Each student will have to give one seminar in each semester, with 40 marks for internal / in-class assessment and 40 marks for seminar paper submitted to the Department (hard copy) with incorporations from class discussions. Illustrations in the form of computer generated maps, diagrams, tables and graphs must be encouraged.

Towards improving professionalism among the students, 3 in-class workshops with one in each of the first three semesters may be included / encouraged. The workshops will be run for the students by the students themselves, with faculty engaged in assessing the students’ performances. The workshops will have different disaster management themes, with paper presentations, workshop exercises and even brainstorming sessions or focus group workshops, for generating strategies in respect of themes.


Besides, one assignment to each semester on any topic of one of the subjects being taught during each semester and the students will have to write a term paper for writing skills. These may also be assessed for internal assessment.


The students admitted in the SIT for DM program must submit an individual PROJECT REPORT on Remote Sensing/ GIS/ GPS technologies for a social as well as disaster related problems. They have to prepare a project report that should contain problem, objectives, methodology, analysis and conclusions with digital maps and work for the entire fourth semester period and submits the report at the end of the semester. The total number of pages should not exceed 25 pages including maps, pictures, tables and charts for each project. The total project mark to be awarded is 300 (180 marks for external and 120 for internal). An external examiner to be appointed to conduct the viva-voce examination, individually at the end of practical examination, will award the external marks.