About the Department

Brief History:
The department of Chemistry is one of the oldest departments of City College. It was established in the year 1884. Since its inception, this department has grown into a modern and innovative one to fit the need of the time.

Traditionally the department has always had a scholarly faculty. We had Prof. Suresh Kumar Sengupta of the ‘Bardhan-Sengupta Synthesis' fame as our faculty. Currently it has a set of highly motivated teachers, some of whom are involved in post graduate teaching as guest lecturers at various universities. Some faculty members have experiences of being associated with advance research projects in India & abroad. A few of our faculty members are actively engaged in popularizing science.

Apart from the trivial "Chalk & Talk" method, we also strongly feel that the practice of learner-centric method should be of additional benefit. We regularly hold seminars with the premier ex-students of the department as speakers as well as "students' seminars" where the 2nd yr. & 3rd yr. Hons. students present short papers. Our Hons. students run a wall magazine, where the students are the major contributors of articles.

The Dept. runs a seminar Library for its Hons. (B.Sc.) students. There are about 400 books in this library. Teachers of our deptt. are members of different learned societies and find regular access to the National & International Journals. We look forward to subscribe to a few journals from this Seminar Library for the benefit of the students.

Our Labs are well-equipped to run Honours and general courses.

The department takes pride in grooming a large number of students who have found placement at various prestigious academic & industrial institutes in India & abroad.

In recent years, the teachers of the department regularly participate in seminars held at different institutions throughout the year. A few young teachers of the department are already engaged in research activities in the department (One R&D project has been sanctioned in 2022, granted by Department of Science Technology and Biotechnology, Govt. of West Bengal).

Overview:

• Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.: UG
• Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: NA
• Annual/ semester/choice-based credit system (program-wise): CBCS
• Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: NA
• Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: NA
• Details of courses/programs discontinued (if any) with reasons: NA
• Student-Teacher Ratio (program-wise): For Hons. Courses - 10:1 (Student:Teacher) and For General Courses - 15:1 (Student:Teacher)

Ex-Teachers:

• 
  Dr. Sitangshu Sekhar Bhattacharjee

Chemistry Alumni/ae:

