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ENLIGHTENMENT TO PERFECTION SELF-STUDY REPORT for submission to the National Assessment & Accreditation Council VOLUME III Departmental Profile (Faculty Council for PG Studies in Science) DECEMBER 2015 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL [www.nbu.ac.in] Raja Rammohunpur, Dist. Darjeeling TABLE OF CONTENTS Page number Departments 1. Anthropology 1 2. Biotechnology 8 3. Botany 53 4. Chemistry 85 5. Computer Science & Application 98 6. Geography & Applied Geography 109 7. Mathematics 121 8. Microbiology 132 9. Physics 141 10. Tea Science 161 11. Zoology 168 Research & Study Centres 12. High Energy & Cosmic Research Centre 184 13. IUCAA Resource Centre (Placed under the Department of Physics) 195 14. Remote Sensing & GIS Application (Research Unit placed in CHS) 200 15. Centre for Climatic Change (Research Unit placed under Geography & Applied Geography) ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal 1. Name of the Department: Anthropology 2. Year of Establishment: 2001 3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? : Faculty of the University 4. Names of programme offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Se., D.Litt., etc.): PG, Ph.D. 5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: Nil 6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. 7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: Nil 8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System: Semester System 9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments 10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate Professor/ Asst. Professors/ others) Sanctioned Filled Actual (including CAS & MPS) Professor - - - Associate Professor 1 1 1 Asst. Professors 4 2 2 Others 1 1 1 11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Qualifi Designation Specialization No. of years No. of Ph.D./ cation of M. Phil. Experience students guided for the last 4 years Dr. Jaydip Sen Ph.D. Associate Physical 9 years in One Professor Anthropology UG level & Human and 8 years Genetics in PG level Dr. Samar M.Sc. Assistant Social-Cultural 13 years in Nil Kumar Biswas Ph.D. Professor Anthropology PG level Dr. Pinak M.Sc. Assistant Social-Cultural 9 years in Nil Tarafdar Ph.D. Professor Anthropology PG level 12. List of Senior Visiting Fellow, adjunct, emeritus professors ______________________________________________________________________________________ Self Study Report for NAAC (Cycle-3) 1 ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal i) Prof. Buddhadeb Choudhuri (Retd.) ii) Prof. S.K. Ghosh Moulik iii) Prof. Paramananda Dash Shama iv) Prof. Kaushik Sankar Bose 13. Percentage of classes taken temporary faculty-programme-wise information 14. Programme-wise Students Teacher Ratio Semester 2nd 2014-2015- 7:3 Semester 4th 2014-2015-10:3 15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled and actual. Technical Staff: N/A, Administrative: 1 sanctioned & filled. 16. Research trust areas as recognized by major agencies Medical Anthropology, Human Nutrition, Environmental degradation, tribal studies, Dalit studies etc. 17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title and grants received project-wise. Year ongoing Completed Funding Total Projects Agencies grants received 2006-2007 & 3 - UGC 200000 2007-2008 2008-2009 - 3 UGC 625700 2009-2010 1 1 UGC 2010-2011 2 UGC and SSMSED 2011-2012 1 1 UGC and ICSSR 2012-2013 1 1 UGC and ICSSR 2013-2014 2 1 UGC and 777100 NBU ______________________________________________________________________________________ Self Study Report for NAAC (Cycle-3) 2 ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal 18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated received a) National Collaboration N/A b) International Collaboration N/A 19. Departmental Projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received: 2013-2014: UGC and NBU Rs. 777100/= 20. Research facility/ centre with State recognition National recognition International recognition 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by/ created by industry or corporate bodies. N/A 22. Publications: Please see volume IV of SSR. 23. Details of patents and income generated N/A 24. Areas of consultancy and income generated N/A 25. Faculty selected nationally/internationally to visit other laboratories/ institutions/industries in India and abroad N/A 26. Faculty serving in a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other (please specify) Three 27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher/orientation programmes/ workshops, training programmes and similar programs). UGC Refresher Course Organized by the Department of Anthrropology: 3 28. Students projects o Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects N/A ______________________________________________________________________________________ Self Study Report for NAAC (Cycle-3) 3 ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal o Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities/ industry/ institute N/A 29. Awards/ recognitions received at the national and international level by o Faculty N/A o Doctoral/ post doctoral fellows N/A o Students N/A 30. Seminar/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source funding (national/international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. i)Annual Conference of the Indian Anthropological Society 9-11 December, 2006 ii) Anthropology and Emerging Issue 16-17 February, 2009 iii) Emerging Areas in Anthropology 21-22 March, 2011 iv) Modern trends in Anthropology 21-22 March, 2013 v) Anthropology in the 21st Century 25th -26th March 2014 31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments 32. Students Profile programme-wise Name of the Applications Selected Pass Percentage Programme (refer to Received Male Female Male Female question no.4) Semester 2nd - 3 4 Semester 4th - 0 10 Ph.D. 2 1 1 100 100 33. Diversity of students Name of the % of students % of students % of students % of students Programme 90 from the same from other from from other refer to university universities universities countries question no.4) within the outside the State State PG 2nd 6 (85.71%) 0 1 (14.28%) 0 Semester 2014- 2015 PG 4th 10 (100%) 0 0 0 Semester 2014- 2015 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Self Study Report for NAAC (Cycle-3) 4 ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal Ph.D. 2014- 2 (100%) 0 0 0 2015 34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. NET Qualified 14 SET Qualified 2 35. Student progression Student progression Percentage against enrolled UG to PG PG to M. Phil. PG to Ph.D. Current session 10% Ph.D. to Post Doctoral Employed o Campus selection o Other than campus recruitment Entrepreneurs 36. Diversity of staff Percentage of faculty who are graduates Of the same university From other universities within the State 100% From universities from other States from Universities outside the country 37. Number of faculty who were awarded M. Phil., Ph.D. D.Sc. and D. Litt. During the assessment period: 2 38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regards to a) Library: 468 books in the seminar library b) Internet facilities for staff and students: In office room, laboratory rooms, teachers rooms and seminar library room. c) Total number of class rooms: 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Self Study Report for NAAC (Cycle-3) 5 ________________________________________________________________University of North Bengal d) Class rooms with ICT facility: 2 e) Students Laboratories: 3 f) Research Laboratories: N/A 39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates a) from the host institution/ university : Presently 15 b) from other institution/ universities : Presently 04 40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university. Presently 3 41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme (S)? If so, highlight the methodology N/A 42. Dose the department obtain feedback from a) Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching- learning-evaluation? If yes, how the department utilize the feedback? N/A b) Students of staff, curriculum and teaching- learning-evaluation and how dose the department utilize the feedback? N/A c) alumni and employers on the programme offered and how dose the department utilize the feedback? N/A 43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) i) Nitish Mondal ii) Somenath Bhattacharjee iii) Biswanath Gan iv) Amit Ghosh v) Mandip Tamang vi) Ranjit Sengupta vii) Suvendu Kundu 44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures/ workshop/ seminar) involving external experts. Special Lectures: 09 45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes. Class