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One of the major departments of the premier institute has been established in 1912.The department is housed in the floor of main building of Earth Science Block. The department has one spacious museum, three laboratories, one lecture theater, one library and one spacious staff room, lab assistant room, one store room and one washroom. The museum (40’ x 20’) has some instruments as old as one hundred years. The department has distinction to produce students who have made their mark in all corners of the world from USA to Germany and other parts of India. Before the inception of P.G. Botany at the University of Kashmir , the Post-Graduation was started at S.P. College in the 60s of the last century. The department at present is well equipped in terms of faculty, lab equipment and lab staff to begin the P.G. studies.

Besides the faculty, the departments of Botany possesses the following distinction which distinguish it from other U.G.

Departments of different colleges in the valley.

1.   Botanical Garden/Herbal Garden

2.   Lilly Pond

3.   College Wan (forest)

4.   Green House

5.   High-Tech Green house (under fabrication)

6.   Three Labs

7.   Museum

8.   Departmental Library

Botanical Garden spreads over an area of 14 kanals of land and is located is South West of the campus. The garden is rich in biodiversity and harbours both exotic and endemic species. The garden is portioned into several segments namely Deodar, Pine, Fern, Herbs, Shrubs and ornamentals etc. The garden caters to the needs of both UG Botany students & PG students of environmental Sciences of this institute. This garden has a portion devoted to the college Wan having deciduous trees comprising Acer, Quercus , Morus, Salix & Platanus etc. The plants growing in the Botanical Garden represents 42 trees,80 shurbs & 155 herb species. Some of them are listed below:-

Gledistia tricanthus, Manglonia grandiflora, M. Stellata, M. Solangiana, Ginkgo biloba, Wisteria sinensis, Juniperous communis, Myrtus communis, Quersus suber, Meelia azadirecta, Acer nugunda, Callistemon, lanceolata, Salix capria, Cryptomeria Joponica, Taxus bacata, Cycus Sp., Pinus wallichiana, catalopa, Cedrus deodara,Abies pindrow, Morus alpa, Ficus carica, Populus alba, Punica granatm, Salix able, Sambuc, Chaenomeles japonica, Sophora japonica, biota orientalis, Cercis (sps), Hibiscus (Sps), Cretaegus (Sps) etc.

Recently department of Botany has established a herbal garden with the active cooperation of RRL Pulwama & Social Forestry Srinagar. It harbours various medicinal herbs of the valley. It spreads over an area of about 2 kanals. Through in it infancy this garden is coming up in a major way and has enthused the students for commercial cultivation of medicinal plants. It is important to mention here that department has already submitted a DPR to National Medicinal Board Government of India for propagation of medicinal plants. Some of the medicinal plants introduced in our herbal garden are as under:-

1.   Podophyllum hexandrum

2.   Salvia sclarea

3.   Dioscoria

4.   Ephedra gerardiana

5.   Digitals purpuria

6.   Artomesia absinthum

7.   Atropa belladonna

8.   Mentha arvensis

9.   Glycerhiza glabra

10.   Acorus calamus

11.   Bergenia

12.   Atropa acuminita

13.   Menthe piperita

14.   Achillea millefolium

15.   Inula racemosa

16.   Lavandula officinalis

A very beautiful almond shaped scientifically managed lily pond is present in our botanical garden.Its area is about 34’ x 20’ x 5’ depth. It harbours many aquatic plants like Nymphaea, Hydrilla, Ceratophullum Salvinia, Chara & other Algae. The pond is subjected to periodic cleaning & is re-circulated with fresh water.In current year the pond will be properly segmented and new hydrophyte species will be introduced. Besides helping students in understanding the aquatic flora, its water samples are being analyzed for different parameters i.e. pH, BoD, etc by both Botany & Water Management students of this institution.

