Criterion III research, consultancy and extension 1 Promotion of Research

Name of the Student	Department	Programme attended	Institution	Funded by
Year
1	Seemasri Deka	Mathematics	Mathematics Traininig and Talent Search Programme (MTTSP)	IIT, Guwahati		2011
2	Harun Al Rashid	Physics	Summer School	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi	IAS, Bangaluru & NSA, New Delhi	2012
3	Manashi Bharadwaj	Botany	Summer School	Tezpur University		2012
4	Kabita Deka	Physics	Summer Research Programme for the students	BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirappali	IAS, Bangaluru & NSA, New Delhi	2013

c) Faculty and student exchange and professional development

Table3.15: Faculty and student Exchange programme

Department involved	Exchange programme	No. of students & teacher participated	Year
Assamese	Student Exchange Programme held at Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan with Dr. Kailash Patnayak& Dr. Giribala Mahanty, Department of Oriya.	15 students/ 2teachers	2012
Physics	Department of Physics, IITG	48students/ 4 teachers	2012
English	Students exchange Programme at MNC Valika Mahabidyalaya, Nalbari	50 students/2teachers	2012
	Students exchange Programme with K R B Girls’ College, Guwahati, in Pub Kamrup College	50 students/3teachers	2013
Economics	Students exchange Programme at Goreswar College, Goreswar	25 students/3teachers	2013
Physics	Institute of Plasma Physics, Sonapur	40students/ 2 teachers	2013

d) Publication: Some of the collaborative research papers are-

Dr Julie Saikia, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, has GRAPES Collaboration and published a paper “Current Status of the expanded GRAPES collaboration experiment at Ooty in India” in the Proceeding of the 30^th ICRC, 2007, Merida, Mexico.

Dr U J Medhi, Associate Professor & HoD, Department of Chemistry, has collaboration with IASST, Guwahati, which has resulted the publication of the following papers-

1. 
   UJ Medhi, AK Talukdar and S Deka, 2005. Physico chemical characteristics of lime sludge waste of paper mill and its impact on growth and production of rice. Jr. of Industrial Pollution Control 21(1), pp 51-58
   
2. 
   UJ Medhi, AK Talukdar and S Deka, 2008. Effect of pulp and paper mill effluent on seed germination and seeding growth of mustard, pea and rice seeds. Poll Res 27(3), pp 437-442
   
3. 
   UJ Medhi, AK Talukdar and S Deka, 2009. Agropotentiality of lime sludge waste from the paper industry. Current Science, Vol. 97, No. 10, 25 Nov. 2009
   
4. 
   UJ Medhi, AK Talukdar and S Deka, 2011. Impact of paper mill effluent on growth and development of certain agricultural crops. J. Environ. Biol. 32, 185-188 (2011)
   

Dr Kamal Sarma, Associate Professor & HoD, Department of Zoology has collaborative works with Dr. Prabir Kr. Bondopadhya, Professor, Department of Zoology, Kalyani University, West Bengal and two research papers are in the process of publication.

e) Introduction of new courses:

* The collaboration with the NEMCARE Hospital Pvt. Ltd., a super specialist hospital in Guwahati, resulted the introduction of a new add-on course- Medical Laboratory Technician, which is first of its kind in a general college in NE India.

* UGC has sanctioned Rs. 1,85,00,000/- to open UG level Food Processing & Quality Management course and Software Development & System Analyst course in the college. The first one is a result of the collaboration with the SRD Group, Mongaldoi, Assam.

3.7.6 Efforts of the institution in planning, establishing and implementing the initiatives of the linkages/ collaborations

The college plans for linkage/collaborations on the basis of the need that arise from time to time. Autonomy is given to the departments or the individual faculty members for taking decisions about such cases.

Other relevant information regarding Research, Consultancy and Extension which the college would like to include

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