Criterion III research, consultancy and extension 1 Promotion of Research

3.7 Collaborations

3.7.1 Collaboration and interaction with research laboratories, institutes and industries for research activities

The college has collaborative and interactive relationship with some reputed institutes like National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), IIT Guwahati, IASST, ASTEC, Tezpur University, Guwahati Biotech Park, etc. Students, researchers and faculty members of the college use the facilities and consultation service of these institutes when required. Experts from these institutes are invited to the college on different occasions like seminars, workshops, etc. Dr Julie Saikia, Associate Professor, Department of Physics has been selected as one of the Co Investigators of Indo-Japan Collaboration from Gauhati University in GRAPES Collaboration. She has one collaborative paper entitled “Current Status of the expanded GRAPES collaboration experiment at Ooty in India”, has already been published in the Proceeding of the 30^th ICRC, 2007, Merida, Mexico. She is also collaborated with the Giant Air Shower Lab, Yakutsk, Russia and enlisted as a reader of CERN COURIER, the International Journal of High Energy Physics.

3.7.2 MoUs/ collaborative arrangements with institution of national importance/ other universities/ industries/ corporate entities etc. and their contribution to the development of the institution

The college has MoU with NEMCARE, a premier institute of Guwahati in the field of medical science and running jointly an add-on course on Medical Laboratory Technician. In the same way, the college has Mou with Pune based Aavinira Biotech Pvt. Ltd.; SS Technology, Guwahati; SRD Group etc. is helping the college to design the course/activity like-food technology, skill based orientation programme in the field of agriculture based academic programme, etc.

Though there is no formal MoUs with some of the other institutes, but the relationship is good enough to run different activities and develop the college.

3.7.3 Industry-institution-community interactions that have contributed to the establishment/ creation/ up-gradation of academic facilities, student and staff support, infrastructure facilities of the institution viz. laboratories/library/ new technology/placement services etc.

The college was started with generous contribution of the local people in cash or kind. At the infrastructural facilities were developed using the donations of the local community. The class room No. 1 of the college is named as Late Lalit Ch. Deka Hall as the construction cost of that room was donated by the family members of late Deka. The Red Horn division of Indian Army has constructed a class room spending Rs. 7,00,000/- under its Project SAMARITAN.

3.7.4 Names of eminent scientists/ participants who contributed to the events, provide details of national and international conferences organized by the college during the last four years

Some of the eminent scientists/participants who visited the college and participated in different programmes organized by the college are-

1. 
   Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, as Chief Guest in the Jana –Vigyan Mela, February 2010
   
2. 
   Dr. Swadhin Pattanayak, Former Director,
   
3. 
   Prof. S. Thangavalue, IISC, Bangaluru
   
4. 
   Prof. Krishna D. Atreyi,
   
5. 
   Prof. Jiban Katoki, IASST
   
6. 
   Prof. Probodh Bora, Department of Microbiology and Coordinator, State level Biotech Hub, AAU, Guwahati
   
7. 
   Dr. Jayanti Chutia, Former Director, IASST
   
8. 
   Dr. Gautam Baruh, Former Director, IIT, Guwahati
   
9. 
   Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT, Guwahati, etc.
   

The national seminars/workshops organized by the college are-

1. 
   Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India sponsored Workshop on Application of allied sciences(Physics, chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science) in life-science study, 2013
   
2. 
   DST, Govt. of India sponsored Workshop on ‘Motivation generation towards mathematics among the students of middle and secondary level’, 2014.