(i) Industrial Fish & Fisheries:

The Industrial Fish & Fisheries, a vocational course for entrepreneurship development, was introduced with UGC assistance in 1995 in Pragiyotish College for the first time in the N.E. Region in India. As per UGC guide lines, it has been attached to the Dept. of Zoology and the teachers from the core department have extended their valuable service along with the part-time teachers. The department has been run successfully for the last 12 years. Many students who have passed examinations with this subject have already developed their own entrepreneurship.

There is an aquarium manufacturing unit in the Dept. of IFF, which has supplied aquariums to the Principal and many other faculty members.

The Dept of IFF has introduced a Two-month diploma course in Aquarium manufacturing and Maintenance.

(ii) Functional English :

The Department of Functional English, which is attached to the core Department of English, is funded by the University Grants Commission for the introduction of FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH as a vocational subject at the First Degree Level in Pragiyotish College. Functional English, a job-oriented course, is designed to provide learners with fundamental training in effective writing, speaking and presentation for specific cimmunicative purposes. Its primary objective is to motivate undergraduate learners to explore promising avenues of self-employment and entrepreneurship in the fast changing economic scenario in India. After successful completion of the course, the enterprising learners will be able to vigorously pursue careers such as (i) Receptionist, (ii) Salesman, (iii) Private Tutor in Conversational English, (iv) Travel Agent, (v) Tourist Guide, (vi) Air Hostess, (vii) Announcer, (viii) Radio or TV News Reader, (ix) Radio or TV Commentator, (x) Eompere, (xi) Reporter, etc.) or any careers the demand effective communicative skills in English.

The Department of Functional English has a small well-stocked library, language laboratory with audio-visual aids such as a high quality Multimedia Computer with recording facilities, a very high quality music system-cum-taoe recorder, a printer-cum-copier-cum-scanner and a good number of recorded texts in the form of cassettes and C.D.s.

Functional English can be opted for as one of the elective subjects. In addition to this, the Department of Functional English will conduct the following crash courses: (i) Spoken English, (ii) Translation and Creative Writing, and (iii) Remedial English Grammar (iv) English for Job Seekers.

These courses are open to any learner of any institution. The learners have to pay fees for each course.

Moreover, for the benefit of the students of Pragyotish College the department organizes the following activities: (i) group discussion, (ii) debating, (iii) mock interview, (iv) mock press conference, (v) mock Parliament session, etc.

(iii) Tourism and Travel Management :

This is a three-year vocational course which may be offered by a student as one of his/her optional subjects.

(iv) Computer Course:

Pragiyotish College aims at hundred percent computer literacy in the college. Apart from Computer Science as an elective subject, the college has introduced a couple of crash courses for basic computer education. Moreover, students having some computer background may avail themselves of advance courses in computer science. Students will have to pay extra fee of Rs. 500/- for a three-months certificate course in computer basics and multilingual technology.

(v) Information Technology:

This course was introduced in the last academic session and receives tremendous response from the students.

(vi) Biotechnology (Subject to approval of G.U.)

(vii) New programmes

(i) BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration).

(ii) BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) beginning from 2006.

(iii) PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application) - Diploma Course.

REMEDIAL COURSES

Remedial crash courses in some selected subject will be conducted in Pragiyotish College especially for SC and ST students. General category students can also get the benefit of the courses.