The Department of Botany, Namrup College is one of the well equipped department in the college. It has been imparting the teaching on B. Sc major and core courses in the subject Botany under the academic curriculum of Dibrugarh University. Apart from B. Sc course, department is also running different certificate and vocational courses like Certificate in Herbal Medicine, Certificate course in Bio-technology and Vocational course on Tea-Plantation and Management. Two minor research projects were undertaken and one mega research project is going on.
However the Biology subject was started since the year 1973 in the College. The Degree course in Biochemistry was started in 1987 session as core course. The major course in Botany was opened in the year 1993, just after getting "deficit grant-in-aid" by the science stream. The Science stream of Namrup College was brought under the Deficit Grant-In–Aid on 14th July of 1992. There was a single laboratory room for all practical classes for all science subjects in the present day chemistry laboratory. The office room of the college at that time was converted into Botany lab in 1987. Now it is running with little modifications. The college office was shifted to another room.
Before my appointment the Botany practical was taught by temporary teachers, sometimes by the Zoology teacher Mrs. Dipalee Dutta Bordoloi. From 1986 to 1990 Botany department was run by single Teacher with a single Bearer. Present principal of Namrup College, Dr. Jitu Buragohain was appointed as Lecturer in the department of Botany in the year 1992. Initially there were three sanction posts of teaching faculty. But at present only two faculty members are working in the department and one post is still vacant. At present, there are two well experienced Bearers in the department.
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