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Table 3.10: Departments Recognized by National Bodies for Research
Sl no Departments Funding Assistance received
agency
1. Botany VGST Rs. 3,00,000
2. Microbiology VGST Rs. 40,00,000
3. Potential For STAR DBT Rs. 50,00,000
(Chemistry, Botany, Biotechnology)
4. FIST (Chemistry, Botany, Physics, DST Rs. 95,00,000
Microbiology, Computer Science,
Mathematics)

3.2.7. Details of Completed Research Projects

Five major projects and several minor projects were completed during the period
2012-2016. The details are given in Tables 3.7 and 3.8 above.

3.3. RESEARCH FACILITIES

3.3.1. What efforts are made by the College to keep pace with the infrastructure
requirements to facilitate Research? How and what strategies are evolved to
meet the needs of researchers?

The College has developed a reasonable infrastructure for carrying out research work
in basic sciences. As and when researchers require specialized infrastructure facility,
the College has been supportive in providing them accordingly. The College has
standby power facility assisting in carrying out lab work. In recent times it has
reconstructed/modified many of its labs from the grants received from the UGC under
the College with Potential for Excellence and College of Excellence Schemes.
Individual faculties from the Sciences engaged in active research have individual
research labs.
For social sciences research the INFLIBNET facility has been useful. The internet
facility has also been upgraded for supporting research. Researchers have been able
to buy books as and when required for research.This year we finalized the purchase of
subscription to JSTOR.
As an immediate strategy, the College is in the process of constructing a new building
that will house a modern data center and library for the purpose of research. A new
postgraduate course titled M. Sc. Big Data Analytics has been begun. This course is
expected to bring in new infrastructural facilities in terms of data storage and can
potentially benefit researches that are data intensive.

3.3.2. Does the College have an information resource centre to cater to the needs
of researchers? If yes, provide details on the facility.

Currently the information resource centre is the library and the e-resources that it
obtains through the N-LIST program of the UGC-INFONET. The College has
subscribed to UGC INFLIBNET and DELNET and these have been good resources.
The College also has an MoU with St. Joseph‘s College of Business Administration
for the use of its library. Besides the College library acquires most recent books in all
subjects and subscribes to journals of interest. We are in the process of buying a
plagiarism check software and have purchased JSTOR.

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