Department of Botany

Department of Botany

About

The subject of biology was started in 1973 after bifurcation of Botany and Zoology as separate subjects. But the Dept. of Biology was established in 1983 under the guidance of Dr. Rashmi. Prof. S. Lal and Mrs. Archna Jain taught B.Sc classes during the initial phase. Under the guidance of Prof. S.L. Aggarwal and Prof. V.M. Gupta, it further introduced prep-medical  and pre-medical. In 1989, Dr. H.S. Sirohi joined the department. Presently, Department of Botany is showing excellent results in B.Sc (Medical) and Dr. Sushil Gupta, Associate Professor, is head of Dept. Ms. Sarita and Dr. Meenakshi Sheokand are guest facult

 

Strengths

The Department is having two well spacious & well equipped labs. Each lab is having thirty compound microscope, twenty dissecting microscope, two oven, laminar flow chamber, centrifuge machine. Department is also having herbaria of about 300 phenarogamic plants, necessary equipment and plant material for lab experiments  & plant material for Undergraduate degree classes. In the college campus, the Dept. has developed and maintained a small botanical garden. This botanical space is quite useful for in person visits and spot study of plants for the students. The Dept. of Biology is also instrumental in assigning proper vernacular name, botanical name and family details to all plants in campus plants. This excercise is quite useful for B.Sc medical students who participate in the task as and when required. Dept. lab has high quality charts showing life cycle of various plants and tissue culture technique. Various other techniques of biotech displayed in the lab are also part of teaching-learning methods of the Dept.

 

Career Options

  • Wild life institute (Dehradun).
  • Scientist jobs in Botanical Survey of India.
  • Govt. jobs such as Forest Ranger and District Forest Officer.
  • Jobs at PUSA institute (Delhi).
  • Jobs of scientists in Agriculture Universities and ICAR.
  • Research and employment at NDRI (National Diary Research Institute) Karnal.
  • Scientists jobs in different plant Breeding Centers and Plant Pathology Labs.

 

 Student Association

The Department is having Botanical society since its existence from 1983. The Department is also having Eco club which maintains the greenery in college & campus plants.

 

 Star Alumni

Dr. Priya Aggarwal, Assistant Professor,HPSC

Mr. Nikhil Bhardwaj, BD.S.

Mr. Puneet Chopra (MBBS, M.D).

Mr. Nitin Bansal (MBBS, MS).