Department Profile

DEPARTMENT PROFILE : BENGALI

 

Name of the Department: BENGALI

a) About the Department: Udali College,Bamungaon was established in the year 1995 and it launched the Bengali Department in the same year. Till 2010 the syllabus was 1+1+1 three years Degree Course and then GAUHATI UNIVERSITY introduced a three years semester system degree course. In 2019 as instructed by the GU the department offered CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS)Semester under graduate programme with Regular in Bengali, along with the compulsory papers such as Ability-Enhancement Compulsory Courses , Skill Enhancement Courses .

 

The Present Teaching Staff of the Department as follows:

    1.Sabnam Aftabi,M.A, B.Ed HoD

         2.Anamika Pual.M.A.

 

Departmental Activities :

Title	Description	Publish
Group Discussion	Bengali Department was organized a group discussion collaboration with IQAC on 22-04-2018	2018
Kobitar Asor	Bengali Department was organized a recitation program(swarachita kobita) with department of Assamese on 18thAug,2019	2019
Kabitar Ashor	A recitation program was organized in the department	2021-02-06
Workshop	Bengali Department was organized a workshop on lokonritya for 3 day’s (25th /26th /27th Nov)	2021
Youth Day & Rabindra jayanti	Bengali Department was observed Rabindra Jayanti collaboration with the help of IQAC (Udali College)	2022
ICT class	An ICT class on Mediaeval Bengali Literature was held on 7th September, 2022.	2022
Educational Trip	A group of 17 students and 2 faculty members of Bengali Department visited Dalmia Lanka, as a part of educational tour. The group visited Dalmia cement factory ,on this one-day tour program.	2022

 

Workshop on Translation	Bengali Department organized a workshop on translation. Resource person was Dr. Jayanta Biswas, Assistent Professor, Bengali Department, Hojai College.The number of participants: 29.	2022-06-04
Cultural Rally	The students of Bengali Department participated in a competition of cultural rally on the occasion of College Week 2021-2022.	2022-05-14
Extempore Speech Competition	An Extempore Speech Competition organized by the Department of Bengali in collaboration with Hindi Department. Number of students participated 30. Four prizes from each department were distributed to the winners of the competition.	2022-01-28
Teachers' Day Celebration	Bengali    Department    felicitated    some                 renowned teachers on the occasion of Teachers' Day 2021.	5th -sep-2022
Rabindra Jayanti	Bengali Department was observed Rabindra Jayanti collaboration with Department with English with the help of IQAC (Udali College)	2022
Inauguration of Wall Magazine	Bengali Department inaugurated its wall magazine 'Anubhav'. It was inaugurated by the Principal Dr. Arun Bora. Number of students present in the program were 25.	2022-08-11
College Week	Students of the Bengali department participated in College Week celebration and won the prizes from the different events	2022

 

Program Outcome :

 

• Students should be familiar with representative literary and cultural texts within a significant number of historical, political, geographical and cultural contexts.
• Students should be able to apply critical and theoretical approaches to the reading and analysis of literary and cultural texts in multiple genres.
•   Students should be able to identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values and themes that appear in different literary texts.
•   Students should be able to write analytically in variety of formats including descriptive writing,research papers and reflective writing.
• Students should be able to ethically gather and synthesize information from a variety of written and electronic sources.
• Students should be able to synchronize technologywith literature.

 

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOME :

 

• Can educate students in both the artistry and utility of the Bengali language through the studyof literature.
• Can be capable of performing research, analysis and criticism of literary texts from different historical periods and genres.
• Can develop intellectual flexibilities, creativity and cultural literacy.
• Can know the history of development of Bengali literature.
• Can know the history of Bengali poetry, novel,short story, drama etc.
• Can get knowledge of proof reading, translation,script writing etc.

           Can get knowledge of Hindi & Assamese literature

 

 

 

COURES OUTCOME: BENGALI DEPARTMENT

 

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• Able to trace the history of Bengali Language and its development.
• Able to know about Bengali spelling.
• Able to know about communicative Bengali language.

          Able to learn about telling and writing skills.

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• Able to trace the history of Bengali Folk literature and its development.
• Able to reconstruct the cultural heritage which is depicted in the Bengali folk literature and in Bengali Culture.
• Able to know about essay literature of Rabindranath Tagore.

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• Able to trace about the history of modern Bengali poetry literature.
• Able to know about the poems of Jibananda Das and other contemporary poets.

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           Able to know about the history of Bengali Novel, drama & short story.

• Able to know about the history of nineteenth & twentieth century Bengali literature.
• Able to understand the difference among novel, short story & drama

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• Able to know about the history of neighboring state literature.
• Able to know about Hindi, Assamese, Odhiya novel literature.

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• Can learn how to write dissertation on a noval or short story.
• Can learn how to desing a research project according to relevant methodolgies with knowledge of different aspect of theoretical and ethical concern.

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• Able to trace the history of translation in India & western literature.
• Able to learn the process of translation from different languages.

