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The Department of Folklore under the Faculty of Arts and Commerce was setup in the year 1990 as a subject of interdisciplinary nature. Folklore studies in this university deserve special attention in Indian context in general and West Bengal in particular. The Department of Folklore is an important centre of folklore research in West Bengal as well as in India. We also look forward to present multidimensional approach of our cultural heritage. The Department hosted a series of seminars, lectures to promote the folkloristic discourses. These lectures have provided ample scope for mutual interaction among the experts in the subject and also between the scholars and students. The Department held fieldwork every year to be acquainted with the life and tradition, culture of the rural people and their overall development process in the context of globalization. This Department opened its doors for the public service through offering M.A, Ph.D. and D.Litt. courses from the academic year 1990-1991 and become fully functional with all its aspects.

The Department of Folklore is established with the prime objective of promoting the studies in the field of folklore and tribal lore and to conduct research on Tradition, Culture, Folklore and Tribal Lore of Bengal as well as in India. It is also interested in documenting and preserving the rich tradition of folklore and indigenous knowledge and an overall documentation of folk-life & folklore. The Department propagates the study of folkloristics through comparative and cross-cultural methodology with text and contextual understanding and consequently exploring the idea of unity in diversity in Indian situation as well as promoting deep understanding at global level.

The Folklore Master’s (M.A.) and M.Phil degree are interdisciplinary. These programs provide students with a strong foundation in Folklore and Tribal Lore while also allowing the flexibility for developing strengths in students’ areas of focus. Apart from these the Department of Folklore introduced One Semester (Six Months) Diploma Course in Folklore, Tourism and Community Development under RUSA Component 10 in the Year 2021. Folklore student’s work in various public and private agencies as educators, archivists, editors, arts and humanities consultants, museum curators, field investigators, researchers and more.

One of the premier departments of this university in the Faculty of Arts & Commerce, the Department of Economics is one of the first few departments with which the university started imparting quality education in tranquil sylvan surroundings to the students of a relatively backward rural area since 1961.

The Department had a modest beginning under the stewardship of Prof. S.R. Dutta Gupta. Since then the Department has grown in size and offered quality education in Economics at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. The undergraduate course in Economics was discontinued in the early part of the last decade when the colleges located in the districts of Nadia and Murshidabad were brought under the jurisdiction of this University.

The Department of Economics remained the first department in the eastern region to introduce a special paper in Population Economics. In recent years, a number of innovative papers have been introduced in its Post-graduate curriculum; viz., Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Input-Output Economics, Financial Economics, Comparative Economic Systems, World Development, Industrial Organizations, Derivatives and Risk Management, etc. Of late, a compulsory paper on Computer Applications in Economics including a Project Work has been introduced to meet the demand of the present time. In fact, periodic up-gradation of the post-graduate syllabus is done at the Department to meet the growing needs of the students as far as the recent developments in Economics are concerned.

Apart from offering a MA/M.Sc degree in Economics to the students who qualify BA/B.Sc (Hons.) in Economics the Department also offers M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees as per the University rules and regulations in this regard. So far, since its inception, a good number of research scholars have obtained their doctoral degrees from the Department after the fruitful completion of their research work.   

The students who passed out from the Department are well placed in various academic institutions including many universities within and outside the state like Visva Bharati, Jadavpur University, etc., research institutes like Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Pune, Indian Statistical Institute, etc, and also in various undergraduate colleges and schools, in administrative services including West Bengal Civil Services and like, in banks and insurance companies, and in other services like print and electronic media.

The Department was offered DRS-I (UGC-SAP) for a five-year period during 2007-12.
The faculties of the Department regularly participate in international and national seminars, conferences, workshops, and symposia as paper presenters and also as resource persons. Some faculty members of the Department received invitations from foreign universities and research institutes to visit them as guest faculty/resource persons.

At regular intervals every year for more than a decade the Department holds international as well as national and state-level conferences. For this, the Department has received grants from outside agencies like the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Reserve Bank of India, and the University Grants Commission. These conferences have provided ample scopes for mutual interaction among the experts in the subject and also between the research scholars and students. Also, in the recent past, the Department has held research scholars’ workshops where scholars pursuing their doctoral research in various universities and institutes got the opportunity to present their works before the experts in the respective fields and received comments and suggestions to improve the quality of their works. Besides, the Department held some special workshops with the help of the Census of India and the like.

The Departmental Library has around 4,000 books and journals. In 2011, the entire stock of these books and journals was computerized. The reading room in the Library can be used by the students, scholars and the teachers of the Department for the purpose of consultation of any reading material in the library. The Department of Labour of Government of West Bengal generously donates from time to time for subscription and/or purchase of periodicals, journals and books which are of immense use for any competitive examination meant for different government and non-government jobs for the students studying Economics at the Post-Graduate level.

In 2007, an air-conditioned Computer Lab was set up on the first floor of the department with LAN connection and internet facility which can be used by any student, scholar, and teacher of the department during working hours on any working day. The setting up of this Computer Lab has facilitated (a) the introduction of a compulsory paper in Computer Application and (b) research works for the scholars and the students.

A seminar room was also set up in the Department in the year 2007 where small seminars, workshops, and lectures are organized at regular intervals. The seminar room has air conditioning comfort and a modern-day PowerPoint presentation facility.

