Vidyasagar College for Women
Govt. Aided College, Kolkata. Established in 1960
Re-accredited at the 'B++ (With CGPA 2.79) Level' by NAAC (Cycle - 2) 2017
Govt. Aided College, Kolkata. Established in 1960
Re-accredited at the 'B++ (With CGPA 2.79) Level' by NAAC (Cycle - 2) 2017
A Research Committee, represented both by the teachers of the Science departments and those of the Humanities, has been formed to deal with UGC-related research projects. The Research Committee motivates the teachers to apply for different research projects sanctioned by the UGC and other funding agencies. The Committee provides all support required by faculties pursuing research: full autonomy is given to the Principal researcher for smooth conduct of the research project: funds sanctioned by the different agencies are released without delay as and when required by the researcher: the College provides infrastructural facilities like library, laboratory, computer and Internet facilities to faculty members to pursue research activities. Necessary arrangements are made to enable teachers to avail of FIP of the UGC and other leave for their research as per statutory provisions.
The Research Committee is pleased to announce that five faculty members have been granted Minor Research Projects in the academic year 2016-17 and one faculty member has submitted her Minor Research Project.
| Sl No. | Name of The Teacher & Subject | MRP Topic | Total Money sanctioned and date of sanction | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Piyali Dutta Chowdhury (Assistant Professor, Bengali) | Nineteenth century Bengal Renaissance and Bengali women | Rs 1,40,000 02.01.2017 |
Ongoing |
| 2 | Dr. Maitrayee Basu Roy (Assistant Professor, Chemistry) | Photophysical Aspects and photoinduced energy transfer in some biological systems. | Rs 4,55,000 15.11.2016 |
Ongoing |
| 3 | Dr. Meenakshi Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Chemistry) | Designed synthesis of new Schiff base chemoreceptors for selective detection of bio-benign anions | Rs 4,85,000 15.11.16 |
Ongoing |
| 4 | Dr. Dipti Banerjee (Associate Professor, Physics) | Quantifying entanglement and Angular momentum of Polarised photon in natural birefringent optical active medium | Rs 4,40,000 15.11.16 |
Ongoing |
| 5 | Dr. Satya Upadhyay* (Associate Professor, Hindi) | Hindi Drama | Rs 2,00,000 02.01.2017 |
Ongoing |
*Dr Upadhyay has, in the meantime, left the College to become the Principal of Calcutta Girls’ College.
UGC-sponsored research projects:
| Sl No. | Name of The Teacher & Subject | Plan Period | MRP Topic | Total Money sanctioned and date of sanction | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Paromita Majumdar (Geography) | XII | Can Eco-Tourism save the declining tea industry of Darjeeling? A few case studies | Rs 2,20,000/- 20.05.2014 |
Project Submitted on 17.05.2016 |
| 2 | Dr. Sankar Bakshi (Botany) | XII | Purification and biochemical characterisation of thermostable α-amylase and cellulase from thermophilic bacteria Geobacillus Sp. (Strain BO-1) isolated from agricultural hay compost. | Rs 4,92,117/- 03.02. 2015 |
Project submitted on 25.07.2017 |
| 3 | Dr. Chaitali Basu (Political Science) | XII | Impact of Socio-Political factors on the Higher Education of Women in the Middle Class and Lower Middle Class Strata | Rs 2,00,000/- 03.02.2015 |
Project Submitted on 08.03.2017 |
| Sl No. | Name of The Teacher | Plan Period | MRP Topic | Total Money sanctioned and date of sanction | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Indrila Guha (Economics) | XII | Adaptation caused by Inundation of Islands: An exploratory study of Indian Sunderbans | Rs 6,46,100 July 2012 |
Completed Project submitted on 31.3.2014 |
| Sl No. | Name of The Teacher | Plan Period | MRP Topic | Total Money sanctioned and date of sanction | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Shubhra Bagchi (Economics) | XII | Pollution Management in Leather Industry and Alternative Mechanism Designs: A case study of Calcutta Leather Complex | Rs 77,000 Date of sanction was 15.01.07 Effective from 19.03.2007 | Completed Project submitted on 01.07.2009 |
| 2 | Dr. Rapti Dev (Sanskrit) | XII | Science and Technology in Sanskrit Literature | Rs 98,000/- September 2009 | Completed Project submitted in June 2011 |
| 3 | Dr. Pradipta Mukherjee (English) | XII | Shakespeare on Screen: Appropriation, Retroaction and Intertextual Dynamics of Selected Shakespearean Plays as Films. | Rs 1,19,625/- Date of sanction 15.12.10 | Completed Project submitted on 25.8.2014 |
| 4 | Dr. Ajanta Mitra (Bengali) | XII | ‘Lokojo upadane protibadi bhabna: dui banglar char kobi’ | Rs 1,28,000/- Date of sanction 15.03.2012 | Completed Project submitted on 06.03.2014 |
| 5 | Dr. Srijit Chowdhury (Economics) | XII | Structure of Private Groundwater Market in West Bengal under Climate Change and a search for a solution | Rs 1,32,000 Date of sanction 15.3.2012 | Completed Project submitted on 06.03.2014 |
| 6 | Dr. Piyali Dutta Chaudhuri (Bengali) | XII | Tagore’s reading of Foreign Literature: A critical bibliographic analysis | Rs 1, 12, 000/- Date of sanction 14.12.2012 | Completed Project submitted on 18.03.13 |
| 7 | Dr Madhumita Dutta (English) | XII | ‘Narratives of Resistance to the Narrative of Love: A Short Biography of Sri Aurobindo’ | Rs 1,50, 000 February 2013 | Completed Project submitted in September 2014 |
| 8 | Dr Tapan Roy (Mathematics) | XII | ‘Just-in-Time’ Manufacturing, Planning and Inventory Control | Rs 1, 02, 000 Date of sanction 20.10.2010 | Completed Project submitted on 4.10.2012 |
