PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence
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PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY (A Central University established by an Act of Parliament No. 53 of 1985) - 85 201 19 0 25Silver Jubilee Celebrating 25 years of excellence in higher education PROSPECTUS 2010-11 010 2 - 5 8 9 1 S ilverJubilee25 www.pondiuni.edu.in 010 2 - 5 8 9 1 S ilverJubilee25 Vice Chancellor’s Message electronic access to Journals and The University is conscious that with e-resources, conference halls, playfields, increasing inter disciplinary nature of health centre, placement and other job opportunities available globally, it is services such as free buses to reach the inevitable for any student to cross the University, eco friendly commutation in borders of his specialized field & learn campus by electric cars & bicycles are a more in allied fields, to make himself few to mention. The University offers adaptable to the changing scenarios. many inter-disciplinary courses in Arts, To fulfill their need, the University has Pure and Applied Sciences, Humanities started 22 PG Diploma programmes and Social Sciences, Commerce, and 6 foreign language certificate Management, Education, Electronic courses thus providing them providing Media, Environment, Nano sciences, them add on options in various relevant uman Resource development Green technology, Performing Arts disciplines. For example, a student and higher education in India and Computer science through Choice of ‘Master in Social Work’ can now Hare focused on access to a Based Credit System. Expansion, possess two additional P.G. Diploma in large number of aspiring students to Excellence with Equity is the punch line Industrial Psychology and Labour Laws, undergo higher education with quality and thrust of the University. which will add immense value to his and affordability. As one of the Central employability. Similarly any student in Universities, Pondicherry University Our faculty, officers and staff work with Bio-sciences will now have an option to has facilities and amenities to students commitment to maintain the standards add a P.G. Diploma in Bio-Technology to stay and study a wide range of 147 and to adopt the best practices. The which is currently in great demand. courses. The main campus located at emphasis of the University is to promote Puducherry has a lush green tropical inter-disciplinary programmes. A large To enable the large number of evergreen forest along the east coast of number of national and international students from other states studying in India bordered with the Bay of Bengal. conferences and seminars are held by the campus, to possess a functional The University has established two more way of inviting visiting faculty from knowledge of Tamil, a specially designed campuses to offer P.G. courses, one across the country and overseas to certificate course in Tamil is also being at Karaikal (UT of Pondicherry) share their experiences and expertise. offered from this year. and the other at Port Blair (UT of We welcome students from other Andaman and Nicobar Islands). The countries to take courses and carry back All the Add-On courses are also University has excellent ambience for the credits. Recently, the University has made open to the local population of higher studies, research and cultural taken a big leap ahead with expansion Puducherry enhancing their access to exchange. It has nineteen hostels, of teaching departments, infrastructure, higher education. networked Wi-Fi campus, support research facilities with an ultimate services. Scholarships and freeships are objective of 400% expansion of the We invite scholars and students to provided to help deserving students to student, teacher and scholar strength avail this opportunity to enhance pursue their education and research. by the end of 2011-12. There will be their knowledge and realize their The modern laboratories, library with 450 faculty spread over 13 schools. full potential. www.pondiuni.edu.in 010 2 - 5 8 9 1 S ilverJubilee25 VISITOR Smt. PRATIBHA DEVISINGH PATIL Her Excellency, the President of India CHANCELLOR Shri MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI Hon’ble Vice-President of India CHIEF RECTOR Dr. IQBAL SINGH His Excellency, the Lt. Governor of Puducherry VICE-CHANCELLOR Prof. J. A. K. TAREEN Director of Culture and Cultural Relations Professor A. BALASUBRAMANIAN Registrar Shri S. LOGANATHAN Finance Officer Shri S. RAGHAVAN IA & AS Controller of Examinations (i/c) Dr. J. SAMPATH Librarian Dr. R. SAMYUKTHA DEANS OF SCHOOLS School of Life Sciences: Dr. PRIYA DAVIDAR School of Performing Arts : Dr. R. RAJU School of Social Sciences & International Studies: Dr. D. SAMBANDHAN School of Management: Dr. M. BASHEER AHMED KHAN School of Education: Dr. M. S. LALITHAMMA School of Physical, Chemical & Applied Sciences: