Assam University
| Assam University | |
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| Established | 1994 |
| Type | Public |
| Chancellor | M. S. Swaminathan |
| Vice-Chancellor | Tapodhir Bhattacharjee |
| Location | Silchar, Assam, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www.assamuniversity.nic.in |
Assam University is a teaching-cum-affiliating university. The university has nine schools which offer Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Technology and Management Studies. There are 29 departments under these nine schools. The five districts under the jurisdiction of Assam University have 51 undergraduate colleges. Drawing its faculty from many disciplines, from all over the country, the university sustains a multidisciplinary approach to higher education.
The campus, in an area of 600 acres (2.4 km2), is in Durgakona, about 20 km from Silchar. The university is in South Assam, bordering Bangladesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Maghalaya, and Nagaland.
Schools and departments
The major teaching schools of the university along with the departments under them are :
- School of Environmental Science
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
- School of Humanities
- Department of Education
- Department of Fine Arts
- Department of Philosophy
- School of Information Sciences
- Department of Mass Communication
- School of Life Sciences
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Life Science
- School of Management Studies
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Commerce
- School of Physical Sciences
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- School of Languages
- Department of Arabic
- Department of Bengali
- Department of English
- Department of Foreign Languages
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Manipuri
- Department of Sanskrit
- School of Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- Department of History
- Department of Law
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Sociology
- School of Technology
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Information Technology
- Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Facilities
- Hostels: Hostel facilities for the students or research scholars are available in one Gents' Hostel and one Ladies' Hostel. Apart from these, privately run hostels are available in the nearby Irongmara and Dwarbond areas.
- Computer Centre: One Computer Centre on the campus is available for students and the academic community.
- Transport: Two buses ply between Silchar and the campus (about 20 km from the town) daily to bring the students from Silchar town and return them. Besides this, chartered buses for staff serve Silchar and the campus.
- Major scientific equipment: With one-time assistance from the UGC and funds from other agencies like DST, DAE and CSIR, the science departments have procured the following state-of-the-art instruments.
- Department of Physics: LCR meter (HP 4263), Meade computerised 16" telescope, FTIR spectometer
- Department of Chemistry: UV-VIS spectrometer, polarizing microscopy, Pyris 1 DSC system.
- Department of Ecology & Environmental Science: OXi Top BOD determination system, laser leaf area meter, Anderson sampler.
- Department of Life Science: Leica-Leitz trinocular phase contrast microscope, CO2 incubator, PCR system, growth chamber.
- Library: Assam University Central Library has a holding of 52,557 books. The library subscribes to 13 foreign and 186 Indian journals, 16 newspapers, and 12 popular magazines. Assam University Library was selected by U.G.C. for automation and networking under the INFLIBNET programme in 1998-1999. The library automation is under progress and a database of 25000 books have already been created using SOUL software provided by INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad. Besides the Central Library, most of the departments have their own library for ready reference by the students.
Publications
| TITLE | AUTHOR / EDITOR | PRICE |
| Silchar : Problems of urban development of a growing city | P.R.Bhattacherjee, P.Nayak and K.Sengupta | Rs. 70.00 |
| Recent researches in science and technology (Vol. I) | Editors : G.D.Sharma and B.K.Dutta | Rs.300.00 |
| Science in society: proceedings of regional symposium | Editors : D.K.Bhattacherjee and R.Bhattacharjee | Rs.150.00 |
| Netaji : a centenary tribute | Rs.50.00 | |
| Status of land slides in north east India and natural disaster management | Editor : G.D.Sharma | Rs.250.00 |
| Proceedings of the national conference on recent developments in mathematics and applications | Editor : Tanmoy Som | Individual Rs.225.00 Institutional Rs.350.00 |
| Journal of Assam University | Dept. of Mass Communication | Rs.50.00 |
| Our environment | Abhik Gupta,Mitra Dey and P.R.Bhattacharjee | Rs.60.00 |
| Changes in Karbi anglong politics during 1985-2000 | Research Coordinator : Dr.Tanmoy Bhattacharjee | |
| Proceedings : Sanskrit year celebration Abstract vol. National Seminar 2000 | Dept. of Sanskrit | |
| Environment India 2000 : National seminar on environmental issues and priorities : Challenges of the millanium | Editor : B.K.Dutta and A.Gupta | |
| Proceedings : The national seminar on the relevance of Sanskrit studies in twenty first century | Dept. of Sanskrit |
Library
Assam University Central library located inside the campus is available for students besides some small departmental libraries. Presently the Library has a holding of more than 1,20,000 books. The Library subscribes to 13 foreign and 186 Indian journals, 16 news papers, and 12 popular magazines.Assam University Library is one of the libraries selected by U.G.C. for automation and networking under INFLIBNET Programme in the year 1998-1999. The Library automation is under progress and a database of 25000 books have already been created using SOUL software provided by INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad.
The Library now operates from a semi-permanent building and the new building of the library is under construction.
Librarian
Dr. Madan Singh Rana
Deputy Librabian
Mrs.Sumana Chakraborty SarmahAssistant Librarian
Mr. Apurbajyoti Majumder
Computer Centre
Assam University, Silchar
Year of Establishment : 1997
Centre Profile: The Computer Centre was established in March 1997 during the 9th Five year Plan as a service centre. The Centre is providing internet connectivity through fibre optic campus-wide network to all the academic departments and administrative buildings with a Bandwidth of 1Gbps OFC link under the NMEICT project of Govt. of India. Another 10Mbps OFC link is provided for e-journal access under UGC-Infonet Scheme. The System Administration of Web Server, Mail Server, DNS Server, and FTP Server are done by the centre. The centre is also responsible for maintenance of the campus-wide network, the web server and uploading official documents in the web server, maintaining the Mail Server and web-mails.
Apart from these, the Computer Centre is running a one year Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT) course. It is one of the 62 Centres in India with Satellite Interactive Terminal (SIT) �Virtual Classroom� setup under CEC-UGC EDUSAT Network funded by ISRO,Govt. of India.The Centre organizes Computer awareness programmers, Computer literacy Courses, Summer/ winter schools for the teaching and the non-teaching staff of the University. The faculties of the Computer Centre are involved in taking P.G. and Integrated Ph.D classes for various departments. The Computer Centre provides a Central computing facility to the students, teachers and researchers of the University for their project, dissertation and research related works.
Courses Offered:
PGD-IT Duration : One Years (Two Semesters). No. of seats : 20
Other facilities
Technical Staff:
Na | Designation | E-mail & contact | Area of Specialization |
Dr. Angshu Maan Sen, B.E (Electronics & Telecommunication Engg.),M.Tech,Ph.D | Director | dir_cc@aus.ac.in/angshumaan_sen@yahoo.com 03842-270826 | Software Reqirement Engineering,Image Processing |
Dr. Subrata Sinha,MCA | System Analyst | sa1_cc@aus.ac.in/subra_s29@rediffmail.com 09435723044 | Web Service,Computer Security |
Shri Sobhan Kumar Bedajna,M.Tech(IT) | System Analyst | sa2_cc@aus.ac.in/sovan1975466@gmail.com 09401545547 | Temporal Database |
Shri K. Anand Kumar Singha, B.Tech(CSE) | Networking Engineer | ne_cc@aus.ac.in/k.anandsingha@gmail.com 09864523364 | Networking |
| Shri Gautam Nath,B.Tech(IT) | Internet Automation Consultant | gautam.nath@gmail.com | Data Warehousing |
Head of the Department:
Dr. Angshu Maan Sen : (03842) 270826
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