The department of chemistry in the St. Xavier’s College, Simdega is one of the newest departments established in the academic year 2025-26. The Department believes in Holistic development of learner through academic excellence, employability, acquisition of analytical skills and higher research. The Department has highly qualified, young and dynamic faculty in various fields of Sciences. The thrust area in Chemistry include Green Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Advanced controlled drug delivery systems, Nanocomposites, Physiochemical studies of biomolecules etc.
The department is growing everyday with updating infrastructural, teaching and research facilities. Most of the departmental faculty members are involved in research activities which further enriching the department in every passing days. In the coming year department has a plan to grow more in the direction of research and development both in basic as well as in applied areas of chemical sciences.