Department of geography plays a primary role in fore casting the future of the environment, as well as in the quest for ways to adapt society to climate change and globalization and to preserve biological and cultural diversity. It is impossible cooperation between social Earth science.

Keeping the above view in mind our department try-

Our programs and curricula will provide a balance of theory and technical skills, equipping students with an academic background the prepares them to address environmental and other geographically – oriented problems.

To make students more equipped with this subject by taking class seminars, class test and by completion of syllabus in due time.

We aim to aid our students in developing the capacity for both innovative and integrative thinking in a variety of professional and intellectual contexts. Our department holds also special classes for the disadvantaged and interested students for better academics performance.

To work as consultants/mentors by the teachers to help the students to fulfill their dream and to motivate them to become ideal human being.# The teachers also try their best to make the whole syllabus clear to them by following question -answer method, charts, maps are frequently used by following question -answer method, peer learning and field work.

To make the students more disciplined and punctual, the teachers act as friend, philosopher and guide. The students are always encouraged to develop their personality through several co-curricular activities.

Though the admission in the department is done on merit basis, but keeping in view the concept of globalization, the age of electronic media, the best utilization of human resources and social need of the day, students hailed from underprivileged class of this district, have been given special consideration during admission. Apart from this, students having distinction in sports, fine arts, music and students hailing from the adjoining area of the locality of the college, get opportunity to take higher education in this college. The complete admission procedure is online and it adheres to the rules and regulations of Vidyasgar University and the Higher Education Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.

The infrastructure facilities of our department is presented below-

• No separate departmental class room for lack of space.
• One ICT enabled class room
• No separate departmental library but central library caters to the needs of the students.

Year wise Student enrolment (Hons) during 2019-20 to 2023-24–

Academic Performance of the Students:

The performance of the students in final examination for the last five years is given in the following table-

Teaching – learning methods in geography must focus on helping learner acquire knowledge and skills in an interactive environment. Geography teacher must clarify concepts through the lived experiences of individuals and communities. For teaching purpose, the most common method, used by the departmental teachers, is chalk and talk. The departmental teachers use power point presentations, maps etc. We have one smart class room and other class rooms. Apart from delivering lectures and distributing class notes, students are given different web links to collect study materials. Department prepares a semester wise lesson plan for proper teaching and to complete the allotted syllabus in due time. Students are also encouraged to participate in class seminar and group discussions on a regular basis. As a part of Internal Assessment (10 mark for General paper) we take 2 class test for each General paper.

The Geography (General &MDS)undergraduate course is designed to introduced students with analyze the earth as an integrated human–environment system by examining changing interactions at different spatial and temporal scales.

Assess the roles of structure, stage and time in shaping the landforms. Helps the students develop their knowledge based spirit and perspective. Prepares the students secure job in different fields.

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Total 22 classes per week for general and ENVS(VAC). The workload of the faculty members is given below

Sl.      Name of the teachers      ENVS(VAC)      Class allotted    Total No.                                                         (General)

• Paramita Bera 03                        08                 11
• Chitralekhs Shee 03                        08                 11

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Students of this department deal with versatile carrier option. Some students opt for higher studies and they are advised to take admission in reputed institutions for conducting their post graduate, M.Ped. For this, students are given the special coaching to solve the previous question papers of entrance examinations conducted by several reputed institutions. Students who have requisite qualities for leadership, qualities of taking instant decision, are being advised to go for administrative service through competitive examinations. which are very helpful for competitive examinations. Students, who want to face challenge, are advised to take several self-employment generated schemes, to start a start-up business.

Students pursuing Ph.D./completed Ph.D. from different Institutions

Students Qualified NET/SET

Student Progression in Higher Education

Employment of students

Teachers Pursuing PhD

Teachers Publication

1. To open departmental
2. To developed departmental
3. To introduce student exchange programme with other
4. We are planning to organize seminars, extended lectures, and

1. Strength: Disciplined and sincere
2. Weakness: Less student strength, insufficient fulltime faculty, infrastructure.
3. Opportunity: Equipped computer lab, ICT class room and good collaboration with the faculty of other
4. Challenge: To fill up full intake capacity, to orient them to get placed in the right position in the society