• Detail of Chemistry Alumni/ae

  Sl. No.	Name	Passing Year	Email Id	Current Status/Designation
  1	Dr. Alok Kumar Ghosh	1973	dralokghosh1952@gmail.com	Retired as Associate Professor from the Department of Chemistry, City College in 2012
  2	Dr. Purnendu Dhur	1974	undhur1914@gmail.com	Director/Proprietor, U. N. Dhur & Sons.
  3	Dr. Pradyut Ghosh	1990	icpg@iacs.res.in	Bhatnagar Awardee, Profesor, IACS Kolkata
  4	Sanjoy Bhattacharya	1994	sanjoy73bhattacharya@gmail.com	Sr.country Manager, Togo & Benin, WestAfrica
  5	Dr. Pranab DattaGupta	1994	pranab309@gmail.com	Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Serampore College
  6	Arijit Chakraborty	1999	arijitsinger@gmail.com	Professional Singer
  7	Md Hasanujjamanman	2005	hasan4u.84@gmail.com	School Teacher (H.S)
  8	Nirmalya Goswami	2006	nirmalya.goswami@gmail.com	Director (Chemistry) at Geological Survey of India, Posted at Visakhapatnam
  9	Adarsa Mandal	2012	adarsa1000@gmail.com	Deputy Manager, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.
  10	Chandan Kumar Bhukt	2012	cb75799@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher in Chemistry at Govt. School, Behala
  11	Nirmal Mondal	2013	nirmalmondal1992@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher, BGKV, Kolkata
  12	Soumik Dey	2013	soumikchemistry@gmail.com	Analytical Chemist, TCG LifeS ciences
  13	SouravChakraborty	2013	sourav.chakraborty@mail.huji.ac.il	Doctoral Scholar at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isarel
  14	Khadimul Islam	2014	abuhanachem23@gmail	Senior Research Fellow, IIT Guwahati
  15	Chhatan Das	2014	chhatandas3@gmail.com	Research Scholar at Jadavpur University
  16	Dr. Sk Samir Ahamed	2015	samirchem15@gmail.com	Post Doctoral Fellow, SNBNCBS Kolkata
  17	Ankan Bhattacharya	2015	ankan.24june@gmail.com	Executive Technologist-Officer I at Asian Paints Ltd.
  18	Suban Kundu	2017	subankundu15@gmail.com	Senior Eesearch Fellow, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
  19	Supriya Sashmal	2017	supriyasasmal1995@gmail.com	Analytical Chemist at TCG Life Sciences
  20	Amritendu Panchadhyayee	2017	amritendu.nadp034@gmail.com	Process Officer at Orient Paper Mills, C. K. Birlagroup
  21	Atanu Ghosh	2017	1996atanughosh@gmail.com	Senior Research Fellow at IACS, Kolkata
  22	Lokesh Sarkar	2018	lokeshchemcom@gmail.com	Lower Division Clerk, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of W.B.
  23	Deepak Chowdhury	2018	deepakchowdhury75@gmail.com	Junior Research Fellow, University of Calcutta
  24	Pramita Ghosh	2019	pramitaghosh1998@gmail.com	Management Trainee at NOCILLTD
  25	Sunando Santra	2020	sunando251297@gmail.com	Ph.D. Candidate at Hiroshima University
  26	Megha Bhowmick	2020	meghabhowmick25@gmail.com	Trainee Research Scientist, Krish Biotech Research Pvt. Ltd.
  27	Sourav Man	2020	souravmancrj2602@gmail.com	Scale-I Officer (Assistant Manager) at Paschim Banga Gramin Bank
  28	Sukhendu Samanta	2020	sukhendusamanta96@gmail.com	B.Tech. (Final year) in Chemical Technology at CU
  29	Siddhartha SankarDas	2020	dassiddhartha9098@gmail.com	Industrial Chemist at Kiswok Industries Pvt. Ltd. & pursuing M.Sc. from Singhania University
  30	Ayub Ansari	2021	mdayub605@gmail.com	M.Sc. Student at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
  31	Bipasha Patra	2021	patrabipasha30@gmail.com	Studying 3 year B.Sc.-B.Tech. (Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemical Technology) at Department of Chemical
  32	Arup Biswas	2021	arup9251@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. from S. P. Pune University
  33	Akash Adhikary	2021	useradikary@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. at CIPET-IPT-Bhubaneswar
  34	Sayantan Chakraborty	2021	onlysayantanchakraborty@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. at CIPET-IPT-Bhubaneswar
  35	Anirban Mondal	2021	anirbanmondal140@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. at VU
  36	Tanay Nag	2021	nagtanay876@gmail.com	Studying 3 year B.Sc.-B.Tech.(Ceramic Engineering) at Department of Chemical Technology, UCSTA
  37	Arijit Ghosh	2021	ghosharijit9525@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. from Banaras Hindu University
  38	Rameswar Charaborty	2021	rameswarchakraborty7@gmail.com	Pursuing M.Sc. from Bidhan.agar College
  39	Sohel Ali	2022	gobindanagar.sohelali@gmail.com	M.Sc. student at IIT(ISM), Dhanbad
  40	Souvick Karmakar	2022	souvickk0@gmail.com	M.Sc. student at RRGU
  41	Suman Debnath	2022	sumandebnath9798@gmail.com	M.Sc. student at IIT, Kanpur
  42	Anirban Ghosal	2022	ghosalanirban99@gmail.com	Studying 2nd year B.Sc.-B.Tech. (Polymer Science and Technology), Rajabajar Science College
  43	Abu Raihan Sarkar	2019	aburaihansarkar96@gmail.com	Senior Research Fellowat IACS, Kolkata
  44	Monoj Ghosh	2021	monojghoshcc@gmail.com	Pursuing B.tech. in pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Technology from University of Calcutta
  45	Anirban Bose	2007	anirbanmba007@gmail.com	Vertical Head at Aditya Birla Chemical
  46	Md Hasanujjaman Manda	2005	hasan4u.84@gmail.com	School Teacher
  47	Shubhankar Bhattacharyya	2006	shubhankar2chem@gmail.com	Senior Scientist at RISE Research Institute of Sweden
  48	Dr. Shubhajit Halder	2008	suvochem.halder@gmail.com	Assistant Professorin Chemistry, Hislop College, Civil Lines, Nagpur, Maharashtra
  49	Swapan Patra	2020	swapanpatra571999@gmail.com	Research Associate, Syngene International
  50	Shubhankar Chakraborty	2022	yadavishu6666@gmail.com	M.Sc. at Savitribai Phule, Pune University
  51	Rakes Rosan Maiti	2007	rakes.ce@gmail.com	Professional Engineer in Petrochemical Industry of Govt. of India
  52	Ankan Panigrahi	2007	ankan.panigrahi50@gmail.com	Assistant Manager in Food Industry, FS Consultant
  53	Dr. Sundar Gopal Ghosh	1990	sghosh@iitm.ac.in	Professor at IIT Madras
  54	Soumik Saha	2017	smksaha1995@gmail.com	Senior Research Fellow at Birla Institute of Technology & Science
  55	Solaim	2017	solaimchem94@gmail.com	Junior Research Fellow, Kalyani University
  56	Sanjib Das	2016	sanjib.dcc3@gmail.com	Accountant at Controller General of Communications Accounts, Govt. of India
  57	Hemonta Kumar Saha	2017	hemontaeduchem@gmail.com	Senior Research Fellow at IIT, ROPAR
  58	Subhasree Das	2017	subhasree21995@rediffmail.com	Ph.D. Scholar from West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences
  59	Gargy Ghoshal	2017	er.gargy1995@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher at Aditya Academy Senior Secondary School
  60	Atanu Routh	2008	routh.atanu2022@gmail.com	Sub-Inspector of Schools, WBSED
  61	Subhojit Mondal	2006	tenyaso@indiapost.gov.in	Post Master at India Post
  62	Dr. Hirak Chatterjee	2009	hirakchatterjee3@gmail.com	Marie Sklodowska Curie Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Granada, Spain and ETH Zurich
  63	Sayon Mukherjee	2016	sayon1707@gmail.com	Freelance Tutor in Chemistry
  64	Dr. Sumit Kumar Panja	2008	sumitkpanja@gmail.com	Assistant Professor, Tarsadia Institute of Chemical Science, Uka Tarsadia University, Surat
  65	Dr. Latibuddin Thander	2003	latib.chem@gmail.com	Assistant Professor, Ramkrishna Mahato Govt. Engineering College, Purulia
  66	Madhumita Manna	2013	madhumanna91@gmail.com	Assistant Professor, Prabharani B.Ed. College (additional D.El.Ed), Berhampore, Murshidaabad
  67	Suparna Sen	2014	suparnasen198@gmail.com	Research Associate, Jubilant Biosys Limited
  68	Siza Saha	2011	srijeet15062014@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher, MathuraAsk Vidyapith (High)
  69	Jayasish Ghosh	2007	joy.biochem@gmail.com	Technical Staff, Bose Institute, Kolkata
  70	Samiran Banu	2017	banusamiran1997@gmail.com	Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  71	Sk Abdul Ansar	2006	abdulansar786@gmail.com	Regional Manager-Sales at Special Ceramics Pvt. Ltd., Bhiwadi Rajasthan
  72	Dr. Rakesh Purkait	2012	rakesh.purkait22@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher, WB Govt. Sponsored School
  73	Swadhin Chandra Jana	2003	swadhin1cal@gmail.com	Reader, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore
  74	Paromita Banerjee	2016	paromitabanerjee2017@gmail.com	Assistant Teacher, St. Stephen's School, Habra
  75	Suman Kalyan Samanta	2004	sksiisc@gmail.com	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
  76	Mithun Santra	2005	mithunskh@gmail.com	Senior Scientist, Illumina, Granta park, Cambridge, UK

