Department of Zoology

Year of Establish: 1997

The Department started in 1997 under Faculty of Life Science RGU. The course curricula in semester pattern were introduced in Zoology from the academic session 2000 – 01 and continued with the same system through several revisions till 2015. At present the faculty strength in the Department is nine with six numbers of Assistant Professor, and three numbers of Professors. The student strength is twenty eight in each semester. The course structure is being followed as per UGC guidelines and subsequently revised time to time. Accordingly the Department introduced the Choice Based Credits System (CBCS) since 2015. The students are offered with five Departmental Elective Courses under current CBCS system covering both the 3rd and 4th Semester on the backdrop of distinguished expertise of the faculty members and launched one Open Elective Courses for the students of other Departments. The Department is also running M.Phil and Doctoral Programme as the regular academic activities and the students get admitted in the M. Phil and Ph. D programme through entrance test specially designed for the purpose. A Ph. D course work of one semester duration is mandatory for all the doctoral candidates in Ph. D programme of the department.

The Department of Zoology is actively involved in research in frontier areas of life sciences via several sponsored research projects since it inception. It has also been recognized as Center with Potential for Excellence in Biodiversity (CPEB) by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi since, 2003. The major research thrust under CPEB scheme includes (i) Validation of herbal reproductive medicines (ii) Wild life and avifauna (iii) Fisheries, fish biology and fish parasites (iv) Edible insects and insect fauna.

Faculty of Life science offer advance post graduate diploma in Biodiversity for graduate in Science discipline candidate only, project is Collaboration with Zoology & Botany.