nil

37%

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment 2%

34. Details of Infrastructural facilities

p. Library :- Seminar library -70 books(in steel almirah),

Central library-near about 170 books

q. Internet facilities for Staff & Students:- yes

r. Class rooms with ICT facility:- yes

s. Laboratories:-

This lab is well equipped with following relevant instruments:

i) Laminar air flow

ii) Micro centrifuge

iii) Refrigerator

iv) pH meter

v) Vortex

vi) Colorimeter

viii) UV transilluminator

ix) BOD shaker cum incubator

x) Hot air oven

xi) Over Head projector

xii) LCD projector

xiii) Autoclave

xiv) Microscpose (binocular and monocular)

xv) Room temperature shaker

xvi) Water bath

xvii) Deep freezer (-20oC)

xviii) Air conditioner

xix) Water and gas line

xx) Exhaust fan

xxi) Wooden wall cabinet and wooden student’s working

table

xxii)Pressure cooker

xxiii) Fire extinguisher

xxiv) Hot plate

xxv) Electronic weighing machine

xxvi) Gel apparatus

Microbiology has 2 labs one is divided by 4 chambers and another is in annex building. Both lab is well spacies, airy and can accommodate more than 50 students once at a time.

56. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

University, government or other agencies: - 0

57. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

Workshops / seminar) with external experts: -

i) 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2012 department had arranged a

one day seminar cum student’s competition that improves students speaking skills.

ii) Prof. A.B Banerjee in 2006 topic –

mode of biochemical action of antibiotics

iii) Dr.Sandip K. Babndhopadhyay in

2006 topic- free radicals

iv) 2007 attend a seminar (Bengal science

lecture) on Einstein and Bose a few lessons by Prof.Sushanta Duttagupta organised

by West Bengal Council of science and Technology and Department of Science and

Technology Gov. of West Bengal.Vanue Presidency College.

v) 2007 a one day seminar cum student

competition. Guest speakers our ex students topic vaccine and vaccination and

spectroscopy

vi) 2008 Seminar held on account of

world AIDs Day sponsored by Rotaract club of Behala. Topic-AIDs and one day

seminar cum student’s competition

vii) Attend UGC sponsored seminar on

present scenario and future prospects of microbiology and plant biotechnology,

organised by Botany and Microbiology, Asutosh College, Kolkata in collaboration

with Bose Institute, Kolkata, 2011

vii) Attend a seminar on Journey of

Microbiology: Evolution ton its Modern Age application Organised by The

Department of Microbiology Tara Devi Harakh Chand KanKaria Jain College

ix) 2012- two day seminar cum

students’ competition: Dr.Arup Kumar Mitra topic general talks on microbiology,

Dr.Swati Roy Gangopadhayay: - topic:-Dengue

Dr.Madhumita Moitra:-topic: medical microbiology

58. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:- Chalk and talk over head and Power point presentation

59. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: - Nil 60. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:- Strength:

One of the oldest UG (Hons+ Pass) laboratory in Kolkata. This laboratory is well equipped with all the relevant instruments and can

accommodate near about 50 students at one go. This laboratory has all the ultramodern infrastructural facilities including separate AV

room. Our departmental library has a vast collection of books and journals on different

aspects of Microbiology. Utmost importance is given towards building the theoretical basis and practical skills

of UG students. To make students updated about ongoing scientific inventions (related to

Microbiology) different college /UGC sponsored seminars are organised.

Weakness:-

Some of the essential (costly) instruments are shared from other labs.

Number of faculty requires an increase.

Laboratory set up has to be further upgraded if we plan to commence PG programme.

Opportunity:-

Students getting exposure to modern microbiolocal techniques and concepts of in different

aspects of microbiology.

Audio visual presentation makes the topic more interesting and communicable.

Students are given an opportunity for visiting different related industries and research

institutions for future career development. The visits expose them to applied field of

Microbiology.

Challenges:-

To bring out the best from each and every student and developing a competitive attitude in

them.

Since Microbiology is a research oriented subject, emphasis is given to develop their practical

skills and strengthen their theoretical concepts for their proper career shaping.

Future Plan

Provision for starting PG curriculum with further equipped lab and classroom setup

Provision for giving summer training and different certificate and diploma courses to UG/PG

students.

To run different projects funded by government agencies.

To arrange workshops

To start student exchange programmes

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PHYSICS:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

55. Name of the department : PHYSICS

56. Year of Establishment : 2001

57. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):

(v) B.Sc. (General)-Since 2001-2002 (ii) B.Sc. (Honours) - Since 2012-2013 ;

58. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

59. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

60. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Some classes of the Biochemistry department are taken by our faculty members, when invited.

61. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions,

etc. : Nil

62. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

63. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Nil

Nil

Associate Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors Two

One

16. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Dr. Suman Sinha

Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Atomic & Molecular Physics ;

Material Science

Eight Nil

Dr. Tapati Banerjee

Ph.D. College approved Part-time Lecturer

Biophysics Eleven Nil

Arpita Bose M.Sc. Guest Lecturer

Electronics Five months

Nil

Abhedananda Bhattacharya

M.Sc. Guest Lecturer

Solid State Physics

Four months

Nil

51. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

52. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise)

by temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Sc. (Honours) 67% 70%

B.Sc. (General) 67% 65%

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Sc. (Hons.): 1: 8 B.Sc. (General) : 1:20

29. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned and

filled : Sanctioned : Nil Filled - One (temporary)

30. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Ph.D.: Two PG : Two

31. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received: Nil

32. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants

received : Nil

33. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: No

34. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

Dr. Suman Sinha : 7

Dr. Tapati Banerjee : 10

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) by faculty and students

Faculty:

Dr. Suman Sinha : 7

Dr. Tapati Banerjee : 10

Students: Nil

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Dr.Suman Sinha : 5

Dr. Tapati Banerjee : 10

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor (IF)

h-index

Publications in National and International Journals :

Dr. Suman Sinha :

Magnetoimpedance of a glass-coated amorphous microwire, Journal of Applied Physics, 105,

07A311 (2009), S. Sinha, B. Das and K. Mandal.

Magnetization dynamics in wire-shaped amorphous magnetic materials as probed by Barkhausen noise measurement, Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, 40, 2710 (2007), S. Sinha, K. Mandal and B. Das.