Deciduous Wan (forest) located in the Botanical Garden comprises of many deciduous tree i.e. Acer,Querus, Morus, Plantanus, Salix, Asculus and many shrubs etc. The Wan area is segmented with well demarcated, uneven low lying paths which needs to be properly raised and suitably tiled. They are connected with the bund through well designed iron culverts and has tri chinar area ment for resting purposes. Needless to mention here a proposal for up gradation and proper conservation for this Wan area has already been submitted to the department of Forest, J&K Government.

A High Tech Green House (20 x 30) is present in the botanical garden. A 5 lac has been spend for the project by Higher Education Department under special plan assistance 2010-2011. This Green House is provided with Roof Screen, Cooling System, Fogging/Misting system, Heating System, Light Facility and Electrification, Automatic Digital temperature and Humidity Control System as well as the data logger with the facility option to provide connectivity with computer & printer to get output periodically

The department has three spacious and well equipped laboratories, which accommodates a batch of 30 students each.

Department has a large well maintained museum (40’ x 20’) with houses both antique and various ethno botanical items. The museum is reflective of the cultural life of the people of Kashmir in the early half of the last century. How the people of Kashmir drew most of their necessities/ implements of life from the trees and plants around them is well exhibited in the Museum. To make it more attractive an Ethnographic Section of this Museum will be shifted to an adjacent room. The museum also accommodates the collection of last 100 years as items produced as early as 1915, besides it containd orderly arranged class work material meant for UG Students, well maintained and preserved herbarium of local flora.

Located in a well furnished cosy room. It houses about 650 books, which are properly indexed. The books are of both text and reference by reputed authors pertaining to all steams of plants sciences viz Algae, Fungi, Peridophyta, Gymenosperms, Plant Anatomy, Plant Physiology, Plant taxonomy, Plant Pathology, Genetic and Molecular Biology, Plant Ecology, Soil Sciences, Plant Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences etc. In addition to above one section of library is devoted to the books which are being gifted or donated to this department by various publishers. Besides serving as ready reference to teaching faculty of this department, the books of this library caters to the needs of students as well.. It is important to mention here, that fresh supply orders have also been placed to different publishers for supply of reference and text books which can be exclusively useful to PG students of Botany

Sri Pratap College M.A. Road Srinagar is one of the premier institutions of valley with over hundred years of history.

The college was established in 1905 by Banaras Hindu University and was affiliated to Punjab University in 1911.

The state Government took over the college in 1911 & was renamed as Sri Pratap College.

The S.P. College is now an exclusive Science College imparting Science Education in a broad spectrum of subjects like Biochemistry, Biotechnology, IT, Environmental Science etc.

The college is running P.G. courses in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences.

The Department of Biochemistry was established in the year 2000. The department is housed in well build RCC Block in the New Bioscience Block constructed very recently. The department is built keeping in view all the requisite parameters including earthquake /shock resistance.

The department caters to the needs of the B. Sc students of Biochemistry, P.G. Students of Environmental Sciences and P.G.

Chemistry on need basis.

The department produce talented graduates for various M.Sc. courses especially in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Botany, Zoology and other allied subjects annually, some of them have attained Laurels at National and International levels.

The members of teaching faculty besides their routine work are resource persons for number of institutions.

Location:- New Science Block , First Floor

Built up Area:- (111.5’x 45’= 5017.5 sq. Ft)

The department has full fledged library housing about 500 standard reference books on Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, toxicology and other allied subjects. The departmental is also connected to inflibnet for reference journals and other books besides the Central library.

Teachers of this department are recognized as guides to Guide M.Phil degrees .

No. of Research papers produced by the department

a).    Syed Eazaz Hussain Rizvi, ( Asso. Professor) = 10

About the Department

The Department of Biotechnology was established in the year 2007. This department offers U.G. courses in the discipline of Biotechnology. All the basic infrastructural facilities required for conducting teaching and basic research activities in different areas of Biotechnology have been put in place. The department is housed in a three-storied New Science Block. It consists of class rooms, staff room, departmental library and well equipped laboratories. There are separate labs facilities for molecular biology, tissue culture and bioinformatics.

