Deccan Education Society's

Fergusson College

(Autonomous)

Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University

NAAC accredited “A+” Grade (3.31 CGPA) | AISHE Code : C - 41431

UGC Special Heritage Status | UGC - College of Excellence (CE) | DBT - STAR Status

#F. C. Road, Shivaji Nagar, Pune - 411004

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Geology

The subject Geology was introduced in Fergusson College in 1908. To begin with, Prof T.G. Yeolekar worked as professor in Zoology and Geology Department. Prof G.G. Narke was greatly interested in the subject and he helped the department in the capacity of honorary geology teacher.

In the year 1924, Prof K.V. Kelkar joined this college as junior teacher to assist Prof T.G. Yeolekar. In 1926, Geology was introduced as principal subject at B.Sc. level. In 1932, Prof K.V. Kelkar was appointed as Professor and Head of the department of Geology. Prof. K. V. Kelkar from academic and research point of view was assisted by several lecturers and past students. Under his guidance, the staff and students of Geology Department published several research papers.

In 1946, the Government of India showed great appreciation of the work done by students of the Geology department of this college and appointed Geology Education Committee consisting of Dr S.P. Prija, Dr. D.N. Wadia and Dr. W.D. West. The government also provided a handsome grant for enabling the college authorities to develop the Geology department, thereby accelerating the development of the department in 1951.

In 1951, the University of Pune abolished the old principal and subsidiary courses and introduced the B.Sc. (General) course. Students passing the B.Sc. (General) examination could not take up the M.Sc. degree in Geology by research from the University of Pune as the University was unable to arrange for the teaching of the post graduate classes. Therefore, initially Fergusson College offered to make provision for the teaching of a few post graduate students by paper and later on with the financial support of university authorities efforts were made to admit a dozen students each year.

The new building of the Geology department, Fergusson College was inaugurated at the hands of Prof. D.G. Karve, Vice Chancellor of the Pune University on Saturday, September 5th, 1959. However, in December 1971, the M.Sc. Geology department of Fergusson College was shifted to Pune University campus.

After retirement of Prof. K.V. Kelkar in 1962, P.V. Sowani took over as the head of the department. He was awarded the Fulbright and Smith Mundt Scholarship in the year of 1958. He underwent an intensive training at Colorado School of Mines in advanced petrology and mineralogy for one year. Prof. Sowani retired in the year 1986. Dr. Mrs. Oka headed the department from 1986 to 1988. After the retirement of Dr. Mrs. Oka, Mrs. M.M. Vartak, and Dr. A.B. Chakranarayan worked as head of department. In 2003, Dr. Mrs. S.K. Joshi took over as head of department. During her tenure the department took the responsibility of starting Environmental Science at undergraduate level in the year 2004 and since 2007 M.Sc. Geology and M.Sc. Environmental Science courses started in the department. After retirement of Dr. Mrs. Joshi in 2008, Dr. R. N. Mache became the head of department. During his tenure the department celebrated centenary year in 2008. To the pride of department, in the beginning of year 2009, Dr. Ravindrasing Pardeshi from the department took over as Principal of Fergusson College since January 2009.

The department has been recognised as research centre in geology since 2012-13. After the retirement of Dr. R.N. Mache in May 2016, Dr. Tanuuja Marathe became the head of the department. After the retirement of Dr. Tanuuja Marathe in October 2019, Dr. S. D. Raut became the head of the department and he was head of department till 14th Sept. 2022. Prof. Shyam Narayan Mude became the head of the department from 15th Sept 2022. The department currently is a part of DBT Star College scheme.

Prof. Shyam Narayan Mude

(M.Sc., Ph.D.)

Head and Professor

Teaching Faculty

Dr. S. D. Raut

(M. Sc. Ph. D.)

Professor

Teaching Faculty

Dr. D. V. Upasani

(M. Sc. Ph.D. NET)

Assistant Professor

Teaching Faculty

Mr. Shivaji Pundlik Kokate

(M.Sc., SET, PGDDM)

Assitant Professor

Teaching Faculty

Mrs. Madhuri Ukey

(M.Sc., SET)

Assistant Professor

Teaching Faculty

Mr. Aneesh Soman

(M.Sc., NET)

Assistant Professor

Teaching Faculty

Note: Biodata of any of the above mentioned faculty member can be downloaded by clicking on their name.

Board Of Studies

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Prof. Shyam N. Mude	Chairman, Board of Studies in Geology and Head, Department of Geology
2	Dr. S. D. Raut	Associate Professor
	Dr. D.V. Upasani	Assistant Professor
	Mr. S. P. Kokate	Assistant Professor
	Ms. Madhuri Ukey	Assistant Professor
	Mr. Aneesh Soman	Assistant Professor (Consolidated)
	Mr. Chinmay Thite	Assistant Professor (CHB) (Invited Member)
	Mr. Vishal Patole	Assistant Professor (CHB) (Invited Member)
	Ms. Madhu Rajput	Assistant Professor (CHB) (Invited Member)
	Ms. Sneha Sawant	Assistant Professor (CHB) (Invited Member)
3	Prof. S. J. Sangode	Head and Professor, Department of Geology, Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune -7
4	Dr. Anil Kulkarni	Principal, College of Non-Conventional Vocational Courses For Women- SIBER
5	Dr. Rahul Joshi	Head, Department of Petroleum Engineering MAAER’s M.I.T. College, Pune
6	Mr. Natraj Vadaddi	Independent Consultant and Manager, Petroleum Sector
7	Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni	Honorary Secretary, ACWADAM, Pune

