Department of Botany

Department Info Details

Name of Department	Department of Botany
Head of Department	PROF POOJA SINGH
Address of Department	DDU GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY
Contact Number
Email ID
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Scientific Equipments Details

Scientific Equipment Link	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/29929213-bb5b-4d56-b2af-3e4383f116fb.docx

Infrastructure

Type	Number
Class Rooms - ICT	2
Class Rooms - Non-ICT	3
Seminar Rooms	1
Common Rooms	1
Departmental Libraries	1
Gents Toilets	2
Ladies Toilets	2
Disabled Person Toilets	0
Faculty Rooms	10
Office	1
Reception	Yes
Waiting Area	Yes
Lobby	Yes
Ramp	1
Disabled Friendly	Yes
Labs	4

Electrical Appliances

Type	Number
Fans	70 + ONLY 40 % WORKING
LED Lights/Tube lights	80 BOT ONLY 30% WORKING
Air Conditioners	7
Coolers	0
Room Heaters	3
Refrigerators	1
Any Other	0

Equipment

Type	Number
Computers	8
Printers	5
Routers	1
Network Switches	1
Servers	0

Additional Information

5 Years Master Plan	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/f8592510-64bb-4e36-b8fe-ef8e29f7c6fc.docx
Annual Department Plan	No Document
Teaching Plan	No Document
Student Attendance	Yes

Time Table

UG	View Document
PG	View Document
Slow Learners	View Document
Fast Learners
Room No. with Details	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/47251c04-7dd8-45a5-9b5a-2e4f852fc5ad.docx
Co-curricular Activity	No Document
List of Alumni	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/9a3996e5-85df-4f58-b4f4-69a79585c0cb.xlsx
Innovation Practices	No Document
Stock Register	Yes
Internal Evaluation Records	Yes
Special Provision made for Advanced & Slow/Fast Learners	Yes

Visiting Guest Faculty

No. of Guest Lectures	Yes
List of Guest Faculty	No Document
Consultancy Services	No Document
Community Extension Programs	No Document
Learning Resources Available in the Department	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/46d3e196-bc8e-4ec2-8516-fac0551a0182.docx
Achievements and Rewards	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/1aeac19f-954a-4124-a5ab-ad26e7537e55.docx
Academic Audit	No Document
List of Fast Learners
List of Slow Learners	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/5a90baf6-fa18-47ce-be45-86289ff7c4bc.docx
E-Content	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/0590595e-6187-46c7-b1c4-cce2a7ed95ac.docx
Any Other	N

Program Details

Number of Programs	https://api.ddunaac.com/api/Containers/department/download/bb8f3ed7-0581-4cc0-9a9b-62c4ca991332.docx
Number of Courses	View Document
Papers Taught	View Document
Value Added Courses	No Document
Students enrolled in Each Value-Added Course	No Document
No. of Publications	200
No. of Books Published	7
No. of Chapters Published	12

Student Information

Type	No. of Student
Under Graduate (UG)	310
Post Graduate (PG)	108
Ph.D. Scholars	66
JRF/SRF	5
From Within State	484
From Outside State	---
International slow learners (Only UG):	---
International fast learners (Only UG):	---

Other Information

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Challenges

Sr. No.	Teacher Name	Designation	Mobile No.	Photo	Profile
1	Prof. Vashist Narayan Pandey	Professor	9450885374		View
2	Prof. Pooja Singh	Professor and Head	9415083883		View
3	Dr. Anil Kumar Dwivedi	Professor	9415695331		View
4	Dr. Virendra Kumar Madhukar	Asst. Professor	8791162251		View
5	Dr. Rakesh Pandey	Asst. Professor	8319430966		View
6	Dr. Rajveer Singh Chauhan	Asst. Professor	9415524694		View
7	Dr. Tulika Mishra	Asst. Professor	9437042549		View
8	Dr. Smriti Mall	Asst. Professor	9565746319		View
9	Dr. Deepa Srivastava	Asst. Professor	9984468918		View
10	Dr. Shweta Shekhar	Asst. Professor	8004526963		View
11	Dr. Kumari Sunita	Asst. Professor	8840235574		View

Sr. No.	Course	Syllabus	CBCS
1	BSc Botany NEP_CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
2	BSc Industrial Microbiology NEP_CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
3	MSc Botany CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
4	MSc Botany NEP CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
5	Pre-PhD. BOTANY Course Work CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
6	MSc Industrial Microbiology NEP_CBCS	View/Download	View/Download
7	Pre-PhD. Microbiology Course Work_ CBCS	View/Download	View/Download

Research Projects (Last 5 Years)