Study of magnetic barkhausen noise from amorphous Fe70Ni8Si10B12 and Fe40Ni40B20 Ribbons, Journal of Non destructive Testing and Evaluation, 5, 49 (2006), S. Sinha and K. Mandal.

Giant magnetoimpedance in amorphous (Co0.93Fe0.07)63Ni10Si11B16 glass-coated microwire, Journal of

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 302, 223 (2006), S. Sinha, K. Mandal and M. Vazquez.

Contributions to giant magnetoimpedance from different domain regions of Co68.15Fe4.35Si12.5B15 amorphous wire, Journal of Applied Physics, 99, 033901 (2006), K. Mandal, S. Sinha and P. Anil Kumar.

Size and temperature dependent cationic redistribution in NiFe2O4(SiO2) nanocomposites : positron annihilation and Mossbauer studies, Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, 39, 4228 (2006), Subarna Mitra, K. Mandal, Suman Sinha, P M G Nambissan and S. Kumar.

Effect of tensile stress on the magnetic Barkhausen noise in amorphous Fe70Ni8Si10B12 ribbon, Indian Journal of Physics, 79(9), 991 (2005), S. Sinha and K. Mandal.

Dr. Tapati Banerjee :

1.The crystal and molecular structure of N-(3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamoyl)-Δ3-piperidine-2-

one, an amide alkaloid (piperlongumine), C17H19NO5.’ Banerjee T; Chaudhuri, S. Canadian

Journal of Chemistry, 1986, 64(5), 876-80.

2. ‘Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of nickel(II) complexes with 3,5-dimethyl-1-

(o-aminophenyl)pyrazole (DApPz): x-ray crystallographic studies of

[Ni(DApPz)2(H2O)2]Cl2.H2O and [Ni(DApPz)2(NCS)2].H2O.’ Saha, N; Saha, A;

Chaudhuri, S; Mak, T. C. W.; Banerjee, T; Roychoudhury, P. Polyhedron, 1992, 11(18), 2341-

9.

3 ‘N-benzenesulfonylglycylglycine, (I),andtetrakis(μ-Nbenzenesulfonylglycyl glycinato)

bis[aquacopper(II)](Cu-Cu)-water (1/4), (II).’ Mukherjee, K; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P;

Yamane, Takashi. Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications,

1995, C51(10), 2025-8.

4.‘N-benzenesulfonylglycylglycine,(I),andtetrakis(μ-Nbenzenesulfonylglycyl glycinato)

bis[aquacopper(II)](Cu-Cu)-water (1/4), (II).’ Mukherjee, K; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P;

Yamane, Takashi. Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications,

1995, C51(10), 2025-2028

.

5 ‘X-ray crystal structure of bis-(p-nitroacetophenone-4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidyl

hydrazone)copper(I) perchlorate.’ Mitra, A; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P; Saha, N; Das, S.

Polyhedron, 1996, 15(19), 3371-3375.

6 ‘Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of cobalt(III) complexes with S-benzyl

dithiocarbazate of 5-methyl-3-formyl pyrazole (HMPzSB): x-ray crystal structure of

[Co(MPzSB)2]Cl.’ Mitra, A; Banerjee, T; Roychowdhury, P.; Chaudhuri, S; Bera, P; Saha, N.

Polyhedron, 1997, 16(21), 3735-3742.

7 ‘Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure analysis of bis (pyridine-2-carbaldehyde

thiosemicarbazonato)cobalt(III) thiocyanate monohydrate.’ Chattopadhyay, S. K.; Banerjee,

T; Roychoudhury, P; Mak, Thomas C.W.; Ghosh, S. Transition Metal Chemistry (London),

1997, 22(3), 216-219

8 Studies of nickel(II) complexes of 3-hydroxyiminobutanone thiosemicarbazone and 3-

hydroxyiminobutanone (4-phenylthiosemicarbazone). Crystal structure of bis[3-

hydroxyiminobutanone (4-phenylthiosemicarbazone)]nickel(II) nitrate, monohydrate,

[Ni(C11H14N4OS)2](NO3)2•H2O.’ Chattapadhyay, S. K; Chattopadhyay, D; Banerjee, T;

Kuroda, R; Ghosh, S. Polyhedron, 1997, 16(11), 1925-1930.

9. ‘X-ray elucidation of 17α-pregna-2,4-dien-20-yne-(2,3-d) isoxazole-17β-ol.’ Dey, R;

Banerjee, T; Chowdhury, P. Roy; Chaudhuri, S. Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 2001,

31(5), 263-266.

10. ‘5-Amino-1-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl]-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide’. Dey, R; Banerjee, T;

Langer, V; Ray, S; Roychowdhury, P. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports

Online , 2006, E62(2), o814-o816.

35. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil

36. Faculty as members in

d) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards: Nil

37. Student projects: Nil

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme: N.A.

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: N.A.

36. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

37. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department: Nil

38. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding: Nil

s. National

t. International

33. Student profile programme/course wise: 2013-2014

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications received

Selected Enrolled Pass percentage

*M *F

B.Sc. (Honours) 96 20 08 03 Physics (Honours) was introduced in 2012, no batch has passed out till now.

B.Sc.(General)

*M = Male *F = Female

33. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

B.Sc. (Honours) 100% 0% 0%

B.Sc. (General) 100% 0% 0%

34. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc.? Nil

35. Student progression: Our first B.Sc. (Honours) batch has not yet graduated.

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

Not Applicable (N.A.).

PG to M.Phil. N.A.

PG to Ph.D.

N.A.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

N.A

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

N.A

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

N.A

35. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

a. Library: Seminar Library with Reading facility

No. of books: 100 (approx.)

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with wireless Broadband

c. Laboratories: Physics laboratory is equipped with instruments and experimental set-

ups which covers the syllabus of the University.

31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government

or other agencies:

B.Sc. (Honours): Nil B.Sc (General) :

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar) with

external experts: Nil

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

xiii) Use of Powerpoint presentations for selected lectures.

xiv) Use of computers.

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The Physics department is successfully conducting the B.Sc. (General) Course of the University of Calcutta since 2001. The B.Sc.(Honours) course has been introduced in the session 2012-2013.

