The
department of Chemistry, Bangabasi College, established in 1950 under the
leadership of eminent chemists of that era like Prof. Ladli Mohan Mitra who
were intimately involved in nurturing the department which under them emerged
in its present form as one of the largest science departments of the College.
The department has been meticulous in maintaining the high standards in terms
of teaching and student performance throughout. The results of the students
have also been highly commendable over the years. Students of this department
are well placed and pursuing higher studies either in the Universities or in
the IIT's after qualifying all India IIT-JAM examination.
Curriculum
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facilities
Offered
�Teaching of Chemistry is
undoubtedly incomplete without practical classes, and the Chemistry department
is proud to maintain well equipped laboratories. To address the needs of each
specialization, the first floor of the College houses one laboratory for
Physical Chemistry and labs for Inorganic and Organic Chemistry is located on
the ground floor itself. Separate laboratories are housed in the ground floor
for students of other streams who take up chemistry as a subsidiary subject. �Other infrastructural
facilities like Computers with Internet connectivity, a dedicated store room,
teaching with the aid of projectors to provide audio-visual inputs, etc. have
long been in practice with the Chemistry Department of this College. �The Department runs a
seminar Library for its Hons. (B.Sc.) students. There are about 300 books in
this library. �Remedial Classes are
held for students so that they can score well in University Examinations. �Students & Faculty
take part in seminars, debates, exhibitions and other co-curricular activities. �Traditionally the
department has had scholarly faculty members who have experiences of being
associated with advance research projects. Those include some organometallic
molecules having anticancer and antitumor activities and Oxo vanadium complexes
with EPR sensitivity.In addition to that, some work on removal of Arsenic from
edible water in an efficient and economical manner are also going on.