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Department of Botany

Description

Our U.G. department was established in the year 1964 where as P.G. classes began in 1996 under self finance scheme. Both undergraduate and post graduate courses are run in the department with the help of six permanent teachers and three self finance teachers. Department is facilitated with fully equipped U.G. and P.G. laboratories. All the laboratories have adequate number of museum specimens of various plant groups. Enough of exercise material, different chemicals and stains required for anatomical studies, also apparatuses required for conducting physiological experiments are available in good number. There is also a botanical garden in the institution which is also helpful to study the plants live and also provides the practical exercise material required. Department is facilitated with ICT and intercom connection. There is also a departmental library with more than 600 books for the help of P.G. students and faculty. Subject is taught interestingly by regular teaching classes, guest lectures, field trips etc..


Research


Various projects have been carried out in the department with the financial assistance by U.G.C.

(I) U.G.C. Sponsored Major Project

Title - Algal flora of Ganga at Kanpur: Pollution, purification and resource recovery”
Duration – 2009-2012
Principal Investigator – Dr. A.K. Awasthi

(II) U.G.C. Sponsored Minor Project

1. Title – “Survey and Detection of Seed Born Fungi Occuring in different varieties of Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum)”
Duration - 2011-12
Principal Investigator – Dr. V.K. Singh

2. Title – “Study of Algal diversity of river Ganga from Bithoor to Jajmau (Kanpur) and its significance in Ganga water pollution at Kanpur”.
Duration – 2012 – 2013
Principal Investigator – Dr. S.K. Tripathi

3. Title – “Utilization of fly ash on agricultural land at Panki, Kanpur”
Duration – 2012-13
Principal Investigator – Dr. Shweta Awasthi

(II) U.G.C. Sponsored Minor Project

(a) Research Publications- About 150 research papers published in National and International Journals by faculty members of the department

(b) Books Published & Ph.D Produced - Dr. A.K. Awasthi Published 02 books and produced 06 Ph.D students.

Achievements

  • Department is privileged in having teaching faculty of prominence like one of our senior staff member Dr. N.N.C. Awasthi has been in position of Dean science and convener Botany and also member in executive council of CSJM University Kanpur.
  • Dr. A.K. Awasthi has worked in Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman-Nicobar Islands under research projects sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi, India.
  • Mr. Vinay Tiwari – M.Sc. Student 2001 qualified CSIR NET
  • Mr. Adarsh Kumar – M.Sc. Student 2002 qualified CSIR NET
  • Ms. Surabhi Tomar – M.Sc. Student 2012 qualified CSIR NET
  • An UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development” organized at BND College, Kanpur on 20 Jan 2016.

Activities

Department has been organizing various activities at the departmental level P.G. Botanical Society

  • Popular talk on " An Overview of Plastics Waste Management" by Dr. S.K. Nigam Deputy Director CPCB, New Delhi on 2014

  • Popular Talk on Climatic/Sea Level changes and vegetation: Past,Present and Future by Dr. Anjum Various, Sr. Scientist BSIP, Lucknow on 2015.


  • Popular talk on “ Medicinal plants- the source of prosperty and health” by Dr. S.K. Nigam scientist – 4 ,
  • Botany, Regional Ayurvede Research Institute Jhansi – UP 0n 2017.



Tours

    Botanical Tours have been organized to visit the botanical institutes of international repute

    • Central institute of Medicinal and Aromatics Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow -2013-14




  • Central institute of Medicinal and Aromatics Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow-2016-17



  • National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow 2016-17


National Seminar

  • An UGC sponsored- National seminar was organized on ‘Biodiversity conservation and sustainable development’ by the department on 20 Jan.2016