About the Department
The Department of Biotechnology was established in the year 2009 in S.V. Arts College, Tirupati with the combination of Biotechnology, Botany and Computer Science named as B. Sc. (BBCs). The course was recognised by the S.V. University, Tirupati and started with 30 students. Sri. Jayarama Prasad, (Rtd.)(2009-2010) Lecturer in Zoology was the first Head of the Department of Biotechnology (I/C) and charge handed over to Dr. M. Vani M.Sc, Ph.D (2010-2012) and Dr.P. Nagaraju, Lecturer in Botany (2012-2014) was handed over the charge from Dr. M. Vani. Since 2014 the department is being headed by Dr. P. Munilakshmi, Lecturer in Zoology.
Due to non-beneficial occurrences of BBCs course by S.V. University, the combination of BBCs had been converted into BBC (Biotechnology, Botany, Chemistry) in the academic year 2012-2013 with 30 students. It is one of the platform to join in Medical Biotechnology and Medical Microbiology and related courses in AIMS, SVIMS, VIMS like National Institutions and B.Ed. courses. It is running successfully till to date.