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Ramnarain Ruia college was established in 1937. Chemistry department of the college was established along with the inception of the college. It is one of the oldest and has been the biggest department of the college.It was also one of the first few departments to start postgraduate courses as early as 1950, in the first decade of the establishment of the college. It is the first department of the college to start doctoral degree courses with research in Organic Chemistry. Dr. Bhave being the pioneer in the field. Since then research has always been forte of the Department of Chemistry. Department was always fortunate to get research guides in the field of Organic and Analytical Chemistry who carved a niche for themselves.Department of Chemistry had always been at the forefront in the running of the regular academic programmes and always eager to execute a new discipline like PG course in Analytical Chemistry in 1973, and activity like conducting Refresher Courses for teachers on behalf of the Academic Staff College in the last decade of the last century or may be an activity like conducting Intercollegiate Students Festival with competitions like presentation of a topic , Chemquiz that provided platform to the students to exhibit their prowess in the subject and compete with others for now almost a quarter of a century starting from late nineties. Holding of workshops and seminars for teachers and students has been a routine feature of the department .The department being the largest ,always had a major share of all the grants that the college received like through UGC the five year plan or special grants like the STAR college grant from Dept of Biotechnology or the grants for the college being chosen as the college with Potential for Excellence or college with Excellence. All these grants have helped the department in equipping it with the state of the art instruments from time to time. P S Ramanathan Instrumentation Centre has been a unique feature of the department. Established in 2011 it boosts of all high end use instruments like GC, GC-MS, HPTLC, HPLC, AAS, DSC and FTIR, The centre has been training teachers and students on the instruments carrying out research projects of the students and the scholars and doing analysis for the industry.With the advent of the ICT the department has prepared several online teaching programmes. Use of computer technology has been effectively done in the preparation of videos making students aware of the aspects like lab safety and teaching of different practical techniques.The department has provided fourPrincipals to the College,a large number to other colleges as Principal in the city of Mumbai and a Vice Chancellor to the University of Mumbai.

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