About the Department
The Department of Philosophy of Vivekananda Mission Mahavidyalaya started its glorious journey in August, 1968. Having just a few students, Philosophy was offered only as Pass (General) subject in the beginning and gradually the department offered 3-years Degree Philosophy (Honours) course at the under graduate level from the session 1994-95 with a view to disseminate Philosophical i.e. religious and ethical knowledge among the students and acquainting the students with the traditional and emerging areas in the discipline. Realising these objectives, our teachers teaches the students on various burning social, political and ethical issues. However, from the session 2006-07, B.A. honours in Philosophy was studied as 3-Tier (Part-I, II & III) Degree course with a view to complete Part-I of the course in the 1 st year, Part-II in the 2 nd year and Part-III in the final year. As per the direction of Vidyasagar University regular class Tests i.e. the internal assessment Examinations are conducted by the department for both Honours and General courses. In the session 2018- 19, University has introduced a new system i.e. Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for both Honours and General courses at under graduate level and therefore from this session the students who have admitted to B.A. 1 st year Honours have to study under this system. The Department arranges special classes for the students of honours each year. One more good job of our Department is to maintain a Departmental Library with good number of books, keeps journals, E- journals under N-LIST and organizes Departmental meeting. Besides the teaching-learning process, our Department has started to organize an educational tour for both the students of Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses. The relationship between teachers and students is cordial.
Our Honourable Faculty Members:
Our Department consists of three Fulltime and one State Added teachers. Out of them Dr. Asim Kumar Mandal, Associate Professor, has been teaching with Logic as special paper for about 22 years, Dr. Kakali Ghosh, Associate Professor, has been teaching with Logic as special paper for about 20 years and Dr. Dipak Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor has been teaching with Logic as special paper for about 16 years. Smt. Mousumi Gayen (M.A., B.Ed.) has been been teaching with Logic & Applied Ethics as special paper for about 8years respectively.
Our Student Strength:
Most of the students of our Department come from very poor family and therefore they are far away from the light of modern system of education, yet they have ambition to get higher education. In the session 2022-2023, 94 students are studying in B.A. Philosophy Honours course and 72 students are studying in BA General course. In the Post Graduate course there are 47.
Students’ Rank/Position in University Examination:
We are very glad to inform that some of the students of our department have stood top rank in University Examination. In 2005, Tapas Maity, In 2008 , Abanti Das, In 2010, Kasmira Khatun and in 2016, Dipali Mondal stood First Class First in B.A. Honours Examination of Vidyasagar University securing 64.5%, 65.63%, 68.75% and 72% marks respectively. In the Post Graduate course, the result of the students of our Department is highly satisfactory. In 2021, 18 students appeared in final Semester of Master Degree and out of them 16 students got above 8.00 CGPA marks and Sibnath Baitalik got highest CGPA marks 8.81. In the year 2022, 16 students appeared in M.A. Final Semester and out of them 14 students got above 8.00 CGPA marks and Madhusree Manna Got highest CGPA marks 8.63. In Under Graduate level 31 students appeared in B.A. 6th Semester Examination in the year 2022, out of them 24 Students got above 8.00 CGPA marks and Moumita Sasmal obtained highest CGPA marks 8.62.
Success in NET/SET:
Six students of our Department have qualified in higher Examination like NET/SET till to date. Tapas Maiti qualified NET in 2010, Abanti Das, Biswajit Pramanik and Satyendra Nath Sau qualified SET in 2015. Moreover Bharat Mondal and Sanjit Kumar Mondal qualified SET in 2020.
Award of M.Phil/Ph.D Degree:
Our student Sanjit Mondal and Biswajit Pramanik have been awarded M.Phil. Degree from Vidyasagar University in 2018 and 2020 respectively.
