Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani

Established in the year 1961, department of Zoology, University of Kalyani started its journey with Prof. G. K. Manna as the first Head of the Department. Since inception, the department continued to offer both B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses in Zoology. The offer both B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses in Zoology. Thereafter from the year 2000 B.Sc. course has been shifted to the colleges affiliated to University of Kalyani and the department continued its journey offering Post Graduate course and research in Zoology. Later in the session 2009-10 semester system was introduced and from the session 2014-15 Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) has been adopted for the two year M.Sc. Course as recommended by University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. The Department also offered M.Phil. degree by distance learning for the period 2008-10. Later M.Phil. course was stopped and the department continued offering M.Sc. and Ph.D.courses in Zoology till then. For the doctoral programme, the department has introduced extensive Course Work following the guidelines of UGC. Faculties in the department are engaged in various research projects, funded by national and international organizations. During the last five years 22 research projects have been handled by the faculty members of the department. About 500 papers have been published by the department in international journals and 100 papers have been published in national journals of repute which are generally associated with the research in the field of Aquaculture, Ecology, Cancer Biology, Toxicology, Biosystematics and Taxonomy, Molecular Endocrinology and Signaling Pathways and Molecular Parasitology. The Department has several national and international research collaborations. The Department has been sponsored by DST, Govt. of India to procure sophisticated instruments under its DST-FIST programme as well as by DST PURSE and UGC SAP DRS.