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About Department of Geography
Welcome to the department of Geography at the Moti Ram Babu Ram Government Post- Graduate College, Haldwani, District Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. To begin with under graduate of was set up in 1997 with modest B.A. / B. Sc programme and one sanctioned faculty strength. Post Graduate programme was started in 2014 with 20 seats. At the moment department has 5 faculty members, 15 research scholars (12 are awarded NET-JRF by UGC), 44 post graduate students and about 500 undergraduate students. Department is housed in separate building which has faculty offices, 2 labs and three classrooms. One of the lab is multi-media equipped. Department has collection of Annals of National Association Geographers India, Geographical Review of India, Punjab Geographers, and PAHAR since 2010.
Geography is science of network and experience. Our faculty members have developed network of researchers and have travelled extensively to experience across the length and breadth of India in general and Uttarakhand in particular.
Geography is science of network and experience. Our faculty members have developed network of researchers and have travelled extensively to experience across the length and breadth of India in general and Uttarakhand in particular.
Our Undergraduate and post-graduate students are taken from science and social sciences background. In our post-graduation we offer the courses covering the range of contemporary geography with specific focus on regional geography of Uttarakhand. Faculty and graduate student research interests range broadly, including Rural Development, natural hazard, tourism, nutrition, Gender, food security, agriculture, land cover and land use, forest, population development , migration, women health and governance of forest commons. The faculty members of the departments have participated in number of national and international conferences, seminars and workshop within the country. Delivered lectures abroad and received fellowship to participate in international conferences and research institute and have published number of research papers, chapters in edited books and a book. Faculty members are affiliated with various geographical and social organizations.
Climate change induced extreme weather events such as cloud bursts, flash floods impact human life and property adversely. Sensitive ecology of mountain ecosystem is increasingly facing vagaries of the nature. In the aforementioned scenario, geographers can play active role in resource and hazard mapping, field surveys and spreading awareness about the disaster mitigation, planning and building climate resilient communities with the help of “Remote Sensing” and application of “Geographical Information system”. However we do not have fully functional RS-GIS Lab in the department at the moment, hence department will be striving to create a functional RS-GIS Lab on the priority
