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Dr. Arvind Bijalwan
DEAN, College Of Forestry, Ranichauri
P.O. Ranichauri, Distt. Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand 249199
Mob. No. 9412983808 ;
Phone:+91-1376-252080 (O) , Fax:+91-1376-252128
E-Mail : deanranichauri2013@gmail.com , arvindbijalwan276@gmail.com
DEAN Message
Dr. Arvind Bijalwan is a streamline forester having B.Sc. Forestry (4 yrs); M.Sc. Forestry (Agroforestry) and Ph.D. in Forestry with specialization in Agroforestry. He has occupied All India Rank-3 in JRF and qualified NET examination three times in Forestry, Forestry and Environmental Science.
About 16 years of Teaching, Research, Extension and consultancy experience in Forestry Management, Agroforestry, Silviculture, Remote Sensing and GIS and Natural Resource Management. Prior to present position, Dr. Bijalwan has worked as Assistant Professor (HRD Scale at par of Associate Professor as in IIT/IIM) at Indian Institute of Forest Management, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, Bhopal, MP, India. Dr Bijalwan has also served as Assistant Professor at College of Forestry & Environment, Allahabad Agricultural Institute-Deemed University, Allahabad, UP, India. He worked as Principal Investigator/Project Coordinator of a special project of Rs. 12.18 crore implemented by MPVS, Gaja for employment generation through cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic plants for the Western Himalayan community in Tehri Garhwal of Uttarakhand, India. He has handles about half dozens of research and extension Projects with a capacity of PI and Co-PI. Dr. Bijalwan has worked on plantation assessment, monitoring and evaluation w.r.t. survival, quality, growth pattern, influence of microclimate on plant growth in different parts of tropical, sub-tropical and temperate regions of country. He was engaged in analysing and assessing the potential and possibility of various agroforestry and farm forestry systems and combinations and also documented their case studies. Presently he is working on agroforestry management, productivity and assessment of biomass and carbon in agroforestry systems with an integrated theme of livelihood promotion linking Biodiversity (agro-biodiversity), Carbon Sequestration potential in Agroforestry systems connecting to Combating the Climate Change. He has also visited abroad and good exposure of outside India for various agroforestry systems. Dr. Bijalwan is in the Editorial Board of eighteen National and International Journals. He is life member of six scientific and professional societies and also annual and biannual member of nine professional societies. He has also delivered about forty radio talks from All India Radio stations Aakashwani and local radio stations and presented various TV programmes on doordarshan.
Dr. Bijalwan has selected for faculty positions in various State Government Universities and Institutions and also selected for Master’s programme in two prestigious Universities abroad. He has published 63 Research papers, 52 Scientific articles and written 3 books also guided 3 Doctoral and 06 M. Phil and Master level Students.
College of Forestry (CoF) is situated at Ranichauri in Tehri Garhwal District. The college is about 15 km away from New Tehri, 70 km from Rishikesh and 110 km from Dehradun on Rishikesh – New Tehri Road. It is spread over an area of 203 hectares consisting of forest, orchards and various research blocks at an altitude ranging between 1700 and 2200 m above msl. The geographical and climatic conditions of the region are considered to be suitable for different forest species, horticultural crops, off season vegetables, medicinal and aromatic plants, minor millets and pulses.
The college has been entrusted with responsibilities of generating technology in forestry, hill agriculture and allied fields for the development of hill districts of the newly created state. It also run human resource development programmes, multidisciplinary research and technology transfer suitable to diverse hill agro-climatic conditions that are feasible for easy adoption by the local people and thereby help to improve their socio-economic status.
HISTORY:-
Keeping the need of sustainability of hill agriculture in view, the college was initially established as hill campus of G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology on the directives of Planning Commission of India with subsequent signing of MOU between Govt. of India and Govt. of Uttar Pradesh in 1972 and was formally inaugurated in 1976. However, the campus became fully operational in 1983 after getting strengthened with scientific manpower. Since then the college is functioning as one of the most reputed centers for research, education and extension in Uttarakhand. In 2011, the college came in the jurisdiction of newly created Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, Bharsar, Pauri Garhwal, now the name of university is changed as Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, Bharsar, Pauri Garhwal.