The department has a seminar library with a good collection of valuable reference books. Lectures and practical classes are held with utmost regularity. The laboratory is well equipped with scientific instruments and experimental set-ups.

The lack of adequate faculty members is a serious concern for the department.

The M.Sc.(Distance Education) course of the Directorate of Distance Education, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal is introduced from the current session (2014-2015).

ZOOLOGY:

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

64. Name of the department------- ZOOLOGY

65. Year of Establishment----- GENERAL- 2002, HONOURS-2009

66. Names of Programmes / Courses offered---- UG UNDER UNIVERSITY OF

CALCUTTA

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Some classes Geography departments are taken by our faculty members, when invited.

7. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments----NA

8. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.-- PG DISTANT COURSES UNDER VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

9. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons---NA

10. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned Filled

Professors Associate NONE

NONE

Professors NONE

NONE

Asst. Professors ONE

ONE

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(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of Experien

ce

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4 years

DR.

INDRANEEL

SAHA

M.Sc.

NET PhD

ASSISTANT

PROFESSOR

AND HEAD

ENDOCRINOLOGY 8YEARS

3

MONTHS

NONE

DR.

RUPANWITA

BISWAS

M.Sc.

PhD

GOVT

APPROVED

CONTRACTUAL

FULL TIME

CYTOGENETICS

AND MOLECULAR

BIOLOGY

NONE

SMT.RITUPA

RNA SARKAR

SMT.

BARNALI

SARKAR

DR. NILOY

KUNDU

SRI. SUVAJIT

DEY

SRI. RAKESH

NASKAR

M.Sc.

M.Sc.

M.Phil

M.Sc.

Ph.D

M.Sc.

M.Sc.

GOVT

APPROVED

PART TIME

GOVT

APPROVED

PART TIME

GUEST

LECTURER

GUEST

LECTURER

GUEST

LECTURER

FISHERY

ECOLOGY

CELL BIOLOGY

ENDOCRINOLOGY

PARASITOLOGY

AND

IMMUNOLOGY

3YEARS

3YEARS

3YEARS

NONE

NONE

NONE

NONE

NONE

53. List of senior visiting faculty--NONE

54. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise)

by temporary faculty ---DEPARTMENT HAS THREE GUEST FACULTIES EACH

TAKING TEN CLASSES PER WEEK OF WHICH SEVEN ARE THEORY AND THREE

ARE PRACTICAL CLASSES.

55. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) –GENERAL 1:20 HONOURS 1:13

56. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled ----ONE CASUAL TECHNICAL STAFF

57. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc—NONE

D.Litt—NONE

Ph.D—THREE

MPhil –ONE

PG.-- THREE

58. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received---NONE

59. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received –NONE

60. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University-- NONE

61. Publications: SEE ANNEXURE

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Areas of consultancy and income generated

38. Faculty as members in

e) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. NONE

25. Student projects ----NONE

m. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme

n. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies

39. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students----NONE

40. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

department ----NONENAAC for Quality and Excellence in Higher Education 95

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32. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding NONE

u. National

v. International

34. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

HONOURS 250 27 17 10 100%

*M = Male *F = Female

34. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

HONOURS 100% 0 0

35. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ? NONE

36. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

54% IN 2012,23% IN 2013,44%IN 2014

PG to M.Phil. NIL

PG to Ph.D.

NIL

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

NIL

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

2012 BATCH FOUR STUDENTS ARE EMPLOYED SEVERAL GENERAL STUDENTS ARE WORKING AS MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment NIL

30. Library:

Central Library

No. of books: 250

Seminar Library with reading and borrowing facilities

No. of books: 150

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Desktop and Laptop Computers with wireless Broadband

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector

d. Laboratories: The three laboratories are equipped with refrigerator, clinical centrifuge, table top centrifuge, digital balance, magnetic stirrer, cyclomixer, gel apparatus, rocker, binocular microscope, microtome, hot plate, pH meter, digital colorimeter, light microscope along with simple and compound microscopes , stage and ocular micrometers for all students as well as a good collection of permanent slides,bones and preserved jar specimens.

31.Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government

or other agencies:

B.Sc. (Honours): 5 (SC stipend) B.Sc (General) : 7 (SC stipend)

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar) with

external experts: Nil

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

xv) Mostly chalk and talk to seek attention of every student.

xvi) Use of overhead projectors especially to show diagrams.

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The department is successfully conducting the B.Sc. (General) Course of the University of Calcutta since 2002. The B.Sc.(Honours) course has been introduced in the session 2009-2010 and its fourth batch is about to graduate.

The Department has its own seminar library with a good collection of valuable reference books. Its lending library, integrated with the main college library, allows students to borrow sufficient books for their academic needs. The sincerity and efficiency of our faculty members is lauded throughout the college. Three of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees from premier Institutes and have a very good research career behind them. One of the faculties has M.Phil and pursuing Ph.D. Others hold post-graduate degrees. Lectures and practical classes are held with utmost regularity and meticulous care. Overhead projectors are used regularly for lectures. A computer facility with wireless broadband internet access is provided to faculty and students. The laboratory is well equipped with scientific instruments and specimens as mentioned earlier. Excursions and field studies are organised regularly as prescribed in the Syllabus.

The glory of the department is its bundle of students who did M.Sc. and doing M.Sc. The department is proud of its academic performance in honours as it produces several students attaining first class for the last three years. The Department is at present in the process of expanding its academic activities. The B.Sc. (Honours) course has gained foothold. The M.Sc.(Distance Education) course of the Directorate of Distance Education, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal is about to be introduced from the current session (2014-2015).

We also intend to improve our research infrastructure to become self-sufficient as much as possible.. We are making efforts to procure funds to purchase some sophisticated research instruments like a Elisareader, sonicator etc. In future, we aspire to introduce a regular M.Sc. course and offer facilities for Ph.D. research to qualified candidates.

