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Department Information

Geography department was established in the year 1989. Presently, the college offers Three Year Integrated Bachelor of Arts programme with Geography and Hindi or Geography and English subjects along with the other options. The geography department also runs a Certificate Course in Remote Sensing, GIS and GNSS in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS),. This course is an online course and is conducted in the college using video conferencing. 22 students comprising of present students, some faculty members, alumni of the department and others are enrolled for this course.

The department has expertise in Geographical Information System (GIS), Geo-Spatial Technology and G-Governance. Faculty of the department, Dr. Sardar Patil has provided consultancy services to Grampanchayat of Panutre Village, Taluka-Panhala, Dist-Kolhapur for Cadastral Mapping of the village.

List of Students who Completed Dissertation 2021-2022

Also, the department actively promotes student research as a regular activity. Students are informed and promoted to participate in seminars/conferences related to the subject as well as to their interests. Students of geography have regularly presented research projects in the Avishkar research project presentation competition.

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Faculty Details

Name: Dr. Sardar A. Patil
Designation: Assistant Professor & Head
Qualification:M.A. Ph.D.
Experience:12 Year/s
Area of Expertise:
Curriculum Vitae

Course Taught

Course Learning Outcomes

The course outcomes are provided under the syllabus for the respective courses.

Facilities

The department has a separate Geography laboratory as well as facilities for students.

Spacious Laboratory with required Equipments
Topographical and Thematic Maps
Learning and Scale Cards
GPS Instrument - 02 sets
Departmental Library
Computers with Internet Facility - 02
Global Mapper GIS software - 05 Licenses
GRAM++ GIS software - 01 License
Q-GIS Software - Open Source
ILWIS-GIS Software - Open Source

Research

Dr. Sardar Patil, faculty of the department is actively engaged in research.

No.	Name	PhD Degree	Area of Research
1.	Dr. Sardar A. Patil	Completed	Disaster Management and Geo-Spatial Technology

Dr. Patil has completed three Minor Research Projects with financial support from the UGC and the University of Mumbai. Total grant availed for these projects is Rs. 2.00 lac. Project proposals have also been submitted to the funding agencies for approval. The outcome of the research projects is published as papers in reputed research journals.

Completed Faculty Research Projects

Duration	Faculty	Project Title	Funding Agency	Grant in Rs.
2008-10	Dr. Sardar A. Patil	Management of Flood Disaster in Sangli District of Maharashtra: A Geographical Perspective	UGC	65,000/-
2009-12		Environmental Degradation and Environmental Conservation in Sangmeshwar Tehsil with special reference to Devrukh: A Geographical Perspective	UGC	1,05,000/-
2014		Application of Geo-Spatial Technology for the sustainable rural development: a case study of village Panutre	University of Mumbai	30,000/-
Total				2,00,000/-

Research Papers Published In Journals

No.	Name	Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals	Total	Impact Factor (range)	h-index
1.	Dr. Sardar A. Patil	07	13	0.998--5.2	01

Book Co-Authored

No.	Faculty	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN
1.	Dr.D.G.Gatade and Dr. Sardar A. Patil	Flood Disaster Management in River Basin: Causes, Impacts and Preventive Measures of Floods in Indian Context	Lambert Academic Publisher	2012	978-3-659-25961-6

Contribution as Editorial Board Member of Research Journals

Member of editorial board of Electronic Interdisciplinary International Research Journal, Mumbai
Worked as the referee for TRAJECTORY - a research journal of the Rayat Shikshan Sanstha
Selected as a regional board member of Ayushi International Research Journal [ISSN 2349-638X]

Student Research Initiatives

Every year, students of the department participate in Avishkar Research Convention
GIS Enabled Campus is the project completed by students of the department under the guidance of Dr. Sardar Patil
During last five years, around 40 students of the department have participated in state/national level seminars /conferences and workshops and some of them have presented research papers

Conference/Workshop/Competitions Organized

No.	Title	Level	Funded by	Date
1.	Research Paper Presentation Competition	State	College	14th January, 2011
2.	Three days Conference on Population, Environment and Tourism	National	UGC	3rd to 5th March, 2011
3.	Two-days Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Geography	National	CSIR	9th and 10th January, 2012

Proceeding Geography National Conference 2011

SOUVENIR Geography National Conference 2011

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Activities

Conference / Workshop / Seminar Organized

Conference / Workshop / Competitions Organized

No.	Title	Level	Funded by	Date	Proceedings
1.	Research Paper Presentation Competition for students	State	College	14th January, 2011	---
1.	Three days Conference on Population, Environment and Tourism	National	UGC	3rd to 5th March, 2011	Click Here
3.	Two-days Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Geography	National	CSIR	9th and 10th January, 2012	---

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