         Able to select translation as profession

Student Strength

 

Session 2017-18

BENGALI -General
Sem	Boys	Girls	Total
First Sem	14	10	24
3rd Sem	07	05	12

 

Session 2018-19

Bengali-General
Sem	Boys	Girls	Total
First Sem	12	14	26
3rd Sem	12	08	20

 

Session 2019-20

Bengali-General
Sem	Boys	Girls	Total
First Sem	14	07	21
3rd Sem	08	11	19

 

Session 2020-21

Bengali-General
Sem	Boys	Girls	Total
First Sem	09	05	14
3rd Sem	11	07	18
5th Sem	09	05	14

 

Session 2021-22

Bengali-General
Sem	Boys	Girls	Total
First Sem	20	32	52
3rd Sem	04	04	08
5th Sem	07	07	14

 

Aims and objectives of our Department :

 

1. The department aims to cater to the needs of training in Bengali as a medium of communication for the students’ all-round academic and professional development.

 

1. By offering the undergraduate B.A. in Bengali Course, the department seeks to keep up with the equivalent colleges that have left their mark in the field of Bengali Literary studies and sensitize students to the wider world of literature.

 

1. To transcend their knowledge of grammatical & compositional aptitude which would meet the needs of the dynamic career and professional demands.

 

1. To impart the various technical skills of assessing and analyzing literature of different types and build a sensibility of appreciating literature.

 

1. To prepare the students of the locality for higher education in the concerned discipline and groom them for associated professions.

 

Semester wise action plan for Teaching :

 

Admission Policy: The Admission process has been undertaken by the admission committee constituted as per guidelines of the college authority. Merit is considered on the result of the last exam appeared by the candidate and specially marks obtained in Bengali for taking admission in Bengali Regular.

Counseling and qualifying test for Students: The Dept. of Bengali initiates a qualifying test (written) for taking admission in Bengali among those willing students having 45% in the concerned subject in the last final exam.

Action Plan: The department takes a lot of measures to increase the enrolment and make students' results better.

 

Counseling :

 

1. Counseling is considered to be a key aspect by the department for smooth running of the teaching learning process. In the very beginning of the new session or induction program has been undertaken by the faculties of the department expecting that students of the Bengali department can easily access the course.

 

1. Remedial classes have been initiated for the slow learners selecting on the basis of their performance in the internal assessment.

 

1. Flexibility of departmental class routine has been maintained as per requirement of the students of concerned dept.

 

1. Both financial and psychological support have been provided in case of poor students sent to those having mental stress.

Class Allotment :

Every year a departmental annual meeting is organized by the department of Bengali. All the faculty members’ presence in the meeting is mandatory. In this meeting the course has been distributed equally among the faculty members (paper wise). It is also mentioned that in every academic session the topic in every allotment to each faculty member has to be changed. The HOD presides over the annual departmental meeting.Various departmental and inter departmental seminars, group discussion, educational tour & project work have been practiced by the dept. for all round enrichment of the students of the department.

 

Detection of slow learners and steps taken for them :

 

1. Admission of students is done in the College based on the academic performance of other previous examinations. Yet we are facing a lack of equality input.

Slow learners are identified on the basis of classroom intersections, assignments and performance in the sessional exam specially.

 

Steps Taken: To improve the quality of the slow learners generally we arranged some remedial measures, such as -

 

i).Remedial special classes are arranged for the slow learners. ii).Giving some homework to prepare notes for her/his syllabus.

iii).Attempting to make them free and frank regarding their quarries and problems. iv).Arrangement of khata of remedial attendance.

v).They are providing study materials.

 

Student’s feedback and action taken report :

 

Feedback is collected from our passed out students both by offline and online methods. Format for feedback are compiled with the issue of teachers punctuality, communication skill, friendly behavior, using TLM in class etc. and feedback for the department and institution at a large from the feedback the department of Bengali has been trying to improve demanded by the students feedback for making it more friendly and helpful to the students of the college.

Initiative Practices taken by the department :

Group Discussion: Group discussion of the Bengali department includes in every paper. Group discussion makes students more clear about the topic taught by the teacher. After that, if they

have confusion about the topic they can ask their teachers any questions. So, it is beneficial for them. After their discussion, they get marks or grades when teachers ask something about the topic.

Extension Activities of our Department

Our Department has so far arranged many programs for the development of the students, faculty and the college and the society. Our department always shows keen interest in enhancing research based activities and language development Programs. The Department always tries to improve the speaking, listening, writing and reading skills of the students by organizing various communication skill development courses and programs. To build the students excellence in Bengali language and literature the department takes the following steps:

 

To enhance students' grammatical knowledge, communicative skill and skills in listening, speaking , reading and writing the department aims to organize a free add-on course.

To develop students' skill and creativity the department of Bengali attempts to publish Wall Magazine In every year. For this purpose the department published Wall Magazine in the session 2022-2023.

To increase the knowledge of scientific research and article writing of the students, the department endeavours to publish Departmental Magazine in every session. For this intention the department published Departmental Magazine from the session 2022- 2023.

