LABORATORY VISIT
The PG Department of Botany and Chemistry St Thomas College, Bhilai under its community development programme had organized a one day laboratory visit activity for the students of Sw. Pukeshwar Singh Bhardiya Government College Nikumb District Durg on 01st December 2023. The activity was organized with the objective “to learn the working and handling of various laboratory instruments”. 25 students of B.Sc III visited the laboratories of Botany, Chemistry and Plant tissue culture and they have learnt the basic specifications and working of different instruments. They also got the chance to see the basic procedure to be followed while working and handling the instruments. The fundamentals of spectrophotometric methods were explained by Dr. Chanda Verma Associate Professor, Chemistry. The fundamental working principle of various instruments like Autoclave, Hot air oven, Incubator etc. was demonstrated by Mr Devnarayan Patel Assistant Professor, Botany. The summarized protocol while working in plant tissue culture lab was demonstrated by Dr Ujjawal Supe Assistant Professor Biotechnology & Dr Suruchi Parkhey Assistant Professor Botany. Mrs. Annapurna Yadav Assistant Professor Botany and Dr.Shippi Dewangan Assistant Professor Chemistry of Sw. Pukeshwar Singh Bhardiya Government College Nikumb were present with the students.
The Chief Patron of the college H.G. Alexios Mar Eusebius, Patron of the college Reverent Father Dr. Joshi Varghese and the Principal of the college Dr. M.G. Roymon appreciated the initiative taken. The program was done under the guidance of Dr James Mathew Principal incharge and Head Department of Chemistry. The programme was coordinated by Dr Jyoti Bakshi Head Department of Botany St Thomas College, Bhilai.