Best Practices of Department of Zoology
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Sr. No. |
Name of Best Practice | Objectives | Context | Practice |
Evidence of Success |
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Functional Vermiculture & Apiculture Unit | · Create awareness about Vermiculture and Apiculture technology among rural student
· Hands on training for vermicomposting & bee keeping management
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· Promoting environmental sustainability
· Pollination service & Compost generation |
· Functional setup of Vermiculture and Apiculture unit in College campus
· Management of both unit with the efforts of Zoology students and staff · Vermicompost generated through the unit save revenue for manure incurred for plantation in college campus |
· Gain in students interest about applied field of vermiculture and apiculture
· Flowering plants were increased in campus due to pollination by bees · Leaf litter waste easily managed and converted to Vermicompost used as ready manure
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2 |
Sparrow Conservation: Bird Nests from Waste | · Sparrow Conservation
· To increase house sparrow population · Recycling waste to generate bird nests · |
· Conservation of human commensal bird of great economic importance to agriculture
· Control of insect larval pests from sparrow as bio-controlling agent in the campus |
· Installed total 19 permanent sparrow nests by recycling wooden microscope boxes
· Students are encourage to prepare bird nests, waterer and feeder from the available recyclable waste and are installed in college campus · Lectures arranged each year on topic Sparrow Conservation on World Sparrow Day (20 March) |
· All the nest installed in the college campus are occupied by sparrow for their nesting & breeding
· The increase in sparrow population is evident in the campus from chirping soothing sound · Gain in students interest about local birds and their economic importance |
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3 |
Zoologist Expression Wall | · Inculcate reading and writing habit among students
· To encourage zoology students to write articles · To promote students to share their thoughts |
· Unique observations about animals can be share
· Special adaptations or behaviour of animals will be highlighted · |
· Students are encourage to prepare informative posters about various animals to put on expression wall
· Students are encourage to write article or poem related to Zoology and publicize on expression wall · Teachers and students shares their research or article
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· Students were shown interest towards the zoology subject
· It was noticed that students began to read or search additional information about the animal taxa taught in the syllabus and share data through expression wall · Students were starting submitting small article written by themselves or gathers from newspaper cutting or magazines |