 

Best Practices of the Department:

 

1. Social awareness programme: Tamasho ma jyotirgomoi (Lead us from darkness to light) is the motto of our College and is its guiding force. Being an institution of Higher Education, Udali College makes endeavor to undertake awareness programme on various issues relating to the society such as HIV/AIDS, Child Labour and Trafficking etc. All these activities are aimed at enhancing the level of awareness of the people considering the location of the College as a large majority of the people living in the area is at a backward state of development. A persistent endeavour on the part of the institution to maintain a clean, green and polythene free campus is seen through activities and regulations. The same effort is extended towards society.
2. Community outreach programmes: Fulfilling commitments towards larger society is integral to the objectives of our College and efforts are on to reach out to the community

 

wherever and whenever it is required. Considering the locational aspect of the College, community outreach programme has been accorded greater significance by the College. In this regard some of the activities initiated by the College are awareness rally on electoral participation to ensure greater public participation, Udali College teachers’ unit & students’ union offer a helping hand in time of ethnic conflict or communal riot etc.

 

 

1. The faculties of the Department visits select nearby Junior Colleges(12th Standard) at least once a month to help develop the student’s communication skill and have friendly bond with the institutions for future collaborations. We take as it as our duty to help the rural vernacular medium students to remove their Bengali phobia and make them confident.

 

1. After the commencement of the NEP-2020 the Department has been trying to help the student get their Dig-locker accounts for the purpose of Academic Bank of Credit. WE have made it our departmental best practice for the coming few years until each and every student have their accounts and know the importance of it.

 

Results of the students of General, last Semester :

Session	Appeared students	Passed students	Pass Percentage
2019	20	19	95%
2020	14	14	100%
2021	14	14	100%
2022	14	14	100%
2023	09	08	95%

Placement and Higher Education of the Passed out Students:

 

 

 

Sl no.	Name	Year of passing	Placement
1.	Sarbarni Debnath	2017	L.L.B

 

2.	Sujit Biswas	2017	North East Bank
3.	Sumanjay Choudhury	2017	Business
4.	Rajesh Sarkar	2017	LIC Agent
5.	Rita Deb	2017	Teacher
6.	Kajol Ghosh	2017	Teacher
7.	Champakala Sarkar	2017	Business
8.	Radha Dhar	2018	Public Health
9.	Suman Mazumder	2018	Public Health
10.	Sourabh Sutradhar	2019	Teacher
11.	Sagar Mazumdar	2021	Army

 

 

Departmental Library:

 

 

Sl. no	PARTICULARS	TOTAL
1.	Text and reference books	100
2.	Magazine	02

 

Our Department has a small library having 150 nos. of Books. It contains text books and reference books. Separate books issue register has been maintained by the department and one of the faculty members is accorded to be assigned for keeping the records. Students can borrow books every working day. We collect books from outgoing students and from faculty members of our department as donations to the department library.

 

 

Future Plans of the Department:

 

 

Our Department plans to organize state/national/ international seminars/ workshops/ popular talks every year with the aid of some funding agencies like UGC,RUSA , ICSSR, Higher Education Department and other agencies. We are going to publish an ISBN book from our college. The Bengali department plans to organize different FDP also in future. This will certainly benefit the students as well as teachers to acquire knowledge in concerned areas. This

 

will also help both the students and teachers to interact with national and international academicians and scholars will draw their attention towards scientific research.

The department plans to arrange educational tours, different programs related to academic progression, and picnics once in a year. From the tours, performing in different programs and field visits, the students will be inspired to write project reports and able to increase their confidence, curiosity and research aptitude as well.

 

 

SWOC Analysis of the Department:

 

Strength :

• Good reputation of the department
• Good interpersonal relationship
• Good teacher – student relationship
• Strict discipline
• Strong Management
• Strong extension culture
• Effective library support.

 

Weakness :

• Limited Space
• Not sufficient e- resource and advanced equipments
• Faculty inadequacy
• Shortage of a language lab and a Departmental ICT classroom.

 

Opportunity :

• Timely recommendation of teachers in vacant posts.
• Revised syllabus enables the students to remain updated.
• Because of mandatory 75% attendance of each student, students can acquire the maximum benefit of the teachings.

 

Challenges:

1. Poor road connectivity of the adjacent villages. Students find it difficult to reach the college during rain.
2. Because of the poor economic condition, the learners get it hard to bear the daily travelling expenses to reach the college
3. Many teachers are providing their services without getting any government salary or financial assistance.

 

Suggestions :

The Department of Bengali of the college needs some basic infrastructural facilities such as a big separate digital departmental room, big size natural and political maps of North East India, India and the world, available furniture, bookshelves, one more steel Almirah, globe, photo frames etc.

 

Therefore the department requests the management and the Principal to provide all the necessary things in a most effective way and seeks cooperation and support from all, to bring success to the above proposed action plan.

 

Declaration: Sabnam Aftabi the Head of the Department of Bengali hereby declare that information included in this departmental profile is true to the best of my knowledge.

This departmental profile is prepared after internal discussion with each and every members of the department.

 

 

Name of HOD: Sabnam Aftabi                              Name of Principal: Dr.Arun Borah.