About

The Department of Geography in Raidighi College under University of Calcutta came into existence in the year 2000 and it is one of the youngest teaching departments on the campus of Raidighi College. The Department of Geography started its journey with General Course in the year of 2000. Admissions were done in the months of July/ August 2000. There was no full time teacher but with the able leadership of Dr. Kalpana Mitra and Shri Swarup Purkait, the College submit the application to the Higher Education Council, Govt of West Bengal to initiate the Honours course in Geography. It got the permission after inspection from the University of Calcutta. In the year 2005, Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya joined this department as a part time teacher. Dr.Sisir Chatterjee joined in the year 2006 and after two years Prof. Sanat Kumar Purkait joined in this department to serve the student of this backward area. At present the department teaching faculty comprises the following

1. Dr. Sisir Chatterjee, Associate Professor

2. Mr. Sanat Kumar Purkait, Assistant Professor & Head

3. Mr. Swarup Kumar Purkait, SACT-II

4. Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya, SACT-I

5. Mr. Netaji Halder, Lab Attendant

These faculty members have specializations different branches of physical and human geography. Dr. Sisir Chatterjee has a doctoral degree in urban geography with specialization in cartography. Dr. Chatterjee also has had basic training in remote sensing and GIS (Geographical Information System). Heis now engaged with his post doctoral research and project. Prof. Sanat Kumar Purkait is a registered candidate in Ph.D course in the Department of Geography of University of Calcutta. Now Prof. Purkait is engaged with the intensive research project. He had obtained the Post Graduate Diploma in Geoinformatics from Jadavpur University. Prof. Swarup Purkait is also doing his Ph.D. research work.