The Department of Botany started in 1998 and has a B.Sc. Botany undergraduate (U.G.). The department has a well-equipped laboratory. The department is enriched with learning resources such as models, charts, slides, and herbarium, which help students learn independently. The Department of Botany also has a botanical garden with ornamental, endemic, and medicinal plants. The botanical excursion is organized to study the wild plant diversity and forest ecosystem and to inculcate research knowledge to the students by visiting agriculture research institutes and botanical institutes. The department has qualified and experienced faculty. The Department of Botany has started a short-term certificate course for a nursery worker. It has been approved by Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Every year, the department organizes different activities like tree plantation drives, Ranbhaji Recipe competitions, college-to-school programs, flower arrangements, mushroom photography competitions, and seminars.
The department has support from the (1) Paul Hebert Centre for DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity Studies, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra 431004. (2) The Aranyani Bio-Conservation Society, Nashik, for on-the-job training as well as employment purposes under MOU.
Programme Offered
| U.G. | Class | Pattern |
| B.Sc. |
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Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) 2019 Pattern
NEP- 2020 Pattern |
Goals and Objectives
• To bestow quality education in the fields of botany to cause the understudies to gain top-to-bottom information pertinent to neighborhood, regional, and national needs.
• To satisfactorily prepare the understudies to put forth a concentrated effort seriously in any action requiring botanical expertise.
• To create thoroughly prepared professions and instill the idea of preservation of biodiversity.
• To give a wide-range perception of parts of plants.