Department of Tea Management
Academic Programme
One-year (two
semesters) Post Graduate Diploma Course in Tea management (PGDTM) has been running
smoothly since 1995. The Fifteenth (15th) batch is going to start
from 1.8.09.
100% Placement record of the past students
Placement record of the
students of PGDTM course has been impressive over the years. Even in this year
of recession, we expect 100% placement of our students. The candidates get
placement in Tea gardens as Assistant Managers, as well as Sales Executives in
Agro Chemical Companies and Tea broker houses. Our students are also placed in
banks, insurance companies and other organizations. In addition to salaries,
the employees in tea garden are usually provided with facilities like
residence-cum-bunglow, electricity, cooking gas, on-duty vehicle, made-servants
etc.
Faculty
Prof. Indrajit Ray, Academic Coordinator
Mr. N. C. Nandi, Field Instructor
Mr. T. K. Misra, PGDTM, Soil Analyst
Guest Faculty
1.
University
Teachers of the Department of Chemistry, Geography & Applied Geography,
Commerce, Economics, Law, Sociology & Social Anthropology, Computer
Application, Zoology, Botany, Biotechnology
2.
Visiting
Faculties from the Tea Industry, including some reputed tea Scientists/Consultants,
Agro-chemical companies.
3.
Visiting
Faculty from Tea Board, Tea Research Associations, Tea Planters Associations
Intake capacity:
25 (including 2 students from SAARC countries).
Course Fee:
Rs. 25,000/- per Year for Indian
students and 35,000/- per year for students from SAARC countries (may be paid
in two installments).
Duration:
One Year
(two Semesters) including intensive garden training. Session starts on
August, 1 2009.
Selection procedure:
Written Test and Oral Interview.
Eligibility:
Any Graduate
Facilities / Infrastructural support:
Stipend: Stipend is available for SC/ST and OBC students
Hostel accommodation: Limited accommodation facilities for men and women
student.
Continuous student assessment: Internal assessment (10% of total marks) is held
every month. Question – Answer Session is conducted frequently.
Evaluation & grading system: Students are assessed on a grading system carrying
the letter grades A+, A, B+, B, C+, C. Weightages for different components of
courses are made available to the students at the beginning of each term.
Library: Good collection of books and periodicals on tea and other plantation
crops, CD-ROM Search, internet services, access to UGC-INFLIBNET data, full
text database and services of the University library through internet.
Audio Visual devices: Students are taught with the help of OHP, Slide
projectors and LCD projectors. Photocopier facilities are also available in the
Department.
Computer training
Department has own computer laboratory with internet
facilities, where the students get hands-on-training.
Laboratories: Soil
testing (Tea Board approved), tea museum comprising of herbarium collections of
tea, shade & weeds; collection of insects, manures, fertilizers etc.
Experimental fields in the
University campus: There are experimental as well as commercial
plots of 40 acres with tea plantation within the university campus.
Practical components of
Teaching:
Tea garden training: Students
are taken to different tea gardens of Terai, Dooars, Darjeeling, Assam and
South India including the tea garden of North Bengal University for practical
field training.
One-month residential tea garden training:
Every year the Consultative Committee of Planters’ Associations
arranges one-month residential training for each student in different tea
gardens of Terai, Dooars and Darjeeling. Free Board and Lodging are provided by
Tea gardens. During their one month stay in tea gardens, they are acquainted
with the teal tea life, and gather knowledge about various agronomic practices
and manufacturing process.
Visit to tea research centre: Students
are taken to UPASI Tea Research Foundation (Tamil Nadu) and Tocklai
Experimental Station (Assam) for enriching their knowledge about latest
researches in tea.
Visit Our Tea Plantation of 40 acres in
the campus
Contact no: 0353
2776380(O), 9434885821 (M)