DR. INDRANEEL SAHA

NO. OF PAPERS 07

Citation indices All Since 2010

Citations 67 52

h-index 3 3

i10 index 2 1

List Publications:

1. Saha I, Das J, Maiti BR, Chatterji U.(2014?) A Protective Role of Arecoline Hydrobromide in

Experimentally Induced Male Diabetic Rats. BioMed Research International. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/136738 (*Citations 0 *IF 2.706)

2. Saha I, Chatterjee A, Mondal A, Maiti BR, Chatterji U. (2011) Arecoline augments cellular

proliferation in the prostate gland of male Wistar rats. J Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.255

(2):160-8. (*Citations 9 *SNIP 1.376 *SJR 1.569 *IF 4.141)

3. Pradhan D, Saha I, Chatterjee A, Mondal A, Sarkar S, Maiti BR. (2011) Alterations of circadian

rhythms of thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyroid, adrenal and insulin hormones, and blood glucose

profiles following lithium treatment in alternate Light-Dark, constant Light and constant Dark

regimens in rats. Biol. Rhy. Res. 43 (3), 301-322 (*Citations 0 *SNIP 0.416 *SJR 0.173 *IF 0.654)

4. Saha I, Chatterji U, Chaudhuri-Sengupta S, Nag TC, Nag D, Banerjee S, Maiti BR. (2007)

Ultrastructural and hormonal changes in the pineal-testicular axis following arecoline administration

in rats. J Exp Zool Part A Ecol Genet Physiol. 307(4): 187-98. (*Citations 13 *SNIP 0.640 *SJR

0.540 *IF 1.27)

5. Saha I, Chatterji U, Chaudhuri_Sengupta S, Maiti BR. (2007) Suppression of circadian rhythm of

pineal and testicular hormones following lithium treatment in normal and reversed light-dark cycles,

constant light and constant dark in rats. Biol. Rhy. Res. 38 (1): 19-32. (*Citations 2*SNIP 0.377 *SJR

0.195 *IF 0.545)

6. Dasgupta R, Saha I, Pal S, Bhattacharyya A, Sa G, Nag TC, Das T, Maiti BR. (2006)

Immunosuppression, hepatotoxicity and depression of antioxidant status by arecoline in albino mice.

Toxicol. 227(1-2): 94-104. (*Citations 43 *SNIP 1.355 *SJR 1.021*IF 3.048)

DISCLAIMER:

The departmental SSRs though strictly following the requirements set in the SSR proforma, are

arranged in interpretative and stylistic frames preferred by the different departments. It was felt

advisable by the steering committee to permit a degree of autonomy for presentation of required

material so as to allow the individuality of the departments to surface. We at Sarsuna College believe

that divergent attitudes to approaching problems should be encouraged in order to engender

innovation and inspire creativity.

4. Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4 pages,

avoiding the repetition of the data.

67. Name of the department: STATISTICS

68. Year of Establishment: 2005

69. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.)- UG (G)

70. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved- Nil

71. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)- Annual

72. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments-

Economics, Bio-chemistry, Microbiology, Zoology

73. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.-Nil

74. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons:-N.A.

75. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate Nil

Nil

Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors 1 1

18. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years

of Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students

guided for the

last 4 years

SANJIB

KUMAR

GUPTA

M.SC ASSISTANT

PROFESSOR

INDUSTRIAL

STATISTICS

4.5 Nil

62. List of senior visiting faculty:-Nil

63. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by

temporary faculty-Nil

64. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 1:10

65. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and

filled:- Nil

66. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.-PG

67. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received :-Nil

68. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received :-Nil

69. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University:-Nil

70. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty -1

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) by faculty and students:-1(international)

Paper:-Gupta SK.,De S.,Chatterjee A. (2014): Warranty forecasting from incomplete two-

dimensional warranty data, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 26, 1-13.

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):-1

Citation Index:-1

Impact factor- 1.97

39. Areas of consultancy and income generated:-Nil

40. Faculty as members in

f) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards….Nil

26. Student projects

o. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including

inter departmental/programme-Nil

p. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside

the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies:-Nil

41. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students:-Nil

42. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department:-

Nil

33. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding:-Nil

w. National

x. International

35. Student profile programme/course wise:-N.A.

Name of the

Course/programme

(refer question no.

4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

*M = Male *F = Female

35. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course

% of

students

from the

same state

% of students

from other

States

% of

students

from abroad

UG (GENERAL) 100 0 0

36. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as

NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?:-N.A.

37. Student progression:-N.A.

36. Details of Infrastructural facilities

t. Library-Available:-No departmental library

u. Internet facilities for Staff & Students-Available:-Available for Staff

v. Class rooms with ICT facility-Available:-No

w. Laboratories-Available:-Not required

61. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies:-Nil

62. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts:-Nil

63. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:-Chalk-Duster

64. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension

Activities:-NSSO

65. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:-

The Statistics department is successfully conducting the B.Sc. (General) Course of the

University of Calcutta since 2005. The department also takes the classes of some other

departments like Zoology, Bio-chemistry etc. Since there are a few students in general course,

our faculties are always trying to solve each problems of the students at their very best. The

quality of some students is very good. In the library there are plenty of text books.

We want to introduce the honours course in recent future.

5. Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

76. Name of the department FILM STUDIES

77. Year of Establishment 2001

78. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) UG

79. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved NIL

80. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) ANNUAL

81. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments NO

82. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

NIL

83. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons NIL

84. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate

0

Professors 0

Asst. Professors 0

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(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Dr. Goutam

Chakraborty

M.A., Ph.D. P.T.T.

(Govt.

Approved)

H.O.D.

Audiovisual

Media

14 years 0

Dr. Tamal

Dasgupta

M.A., Ph.D. P.T.T.

(Govt.

Approved)

14 years 0

71. List of senior visiting faculty NIL

72. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise)

by temporary faculty NIL

73. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 75:1 (considered all the three years)

74. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled NIL

75. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.

Both Ph.D

76. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received NIL

77. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received NIL

78. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University NIL

79. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty NIL

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students NIL

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) NIL

Monographs NIL

Chapter in Books NIL

Books Edited NIL

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers NIL

Citation Index NIL

SNIP NIL

SJR NIL

Impact factor NIL

h-index NIL

41. Areas of consultancy and income generated NIL

42. Faculty as members in

g) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. NIL

27. Student projects

q. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme 100%

r. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies No such information

43. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students

Nirod Baran Swriti Puraskar from R.B.U. received by Dr Goutam Chakraborty (Faculty)

44. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

department NIL

34. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

y. National NIL

z. International NIL

36. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

UG (2011-12) 81 31 15 16

*M = Male *F = Female

36. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

37. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?

