Deshbandhu College For Girls
Affiliated to University of Calcutta
Affiliated to University of Calcutta
Introduction
The Department started its journey in 1955 with the inception of the College.
Honours Course was introduced in 2012.
Medium of Teaching: Bengali and English.
The two basic principles introduced to the students from the very first day that are to be followed throughout their entire duration of study in the College and also later in life are:
In all academic sessions, for both odd and even semesters, the classes are taken regularly as per the routine drawn by the Routine Committee following the norms of CSR. All students are notified at the commencement of classes at the new session/ at the end of the semester exams along with the detailed syllabus.
During the period of lockdown, following the protocol of the Covid 19, the Department switched to the online mode of organizing classes via Google Meet, Conference calls and other available electronic modes. A revised routine had been drawn to meet the need of the hour.
All Semester Exams are taken following the Calcutta University Schedule.
The Department has a well stocked Seminar Library with standard text books and reference books over and above the main library of the College. The students can also avail of books from the Gyandhara Collection.
Highlights of the Department:
The students have a very close relationship with the teachers of the Department that gets reflected both in academic and in extra-academic activities. Separate Whatsapp groups are formed with the students of every semester where they can communicate with the teachers of the department during and after the college hours and also during holidays, recess and vacation.
Teaching Method
To establish a two way communication link, Parent Teacher Meetings are organized regularly. The parents are apprised of the progress of their wards. Parents are also given the telephone numbers of the teachers of the department so that they can directly reach them.
In May 2023, for the first time, the Department successfully organized a reunion with its ex-students.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with the Department of Political Science of Women’s Christian College and several combined and exchange activities both at academic and extra academic level are organized between the two colleges.
The Department has organized a couple of collaborative Programmes with the Department of Political Science of New Alipore College.
The Department also participates in collaborative activities with other colleges such as Jogesh Chaudhuri College, Netajinagar College for Women, as well, with whom MoUs have been signed.
Highlights of Activities of the Department outside the Curriculum
Besides, the routine academic activities and Examinations, the department actively encourages its students to increase awareness of the world around.
The Wall Magazine The Dialogue prepared by the students of the Department highlight on various topics pertaining directly to their syllabus as well as to other issues, in general, having a social or political bearing.
The students of the Department actively participate in the District level Youth Parliament Competition organized by the Department of Higher Education and the Department of Parliamentary Affairs, West Bengal Government on a regular basis. They have won awards as a team as well as on individual capacities.
Between 2017 and 2023 the students and teachers had organized/mentored four Youth Parliament Competitions.
They also take part in the awareness programmes, career orientation programmes, quiz contests, painting competitions with the students of other colleges as well.
In July 2021 during the days of lockdown the students participated in an online career orientation programme organized in collaboration with the students of the Department of Political Science of New Alipore College. In November 2022, the students of 5th Semester of the Department joined an Interactive session on Gendered Understanding jointly held between Deshbandhu College for Girls and Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College.
In 2024 several programmes in collaboration with Women’s Christian College and New Alipore College have been organized. The students of the Department had presented talks and participated in seminars in these colleges..
From May 2024, Electoral Literacy Club has been formed at Deshbandhu College for Girls and the Department of Political Science is given the overall charge for running the affairs of the club .
Film Show had been organized pertaining to the syllabus and the students enjoyed it whole heartedly.
On the whole, the department is growing and expanding every day.
Seat Capacity in the Honours Course from 2018- 2022:
Total no. of Seats: 39 (UR: 21; SC: 09; ST:02; OBC A: 04; OBC B: 03; 01 PWD Lateral Entry)
Seat Capacity in the Major (Honours) Course under CCF from 2024:
Total Number of Seats: 48.
UR:26 [21+ 5(EWS)]
SC :11
ST: 03
OBCA: 05
OBC: 03
PWD:01 (Lateral Entry)
Workshops, Seminars and Talks conducted by the Dept. of Political Science from 2018-19 to 2022-23
Session | Title of the Workshop, Seminar, Talks, Competition conducted | Date and Caption | A Brief Report |
| 2018-19 | A talk followed by an interactive Session with students organized. Racial and Gender Discrimination in the American Criminal Justice by Ms. Tatiana Chaterji, Restorative Justice Coordinator, Oakland, California, USA | 22.01.2019 Talk and Interactive Session with students | About 15 students of Sem.2 and B.A. 3rd year joined the session where the Speaker, A graduate from Harvard University, discussed the condition of the women prisoners in Oakland and California. As a Restorative Justice Coordinator in the Oakland, California region Tatiana Chaterji has a first hand experience in this field which she shared with the students and teachers of the Department. |
| 2019- 20 | i) Organized students to compete Kolkata District level Youth Parliament Competition.
ii) Organized an Interactive Session between ex-students and the present students of Semester III On further studies in Political Science. | i) 17.09.2019 Kolkata District level Youth Parliament Competition At St. Xaviers College
ii) 25. 11.2019 Interactive Session between ex-students and the present students.
| It is a very educative exercise for the students of Political Science who learn the procedure of Parliamentary practices through taking part in a moot parliament The College won the 3rd Runners Up prize in the district level Competition. 15 students joined.