At present, the faculties of the Department including the Head of the Department and the Office of the Department are equipped with a desktop computer along with a printer and also, with internet facility.

The Department is now in the process of bringing out its own peer-reviewed journal Kalyani University Journal of Economics (KUJE) bearing ISSN. The first issue of the Journal is expected in March 2014. A plan to bring out a web version of the journal is also under consideration at the moment keeping in mind the present practice of publication all over the world.

Some of the faculty members of the Department remained involved from time to time in research projects sponsored by the outside funding agencies like ICSSR, SANDEE, and like.

Year of Establishment

1978

 

Specializations :

  • Accounting & Finance
  • Marketing.

 

Infra-structural Facilities :

  • One Computer Laboratory.
  • Departmental Library facility.
  • Departmental Research Journal.

The department of Bengali established in 1971 has been nurtured by eminent teachers- Professor Nilratan Sen, Professor Tapabijoy Ghosh, Professor Ramaswar Shaw, Professor Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Professor Darshan Chowdhury, Professor Kalyani Shankar Ghatak, Professor Rabindranath Banerjee etc.

The department of Bengali offers Ph.D, D.Litt degree and two years M.A degree with specializations in Linguistics, Tagore Literature, Drama and Stagecraft, Modern Bengali Poetry. The department has M.Phil course. The department has been publishing a ISSN(2321-7375) Journal and has also organized many National and International seminars and conferences down the years.

The department also takes pride in the success rate of the students in NET/SET Examinations. The department has the highest number of successful NET/SET candidates in the University. The department is also closely involved with the M.A in Bengali programme that is offered at Seven Colleges affiliated to the University of Kalyani. Three major research projects (UGC) have been completed by the teachers of our department. Moreover, we have received two projects RUSA Component Grant. These are ‘Journalism’ and ‘Drama & Stage’.

As one of the oldest departments of the University, the Department of English showcases a long and successful history of guiding bright young minds for over 60 years. The Department was established in 1960, the year in which the university itself was founded. The journey started with 4 teachers and 30 students, and M.A. in English was the only course offered by the department initially. In the seventies, undergraduate and subsidiary courses were introduced whereas M. Phil was introduced in the mid-eighties. Incidentally, English was the first department in the university to offer the course.

Today, the department has 12 full-time teaching positions, 3 non-teaching positions, 1 part-time non-teaching staff and a combined strength of about 250 students in the postgraduate course. In addition to this, there are several full-time and part-time scholars engaged in research towards their Ph.D. degrees in English.

The Department has consistently tried to ensure that teachers remain available to the students as much as possible for any kind of academic advice and would like to further develop its long-standing reputation of promoting teaching and research inside as well as outside the classroom. National as well as international conferences are organized by the Department as are workshops and one-day lectures by eminent academicians. The faculty members have also marked their distinction in presenting research papers, chairing academic sessions at national/international conferences across the globe and published research articles in books/journals of national as well as international repute. The Department intends to continue this inheritance for further development of academic activities.

Set up in 1961 with Prof. S.K. Mukherjee, renowned agricultural chemist and former Vice-Chancellor of this University and Calcutta University, as the Head and with four faculty members, the department now has a faculty of 26. Since then it has always been fortunate in receiving good guidance and leadership. For example, late Prof. P. Sengupta, FNA, a renowned chemist, was the Head and the Dean of the Faculty of Science. There have been others who made names of their own and that of this department famous. Three present members are fellows of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, one of them is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Specializations:

Analytical, Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry.
 
Syllabus:
As per UGC, NET/GATE guidelines with some modifications.
 
Annual System:
(Semester from 2007-08); 50% external evaluation.
 

Course structure:

M. Sc-I: General Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

M. Sc-II: Specialized Areas

Infrastructural Facilities:

Special Equipments

• FT-IR Spectrometer, PAR Electrochemical Analyzer
• UV-vis Spectrophotometer, Isocratic HPLC, DSC, Optical Microscope
• CHN Analyzer

Computer Facility:
Computational: A separate computer laboratory consisting 50 PCs with one server, two printers (one Laser and one HP DeskJet) There is a Central Internet Center in the University with somewhat restricted access. Better facilities from this centre are expected.

The Department was established in the year 1961 under the leadership of Prof. S.P. Sen, F.N.A. It started with a limited number of students as a small centre for Graduate (Honours) & Post Graduate studies and research in Botany. But soon it developed into a centre of academic excellence and earned a prominent place in the academic map in India,

which was evident from the facts that the UGC selected the Department for funding in the (i) Departmental Research Support (DRS) Programme with Plant Molecular Biology as the thrust area for the tenure 1978-1984, (ii) the Special Assistance Programme-I (SAP-I), with a thrust area on Developmental Botany, Molecular Taxonomy, Molecular Genetics and Molecular Plant Pathology for the tenure 1985-1990 and (iii) the Special Assistance Programme-II (SAP-II), with Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology as the thrust area for the tenure 1991-1996. The department also earned the privilege of being selected for the UGC-COSIST Programme (1996-2000) for developing its infrastructure and research. In addition, the DBT, Govt. of India selected the Department as a centre for improving standards of teaching and imparting training in Microbiology for a period between 1995-1998. The Department is still maintaining its reputation as a centre with high standard in teaching and research