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38. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

PG to M.Phil.

PG to Ph.D.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Employed

Campus selection Other than campus

recruitment

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

37. Details of Infrastructural facilities

x. Library No departmental library

y. Internet facilities for Staff & Students No

z. Class rooms with ICT facility Normal classroom

aa. Laboratories classroom cum laboratory

66. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies

67. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts

68. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning NIL 69. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities NIL 70. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

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4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

85. Name of the department : ECONOMICS

86. Year of Establishment : 1999

87. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):

(vi) B.A/B.Sc. (General)-Since 1999 (ii) B.Sc. (Honours) - Since 2003-2004 ;

88. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : Nil

89. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

90. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Some classes of the Commerce departments are taken by our faculty members, when invited.

91. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions,

etc. : Nil

92. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: Nil

93. Number of Teaching posts:

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Nil

Nil

Associate Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors Two

Two

20. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D.

Students guided for the last 4

years

Piyali Das Gupta

M.A. Assistant Professor

Econometrics And Statistics

Twelve Nil

Dr. Chameli Mandal (Pandit)

Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Econometrics And Computer

Application

Four Nil

Debamitra Banerjee

M.Sc. Govt. Approved Part-time Lecturer

International trade and

Econometrics

Seven

Nil

80. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

81. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme

wise) by temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Sc. (Honours) 15.15% -

B.Sc. (General) - - 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Sc. (Hons.): 3 : 1 B.Sc. (General) : 260: 3 (Approximately)

35. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned and

filled : Sanctioned : Nil Filled - Nil

36. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.:

Ph.D.: One PG : Two

37. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received: Nil

38. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants

received :

Two Minor research projects funded by UGC (2.7 lakhs)

a. “Impact of Socio-Economic Determinants on Mental Health Outcomes in West

Bengal” by Piyali Das Gupta in the session 2011-2012

b. .“Inclusive Growth in West Bengal with special reference to Howrah District”

by Chameli Mandal (Pandit) in the session 2012- 2013.

39. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: No

40. Publications:

* Publication per faculty:

Piyali Das Gupta : 1

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /international) by faculty and students

Faculty:

Piyali Das Gupta : 1

Students: Nil

Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.):

Scopus (1): i) Andrés, A.R., Chakraborty, B. Dasgupta, P., Mitra, S. (2014), Realizing the significance of socio-economic triggers for mental health outcomes in India, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Elsevier), June,50 - 57.*IFI 8.349,

Books Edited

a) Piyali Das Gupta : 1 (joint)

b) Dr. Chameli Mandal (Pandit) : 1 (joint)

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

ISBN: 978-81-924076-8-5; Sahajatri, Kolkata.

Citation Index Nil

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor (IF)

h-index

Publications in National and International Journals :

Piyali Das Gupta:

i) Andrés, A.R., Chakraborty, B. Dasgupta, P., Mitra, S. (2014), Realizing the significance of socio-economic triggers for mental health outcomes in India, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Elsevier), June,50 - 57.*IFI 8.349,

43. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil

44. Faculty as members in

e) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards: Nil

45. Student projects:

a. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter

departmental/programme: 100% students of final year (2012- 2015) or 71.4 % of

the total students including three consecutive years.

Title of the Project Session Name of the

students

Name of the

Supervisor

1. Economic Growth and Development of West Bengal in post reform period: an Empirical Analysis

2014-

2015

Dipankar Das Piyali Dasgupta

2. Microfinance And its role in

Development: an Indian perspective

2014-

2015

Akanshya

Dubey

Piyali Dasgupta

3. Employment Elasticity in Public and

Private sector for India – A comparative

analysis.

2013-

2014

Suvankar

Banik

Dr. Chameli

Mondal (Pandit)

4. An open pole: what will you vote for?

An LCD TV or a Rice Plant?

2012-

2013

Tomoghno

Mallick

Piyali Dasgupta

5. A Critical Overview Of the Migration

Models

2012-

2013

Soumi Karar Piyali Dasgupta

b. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the

institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies: Nil

45. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

46. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department: Nil

47. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding:

aa. National: A National Seminar sponsored by UGC organised by the Department on

“Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach” in the session 2012- 2013.

bb. International Nil

37. Student profile programme/course wise: 2011-2014

Name of the Course/programme (refer question no.

4)

Applications Received in

2011-12

Selected Enrolled Pass Percentage

*M *F

B.Sc. (Honours) 10 10 2 0 50%

B.Sc.(General)

*M = Male *F = Female

37. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

B.Sc. (Honours) 100% 0% 0%

B.Sc. (General) 100% 0% 0%

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38. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. ? Nil Student progression:

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

100% (Session 2005 - 2006) 33.3 % (session 2007- 2008) 50% (session 2008 -2009) 66.7 % (Session 2011-2012) 66.7 % (Session 2012-2013)

PG to M.Phil. N.A.

PG to Ph.D.

28.6%

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

N.A

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

N.A 70 oercent as per self report of the students

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

One

38. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

a. Library: Seminar Library with Reading facility

No. of books: (approx.) 991 books in central library including 59 books in seminar library.

b. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: one Desktop, 2 Laptop Computers and 1 mini Laptop with wireless Broadband.

c. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

N.A

d. Laboratories: N.A

71. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university,

government or other agencies:

B.Sc. (Honours): (SC stipend) B.Sc (General) : (SC stipend)

72. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures workshop / seminar)

with external experts: Nil

73. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

xvii) Use of Black board for 99% lectures, especially to show diagrams.

xviii) Use of articles from renowned journals for selected lectures on Indian economy and development studies.

xix) Arrangements of regular mock test after completion of a topic.

xx) Use of Internet facility (particularly UGC Inflibnet E-Resource) for literature survey of B.Sc. Honours Final year Project Work.

74. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 75. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

The department is successfully conducting the B.A and B.Sc. (General) Course of the University of Calcutta since 1999 And B.Sc. (Honours) course since 2003 – 04 by a group of sincere, efficient and energetic teachers. The faculty members always try to satisfy their students by vivid presentation of their lectures by giving day to day examples relating human behaviour and Indian economy and make them conceptually good in the subject. The individual care is always taken for improvement of the students and it is possible because of low intake of students. It has a well-stocked seminar library with a good collection of valuable reference books. These books help both students and teachers for consultation of the subject matters thoroughly. Its lending library, integrated with the main college library, allows students to borrow sufficient books for their academic needs. One of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees from recognised Institute and other two members are also pursuing their research works in the premier universities. Computer facilities with wireless broadband internet access are provided to faculty.