Two students of 2014 batch Ms. Amrita Burman and Ms. Titli Mondal who finished their post graduate studies in Political Science met the students of 3rd Semester (Hons.) and enlightened them about the problems & prospects of Higher studies in the subject. |
| 2020-21 | Organized none due to Nationwide Lockdown | ||
| 2021-22 | i) An online interactive session: The Road Ahead conducted between the Department of Political Science, in collaboration with Dept. of Political Science, New Alipore College, Kolkata.
| 31.07.2021. Interactive Session with the students of two colleges. Nature and Scope of Studying Masters in Political Science . | About twenty students from the Dept. of Political Science, DBCG, joined in the collaborative session. It was addressed by post graduate students from Presidency Universuty, Jadavpur University and Calcutta University. Devbani Raychaudhuri, the IQAC Coordinator, DBCG, presented a brief talk as the Guest of Honour..
The Programme was streamed live on you tube
|
2022-23
| i) Organized students to compete Kolkata District level Youth Parliament Competition at Scottish Church College.
ii) Organized A Session of the Youth Parliament at Deshbandhu College for Girls.
iii). Organized an Interactive Session with students of Dept. of Political Science, Education and Bengali on Making the Household Equal and Safe: A Gendered Understanding in collaboration between Women’s Cell, Deshbandhu College for Girls and Equal Opportunity Cell, Jogesh Chandra Chowdhury College, Kolkata.
iv). Academic Exchange Programme with Women’s Christian College, under MoU Talk given by Dr. Nibedita Raha, Dept. of Political Science, Women’s Christian College on `Gramsci’s Civil Society.’.
v) 24.5.2023 Re-union 2023
Programme on Constitutional obligations and Electoral Literacy | i) 16.09.2019 Kolkata District level Youth Parliament Competition
ii) 22.09.2022 Organized A Session of the Youth Parliament
iii). 24.11.2022 Organized an Interactive Session in collaboration between Women’s Cell, Deshbandhu College for Girls and Equal Opportunity Cell, Jogesh Chandra Chowdhury College, Kolkata.
iv). 26.04.2023
Academic Exchange Programme with Women’s Christian College,
Reunion of Ex-Students of the Dept. of Political Science had been organized.
27.6.2023 Programme on Constitutional obligations and Electoral Literacy Programme on Constitutional obligations and Electoral Literacy was organized by the Dept. of Political Science, Deshbandhu College for Girls in collaboration with Netajinagar College.
| From DBCG Fifteen students, from 3rd and 5th Semester, both Hons. and General, of the Dept. of Political Science participated in the competition held at Scottish Church College where most of the Colleges from Kolkata District competed.
A Session of the Youth Parliament organized by the students of Dept. of Political Science. They presented a glimpse of Parliamentary practices and procedures before the students, the Principal and the Faculty members of the College.
Activists working on Feminist Rights, Rights on LGBTQ+ conducted an interactive session after their talk. The students of Semester V of Dept. of Political Science, DBCG College joined the programme held in collaboration with JCC College along with Prof. Devbani Raychaudhuri and other faculty members of the Women’s Cell of the College.
As a part of the Academic Exchange Programme, Dr. Nibedita Raha presented two lectures on `Gramsci’s Civil Society’ which covers a section of the syllabus of Political Science (Hons.) before the students of 2nd, 4th and 6th Semester. As a part of the Programme, Prof. Devbani Raychaudhuri gave two lectures on Indian Foreign Policy in a Globalised World to the 5th Semester Hons. students of Dept. of Political Science, Women’s Christian College on Dec. 5, 2022..
Students from different batches, starting from 2009 who studied Political Science as a General or as an Honours Courses participated and some of them reminisced about their teachers, friends and their days spent in the Department.
Dr. Sonali Banerjee Jash, Principal, Netajinagar Day College, Dr. Joydeep Sarengi, Principal, New Alipore College addressed the programme. Dr. Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta, Principal, DBCG presided over the meeting.
A talk on the `Constitutional Duties of the Indian Citizens and Electoral Reforms’ was presented by Prof. Devbani Raychaudhuri, H.O.D, Political Science. A documentary on Constitutional obligations was shown.
