GEOGRAPHY

Department of Geography started its journey in the year 1968.Post Graduate course was introduced in the year 1978 and the department has started conducting researches offering Ph.D degree since late 1980s.The department has started CBCS course in undergraduate level following UGC guidelines in the year 2017. The vision and mission of the department is to establish industry-academic linkage for which special emphasis is given on learning of geo-informatics and digital cartography. Regional planning is another field of special interest. Department is regularly conducting outreach programmes focusing on terrain evaluation surveys, land use land cover analysis and socio-economic surveys Our aim is to contribute spatial research output to facilitate the interdisciplinary researches and the members of our department are advancing their individual research activities in order to achieve this goal. Keeping in mind the worldwide developmental trends in Geography, the department in recent years has paid emphasis on the subject like land, soil and water resource management, landscape ecology, population geography, tourism and environmental geography, urban and regional development in its revised course curriculum. The department is presently well equipped with Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratories, Map Interpretation laboratory, various Ground Survey instruments including Total Station etc. Apart from teaching in universities, colleges and schools, the passed out students of the department are also absorbed in various survey and mapping organizations as well as in planning organizations.