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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 4: Confirming verbatim the newsitem published in the March 4 issue of The Early Times under the caption "Reasearch comes to a standstill in JU's Chemistry Department", a senior Jammu University (JU) administrative officer today assured that the three important sophisticated equipments, shifted to ISCAS building, would be taken back soon.
"The process of taking back equipments from ISCAS has been started," he said, adding the JU Syndicate and Council too had been apprised of the matter.
In the newsitem, it was reported that three equipments -- Powder X-ray Diffractometer, Cryogenic System and Beta & Gama Ray Detectors -- had been taken by ISCAS as a result of which research was suffering badly in the department. ISCAS is a NGO of which a former JU professor is incharge.
The officer said the machines belonged to the department and these would be back to the department at the earliest. Chemistry Department Head, Prof Meena Sharma also convened a meeting of the department scholars in the morning in this regard.She told them that the department had already taken up the matter with the authorities concerned.
Prof Meena said the issue of transfer of important sophisticated instrumentation to ISCAS building had been brought to the notice of the higher authorities and they had already taken it up at the level of University Council and Syndicate.
"The department has full faith in the JU authorities and is sure that the instrumentation transferred to ISCAS building will be soon restored to it for the benefit of students and research scholars," she asserted.
She said in the absence of the equipments lying with ISCAS, the research work suffered only in the solid state branch of chemistry, while in other streams of the subject, it continued smoothly.
Some senior chemistry professors, however, said the three equipments, which were in ISCAS possession, were needed by the scholars of all three branches of chemistry, ie organic, inorganic and physical of solid state is a branch.
Beta and Gama Ray Detectors was required even by PG students for practicals, they added.
Prof Meena gave details of the Ph.Ds and M.Phils produced by the department in the last five years, but she must know that the three equipments were shifted to ISCAS less than two years back, ie on March 21, 2008, and since then the scholars had been suffering for no fault of theirs.
She said the details of the newsitem were neither given by the department faculty nor students and staff. The details had come from some other source which the department did not know, she added.
Prof Meena said despite the absence of three important machines, excellent research work of high academic standard was being carried out in the department as was evident from the following facts: "The department had produced around 25 Ph.Ds and 50 M.Phils for the last five years. As a result of the hard work and dedication shown by the scholars under active supervision of faculty members, the department had published about 141 research papers in international and national peer-referred journals of repute. Based upon the quality of research work, DST, New Delhi, identified Chemistry
Department under DST-FIST scheme in 2009 under which the grant to the tune of Rs 8 millions was sanctioned to strengthen the instrumental section and raising the infrastructure in the department. The DST, New Delhi, had sanctioned grant under DST-FIST scheme in 2002 too. Keeping in view the caliber of the department faculty, a large number of research projects had been sanctioned by funding agencies like DST, UGC, DRDO etc, besides many national and international recognitions had been awarded to them."
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