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29th July 2015, 10:38 AM
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Re: Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Msc

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University offers 2 year duration M.Sc. (Environmental Science) course .

Eligibility for course:
Graduate in Agriculture/Life science/ Home science or their allied disciplines .

Candidate must secure 50% (40% for SC/ST/PH) in qualifying degree course.

Intake : 30

I am here giving you syllabus for M. Sc. (Environmental Sciences) course of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University.

Semester I
ES-101 : Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics MM 100 Time: 03 hrs

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M. Sc. (Environmental Sciences) Syllabus

Semester I
ES-101 : Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Atmospheric profile and composition, physical characteristics, types of wind, inversion, soil profile, soil formation and humus formation, Physico- chemical properties of soil and water, precipitation.
Unit II: Concept of ecosystem Ecological pyramids, energy flow, biogeochemical cycle in ecosystem.
Unit III: Population, theories of population growth, Biotic potential, inter and intra species interactions in ecosystem, community dynamics in ecosystems.
Unit IV: Characteristics of community, concept of climax, theories of climax succession, xerosere, hydrosere, habitat and ecological niche, allelopathy
ES-102 : Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Concepts and components of biodiversity, genetic, species and ecosystem diversity; Biodiversity as an important resource, human population growth and its implications on biodiversity, biodiversity indices, value of biodiversity.
Unit II: Conservation of biodiversity, in-situ and ex-situ conservation. Wildlife reserves in India, Earth summit and follow up action, Convention on biodiversity.
Unit III: Biodiversity hotspots in the world, national and global red data lists, categories of species and their management, biodiversity prospecting, IPR of biodiversity and its products, patent protection and biopiracy.
Unit IV: Bioprospecting and conservation, importance of biodiversity. biodiversity informatics, databases in biological materials. International efforts and issues of sustainability.
ES-103 : Environmental Chemistry MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Basic concept of Environmental chemistry, chemistry of gaseous and particulate pollutants, oxygen and ozone chemistry, concept of fog and smog.
Unit II: Chemistry of water, concept of sedimentation, filtration, coagulation, estuarine processes and major ion chemistry of sea water.
Unit III: Inorganic and organic components of soil, Mechanism of chemical weathering, Soil pH, Nitrogen pathways, and NPK in soil.
Unit IV: Chemistry of food additives, dyes, detergents and bleaching agents, processing of gasoline, chemistry of paints.
ES-104 : Instrumentation, Data Analysis and Bioinformatics MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Principles and application of microscopy, confocal and electron microscopy, separation methods viz electrophoresis, centrifugation and its types, chromatography techniques and its types viz TLC, HPLC,GC.
Unit II: Principles and application of specroscopy, UV- VIS spectrophotometer, spectrofluorimeter, AAS,AES, flame photometry, fluorescence and diffraction methods
Unit III: Presentation of sampled data, Measures of central tendency &dispersion, normal distribution, probability theory, tests of significance, t-tests, Z-tests, chi-square test.
Unit IV: Basic concepts and application of computer for data storage and analysis of Samples, Bioinformatics

Semester II
ES-201: Environmental Microbiology MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Diversity in microbial communities of soil, water and air, methods of isolation thereof. microbial pathogens and their control.
Unit II: Mode of microbial nutrition, determination of growth, microbial interactions, Chemolithotrophy, humus.
Unit III: Concept of bioremediation and bioaugmentation, bioconversion microbial degradation of environmental pollutants (detergents & pesticides), Microbial degradation of plastics and other organic environmental pollutants
Unit IV: Microbial ecology, effect of environmental factors on microorganisms, effect of light and radiations on microorganisms, phototaxis and phototropism, mechanism of chemotaxis, methods used in microbial ecological investigations.
ES-202: Environmental Geosciences & Remote Sensing Applications MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Origin, distribution and cycles of elements in the earth, processes and principles of landform development and distribution, principles of meteorology and climatology at the synoptic and regional scales, adiabatic processes, weather systems, forecasting and regional climates, atmospheric stability
Unit II: Principles of hydrology, hydrological cycle, watershed, precipitation patterns, snow and ice, groundwater, runoff formation, flow in channels, lake storage, introduction to techniques of measurement and analysis of surface and subsurface water.
Unit III: Hazard identification for extreme meteorological events; floods; wave and tsunami effects; tropical cyclones, debris flow, landslides and avalanches, volcanic hazards, earthquake hazard, el-nino, melting of ice-sheets
Unit IV: Electromagnetic radiation, interaction of EMR with the earth’s atmosphere and surface; satellite image acquisition, remote sensing sensors and platforms, image geometry, scale, and resolution; visual interpretation, principles of digital image processing, application of remote sensing in environmental management, concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
ES 203: Environmental Pollution & Abatement MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Sources of environmental pollution, issues and challenges of environmental pollution control measures, water, soil and air pollutions at local, national and global levels, awareness campaigns and people’s involvement in pollution control, waste management laws.
Unit II: Solid waste and soil pollution management, waste monitoring, management of hazardous and non hazardous solid waste, domestic waste and its management, processing and disposal of municipal and medical wastes, hazardous waste treatment process, potential emergency, control measures of pollutants.
Unit III: Air pollution and its control, indoor and outdoor air pollutants, particulate emission control, control of gaseous emissions, control of pollutant from vehicle.
Unit IV: Sludge traeatment and disposal, management of agricultural waste, industrial waste and its management, xenobiotic compounds and their management.
ES 204: Water Quality Management MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Sources of water and waste water, hydrological cycle, water budget, usage of water, precipitation index, water pollutants and contaminants, issues of health and safety
Unit II: Qualitative determinants of water and waste water, bacteriological analysis, biotic index bioindicators, eutrophication,BOD,COD and bioaccumulation and biomagnification
Unit III: Concept of pure aqua, water quality standards, water sampling techniques, industrial and domestic waste water, treatment methods, ETP design and function, water borne diseases and control
Unit IV: Marine pollution, sources, factors responsible for marine pollution, effect of marine pollution on sea biosphere, major marine pollution episodes e.g minimata & gulfwar, measures for control of marine pollution.

