Dinhata College:: Faculty Profile & Development

1. Teacher recruitment

The faculty members of the College are recruited by the Governing Body of the College on the recommendation of the West Bengal College Service Commission as per the norms of U.G.C. and the Government of West Bengal. The College has a scarcity of permanent faculty members to handle all the courses due to prolonged selection process of the West Bengal College Service Commission. However, to meet the challenge, Contractual Part-Time Teachers, Guest teachers are engaged on purely temporary basis and the recruitment is performed by the Selection Committee constituted by the Governing Body of the College. Eligible candidates are shortlisted on the basis of personal interviews. The College has two Part-Time Teachers approved by the Directorate of the Public Instruction, Government of West Bengal. 

2. Qualification of permanent teachers

Highest Qualification	Professors		Associate Professors		Assistant Professors		Total
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
D.Sc./D.Lit.	-	-	0	0	0	0	0
Ph.D.	-	-	03	0	06	01	10
M.Phil.	-	-	01	0	01	0	02
P.G.	-	-	01	0	12	04	17

3. Qualification of Part-time & Guest teachers

	Highest Qualification						Total
	Ph.D.		M.Phil.		P.G.
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Part-Time Teachers (College Sponsored)	0	0	0	0	15	03	18
Part-Time Teachers (Govt. Sponsored)	0	0	0	0	01	01	02
Guest Teachers (College Sponsored)	0	0	0	0	07	-	-

4. Teachers recruited during in last three academic sessions 2013-2016

DEPARTMENT	Permanent/Contractual Part-Time Teacher Recruited
	2013 – 2014	2014 – 2015	2015 – 2016
ENGLISH	Utsab Roy**	1. Mahadev Barman* 2. Avishek Saha*	-
SANSKRIT	-	Tini Chakraborty*	-
HISTORY	-	-	1. Payel Kar*** 2. Nityasundar Roy Mondal***
POL. SCIENCE	-	-	1. Rintu Mohanta*** 2. Atul Chandra Biswas***
PHYSICAL EDUCATION	-	-	Dipu Barman***
SOCIOLOGY		-	Md. Afsar Ali Mondal**
GEOGRAPHY	Tanmoy Saha**	Bappa Sarkar*	-
MATHEMATICS	Biswanath Sarkar**	1. Rimpa Saha** 2. Ranjan Barman* 3. Mrityunjoy Ghosh*	-
CHEMISTRY	Kaushik Acharjee**	1. Pratik Roy Gupta** 2. Soumyadip Boral** 3. Passang Tshering Lepcha* 4. Rimi Roy*	-
PHYSICS	Md. Hasanur Rahaman**	1. Md. Abubakkar Siddik** 2. Niharendu Barman**	-
ZOOLOGY	Debadri Kumar Sarkar**	-	-
BOTANY	Sanjib Saha**	-	-
COMPUTER SCIENCE	-	-	-
COMMERCE	-	Dipak Kundu

^**Part-Time Teacher (Govt./College sponsored) and ^*** Guest Teacher.

5. Faculty development

The faculties of the College have undergone the following training programmes:

Academic Staff Development Programmes	Number of  Faculty Development Programmes
	2011 – 2012	2012 – 2013	2013 – 2014	2014 – 2015
Refresher Courses	1. Dr. Surya Narayan Ray, Dept. of Commerce	1. Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa, Dept. of Botany	1. Joy Mukherjee, Dept. of English 2. Manjil Gupta, Dept. of Zoology 3. Sushil Chandra Biswas, Dept. of Economics 4. Dr. Amlan Majumdar, Dept. of Economics 5. Subhash Chandra Das, Dept. of Bengali	1. Dr. Suchismita Debnath, Dept of Bengali 2. Dr. Debashis Das, Dept. of Chemistry 3. Anindita Basu Biswas, Dept. of History
Orientation Programme	1. Joy Mukherjee, Dept. of English 2.Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa, Dept. of Botany 3. Sushil Chandra Biswas, Dept. of Economics	-	1. Anindita Basu Biswas, Dept. of History	1. Sapan Tamang, Dept. of Political Science
Short Course	1.Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa, Dept. of Botany	-	1. Dr. Surya Narayan Ray, Dept. of Commerce	-

6. Awards/recognition received by the teachers

The College has several numbers of faculties whose erudition has been recognised at the International and the National level and it has elicited the reputation of the College.

1. Dr. Sadhan Ch Kar (Principal, formerly Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Economics) 

Nominated as a Visiting Fellow to conduct research in Mauritius by the UGC in 2009.

2. Dr. Amlan Majumder (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Economics)

(a) UGC Travel Grant Award for attending International Conference at the University of Luxembourg (2015).

(b) CICOPS Fellow (as an Ambassador of the University of Pavia), CICOPS-Centre for International Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia, Italy (2012-present).

(c) ‘Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) – KAKENHI’, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (2010).

(d) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2010-2011).

(e) HDCA Scholarship, Human Development and Capability Association, Boston University (2010)

(f) Research Scholarship/Travel Grant, Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy (2009).

(g) UGC Travel Grant Award for attending International Conference at the Simens College, Massachusetts, USA (2009).

(h) Travel Grant Award from the Association for the Studies in Public Economics, Russia for visiting St Petersburg University, Russia (2008).

(i) Visiting Fellowship, India-China Cultural Exchange Programme (2008).

(j) IDRC Scholarship (International Development Research Centre, Canada) (2007).

(k) IAFFE Scholarship, International  Association For Feminist Economics (2007).

(l) Research Scholarship Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy (2006).

(m) IDRC Scholarship (International Development Research Centre, Canada)   (2006).

(n) CICOPS Scholarship, CICOPS-Centre for International Cooperation and Development University of Pavia, Italy (2005).

(o) “Srinivasan Award” for the Best Technical Paper of the year 2001 in ‘Demography  India’ by the Indian Association for the Study of Population (2002).

3. Dr. Prabir Kr. Haldar (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physics)

(a) SERC fast track scheme for Young Scientist projects for 2009-2012 of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India was Dr. Prabir Kumar Haldar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Dinhata College.

(b) The best oral presentation in the 18^th WB State Science & Technology Congress, dated 28th Feb. to 1st March, 2011.

4. Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Botany)

(a) Elected as the Fellow of Society of Ethnobotanist (FES) in 2014.

(b) He was invited to present his research papers in the VIII IASTAM Congresses at Sancheong, Korea in 2013.

(c) On invitation from Agro-Forestry Lab, Kunming Institute of Botany, PR China, Dr. Thapa visited the institute twice in the year 2013.