Project Title	Investigator	Funding Agency	Department	State/Central Govt.	Funds	Year	Duration
“Establishment of Herbal Garden"	Dr Virendra Kumar Madhukar, (Principal Investigator) Dr Rajveer Singh Chauhan and Dr Shweta Shekhar (Co-Principal Investigator)	National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, New Delhi	Botany	Central Government	21	2020	Five year
Identification , Epidemiology and Management of Brinjal little leaf disease in Eastern Uttar Pradesh,India	Dr. Smriti Mall	UGC	Botany	Government	10	2018
DST	Dr. V.N. Pandey	DST	Botany	Central Government	28	2018	2
Nutraceutical potential and Therapeutic protein concentrates (TPC) some ethanobotanicals Nuts Pseudonuts	Dr. V.N. Pandey	UGC	Botany	Central Government	0	2013	2
Agrotechnique value Adittion and Conservation of Withania somnifera Dunn.and Rauvolfia serpentine Linn. (Benth.) Ex-Kurz. For upliftment of farmers inGorakhpur District.	Prof. V.N. Pandey	DBT-New Delhi	Botany	Government	50	2013	3 Years
DST Women Scientist (Dr. Nidhi Gupta)	Prof. V. N. Pandey	DST	Botany	Central Government	5	2012	3
DST Women Scientist (Dr. Sumati Chaudhary)	Dr. Anil Dwivedi	DST	Botany	Central Government	5	2012	3
DST Inspire SHE Scholarship Programme Reference Number : DST/INSPIRE/02/2014/031283 from (07.05.2019 to 12.07.2019)	Dr. Smriti Mall	UGC	Botany	Government	0	0	507

Research Papers

• The Department has published more than 2850 full length research papers and 196 review articles in the journals of International repute and published more than two dozen books in reputed International and National academic publication.

• The Faculty members of the Department actively participated in more than 250 National and International Conferences.

• Faculty members of Department has successfully completed research projects sanctioned by national and state agencies like CSIR, UGC, DBT, DST, DOE and UPCST.

• Ongoing Major Project "ESTABLISHMENT OF HERBAL BOTANICAL GARDEN" 2020, NMPB, Ministry of AYUSH, New Delhi Dr Virendra Kumar Madhukar, (Principal Investigator) Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University has received a project grant from National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, New Delhi entitled “Establishment of Herbal Garden" (project No. is HG/UP-01/2021-NMPB VIII) in the Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur. Dr Rajveer Singh Chauhan and Dr Shweta Shekhar (Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University) are Co-Principal Investigator for the same.

• UGC START UP GRANT 2018 - UGC, New Delhi Start-up Grant of UGC has been sanctioned to newly appointed faculty member Dr Smriti Mall, entitled: Identification, Epidemiology and Management of Brinjal little leaf disease in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India (File No.: 30-453/2018 BSR).

• Many students of the Department have been awarded Women Scientist by DBT.

• Most of the faculty members received prestigious award from the different academic and scientific bodies.

• List of Awards/ Recognition achieved by Faculty Members, Department of Botany: Por V N Pandey Life time achievement award by Asian Biological research foundation, Prayagraj, Sept, 2019.

• Prof V N Pandey Awarded corresponding membership of Botanical Society of America (BSA), 2018.

• Dr K Sunita awarded women scientist in Conference held at CAS in Botany, Institute of Sciences, BHU, Varanasi in 2020.

• Dr Smriti Mall awarded Certificate of Appreciation from Rotary club, Gorakhpur

• Dr K Sunita Awarded best oral presentation in IPS conference IARI in January, 2020.

• Dr Shweta Shekhar awarded best oral presentation in international Symposium on current scenario and social Environmental Challenges, 2018. By BSI, Prayagraj.

• Prof N.N. Tripathi (Retd) awarded V Puri medal by Indian Botanical society in 2021.

• Dr Smriti Mall, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany has been awarded Certificates of Appreciation, for the ‘Green Campus Initiative’ in DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur by Rotary Club, Gorakhpur; Environment Conservation Association, Pune and Continual Management Services, Green Audit/Energy Audit Aurangabad.

• Dr Shweta Shekhar, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation, by the Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh for her contribution in restructuring the UG syllabus of Botany as a member of Subject Group under (NEP) National Educational Policy, 2020; for all Universities and Colleges of U.P.

• Prof V.N. Pandey, Prof Anil K. Dwivedi, Dr Deepa Srivastava, Dr Tulika Mishra, Dr Shweta Shekhar and Dr K. Sunita have been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur on Teacher’s Day (5th September, 2021) for their Contribution in field of Higher Education, Teaching and Research.

• Dr Smriti Mall and Dr Virendra Kumar Madhukar have been awarded by U.P. Government, Higher Education, on Teacher’s Day (5th September, 2021) for their Contribution in field of Teaching and Research.

