Botany is the biggest department of the college with 11 faculty members and 12 supporting staff. All the teaching faculty is actively involved in research. The department has organized many seminars, conference, awareness programs and guest lectures to update the students with latest developments in Botany. Eminent personalities have been associated with the departmental activities. Few of them are Bharat Ratna Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Hon’ble Former President of India; Padma Vibhushan Prof.Yash Pal, Former UGC Chief; Dr. Karl Kruszelneiki, Australia Nobel Prize Winner; Dr.William D. Dar, Director General, ICRISAT; Padma Vibhushan Dr.P.Rama rao, Former Secretary, DST; Dr.V.S. Rama Devi, Former Governor of Karnataka, Padma Bhushan Dr.P.M.Bhargava, Founder Director CCMB; Dr. CH Mohan Rao, Director, CCMB; Dr.B.Sesikaran, Director, NIN; Dr.Mahtab S.Bamji, INSA Honorary Scientist,; Prof.A.R.Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, Yogi Vemana University.

The department is conscious of its social responsibility and organized many programs like Tree Plantation program, Rain water harvesting, Vegetable dyes and Awareness on adulterated foods. The faculty of Botany with their potential research background attracted the funding in the form of major and minor research projects from various organizations like UGC, DST, DBT etc. The 4 permanent faculty members are recognized research supervisors for guiding Ph.D. students. The teaching faculty of this department has bagged several honours and awards in recognition of their meritorious credentials.

Courses offered at UG and PG : BOTANY

UG. The Botany is offered as one of the subject in B.Sc along with the combination of Biotechnology & Genetics, (G&BT), Food Science Management (FSM) and Food & Nutrition. The admission into this course is based on the merit as per the rules and regulations of the college. Board of Studies (BOS) will meet regularly to review the syllabi and update as per the further requirements of the students. Extensive exercise is going to introduce the CBC S system from next academic year i.e 2015 to 2016 as per the guidelines of the UGC.

PG: The number of seats in M.Sc. botany is 25 and filled based on the merit according to the guidelines of the Osmania University. The specialization offered at M.Sc is Applied Mycology and Molecular Plant Pathology, with an elective of Horticulture and Plant breeding as one of the Inter discipline centric as part of CBCS system. Beside theory and practical examination, assignment submission and seminar presentation by the students is included as part of the curriculum

Certificate Course on Biofertilizers and Its Application is offered by Dept. of Botany for UG students from the year 2016.. This course is of Three months duration and with four credits.

Departmental Library »

The Botany departments has a departmental seminar Library with a collection of 2,750 books , in addition to the central library in the college campus. Books related to the courses and reference books are made available to the students. All the students, research scholars and teaching staff will avail this facility and also at the General Library located at main campus of Osmania University. Botany department also subscribes some of the National and International Journals which are useful to the research students.

Infrastructure »

The department has good laboratory facilities catering to the need of UG, PG and research scholars of Botany. There are around 120 microscopes and each student will handle the microscope individually during the practical classes. The labs are also equipped with various instruments to suit the needs of PG and Doctoral students

Botanical Garden »

The department of Botany has around 4 acres of Botanical garden, with rich flora of native plants, herbs and medicinal plants. Each year new plants are added to the existing garden as the students and faculty visit the Institutions, Horticulture exhibitions and melas to collect various plants. Apart from this, the plants are also established in the garden by organizing tree plantation programmes . Within the botanical garden, a green house is established to grow the plants under suitable environmental conditions. A good collection of herbarium of flowering plants has been maintained by the department.

Future Plans »

• Planning to introduce certificate courses on Mushroom Cultivation, Horticulture, Organic farming to develop entrepreneurship among students.
• Expansion of existing Botanical Gardens by adding many medicinal, aromatic & other rare plants.
• Up gradation of UG, PG & Research Labs by adding latest equipments.

To strengthen the basic & applied research in botany by developing Mushroom cultivation unit, Biofertilizer unit and Tissue culture Lab.