Scottish Church College

(A Christian Minority Institution) | Parent Body: Church of North India Estd. 1830 | Affiliated to University of Calcutta
NAAC Re-Accredited Grade 'A' Institution (3rd Cycle)

Research & Development Cell

Scottish Church College is committed to create and maintain a conducive research environment and provide all possible facilities to the faculty members to conduct research work. The faculty members on a regular basis applies for Research Grants from organizations such as UGC, DST, DBT, UBCHEA etc. The college, in order to promote research activities in the institute has con-stituted Scottish Church College Faculty Research Grant (SCCFRG) in 2019 to support the fac-ulty members to take up research projects. The department of Botany has received BOOST grant which has been successfully utilized to purchase sophisticated instruments like Florescence mi-croscope, Spectrophotometer, Gel Doc, PCR, Lyophilizer etc. to facilitate research environment in the college. Many of the faculty members have been registered as Research Guides to conduct PhD to students. Following are the glimpses of research laboratories in the college and list of re-search grants received in last five years and the PhD work being conducted by the faculty mem-bers of the college.

  Research & Development Cell Committee

  Some of the important instrument facilities available in the college

Funded by:
Government of West Bengal,
Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnology (DSTBT)

Sanction order number: 1096/BT(Estt)/1P-09/2018, Date: 24.10.2019


UV-VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETER

THE FLOURESCENCE MICROSCOPE

COLD CENTRIFUGE

GEL DOCUMENTATION SYSYEM

LYOPHILIZER

LAMINAR AIR FLOW

LOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY

SPECTROPHOTOMETER

  Registered Research Guides with Name of Students & Title of Thesis

Research Guide Department Name of Scholar Year of Ph.D. Registration Title of the Ph.D. Thesis
Susmita Ghosh Teacher Education Shree Chatterjee 2015 Moral Judgement And Environmental Attitude Of Student Teachers
Supratim Das History Sumit Santra 2020 Cirminalisation of Politics and Politicisation of Crime inKolkata:1920-1977
Kalyan Kumar Chakrabarti Mathematics Raju Ghosh 2017 Electron collision studies on CH and CH+ using the R-matrix methd.
Upendranath Nandi Physics Tilak Narayan Ghosh 2014 Experimental Investigation of NonOhmic Electrical Transport in Polycrystalline Manganite System
Deblina Chakraborty 2014 Experimental Investigation of Electrical Transport Properties of Double Perovskite (A2BB’O6) Manganite Systems
Animesh Kumar Dey 2018 Experimental Investigation of Electrical Transport Properties in Carbon based Nanostructures
Lipika Sarkar 2020 Not yet finalised
Sutanu Das 2020 Not yet finalised
Indrani Kar Sanskrit Sri Mrinal Pakira 2018 Sripancanantarkaratnasya Saktibhasyam:Advaitavisistadvaitavadayod Preksayam
Sanchita Biswas 2019 Ethics  And Morality As Reflected in The Sukla-Yajurveda
Bipadtaran Ruidas 2018 Vimsasatabdyam Vidyamananam Bangiyapanditanam Advaitadarsane Vadanam
Sampa Sarkar 2019 The development of Sanskrit Sound System
Santanu Kumar Singha 2018 Bharatiya Darsanasastra Paramparayam Dharma Tattva Samiksanam

