Research and Publication

 Dr. Manasi Sen Gupta

Designation : Associate Professor & Head of the Department

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Dr. Dipti Chakrabarti

Designation : Associate Professor

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Articles on varioustopics and book reviews publishedin different magazinesand journals for a long years.

Dr. Saumen Das

Designation : Associate Professor

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Dr.Avijit  Banerjee

Designation: Assistant Professor

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Dr. Debanjana Sadhukhan

Designation : State Aided College Teacher( SACT - I )

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Activities of the Department:

The department successfully manages the huge workload of UG and PG courses running with the old system and newly introduced semester system CBCS and CCF simultaneously. All the teachers are very much sincere and careful to the students. Teachers help the students not only in academic matters, but also try to solve their personal problems including financial crises through proper counselling, guidance, assistance and friendly suggestions.
The teachers have taken online classes in different methods both in UG and PG courses during the entire period when all the educational institutions are closed due to Covid-19, the global pandemic. The students also adjusted themselves in this new system of education and gave their full cooperation. The teachers enrich themselves participating in webinars in various subjects.

The students of the Department of Bengali are very much enthusiastic in all fields. A large number of them pass out every year with bright results and go for higher studies like M.A, M. Phil and Ph.D. in different universities. A good number of them qualify in NET & SET Exam. Many of them choose professional course like B.Ed and join in teaching. Others also engage themselves in different kinds of jobs. Besides building up own career the students actively participate in co-curricular activities. They organize cultural programmes, join in social works through NSS and in community welfare, take part in sports, college social and in-house competitions. They win prizes not only from this college, but also from inter college competitions organized by other colleges. Even during the lockdown some of them participated in online inter college competitions like essay writing, poster painting, quiz and placed in good rank. They also took part in paper presentation in webinars. In fact student’s seminar was a very good practice in this department. From 2013 to 2019 post graduate students presented nearly 60 seminar papers.

Outstanding achievements of some students may be highlighted:

• Students qualified NET – Ekata Naskar – 2024, Priya Ghosh - 2023 , Sayantani Mitra – 2022,  Sohini Misra – 2020 & 2022 , Mili Ghosh - 2019 .
• Students qualified SET – Bhaswati Banerjee – 2023, Mili Ghosh – 2018, Nabanita Sarkar – 2018,  Sharmistha Das – 2018.
• In 2023 a very good number of Bengali Honours students secured marks above70 to 78 percent as CGPA. 9 of them continuing MA in Bengali from University of Calcutta. Almost all of them got first class marks in their semester examinations. From others a good number of students are continuing PG Course from different institutions including Women’s College, Calcutta, Dept. of Bengali with good results.

• Rima Banerjee, PG student pass out in 2015 studied MBA in Human Resource Management from Dublin Business School, Ireland. She got good placement and settled in that  country.
• Aindrila Das Honours student pass out in 2017 secured highest marks( 68%) in BA Honours. among all Arts students of the college and awarded Swapna Mukherjee Scholar Medal by professor Arun Mukherjee, eminent professor of Philosophy and academician.
• Susmita Roy Honours student pass out in 2013 stood 1st class 4th in MA Examination,2015 of University of Calcutta.
• In newly introduced CBCS system a good number of Honours students are getting 70- 75% marks in their semesters and the PG students are carrying on first class marks.
• A large number of the ex-students of Bengali Department are engaged in various types of jobs like IT, Media service, Law, Hotel Management etc. including teaching.

Unique features of the department:

• Strong faculty with 100% Ph.D degree holders and 4 NET qualified teachers out of 5.
• All the teachers are engaged in both UG and PG teaching and other activities.
• Good academic records in both UG & PG level.
• Pioneer in organizing the first convocation for PG students on 5 May, 2017.
• The department has its own academic journal named ‘Didhiti’ first published in September,2016.
• Students maintain a rich cultural heritage through co-curricular activities by observation of Teachers’ Day, Rabindrajayanti, departmental Fresher’s Welcome and Farewell.
• Only this dept. organized an Annual Get-together Program called “Barshik Milonotsav” since 1997. This prog. was unique one, where current students gave farewell to the last passed out batches in presence of existing and former teachers of the dept.
• This is the only dept. having its own Alumni Association named “Saswati” established in 2014. The first Re-union was held on 26th February, 2015.
• Only this dept. had own Prospectus for the PG students.
• The dept. had its own Feed Back system for PG level.
• The dept. has a very good student-teacher ratio and close relationship also.
• A good number of passed out students are engaged in teaching and other professions even in abroad. Overall rate of placement and self-employment is satisfactory.