Chemistry

WELCOME TO CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

VISION
To make students globally competitive and to cultivate exceptional Chemistry professionals dedicated to academic excellence, groundbreaking research, and innovative problem-solving for global challenges

MISSION

To foster excellence in Chemistry education and research, equipping individuals with the skills and knowledge to address pressing global challenges.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

• One of the oldest department of this College, it is 61years old department, established in the year 1962.
• Offering B.Sc Honours (Chemistry)  as  single major system and five other UG programmes M.P.C, B.Z.C, CBMB, CZAQUA, CBHC, one PG Course   and one Certificate course .

•  Out of five sanctioned posts, at present three regular staff members, two having Ph.D, M.Sc., NET qualification with research experience, one with M.Sc., SET qualification and one Contract  faculty are working in the department.  
• One of the faculty has research guideship in Adikavi Nannaya University and University allotted two research scholars under her guidance.
• At present, the department caters the education needs of nearly 300 girl students at UG level. It serves 29.5% ST , 10.6% and 48.94% BC Category students .
• Our dedicated faculty members are committed to enhancing student success through the adoption of student-centric learning pedagogies.
• Utilizing ICT tools via LCD projectors and digital classrooms.
• More than 10% of students going for higher studies in Chemistry and getting placements in various companies.
• Adopting Microscale experiments, which involve conducting experiments on a small scale using reduced quantities of materials, offer several potential outcomes and benefits.
• To disseminate and discuss recent advancements in Chemistry, the department hosts national and international seminars, workshops, conferences and student training programmes.
• Regularly conducting field visits and study projects to fill gap between theory and practicals, enhance experiential and collaborative learning.
• Guest and extension lectures are regularly arranged every year. 
• Providing PGCET Coaching  & Career guidance to B.Sc students.
• Department celebrates the days of National importance such as National Chemistryday, Science Day and Madam Curie Birthday and Ozoneday to ignite scientific temper among the students.
•  Teacher counselling system supports to academically and sometimes financially poor students.
• The department is actively involving outreach social activities like Lab to School, Mole day and joy of Giving etc...
• Involvement of Faculty in Faculty development programmes, Content development for CCE-LMS shows commitment to continuous learning and improvement, ability to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances, technologies.
• Providing academic extension to various Colleges as BOS subject experts, Paper Setters, Evaluators and Resource person in invited talks. 
• To ignite research temper among students, community service projects are assigned to all students after completing second semester. Short term and long term internships assigned to all students after completing IV semester and VI semester respectively.
• Department library is equipped with all modern books, which are useful to the students.  The library caters to the needs of poor students who cannot afford to buy their own books.
• It has one functional MOU with Lord Venky Parentals.

Highlights of the Department

• Organized National Symposium on “Discovery of Periodic Table and Scientific Developments: The Incredible Contribution of Dmitri Mendeleev (IYPT-2019), under Dept. of Chemistry, ASD Govt. College for Women (A), Kakinada on 02nd Mar 2019.
• Organized One-week Student Training Programme on “Isolation and Characterization of Organic Compounds” under Department of Chemistry, ASD Govt College for Women (A), Kakinada on 18-23 Dec 2019.
• Facilitated One Day Workshop in Instrumentation methods on 9.1.2020.
• Facilitated Two Day National Seminar on “Nuclear Science in Health and Environment (NSHE-2022) on 16-17 Mar 2022.
• Organized One Day International Webinar on “Recent Advances in Drug discovery & Development” on 6.12.2023
• Organized National Level Online Quiz on “General Awareness on Generic Drugs and Chemicals” on 15th May 2020, under Chemistry Department, ASD Govt. Degree College for Women (A), Kakinada, A.P. INDIA.
• Organized National Level Online Quiz on “Role of Teacher and Teacher Competencies in Higher Education” on 20th May 2020, under IQAC, ASD Govt. Degree College for Women (A), Kakinada.
• Facilitated One Day Workshop on “Instrumentation Analysis” on 9.6.2022 .
• Organized One Day National Webinar on “Thermal Plasma Technology as a Potential Environmental Sustainable Solution for Muncipal Solid Waste Management.
• Conducted National Quiz On the occasion of "Nobel Prize award ceremony” on 10th Dec 2023.
• Conducted two Certificate Courses 1. Separation techniques for the Academic Year 2021-22.  2. Chemistry Molecular Modelling Software for the Academic Year 2022-23.