  Research Projects Received

Name of Principal Investigator (Department) Duration Name of the research project Amount Funding Agency Year of Sanction
Dr. Partha Pal (Zoology) 2 years Assessment of microbial quality of potable water in Kolkata and its suburbs ₹ 4,00,000/- UGC 2015
Dr. Indrani Kar (Sanskrit) 2 years Historical Evaluation of Sanskrit Sound System etc. ₹ 2,50,000/- UGC 2015
Dr. Upendranath Nandi (Physics) 3 years Measurement of Flicker Noise in Mixed Valence Polycrystalline R1-xAxMnO3 Manganite System with R as Rare Earth Elements and A as Divalent Alkali Metals ₹ 54,60,000/- D.S.T. 2015
Deept i Myriam Joseph  (English) 7 weeks Colonial Encounters between European Women and Indian Women in 19th and 20th Century India £ 1400 Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant 2015
Kaberi Chatterjee  (English) 2 years History of Scottish Church College to lead to a monograph on the same $ 3000 UBCHEA 2016
Dr. Samrat Bhattacharjee (Zoology) 2 years Assessment of the chemical and microbial content of drinking water and drain out water of a nearby school and college ₹ 6,00,907/- UBCHEA 2016
Dr. Satabdi Ghosh (Botany) 2 years In vitro regeneration and Transformation of indigenous potato varieties ₹ 3,97,000/- UGC 2017
Dr. Tina Mukherjee (Microbiology) 2 years Microbial decolorization of triphenylmethanedyes from wastewater ₹ 2,20,000/- UGC 2017
Debashis Ghosh (Sanskrit) 2 Years Colonial Dharmaśāstra: Editing ṛṇādāna-dvīpa (Laws of debt) of Vivādabhaṅgārṇava Manuscript - an 18th Century Text by Jagannātha ₹ 1,35,000/- UGC 2017
Shrimoyee Guha Thakurta (Basu) (History) 3 weeks “Bazaars” in the changing urban space of early colonial Calcutta £ 1400 Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, UK 2018
Nilanjan Chakraborty (Botany) 3 Years Elicitor-mediated augmentation of pharmacologically important secondary metabolite production  in Catharanthus roseus L.(G.)  Don. ₹ 16,61,252/- DSTB, West Bengal 2019
Dr. Varbi Roy (Philosophy)
&
Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee (Zoology)
1 year Online Teaching-Learning and associated factors as an aftermath of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study across Higher Education Institutions of West Bengal. ₹ 25,000/- Scottish Church College (SCCFRG) 2020
Dr. Varbi Roy (Philosophy)
&
Dr. Samrat Bhattacharjee (Zoology)
2 years Systematic Implementation of Service-Learning Practices Integrating Whole Person Education. $ 10,000
₹ 7,48,494/-
UBCHEA 2021 (for period 2022-2023)
Dr. Biplab Bhowmik
(Botany)
2 years Application of advanced karyotyping method for chromosome analysis of some brinjal varieties of West Bengal. ₹ 45,000/- SCCFRG 2021
Dr. Senjuti Haldar
&
Dr. Tina Mukherjee
(Microbiology)
2 years Determination of antibiotic abuse and detection of multidrug resistant bacteria in waster water during the pandemic. ₹ 30,000/- SCCFRG 2021
Dr. Subha Samanta
(Physics)
2 years Velocity Sheer flow effect on Jeans instability of strongly coupled dusty plasma. ₹ 20,000/- SCCFRG 2021
Dr. Upendranath Nandi
Physics)
3 years Investigation of Electrical Transport Properties and 1/f Noise in Intercalated Nanocomposites. ₹ 55,00,000/- SERB 2022
Dr. Kalyan Kr. Chakrabarti
(Mathematics)
3 years Electron Collision Studies on Some Molecules and Molecular Ions in Plasmas Relevant for Fusion. ₹ 34,00,000/- SERB 2022
Dr. Varbi Roy
(Philosophy)
2 years Extended knowledge and Social Epistemology. ₹ 1,00,000/- BRC 2023
Dr. Biplab Bhowmik
(Botany)
3 years Assessment of chromosomal diversity and underlying relationships among Solanum melongena cultivars and its closest allied species in the subtribe Leptostemonum of Solanaceae based on EMA - fluorescent karyotypes and nuclear ITS sequence analysis. ₹ 25 Lacs + SERB 2023
Dr. Kalyan Kr. Chakrabarti
(Mathematics)
5 years Studies on Electron Collisions and Molecular States of Some Molecules in Edge Regions of Magnetically Confined Plasmas. € 15,000 IAEA, Austria 2023
PG Departments of Botany and Chemistry 5 years Development of PG Departments ₹ 1.02 Crore DST-FIST 2023
Scottish Church College -- Setting up of IPR Cell ₹ 50,000 DST, Govt. of WB 2024
Dr. Partha Halder (Chemistry) -- Setting up of IPR Cell ₹ 50,000 WBSCST 2024
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