Geography Department
Year of Establishment : 1992
Courses Offered :
Keeping in view of the large
number of students of geography at various colleges in Manipur,
the subject - Geography was introduced at the post-graduate and
research levels in the Manipur University in 1984.
Since then,
the University has been offering M.A./M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
in the Manipur University. Initially, Geography was together
with Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences upto 1992,
after which the University constituted a full-fledged department
and which subsequently, moved to its present building
(formerly of CEDTI) located between the Physics Department
and Manipur University Library(photo enclosed).
At present
four teachers including a Re-employed professor and a
Visiting professor and two non-teaching staffs are in
the Department. The intake capacity of M.A./M.Sc.
Previous geography is 25 (twenty five) being admitted
to the course from both arts and science streams.
The Department is teaching papers covering
- physical and human geography branches along with
the practicals for the total marks of 1200.
The papers offered are Geomorphology and hydrology,
Climatology, Geographical Thought, Resource Geography,
Population and Settlement Geography, Geography of India,
Regional Planning, Remote Sensing, etc.
The Department
has scope to strengthen the remote sensing and GIS lab.
and computer networking facilities(three photos
enclosed showing the facilities of digital
image processing system, mirror
stereoscope for aerial photo analysis
and computer networking under the FIST-DST
programme). Besides the theory and practical
classes, students are also taken to the field
for observations and surveys to write reports.
FIST programme of DST, :
New Delhi, in the department
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India,
New Delhi has recommended Rs.18.5 (eighteen lakhs fifty thousand) to
install Remote Sensing GIS lab. and Computer Networking facilities for
promoting teaching and research activities in the Department of Geography,
Manipur University (vide reference No.SR/FIST/002-ES/2002 dt.12 August,
2002).