Department of Geology

The Post Graduate Department of Geology was established on July 1990 at Bharatiya Mahavidyalaya with Shri A.J. Gadewar as the Coordinator. Dr.A.K.Srivastava joined the department as Lecturer and Head in July, 1991. Dr. S.F.R. Khadri joined the department as Reader and Head in December 1996 and Professor and Head from 2004 onwards till date.

The Vision of the department is “Geology for all to achieve sustainable development" and the Mission of the department is “Imparting geological knowledge for regional and global development at par with technological innovative excellence"

The department provides basic as well as advanced research facilities for PG learners and researchers. The department is recognized for various laboratories of Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Palaeomagnetism, Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing & GIS, Environment Geology Paleobiology and Sedimentology. The department was awarded Innovative Programme on “P.G. Diploma in Watershed Tech. and Management” during the UGC XI Plan period for 5 year (2007-12) with Dr. S.F.R. Khadri as the Coordinator with an outlay of 42.84 Lakhs in which AAS with 25 cathode lamps, GIS software, Watershed modelling software and water purification system were procured. The department was once again awarded another Innovative Programme on "P.G. Diploma in Remote sensing and GIS" during the UGC XII Plan period for 5 year (2013-17) with Dr. S.F.R. Khadri as the Coordinator with an outlay of 48 Lakhs.

Research, Consultancy and Extension:

The faculty members of the department are carrying out advanced research in the fields of Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Palaeomagnetism, Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing and Sedimentology.

The department has established Consultancy cell in water resource management, dame site selection and environmental management for generating financial resources.

The department is successfully running two extension activities under TRDEA approved by MC on (1) water resource development of rural part of Amravati region (2) Groundwater quality testing of the highly populated slums of Amravati City.

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Facilities

Facilities and other Highlights:

=> Infrastructure facilities available in the department includes palaeomagnetic Lab, petro-chemical Lab, sedimentological Lab, hydrological Lab, remote sensing and GIS Lab alongwith other facilities such as AAS, Carl-Zeiss Polarizing Microscope, Molspin Spinner Magnetometer, ore microscopy, Sartorius water purification system etc.

=> Twenty Major Research Projects sanctioned by DST, UGC, ICAR, CSIR and three Minor Research projects by UGC were successfully completed by Dr. S.F.R. Khadri and Dr. A.K. Shrivastava and one major research project in collaboration with ONGC under Dr. S.F.R.Khadri is in progress.

=> UGC sanctioned grant of Rs. 42.84 Lakhs (one Reader post) for P.G. Diploma in Watershed Technology and Management under the Innovative Programme during the UGC XI plan with Dr. S.F.R. Khadri as the coordinator and the Maharashtra Government has given concurrence to the teaching post.

=> Dr. S.F.R. Khadri Professor and Head, Department of Geology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati was awarded "Utkrushtha Seva Gaurav Puraskar" by the Amravati University during 2003.

=>Dr. S.F.R. Khadri has established International Collaborative Research Programmes with Institute of Physique De Globe De Paris, France, Museum Natural D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris and Royal Holloway University of London, UK; University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK; Princeton University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA & University of Lausanne, Switzerland are in good progress.

=> Dr. S.F.R. S.F.R. Khadri has established the Palaeomagnetic Laboratory in collaboration with IIT, Mumbai and TIFR, Mumbai is established at the Department

=> Ph.D. awarded: 33 NET/SET passed students – 05

=> Dr. S.F.R. Khadri was invited as “Invited Researcher” to carry out post doctoral research work at Palaeomagnetic Laboratory, IPGP, University of Paris, France for 2 months in 2007. In addition, Dr. Khadri has successfully completed British Council Fellowship for undergoing advanced training in analytical Geochemistry using ICP and AAS techniques at King’s College, University of London, UK; Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship for Postdoctoral research for one year at Royal Holloway University of London, UK and another Postdoctoral Fellowship at Royal Holloway University of London, UK

=> Dr. S.F.R. Khadri has successfully established the international research collaboration with Professor Gerta Keller and Dr. Blair Schoene from the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, USA, Professor Samuel Bowring from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Professor Thierry Adatte from Lausanne University, Switzerland and had published their research findings in the International journal "Science" with five year Impact factor of 34.40 on 9th January 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6218 pp. 182-184, along with 33 pages additional supplementary material published by Science, DOI:10.1126/science.aaa0118. This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, USA.

=> Excellent employment opportunities are available for M.Sc. Geology and P.G. Diploma in Watershed Technology and Management courses offered by the department as many students are getting regular employment in GSI, CGWB, AMD, ONGC, MECL, GSDA, Various Multinational Companies. In addition, the department regularly organizes Campus Interviews with multinational companies such as Ochre drillers, Thane, Renuka Engineers, Thane and Aditi Info Tech, Nagpur etc. where most of the students get employment.

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Contact

Geology
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Tapovan Road Camp, Amravati-444602,
Maharashtra(India)

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