The Department of Botany

Department of Botany

The Department of Botany established from the beginning of the college, since 2011. Presently, it has been conducting the graduate course (B.Sc.). There are Two full time faculty members Dr.D.S.Pawar and Mr.S.S.Gawali working in the department The main objective of the department is to provide the facility for detail learning about the plants life. The 3 year B.Sc. course is conducted as per the curriculum provided by Sant Gadage Baba Amravati University, Amravati.

The departmental Laboratory is well equipped with all the necessary equipments, class work material, chemicals, glassware. The laboratory has capacity of 25 students seating at a time. The department is able to conduct the basic research in Plant Taxonomy, Mycology, Plant Phyiology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Anatomy, and Cytology.

For the research work, the equipments like Digital pH meter, Hot water Bath, Micro-pipette, Dissecting Microscope, Compound Medical Microscope, Stereoscopic Microscope, Electrophoresis Unit, Centrifuge Machine, Autoclave, Laboratory instruments are available in Departmental Laboratory.

Apart from the regular black board teaching, the modern & innovative teaching aids like Digital Projector, are used to simplify the curriculum to the students of department.   Also for the field knowledge, the short & long tours are organized regularly & as per the syllabus. The ‘Plant of the Day’ activity is run by the department for knowing the common & economically important plants present around the place. Through this student participation activity, the potted Medicinal plant garden is developed by Botany department. In this garden more than 40 plant species, specifically.

The students are also involved in participation in state level Avishkar Research Competition. Also the departmental faculty gives the suggestion regarding the crop improvement, plant disease control measures to adjoining farmers.

Vision:

•  To establish and to be recognized as a department of high standard in teaching and learning of recent plant science based approaches and to enhance chances of employability of students. 
• The continued well being of the common man through a study of plant sciences.

Mission:

• To know the importance and scope of Botany.
• To impart knowledge of science as the basic objective of education.
• To develop a scientific attitude to make students open minded, critical and curious.
• To expose themselves to the diversity amongst life forms.
• To make aware of natural resources and environment and the importance of conversing it.
• To apply conventional and non-conventional tools to understand plant process.
• To develop human resource with expertise in frontier areas of plant sciences.
• To establish collaboration with eminent institutes for betterment of the students.