PROFILE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY

In view of lively rural surroundings and rich diversity in plants, animals and bio- culture, there has been a candid demand for opening Biological Science department in Dinhata College and therefore in 1997 formally the Bio science section with the Departments of Botany and Zoology was opened. Since then the department of Botany has been enrolled for only general stream of course. From the academic session of 2015-16, the Department was upgraded to Honours level of teaching under Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University. The department has shifted to the Jagadish Chandra Bose Bhawan (Science Block) with two new laboratories.

Name of the Department: Department of Botany

Year of establishment: 1997

Names of Programs / Courses offered : UG ( B. Sc. Honours, B. Sc. General)

Number of teaching posts:

	Sanctioned	Filled
Professor	NA	NA
Associate Professor/Reader	No direct recruitment. Promotion  according to UGC-DPI, Govt. of West Bengal-University Rules	NIL
Assistant Professor	02	01

Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance:

Name	Qualification	Designation	Specialization	No. of Years of Experience	No. of Ph. D. Students guided for the last 4 years
Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa	M.Sc. (Botany) Ph. D.	Assistant Professor	Paleobotany and Palynology	Teaching-7yrs Research-11yrs	NA
Sanjib Saha	M.Sc. (Botany)	Contractual Teacher	Taxonomy of Angiosperms	3yrs	NA

Student Teacher Ratio (program-wise):

            B.Sc. (Hons)- 5:1

            B.Sc (General)-15:1

Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled:

Academic support Staff-   Sanctioned-01    Filled-01

Publications:

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Seminar/Conference (National & International)

Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, Medline, etc.):

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Name of Faculty	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l
Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa	07	-	05	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sanjib Saha	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Faculty as members in 

National committees:

Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa is a member of:

Indian society of Citriculture

Society of Ethnobotanists.

East Himalaya Society of Spermatophytic Taxonomy.

International committees:

Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa is a member of:

International Society of Ethnobiology.

International Society of Citriculture.

Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by

Faculty : Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa is elected as fellow of The Society of Ethnobotanists(FES),2014

Student profile program-wise:

Name of the Course/Programme (for the session 2015-16)	Applications received	Selected ‘			Enrolled		Pass percentage
		M		F	M	F
B.Sc.(General) Part I	62	25		15	09	05	Examination yet to be held
B.Sc.(General) Part I	24	19		05	19	05	58
B.Sc.(General) Part I	09	07		02	07	02	90
B.Sc (Hons) Part I *	128	10	05		07	03	Examination yet to be held

*Course started from the session 2015-16.

Diversity of students:

Name of the Course	% of students from the same State	% of students from other State	% of students from abroad
B.Sc (Hons)Part I	100	-	-
B.Sc (General) Part I	100	-	-
B.Sc (General) Part II	100	-	-
B.Sc (General) Part III	100	-	-

Details of infrastructural facilities:

Library:

Students access the Central library. The Department does not have any library as such. But the complementary copies provided by different publishers are preserved for use of the students.

Internet facilities for staff and students: Part of Central facilities.

Laboratories: 02

Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning:

Technology aided lectures, demonstration, group discussions and educational tours.

Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities:

Students are encouraged to participate in ISR through NSS units of the colleges.

SWOC analysis of the department and future plans:

Strengths:	Weaknesses	Opportunities	Challenges
Near optimal Student Teacher ratio Scope for extension of laboratories. Landscape for Botanical garden	Lack of botanical museum and herbarium. Insufficient laboratory space.	Scope for field based research activities Newly opened Honours courses can cater to local demand for the subject.	Recruitment policy of permanent faculty. Financial constraints in up gradation of laboratory

Future Plans:

Opening of an interdisciplinary research laboratorty.

Setting up of Departmental Library.

Overall improvement of Departmental infrastructure.

Setting up a medicinal plant garden.