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It is a great pleasure to share that, the Department of Food and Nutrition started its academic and scientific endeavor since 2019. The primary objective is to provide postgraduate education to students in Food and Nutrition under the University of Kalyani. The department focuses on providing quality education to students and carrying out cutting-edge research and development in the concerned fields. The curriculum of the department is designed in such a manner as to focus that our students get career opportunities in reputed educational and industrial institutes. The department has initiated since its beginning, with a high standard of academic and infrastructural development. Presently, it offers M.Sc. in Food and Nutrition having different areas of specialization, namely, Food Microbiology, Advances in Food Science & Chemistry, Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Community Nutrition, Food Preservation, Packaging, and Post-harvest Technology, Food Toxicology, Geriatric, Sports & Space Nutrition, Food product Development, Clinical Nutrition and Processing with internship/industrial training.

The outstanding academic program of the department is enhanced by the quality teaching and research, laboratory experience, as well as community outreach activities, supported by easy access to a department library, computers and other necessary facilities. The well catered curriculum has been expanded to convene the emerging needs and challenges in the area of Food and Nutrition. This has been achieved through not only course work but also with prominence given to research, community work focusing on capacity building of an underprivileged section of the population, seminars, internship/training in hospitals, food industries, and related organizations, educational tours, conferences, and workshops.
To augment the students’ perspective, the department holds seminars, workshops, and lectures from time to time by distinguished people working in the field of Nutrition and Food Technology or in collaboration with organizations related to these fields. Apart from this, the students and faculty are encouraged to participate and present papers at various National and International conferences.
The Department of Food & Nutrition have a capacity of admitting twenty graduate students from different domains- Food and Nutrition, Physiology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Human Development, Home Science, Chemistry, etc.

About the course
On December 29, 1959, in his classic lecture at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech, Richard Feynman said “I would like to describe a field, in which little has been done, but in which an enormous amount can be done in principle……furthermore, a point that is most important is that it would have an enormous number of technical applications..… there is plenty of room at the bottom”
He invited the audience to enter and venture this new field of physics. Within a couple of decades, the term nanotechnology was coined and remarkable advancement and novel discoveries in this new ‘world of nano’ followed.
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology deals with understanding and manipulating matter at dimensions of approximately 100 nm and below, with cross sectoral application and an interdisciplinary orientation. Within nanoscale, the physical, chemical and biological properties of materials differ from the properties of individual atoms and molecules or bulk matter enabling novel applications. Definition of nanotechnology is naturally very broad and includes various fields of science such as quantum mechanics, surface science, organic chemistry, molecular biology, semiconductor physics, nanofabrication, etc. The programme on nanoscience and nanotechnology aims to provide a multidisciplinary natural science education towards students from various backgrounds like physics, chemistry, mathematics and biological sciences. This science of the miniscule encompasses a wide area of research ranging from energy and environmental applications to cancer treatment and targeted drug delivery.

Objective
Human Resource Development with wide, cutting-edge and in-depth knowledge in nanoscience and nanotechnology with the ability to translate in the benefit of the society.

 

About the Course
During the last decade, it has become a universal truth that modern business will be driven by data. Most of the organizations are therefore opening up their doors to big data. Data science professionals are those who can unlock the power of data to extract actionable insights out of such large amount of data. As per a report published in Times of India in July 2018, India has observed more than 400% rise in requirement for data science professional in different industry sectors, while the supply of such talent has a very slow growth in the country. Good data scientists having both theoretical knowledge and programming skill are scarce and on high demand. As a data scientist, one has to understand the business problems, collect and format data, applying algorithms, and make recommendations backed by data. To perform these tasks professionally, one has to be trained well with many facets of data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, statistical analysis and data mining along with good programming skills. The objective of this course is to produce such trained data scientists who will have an edge for being hired in the positions like data scientists, data analyst and data science manager in the industry as well as academia.

Objective
This course will help the candidates in mastering data science tools and techniques like statistical analysis of data, machine learning, clustering, neural networks, deep learning classification, regression, association rule mining, decision trees, soft computing, big data analytics with Hadoop and Apache Spark, cloud infrastructure, IoT and other data science applications. The candidates will also be able to code data science programs using Python/R and gain from the implementation of some data science-related projects. This will help the candidates to develop the required skill set for building a career as a data science professional in the industry, as an entrepreneur to establish a start-up, or as a researcher in some R&D organization.