Dr. H. SURYA PRAKASH RAO Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences : Dr. A.M.S. RAMASAMY School of Humanities: Dr. R. VENGUATTARAMANE Subramania Bharathi School of Tamil Language & Literature: Dr. S. AROKIANATHAN www.pondiuni.edu.in 010 2 - 5 8 9 1 S ilverJubilee Schools, Departments/ Centres & respective heads 25 Subramania Bharati School of Centre for Foreign Languages Dr. (Mrs.) Nalini J. Thampi Tamil Language & Literature Dr. S. Arokianathan Escande Chair in Asian Christian Studies Dr. P. A. Sampath Kumar School of Management School of Social Sciences and International Studies Department of Department of Anthropology Dr. A. Chellaperumal Management Studies Dr. R. Prabhakara Raya Department of Sociology Dr. B. B. Mohanty Department of Commerce Dr. Malabika Deo Department of History Dr. Venkata Raghotham Department of Economics Dr. M. Ramadass Department of Politics & Department of Tourism International Studies Dr. B. Mohanan Studies Dr. G. Anjaneya Swamy Department of Social Work Dr. G. Ramathirtham Department of (Course co-ordinator) Banking Technology Dr. K. Chandrasekhara Rao Madanjeet Singh Institute of Department of South Asia Regional International Business Dr. K. Mohan Cooperation (MISARC) & Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences Centre for South Asian Studies Prof. N. K. Jha Department of Mathematics Dr. V. Indumathi Centre for Women’s Studies Dr. Usha V. T. Department of Statistics Dr. P. Dhanavanthan Centre for Study of Social School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences Exclusion and Inclusive Policies Dr. T. Subramanyam Naidu Department of Physics Dr. G. Govindaraj School of Engineering & Technology Department of Chemistry Dr. P. Sambasiva Rao Department of Computer Department of Earth Sciences Dr. M. S. Pandian Science Dr. R. Subramanian Department of Applied Department of Electronics Psychology (Course co-ordinator) Dr. V. C. Thomas Engineering (Course co-ordinator) Dr. V. V. Ravi Kanth Kumar School of Life Sciences Centre for Pollution Control Department of Biochemistry & and Environmental Engineering Dr. S. A. Abbasi Molecular Biology (Head (i/c)) Dr. P. P. Mathur School of Education Dr. M. S. Lalithamma Department of Biotechnology Dr. S. Jayachandran Department of Food Science School of Medical Sciences and Technology (Head i/c) Dr. H. Pratap Kumar Shetty P.G. Courses to be jointly offered with Affiliated Medical Department of Ecology & Colleges under Public Private Partnership model Environmental Sciences Dr. N. Parthasarathy School of Performing Arts Department of Ocean Studies Department of Performing Dr. V. Arumugam & Marine Biology Dr. P. M. Mohan Arts Department of Coastal Disaster School of Media & Communication Management Department of Mass Centre for Bioinformatics Dr. P. P. Mathur Communication Dr. A. Balasubramanian School of Humanities Department of Library and Dr. R. Samyuktha Department of English Dr. S. Murali Information Sciences Department of French Dr. (Mrs.) Nalini J. Thampi Centre for Electronic Media Dr. A. Balasubramanian Department of Hindi Dr. V. Vizialakshmi Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies Department of Sanskrit Dr. C. S. Radhakrishnan Centre for Green Energy Department of Philosophy Dr. K. Srinivas Technology (Course co-ordinator) Dr. H. Surya Prakash Rao Department of Physical Centre for Nano Sciences & Education and Sports Dr. N. Govindarajulu Technology (Course co-ordinator) Prof. N. Satyanarayana College Development Council Dr. A. Balasubamanian, Community College Dr. K. S. Kumari Dean (i/c) Principal Directorate of Distance Edn. Dr. S. Bhaskaran Central Instumentation Dr. G. Govindaraj Director Facility Co-ordinator Academic Staff College Dr. S. Hariharan Centre for Adult and Dr. K. Devan Director Continuing Education Lecturer (SG) www.pondiuni.edu.in 010 2 - 5 8 9 1 S ilverJubilee Administrative officers OffICE Of 25THE VICE-CHAncellor Assistant Registrar Assistant Registrar R. Segar (Ramanujan School of N. Ravi Vice-Chancellor’s Secretariat Mathenatical Sciences) OFFICE OF THE Registrar Office of the Controller of EXaminations Assistant Registrar (PCR) S. Alamelu Deputy Registrar Dr. S. Manivannan Registrar’s Secretariat (DDE-Examinations) Deputy Registrar (Academic II) Dr. J. Sampath Deputy Registrar Dr. B. Chitra Deputy Registrar (Administration) P. Subramanian (Examinations) Deputy Registrar (SC/ ST) M. Jagannathan Assistant Registrar P. Vaitheanathan Deputy Registrar Dr. M. Rajendiran (Examinations) (Planning & Development) Assistant Registrar DDE (Exams) Dr. S. K. Balasundaram Law Officer A. Balasubramanian Assistant Registrar (Exams) P. Muralidassan Assistant Registrar B. Routtramourthy Public Grievances Officer K. Devan (Planning & Development) Office of the Finance Officer Assistant Registrar S. Punitha Deputy Registrar (F&A) K. Chandramorthy (Administration) Assistant Registrar (Finance) P.