Evaluative Report of the Department of Geography

1. Name of the department: Geography
2. Year of Establishment: 1974
3. Names of Programmes/ Courses offered ( UG,PG,M.Phil, Ph.D, Integrated Masters, Integrated Ph.D. ,etc.: UG
4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/ units involved:  Environmental studies, Multidisciplinary course, Computer Science.
5. Annual/ semester/ choice based credit system( programme wise):  Semester
6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: Environmental science, D. El. Ed.
7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: No
8. Details of courses/ programmes discontinued( if any) with reasons: No
9. Number of Teaching posts:

Categories	Sanctioned	Filled
Professors	Nil	Nil
Associate Professors	02	02
Asst. Professors	01	01
Asst. Professors (contractual)	02	02

10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation,

Specialization, ( D.Sc/ D.Litt./Ph.D/ M.Phil, etc,)

Name	Qualification	Designation	Specialization	No. of Years of Experience	No.of Ph.D. Students guided
Dr.Ananda Hazarika	M.Sc, Ph.D.	Associate professor	Cartography	32	Nil
Sri Mukheswar Saikia	M.A	Associate professor	Regional Planning	32	Nil
SriPrasanta Saikia	M.A, B.Ed, M. Phil	Assistant professor	Regional Planning	20	Nil
SriMonojyoti Regon	M.A	Assistant professor	Regional Planning	06	Nil
Miss Jyonti Satola	M.A	Assistant professor	Remote Sensing	02	Nil

11. List of Visiting faculty: Nil
12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes

handled( programme wise) by temporary faculty: 40%

13. Student- Teacher Ratio( programme wise):

First Semester	Third Semester	Fifth Semester
1:10	1:05	1:05

14. Number of academic support staff ( technical) and administrative

staff, sanctioned and filled: Technical= 01, administrative staff =0,

sanctioned and filled: 01

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/D.Litt/Ph.D/ MPhil/PG:

Ph.D- 01, MPhil-01, PG-03.

16. Numbers of faculty with ongoing projects from (a) National

(b) International funding agencies and grants received: Nil

17. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST, UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc.

and total grants received: Nil

18. Research Centre / faculty recognized by the University: Nil
19. Publications:

*(a) Publication per faculty:  Publications of Dr. Ananda Hazarika:  (b)Publications:

Sl. No.	Year/ISBN No./ISSN No.	Topic
1	October 2012, ISSN 2231-4946	Bio-diversity and its landmass of Majuli Island in the grip of decay
2	The Environmentalist 20,19-27,2000 kluwer Academic publisher- Netherland	Experimental study soil conservation using herbaceous plants-
3	ISBN- 81-8069-074-12004	Majuli a Unique ecological entity
4	ISBN-978-81-89148-06-5	Majuli
5	ISBN-978-81-92178-11-0	Bio-diversity and the landmass of Majuli
6	ISBN-978-81-924984-2-4	Majuli Kristi Samannay Sanskriti aru Kishu Kotha

Publications of Sri Mukheswar Saikia: Nil

Publications of Sri Prasanta Saikia:

Sl. No.	Year/ISBN no./ ISSN no.	Topic
01	ACTA-2015 ISbn-978-81-92178-11-00	Climate of Majuli

 

Publications of Sri Monojyoti Regon: Nil

Publications of Miss Jyonti Satola : Nil

* Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals

(National/ International) by faculty and students: Nil

* Number of publications listed in International Database (   For Eg:

Web of Science. Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare

Database- International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc)

: Nil

* Monographs: Nil

* Chapter in Books: Nil

* Books Edited:Nil

* Books with ISBN/ ISSN numbers with details of publishers: Nil

* Citation Index:  Nil

* SNIP: Nil

* SJR: Nil

* Impact factor: Nil

* h- index: Nil

20. Areas of consultancy and income generated: Nil
21. Faculty as members in: (a) National committees

(b) International Committees (c) Editorial Boards: Nil

22. Student projects:

(a) Percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter departmental / programme: 100%, as per syllabus.

(b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations

outside the institution i.e. in Research laboratories/ Industry/

other agencies:  Nil

23. Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students: Nil
24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the

department: Nil

25. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops organized & the source of

funding:

(a) National: Nil

(b) International:Nil

26. Student profile programme/ course wise:

Name of the Course/ programme(refer question no. 4)	Applications received	Selected	Enrolled		Pass percentage
			*M	*F
2010-11-1st sem	11	08	06	02	50%
2011-12-1st sem	20	17	12	05	100%
2012-13 1st sem	28	24	17	07	40%
2013-14 1st sem	24	22	15	07	60%
2014-15 1st sem	29	21	17	04	52%
2015-16 1st sem	31	26	18	08	56%

 

27. Diversity of Students:

Name of the course	% of students from the same state	% of students from other States	% of students from abroad
BA/BSc Major	100%	0%	0%
BA/BSc Core	100%	0%	0%

 

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive

examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE,Civil services, Defense

services, etc.?

29. Student progression:

Student progression	Against % enrolled
UG to PG	50%
PG to M.Phil	Nil
PG to Ph.D	Nil		0%
PG to  Post-Doctoral	Nil
Employed ° Campus selection ° Other than campus recruitment	Nil
Entrepreneurship/ Self-employment

 

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities:

(a) Library: Yes

(b) Internet facilities for Stuff & Students: Yes

(c) Class room with ITC facility:Nil

(d) Laboratories: Yes

31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from

college,university, government or other agencies: Nil

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops/ seminar) with external experts: Nil
33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: Group

Discussion, Presentation, Home Assignment, Class Test etc.

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and

Extension activities: NSS Camp, Field Survey, Excursion.

35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans:

Strength:

* Highly motivated team of teacher

* Student centric Department

* Major courses

Weakness:

* Laboratory weakness

* Classroom space not sufficient

* Luck of Digital classroom

Opportunities:

*Motivating students to learn field survey and Data collection

and preparation of Minor project.

Challenges:

*Annual flood problems, Communication problems, Poor student

quality and quantity, Economic problems.

Future Plans:

*To motivate students to appear in competitive examinations.

* To improve our laboratory.

* To introduce MA course in the Department.