About

The Department of Botany was established in 2010 with an aim to provide quality education to the students and to contribute for the development of Plant Sciences in this boarder District. The department undertakes teaching of undergraduate students under National education Policy (NEP-2020) besides one batch of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) of UGC as adopted by University of Kashmir Srinagar to which our college is affiliated. The department also focuses on teaching of  skill enhancement courses like Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAP’s), Mushroom cultivation etc. Our pedagogy focuses on basic and applied fields of Plant Sciences assisted with demos, models, videos,  and power point presentations (PPt’s) etc. The Department regularly organizes Botanical tours to natural vegetation areas and Botanical Gardens of the State. Besides organizing special lectures by Research Scholars and Guest Lecturers from different universities. The Department has highly qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty some of which have more than 15 years of  teaching experience. Recently the department has undertaken a new project of Mushroom Cultivation with technical assistance from Department of agriculture Lal Mundi Srinager. The project is flourishing very well and is adding more feather to the glory of department.

Head Of Department's Message

Dr. Iqbal Hussain Qadri

Message

It is my great privilege to inform you that an honest effort has been made by reputed professors and lecturers of the department of Botany to fulfil the needs of our talented aspiring students to become future plant scientists. Under the able guidance of these reputed tutors and by the grace of Almighty Allah our students can steer their career and crack the nut. Under NEP-2020 Scheme, a student who opts Botany as Major subject, completes graduation after three years, Honors after 4^th year and M Sc Botany after 5^th year. A graduate degree student with Botany as one subject and a post graduate (M Sc-Botany) degree student has a vast range of career opportunities in different field such as Teaching and Research, Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture, Olericulture, Silviculture, Indian Forest Services, Ecology and Environment, Ecosystem Management, Indian Museum Curators, Plant and Wildlife Educators, Wildlife Rehabilitators and Conservationists, Research Project Assistants and so on. In addition, there are numerous opportunities in the field of research in India and abroad.

Dear students we are striving relentlessly in making the quality education as a mark of our excellence. But at the same time, we need your healthy criticism through student feedback portal. That will fly us higher and higher in achieving our set goals.

      Last but not the least I may put up a word of advice for my students to do justice with their studies and have patience. If you feel weak in studies, our effective tutors will solve your problem very easily but you must have courage and ‘Inshallah’ after 4-5 years your personality has a symbol of a plant scientist with your name.

     I may conclude with a couplet from the great poet of Urdu and Saint, Dr. Allama Iqbal for the aspiring minds as:

                “Tunde Mukhalif se na gabra aey Uqaab.

                 Yeh to chalti hai tujay uoncha udaane kay liye”

Faculty

Teaching Faculty

Non Teaching Staff

Courses

Facilities

1)  One Smart Class rooms/Lab.

2)  Departmental Museum.

3)  State of art Lab Equipment’s such as computer aided Microscopes, Double beam Spectrophotometers, Microprocessor based Centrifuge, Autoclave and laminar Air Flow etc.

    Co-Curricular activities:

1)    Organizing Plantation drives within the campus in collaborations with external agencies.

2)    Organizing Botanical Tours to natural forest areas.

3)    Extension lectures by Research scholars and professors from different universities.

4)    Organizing departmental and state level seminars/ Conferences.

5)    Student visit to College Campus vegetation for Plant taxonomical and biodiversity observation. (open class)

6)    Short local field trips in college vicinity.

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