About the Department

The Department of Chemistry started its journey in the year 1984 by offering B.Sc (General) Course aiming to inspire education among women candidates. Afterwards, Honours course in Chemistry was introduced in 2000. Initially, Department of Chemistry was affiliated to Burdwan University. Later it came under Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol from2014-15 academic sessions. From the beginning, Chemistry department has encouraged their students to enhance the moral quality so that they can explore different fields with a global view, ethics, and professional practices.
From 2016-17 sessions, B.Sc (Hons & Program) in Chemistry following CBCS curriculum distributed in six semesters has been started. From 2023-24 session, 4 year B.Sc (Hons./Hons. with Research) and B.Sc. (3 year UG Degree Program) has been started as directed by UGC, Govt. of India and as adopted by Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal to implement National Curriculum and Credit Framework (NCCF).

The Department has three well equipped Laboratories having almost all sorts of equipment’s and chemicals required to perform practical experiments as prescribed by the University from time to time. Labs are equipped with distilled water plant, pH meter, centrifuse machine, hot plate, digital potentiometer, conductivity meter, refrigerator, colorimeter, UV-Vis digital spectrophotometer, Digital balance, computer, printer.
In addition to the central library, the Departmental Library has a good number of textbooks and reference books. A considerable number of honours graduates from our department opt to study Post Graduate courses and started research career in different universities and institutes. A good number of students are working as teachers in different Colleges, Govt. aided and private schools. Some of them are also working in banking sectors as well as in different Govt. departments. Students of our Department have taken part in different science events organised by various organisations/institutions and performed well. At present the Department has 05 faculty members and 01 Laboratory attendant. The faculty members are actively engaged in teaching as well as research activities. Good number of papers has been published by them in different reputed national and International Journals. Eminent Chemistry teachers and scientists have visited our department in various occasions and also as resource persons in different seminars organised by our department during the past few years.