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The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics was established in 1981. It is one of the well-known Departments of our University. Several students who have passed out from this Department have joined different national and international institutes for their research. PhD scholars from the Department have also joined research laboratories of repute both aboard as well as in the country. The Department has produced several distinguished alumni. The Department motivates students to wander into the realms of the fascinating world of Biology in the true spirit of learning. The goal of our Department is to impart quality teaching and nurture young talents to achieve excellence in research. Our vision is to provide a very conducive platform to the students in their academic pursuits in an amiable atmosphere. The Department conducts M.Sc. course in Biochemistry and M.Sc. course in Biophysics, i.e., the two M.Sc. courses have been running under one roof of the Department. The Department has the intake capacity of twenty-six (26) students each for the M.Sc. courses in Biochemistry and Biophysics. The faculty members of the Department are involved in teachings and researches in Basic Biochemistry, Basic Biophysics, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Cellular Signaling, Parasitology, X-ray crystallography, Molecular Modeling, Bio-informatics etc. The faculty members of the Department are also involved in strengthening other related Departments of the University by taking postgraduate classes and also collaborating with them in their research pursuits. The extramural projects aided by Govt. of India (DST, DBT, ICMR, DAE, CSIR, and UGC) as well as of State Govt. are undertaken by the faculty members. The Department has already gained attention from leading scientists and academicians which have led to different collaborations at the National and International levels. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, has identified this Department under the FIST (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities and other Higher Educational Institutions) Program for the third time. UGC has also identified this Department under SAP-DRS-II (Special Assistance Programme-Departmental Research Support).

Year of Establishment:  2015

Faculty Members of the Department

  • Dr. Biva Kumari, Associate Professor
  • Dr. Himanshu Kumar, Assistant Professor
  • Dr. Satyadeo Prasad, Contractual Full-time
  • Mr. Anup Kumar Gupta, Guest Faculty
  • Miss. Navneeta Das, Guest Faculty

Rural Development has been given immense importance during the last couple of decades by the Government, both central and state, particularly in the process of development of economy by implementing huge number of policies and programmes. After 73rd Constitution Amendment Act, 1992 various functions (as specified in eleventh schedule) are now being done by the rural local governments. As a result the rural institutions as well as the organizations involved in the development process of the economy need well educated professionals to get success of the goal as envisaged. The present department of rural development studies, erstwhile INSPARC, was established against the backdrop of the above in the year 2003 under the faculty of Engineering Technology and Management University of Kalyani. It has two-fold objectives: promotion of academic advancement in general and rural development in particular on one hand and the teaching as well as training of students who will capable of taking challenges in the real world of the rural sector in our country on the other. At present, the department offers two-year Post Graduate programme in Master of Rural Studies and Ph.D programme under the faculty of Arts and Commerce.

The Department of Sociology can boast of being the pioneer in introducing teaching and research in Sociology in the eastern region of India. As early as in 1964, the department started its journey with a subsidiary course in Sociology at under-graduate level. A couple of years later, a post- graduate course in Sociology had been introduced (1966) and the under-graduate (Honors) course only followed soon (1972). The department, since its inception, claims appreciation from all quarters for its close and continuous academic interaction with the peer departments in India and abroad with the aim of achieving academic excellence. As well, the department has always remained sufficiently responsive to the needs of her rural/semi-urban roots. In consistent with her perceived goals i.e.; achieving academic excellence and sustainable development of the community around, the department has already undertaken a good number of programs apart from updating the syllabi (both core and optional) at regular intervals through incorporation of contemporary ideas and issues. The department further plans to pursue a series of newer programs in the near future. These include sponsored/collaborative research with peer departments in India and abroad as well as out-reach/extension programs. In fact, the department has sincerely been striving to make optimum utilization of the available resources to achieve her “twin goals” referred to here-in above. The department is undoubtedly poised towards an enviable future. Needless to say, all that the department has thus far achieved have become possible because of generous support from all concerned.

The significance of Nabadwip in Nadia District (West Bengal) as a seat of learning is well-recognized since the time of Mahāprabhu Chaitanya. Students and scholars from different parts of India used to flock to this holy place for both spiritual and academic pursuits.

It is, however, regrettable that since the time of our independence, this traditional centre has almost lost its esteem and dominance in the feat of learning. In addition, currently there is only a handful of Ṭol-s (Traditional Sanskrit School) left according to the Government Records when most of them are not even well-equipped to provide traditional learning with the changing dynamism of our society.

For thriving around the vicinity of Nabadwip, Kalyani University has decided to carry forward the baton of its glorious past and introduced the Post Graduate Department of Sanskrit in its own campus during the academic year 2011-12.

The Department started with twenty (20) students who got admitted to the course on 30th August, 2011 and classes started on the very next day i.e. 1st day of September. Now the Department has sixty-three (66) seats.