Semester III
ES-301: Toxicology and Occupational health hazards MM 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Principles and mechanisms of toxicity, xenobiotic pathways, process of biotransformation and bioactivation, toxicity of chemical substances viz hydrocarbons, metals, minerals and their effects on living being, dose response curve.
Unit-II: Target and nontarget organ toxicity, hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, respirotoxicity
Unit III: Immunotoxicity, carcingenecity, mutagenicity, system toxicity, genetic and reproductive toxicity embryotoxicity, foelotoxicity, teratogeneticity
Unit IV: Occupational exposure, risks of hazardous substances and potential health hazards, occupational diseases, occupational and industrial hygiene and hazards control
ES-302 Stress Biology MM:100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit-I: Concept of environmental Stress, signating molecules and mechanism of signal transduction, membrane dynamics and cellular responses under high temperature and freezing stresses, stress induced synthesis of heat shock proteins.
Unit-II: Effects of oxidative stress and oxygen radicals, Plants response to U.V and high light stresses, Antioxidative defense mechanism and photoadaptations of photosynthetic machinery.
Unit-III: Cellular response of plants to salinity, osmotic and drought stresses, Molecular basis of stress tolerance & osmoregulations, role of some common and specific stress proteins.
Unit-IV: Cellular response to nutritional stress(N, P,C,Ca,and Fe deficiencies) in olants and adaptions strategy against nutrient deficiency, physiology response to heavy metal (Ni,Co, Mn, Cu, cd, Pb and Hg ) toxicity, general defense strategy of the cells, role of metallothiones and phytochelatins.
ES 303: Environmental Biotechnology M.M 100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
UNIT-I: Biotechnology in environmental management; concepts and areas of concern, tools and techniques in biotechnology, gene and genome; concepts, organization and analysis, mutants, recombinant DNA technology, immobilization of biomolecules and cells.
UNIT-II: Degradive plasmids, genetic transformation in microbes, ribosomal RNA based identification of microbes, microbial polymers and plastics, concepts of bioremediation and application of microbes in remediation of inorganic, organic and gaseous pollutants, concepts of biogas and bioenergy.
UNIT-III: Plant cell and tissue culture technology, Plasticity and Totipotency, The culture requirements, Plant cell culture media, Culture types, In vitro regeneration pathways: organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis, Establishments of plantlets into soil, Acclimatization and hardening, cell suspension culture
UNIT-IV: Micropropagation and clonal propagation, Plant cell and tissue culture in forestry, In vitro conservation of germplasm, gene bank, basic concepts and techniques for plant transformation, clean gene technology.
ES –304 Environmental Management & EIA MM100 Time: 03 hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit-I: Concept of environmental management, monitoring and analysis of environmental degradation, biosphere, conservation and ecotourism, conservation of cultural heritage, organic farming, waste land reclamation.
Unit-II: Concept of sustainable environment, concept and strategies of sustainable development, cost benefit analysis, restoration and rehabilitation technologies, and green belt designing
Unit III: Basic concept of environment impact assessment (EIA), concept of screening and scooping, baseline information and predictions (land, water & atmosphere), EIA guidelines 1994, notification of government of India, impact assessment methodologies, procedure for reviewing environmental impact analysis
Unit-IV: Concept of Environmental Auditing (EA), Environmental impact statement (EIS) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP)

