Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (RKMVU) is a University with a distinction. It is headquartered at Belur Math and predominantly works through its different 'off-grounds' Faculty Centers situated at the different branch-focuses of Ramakrishna Mission in India and has as its 'push ranges' sure capricious zones.

Courses:

MSc in Agriculture and Rural Development

MSc in Agricultural Biotechnology

PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development

PhD in Agricultural Biotechnology

PhD in Environmental Science


Research Projects

1 Sustainable Agriculture with Low cost Technology (Phase-I)

2 Sustainable Agriculture with Low cost Technology (Phase-II)

3 Sustainable Agriculture with Low cost Technology (Phase-III)

4 Labor Productivity and Community Ecology Work

5 Efficacy of microbial pesticides and natural enemy to control pest in the farmers’ field

6 Study on Bamboo in-vivo and in-vitri growing in South Bengal through morphological and molecular approaches (in collaboration with West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology (WBSCST))

7 Improved Quality of Rural Life through Scientific Management of Natural Resources Funded by – Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Infrastructural and Other Facilities

The current country advancement unit of the Ashrama comprises of around 25,000 sq. ft. solid region and more than 15 hectares of homestead area. Among the aggregate solid zone, around 80 percent is utilized for scholarly purposes like classrooms, labs, libraries, workshop/meeting rooms, gathering corridors and so forth.

a. Classroom: Class rooms (with PC, web, and mixed media presentation offices), course/meeting rooms, gathering corridors and so on.

b. Horticultural homestead:

Two test ranches alongside poultry, dairy, mushroom generation and sustenance handling units.

Restorative plant garden alongside handling unit

c. Arboretum and restorative plants development unit: A broad assortment of woody plants are developed for exploratory, instructive, and fancy purposes. The restorative plant garden not just offers a chance to the understudies for investigation of therapeutic estimations of various plants additionally gives chances to investigate the reaction of the plants with bio-insecticidal properties.

d. Library: 31082 books and 26 diaries, PC office, access to e-diaries, databases, factual information, pictures and computerized maps.

e. Research facility:

All around prepared soil-testing research facility.

All around prepared quality control research facility having TLC, HPTLC, GC, HPLC and AAS.

Biocontrol research facility for detachment, large scale manufacturing of various biocontrol operators (parasite, predators, advantageous microbes, and organism and so forth.) and quality control office having stereo-zoom magnifying lens, stage contrast magnifying lens, transformed magnifying instrument, and UV Spectrophotometer

Sub-atomic science research facility having PCR, gel-electrophoresis frameworks, gel-doc frameworks and so on offices



Faculty

Amitava Chatterjee

Amitava Dutta

Kalyan Ganguly

P. K. Nag

Rupak Goswami

Address:

Faculty of ‘Integrated Rural Development and Management (IRDM)
Contact person: Dr Manas Ghosh, Honorary Dean
Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur, Kolkata 700103