A creation of Fifth Five Year Plan, the Department of Political Science set out on its tryst with destiny in the academic session of 1978-79 with a contingent of five teaching posts and twenty five students and Professor Madhu Mangal Singh, an eminent scholar in the fields of Public Administration and Constitutional Law, took the chair of Head of the department. Professor Tarun Chandra Bose, a UGC National Lecturer and a name in the US Hall of Fame, joined the department during the Sixth Plan and served till his retirement. It was during the Seventh Plan that another teaching post and a post of Research Associate were gained by the department. Though the department started as a minor, over the years it gained some reputation as a good teaching place. The department through its sheer quality of teaching has placed some of its students in high positions of the corporate world, university positions and teaching positions in the colleges of West Bengal and other states. The number of seats for students has increased steadily to touch the 100th mark in 2002.

At present thirty-six of the thirty-nine colleges and institutions affiliated to our University send their students to the department, which is gearing up to transmute this expanded influx of human resource. A forward looking entity, the department has always taught updated syllabi.

The teachers are not only engaged in dissemination of learing, but have enriched the discipline of Political Science through their researches, thus participating in its creation too. Poised to offer a Diploma Course in Human Rights and Duties Education, the department is planning to adjust to the post-liberalisation age of higher learning, education and its challenges. Scarcity of human and material resource sometimes interferes with its progress. But the department believes that its motto should be “to seek, to strive, to find and not to yield”.

Programmes Offered:

  • Certificate course in the Russian Language
  • Certificate course in the Russian Language

Intake Capacity:

  • Russian Language : 30 students, Graduate in any stream/year.

Library and Information Science (LISc) is a professional education aimed at developing students with adequate knowledge and skills relating to the tools and techniques of information handling, including ICT-enabled information processing and dissemination. The establishment of the Department of Library and Information Science, the tenth member in the Faculty of Arts and Commerce, at the University of Kalyani was formally conceived by an order dated March 23, 1985, by the then Vice-chancellor, Prof. S Mukherjee. In October 1985, the UGC accepted the university’s proposal for the creation of the posts of one reader and two lecturers in library and information science during the 7th plan period. The State Govt. gave its concurrence to the above posts in December 1988. After the completion of the recruitment process, the Department of Library and Information Science was formally inaugurated by the then Vice-Chancellor, Prof. K. K. Dasgupta, with a one-year Post-Graduate Course leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLISc) on April 29, 1992. The Master of Library and Information Science (MLISc) course was introduced from the academic session of 1999-2000, and the doctoral programme in 2001. The department conducts regularly workshops, conferences (under the series LiNE – Libraries in Next Era), virtual courses (Koha@Cloud), and is having research collaboration with many national (IGNOU, New Delhi, NDLI, IIT, Kharagpur) and international agencies (UNESCO, University of Notre Dame, VuFind community). The research profile of the department is available here – https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=UaMqY6oAAAAJ

Philosophy, the mother of all branches of human knowledge is regarded   as the best of all the Muses. The roots of all the trends of modern thought as well as the Post Modern can be   traced in Philosophy. Tremendous advance in Modern Science and Technology has not in any way made Plato-Aristotle back dated and the Vedas and the Upanishads obsolete. In fact, Philosophy in the essence of all cultures even of Engineering, Commerce as well as Agriculture. Philosophy is the instrument in the mind of man for the emancipation of mankind. Ours in the university near to Nawadwip, once designated the Oxford of Asia and neighboured by Bhatpara (Bhattapalli) the severed citadel of Indian Studies and culture. Great Ideologist and founder of Asiatic Society used to visit these places for being instructed by the Indian Scholars. Keeping in mind this glorious tradition of their soul this department contemplates to focus on the thought that brings East and West nearer and haves the path for universal manhood.

Hence, in addition to the present course taught in Nyāya, Logic (Special paper), we like to introduce Contemporary Indian Thought, like, Rabrindranath, Vivekananda, K.C. Bhattacharya, by bringing out relevance to the present day cultural crisis. As for the Western thought, Marxism, Phenomenology and Existentialism to be taught to help this generation realize proper essence of Nationalism and loves for the country at Universal background.

Our department is a lively centre of higher education and research. Academic activities like taking up of editing book and papers, organization of seminars/symposium have been a mark of the department over the years. State level, National level, and international level seminars and special lectures by well-known scholars are held regularly in the department.

The Department of History, University of Kalyani, was established in 1978 with three whole-time teachers in a small corner of the composite building. It started its journey with 2-year P.G. Course drawing students mainly from the graduates of other universities. At present the students mainly come from the undergraduate colleges, affiliated to the University of Kalyani. In undergraduate level forty-eight affiliated colleges teach History. However, pass out of other universities also come to the department. Our former teachers include Rakhal Chandra Nath, Balai Chandra Barui, Nikhilesh Guha, Amal Das, Smritikumar Sarkar, Soumitra Kumar Sinha, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Nilmani Mukherjee, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Nirban Basu, Amit Dey, Suparna Guptoo, Ritwika Biswas and Anira Phipon (Lepcha).

 

The uniqueness of the post-graduate syllabus of the department lies in having a full paper on ‘Historiography’ and special papers on ‘Women Studies’, “Cultural Studies’, ‘Science & Technology’, ‘Environment & Ecology’, ‘History of Medicine’ ‘Indian Diaspora’ etc. The Department has research programmes with varied thrust areas. Till 31st October 2025, eighty-eight (88) Ph.D. programmes have been successfully completed and the research students have been awarded Ph.D. degrees. Two Refresher Courses had been organized by the Department so far.