Th October 2016 Welcome Note by the Chairman agenda notes

Item:EC:22:2016:56
To ratify the recommendations of the Academic Council on the minutes of the Board, School of Basic & Applied Sciences.
NOTE:
The Academic Council in its 12^th meeting held on 13^th August 2016, of the vide Item:AC:12:2016:11 considered the following recommendation of the School Board, School of Basic and Applied Sciences:

1. 
   Course structure and syllabus of M.Sc./Ph.D. in Life Sciences with following specializations w.e.f. the admissions of 2016-17 batch:
   

1. 
   M.Sc. Life Sciences (Animal Sciences)
   
2. 
   Ph.D. Animal Sciences
   
3. 
   M.Sc. Life Sciences (Biochemistry)
   
4. 
   M.Sc. Life Sciences (Microbial Sciences)
   
5. 
   Ph.D. Biochemistry and Microbial Sciences
   
6. 
   M.Sc. Chemical Sciences (Medicinal Chemistry)
   
7. 
   M.Sc. Chemistry
   
8. 
   Ph.D. Chemistry
   
9. 
   Ph.D. Medicinal Chemistry
   
10. 
    M.Sc. Chemistry (Computational Chemistry)
    
11. 
    M.Sc. Physics
    
12. 
    Ph.D. Physics
    
13. 
    M.Sc. Life Sciences (Bioinformatics)
    
14. 
    M.B.A.-(Agri Business)
    
15. 
    M.Tech. (Food Science & Technology)
    
16. 
    M.Sc. Mathematics
    
17. 
    M.Sc. Statistics
    
18. 
    Ph.D. Mathematics/Statistics
    
19. 
    M.Pharm. (Medicinal Chemistry)
    
20. 
    M.Pharm. (Pharmacognsy and Phytochemistry)
    
21. 
    Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences
    
22. 
    M.Sc. Life Sciences (Plant Sciences)
    
23. 
    Ph.D. Plant Sciences
    

The Council deliberated on the above courses. During discussion on item xv, the Council strongly recommended the change of nomenclature of M.Tech. (Food Science & Technology) at S.N. “xv” above. It was observed that the syllabus prescribed for this course (M.Tech. Food Science & Technology) fits well for M.Sc. degree and not M.Tech. degree. It was argued that the objective of the course is to cater to the quality control and chemical analysis part of food science and not to the technology and engineering of developing equipment and tools for food science. Further, it was felt that, the M.Sc. course will attract more admissions as all the streams of science graduates will be eligible for admission to M.Sc. in Food Science and Technology. M.Sc. will also have wider scope of employment, it was felt. The university already has faculty to run M.Sc. Food Science and Technology.

2. 
   merging of Ph.D. courses, Research methodology and Computer Application course and ratify as per UGC rules (For Centre of Plant Science, Animal Science, Biochemistry & Microbiology).
   
3. 
   to have academic audit and evolve a system to check the quality of teaching and research.
   
4. 
   to incorporate Economic Botany emphasizing on medicinal plants.
   
5. 
   to have a small animal house in the current location and plan one for the new campus coming up at Ghudda.
   

The Council discussed the point ‘5’ above in light of the paucity of space at the current location. However, the Council agreed to the inevitability of setting up of an animal house in near future.

The Academic Council, in light of above discussions, RESOLVED to approve the above recommendations of the School Board, School of Basic and Applied Sciences (SBAS), subject to availability of qualified faculty and w.e.f. the admissions of 2016-17 batch, with following amendments:

1. 
   The nomenclature of M.Tech (Food Science & Technology) be changed to “M.Sc. Food Science & Technology” and the course be re-advertised for admissions.
   
2. 
   The Council deferred the establishment of ‘a small animal house’ in the current location due to lack of space. However, university will sincerely consider for its availability at the permanent campus.