The Department is recognised and funded by UGC to conduct a Post Graduate Diploma in Geomatics, under Innovative Programme Scheme (Period 2005-2010). The UGC has also identified this Department under Special Assistance Programme (SAP) - Departmental Research Support (DRS - I) to concentrate its research in the frontier areas like Climatic Change, Terrain Analysis and Disaster Studies (Period 2009-2014).
1. UGC Innovative Programme: PG Diploma in Geomatics
Coordinator: Prof. A. Ganesh
2. UGC-SAP-DRS I
Coordinator: Prof. K. Kumaraswamy
Deputy Coordinator: Prof. A. Ganesh
National Seminar on Frontier Areas of Research and Teaching in Geosciences February 26 – 28, 2010
National Seminar on Application of Geomatics in Climatology March, 25 – 26, 2010