Sukla Hazra, Ex- Principal, East Calcutta Girls’ College, currently associated with the Techno India University as a Visiting Professor, did her M.A. and Ph. D in Geography from the University of Calcutta. She undertook advanced training on GIS Mapping at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. She taught Undergraduate and Post graduate students for the last 37 years at different Colleges and Universities. She was Coordinator of Distance Education affiliated under Vidyasagar University on “M. Sc in Geography”. She was the Director of “Centre of GIS and Remote Sensing” in the East Calcutta Girls’ College under the University Grants Commission (UGC). She was member of the NAAC Advisory Committee of the Kalinagar Mahavidyalaya, South 24 Parganas. She was a visiting Professor of the West Bengal State University, Barasat, and undertook courses on Population Geography and Agricultural Geography. She is a member of Executive Committee of the Indian National Cartographic Association. She undertook a few UGC funded research projects and published several textbooks of school level and Undergraduate level in Geography. Her areas of Research interest are ‘Applications of Remote Sensing’, ‘Urbanization’, ‘Environmental Studies’, ‘Sustainable Development’, ‘Agriculture’, ‘Food Security’, and ‘Wetland’. She has guided many doctoral students, and at present three researchers are working for their Ph. D. degree under her supervision. She published more than 50 research papers in different journals. She has also delivered lectures in seminars and symposia as invited speakers.
Anwesha Haldar is serving as an assistant professor at the post-graduate department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls' College, West Bengal State University since 2020. She was a university rank holder from Loreto College and went on to complete her masters at the University of Calcutta. She has done her Ph. D. on Sustainable Energy Management of Sundarban region, India from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta and has undertaken several specialized courses in Geospatial technologies and short term courses under GIAN organized by IIT, Kharagpur and IIEST, Shibpur. She has taught geography for the last 14 years at the under graduate and post-graduate levels under the University of Calcutta, West Bengal State University, Rabindra Bharati University in the regular mode as well as at the Directorate of Distance and Online Education and Vidyasagar University, Distance Education Course. She actively coordinates courses in remote sensing and GIS. Dr. Haldar is an enthusiastic field researcher and presented papers across India and abroad. She has also published in reputed national and international journals, in the fields of urban geomorphology, climatology, environmental geography and hazard management studies. She is credited with four co-edited books on different aspects of geography. Presently, she is the managing editor of the Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies and a significant member of the India Meteorological Society, Kolkata Chapter. She is currently working on gender issues and environment.
Rajarshi Dasgupta is currently a State Aided College Teacher-I in the Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls’ College. He has completed his undergraduate studies in Geography from University of Calcutta, Kolkata and postgraduate studies in Geography and Geology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Cincinnati, USA respectively. He is a physical geographer with research interests in Geomorphology and Environmental Management. His research utilises techniques of geomorphology, low temperature geochemistry and social sciences to study earth surface processes and anthropogenic impacts on the natural environment, especially in the tropics. He has presented talks on these themes in conferences both within India and abroad. His papers, both nationally and internationally, include several in outlets from leading publishing houses like Wiley, Elsevier and Springer. He also teaches courses on the above-mentioned themes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and regularly supervises postgraduate students for their dissertations. A number of these student-led research have also been published in reputed journals published by the leading publishers mentioned above.
Pinaki Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at East Calcutta Girls’ College, Kolkata, affiliated to West Bengal State University, teaching both under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Geography. He has graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata in Geography (1997), he has Awarded National Scholarship for B.Sc Geography (Honours) Examination in 1997 and was a research scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, from where he had post-graduated (1999) and later received his Ph.D. degree in Science (2019) for his research on watershed management and socio
