About Us:
ENVIS Centre on Environmental Biotechnology in The University of Kalyani, Nadia, is funded by the Ministry of Environmental & Forest, Government of India is meeting the task of disseminating information on various Environment related subject area. But with the emergence of the new field viz., 'Environmental Biotechnology' which plays a paramount role in environmental management has not been covered in the network.
With the emphasis on the management of natural resources and abatement of pollution as well as hazardous waste management, it is therefore proposed to set up an ENVIS Centre on ‘Environmental Biotechnology’. Major emphasis of databank will focus on ‘Pollutant Biodegradation’ and its allied aspect. This Centre also included in SDNP network.
In the year 1960, through the WB legislative assembly the University of Kalyani was established as a leading centre of learning of higher education. The university was originally conceived for agricultural studies and at later stage science, commerce, social science, physical education, humanities and engineering and management were introduced for promoting other academic pursuit.
There are 23 Departments offering M. Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. programs in regular basis. The university is obtained accreditation from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), in January 2001, the University of Kalyani is an affiliating University with 36 affiliated degree colleges situated in two districts of Nadia and Murshidabad of West Bengal. The science Depts. of the University are as follows:
Environmental Science, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Computer science, Microbiology, Biotechnology & Molecular Biology, Instrumentation, Physiology and Statistics.
The Department of Environmental Science was established in 1985. The Department of Environmental Science was created from the school since 1998. Initially the school functions as research unit and then teaching was started since 1990-91, academic session as ‘M.Phil in Ecology’. In 1998 July, the Department of Environmental science started M.Sc programme. At present the department offers PhD , M.Phil, M.Sc degree in Environmental Science. The department has permanent faculty members and several visiting faculty and seven office staff. The major research area are basic and applied ecology, pollution biology, environmental impact assessment, microbiology, Bioinorganic and Environmental chemistry, bioremediation, landscape ecology, geomorphology, remote sensing, resource studies, atmospheric science, environmental toxicology and immunology.
Departmental Phone No. (033) 2582 8750 (Ext. 291, 292), (033) 2580 8749
