Department of Geography, ASP College Devrukh is established in the year 1989 and is one of the well-known geography departments n Maharashtra. Students can complete the UG, PG and vocational courses and degee in Geography and Geoinformatics.
Presently, the department offers...
Three Year Integrated Bachelor of Arts program with Geography and Hindi or Geography and English subjects along with the other options
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Geography with focus on Geospatial Technology
Various Certificate Courses related to Geo-Spatial Technology
Bachelor of Vocation (B. Voc.) in Geoinformatics for Village Resource Mapping
Also the department is one of the recognized centers of Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) to run the Edusat E-Learning courses in the area of Geo-Spatial Technology. The IIRS E-Learning courses are conducted through video conferencing. On average, every year around 10 students complete the course on 'Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)'.
The department has expertise in the area of Geo-Spatial Technology and G-Governance. The department provides consultancy for land-parcel mapping and GIS mapping for micro-level planning. In this regard, Dr. Sardar Patil, Head, Department of Geography has provided consultancy services to Grampanchayat of Village Panutre, Taluka-Panhala, Dist-Kolhapur for Cadastral Mapping of the village.
The department promotes to the students for active participation in research activities. On average six Students of the geography department regularly present research projects in the Avishkar research project presentation competition.
As a social responsibility, the Department of Geography creates awareness among the local community regarding solid waste management and other environmental issues through the cycling club. Plastic Free Devrukh' is an initiative of the department in collaboration with Devrukh Nagarpanchyat. The campaigning is at three stages, i.e. Collection and Classification; Processing; and Social Awareness & Community Participation.