Bikali College

Author name: Bikali College

Jugal Kishore Talukdar, Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology and Research Scholar, Department of Zoology, Bhattadev University on initiating the first bat museum in Northeast India by a university at Bhattadev University which was inaugurated on 29th January 2026. Shri Talukdar submitted a total of 32 bat specimen from his PhD research work. Till date, such bat repositories exist only in Zoological Survey of India at Kolkata and Shillong making this a unique academic milestone.

Dr. Nishant Kashyap Ghatowar, Librarian & Jitumoni Das, Assistant Librarian, Central Library Bikali College was awarded Best Paper Award at the I-KOAL 2026 in a conference themed Preserving Traditional Agriculture Knowledge via Digital Rural Libraries: Integrated Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) for Sustainable Growth and Viksit Bharat 2047 held on 30-31 January 2026 at Rajiv Gandhi University for their paper titled Ontology Development of Indigenous Farm Equipment of the Mising Community of Assam, India co-authored with Shekhar Jyoti Neog and Jitumoni Das.