Islamia College of Science and Commerce
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The Islamia College of Science and Commerce, Srinagar, affiliated to the University of Kashmir, is a premier learning Institute of the J & K State.The Government of Jammu and Kashmir finances the College on cent % basis both on plan and non-plan account. The administrative and the financial control lie completely with the Government. The services of the College employees are governed by the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Rules (JKCSR).
History
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir established this Institute in the year 1961 during the Prime-ministership of Late Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammed as an Autonomous Educational Institute with a view to offer higher education at both Undergraduate and Post-graduate levels in various disciplines of Science and Management studies .Progress
The College during its history of over 48 years has emerged as the most prestigious College of the State a centre of quality education with highly qualified and experienced faculty and state of art, infrastructure and supportive facilities. In fact, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore (NAAC) has acknowledged the quality excellence of this College by accrediting it at B++ level in its Certificate issued on November 4, 2004; the Institutional score being 84.00 under the scale 80 85. The College has produced a number of luminaries of National and International repute in the field of academics, Medicine, Engineering, Information Technology, Agriculture, Business, Industry, Sports etc. Among its some well known alumni are Mr Mohammad Ishaq Qadri, Advocate General, J & K State; Prof Syed Fayaz Ahmad Shah, Registrar, University of Kashmir; Prof A .M Shah, Controller Examination, University of Kashmir; Dr A .G Bhat, Regional Director IGNOU; Mr. Gaznafar Hussain, Deputy Commissioner Anantnag; Tafazul Hussain, President Jammu and Kashmir Bank; Dr Imtiyaz Ali, Head Department of Community Medicine, SKIMS; Prof. M.D Sangami, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, University of Kashmir; Prof Mushtaq Ahmad Siddiqi, Head, Department of Immunology, SKIMS; Prof Khursheed Iqbal a well known Cardiologist, SKIMS and Prof. B A Shah, Secretary Board of School Education.Location
The ICSC has got an enviable location. While entering the College premises, one beholds a beautiful view of the Koh-i-Maran hill on which stands the most renowned historical fort, Qila Hariparbat, built by the Emperor Akbar. The hill symbolizes the secular culture and religious tolerance of the people of Kashmir, as there exists on the hill the holy shrine of Hazrat-i-Sheikh Hamzah Makhdoom (RA) on the right, the temple of Sharika Bhagwati on the left, the Ram Mandir and Gurdwara at the foothills. The College is also surrounded by a number of other holy mosques namely Jammia-MasJld Snnagar, Masjid-i-Baba Adham (RA), Masjid-i-Mullah Akhoon Sahib and Masjid-i-Kanidevar. The surroundings of the College present a wonderful atmosphere of tranquillity required for higher research and academic pursuits. The vast campus is spread over an area of hundred kannals.Faculty
The College faculty comprises a highly talented and qualified staff with long experience of teaching and research in their respective fields.. The present staff of various faculties is given as under:- Faculty of CommerceCommerceWhile business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
& Management Studies - Faculty of HumanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
- Department of EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
- Faculty of Sciences
- Natural Sciences
- Department of BotanyBotanyBotany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
- Department Of ChemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
- Department Of ZoologyZoologyZoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
- Department Of PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
- Department of Bio-chemistry
- Department of MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- Faculty of Applied Sciences
- Department of Computer Applications
- Department of ElectronicsElectronicsElectronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
- Department of Physical EducationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
- Department of Library Sciences
- Department of Stenography