• Mr Sandeep Gautam (Student, MSc Botany, 2020 Batch), has qualified PGT Biology, 2021, U.P. Government (selected through UPPSC)

• Dr Virendra Kumar Madhukar, Nodal Officer for Plantation in the D.D.U. Gorakhpur University Campus for the Year 2020 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

• Dr Deepa Srivastava, was Co-convener of Alumni Meet of Department of Botany, organized by Department of Botany DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur on 7th April 2021

• Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/botany-ddugu-ba5518239

• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query-Department+of+Botany+DDUGU

• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ambddugu

• Twitter https://twitter.com/Botanyddugu

• Centre of Excellence was Awarded to the Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur by UP Higher Education and is successfully running.

• Ranjana Yadav, MSc Botany student has been awarded CSRIR-JRF. Akanksha Singh, PhD student has been awarded DST Inspire fellowship. Apart from these, many students have cleared UGC NET-JRF, GATE in the 2020

• Webinars/ Seminars/ Workshop A Seven days’ Workshop, from 2nd July to 8th July, 2021 had been organized in online mode on the Topic, “Recent Trends in Plant Sciences”, by the Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, where many eminent speakers (National and International) had given lectures which not only enriched more the 200 students (UG, PG and Ph.D.) but many faculty members of different colleges and Universities also participated actively. Prof. S.M. Paul Khurana, Ex V.C. RD University, Jabalpur, Ex Director, CPRI Shimla, AMITY University, Noida, was the Chief Guest for the Inaugural session. Lead Lectures were delivered by Dr Debashish Chakrabarty, Senior Principal Scientist Tissue Culture Head NBRI, Lucknow; Prof. Jitendra Pandey, CAS in Botany BHU, Varanasi; Prof. Arun K Pandey, Vice Chancellor, Mansarovar Global University Bhopal, Former Professor of Botany and Dean of Colleges, University of Delhi, Dr Vikas Kumar, Scientist, Environmental Technology Division CSIR Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh; Dr Sharad K. Srivastava, Senior Principal Scientist, Phycognosy, Phytochemistry and Product Development NBRI, Lucknow. Dr Dinesh Singh, Principal Scientist, Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi was the chief guest for the Valedictory Session. Prof Pooja Singh, Head, Department of Botany was the Convenor; Prof V N Pandey was the coordinator; Prof Anil Kumar Dwivedi was the co-Coordinator and Dr Deepa Srivastava, Dr Shweta Shekhar, Dr Smriti Mall, Dr Tulika Mishra, Dr Virendra K. Madhukar, Dr K. Sunita, Dr Rakesh Pandey and Dr Rajveer Singh Chauhan were jointly the Organizing secretaries for the Workshop.

• One day Workshop in online mode was jointly organized by Department of Botany and Industrial Microbiology, DDU Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur on 16th April 2021 on the topic “Basic Molecular Techniques”. Dr Smriti Mall, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur was the Organizing secretary. Dr Dinesh Singh, Principal Scientist, ICAR, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi and Dr Abhay Pandey, Senior Scientist, Tea Research Institute, West Bengal were the Resource Persons.

• Many National, International Webinars and Special Lecture Series had been organized in online mode during the COVID pandemic time by the Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, where many eminent speakers have given lectures which enriched both the faculty and students.

• Many National, International Webinars and Special Lecture Series had been organized in online mode during the COVID pandemic time by the Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, where many eminent speakers have given lectures which enriched both the faculty and students.

• Green Campus Initiative on the occasion of World Environment Day: GCI, DDU Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur has installed two Organic waste compost machines in the University Campus, with the help of this machine biodegradable food and other liter waste can be easily managed, which was being generated from the university campus. This machine at very high temperature and with the addition of bio-inoculum convert all the biodegradable waste (leaves, branches and dried grasses) within 10 days in organic compost which consist of all the rich nutrients required for rich soil. Organic compost packets of different sizes had been launched on 5th June 2021 by our Honorable Vice Chancellor.

• The Department did a Plantation Drive of Avenue Trees on "World Environment Day" in the campus by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor and other colleagues 2021 and 2022.

• Solid waste management: Green Campus Initiative, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University is aiming for Integrated Waste Management based on “Absolute Consumption and Zero Discharge (ACZD)” methodology. It means it consume the absolute waste and doesn’t allow the discharge of any harmful by-products to the environment.

Sr. No.	Teacher Name	Designation	Mobile No.	Photo	Profile
1	Dr. Malvika Srivastava	Professor	9450129022		View

Sr. No.	Semester	Under Graduate	Post Graduate	Other
1	I Semester	--	View/Download
2	I Semester	--	View/Download