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Name of the Department

POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Year of establishment

Introduce In 1988. Affiliation year 2003

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Name of Programme/ Courses offered

UG

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Annual/ Semester/CBCS (Programme wise)

SEMESTER/CBCS

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Courses in Collaboration with other Universities, Industries,etc

MOU with the Department of Political Science, Bahona College, Jorhat, Assam.

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Details of Courses/Programmes discontinues(if any with reasons

None CBCS

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Number of Teaching Posts

Posts

Sanctioned

Filled

Professor

-

-

Associate Professor

-

-

Assistant Professor

03

04

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Faculty Profile with Name, Desgination,Qualification,Specialization,(D.Sc/D.Litt/PhD/M.Phil etc

Name

Qualification Designation

Specialization

Experience (Yrs)

No. of  Ph.D Students guided in last 5 years

Mr. Robijit Dutta

M.A.SET

International Relations

20 years

-

Mr. Raju saikia

M.A.

International Relations

20 years 2 months

-

Mrs. Mousumi Borah

M.A., B.ed, SET

International Relations

17 years 6 months

-

Dr. Pranjal Borah

M.A. Ph. D.

Public Administration

15 Years 6 Months

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List of senior Visiting Faculty/Guest

Nil

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Percentage of lectures delivered, and practical classes handled by Guest Faculty

NIL

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Student-Teacher Ratio

2016-17

63/4=15.25

2017-18

73/4=18.25

2018-19

83/4=20.75

2019-20

79/4=19.75

2020-21

134/4=33.50

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Qualification of Teaching faculty with

D.Sc.

D.Litt.

Ph.D.

-

-

01

13

Department Projects funded by UGC/ICSSR etc and total grants received

Nil

14

Research Centre/ Faculty recognised by the University

Nil

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Publication (Per faculty)

Name

Publication

Mr. Robijit Dutta

NIL

Mr. Raju Saikia

NIL

Mrs. Mousumi Borah

1.Women Empowerment and Human rights of Women in India with special reference to Assam, “Srotaswini”, Peer-Reviewed     Biennial Research Journal, Vol-III, 2017, J.B.College, Women Cell, Jorhat, ISSN-2277-5277)

2.Naribador netri Marry WollstoneCraft,“Prantic”,Assamese biweekly magazine,ISSN 0971-5932, April, 2021

Dr. Pranjal Borah

NIL

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Area of consultancy and income generated

Nil

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Faculty as members in

Senate

BOS

BOE

Nil

Nil

Nil

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Students Projects:

a.      Percentage of Students who have done in-house projects

80%

b.      Percentage of students placed for projects in organisations outside the institution i.e. in research laboratories/ industry/ other agencies

        Nil

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Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students.

Ph. D. award received by Dr. Pranjal Bora in the Year 2014 June.

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List of eminent academicians and scientists/visitors to the Department: NIL

Name

                     Institute

         Year of Visit

Nil

Nil

Nil

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Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organised and source of funding

Department has organized student’s seminar by its own fund.

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Student profile programme/Course-wise

   Year

Applications received

Selected

                              Enrolled

     Male

   Female

Total

2016-17

22

22

07

15

22

2017-18

48

48

30

18

48

2018-19

44

44

30

14

44

2019-20

34

34

21

13

34

2020-21

91

91

58

33

91

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Diversity of the students

Name of the Course

% of Students from the same state

% of Students from other states

% of Students from abroad

1^st Year-B.A.

100%

-NIL

NIL

2^nd Year- B.A.

100%

-NIL

-NIL

3^rd Year B.A.

100%

-NIL

-NIL

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How many Students have cleared national and state eligibility examinations such as -

Civil Services

Defence Services 

NET/NESET

GATE

Civil Services

Defence Services 

No Record

Nil

NIL

No Record

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Students’ progression

UG to PG

Campus Selection

NIL

Entrepreneurship/Self employment

Have a departmental medicinal Firm In college campus

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Details of infrastructure facilities

a.      Library

Yes, with 100 books with reference books.

b.      Internet facility

Yes

c.       Classroom with ICT facility

YES, Centralised

d.      Laboratories

Not applicable.

e.      Other facilities

All facilities available in college for the students as a whole.

