Year of establishment: 1980

Faculty

Sl.No.	Name/Phone No./E-mail		Qualification	Field of Specialization
1.	Dr. M. S. Patil	Associate Professor and Head	MSc., MPhil, Ph.D	Plant Biotechnology
2.	Sri. D. G. Joshi	Associate Professor	MSc.	Phycology
3.	Pooja Suryawanshi	Assistant Professor	MSc. (Ph.D)	Microbiology, Medicinal
4.	Piya Roychoudhury	Assistant Professor	MSc., (Ph.D)	Algal Biotechnology

Result: BSc VI Sem.

Year	Exam Appeared	Pass Percentage
2012-13	117	96.66%
2013-14	124	91.66%
2014-15	156	84.36%
2015-16	155	87.58%
2016-17	162	—

Research Activities By Staff

Name of Faculty With Designation	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Grant Received(Rs.)
Mrs. T. Umadevi  Principal Investigator	Biodiversity of Aquatic Fauna of Karanja River, Bidar 2011 to 2012	UGC	1,25,000/-
Dr. Modse Sanjeevareddy  Principal Investigator	Studies on the Status of Blackbuck in Bidar Forest Division 2012 to 2013	UGC	70,000/-
Dr. Modse Sanjeevareddy  Coordinator	People Biodiversity Register(Master PBR)  Project 2013-14(Phase I)	Karnataka Biodiversity Board, Bangalore  Govt. of Karnataka	5,20,000/-
Dr. Modse Sanjeevareddy  Coordinator	People Biodiversity Register(PBR)  Project 2014-15(Phase II)	Karnataka Biodiversity Board, Bangalore  Govt. of Karnataka	56,000/-

Faculty with the ongoing projects

Duration	Name of Faculty	Title of the Project	Name of Funding Agency	Grant Received(Rs.)	Status
2017-2019	Dr. M. S. Patil (PI); Piya Roychoudhury (Co-PI)	Computational Classification of Algae	UGC-CPE	25000/-	Minor

Departmental Projects

Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Grant Received(Rs.)
The existency of Environmental Status of Medical Plants of Bidar District, Bidar Karnatak, India	UGC	72000/-
Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Studies on Medical Plant Resources of Bidar District	UGC	1,10,000/-

Infrastructure ( including ICT)

1. Library: Central
2. Department Library: 109
3. Central Library: 1130
4. ICT facilities:
   • Desktop: 1
   • Printer: 1
   • Internet: Available
5. Laboratories: Two with instrumental facilities (PCR, Centrifuge, Autoclave, Microscope etc)

Research activities/Enrichment Programmes by Students

Year	Title of the Programme	Name of the Resource Person(External)
2012-13	National Environmental Awareness Campaign	Prof. B. S. Sajjan  Department of Botany  B.V.B College Bidar
2012-13	World Ozone Day	Dr. B. V. Shivparkash  HOD Surgery  Vet. College Bidar
2014-15	Food Adulteration	C. D. Patil  Sec. of KRVP Bangalore
2014-15	Food Adulteration	C. D. Patil  Sec. of KRVP Bangalore
2015-16	Plant Breeding	Dr. Ravindra Mulge  Dean, Horticulture college, Bidar
2015-16	Importance of Ozone layer	Dr. G. M. Vidyasagar  Dept. of Botany, GUK
2015-16	Plant Propagation	Dr. Praveen Jolgikar,  Asst, Prof, Dept. of Fruit Science  Horticulture College, Bidar
2015-16	Remote Sensing	Dr. Naikode  Asst. Prof. Dept. of Soil Science,  Horticulture College, Bidar
2015-16	Fruit Processing and Preservation	Dr. Praveen Jolgikar,  Asst, Prof, Dept. of Fruit Science  Horticulture College, Bidar
2016-17	Disease in Crop Plants	Dr. Sunil Kulkarni  KVK, Bidar
2016-17	Importance of Vermicompost	Dr. Ravi Deshmukh  Coordinator, KVK, Bidar

Seminar/Workshop/Conference Organized

Year	Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Funding Agency	Grant Received(Rs.)
2016	National Conference on Biodiversity Threats, Conservation, Status and Sustainable Utilization for Human Welfare	UGC	75000/-

Seminar/Workshop/Conference Attended/Presented(2012-13 to 2015-16)

	International	National	State	Total
Attended	—	—	—	—
Presented	19	02	—	21
Total	19	02	—	21

Future Plan

• To organize an International Conference on “Biodiversity and Climate Change”.
• To start the centre in higher learning and research in Botany.