About the Department

The Department of Environmental Sciences was established in the year 2017 and is now running PG courses (M. Sc. EVS) and doctorate in Environmental Sciences.
The academic program of the department has been periodically reviewed, revised, and updated, keeping in mind the need for sharper focusing, the available expertise at any given time, and the changes desired in the curriculum of individual courses or specific programs.
The Department has diversified interest in the various latest field of environmental sciences viz. Biobattery, Conversion of Waste into Wealth, Biofuels, Bioremediation, Environmental Pollution, Water Treatment, and Development of Handheld Diagnosis Devices for pollutant monitoring, etc. The department is actively involved in research. linkages between Biotechnology and Biological Sciences give an additional dimension to department interest, making the work relevant.
Therefore, the curriculum has components of interdisciplinary areas such as Physical Sciences, Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Biology, Nanotechnology, and Environmental Monitoring and Management.

Programs Offered

Research Area :

• Environmental Sensors & Biosensors
• Bio-Nanotechnology
• Hand-held devices fabrication for on-the-spot monitoring of water pollutants
• Conversion of waste to wealth
• Enzymology
• Waste Water Treatment
• Bioremediation
• Nanotechnology: - Preparation & Characterization and Application of Nanoparticle
• Herbal Nano Preparation and Biomedical uses of hydrogel
  Device Fabrication and Innovative Research Technologies for Societal use

Research Scholars

1. Rahul
2. Devanand

Research Lab Facilities :

• UV- visible spectrophotometer: Shimazu
• Potentiostat
• Eutech pH meter
• BOD incubators
• Laminar flow 
• Orbital shaker
• Deep freezer
• Gel electrophoresis system
• Autoclave
• Ultrasonicator

Events Organized :

1.  Celebrated World Ozone Day from 14th to 15th September 2017 with the theme “Caring for all life under the sun”
2. Environment Awareness Week (Program) with the theme “Clean Campus Green Campus” from 20th to 24th November 2017.
3. World Ozone Day Celebration on 16th September 2018.
4. National webinar on the occasion of Earth Day on 22, April 2021.
5. National Pollution Prevention Day on 2 December 2022.
6. Faculty of Life Sciences, Indira Gandhi University, Rewari, and Haryana State Biodiversity Board (HSBB) jointly organized “Environment and Biodiversity Conservation Week” from 7-9 June 2022 at Indira Gandhi, University, Meerpur, Rewari.
7. Eco-Warrior Club has organized National Pollution Prevention Day on 2nd December 2021
8. Eco-Warrior Club has organized Earth Day on 22.04.2022
9. Department of Environmental Sciences has signed the MoU with Exigo Recycling Pvt. Ltd., Panipat on 07.06.2022

Session 2021-2022

Priya Shrivastava, B. P. Singh, V. K. Jain and Suman Nagpal (2021) A novel approach to detect barium in gunshot residue using a handheld device: a forensic application. Analytical Methods.

Kumar P, Sood S, Kumar A, Verma A, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kumar V, Kumar A, Singh K (2022) 1,3,4-Trisubstituted Pyrazoles: Synthesis, Antimicrobial Evaluation, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds.

Nair, S., Gautam, V., Kumar, R. and Suman Nagpal (2022) A novel sensing platform using silicon nanowires/reduced graphene oxide to detect pathogenic E. coli (MTCC4430) and its application in water samples. Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences (2022). 

Priya Shrivastava, V. K. Jain, Suman Nagpal (2022) Nanoparticle Intervention for Heavy Metal Detection: Review. Environment al Nanotechnology, Monitoring & amp; Management.

Priya Shrivastava, V. K. Jain and Suman Nagpal (2022) Nanoparticle Intervention for Heavy Metal Detection: A Review Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management.

Rahul Khatkar, Suman Nagpal (2022) Convention and advanced detection approaches of fluoride in water: a Review. Environmental Monitoring Assess.

Shalvi, Varsha Gautam, Varsha, Avshish Kumar; V. K. Jain; Suman Nagpal (2022), Trace level electrochemical analysis of arsenite in human serum utilizing rGO/AuNPs based sensor platform. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry.

Shalvi, Varsha Gautam, Varsha, Avshish Kumar; V. K. Jain; Suman Nagpal (2022) An overview of advanced approaches for detecting arsenic at trace levels. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management.

Sneha, Ramesh Kumar, V. K. Jain and Suman Nagpal (2022) Electrostatic Graphene Oxide based Biosensor for rapid direct detection of E. coli. International Journal of Materials Research.

Varsha Gautam, Avshish Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, V. K. Jain, Suman Nagpal (2022) Ultrafast Trace-level detection of Methyl Nicotinate Biomarker using TiO2/SiNWs Nanocomposite-based Sensing platform. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

Varsha Gautam, Ramesh Kumar, & Suman Nagpal (2022) An overview of advancement in apatsensors for influenza detection. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics.

Varsha Gautam; Avshish Kumar; Ramesh Kumar; V. K. Jain; Suman Nagpal (2022) Ultrafast trace-level detection of methyl nicotinate biomarker using TiO2/SiNWs nanocomposite-based sensing platform.  Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

Session 2022-2023

Priyanka Verma, Nitesh Kumar, Suman Nagpal (2023) Development and validation of hand-held device for the metformin in biological samples: A forensic application. Chemical Biology Letters.

Research Profile of the Department

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