PROFILE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

The Department of Zoology was opened in1997 along with the Department of Botany and since then only General course has been taught till 2015. From the academic session 2015-16 under Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University the Department started teaching at the Honours level. The Department is now moderately equipped and has been shifted to the Jagadish Chandra Bose Bhawan (Science Block) of the College.

Name of the Department: Department of Zoology.

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. Promotional according to UGC-DPI, Govt. of West Bengal-University Rules	NIL
Assistant Professor	2	1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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
Manjil Gupta	M.Sc. (Zoology)	Assistant Professor	Immunology	5.5 yrs	NA
Debadri Kumar Sarkar	M.Sc. (Zoology)	Contractual Teacher	Immunology	2 yrs	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:      Publication per faculty:

Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international):

Monographs:

Chapters in Books:

Books edited:

Books with ISBN with details of publishers:

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.):

Citation Index – range / average :

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h-index:

Name of Faculty	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l
Manjil Gupta	-	-	01	-	-	02	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debadri Kumar Sarkar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

*Coruse 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) PartIII	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.

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

c) 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 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.	Lack of Animal House. 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 an Animal House.