DEPARTMENT AT A GLANCE: The Department of Botany, Kakojan College was established on 2001 and got permission from Dibrugarh University to open the Honours course in Botany at undergraduate level. The department provides opportunity to the students particularly coming from rural surroundings to learn Botany and go to research on plant science through its three years Botany Course. The department also provides higher secondary courses on Botany at 10+2 level. Some of the infrastructure facilities available in the department are- • Library: The institution has a central library with digital facilities. Apart from that the Department also maintains its own library of about 200 books • Departmental Herbarium: The department has a herbarium of about 510 herbarium sheets from 55 families of different plants. • Internet facilities to the students: Free WI-Fi internet facility is available for the students and faculty members. Internet broadband is connected to the department.
• Laboratory: The department has two laboratories to conduct different practical experiments with advanced equipments.
COURSES AND PROGRAMME OFFERED: • Higher Secondary : Under Assam Higher Secondary Education Council. • Three Years B.Sc. Course offered: B.Sc. Botany (Honours) course under Dibrugarh University, Assam. • Add-on course: Add-on course in “Organic farming and Production of Organic Inputs.” (Started from 2017-2018 academic session)
VISION: • To provide modern and quality higher education in Biological Science ( Botany ) to the students coming from rural areas contributing in the process of social development. • To enrich the practical knowledge of the students in Biological science to challenge the modern world. MISSION: • To offer relevant and quality education to the students with the view of shaping their scientific temperament and an environmental awareness to uplift their own career. • To make the students self-reliant, reasonable and responsible in the society by introducing modern ideas and thoughts.
(5) Fundamental
knowledge of development and reproduction of angiosperms;Singleand double staining method to
study internal structure of stem; Basicknowledge
of plant genetics and plant breeding and application of statistics inbiology;Fixation,stainingandsquashing/smearingofmaterialsforchromosomepreparation;Biomolecules,secondarymetabolitesandplanthormones;
Qualitative & quantitative analysisof secondary metabolitesandplant pigments; Plant ecology, its basic
principle and concept, structure andfunction
of natural plant units, habitat degradation;Knowledgeofcommoninstruments,studyoffloristiccomposition,determinationofminimumsamplingsizeandsampletobetakenforvegetationalstudy.
(6) Plant
physiology; Fundamentals of molecular biology and immunology;Biophysics and bioinformatics ;
Comprehensive knowledge of usefulness ofplant
resources for human welfare; Determination of soil pH, soil moisture,WaterHoldingCapacityofdifferentsoilsample
preparation(mitosis&andmeiosisstudy),simplecalculationofMendelian ratio,
method of emasculation, computation of central tendency,deviation,t-test,chisquaretest
IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS: • Mrs.Bobita Phukon Borkotoky, Assistant professor of the department has been awarded Doctor of Philosophy by Dibrugarh University, Assam in the year 2022. • Monisha Das, a student of 4th semester Botany has secured 2nd position in Numaligarh Marathon (5Kms-Dream run) she also got first position in Girls’ 5000 M run in 42nd All Assam Inter District Athletics Championship in the academic session 2018-19. • Monisha Das participated in Khelo India Youth Games organized in Guwahati in the event 5000 under 21 girls in the academic session 2019-20. She was awarded as Best Athlete of the college 2019-2020. • Sheetutpal Saikia, a student of the department got 1st prize in on the Spot Photography Competition in inter-college youth festival of Dibrugarh University in the academic session 2019-20. • Monjit Chetia, a student of the department got 3rd prize in “Borgeet” in inter-college youth festival of Dibrugarh University in 2018-2019 academic session and also got 1st prize in “Borgeet” in inter-college youth festival of Dibrugarh University in the academic session 2019-20. IMPORTANT EVENTS: 1. Student’s Lecture Workshop on “Climate Change” was organized by the department on 14th March 2020.The resource person was Dr. Hari Prasanna Deka Boruah, Senior Scientist, North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST). Jorhat. Assam 2. One day State Level Webinar on “Carbon Foot Print: What we need to know?” was organized by department of Botany and Zoology in Collaboration with IQAC, Kakojan College and Botanical Society of Assam on 14th July 2021. The resource person of the webinar was Prof. Partha Pratim Boruah, Department of Botany. Gauhati University. Assam. 3. A Special talk on “Organic Tea Cultivation and its Management” was organized by department of Botany on 5th November 2022.The resource person was Dr. Raj Kumar Gohain Boruah, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Mariani College. 4. A Sensitization Programme on Common Cancers was organized by NSS unit of the college in collaboration with IQAC and department of Botany on 12th November 2022. ICT CLASSES: Along with conventional lecture methods, teachers use effective content delivery methods by using ICT tools, power point presentation in digital classroom, or online classes through Google meet, Zoom etc.
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