Science | Department of Chemistry

About

Chemistry is the scientific study of interaction of chemical substances. Chemistry is often called "the central science" because it connects the other natural sciences such as biology, astronomy, material science and geology

The Department of Chemistry was established in 1958 for teaching the subject at undergraduate level. In 1969  permission was granted by government & University of Jabalpur (Now know as R D University, Jabalpur) to run Postgraduate course i.e. MSc Chemistry with specialization in three disciplines, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry. This is the biggest department of the college with sixteen sanctioned posts. Chemistry is a compulsory subject in seven course combinations, offered at undergraduate level. The faculty members are qualified, devoted & regularly participate in academic activities for their academic growth. Over the years the department has maintained its standards in the field of teaching, research, and other academic & administrative activities.

“Biochemistry” is the science concerned with Chemical Nature & Chemical behavior of the Living Matter. It has a wide scope in the field of Medical, Pharmaceutical, Nutritional, Environmental, Clinical Diagnosis. Looking at the scope of the subject, Biochemistry was introduced at undergraduate level in 1994 – 95, with the initial financial assistance from UGC under the scheme of “vocationalization of courses at undergraduate level” Presently this course is run under the self-finance scheme.

1	Dr. S. Mittal	1958 – 1962 ( Head Deptt. of Biology )
2	Dr. S.Gupta	1962 – 1964 ( Head Deptt. of Botany )
3	Dr. A. P. Shukla	1964 – 1965
4	Dr. S.Gupta	1965 – 1968
5	Dr. S. N. Awasthi	1968 – 1971
6	Dr. S. Gupta	1971 – 1972
7	Dr. H.N. Tiwari	1973 – 1975
8	Dr. N. Sen	1975 – 1992
9	Dr. R. Shukla	1992 – 2000
10	Dr. A Newsarkar	2000 – 2001
11	Dr. R. Shukla	2001 – 2002
12	Dr. A. Dubey	2002 – 2007
13	Dr. K. Agarwal	2007 – 2009
14	Dr. Shashi Tiwari	2009 – 2010
15	Dr. Neelima Raipuria	2011 – 2015
16	Dr. Sheela Vishwakarma	2015 – 2017
17	Dr. Akhilesh Ayachi	2017-2021
18	Dr. Anuradha dave	2022 – till date

Self – Finance Subject Run By The Depaetment:

• BSc - Chemistry, Microbiology, Botany
• MSc - Botany,Microbiology

Infrastructure

• LABORATORIES :
  • Undergraduate Laboratories : Botany-02, Microbiology-02
  • Postgraduate Laboratories : Botany-02, Microbiology-02

 

• LIBRARY : Department has separate library for Botany & Microbiology, with sufficient number of books for P G students. The books are well classified under different heads such as – General Botany, Microbiology, Cytology, Physiology, Taxonomy, Genetics, Ecology, Plant Pathology etc.

  SR. NO.	PARTICULARS	QUANTITY
  1	Total No. of UGC Books	448
  2	Books (General Fund)	1501
  3	Journals	05

• MAJOR EQUIPMENT:

  SR. NO.	PARTICULARS	QUANTITY
  1	Camera Lucida	03
  2	pH meter	02
  3	Colony Counter	02
  4	Olympus Research Binocular Microscopes	02
  5	B.O.D Incubator	02
  6	Centrifuge	02
  7	Laminar Air Flow	02
  8	Stereoscopic Microscope	01
  9	Micro scope	50
  10	Oven	06
  11	Incubator	03
  12	Laptop	01
  13	LCD	01
  14	Mixer Grinder	01
  15	OHP	03
  16	Micro wave	01
  17	Electro Phoresis Kit	01
  18	Spectro Photometer	01