Four batches have completed their B.Sc. degree course with Biotechnology as one of the subjects. Besides, many students have qualified PG entrance examination conducted by The University of Kashmir and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The subjects taught include: cell biology, industrial microbiology, molecular biology, biophysical and biochemical techniques, enzymology, plant biotechnology, genetic engineering, immunology and animal biotechnology.

Separate rooms for conducting theory and practical classes.

Laboratory with required work benches, chemicals, apparatus, instruments and other facilities for practical lab work.

Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture Laboratory.

Sophisticated equipments for conducting practical work.

Staff room.

Wash room facility.

The newly established departmental library consists of 100 books relevant to the discipline of Biotechnology. This is in addition to 200 books available in the college central library. The collection comprises mainly of reference and text books relatedt to the domain of Plant Biotechnology, Biochemistry, General Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics, Plant Tissue Culture, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Animal Biotechnology, Enzymology, Immunology, Principles & Techniques of Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

Well Equipped Laboratory

PCR, UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge, Electronic Balance, Deep Freezer, Laminar Air Flow, Autoclave, Microscope, pH Meter, Double Distillation Unit, Hot Air Oven, Bacteriological Incubator, Water Bath, Magnetic Stirrer, Electrophoretic unit, UV Transilluminator, Microwave oven.

The department of chemistry of the college has always been the major department of the college. It used to have as many as 25 regular teaching faculty members and almost same number of non teaching members as well.

The department houses three spacious laboratories, one relatively smaller laboratory and one computer lab as well.

The teaching faculty of the department at present includes young & energetic and experienced members which include four PhDs, three M Phils and four NET qualified members.

The Department of English was established in the year 1905 with a modest strength of 74 students. The department shares a long history of 108 years with the college. A. Bannerjea and C.B. Bahadur were the vanguards in carrying out the aim of teaching English language and literature to the then students enrolled in the college and this aim was carried forward by various other faculty members who from time to time offered services in the department. At present the department is running with an aim to inculcate the language skills in the students so that they can compete well on the global scene vis-à-vis language.

Programms Offered

Programme	Level of study	Cut-off marks at entry level in %
(a)     B.G. I Year	U.G	45%
(a)     B.G. II Year		M.A. (English)
(a)     B.G. III Year		M.A. (English)/NET
(a)     B.Sc IT	Vocational	Entrance Test Based

Department Of Environment And Water Management

The Environment and Water Management Department at Sri Pratap College was formally established in 1996 and it has existed as a UGC-sponsored `Vocational Course’ for the undergraduate programme. The first batch graduated in 1997. At the time of its inception the department was headed by Dr. S.G.Sarwar.

Academic Programmes

The department is currently dealing with the teaching the Vocational course in environment and water management alongwith teaching of the Modular course in Environmental studies at the 2nd year level.

The department currently has approx. 600+ books on various topics related to environment.

Laboratory Facilities

The Department has a spacious modern laboratory to serve the teaching and research needs of the students and faculty of the Department respectively. The lab currently has all the necessary equipments required for the environmental analysis besides being equipped with the advanced potable testing kits required in the field.

The department conducts one day field trips for sensitizing the students about the various components of environment and giving them a know-how of the various types of ecosystems besides collection of various samples for practical purpose.

Environmental Activities

The department ever since its inception has been involved in activities related to the conservation and protection of the environment like environmental week celebrations, wildlife week, awareness programmes, cleanliness drives, social services besides participating in national and international environmental competitions. The department has established a Green Club under the banner of which all the environment related activities are being carried out from time to time.

Department Of Electronics

Objective: “To produce technical manpower for education sector, R&D and electronics hardware industry”

The Department of Electronics was established in the year 1976. The department is housed in well build building. The department is built keeping in view all the requisite parameters including earthquake etc.

The department caters to the needs of the B. Sc students of Electronics. The department produce talented graduates for various M.Sc. courses especially in Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Computer Sciences and other allied subjects annually, some of them have attained Laurels at National and International levels.

