Achievements & Future Plan

Important Achievements of the Department

UGC-Center of Advanced Study (CAS)-2013-2018

Research outputs in quality publications

Number of Research Projects

DST Funding under FIST and Women Scientist Programmes

Acceptance of our students by various sectors for employment

Faculty and students awarded National & International Fellowships

35 Meritorious Research Fellowships awarded by the UGC

Other fellowships from DST,DBT,CSIR, MoES and GSBTM

Research Papers in reputed Journals by M.Sc. Students

CSIR-Research Associate ship

NET and GATE Clearance by the students

Projections for Next 5 years


Greater applications of audio-visual technologies and on line teaching resources.

The teaching learning processes to be more research oriented at the PG level.

Research areas to be expanded in: Coastal marine diversity and community ecology, exploration of the interactive associations among different communities of life

Ecotoxicology & EIA

Plant molecular biology and medicinally important plants (Exploration of Medicinal plants & Tissue culture)

Microbial diversity of the haloalkanophilic bacteria and actimomycetes

Metagenomics and Community microbial population dynamics

Xenobiotic degradation & Bioremediation

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

Exploration of Marine Bioresources