MANDATES OF THE COLLEGE:
- Development of human resource for forestry, agro-forestry, hill agriculture and allied sectors.
- Development of location specific forestry/ agro-forestry models, and farming systems for hill agriculture.
- Conservation and utilization of natural resources.
- Processing and value addition of non-timber forest produce.
- Developing watershed management models for hill region.
- Mitigation of farmer-wild life conflict.
- Capacity building for entrepreneurship/self employment.
- Dissemination of technologies for the benefit of hill farmers, forest tribes, nomades etc.
VISION:
The Frontier areas of the college include:-
- Human Resource Development in the area of Forestry.
- Development of technologies for the improvement in Forestry.
- Capacity building for entrepreneurship/ self employment.
- Dissemination of the technologies for the benefit of the region.
- Production of Genuine and Quality planting material of different Forestry trees species along with important medicinal and aromatic plants.
- Administrative Block
- College Building
- Library
- Auditorium
- Laboratories ( Forestry lab, Horticulture lab, Soil Science, Micro-biology,
- Plant Disease Clinic
- Farmer Advisory Service
- Orchards
- Research Blocks
- Computer Center
- Meteorological Observatory and Automatic Weather Station
- Conference Hall
- Hostels (Separate Hostels, two each for boys and girls)
- Guest Houses
- Farmers’ Hostel
- Krishi Vigyan Kendra(KVK)
- Telephone Exchange
- 250 KVA Electric Power Generation System
- Health Centre
- Residences
- Bal Manglam Primary School
- Bank, Post Office & Shopping complex
- Global Atmospheric Watch Station
- Forest Nursery
- Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Nursery
| S.No. | Name of the Department | Name of OIC | Mobile No. |
| 1. | Silviculture | Dr. V.P. Khanduri | 01376-252138 / vpkhanduri@yahoo.com |
| 2. | AgroForestry | Dr. Arvind Bijalwan | 9412983808 / arvindbijalwan276@gmail.com |
| 3. | Tree Improvement | Dr. Rajandra Singh Bali | 9720139147 |
| 4. | Forest Product & Utilization | Dr. Amol Vasishth | 9413007208 / vasishthamol@gmail.com |
| 5. | Basic & Social Sciences | Dr. Sarawati Prasad Sati | 9027586692 |
| 6. | Forest Ecology & Wild Life Management | Dr. C.S. Dhanai | 9756339946 / dhanaiagro@gmail.com |
| 7. | Forest Protection | Dr. Laxmi Rawat | 7983822911 / laxmirawatpathology@gmail. |
| 8. | Natural Resource Management | Dr. Sarawati Prasad Sati | 9027586692 / spsatihnbgu@gmail.com |
College of Forestry, Ranichauri offers Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes in discipline of Forestry.
Courses Offered :-
Under Graduate Programme :- B.Sc. (Hons) Forestry – 4yrs
Post-Graduate Programme :- The University offers Five Post-Graduate programmes leading to Masters degree in :
- M.Sc (Forestry) Agro-Forestry -2 yrs
- M.Sc (Forestry) Silviculture – 2yrs
- M.Sc (Forestry) Tree improvement – 2yrs
- M.Sc (Forestry) Forest Products and Utilization – 2yrs
- M.Sc (Forestry) Seed Science & Technology – 2yrs
Every year the College admits, a maximum of 80 students: 40 under- graduates 30 Post- Graduate students. On an average, the College has around 250 students on its rolls, of which girl students constitute nearly 65 percent. The University admits the students to UG Programme through Entrance Examination, based on the rank obtained in the common entrance examination.