Job Placements:
Eleven students of our Department render service as permanent School Teacher in different Schools. Our student Tapas Maiti working as a permanent school teacher of Kharui High School (H.S), Mecheda, Purba Medinipur ; Bharat Mondal working as a permanent school teacher of Kultikari Kshirodamoyee High School, Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur ; Biswajit Mitra working as a permanent school teacher of Alangiri Radhabinode Vidyapith, Egra, Purba Medinipur : Gouranga Samanta working as a permanent school teacher of Dighirpar Karalirchak High School, Raidighi , South 24 Parganas ; Pradipta Narayan Sahoo working as a permanent school teacher of Nischintapur High School, Murshidabad ; Swapan Kuilya working as a permanent school teache of Panchkahanla High School, Paschim Medinipur; Biswajit Pramanik working as a permanent school teacher of Gopinathpur High School ; Satyendra Nath Sau working as a permanent school teacher of Susunia High School, Bankura ; Abanti Das working as a permanent school teacher of Dekasimpur Basanti Balika vidyapith, Tamluk, Purba Medinipur; Uttam Bera working as a permanent school teacher of Bagaria Kalika Adarsha Vidyamandir, Kulpi, South 24 Parganas and Mithu Adhikari working as a permanent school teacher of Shiptai Mahula S.R. Institution, Jamalpur, Bardwan. Moreover, our four students working as SAT teacher in different colleges. Our student Sanjit Mondal working as SAT teacher of Debra Thana Sahid Kshudiram Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Mahuya Bhowmik working as SAT teacher of Subarnarekha Mahavidyalaya, Krishna Prasad Pramanik working as SAT teacher of Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya and Mousumi Gayen working as SAT teacher of our Vivekananda Mission Mahavidyalaya.
Accession of Library:
We have a good number of books in our Central Library. There are about 3000 books on Under Graduate courses and 1500 books on Post Graduate Courses. As the latest revision of curriculam has been effected from this session, we feel the necessity of a lot of more books for both Honours and General courses. We have a Departmental Library also which consists of a limited number of books. Both the libraries, central as well as Departmental, are regularly accessed by the teachers and students for their enrichment of understanding and comprehension of the subjects.
Faculty Improvement:
To improve and enrich knowledge bank, our Departmental Teachers participated in different courses as Orientation, Refresher etc. and also participated and presented their valuable papers in International, National and State level seminars and also they publish their research papers in different books and journals.
Academic Activities:
Generally we teach the students through lecture method and encourage them interaction in class room. Our Department arrange regular class tests for Honours, General and Post Graduate courses. Teachers of our Department try to inspire the students by describing life, activity and honesty of different Philosophers and great men who have been able to overcome the hardles of the life by dedication and determination. Our Department organized a state level seminar on “Moral Values: The Core of Sustainable Development” on 11 th December, 2008. It was inaugurated by Swami Biswanathanandaji Maharaj, General Secretary of Vivekananda Mission Ashram and founder Principal of Vivekananda Mission Mahavidyalaya. In this seminar Dr. Sadhan Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, Dr. Papiya Gupta and Sri Ramdas Sirkar, Vidyasagar University came to deliver their speech as resource speakers and Dr. Asim Kumar Mandal presented a paper on ‘Some Essential conditions of Sustainable Development’ in that seminar. Our Department organized a students’ seminar on 20 th December, 2013 on ‘Epistemology : Indian and Western’ in which 15 students of our Department participated and expressed their opinion as speakers. Further our Department organized a College Level Seminar on ‘Vedantic Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda’ on 30 th March, 2019 and in which Professor Bhupendra Chandra Das, Dept. of Philosophy and the Life-World, Vidyasagar University, delivered his valuable lecture as key note speaker and Dr. Dipak Kumar Mandal, Dr. Asim Kumar Mandal, Dr. Kakali Ghosh, Prof. Binanda Mana (Guest teacher) and Sri Biswanath Shil (Research scholar) presented their valuable papers.
Needs of our Department:
As Post Graduate course has been running our Department needs at least two full time teachers and some important things like one Overhead Projector, a good quantity of books in different branches of Philosophy, almirahs etc. for smooth running of both Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses.
The Aim of our Department:
Our Department try to improve academic achievement of our students and we try to provide the use of ICT or Computer-aided methods, Internet facilities. We also try to provide NET/SET oriented books to the students of Post Graduate course. We believe that if we able to provide sufficient books from our Departmental library, Internet facilities, Library facilities and expand the domain of their knowledge, we must reach to our goal.