The main weakness of the Department is that, the quality of students admitted not being of a very high standard. The inconsistency of academic performance prevails over the year depending upon the student’s quality representing diverse standards. Moreover, the lack of sufficient computer facilities and internet access for conducting project work is a serious constraint in process of development.

There is an opportunity of giving extra care to the poor students in the department. The training of collecting primary data from the household survey and secondary data from the various official sources e.g NSSO, Reserve bank and Census in time of pursuing project work in the final year helps students to get jobs in marketing research and different institutions and NGOs as project associates in future. There is also an opportunity for the students and teachers to submit paper/articles of the contemporary issues in economics in the departmental journal and wall magazine titled “Koutilla”.

Comment [S2]: office

Sustainability of the Department with a scant number of Honours students is itself a challenge to the department.

7. Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

94. Name of the department ELECTRONICS

95. Year of Establishment 2001

96. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) UG

97. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved NIL

98. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)

ANNUAL

99. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments With COMPUTER SC (H) and CHEMISTRY(H)

100. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

NIL

101. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

NIL

102. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate 0 0

Professors 0 0

Asst. Professors 0 0

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21. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization,

(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D. Students

guided for the last 4 years

Biswajit Das

B. Sc + B.Tech

P.T.T. (Govt. approved)

Electronics &

telecommunication

17 years in Industry + 13 years in teaching

0

82. List of senior visiting faculty NIL

83. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise)

by temporary faculty 50%

84. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 15:1

85. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled No academic support stuff.

Only one non-technical support stuff.

86. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.

87. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received None

88. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received NIL

89. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University

NIL

90. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty NIL

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students NIL

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) NIL

Monographs NIL

Chapter in Books NIL

Books Edited NIL

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index NIL

SNIP NIL

SJR NIL

Impact factor NIL

h-index NIL

46. Areas of consultancy and income generated NIL

47. Faculty as members in

h) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. NONE

28. Student projects

s. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme NONE

t. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies NONE

48. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students Awards of All India Radio Documentary own by Biswajit Das - Faculty 1st prize: 2nd prize:

49. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the

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35. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

cc. National NIL

dd. International NIL

38. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

Electronics (G) Gen for Gen. 7

Gen for Hons. 18

*M = Male *F = Female

38. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

39. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?

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39. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

PG to M.Phil.

PG to Ph.D.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

Employed

Campus selection Other than campus

recruitment

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment

39. Details of Infrastructural facilities

bb. Library No separate library cc. Internet facilities for Staff & Students Not available dd. Class rooms with ICT facility No ee. Laboratories Well equipped with

various components, Microprocessor kit and Oscilloscope, Signal Generator and other Electronic testing kits

76. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies

77. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts NIL

78. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning

Nothing special 79. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities NIL 80. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

NAAC for Quality and Excellence in Higher Education SWOC ANALYSIS

STRENGTH: a. Department is small and cozy. Hence personal attention is possible. b. The faculty of the department has long experience in various electronic industry. hence students may gain practical industry oriented knowledge instead of simply bookish knowledge. c. The student-teacher ratio makes it possible for teachers to successfully address individual need of the students. WEAKNESSES: a. Laboratory space is too small. b. There is no departmental library. c. There is no computer in the laboratory with INTERNET connection. d. Only one faculty member. e. No technical assistant in the laboratory. f. poor language competence of the students. Most of the students are from Bengali medium. OPPERTUNITIES: a. Scopes are there to start ELECTRONICS(H) course b. Scopes are there to offer ELECTRONICS as a subject combination with other Honours Subjects viz. with Physics(H) etc. CHALLENGES: a.To get appropriate teaching & non-teaching stuff FUTURE PLAN

To start ELECTRONICS(H) course.

8. Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-

4 pages, avoiding the repetition of the data.

103. Name of the department : MATHEMATICS

104. Year of Establishment :

105. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) :

I) B.Sc.(Gen)-Since 2001.

II) B.Sc. (Hons)-Since 2012-2013

106. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved:Nil

107. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Annual

108. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments :

MSBG and BMS classes of the Commerce department were taken by the faculties of

Our department.

109. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.:Nil

110. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

111. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate Nil

Nil

Professors Nil

Nil

Asst. Professors One

One

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(D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of Years of

Experience

No. of Ph.D. Students

guided for the last 4

years

Tapas Lowha

M.Sc. Assistant Professor

Real Analysis Ten Nil

Jagatpati Das

M.Sc. Govt. Approved part time lecturer

Abstract Algebra

Sixteen Nil

Souptick Chakraborty

M.Sc. Guest Lecturer

Module Theory,Number Theory,Analytic function.

One Nil

Subhra

Bhowmik

M.Sc. Guest Lecturer

Two Nil

91. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil

92. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise)

by temporary faculty:

Course Lectures Practical Classes

B.Sc(Honours) 25% 100%

B.Sc.(General) 22% --

93. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise):

B.Sc.(Hons)- 1:4

B.Sc.(Gen) - 1:34

94. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff;

sanctioned and filled: Nil

95. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.

PG: Four

96. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International

funding agencies and grants received : Nil

97. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received:

i) UGC Sponsored Minor Research Project.

Title- Topological Entropy of Compact/Non-Compact Sets(via Measure

Theory): An Overview and Estimation.

98. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University: Nil

99. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty:

Tapas Lowha : 3

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students

Faculty : Tapas Lowha :3 Student : Nil

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

a) Tapas Lowha : 3

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor

h-index

Publication of Papers:

Tapas Lowha :

1. Basu, C. K., & Lowha, T. (2014). “WEIGHTED SHARING OF A

SMALL FUNCTION OF A MEROMORPHIC FUNCTION AND ITS

DERIVATIVES”.International Journal of Mathematical Archive

(IJMA) ISSN 2229-5046, 5(3). ( I.F.4.091(SJIF 2012)).