• Adoptig Microscale experiments will lead to lesser consumption of Chemicals & Solvents, LPG, Water and other benefits include Lesser time to perform the experiments and pollution free environment. It obeys principles of Green Chemistry. In short the cost of running the Chemistry practical’s will come down by about 70%.
• Dr D Chenna Rao published a paper on “Iron-Catalyzed Aerobic oxidative cleavage and Construction of C-N bonds: A Facile method for Synthesis of 2,4,6-Trisubstitued Pyridines” K Gopalaiah, D Chenna Rao, K Mahiya, A Tiwari Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (AJOC). 2018, 7 (9), 1872- 1881. ISSN:2193-5815; Impact Factor: 3.319.
• Received VIP Status to this paper and highlighted in Chem Views as “Oxidative Synthesis of Kr?hnke Pyridines” 09.10.2018. 
• Dr Vadivelu Anantha Lakshmi published a paper on “Nanocobalt oxide for the adsorption of rare earth elements {la(iii) & nd(iii)} - adsorption isotherms and kinetics” in Sambodhi (UGC Care Journal), July-September (2020), ISSN: 2249-6661.
• V. Mallikarjuna Sharma published a paper on “Determination of Lisinopril in Bulk and Pharmaceutical Formulations by Cloud Point Extraction”—A Green Method in American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 11, 289- 300, 2020. ISSN Print: 2156-8251, ISSN Online: 2156-8278

• Dr D Chenna Rao Presented a paper at National Conference on “Trends and Innovation in Chemistry” org by Dept. of Chemistry, RNT P.G. College, Kapasan, District, Chittorgarh, Rajastan. INDIA. 6-7 Dec 2019.

• Dr D Chenna Rao is editor of a book: Proceedings of IQAC National Workshop on “Academia-Industry Interface: Strategies and Perspectives for Resource Management and Organizational Development” ISBN: 978-93-83792-62-1, Year: 2019, Sucharitha Publications.
• Dr. S. Priyadarshini, submitted Major Research Project entitled “Palladium/Copper Catalyzed Regioselective Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Alkenyl Acids with Purines/Pyrimidines/Nucleosides” to Science and Engineering Research Board under the scheme SERB - POWER and the proposal was accepted by the screening committee for stage 2 evaluation. Reference No.: 162022001022 .
• Dr K. Anitha published a paper on “Development and validation of an HPLC method for the simultaneous estimation of salbutamol, theophylline and ambroxol in tablet dosage form” in International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2023, 10(02), 634–645, International, Peer reviewed, Open access Journal, ISSN No. 2582-8185.
• Dr K. Jhansi Lakshmi certified with silver Elite in NPTEL Online certification 8 weeks course in Chemical applications of Symmetry and Group theory  from Jan-march 2022
• Dr D Chenna Rao acted as Jury for 26th National Children’s Science Congress – 2018, Kakinada. 12 & 13th Nov 2018.
• Dr. S. Priyadarshini acted as Jury for 30th National CHILDREN’S SCIENCE CONGRESS, held at Geetham (EM) High School, Kakinada 2022.
•  Dr. S. Priyadarshini acted as Jury for INSPIRE AWARDS MANAK, State Level Exhibition & Project Competition, held at School Education Department, Kakinada 2021-22.
• Dr. K. Anitha acted as Jury for INSPIRE AWARDS MANAK, State Level Exhibition & Project Competition, held at School Education Department, Kakinada 2022-23.
• V. Mallikarjuna Sharma completed a Faculty Orientation Programme on “Management of Skill Development at Higher Education” at NIEPA, New Delhi during 03 – 07 December, 2018.
•  V. Mallikarjuna Sharma completed a Faculty Development Programme in Chemistry during 01 – 05, July, 2020 organized by CCE, AP.
• V. Mallikarjuna Sharma completed an Online Faculty Development Programme on “Design, Develop and Deliver Online Courses” during 05 – 09 July, 2021 organized by NIEPA, New Delhi.
• V. Mallikarjuna Sharma successfully completed an Online Faculty Development Programme on “Online Course Development for SWAYAM” during 20 December, 2021 and 07 January, 2022 organized by Centre for Staff Training and Development (CSTD), BRAOU, Hyderabad in collaboration with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi. •
•  V. Mallikarjuna Sharma completed a UGC – Approved Short – Term Online Professional Development Programme on “Implementation of NEP – 2020 for University and College Teachers” during 27 October, 2022 and 05 November, 2022 organized by IGNOU, New Delhi.
• Dr. S. Priyadarshini attended Two weeks (13 – 26th August 2018) Faculty Induction Programme conducted by APHRDI, Visakhapatnam
• Dr. S. Priyadarshini attended Online Refresher Course in Chemistry for Higher Education (SWAYAM) 2019, conducted by Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi.
• Dr. S. Priyadarshini attended Online Refresher Course in Chemistry for Higher Education (SWAYAM) 2020, conducted by Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi.
• Dr K. Jhansi Lakshmi attended 5 Day Faculty Developemt Progrmme in chemistry on “New Knowledge, Advanved Teaching& Research: New Frontiers and Emerging Technologies” Conducted by Commissioner of Colllegiate Education” AP. From 1st july 2020 to 5th July 2020.

