Biswatosh Sengupta (born 11 September 1944) is an Indian academic. He is the fourth son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta.

Education

Sengupta had done B.Sc. Honors in Mathematics from Calcutta University, 1966. Obtained Certificate in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

from

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta C ...

(ISI) in the same year. After that he had done master's degree in Statistics (M. Stat) from ISI, 1969 and in also did Post Graduate Diploma in

Demography Demography () is the statistics, statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and Population dynamics, dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups ...

from ISI and Summer Course on

Population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

from East-West Centre,

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, United States and Korean Institute of family planning,

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, in 1974 with special Workshop on Demographic Survey Research Methods. He also took In-service training course on Management and Planning of Environment from Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Govt. of

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

in 1985. He did Post Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing in English (DCE) in 1995, Diploma in Computer in Office Management (DCO) in 1998 and Master in Computer Application (MCA) in the year 2006 from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He was also trained on Geographic Information System (GIS) from ATI in August, 2004. Recently in 2010, he completed the Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Appreciation of Indian Art’, from the

Ramakrishna Mission Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the ''Ramakrishna Movement'' or the ''Vedanta Movement''. The mission is named after and inspired by th ...

Institute of Culture, Kolkata.''2nd Solo Exhibition on Graphic Art'', Booklet 2010 : by Samir Bhattacharya

Career

Biswatosh was the Additional Director-in-Charge in Socio-Economic Planning and Appraisal Maintaining Evaluation in

Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) in the state of West Bengal, India. The organisation used to be known as Calcutta Metropolitan Developm ...

(KMDA), Salt Lake. He retired from there on 30 September 2004. His specializations are Statistics, Demography, Planning and

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. At present he is working as Professor in Information Technology and Head of the Department of BCA in B P Poddar Institute of Management & Technology situated in Kolkata.

Work

He was a former member, University Grant Commission Curriculum Development Committee for Visual Art. Honorary Joint Secretary, Photographic Association of Dum Dum (PAD) since 1973 and editor of IMAGE, a publication of PAD since 1974. He was also an ex-member of working group on Perspective Plan for Calcutta Metropolitan Area(CMA), State Planning Board, Government of West Bengal and initially he was associated with the Calcutta Fertility Survey of ISI, 1970–72 and later associated with the Socio-Economic Survey of KMDA (formerly CMDA), 1996.

Awards and distinctions

He was awarded AFIAP distinction for outstanding contribution in the field of Fine art photography in 1975 and ESFIAP for Excellent Service for the cause of International Photography in 1985 by the

Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, or FIAP (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art), is an international organization of national associations of photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of ...

. He was conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The National Photographic Art Society Sri Lanka in 1984. Very recent Bangladesh Photographic Society conferred Fellowship to Sengupta.

Exhibition

First

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on paintings with computer graphics ‘Graphic Art’ using ‘ C’ and ‘ C++’ held at

Indian Museum The Indian Museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India, also referred to as the Imperial Museum at Calcutta in colonial-era texts, is the ninth oldest museum in the world, the oldest and largest museum in India as well as in Asia. It has rare ...

, Kolkata in 2009. The second solo exhibition on the same title with similar technique was held at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, from 22 – 28 July 2010''2nd Solo Exhibition on Graphic Art'', Booklet 2010
and the third solo exhibition on Graphic Art using c, c++ and

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation ...

was held at the same gallery of Kolkata from 3–9 October 2012. His 4th solo exhibition on Creative Photography will be held on 11 December 2013 for three days at the Gaganendra Silpa Pradarshasala, Kolkata .

Published work

* *Co-author of ''Learn Photography'' and ''Experimental Photography'', published by Photographic Association of Dum Dum.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sengupta, Biswatosh Indian statisticians Scientists from Kolkata 1944 births Living people University of Calcutta alumni Indira Gandhi National Open University alumni AFIAP