Students of both the Colleges attended the programme followed by an interactive session. |
| Sl No | Title | Result View |
|---|
Awards won by the Students:
• Won the 3rd Runners Up Trophy in the Kolkata District Level Youth Parliament Competition organized by Ministry of Higher Education and Department of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of West Bengal.
| Sl No | Title | Notice View |
|---|
Result 6 years (2019-2023)
Year | Appeared | Passed | % |
2018 3rd year (1+1+1) |
02 |
02 |
100% |
2019 3rd year (1+1+1)
|
04 |
04 |
100% |
2020 3rd year (1+1+1) /6th Sem. (only for B.Com) |
03 |
03 |
100% |
2021 6th Sem |
15 |
15 |
100% |
2022 6th Sem
|
06 |
00 |
00% |
2023 6th Sem.
|
10 |
08 |
80% |
Programme Details (June 2023-Dec.2024)
| Srl. No. | Programme/Event | Theme/ Topic | Date | Stakeholders | No.of Participants Attendance Sheet (if any)available | Event Report with geo-tagged picYes/No | Remarks |
| 1. | The Dept. Organized a Programme on Electoral Literacy in collaboration with Netajinagar Day College
| Const.al Obligation and Electoral Literacy |
27.06.2023 | Students and Teachers of both the Colleges |
Yes |
yes | D.Raychaudhuri had been the resource person in the seminar |
| 2. | Demonstration on the progress of different Depts towards NAAC Assessment, 3rd Cycle, organized by the College.
| Political Science Dept.presented PPT Demonstration the performance of the Dept. from 2018-23 |
14.09.2024 | All teachers of Depts. Of Education, English, Sanskrit and Political Science |
Yes |
No | PPT prepared by D.Raychaudhuri and presented by Puja Bhattacharyya |
3.
| Special Lecture on Syllabus of CVAC under NEP organized by Dept. of Political Science | Laws on Offence Against Women | 18.01.2024 | All students of Sem.1 and Hons. students of Sem.3 |
Yes |
Yes | Seminar presented by Abhigyan Majumder, Advocate, High Court. |
| 4. | A film show organized by Women’s Christian College in colla with W.Cell DBCG Coll.
| Film Show to commemorate International Women’s Day. Stu.s of Pol.Sc. Sem.6 presented talk | 21.03.2024 |
Students of both Colleges |
Yes.
15 students |
Yes.
| Students of Pol.Sc. Sem.6 presented talks on Internaional Women’s Day |
Programme Details (June 2023-Dec.2024)
| Srl. No. | Programme/Event | Theme/ Topic | Date | Stakeholders | No.of Participants Attendance Sheet (if any)available | Event Report with geo-tagged picYes/No | Remarks |
| 5. | Dept. of Political Science organized An Awareness Programme on the occasion of establishing Electoral Literacy Club in Deshbandhu College for Girls. | Awareness Programme to sensitize the Voters about the Electoral Procedures in India | 7.5.2024 | Students, Teachers and office staff of the College |
49 Yes |
Yes |
The Assistant Electoral Registration Officer, Rashbehari Segment presented a video demonstration explaining the rules and Regulations of the Election Procedure. |
6. | A Collaborative Programme with Dept. of Political Science, New Alipore College and the Dept. of Political Science, Deshbandhu College for Girls. Organized by New Alipore College. | A Special Lecture on ` Is India Hurtling towards Environmental Disaster? |
30.08.2024 |
Students and Teachers. |
Yes. |
Prof. Debi Chatterjee, Presented a lecture. Students of and the Teachers of both the Colleges joined. |
Programme Details (June 2023-Dec.2024)
| Srl. No. | Programme/Event | Theme/ Topic | Date | Stakeholders | No.of Participants Attendance Sheet (if any)available | Event Report with geo-tagged picYes/No | Remarks |
| 7 | Two Day long Celebration of Constitution Day A collaborative Programme to commemorate Constitution Day between Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Political Science, Deshbandhu College for Girls and the Dept. of Political Science, New Alipore College . Organized by DBCG College, Political Science Dept. |
Preamble reading by the entire College under the leadership of the Principal, DBCG
A Special Lecture on ` Reflections on The Preamble of Constitution of India: Insights and Introspection |
26.11.2024 27.11.2024 |
Students and Teachers. |
Yes |
Yes |
The entire College -Students, Teachers and Office staff joined
Prof. Sumit Mukerji presented a lecture. Students and the Teachers of both the Colleges joined. |
8. | A Film Show for the students of Political Science | Laapaata Ladies, a film by Kiran Rau |
11.12.2024 | Students of College | Yes | Yes |
|
| 9. | Dept.al Reunion | Date to be announced | Students & Teachers | Yes | Yes | ||
| 10. | Faculty Exchange Prog. with Women’s Christian College | India-China Relationship | 13.12.2024 | Students of Women’s Christian College | Yes | Yes | Class to be taken by Goutam Kumar Naru |
