Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara, Nepal

Department of Botany

The Institute of Science & Technology at PN Campus was started in the year 2025 BS. In the same year, the Department of Biology was established in PN Campus and Dr. Radheshyam Kayasthya was the Chairman until 2037 BS. From 2038 BS to 2044 BS, Prakash Jung Shah was appointed as the Chairman of the Department of Biology.

In 2045 BS, the B.Sc programme was launched for the first time in the campus. The Department of Biology was separated into two departments: the Department of Botany and Department of Zoology. The Department of Botany was then headed by Dr. Kayastha till 2060 BS. After that, Govinda Prasad Paudyal served as Head of the department. Now, the Department of Microbiology has also been kept under the Department of Botany and is headed by Prof. Dr. Chandra Bahadur Thapa.

Initially, the faculty members who worked together with the Department of Biology were Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Usha Budathoki, Ram Kumar Gupta, Geeta Rajbhandri, Sudha Sharma, Rajendra Kumar Batajoo, Ram Prasad Rauniyar, Lalit Narayan Mandar and Laxmi Shrestha.

Contact
Narayan Datta Bastakoti
Head
Department of Botany
Institute of Science and Technology
Prithvi Narayan Campus (Tribhuvan University)
Bhimkali Patan, Bagar
Pokhara, Nepal
Email: narayan.bastakoti@prnc.tu.edu.np

The Faculty Members Directory

S.No.NameTitleAdmin TitleCV
1. Om Prasad Dwa Associate Professor
2. Shanti Devi Shakya Associate Professor
3. Narayan Dutta Bastakoti Lecturer Dept. Head
4. Dr. Babu Ram Poudel Lecturer
5. Kalyan Panta Lecturer
6. Hom Nath Pathak Lecturer
7. Bishnu Prasad Parajuli Lecturer
8. Hari Lal Upadhyay Teaching Assistant
9. Shusma Sharma Adjunct Faculty
10. Til Kumari Chhetri Adjunct Faculty
11. Suraj Raj Adhikari Adjunct Faculty
12. Shova Baral Adjunct Faculty
13. Bimal Bahadur Kunwar Adjunct Faculty
14. Mandhata Acharya Adjunct Faculty
15. Radhika Sapkota Adjunct Faculty