VISVA-BHARATI Annual Report 2015-2016 Santiniketan 2016 YATRA VISVAM BHAVATYEKANIDAM (Where the World makes its home in a single nest) “ Visva-Bharati represents India where she has her wealth of mind which is for all. Visva-Bharati acknowledges India's obligation to offer to others the hospitality of her best culture and India's right to accept from others their best ” -Rabindranath Tagore Contents Chapter I ................................................................i-v Department of Biotechnology...............................147 From Bharmacharyashrama to Visva-Bharati...............i Centre for Mathematics Education........................152 Institutional Structure Today.....................................ii Intergrated Science Education & Research Centre.153 Socially Relevant Research and Other Activities .....iii Finance ................................................................... v Kala Bhavana.................................................157 -175 Administrative Staff Composition ............................vi Department of Design............................................159 University At a Glance................................................vi Department of Sculpture..........................................162 Student Composition ................................................vi Department of Painting..........................................165 Teaching Staff Composition.....................................vi Department of Graphic Art....................................170 Department of History of Art..................................172 Chapter 2..........................................................1 - 309 NandanKala-Bhavana Museum.................................175 Bhasha Bhavana ............................................... 1-47 Sangit Bhavana...........................................176 -182 Department of Bengali .............................................2 Dept. of Rabindra Sangit Dance & Drama.............176 Department of English & Other Modern European Dept. of Hindustani Classical Music.......................177 Languages................................................................ 6 Rabindra Sangit Gabeshana Kendra........................180 Department of Hindi................................................16 Department of Sanskrit, Palli and Prakrit ................20 Vinaya Bhavana............................................183 - 196 Department of Odia ................................................26 Department of Education.......................................183 Department of Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Department of Physical Education.........................192 Islamic Studies...........................................................30 Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies..........................33 Palli Samgathana Vibhaga............................197- 212 Department of Santali.................................................36 Rural Extentsion Centre.........................................197 Department of Marathi................................................38 Silpa Sadana ..........................................................199 Department of Japanese (Nippon Bhavana).............39 Department of Social Work......................................204 Department of Chinese Language & Culture ...........42 Palli Charcha Kendra.............................................210 Centre for Buddhist Studies.......................................46 Palli Siksha Bhavana......................................213-272 Vidya-Bhavana .............................................. 48-70 Department of ‘ASEPAN’........................................ 216 Department of Economics & Politics.........................49 Department of ‘E E S’.............................................234 Department of Geography .......................................56 Department of Crop Improvement Horticulture & Department of Ancient Indian Agricultural Botany(CIHAB)..................................247 History, Culture & Archaeology ............................60 Department of Plant Protection..............................261 Department of History...............................................63 Department of Anthropology.....................................65 Secondary & Higher Secondary Centre for journalism & Mass Communication..........67 Institutions......................................................273- 278 Department of Philosophy & Comparative Religion..307 Patha Bhavana..........................................................273 Siksha Satra.............................................................275 Siksha Bhavana..............................................71-156 Other Academic Centres................................279 - 306 Department of Physics ...........................................72 Rabindra Bhavana....................................................279 Department of Chemistry .......................................82 Granthana Vibhaga...................................................285 Department of Mathematics ...................................99 Indira Gandhi Centre ................................................289 Department of Zoology..........................................108 Agro-Economic Research Centre.............................291 Department of Botany............................................117 Department of Statistics.........................................133 Department of Computer & System Sciences...........137 Department of Environmental Studies...................142 Secondary & Higher Secondary Appendix B..............................................................352 Institutions......................................................273- 278 Adhyakshas of Bhavanas / Patha Bhavana..........................................................273 Vibhagas (Head of the Institutes)..............................352 Siksha Satra.............................................................275 Appendix C...Functionaries of the University..........353 Other Academic Centres................................279 - 306 Rabindra Bhavana....................................................279 Appendix D...Head of the Department....................354 Granthana Vibhaga...................................................285 Appendix E........................................................356-378 Indira Gandhi Centre ................................................289 Academic Staff.........................................................356 Agro-Economic Research Centre.............................291 SC / ST Cell.............................................................293 Appendix F...Members of Samsad..........................379 Central Library.........................................................294 Appendix G... List of Karma-Samiti Members.......384 Centre for Womens Studies.......................................302 Department of Philosophy & Comparative Religion..307 Chapter 3........................................................310-313 Academic Programmes............................................310 Chapter 4......................................................314 - 337 Student Strength, New Admissions and Other Information Bhasha-Bhavana.......................................................314 Vidya Bhavana.........................................................316 Siksha Bhavana........................................................318 Kala Bhavana...........................................................320 Sangit Bhavana........................................................322 Vinaya Bhavana.......................................................325 Dept. of Physical Education.....................................327 Palli Samgathana Vibhaga (Dept. of Social Work)...328 Silpa-Sadana ............................................................330 Palli Charcha Kendra...............................................332 REC.........................................................................333 Palli Siksha Bhavana................................................334 Patha Bhavana..........................................................336 Siksha Satra.............................................................337 Chapter 5......................................................338 - 345 Status/Physical Progress of ongoing projects initiated during XI Plan Period upto 31.03.2016......................338 Chapter 6......................................................346 - 347 University Finance...................................................346 Chapter 7.......................................................348 - 350 Ordinance & Amendments.........................................348 Appendix .......................................................351-384 Appendix A New Appointments ..............................................351 Chapter - I From Bharmacharyashrama to Visva-Bharati: A Chronicle of Metamorphosis of a Tiny School into an Internationally-Acclaimed Centre of Learning Visva­Bharati which epitomizes culmination of Asia’s first Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s dream of an institution, slated to deliver holistic education, as preached in the Upanisadas (that which emancipates is knowledge) had a very modest beginning. In 1863, Debendranath Tagore, the poet’s father and a herbringer of nineteenth century Bengal Renaissance took the users right of 20 bighas of land at an early land rent of twenty rupees in the arid soil of the district of Birbhum and established the Santiniketan Ashrama. In 1888, he executed