Vision & Mission
Vision of the Department:
Raiganj University, is located in the rural heartland of a marginalized region (north-Bengal) of an impoverished province (West Bengal) in easternIndia as such, the Department of Geography believes in the moto of making Geographical knowledge accessible to all. It is with this sprit; this Department strives to provide a platform where Geographical knowledge production through research is of global standards and knowledge dissemination through pedagogy is accessible locally to all.
Mission of the Department:
The mission of the Department of Geography, is to attain an optimum balance between the demands of teaching Graduate and Master’s students with those of Doctoral and Master’s research scholars. This department provides for our students the highest quality of instruction and mentoring and attempts to stimulate the young minds towards the theoretical and applied aspects of geographical research. Given the present faculty strength our core areas of Geographical research involve, Fluvial Geomorphology, Bio-Geography, GIS and Remote Sensing, Population, Political and Urban Geography together with Cultural and Recreational Geography.