History of the department:

Date of Establishment	1st June, 1994
Introduction of BSc. (General/Regular) course	1994-1995
Introduction of BSc (Major/Honours) course	2015-2016
Affiliation of BSc (General/Regular) course by Gauhati University	1997
Date of permission of BSc (Major/Honours) course by Gauhati University	2015
First teacher to join the department	Dr. Anindita Chakravarty

Name of the ex-faculty of the department:

Sl. No.	Name of the Ex – Faculty
1	Mr. Bhaskar Pathak (M.Sc.)

Faculty:

Name of the Faculty	Dr. Anindita Chakravarty, M.Sc., M.Phil., PhD
Designation	Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest	Animal Ecology & Wildlife Biology
Name of the Faculty	Mrs. Lipika Dey Dutta, M.Sc., M.Phil.
Designation	Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest	Entomology and Environmental Biology
Name of the Faculty	Dr. Sewali Pathak, M.Sc. M. Phil, Ph.D.
Designation	HOD & Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest	Fish and Fishery Biology

Departmental Facilities and Activities:

• The department has two well-equipped laboratories, one for major practical classes and other for general practical classes.
• The department organizes student’s seminar every year. The department publishes wall magazine (Life), departmental magazine (Sparrow) and departmental journal “Zoologica”. Periodically.

Publications               :           Nil

Modalities:

1. Seminar          :           Nil
2. Workshop:    
   1. National Level – 04 (on fold scope, DBT project, 2018-2019)
   2. State level   –  01 (on biodiversity in collaboration with ATREE in 2018)
3. Webinar         :           Nil
4. Misc.               :           Nil

Research Work:

DBT Project on fold scope (2018-2019)

Principal investigator – Dr. Sewali Pathak