INFRASTRUCTURE

 

Departmental Library

The department is committed to facilitating access to the information resources needed by the students and the members of faculty. The Department has developed a seminar library supplementary to the Central Library of the College for partial fulfilment of this objective. At present the collections of the seminar library include 379 books on 258 titles, and 136 issues of 19 journals. Both reading and lending facilities are extended to the stakeholders.

 

Classrooms with ICT and LCD Projector Facilities

 

Geology Museum and Geology Laboratories

The computer laboratory of the Department is equipped with seven desktop computers, three monochrome LaserJet (A4)printer, one RGB LaserJet (A3)printer and two flatbed scanners. Two high resolution petrological microscopes (one with photomicrographic attachment and display screen), one precision balance and one mirror stereoscope with parallax bar are also housed in the same laboratory. The Micropaleontology Laboratory is equipped with five stereozoom microscopes. A rock thin section laboratory, equipped with two rock cutters, two rock grinders, one automatic thin section cutter, impregnator, petrobond and necessary peripherals provides the basic infrastructure for thin section preparation. A new laboratory is being set up for processing of rock samples for geochemical analyses. One rock crusher has already been installed.Muffle furnace, hot-air oven, water distillation plant, rho-tap sieve shaker are the other equipment for regular use of the postgraduate students. Besides these specialized laboratories, one equipped laboratory is there for the routine practical classes for microscopic studies of rocks and minerals. The geological museum dedicated in the name of Professor P.K. Mukherjee, the founder Principal and eminent Earth-scientist has been set up in the department.

 

 

Equipments Purchased from the grant received from Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal in 2023-2024

Name and Specification of Equipment Quantity
Binocular Petrological Microscope 5
Binocular Ore Microscope (Make: WESWOX, Model: PL-30-ORE) 1
GPS Make: Garmin, Model: ETREX-22 2
GPS Make: Garmin, Model: ETREX-22 1

 

Equipments Purchased from the grant received under DBT STAR COLLEGE SCHEME of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2022-2023)

  1. GPS for Geological Field Study
  2. Ore-0 Microscope for study of ore minerals
  3. Binocular Microscope for study of ore minerals
  4. Binocular Petrological Microscope for study of rocks in thin sec
  5. Palaeontological Microscope- Stereo zoom for study of micro fossils
  6. Resistivity Meter for Ground Water survey
  7. Desktop Computer

 

Equipments Purchased from 2018 to 2022 from RUSA grant and fund from Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal

 

Sl.No Equipment Name Purchase Year Quantity
1 Paleontological Microscope (Olympus Magnus MSZ-Bi) 2019 3
2 LED Projector 2019 5
3 Ore Microscope: Censico Ore-I 2018 2
4 Pocket Stereoscope 2018 5
5 Rock Cutter 2018 1
6 Rock Grinder 2018 2