Infrastructure:

• Departmental Library:
  There is a well-maintained Seminar Library of around 400 text and reference books, from which students borrow books regularly.
• Laboratory:
  Total four laboratories, one each for General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry.
  Chemistry Laboratory Safety Manual
• Instruments:
  The instrument lab is equipped with a projector, UV-Vis double beam spectrophotometers, pH-meter, conductivity meter, potentiometer, colorimeter, polarimeter (both analogue & digital), digital balance (high precision), temperature-controlled water bath and distillation unit.
• A Rotary evaporator with chiller and pump is also set.

Distinctiveness:
The Chemistry Department offers a robust mentoring program that tailors instruction to students’ individual needs. Through seminars with leading scientists, tutorial and remedial classes, wall magazines, student presentations, industry and laboratory visits, and parent-teacher meetings, the department ensures that students stay updated with the latest developments in their field. The department’s dedicated staff and well-stocked seminar library support students’ academic growth and overall development.

Best Practices:

• The Department has an effective mentoring system as well as department conducts parent teacher meetings in regular interval.
• The faculty members of the department created individual Whatsapp groups and google classroom for both Hons. and general students. The Study materials are uploaded in Whatsapp groups, as well as in the College Website.
• The Department uses the projector and laptops whenever required to promote effective teaching learning experience.
• The Department organizes various types of events e.g., seminars (State, National and International levels), e-magazines, visit to industry and labs of various institutions etc. to provide requisite experience to the students to enable them dream their future. These events are structured and executed for active participation of the students at every level whereby students can learn through real time situations.
• Teachers also participate in Faculty Development programmes and seminars.
• First Aid Kit is readily available in the Chemistry laboratory.
• Sufficient Exhaust fans have been installed for the efficient discharge of gases from the labs to keep the lab-environment healthy for the students.