Goa University, set up in June 1985 by an Act of Goa Government, is situated on a pleasant grounds spread more than 427.49 sections of land zone of Taleigao Plateau disregarding the Zuari Estuary, inside close region of the capital city of Panaji, in North Goa. Other than being the most critical area for post-graduate examinations, it additionally fills in as the scholarly operational hub of the advanced education framework in Goa.

Today Goa University, is a university of affiliated colleges, 55 of which are conveyed crosswise over Goa, 30 when all is said in done training, 25 in proficient instruction. Directly, Goa University has 12 resources of which 6 resources work on the campus with 24 Departments and 3 Research Centers that offer post-graduate instruction in the State of Goa.(Ranked fourteenth among the Top Universities of (India Today - AC Nielsen, 2014)

Department of Political Science

Head of the Department

Tripathi Rahul

Year of establishment:

1973 (CPIR)

About

It has endeavored to find the governmental issues of the state, country and the district by drawing in with the two inquiries of hypothesis and confirmations from the field by taking a gander at particular issues and concerns.

Thrust Areas

Majority rule government, Governance, International Relations and South Asia.

"On Goa, the Department has been a piece of some spearheading endeavors at grassroots majority rule government through evaluating and preparing Panchayati Raj Institutions, aside from partner with Election Commission of India on gaging and molding voter's cooperation in the decisions in the state. At the national level, Department personnel (over a significant time span) have drawn in with inquiries of Democracy and Governance with a later concentrate on new methods of political correspondence. At the territorial and worldwide level, the Department has been related with grant on South Asian Regionalism and International Political Economy."

Academic programmes leading to a Degree / Diploma / Certificate:

Programme
Intake

M.A. Political Science
25

Ph.D Political Science
5

Faculty

Name
Designation
Areas of Interest

Desai Prakash
Assistant Professor
Political Theory, Modern Indian Political Thought, Democracy and Civil Society, West Asia with reference to Contemporary Political Discourses.

Shringare Alaknanda P.
Assistant Professor

Tripathi Rahul
Professor

Office Phone: 0832-6519269
Email: hodpol@unigoa.ac.in

Address

Goa University
Taleigao Plateau
Goa
Reception: (0832) 6519048 / 6519302
Fax: 0832-2452889
Email: registrar@unigoa.ac.in