Zoology

"Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds "

~ Carolus Linnaeus

The Department of Biosciences as a separate entity in origin was established in August, 2002. In broad sense the Department Biosciences accommodate three separate streams of life science-Zoology, Botany and Physiology under the same roof. Although due to some circumstances, Physiology is not available for the students for temporary period. The Department of Zoology is well organized with equipped laboratory, Departmental library facility, a team of dynamic and energetic faculty members and a healthy and student friendly environment. The faculty members of the Department include Prof. Banani Mandal (Head of the Department) , Prof. Debjani Chatterjee and as technical staff Smt. Saila Sonkar (Rudra) provide his service for the Department. The Department has been able to expand the arena of knowledge to the students through regular theory and practical classes, seminars, debates, projects and excursions, etc. Its joyful for us that our students have been getting jobs in different sectors after their graduation.

Infrastructure

Prof. Banani Mondal has successfully finished a UGC-sanctioned minor project entitled "Study of fin fish diversity in mangrove based Indian Sundarbans" in the period 2011-2013. UGC sanctioned 1, 83,750 for this project.

Description	Details
Laboratory	The Department is fully equipped with various instrumental facilities- such as compound microscope, binocular microscope, digital balance, autoclave, pH meter, hot plate with magnetic stirrer, incubator, hot air oven, refrigerator, visible spectrophotometer, microscope with camera attachment, tullgren apparatus etc.
Departmental library	A total of 68 books of various authors (both in Bengali and English version) are available in the Department and these books are given to the students for lending through maintaining a Departmental library register book.

Extension Activities

The teachers of our Department provide guidance to the students through regular interaction to face the job interviews in effective way. Except scheduled syllabus, the students are also advised to prepare impressive Curriculum Vitae by the Departmental faculties. It always remains as our prime effort to provide a well- known environment to them so that they can feel that they are at home during the three years of graduation course. The Department organises visits to different locations where they can observe the environment and its relation with its inhabitants which make them understanding the species competition, species interaction, application of different technology and after all, species conservation in the lap of nature. In necessity through counselling sessions, the faculty members focus the students about the exposure to the hard realities of life which sometimes help the students from less privileged background to develop their personalities. Student’s feedback is very important for us and we try to improve the Department for further betterment. In necessity through counselling sessions, the faculty members focus the students about the exposure to the hard realities of life which sometimes help the students from less privileged background to develop their personalities. Student’s feedback is very important for us and we try to improve the Department for further betterment.

Infrastructure

Prof. Banani Mondal has successfully finished a UGC-sanctioned minor project entitled "Study of fin fish diversity in mangrove based Indian Sundarbans" in the period 2011-2013. UGC sanctioned 1, 83,750 for this project.

Description	Details
Laboratory	The Department is fully equipped with various instrumental facilities- such as compound microscope, binocular microscope, digital balance, autoclave, pH meter, hot plate with magnetic stirrer, incubator, hot air oven, refrigerator, visible spectrophotometer, microscope with camera attachment, tullgren apparatus etc.
Departmental library	A total of 68 books of various authors (both in Bengali and English version) are available in the Department and these books are given to the students for lending through maintaining a Departmental library register book.

Academic Activities

A National Level Seminar was conducted jointly by Computer Science Department and Mathematics Department and one journal has been published as "Quantum Information and Computer".

Sl. No.	Theme of the Activity	Date
1	Display of Wall magazine	20th January 2016
2	Field visit to- Butterfly garden, Salt Lake & East Calcutta Wetland	1st September 2016
3	Visit to Indian Museum	14th January 2016
4	Parents-teachers Meeting	22nd January 2016
5	Field visit to Ornamental Fish Market, Gallif Street, Kolkata	7th August 2016
6	Poster presentation on "Role of media in generation of environmental awareness"	07th September 2016
7	PPT Presentation by the students	12th September 2016

Faculties:

Future Plans:

We would like to introduce Honours course in Zoology. We take class tests on regular basis. We also take tutorial classes beyond scheduled lecture hours. Apart from the regular chalk and talk teaching, we like to include computer during group discussion for live demonstrations and to deliberate lectures through power point presentations in the classroom.Our faculty members are actively involved in research works. The Departmental faculty members are going to submit research proposal to different funding organizations soon in future.

Student Achievements

Students are performing well in University examinations and scoring 1st class marks in B.Sc Examination. Some are mentioned below. 2013- SaraswatiKoley (Approx 63%), 2013- BiswajitSaha (Approx 62%), 2012- TumpaHalder (Approx 66%).

Alumni

Gaurab Sharma (Lieutenant Indian Army)
Anjeeta Rai- (School teacher)
Sumit Patra (Pathological technician)
Dr. Sajid Ali (Homoeopathy doctor)
Sandeep Dutta (Service)
Suvashis Basak ( Service)