Research activities @ Dinhata College

1. Research committee

 There is a Research Sub-Committee in the College, comprising of following faculties:

Dr. Sadhan Chandra Kar, Principal and Chairman,

Dr. Surya Narayan Ray, Convenor,

Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa,

Dr.Prabir Kumar Haldar,

Dr. Amlan Majumdar,

Dr. Debashis Das,

Mr. Pradip Chandra Saha.

The Research Sub-Committee of the College facilitates and monitors research activities of the College. The Committee encourages the faculty members to apply minor/major research projects. The Convenor along with the members, UGC Sub-Committee constituted by the College, keeps track of the schemes of UGC & other bodies like DST etc. The Committee motivates the teachers about the various fellowships and helps to apply for the same. Some of the teachers have completed their Ph.D. while others have already been enrolled for it. Some of the faculty members have undertaken Minor & Major Research Projects from UGC & DST. Some of the teachers on their personal capacity have also made a quasi- collaborative research works with other institutions.

2. Prioritised research areas and the expertise available with the College

1. Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa’s research priority includes Plant Genetic Resources, Paleobotany-Palynology and Ethnobotany .

2. Miss Rimi Roy’s research priority includes Construction of Novel Organic Skeletons, Photophysicalstudie and Biological Studies of Organic compound.

3. Dr. Amlan Majumder’s research priority includes Measurement of inequality, Economics of healthcare utilisation , Human development.

4. Dr. Prabir Kumar Haldar’s  research priority includes High Energy Physics (Experimental).  Studied  Relativistic  Heavy ion collisions energy range from few GeV to few hundred GeV.

5. Dr. Debashis Das’s research priority includes Thermodynamic, transport and spectroscopic properties of solutions of electrolytes, Theoretical modelling of thermodynamic excess properties of different non-aqueous binary liquid mixtures.
6. Dr. Sadhan Ch. Kar’s research interest includes agricultural economics and micro-finance.

3. Faculty involvement in guiding student research

(i) Dr.Sadhan Chandra Kar, Principal:

Sl.  No.	Name of the Candidate	Title of the Thesis	Designation	Status
1	Sri Ranjit Kr. Ghosh	Rural Development and Micro Level Planning: A Case Study on Agricultural Production Planning in a Rural Economy of Cooch Behar	Asst. Professor, Alipurduar College, Alipurduar	Awarded
2	Sri Ratul Saha	Role of Micro Finance in Women Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation Through the Working of the SHGs: A Case Study of two Districts in West Bengal	Asst. Professor, Sonamukhi College Bankura	Awarded
3	Sri Bhajan Ch. Barman	Livelihood, Poverty Eradication and Role of Micro Finance: A Case Study of two Districts in West Bengal.	Asst. Professor Netaji Nagar College Kolkata	Awarded

 

(ii) Dr. Amlan Majumder, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics:

Supervised one Doctoral Research of the Department of Economics, University of North Bengal with one senior faculty member as Co-Supervisor from 15 January 2013 [Title of research: Burden of Diseases and Its Impact on Utilisation of Health Care & on Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure by Households in Siliguri Municipal Corporation Area (SMCA), West Bengal]. The Scholar has been awarded the Degree of Doctorof Philosophy of the University of North Bengal on 01 August 2018.

(iii) Dr. Prabir Kumar Halder, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Physics:

Sl. No.	Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
1.	Investigation of ring like (Super spiky) events in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Interactions -- evidence of QGP  formation or  Cerenkov Gluon Radiation    ( A new Concept in High energy Physics)	Department of Science of Technology ( SERC Fast Track Scheme For Young scientists)	Recommended Date 25/09/2008 Started on 03.04.2009 (duration three years)	Rs. 14,69,200/-Manpower: One JRF  (Final instalment yet to be received)	Completed

 

4. Faculty involvement in research projects 

Major Research Projects:

(i) Dr.Prabir Kumar Halder, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Physics

Sl. No.	Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
1.	Investigation of ring like (Super spiky) events in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Interactions -- evidence of QGP  formation or  Cerenkov Gluon Radiation    ( A new Concept in High energy Physics)	Department of Science of Technology ( SERC Fast Track Scheme For Young scientists)	Recommended Date 25/09/2008 Started on 03.04.2009 (duration three years)	Rs. 14,69,200/-Manpower: One JRF	Completed

Minor Research Projects:

(i) Dr.Sadan Chandra Kar (Principal):

Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
Micro Credit, Women Empowerment and Eradication of Poverty : A case Study	University Grants Commission (ERO) Kolkata	2008-2011	Rs.97,400/-	Completed

(ii) Dr. Prabir Kumar Halder, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Physics:

Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
Fluctuation  Studies of Pionisation Process for ring like and Jet like events in Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Interactions	University Grants Commission	Dated: 19/02/2007	Rs. 90,000/-	Completed

(iii) Dr. Debashis Das, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry:

Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
Solution properties of some selected lithium electrolytes in Tetrahydrofuran	University Grants Commission Sanction letter No. PSW-085/05-06 (ERO)	Dated: 21/03/2006 Duration : two Years	Rs. 85,000/-	Completed

(iv) Dr. Amlan Majumder, Assistant Professor of the Department of Economics:

Sl. No.	Title	Agency	Period	Grant or amount mobilized	Status
1.	Capability and well-being in the Dooars region of North Bengal.	University Grants Commission (ERO) Kolkata	2011-2013 Duration : two Years	Rs. 1,39,000/-	Completed
2.	Economics of Health Care: A Study of Health Services Utilisation in Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri Districts of North Bengal.	University Grants Commission (ERO) Kolkata	2004-2005	Rs. 90,000/-	Complete

    5. Faculty involvement in research activity on individual capacity /collaborative etc.

1. Dr. Debashis Das is doing research activity in collaboration with Dr. Noureddine Ouerfelli, Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique et Electrochimie, Departement de Chimie, Faculte des Sciences de  Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 El Manar, Tunisie. 
2. Dr. Kishore Kumar Thapa is engaged in research activities with the Palaeobotany and Palynology of Department of Botany, Calcutta University and also with the Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China.
3. Dr. Amlan Majumder

1. Guided (in the capacity of supervisor) one Ph.D. scholar of University of North Bengal.

    6. Faculty pursuing Ph. D. programme in different Universities

1. Rimi Roy, Asst. Professor of Chemistry has been awardedthe Ph.D. degree of the Jadavpur University

2. Sapan Tamang, Asst. Professor of Political Science completed course work for Ph.D. registration at the Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal.

3. Manjil Gupta, Asst. Professor of Zoology completed Course Work for Ph.D. registration at the Department of Zoology, University of North Bengal.

4. Joy Mukherjee, Asst. Professor of English completed Course Work for Ph.D. registration at the department of English, University of North Bengal.

5. Passang Tshering Lepcha, Asst. Professor of Chemistry completed Course Work for Ph.D. registration at the department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur.

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