Ananda Chandra Dutta (8 February 1923 – 16 January 2016) was an Indian

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

Ananda Chandra Dutta felicitated at Jorhat
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Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. He was born at Chekonidhara village of

Jorhat Jorhat ( /) is a major city in Upper Assam division, Upper Assam and among the fastest growing urban centres in the state of Assam in India. Etymology Jorhat ("jor" means twin and "hat" means market) means two hats or mandis - "Masorhaat" and ...

. He started his career as a teacher in Mariani Middle English High School in 1944–45 and then joined the

Tocklai Tea Research Institute The Tocklai Tea Research Institute (formerly Tocklai Experimental Station) of Tea Research Association (TRA) is an Indian prime tea research institute for the development of tea and its agricultural practices located in Jorhat, Assam, India. Fou ...

in 1947. Dutta played a major role in the establishment of a tea museum at

in 1977. He has also prepared a list of 10,000 trees for the Tocklai herbarium. He was awarded ''Degree of Doctor of Science'' by

Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh University is a Collegiate University, collegiate public state university in the Indian state of Assam. It is the second oldest University in Assam and in North East India. It is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universitie ...

. He died on 16 January 2016 at his own residence in Jorhat.

Life and work

# Started his career in 1944–45 as a teacher at Mariani ME School . # On 8 February 1947 he joined at Tocklai Experimental Station as Junior Scientific Assistant and retired on 31 March 1983. # Appointed in

Assam Agricultural University Assam Agricultural University (AAU) is an agricultural education state university (India), state university which was established on 1 April 1969 in Jorhat in the state of Assam, India. The jurisdiction of the university extends to the entire ...

as Audio Visual Aid Assistant on 1 April 1983 & continued till Dec 1986. # Appointed as Photographer at Titabor Sericulture farm for one year (1987–88). # Established a full-fledged Tea Museum at Tocklai Experimental station. # Reappointed at Tocklai Experimental Station for one year (1990–91) to prepare the Herbarium Index. # Appointed as Manager of Gymkhana Club, Jorhat from Aug 1991 to April 1994.

Expertise

# Resource person as Plant Identifier. # Tea taxonomy & related works. # Tea Morphology, anatomy, cytology etc.

Published books

# Some Common Weeds of the T.E. in NE India. # Some Shade Trees, Green crop & Cover Crop Plants in the T.E. of N.E. India. # Photography (1980) : This is the first book about photography published in

Assamese language Assamese () or Asamiya ( ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a ''lingua franca'' in parts of Northeast India."Axomiya is the major langu ...

. # Dictionary of Economic and Medical Plants (1985) # Bonoushdhir Goon Aaru Rug Arugyo (2003) (in Assamese) # Asomor Gos Gosoni (1st Part) (in Assamese) # Udbhid Upadan (2004)(1st Part) (in Assamese)

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News item published in Hindustantimes
20th-century Indian botanists 1923 births 2016 deaths People from Jorhat district Scientists from Assam {{India-botanist-stub