NVC - Veterinary Anatomy and Histology

About Veterinary Anatomy and Histology

The Department of Anatomy and Histology was the first to start in the Nagpur Veterinary College Nagpur in the year 1958. It was initially in a small barrack in the premises of Government Veterinary Hospital near MaharajBagh, Nagpur. Later on, it was shifted in the year 1962 to the old college building and subsequently to the present location in the year 1968. Dr. M. K. Hawaldar, G.B.V.C. headed the department from 1958 to 1969. After his repatriation to the State department of Animal husbandry, Dr. R. V. Pandit, M.V.Sc.; Ph.D. (USA) had taken over the charge of Professor and Head. After the retirement of Dr. R. V. Pandit in the year 1992, Dr. V. R. Bhamburkar was the Professor and Head of the department and after his promotion to the post of Associate Dean, NVC, Nagpur, Dr. R. S. Dalvi became Professor and Head in the year 2003 and continued up to 2017. Subsequently since February, 2017, Dr. S. B. Banubakodecontinued upto March 2024 and after his retirement Dr. N.C. Nandeshwar, became the head of the department.

In 1992, separate 15 departments came into existence under the faculty of Veterinary Science as per the Maharashtra Agricultural Universities Statutes 1990 prescribed under Maharashtra Council of Agricultural research and Education (MCAER), Pune by the Government of Maharashtra. Previously the institute and the Department was under the umbrella of SAU viz. Dr. PunjabraoKrishiVidyapeeth, Akola, which was later on transferred to the first Veterinary University in the state and third on the national map, viz. Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur with effect from 3rd, Dec, 2000. This department has played a distinctive role in motivating the scientific community of Veterinary Anatomy fraternity in India for the cause of

Promotion and advancement of Veterinary Anatomy
Encouragement and stimulation to research, education and extension in Veterinary Anatomy
Establishment of high degree and uniform standard of Veterinary Anatomy at appropriate position in educational programme
Encouragement to fraternity, mutual co-operation and scientific exchanges amongst VeterinaryAnatomists in India.

To achieve these goals, this department took lead in establishing the scientific society under the name “Indian Association of Veterinary Anatomists” (IAVA) in 1983, and registered this society at Nagpur with Registration No. Maharashtra/152/83/Nagpur. Since then, this department is significantly contributing and participating in the progress and development of IAVA. Another milestone in the history of this department is that since 1997, this department has become the Head quarter of IAVA with Dr. V. R. Bhamburkar, Professor and Head as Secretary and Dr. R. S. Dalvi, Associate Professor as Treasurer of the IAVA till it was shifted to Anand in 2004. The XII Annual Convention of IAVA hosted at Nagpur by this department was adjudged as the best ever convention of the IAVA held in India. The outstanding remark made by the visitors to this done by department speaks of the quality of work this department over a period of time.

This department has so far produced about 24 M.V.Sc. students and 13 Ph.D. students up to 2024.

The department has a well-developed set up of laboratory. There is a separate dissection hall with stainless steel top dissection tables.
This hall has been partitioned into two subdivisions one for dissection of animals to learn locomotor system, angiology & neurology and the other for splanchnology.
Both units are well ventilated, well lighted and air-cooled.
A batch of 20 students can be accommodated for dissection at a time.
The museum is developed in another hall of the department where the skeletons of domestic and wild animals are prepared and placed.
The specimens /organs of the different body systems and the bones of different domestic animals are also displayed in the museum. The special air conditioned laboratory is created for Histology.
This unit is having facility of phase contrast and stereoscopic microscopes (Nikon, Japan) with CCD camera along with display system of set of 10 monitors and LCD projector for demonstration of histology slides.
Any other achievement by the faculty and student :
This facility is extended under FIST programme of DST, New Delhi.
The department has created a Forensic Veterinary Laboratory, which is unique of its kind in India. This facility will be useful for identification of species of animals from remains, which are being collected from the site of poaching.
All necessary equipment viz. PCR, electrophoresis, refrigerated centrifuge machine, research microscope, cryostat, PH meter, chemical balance, triple glass distillation apparatus, automatic tissue processing unit, automatic staining machine, microtome etc. are available in this laboratory. All glassware and chemicals are provided as per requirement to P.G. and Ph.D. students

Achievements:

No. of PG students graduated : 37
Research Publications: 85
No. of research schemes and agency funded projects completed : 1
No. of awards : 35
Radio talks : 10
TV Talks : 05
Marathi and Popular publications : 30
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Degree Offered: UG, PG, Ph.D
Title of degree: M.V.Sc. & Ph.D
Duration: 2 years for M.V.Sc. and 3 years for Ph.D
Eligibility Criteria: B.V.Sc. & A.H. for M.V.Sc. and M.V.Sc. for Ph.D

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Nagpur Veterinary College, Nagpur
High-Land Drive Road Seminary Hills Nagpur

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Sr. No.	Name of the Staff	Designation	Duration
1	Dr. M.K. Hawaldar	Professor and Head	1958-69
2	Dr. R.V. Pandit	Professor and Head	1969-1992
3	Dr. V.R. Bhamburkar	Professor and Head	1992-2006
4	Dr. O.N. Ladukar	Professor and Head	-
5	Dr. R.S. Dalvi	Professor and Head	2006-2017
6	Dr. S.B. Banubakode	Professor and Head	2017-2024

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