Equipments

Instruments

Sr.No.	Instrument	Manufacturer	Price
1	Electronic Modal Analysis Stage	Electrotrade	Rs. 95,000/-
2	Petrological Microscope (with camera)	Leica	Rs 6,00,000/-
3	Petrological Microscope (without camera)	Leica	Rs 2,50,000/-
4	Trinocular Microscope	Laurence and Mayo	Rs 1,03,050/-
5	Trinocular Microscope	Laurence and Mayo	Rs 86,000/-
6	Gemological Microscope	Ratna 90s	Rs. 1,11,825/-
7	Resistivity Meter	Minitronix	Rs .72,000/-
8	UV Visible Spectrophotometer 118	Systronicis	Rs.1,11,510/-
9	Total Survey Station	NTS-362 R4	Rs.2,20000/-
10	Polarizing Microscope		Rs.2,19,716/-

Softwares

Sr. No.	Instrument	Manufacturer	Price
1	ERDAS(5 users license)	Leica	Rs 5,00,000/-
2	Rockworks(10 users license)	Rockware	Rs 1,50,000/-

Physical Infrastructure

Sr.no.	Lab/ classroom	Total
1	Classrooms	03
2	Laboratories	03
3	Research Laboratories: Geochemistry Remote Sensing, Sedimentology& Palaentology Petrology & Gemmology Computer Lab Earth Science Lab	06
4	Museum	01

Research Title: Research Projects

Details:

S. No.	Name of the Principal Investigator / Co-investigator (if applicable)	Funding Agency	Type (Government/ Non-Government)	Title of Project	Department of the Principal Investigator / Co-investigator (if applicable)	Year of award	Funds provided (INR in Lakhs)	Duration of Project
1	Dr. Ravindrasing G. Pardeshi	UGC	Government	Petrography and Phytolith studies of the Tertiary Formation of Bikaner-Nagaur Basin, Western Rajasthan, India	Geology		2.7	2016-2018
2	Dr. Tanuuja Marathe Dr. Devdutt Upasani	BCUD	Government	Petrographical and Geochemical characterisation of the Giant Plagioclase Basalt horizons occurring in the areas of south Pune and Satara Districts, Maharashtra	Geology		1.3	2016-2018
3	Prof. Shyam N. Mude Dr. S. D. Raut	BCUD	Government	Fossil Calcareous algae from Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene sediments of Pondicherry, South India	Geology		1.4	2016-2018

Alumni

Sr.No.	Name of Alumni	Present Position
1	Mr. Shamim Sait	Sr. Mudlogger, Geolog International
2	Mr. Danish	Sr. Mudlogger, Geolog International
3	Mr. Suraj Suryawanshi	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
4	Mr. Saurabh Pawar	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
5	Ms. Himali Deo	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
6	Mr. Rahul Parhad	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
7	Mr. Ashutosh Kundgar	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
8	Mr. Nikhil Bansode	Jr. Geologist, Geological Survey of India
9	Mr. Sushant Navrat	Jr. Hydrogeologist, Central Ground water Board

Consultancy services

Consultancy services are provided in the fields of:

Petrography (Rock thin sections analysis)
Hydrogeology
Environmental Impact Assessment
Gemmology

Capacity Development

Title: Collaboration & Linkages

Description:

Sr. No.	Title of the collaborative activity	Name of the collaborating agency with contact details	Name of the participant	Year of collaboration	Duration	Nature of the activity
1	Teaching mobility	Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland	Principal Dr. Ravindrasing Pardeshi	2017-2019	Five days	Travel to Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for undertaking teaching activity
2	Training mobility	Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland	Dr. Devdutt Upasani	2017-2019	Five days	Travel to Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for undertaking training
3	Student mobility	Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland	Mr. Aneesh Soman	2017-2019	Ninety days	Travel to Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for short course-work and research
4	Research and other collaboration	Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland	Faculty and students of Department of Geology	June 2018	Five years	Faculty exchange and research collaboration
5	Research collaboration and training	Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India	Prof. Shyam Mude	2017	3 months	INSA visiting scientist
6	Internship/ training/ dissertation	Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Pune	Students of T.Y.B.Sc. and M.Sc. Geology	2016 onwards	30 days	To undertake research work as a part of internship, training or dissertation
7	Internship/ training/ dissertation	Geological Survey of India	Students of M.Sc. Geology	2016 onwards	30 days	To undertake research work as a part of internship, training or dissertation

Placements

Name of industry	Number of students recruited
TomTom India , Pune	7
Soiltech India Pvt Ltd, Pune	2
Genstru Pvt Ltd, Pune	3
Constrologist Pvt Ltd, Pune	2
Geolog International, Pune	2
ACWADAM Pune	4
WOTR Pune	2
Springer Nature Pune	4
Aidash, Bangaluru	1
Arcadis India	2

Syllabi

Sr. No.	Class	Links
1	F.Y.B.Sc.	https://fergusson.edu/upload/document/52433__RevisedFYBScGeologySyllabuswithCourseOutcomes.pdf
2	S.Y.B.Sc.	https://fergusson.edu/upload/document/33337__S.Y.B.Sc.Geology_Syllabus_withCOS.pdf
3	T.Y.B.Sc.	https://www.fergusson.edu/upload/document/19426__T.Y._B.Sc._GEOLOGY_CO_WITH_SYLLABUS(2).pdf
4	M.Sc.-I	https://fergusson.edu/upload/document/66434__RevisedandFinalMScFirstyearGeologySyllabuswithCOs.pdf
5	M.Sc.-II	https://fergusson.edu/upload/document/49586__RevisedandFinalMScGeologySecondyearsyllabuswithCOs.pdf