Students enrolled for the year 2013-14 220

Course Taught Electronics is taught as a subject in BSC (Non-Med) of Kashmir University

Workshop held The department in collaboration with university of Kashmir Entrepreneurship development Cell organized a one day workshop on “Technology innovation & Entrepreneurship awareness program”

Prof(Dr.) G.M Bhat Director USIC Kashmir Univeristy delivered a lecture on Technology Innovation and Technopreneurship- possibilities and opportunities in Kashmir.

Dr Rakesh Gupta Deptt of Electronics GGM Science College Jammu delivered a lecture on

“Atomic force Microbiology and the role played by Nano technology in the development of this technology”

1.    Electronics & Device Circuits I & II

2.    Digital Electronic & Large design laborites

3.    Computational laboratories

4.    Communication laboratories

5.    Microprocessor

Departmental Library

The department has full-fledged library housing standard reference books on Electronic, Microprocessor, Programming and other allied subjects. The departmental is also connected to inflibnet for reference journals and other books besides the Central library.

Department Of Geography

History

The department of Geography is one of the well established departments in S. P. College, Srinagar. The department was originally founded in 1942 under the aegis of the famous Geographer Dr. A. R. Raina who was also the first native Ph.D. in Geography. However when Amar Singh College was founded in 1946 the Department of Geography was shifted to this newly established college. It was then in 1977 when the arts and humanities streams where delinked from S. P. College that Geography was reintroduced in S. P. College as a subject to be taught in combination with Geology, Chemistry, Maths, Physics and Biosciences at undergraduate level.

The department of Geography is housed in the ground floor of one of the oldest and monumental buildings of the college. The department comprises of two laboratories, one staff room, one store-cum-lab staff room and a small reading room-cum-library. Besides the department has also a spacious audio visual room in a separate building. The department dose not have a dedicated Geography lecture theater or hall but shares the common college lecture rooms for the purpose and thus manages on the accommodation front. One of the labs of the department is spacious and equipped with almost all necessary lab equipment, cartographic material and surveying instruments for conducting practicals and surveying. The second lab is smaller one and deficient in respect of equipment. However the lab facilities are being enhanced and updated with the introduction of computers and other modern tools like multimedia projectors etc.

VISION

During the coming decade we hope to establish a fully equipped GIS and Digital cartography laboratory to meet the demand of the market and the students. We also intend to introduce a P.G. Diploma Course in Remote Sensing and GIS

MOTTO

Our motto is to churn out a product which will find its due place in the present fast moving world.

Department Of Geology

INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARTMENT (room/lab/area)

Department is situated in the west side of the main building on ground floor flanked by department of Geography and Botany. The department is consisted of one laboratory and museum besides that galleries have been converted into HOD room and Lab assistant’s room. One attached bathroom is also available within the department. The laboratory is furnished with desks, tools, white board, sample almirahs, wash basin/sinks and rakes for rock/ mineral samples. The museum harbours rich collection of minerals, fossils, rocks and gem stones. Computer with internet connection also makes an important part of the available infrastructure. A good collection of models, maps and charts are also available within the department. The detailed information regarding available infrastructure is as under:

STRENGTH OF STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT UG PROGRAMMES 2013-14

Department Of Information Technology

About The Department

Sri Pratap College M.A. Road Srinagar is one of the premier institutions of valley with over hundred years of history. The college was established in 1905 by Banaras Hindu University and was affiliated to Punjab University in 1911. The state Government took over the college in 1911 & was renamed as Sri Pratap College. The S.P. College is now an exclusive Science College imparting Science Education in a broad spectrum of subjects like Biochemistry, Biotechnology, IT, Environmental Science etc. The college is running P.G. courses in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences.