2. T.Lowha. “Some Generalizations of Differential Polynomials of

Meromorphic Functions”. Int.J. Math and Comp.Research, Vol2,

Issuue7,July(2014), Page 518-530. (I.F.2.2003 (Uifactor)).

3. T. Lowha, “Sharing Condition of Meromorphic Function”.

Antarctica J. Math.,11(3)(2014),247-264. (Scientific Factor:18.0)

48. Areas of consultancy and income generated : Nil

49. Faculty as members in

i) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. : Nil

29. Student projects

u. Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental/programme: Nil

v. Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/

other agencies : Nil

50. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil

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36. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

ee. National

ff. International

39. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

Received

Selected Enrolled Pass

percentage

*M *F

B.Sc.(Hons)

2012-13

31 12 9 3 Honours

introduced in

2012-13.So no

data is available.

B.Sc.(Gen)

*M = Male *F = Female

39. Diversity of Students Name of the

Course % of

students from the

same state

% of students from other

States

% of students

from abroad

B.Sc.(Honours) 100% 0% 0%

B.Sc.(Gen) 100% 0% 0%

40. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations

such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?

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40. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

N.A.

PG to M.Phil. N.A.

PG to Ph.D.

N.A.

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

N.A.

Employed

Campus selection Other than campus

recruitment

N.A.

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment N.A.

40. Details of Infrastructural facilities

ff. Library : Appoximately 900 books in the central library.

gg. Internet facilities for Staff & Students: One desktop computer & one

laptop computer with wireless Broadband (for faculties).

hh. Class rooms with ICT facility : Nil

ii. Laboratories : Yet to set-up

81. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies : Nil

82. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts :Nil

83. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning : Chalk-Duster. 84. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension Activities: Nil 85. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans : The Mathematics department is successfully conducting the B.Sc. (General) Course of the University of Calcutta since 2001. The B.Sc.(Honours) course has been introduced in the session 2012-2013 and its first batch is about to graduate . The department has a well-stocked books in the central library. Students can read all books in the reading room and also they are allowed to borrow sufficient books from the library. Our faculties are actively doing Ph.D. work. One of the guest faculty have done his post graduate from Bombay IIT. Since there are only a few students in honours course, our faculties are always trying to solve each problems of the students at their very best. Very recently we are planning to introduced a departmental journal for the benefit of

our students. Though our department has been suffering badly due to the shortage of full time teaching staff yet all of us are very sincere at their end.

9. Evaluative Report of the Departments

The Self-evaluation of every department may be provided separately in about 3-4 pages,

avoiding the repetition of the data.

112. Name of the department ENGLISH

113. Year of Establishment 1999 (Gen)

2001 (Hons)

114. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated

Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) UG

115. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved

NONE

116. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)

ANNUAL

117. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments:

Apart from taking mandatory compulsory English classes for all the first year B.A/B.Sc/B.Com

students as prescribed by the University of Calcutta, the department has also taken classes in

Political Science and Bengali departments as and when invited.

Lecture series on the History of English literature to Bengali Honours students

Lecture on feminism to Political Science Department.

118. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

NIL

119. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons

NONE

120. Number of Teaching posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professors Associate -----

------

Professors

------

-----

Asst. Professors TWO

TWO

23. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.

/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

No. of

Years of

Experience

No. of

Ph.D.

Students

guided

for the

last 4

years

SAROTTAMA

MAJUMDAR

PhD

(PURSUING)

ASSISTANT

PROF

CULTURE

STUDIES:

EIGHTEENTH

AND

NINETEENTH

CENTUURY

BRITISH INDIA

14

-----

NABANITA

SENGUPTA

M.PHIL

PhD

(PURSUING)

ASSISTANT

PROF

TRANSLATION

STUDIES,

NINETEENTH

CENTURY

BENGAL-

BRITAIN

INTERFACE

5

----------

SWATI ROY

CHOUDHURY

M.PHIL

PhD

(PURSUING)

PART TIME

LECTURER

(GOVT

APPROVED)

AUSTRALIAN

DRAMA

6

----------

100. List of senior visiting faculty NONE

101. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by temporary

faculty 42.65%

102. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 21:1 (HONS)

40:1 (GEN)

103. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and

filled NIL

104. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG. NAME PG M.PHIL PhD OTHERS

SAROTTAMA

MAJUMDAR

JADAVPUR

UNIVERSITY

PURSUING FROM

JADAVPUR

UNIVERSITY

B.ED.

(CALCUTTA

UNIVERSITY)

1997 1999

NABANITA

SENGUPTA

UNIVERSITY

OF DELHI

2002

UNIVERSITY

OF CALCUTTA

2004

PURSUING FROM

UNIVERSITY OF

CALCUTTA

-------

SWATI

ROYCHOUDHURI

UNIVERSITY

OF BURDWAN

2007

JADAVPUR

UNIVERSITY

2010

PURSUING FROM

VISHWABHARATI

UNIVERSITY

DIPENDRANATH

GUHA

UNIVERSITY

OF

ANNAMALAI

1990

-----

-------

105. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received NIL

106. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total

grants received NIL

107. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University

NONE

108. Publications:

* a) Publication per faculty

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national /

international) by faculty and students

94

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Number of publications listed in International Database (For

Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International

Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences

Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

Monographs

Chapter in Books

Books Edited

Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers

Citation Index

SNIP

SJR

Impact factor

h-index

Sarottama Majumdar That Sublime “old Gentleman”: India’s Shakespeare: Translations, Interpretations Newark: University of Delaware Press

,Shakespeare’s plays in Calcutta and Performance.(eds.) Poonam Trivedi and Dennis 2005. 260-268. 1775-1930

Bartholemeusz ISBN-87413-881-7

Intricate Impression, Sublime indifference: West Bengal.(ed) Satinath Ray Vol XLII No 10

The many faces of Tagore in contemporary (16th May-1st June 2000), 87-96. Press.(Co-authored by Sudeshna Banerjee)

Nime Dutta o tatkalin Bangasamaj: ekti Saparya.(ed)Tanmaay Bir Vol IV ( 2008), 54-59. Punarmulyayan. (Journal for

Bengali, Sarsuna College)

Multiculturalism and “Pride and Prejudice” Journal of Ananda Mohan College Vol III ( 2008), 14-17(eds.)Prasanta

Bandopadhyay ,Sandipan Sen

Bhabishyamukure Joshodebir mala: Kalottirno(ed)Subhashish Ghose Vol III(2009) 45-49

Derozio o tar kabyacharcha (Journal of History, Sarsuna College)

Theseus ,the cusp of the Minoan Hellenic Kalottirno.(ed)Shubhashish Ghose Vol III (2010) 31-34

50. Areas of consultancy and income generated NONE

51. Faculty as members in

j) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial

Boards…. NIL

30. Student projects NIL

52. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students NIL

53. List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department

1. Prof. Jharna Sanyal, Professor, University of Calcutta

2. Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, Reader, Anadamohan College

3. Prof. Ananda Lal, Professor, Jadavpur University

4. Dr. Avijit Gupta, Associate Professor, Jadavpur University; Director,

Jadavpur University Press.

