1 . Name of the Department: Geography
2 . Year of Establishment: 2001
3 . Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters, Integrated Ph.D., etc.)
| UG | PG | Research | Other |
| F.Y.B.A/B.Sc | – | – | – |
| S.Y.B.A | – | – | – |
| T.Y.B.A | – | – | – |
4 . Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved : NIL
5 . Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise)
| Annual | Semester | Credit system |
| F.Y.B.A/B.Sc | – | – |
| S.Y.B.A | – | – |
| T.Y.B.A | – | – |
6 . Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: i)Environmental Science
7 . Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions : Nil
8 . Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons : NIL
9 . Number of teaching posts:
| Sanctioned | Filled | |
| Teaching Posts | 01 | 01 |
* Out of Total filled post: 00 Associate Professor and 01Assistant Professor
10 . Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization:
| Name | Qualification | Designation | Specialization | No. of Years of Experience | No. of Ph.D. Students guided |
| P.P.Shardul | M.A.B.Ed | Asst.Prof. | Population Geography | 05 | 00 |
11 . List of Senior Visiting Faculty:Nil
12 . Student -Teacher Ratio (Programme wise) :
| Level | Class | Number of teachers | Student: Teacher Ratio |
| UG | F.Y.B.A. | 01 | 247:01 |
| UG | S.Y.B.A. | 01 | 118:01 |
| UG | T.Y.B.A. | 01 | 65:01 |
| UG | F.Y.B.Sc. | 01 | 84:01 |
13 . Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff sanctioned and filled Central Support:-Nil
14 . Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG.
| Ph.D. | M. Phil. | PG with SLET/NET | PG |
| – | – | – | 01 |
Note: Some M.Phil./ Ph.D. degree holders have also cleared NET/SET
15 . Student profile programme/course wise :
| Name of the Course/programme | Applications
received |
Selected | Enrolled | Pass percentage | |
| *M | *F | ||||
| UG:2015-16 (F.Y.B.A) | 237 | 237 | 66.66 | ||
| UG:2015-16 (S.Y.B.A) | 98 | 74 | 81.08 | ||
| UG:2015-16 (T.Y.B.A) | 55 | 40 | 100 | ||
| UG:2015-16 (F.Y.B.Sc) | 45 | 45 | 95.83 | ||
| UG:2016-17 (F.Y.B.A) | 203 | 203 | 83.25 | ||
| UG:2016-17 (S.Y.B.A) | 92 | 92 | 91.30 | ||
| UG:2016-17 (T.Y.B.A) | 49 | 49 | 93.87 | ||
| UG:2016-17 (F.Y.B.Sc) | 68 | 68 | 99.50 | ||
*M = Male *F = Female *RA = Result Awaited
16 . Diversity of Students:
| Name of the Course | % of students from the same state | % of students from the other state | % of students from abroad |
| UG | 100% | – | – |
17 . Details of Infrastructural facilities :
| a) Departmental Library | No. of Books: 00
No of Journals: |
| b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students: | Yes |
| c) Class rooms with ICT facility | 01 |
| d) Laboratories: | Yes |
18 . Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /seminar) with external experts :
| Year | Title/Type of Programme | Names of Resource Person(s) (External) |
| 2015-16 | Guest Lecture | Prof.Dr.R.P.Gunjal |
| 2016-17 | Guest Lecture | Prof.Dr.D. N.Pawar |
19 . Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning :
1. Lecture method with PPT
2. Field visit to geographical location
3. Assignment, internal test on topic.
20 . Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities:
i) Celebrate the ozone day and Geography association inauguration programme.
ii) Celebrate the Geography day.
iii) Organized tree plantation programme in college campus.
21 . SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans :
Strengths:
- Regular lectures assignments, class test & Tutorials.
- Seminar & Workshop.
- Appropriate Department to study the persons individual economy as well as overall economy.
- To grow student teacher ratio.
Weaknesses:
- This college is located in rural area due to lack of awareness to the education in student.
- The student approach is very poor towards education.
- Student background is different.
Opportunities:
- To get perfect knowledge of the Geography.
- New skill and technique is well developed through Geography subject.
- GIS and Remote sensing skill developed student.
- To get good and well job opportunities to this subject.
- To develop good geographical and environmental knowledge through this subject.
Challenges:
- To develop the research skill in student.
- To growth the student ratio.
- To give opportunities.
- To change the rural background of student.
Future plan:
- To start the specialization in Geography at UG level.
- To established weather station in college campus.
- To organized state and national level seminars.
- To start a certificate course of travel and tourism.