Botany

Departmental Activities

 Students Life

•  Saptaparni: Botany Department’s Annual Festival Saptaparni’25 was held on 17th February 2025, which featured intercollegiate competitions with 340 participants from 11 colleges, and 32 winners.

 Excursions:

• A botanical excursion was conducted for UG & PG students at Bhavan’s Nursery, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Keshav Shrushti, Maharashtra Nature Park,Veer Jijamata Udayan, Gorai Creek, Cotton Research Institute and  Friends of Trees flower show at Ruparel College.

 Talks by Guest Speakers

• Two guest lectures were conducted by alumni. Outreach activity was conducted for school students. Terrarium-making and seed ball preparation workshop were conducted. Activities under Vachan Sankalp were also conducted
• Botany Department organized following activities under Vachan Sankalp – Library Book Display, Poster making competition, Quiz based on books, Group reading, Read aloud a book, Essay Writing and Cosplay
• The Department of Botany organized one day Workshop on Terrarium Making on 30^th January 2025.
• Department of Botany in association with Green Club organized the workshop on Mud and Magic- Seed ball Preparation on 20^th February 2025 by Dr. Rachana Birje for 40 Green Club and Botany students Teacher in charge was Dr. Meeta Mathur.

Faculty

• Meenakshi Vaidya received the Icon of the Year Award 2024 for her exceptional professionalism.

 Learners’ Achievements:

1. Meha Mepani under the guidance of Meenakshi Vaidya presented a paper with titled “Exploring the Antimicrobial Potential of Mitragyna Parvifolia (Roxb.) Korth Bark” at the XLVII All India Botanical Conference And International Symposium on “Biotic Curiosities and functional Diversity across plant kingdom in climate change regime” held at Department of Microbiology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut from 16^th –18^th October 2024 in the oral section. She was awarded the SVS Chauhan medal for the best presentation (from all sections) in any group of plant kingdom up to the age of 25 years.
2. Anjali Rawa, Ms. Shravani Manjrekar, Ms. Sneha Kaduskar, Ms. Kulsum Ms. Rutisha Asodariya, Ms. Simran Yogendra Kushwaha, Ms. Jyoti Mourya, Ms. Shifa Shaikh,Ms. Kritika Negi, Ms. Mehfooza Adenwala, Mr. Junaid Iftekhar, Ms. Neha, Mr. Anshu Yadav the students of UG & PG won several prizes in inter collegiate botany fest