Department of B. Sc. Information Technology was established in the year 2005. BSc IT is the only Under Graduate Course in the Kashmir Division which is semester based. This UG Course is of 3 years duration comprising 6 semesters. The intake capacity was 30 students per year; however, it was extended to 60 students per year including seats of self financial quota. The details of the department are as under:

1.   INFRASTRUCTURE: - The department is hosted in the New Science Block (2nd floor) having 2 classrooms, 3 laboratories, one library, one HOD room, one Staff room and one Laboratory Assistant Room. The rooms are well ventilated and of sufficient capacity.

The department has full-fledged library housing about 500 standard reference books on Computer and Information Technology. The departmental is also connected to inflibnet for reference journals and other books besides the Central library.

The computers in the laboratory are of latest technology, with licensed operating Systems and open source softwares.

In addition this department is also running a course where students opt IT as their 4th subject. The laboratory for these students is hosted in the main building of the college.

The department produce talented graduates for various post graduate courses viz. MSC IT, MCA, MSC Computer Sciences etc. some of them have attained Laurels at National and International levels.

Location:- New Science Block , Second Floor

Built up Area:- (111.5’x 45’= 5017.5 sq. Ft)

Infrastructure Availiable:-

Department Of Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics of this prestigious heritage institution is as old as this institution is. It was established in 1905, that time the college was imparting co-education in Arts and Science.

Achievements

Great mathematician, bureaucrats, scholars, bankers and administrators have been produced by this department. Moreover the Department has organizing various co-curricular activities like seminar, debates, quiz, extension lectures pertaining to this subject. The department of Mathematics of this college has unique distinction of celebrating “National Year of Mathematics 2012”. During this year the series of activities followed by seminars, extension lectures, mathematics quiz and memorial lectures were organized by this department in the honour of Sri Nivasa Ranmanajan.

Equipments Availiable

Library Facilities

Number Of Publications

Infrastructure Other Than Labs

Department Of Statistics

The Department of Statistics is the youngest department in the college with a brief history of only four years. The subject was introduced in the college in the year 2009 and admission to the subject was made in the subsequent year i.e. 2010. Initially the Department was housed in Department of Mathematics and was run by teachers who were engaged on academic arrangements under the supervision of H.O.D. Mathematics. In March 2013 a permanent faculty was provided by the Administrative Department who took the charge of the Department and established the Department as an independent Department. Today we have separate Department with Statistical Lab. The College Library has sufficient number of books pertaining to subject which cater the needs of the student as well as teachers. During this short period the enrollment of student has considerably increased. This year Department has 88, 41 and 20 student in 1st Year, 2nd Year and 3rd Year respectively.

Achievements

  Good number of students have been selected in various P.G. Courses (Math, Statistics, Physic etc) in different University of Country.

  A good number of pass out students have been suitably placed in various Government / Non-Government organizations (like Insurance, Banking, Planning, Teaching etc).

  Our students actively participate in social service activities like NSS.NCC

Department intends to adopt the following

  To introduce advanced Statistical software in curriculum so that student be aware of applications of Statistics in diverse fields like Agriculture, Industries, Biosciences etc.

  To arrange Statistical Tours, to various prominent places like ISI Kolkata, ISI Delhi, IIPS Mumbai etc to make students vision wide.

  To provide coaching to students who are willing to appear in Civil Services Examination, Indian Statistical Services Examination and for various advanced courses in Statistics viz PG Statistics, M.tech. Reliability , M.Sc. Operations Research etc.

  To establish departmental library to cater the need of students at UG, PG and for various competitive exam at state as well as national level.

  To hold extension lectures by inviting reputed resources from state and outside.

  To facilitate outgoing statistics student to various job opportunities in reputed companies.

  To facilitate financial assistance to meritorious students of the department.

  To adopt modern teaching aids like power point presentation, audio visual methodology etc.

Department Of Zoology

Faculty Development Programme

One faculty member is in the process of completing the research degree. Besides all staff members do actively participate in national level refresher / orientation programmes and workers, some have research project at hand sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests Government of India

Total area existing of department:3930 Sqfts.

Details as under:-