Message from HoD

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at NIT Manipur.

We started our journey in 2010 as Basic Sciences and Humanities and become an independent, full-fledged department at 2016. Over the last two years, we have grown our expertise and potential in the core Chemical Sciences curriculum and research. We have a postgraduate program in the Department of Chemistry, including a MSc and PhD in Chemistry. The sanctioned students’ strengths MSc is 15 per year, which has a scope to increase. At present, 12 students have enrolled for PhD programme and one has been awarded degree. Beside this, our department hosts postdoctoral (NPDF) as well as DST INSPIRE fellow.

Our department offers career-oriented PG course and the primary goal of our curriculum is to develop the students with scientific mind, to promote their problem-solving skills and innovation of new technologies. Department offers large number of elective courses for providing wide spectrum of options to the students to pursue their interest. The course contents are often updated to introduce new scientific developments. MSc projects are designed by the faculty members to promote the students with research attitude and extract publication out of their work.

Passed out students are well trained with contemporary and modern methodologies and techniques and placed in several reputed institutes for PhD programme or other.

Active research groups of the department of chemistry are motivated to carry out challenging, collaborative and interdisciplinary research. We are able to build up state of the art research facilities to support our academic programs and research. Externally funded projects sponsored by SERB, BRNS or DST is estimated to be around 1.5 crore. Consultancy projects are also undertaken at our department.

Faculty members and research scholars of our department with excellent academic credentials have several distinguished records in both teaching and research. They are awarded with many prestigious awards at national and international levels. Several faculty members are on the editorial boards of national and international journals. Prestigious GIAN courses in collaboration with foreign faculties have been organized by our faculty members.

However, this website provides an overview of the academic programs, profiles of faculty members, research activities of our department, research facilities and other details. We hope that our website is informative.

Overall, our department is motivated to contribute in solving the scientific and technological challenges of the society with active participation.

For further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Thank you for visiting us.

Best wishes,

Dr. Chandi C. Malakar, PhD

Head of the Department and Assistant Professor,

Department of Chemistry