Semester IV
Specialization –I: Environmental Biotechnology (EB)
ES 401-EB Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Development MM 100 Time : 03hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Plant genomes: the organization and expression of plant genes, proteomics, transgenic plants: production strategies and evaluation of transgenic status, transgenic plants for sustainable environment, environmental concerns about GM plants, The regulation of GM crops and products, ‘greener’ genetic engineering.
Unit-II: Somaclonal variation, cell selection and genotype improvements, somatic hybrids and cybrids, In vitro haploid plant production, herbicide resistant transgenics and threats of ‘super weeds’.
Unit-III: Transgenic plants for insect and disease resistance: current status and environmental concerns, strategies for engineering environmental stress tolerance in plants, phytoremediation for environmental clean up, phytomining of precious metals.
Unit–IV: Plants as bioreactor, biopharming / molecular pharming, biofuels and energy crops, nanotechnology in environmental management, biosensors, slow release fertilizers and pesticides.
ES 402-EB Microbial technology & Environment MM 100 Time : 03hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit- I: Physical, chemical and biological properties of waste, sources and generation of solid wastes, their characterization and classification, composting and land fills, biomethanation, microbiology of waste degradation compost, risk assessment of hazardous substances, occupational health hazards, microbiological and public health aspects of waste disposal.
Unit II: Concept of bioremediation, bio augmentation, types of bioremediation, biodegradtion and bioconversion of organic wastes,bioremediation of metals and oil spills, biorecovery of metals, biomining: bioleaching, biosorption, biosorbent microbial groups.
Unit III: Treatment of waste water from pulp and paper, tanning, distilling, dye, antibiotic, petroleum and dairy industries, controlling acidic mine drainage.
Unit IV: Mutants and genetically modified microbes in environmental clean up, gene transfer in environment, GEMs and environmental concerns, GEMs and biosafety, vermiculture, mushroom cultivation.

Semester IV
Specialization-II Environmental Management & EIA
ES 401- EMEIA Environmental Impact Assessment & Management MM 100 Time : 03hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other seven questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: EIA approach, principles and methodologies, Biodiversity Impact Assessment (BIA), Social Impact Assessment (SIA), Cost-Benefit Analysis, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), procedure for reviewing environmental impact analysis and statements
Unit II: The principles and practice of environmental auditing, objectives, procedures & benefits, environmental auditing as a management tool, ISO 14001 series, environment labeling, concepts of lifecycle analysis (LCA) and risk assessment
Unit III: Concept of environmental justice and jurisprudence, various Indian laws and acts related to prevention and control of pollution, international environmental agreements, conventions and protocols
Unit IV: Energy scenario in India, Sources of conventional and nonconventional energy energy crisis with future policies and prospects
ES 402- EMEIA Environmental Economics & Ecoplanning MM 100 Time : 03hrs
Note: Out of 08 Question set, 5 questions are to be attempted by the students. Question 1 will be compulsory and will consist five to ten small questions representing the entire syllabus. Other 7 questions will be set from different units maintaining at least one Questions from each unit. All questions will carry equal marks.
Unit I: Economic Development, and Sustainable Development, Measurement of Environmental Values, Valuation Methods, The Theory of Environmental Policy, Environmental Externalities, Pigovian Taxes and Subsidies, Intergenerational Well being and Equity, SD Indicators, NRA.
Unit II: Economics of Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development, Theories of Optimal Use of Exhaustible and Renewable Resources, Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting in the measurement of Environmentally Corrected GDP, Concept of Natural Capital and Sustainability
Unit III: Interrelation between Population, Development and Environment, Industrial Structure and Economic Growth, Pattern of Industrialization- Public and Private; Large and Small Industries, Theories of Industrial Location- Indian Experience.
Unit IV: Concept of Ecoplanning, Ecological approach to Landscape Planning, Landuse Policy for India, Concept of Urban and Periurban Planning, Rural Planning, Land Use Pattern, Macroeconomic Policies and Environment, New Agricultural Policy, New Industrial Policy and Liberalization, Policies for sustainable resource management.

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Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226025

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18th March 2020, 03:05 PM
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Re: Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Msc

The process to check the result From the official website of the University is as follows:

Go to the Official website of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University



Then click on tab Program Section

Click on M. Sc

Then a new page will open look like image



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Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University,
(A Central University)
Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road, Lucknow - 226025
Toll Free: 1800-180-5789
Fax 1: +91-522-2440821


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