• Dr K. Jhansi Lakshmi attended 5 Day FDP On “Design, Deliver and Develop Blended learning course” By NIEPA from 4th -8th April 2022.
• Leena Penneti attended 3 Weeks UGC sponsored Orientation Course held from 11.11.2019 to 01.12.2019 organized by UGC – HRDC, Andhra University, Visakapatnam.
• Leena Penneti attended National Level One Week Faculty Development Progranme on “Recent Advances and Approaches in Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Drug.

Courses offered

At present the department offering Six  UG Courses, one  PG Course and  one Certificate course.

S.No	Course	Medium	Sanctioned Strength
1	B.Sc. Chemistry (Honours)	EM	30
2	Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry	EM	50
3	Chemistry, Botany and Zoology	EM	60
4	Chemistry, Botany and Microbiology	EM	30
5	Chemistry, Botany and Horticulture	EM	30
6	Chemistry, Zoology and Aquaculture	EM	30
7	M.Sc Organic Chemistry	EM	30
8	Chemdraw Certificate Course	EM	50

Succession List of Department Incharges

1.      Smt.S.Suseela Subhramanyam

2.      Sri .T.Satyanarayana.

3.      Sri .K.Chenchanna

4.      Sri. K.V.S.Sastry 

5.      Sri. Md.Kamal Shariff

6.      Dr. D.Chenna Rao 

7.      Sri.V.Mallikarjuna Sharma 

Details of the Faculty Working at Present

S.No	Name of the faculty	Qualification	Experience	Profile Link
1	Dr K. Anitha	M.Sc., Ph.D.,	13 Years	View file
2	Dr K.Jhansi Lakshmi	M.Sc., Ph.D.,	30 Years	View file
3	Smt P.Leena	M.Sc., SET	5 Years	View file
4	Smt M.Subbalakshmi	M.Sc	15 Years	View file

Student Admission Details:

                                              2018-19

PROGRAMME	SANTIONED INTAKE		CATEGORY				ADMITTED STUDENTS
			SC	ST	OC	BC
MPC		40	11	0	3	30	44
CBZ		40	12	1	5	22	40
CBMB		20	3	0	3	14	20
CZAq		30	10	1	0	9	20
TOTAL		130	36	2	11	75	124

                                                2019-20

PROGRAMME	SANTIONED INTAKE		CATEGORY				ADMITTED STUDENTS
			SC	ST	OC	BC
MPC		40	8	4	5	29	46
CBZ		40	8	4	7	27	46
CBMB		20	10	3	3	6	22
CZAq		30	10	0	1	7	18
TOTAL		130	36	11	16	69	132

                                                     2020-21

PROGRAMME	SANTIONED INTAKE		CATEGORY				ADMITTED STUDENTS
			SC	ST	OC	BC
MPC( E )		30	6	4	8	12	30
MPC (T)		40	1	1	0	10	12
CBZ( E)		30	5	12	2	11	30
CBZ (T)		40	8	6	6	12	32
CZAq		30	7	0	2	10	19
CBMB		20	7	0	0	8	15
CBHT		30	8	1	1	7	17
TOTAL		220	42	24	19	70	155

                                               2021-22

PROGRAMME	SANTIONED INTAKE		CATEGORY				ADMITTED STUDENTS
			SC	ST	OC	BC
MPC		50	9	3	9	30	51
CBZ		60	22	9	3	23	57
CBMB		30	10	2	2	9	23
CZAq		30	10	1	3	13	27
CBHT		30	11	3	1	14	29
TOTAL		200	62	18	18	89	187

                                               2022-23

PROGRAMME	SANTIONED INTAKE		CATEGORY				ADMITTED STUDENTS
			SC	ST	OC	BC
MPC		50	4	1	1	7	13
CBZ		60	20	13	4	14	51
CBMB		30	2	1	3	10	16
CZAq		30	7	0	1	9	17
CBHT		30	4	6	1	5	16
TOTAL		200	37	21	10	45	113

        Sanctioned and Admitted intake For Five Years 2018-19 to 2022-23

Academic year	Sanctioned intake	Admitted students
2018-19	130	124
2019-20	130	132
2020-21	220	155
2021-22	200	187
2022-23	200	113

             CATEGORY WISE ADMITTED STUDENTS FOR FIVE YEARS

ACADEMIC YEAR	SC	ST	OC	BC
2018-19 to 2022-23	213	76	74	348

 

 

 

 

Administrative Staff working details:

S.No	Name of the Administrative Staff	Designation	Experience
1	M. Sriramulu	Store Keeper	25
2	S. Subbalakshmi	Record assistant	18
3	Ch.Siva Naga Prasad	Gas man/ Mechanic	29