5. Prof. Margaret Zama, Professor, Mizoram University

6. Dr. Saugoto Bhaduri, Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of

Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

New Delhi

7. Prof. Pradip Acharya, (Retd) Professor, Cotton College, Guwahati.

8. Dr. Ramkumar Bhattacharya, Ex-chairperson, Sahitya Akademi.

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37. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

gg. National : A TWO DAY NATIONAL SEMINAR ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF

ENGLISH IN COLLABORATION WITH SAHITYA AKADEMI ON “"Transposing Literature,

Translating Cultures: A Reappraisal of Indian English Literature(s) to be organised in collaboration with

Sahitya Akademi on 2nd and 3rd of February 2012.

hh. International

40. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the

Course/programme (refer question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Enrolled Pass

Percentage

*M *F

B.A (HONS)

ENGLISH

134 50 22 28 20%

*M = Male *F = Female

40. Diversity of Students

Name of the

Course

% of

students

from the

same state

% of students

from other

States

% of

students

from abroad

B.A. (HONS) 100% ---- ---

41. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as

NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc. ?

None (as of the information received till date)

41. Student progression

Student progression

Against % enrolled

UG to PG

Above 60% (combination of both regular and

distance mode)

PG to M.Phil. ----

PG to Ph.D.

-----

Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral

----

Employed

Campus selection

Other than campus recruitment

60% and above (other than campus recruitment)

Entrepreneurship/Self-employment -------

Note: We do not have access to complete data hence the given data is tentative.

41. Details of Infrastructural facilities

jj. Library: A well-stocked central library and seminar library consisting of about

1300+50 books

kk. Internet facilities for Staff & Students:

The library has internet facility and the students can avail the INFLIBNET to browse

scholarly journals.

The teacher’s room has wifi connectivity and each department has been provided with a

desktop in a separate workstation and a laptop.

ll. Class rooms with ICT facility: i) Overhead projector ii) LCD projector

mm. Laboratories : A well-equipped Audio-visual laboratory shared from the Film Studies

department.

86. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college,

university, government or other agencies: 7 (approx)

87. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures /

workshops / seminar) with external experts

a) Special lecture series on Tragedies and Comedies by Prof. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya,

Reader, Anandamohan College.

b) Dr. Srimati Mukherjee, Basanti Devi college, Associate Prof, delivered a lecture on

Feminist Readings of the Indian English Literature.

c) A Faculty exchange programme was undertaken with Susil Kar College in which Dr.

Sudeshna Chakravorty delivered a lecture.

88. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: a) conventional lectures

k) Talks by eminent external resource persons

l) Film viewing in collaboration with film studies department

m) Participation in seminar and conferences in other educational institutions

n) Publication of departmental journal and encouraging students to contribute

papers .

o) Creation of syllabus oriented wall magazines

p) Seminar lecture competitions

89. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension

Activities:

a) Participation in community oriented programmes organised by the college through its NSS unit and

Students’ Union wing

b) Participated and won prizes in various inter-college competitions as an extension of the college

activities.

90. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans

Strength:

1. The department boast of a well-knit teacher-student community comprising of the alumni as well.

2. Though we have a mixed student community, we have students aware of the contemporary needs.

Some are even confident and articulate. This helps in improving the general awareness level of the

class.

3. The department, through the networking of its faculties are able to provide for students’ interaction

with eminent external resource persons.

4. Presence of the Film Studies Department in the college provides our students with an exposure to

the streams like film making, journalism, photo journalism, e-journalism, etc. It also allows us with

an internal resource to make our students aware of the film as an extension of the literary medium.

Weakness:

1. Since majority of our students come from the rural background, they are often weak in linguistic

and grammatical proficiency.

2. Quite a number of them have problems in comprehension as it is impossible to use any language

other than English as the medium of instruction.

3. Turnover rate is high among temporary faculties and since the college does not have recruiting

authority of permanent faculties, the department faces problems in smooth completion of the

prescribed syllabus.

4. Huge number of students in the compulsory English classes leads to an unfavourably skewed

student-teacher ratio.

Opportunities:

1. There is an opportunity to provide students with the basic language skills and personality

development. We are trying to create platforms where these skills can be properly nurtured.

2. There is an opportunity to initiate the students to the translated literature of various languages

across the globe. This can give them the training to take up Comparative Literature courses later.

3. The students can also be exposed to various classic films and encouraged to study and understand

the literature-film interface.

4. The department has opportunities to create more inter-departmental interaction among students by

initiating language related competitions such as debates, story writing, essay competition, etc.

Challenges:

1. Since most of the students come from rural background one of the greatest challenges is their lack

of awareness in this subject.

2. Many of our students come from Bengali medium backgrounds and therefore they often have

problems in verbal communication though they might be proficient in writing skills.

3. One of the challenges is to make our students internet-friendly and help them to use the resources

available on the web.

Future Plans:

1. The department has plans to open Post-Graduation degree and is taking necessary steps in the

direction.

2. We also have a plan to build a video library to provide exposure to our students in this direction.

3. The department plans to build a language laboratory where we can train our students and improve

their employability. This language laboratory can also be used as one of the avenues for generating

fund for the college.

4. The department already uses a departmental e-mail id to communicate with its students for

academic purposes but now we have a plan to create a departmental blog space which can be used

as a repository of enriching course material and other relevant writings. It can also be used as a

forum to encourage students’ creativity and make them more proficient with contemporary

resources.

Annexure