Department of Zoology (UG & PG)

Department of Zoology at Jhargram Raj College was established in the year 1970-71. Since its inception, the courses offered by the department was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Later, in the year of 1985, the department got affiliated with Vidyasagar University. The department has started its postgraduate course in Zoology in 2006 and since 2016 the department is running the course autonomously.

Currently, the department has a strength of 8 faculties including The Principal, 1 Associate Professor, 5 Assistant Professors, and 1 State Aided College Teacher [SACT]).

The department was served by many distinguished faculties like Dr. Jitendra Nath Rudra, Prof. Arup Kumar Sinha, Prof. Amiya Chatterjee, Prof. Dipak Ranjan Mandal, Prof. Nimai Ch. Saha, Prof. Subir Dasgupta, Dr. Shantanu Chakrabarty. This department also produced many alumni of notable distinctions. Dr. Sushil K. Mahata (Professor of Medicine; Metabolic Physiology & Ultrastructural Biology Laboratory; University of California, San Diego) Dr. Dipak Kumar Som (Associate Professor, Maulana Azad College), and Prof. Madhusudan Das (Professor, University of Calcutta) are a few of them.

 

The department has received facilities from BOOST & DBT star college scheme.