The Department of Visual Arts was formed in the year 2008. The two-year post-graduate (M.F.A) degree course in Painting conducted by the Department under the Faculty of Music & Fine Arts at the University of Kalyani concentrates on both the traditional and new aspects of practical exploration in this field. The course creates the scope for different dimensions of technical expertise and motivating the students for critical enquiry of the works done in the class-rooms. Concern about the environment, social and cultural issues as well as knowledge of history is stressed upon. Besides the objective of academic oriented tasks, stress is also laid upon future professional advancement of the students. A dedicated team of Faculty comprising of both permanent and guest teachers who have also made a mark in the professional field impart guidance to the students.

 

 

The importance of Lifelong Learning has been repeatedly stressed in several educational policy documents and discourses in India. While the Report of the Education Commission (1964-66) observed that education does not end with schooling but is a lifelong process; the National Policy on Education in India – 1986 (modified in 1992) considered Lifelong Education as the cherished goal of the educational process which presupposes universal literacy, provision of opportunities for youth, housewives, agricultural and industrial workers and professionals to continue the education of their choice at the pace suited to them.

National Education Policy 2020 emphasized that the global education development agenda reflected in the Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by India in 2015 – seeks to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. Also, the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012–2017) estimated that only a very small percentage of the Indian workforce in the age group of 19–24 (less than 5%) received formal vocational education Whereas in countries such as the USA the number is 52%, in Germany 75%, and South Korea it is as high as 96%. These numbers only underline the urgency of the need to hasten the spread of vocational education in India.

Considering all, the Department of Lifelong Learning & Extension (erstwhile Adult, Continuing Education & Extension) was set up in 1986 as sanctioned by University Grants Commission during 6th five-year plan. Presently, the department has conducted in three different areas as mentioned by UGC that is, Research, Teaching, and Extension Programmes.

Research

As a part of research, the department has undertaken research projects on different aspects of Lifelong Learning and Education. Till date seven scholars have been awarded the Ph.D. degree and four are working. They have already published 80 research articles in different national and international journals with high impact factor. The detailed syllabus of Ph.D. Course Work is available at https://klyuniv.ac.in/academic/syllabi/education/

Department of Physical Education under University of Kalyani started as a teaching department in 1963. It has the unique distinction of being pioneer, with only two other universities in India, in starting a teaching course in Physical Education as a University Department.

Department has started courses with 19 students and the student strength increased to 25 with five women students in 1965. It has been increased to 65 in 1974. With introduction ofPhysical Education as a compulsory subject in the Secondary Education Curriculum, to meet the huge demand, the University has increased the student strength to 80 including 20 women students in 1977.

The department started B.P.Ed. Course of four semesters under NCTE regulation 2014 from 2015-2017 batch with the intake of 50 students. Similarly the department has also
received NCTE recognition for M.P.Ed. Course with the intake of 40 students from 2015-2017 batch.

The Department has an eventful history in dissemination of knowledge since its inception about forty five years back. The Department was established as a Govt. sponsored Teachers’ Training College in 1958.

The Department expanded its programme of studies and research in 1970-71 and introduced two-year MA/M.Sc course in Education. Thereupon, during the 5th. Plan UGC became satisfied to sanction more teaching posts which stood as: Professor-one, Reader-four, and Lecturer –sixteen including one Co-ordinator for its Extension wing (NCERT). Since then research programme sprung up vigorously. It got further stimulation in the hefty days of re-organization of the national educational scenario with the NEP, 1986 and initiated M.Phil in Education, eventually the first in the Eastern part of the country. In maintaining continuous growth spurt, the B.Ed. Course got permanent recognition of NCTE in 1999. The strength and potential of Department was duly assessed by the MHRD, and the Higher Education Department, Government of West Bengal and upgraded it as Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) in 2000. Subsequently, it received central Capital Grants of Rs.115 lakh for expansion of infrastructure in specified dimensions. With this funds the Department has been more enriched in –teaching –learning supports facilities of all kinds including departmental library and laboratories besides extension & building of physical infrastructure. New ICT Lab has also been built .

