GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR MEN
KURNOOL

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY

Year of establishment: 1993

Vision:

Our vision is to conduct innovative research, teaching, and outreach on the patterns and processes of life with a focus on plants and meet the global needs by educating students to excel in botany with the human touch.  

Mission  

• To offer wide and relevant education to the students with a view of shaping their scientific temperament and environmental awareness and to uplift the students capable of facing challenges in life efficiently and carve their own future. 
• To conserve the threatened and endangered plants species by establishing a Botanical garden in a college campus and it’s  access to all the nearby institutions and public for understanding the natural world and building awareness among the people for biodiversity conservation through education and display 
• To introduce students to modern ideas and thoughts for sustaining in the global world 
• To nurture ground for creative excellence in medicinal plants, plant propagation, and landscaping.  To impart quality education in the fields of Botany to make the students acquire an in-depth knowledge relevant to local, regional and national needs 
• To provide a professional atmosphere that is unique in the sense that is fast-paced and exciting with the faculty deemed to facilitate a motivating, comfortable and positive academic impression. 
• To produce proficient, professionally competent and socially responsible individuals with a deep sense of moral values and personal qualities and to help them achieve their academic goals in a creative and positive way.

UG Courses offered with combinations 

1. B.Sc- Botany, Zoology, Chemistry - General

2. B.Sc- Botany, Biotechnology, Chemistry- Restructured 

Certificate Courses offered.

1.Medicinal Plants

2. plant propagation & landscaping 

Facilities.

• Class Rooms- 02
• Laboratory-01
• Library-01
•  Herbarium-01
• Staffroom-01
• Botanical Garden-01

Major Lab Equipment

1. Binocular Digital  Microscope with a USB camera.
2. Compound Microscope.
3. Dissecting Microscope.
4. Stereoscopic BinocularMicroscope.
5. Overhead projector.
6. LCD projector.
7. chromatography chamber
8. Digital electronic balance.
9. Electrophoresis unit.
10. water bath.
11. soxhlet apparatus.
12. Distill water unit.
13. Micro pipets.
14. Centrifuge.

seminar/ workshops