{"id":69,"date":"2023-08-06T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T11:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:48:47","slug":"anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Anecdotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of Botany (U.G. then I.Sc.) was established in <strong>1957<\/strong> under the leadership of Dr. Dhirendra Nath Mitra and Elizabeth Ukkuru to teach <strong>General Degree (Pass) course <\/strong>for girl students. \u00a0With gradual increasing demands of women education, the <strong>Honours<\/strong> course in Botany was introduced in <strong>1981<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other faculty members like Dr. Rupali Dasgupta and Dr. Ira Ghosh joined this department. <strong>Ms. Chitra Ghosh, <\/strong><em>Ishan Scholar<\/em> <em>of the University of Calcutta<\/em>, (<em>worked under the famous scientist <strong>Barbara Mc Clintock <\/strong>at Cold spring Harbour Laboratory and Carnegie Institute, Washington<\/em>) also joined this department to impart teaching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Demand for P.G. Degree course in Botany from different corners compelled the authority and the department to introduce <strong>M.Sc. (Distance Learning) <\/strong>Course in 2008, with due affiliation of the Directorate of Distance Education (DDE), Vidyasagar University, with 60 seats (a co-ed curriculum).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advancement was culminated in 2014, with the introduction of two-year <strong>regular<\/strong> <strong>Postgraduate Course <\/strong>in Botany (only for girls\u2019 students) with due affiliation of the <strong>University of Calcutta<\/strong>, as the <strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> P.G. Botany teaching college in Kolkata<\/strong>. Presently, this course is directly under the University of Calcutta (<em>vide CSR \/14\/18 dt. 20<sup>th<\/sup> June, 2018<\/em>) and teaching under the P.G. Board of Studies, C.U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Botany (U.G. then I.Sc.) was established in 1957 under the leadership of Dr. Dhirendra Nath Mitra and Elizabeth Ukkuru to teach General Degree (Pass) course for girl students. \u00a0With gradual increasing demands of women education, the Honours course <a href=\"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jogamayadevicollege.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}