Thereby old existing curricula have been modified and / or updated for preparing qualified man-power to fit themselves in contemporary world of education. Sequel to these , as an integral part of the IASE scheme the Department has already introduced NCTE recognized one –year M.Ed. course with effect from 2002-03 academic session and its is expecting to start various in-service teacher education programme very soon. A bunch of curricula for continuous in-service education & re-education for teacher, teacher-educators, and middle-level education mangers of divergent roles has also been developed very meticulously. Proposal for recurrent financial assistance from MHRD is now in active consideration of the governments. The Department in spite of several odds and hurdles continuously advances to attain its Vision : “ A community of quality educators rooted in Indian tradition ”, Mission : ‘to promote academic excellence and to provide quality education for preparation of teachers, educational managers and researchers’ monitors stakeholders’ satisfaction and changes accordingly.

During the last five years the Department has successfully organized two national seminars four UGC Refresher Course in Education and one university level Workshop on B.Ed. Curriculum Renovation .Within the span of the last five years about 15 students have qualified either SLET/SET or NET and about 20 students have been placed as lecturers in colleges through W.B. College Services Commission and six students have joined as lecturers different PG Departments of University. Additionally, nearly 25 students have been awarded with Ph.D. in Education and about 300 students have been recruited as assistance teachers through W.B.School Services Commission.

Department of Engineering & Technological Studies (Formerly University Science Instrumentation Centre or USIC) was established in the year 1978 by the University Grants Commission (UGC). With an aim at promoting the Centre and to diversify its activity, the UGC subsequently upgraded it to Level-III, the highest level of an USIC, during its 8th plan period. USIC of University of Kalyani was the only USIC in the Eastern region of the country, which had been upgraded to Level-III by the UGC. As a condition of upgradation, a One-year (Two semesters) Post-Graduate Diploma in Instrumentation (PGDI) course was started from the 1992-1993 academic session. The course was aimed at imparting a job-oriented training programme to Honours Graduates in Physical Sciences. Later to enhance the utility of the course the University upgraded the course to Two-years’ (Four semesters) Post-Graduate Diploma in Instrumentation, so that the students can do better in the job market

As per the advice and the approval given by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in 1999, University of Kalyani introduced Two 4-year B. Tech courses in— (i) Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and (ii) Information Technology at USIC from the academic session 1999-2000 with the intake from WBJEE. In 2005 USIC obtained the approval of AICTE for M. Tech. course in Communication Engineering, though the course started in 2010-2011 academic session. The Ph.D. curricula in several field of Engineering were also started at USIC from the same academic session, as per UGC guideline. In 2022, the department obtained the approval of AICTE to start a 4-year B. Tech course in Electronics and Communication Engineering and a 2-year M. Tech. course in Information Technology.

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering was established in 1992. It started functioning in the
Department of Physics, University of Kalyani, with only one programme: Postgraduate Diploma in Computer
Application (PGDCA) with a student strength of fifteen. Subsequently, at the end of 2002, the Department
started functioning in its new building. The two AICTE-approved existing courses, Master in Computer
Application (MCA) and Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering (M.Tech.(CSE)) were
introduced in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Moreover, the Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and
Engineering (B.Tech.(CSE)) course has been introduced in 2022 as per the approval of AICTE. Besides this, the
department currently supervises two M.Sc. programmes in Computer Science and Data Science, which have
been introduced in the academic session 2019-2020. The department also offers Ph.D. degrees in various
areas of Computer Science and Engineering. The department employs 07 regular and a few contractual faculty
members, along with other staff members to run its courses smoothly. Healthy teacher-student relationships
and well-equipped laboratories have paved the way for growth in the IT sector. The department recognizes
the importance of Information Technology in the modern world and is dedicated to making all possible efforts
to place its students in the long run. Moreover, the faculty members of the department are highly involved in
cutting-edge research in different trending areas of computer science and related topics and have published
more than 600 articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

The Department of Business Administration started the AICTE approved MBA course from the academic year 2001-02 on enhanced fee basis. It is also AICTE sponsored Department for MODROBS and Research Projects under RPS. For meeting the academic commitments in the best possible manner, the department is taking faculty support from other departments of the University. Services from experts in other academic institutions and corporate enterprises are also being utilized for running the course. In the wake of the economic globalization, the need for building and maintaining competitive edge over others is gaining immense importance. Secret of success in Management does not lie in specialization in any field or exceedingly starling performance, but in harmonious development of individual characteristics. Inner qualities of a person, at the helm of affairs, substantially govern the philosophy of management and it is his/her logical approach, aesthetic sense, ethical standards and practical dynamism, which will bring about results and these are what we try to inculcate in our students. Other objectives of the Department includes promotion of research endeavors of the faculty members and research scholars for better understanding of issues of management and other related fields and to help the students in their career progression.