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Number of Students receiving financial assistance from College, University, Government or other Agencies:

All ST, ST & OBC Students received scholarships from Govt. of Assam. Data available in college central office.

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Details on Student enrichment programmes (Special lectures/workshops/seminar) with external experts: NIL

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Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: (Descriptive writing):

We have used traditional teaching method and chalk and talk, discussion along with holding group discussion, departmental seminar, ICT method also used.

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Participation in Institutional Social responsibility and extension activities (NSS, NCC, Scouts and Guides, Youth Red Cross etc) : The Department has actively involved in all programmes of NSS,NCC and other community development /welfareprogrammes conducted by the college.

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Department Class Routine  last five years:(Submitted by Annexure)

Enclosed

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Records of Departmental Meetings (Submit the Proceeding): Enclosed

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SWOC analysis of the Department and future Plans

a.      Strength of the Department:

1. Availability of Intake capacity- No definite figure of seat ismentioned in our department for students to take Political Science as an honours subject.Therefore, always enrolment is rich in the Dept.

2. Dedicated Teachers- All teachers of the department are dedicated minded and always remain ready for render their service for the benefit of the student.

3. Ph. D. holder Teacher- Among four facultymembers one is PhD holder.

4. Students Co-operation- Studentsalways cooperate with the teachers for the upliftment of academic andextension activities of the department and college as a whole.

5. The Dept. has published a yearly wall magazine named ‘Pekhapot’ and handilywriting magazine ‘Kurukhetra’ which are solely prepared by the Students of the Department. 

b.      Weakness of the Department:

1.Most of the Students come from the agrarian family for which some students cannot complete the course due to financial problems and other responsibility of the family.

2. Issue of provincialisation - One of our Faculty member post yet to be provincialized.

3. Lack of ICT facilities- Availability of ICT facilities is not very satisfactory.

4. Flood problem-Due to overflow water of Brahmaputra and nearest river Bhugdoi, affects the students along with teachers to maintain continuity of Classes at Summer season.

c.       Opportunities of the Department:

1.Sarbodaya College is only Degree College of 97 No.  Dergaon Legislative Assembly Constituency through which most of the students have cleared Degree programme by choosing Political Science as Honours Course.

2. By choosing political Science as an Honours Course the Students benefit in the area of acquiring knowledge in various aspect like goodgovernance, constitution, political system and good citizenship etc.

3. Eco-friendly environmental condition boosts our mantel health that brings healthy practices in curricular and extra-curricular activities of our students.

4. No cut of mark is determined by the Department and all interested Students can take the political Science as an honours subject.

d.      Challenges of the Department:

1.      Due to financial problem and family liabilities some students are drop out from the college without completed the course.

2.      The level of awareness among some of the guardian is not satisfactory which create communicative problem sometimes among the Teachers and parents

3.      60% of the students come from different tribes that they have their own tribal language for which they cannot communicate properly with the mainstream.

4.      Geographical distance and of public transport hinder the regular attendance of the students.

e.Future plan of the Department:

1. Organize workshop, seminar- The department will take initiative to organize seminar, workshop etc. in regional and national levelfor the academic upliftmentof bothteachers and students.

2.Adaptation of student’s extension activities,field work,field survey- The department will take initiatives to adopt the students’ extension activities, field work, and field survey according to the related topics of the syllabus.

3. Publication of bilingual journal from the dept- The department will take initiatives to publish a bilingual magazine for the upliftment of writing skillsamong the students.

5. Introducing of PG course- The departmenthas the opportunity toopen PG classes in future.(The course was previously introduced in the college but due to some technical reason it was lapsed.)

6. Holding student enrichment programmeswith the help of external expert for upliftment of their academic activities.

7. Providing the adequate facility of library with reference books and journals.

8. Awareness programme will be organized on the subject related topics like political participation, democratic values, human rights, feministic issues, constitutionalrights and duties of the citizens etc. in the neighbouring area.