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EMRC, 50 Circus Avenue, Kolkata 700 017. Ph. 91-33-22874869 Fax. 91-33-2289-1373

EMRC St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata is part of a large family of EMRCs spread across India. This family has in fact 18 members, including the head office at New Delhi. The other members are at Srinagar, Roorkee, Patiala, Jodhpur, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Sagar, Imphal, Pune, Mysore, Chennai, Madurai, Calicut and two at Hyderabad.

All the centres come under the purview of the university of that particular place. In Hyderabad one is with the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) and the other is with Osmania University. It is only the Kolkata EMRC that comes under the purview of St. Xavier’s college.

All funding – both for running expenses and equipment – comes from the University Grants Commission. The coordination of production, telecast and other programme related affairs is done by the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), New Delhi. The administration is done by the host university/college.



Exploring Our Land

Duration : 20:57     Year : 1988     Code No.634

This programme brings home to the viewers the wealth of richness from rocks, minerals, soil, forest, water and other resources. One of the earliest programmes produced by EMRC, EXPLORING OUR LAND sensitises the viewer so that nature is taken care of rather than plundered. As nature affects us we affect nature as well.

Plant Fossils - 1: Nature's Own Museum

Duration : 25:34     Year : 1990     Code No.682

This is a very useful series of 5 programmes dealing with Plant Fossils. The discovery of plant fossils has led to some startling conclusions about the evolution of life on earth. Plants have multiplied and diversified over millions of years from the Precambrian era onwards. Scientists have found fossil evidence to support the diversification sequence. Plants have been preserved by Nature in many different ways. Some of these methods are recreated in the laboratory.

Plant Fossils - 2: A Study Of Nature's Museum

Duration : 16:00     Year : 1990     Code No.287

Plant fossils reveal the entire history of plant evolution. For this, they have to be carefully studied and analysed. This part of the series demonstrates some of the laboratory techniques, which undergraduate students should know, such as maceration, the peel technique and the thin section technique.

Plant Fossils - 3: The Evolution From Algae To Angiosperms

Duration : 16:58     Year : 1990     Code No.294

Through a study of plant fossils we learn about the evolution of plants, right from the earliest algae, to the present day angiosperm. In this part, we briefly examine the different features of land plants, which have evolved over time - such as roots, leaves, spores and pollen grains.

Plant Fossils – 4: Biospheres Of The Past

Duration : 13:44     Year : 1990     Code No.296

The biosphere of any ecosystem is continuously changing. The plant fossil is one of the major indicators of these changes. For example, the biosphere around Calcutta is very different from what it was 6,500 years ago. Plant and animal fossils that were discovered in and around Calcutta indicate that this entire area was once under the sea.

Plant Fossil - 5: The Moving Biospheres Of The Moving Continents

Duration : 16:53     Year :1990     Code No.297

There have been many changes in the geological history of our planet. Much of the information about the movements of the continents and their biospheres comes from plant fossils. Some of the major indicators of the changes are coal, petroleum, stromatolities and angiosperm plants.
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