The intake capacity of the students to the various degree programmes are as :-
| Degree Programme | Annual Intake Capacity |
| Under Graduate B.Sc. Forestry (Hons.) | 40 |
| Post- Graduate | |
| M.Sc (Forestry) Agroforestry | 06 |
| M.Sc (Forestry) Silviculture | 06 |
| M.Sc (Forestry) Tree improvement | 06 |
| M.Sc (Forestry) Forest Products and Utilization | 06 |
| M.Sc (Forestry) Seed Science & Technology | 06 |
| S.No. | Name | Designation | Discipline |
| 1 | Dr. Arvind Bijalwan | Dean | Agroforestry |
| 2 | Prof. Vinod Prasad Khanduri | Professor | Forestry |
| 3 | Dr. S.P Sati | Associate Professor | Enviromental Science |
| 4 | Dr. Amol Vasist | Associate Professor | Forest Product & Utilization |
| 5 | Dr. Laxmi Rawat | Assistant Professor | Plant Pathology |
| 6 | Dr. Ajay Kumar | Junior Research Officer/ Assistant Professor | Agronomy |
| 7 | Dr. Chatar Singh Dhanai | Assistant Professor | Agroforestry |
| 8 | Dr. Deepa Rawat | Assistant Professor | Soil Science |
| 9 | Dr.Taufiq Ahmad | Assistant Professor | Extension Education |
| 10 | Dr. Manoj Kumar Riyal | Assistant Professor | Physics |
| 11 | Dr. Rajendara Singh Bali | Assistant Professor | Tree Improvement |
| 12 | Dr. Arunima Paliwal | Junior Research Officer/ Assistant Professor | Agronomy |
| 13 | Mr. Pankaj Lal | Assistant Professor | Forest Product & Utilization |
| 14 | Dr. Sumit Chaudhary | Assistant Professor | Agronomy |
| 15 | Dr. Sneha Dobhal | Assistant Professor | Silviculture |
| 16 | Mr. Indra Singh | Assistant Professor | Silviculture |
| 17 | Dr. Bhupendra Singh | Assistant Professor (Contractual) | Forestry |
| 18 | Dr. Yogesh Kumar Negi | Assistant Professor (Contractual) | Microbiology |
| 19 | Dr. Padam Singh | Assistant Professor (Contractual) | Agricultural Engineering |
| 20 | Dr. Reena Joshi | Assistant Professor (Contractual) | Agroforestry |
| 21 | Dr. Pankaj Kumar | Assistant Professor (Contractual) | Genetics & Plant Breeding |
| 22 | Dr. Rajesh kumar Prasad | Teaching Personnel | Botany |
| 23 | Dr. Indu Bisht | Teaching Personnel | Sociology |
| 24 | Er. Arpan Rao | Technical Officer | Computer |
| 25 | Er. Saurabh Singh Rawat | Technical Officer | Computer |
| 26 | Mr.Prakash Singh Negi | Technical Officer | Agrometeorology |
| 27 | Anil Rawat | Physical Instructor | Physical Education |
The library and information unit of this campus closely supports education and research in the areas of Forestry, Horticulture and vegetable Sciences, Crop improvement, seed sciences, and other allied agricultural discipline. The library is housed in beautiful top floor of collage building and offers excellent environment for studies. It has great track record in providing quality information services to campus Community within our limited resources consisting of more than 20000 documents and e-resources. The library has the credit of being pioneer in introducing latest information technology to automate its services in the Tehri Garhwal region. The automation operation was initiated as early as in the year 1999. Currently the entire learning resources of the library has been automated for electronic retrieval by creating an in-house database searchable through an OPAC . For better management of learning resources, increased security and control over inventory Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) a new generation of auto Identification and data automation process has been installed recently. We are proud of our innovation in service development and in delivering the best services information services driven by continuous improvement
THESIS COLLECTION:
Digital Thesis Collection:
Thesis collection of College of Forestry may accessible by the users in krishikosh website. The entire thesis collection of the year 2015 & onwards is accessible in digital form via this platform. The purpose of this current initiative is to improve accessibility and digital preservation of research work carried out by M.Sc. Students of College of Forestry.
Link: http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in
In-house Thesis Collection:
In house thesis collection may accessible by the library users in CD form and print form as well. To more information library patrons may contact to the Circulation / Technical Section of the library.
Users may access the e-thesis collection in e-resource section of the library.
Users may access the print thesis collection in reference & periodical section of the library.
Thesis Database- College of Forestry, Ranichauri.