History
Department of Botany is an integral part Shailabala Women’s College, a more than a century old premier institution of the state of Orissa.
This prestigious institution started functioning from the year 1913. Botany as a subject at Undergraduate level started 1968 and Honours from 1973.
Curricular aspects
1.The department as a part of the college has Term End Examination System in UG (II nd and III rd year Students and CBCS Pattern has been adopted from the session year 2016-17
2.The courses are updated and modified in UG keeping the need of society and regional/national needs by the concerned University
3.Being an emerging area of Science, advances made in the Theory and Practical are incorporated in the syllabus.
Course in Term End Examination System | Courses in CBCS | Sanctioned
Strength |
Admitted
2015-16 |
Under Graduate Courses in Botany
Honours in Botany Pass in Botany Biology as Major Elective Biology as Minor Elective Environmental Sciences (Ancillary) in Arts and Science |
Core Course : Botany
General Elective I and II : Botany AECC :EVS |
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Infrastructure
Department of Botany is having the following infrastructure facilities to cater the needs of both general Botany and Biotechnology(96) students
- Lecture Halls: 01
- Laboratories: 02
- Staff Room: 01
- Tissue Culture Room: 01
- Botanical Garden: 01
- Store: 01
- Toilet: 01
- Computer system & Internet Facility: Available
Facilities
- Class Rooms with proper chairs, LCD Projectors /OHP
- Internet facility for students in the department with wi-fi
- Seminar Library for Students
- Well equipped laboratories
- Aqua guards in Department: safe drinking water facility
- Toilets for Girls near the department
- Reading and Reference facility
- Question Bank in the Department
- Counseling done for Higher Studies/Research
- Weekly Departmental Seminars
- Annual Day celebration: Cultural Activity
- Seminar Bulletins is Published in the Annual Day Celebration and Wall Magazine : LOTOUS is published in every month
- Invited Lectures are conducted each year
Best practices
- Greenify : Initiative by Botany department to plant trees
- Development of Botanical Garden and Herbal Garden: Carbon neutrality
- Cleanness in the department and Campus : Creating Awarness not to use Polythene in the Campus
- Aquaguards in the department for staff and students : Clean Drinking Water
- Deputing students to National Laboratories/ Labs /Field Tour ) for better Exposure