page_title: Devendra Prasad Gupta
section_title: Professional life
hierarchical_section_title: Devendra Prasad Gupta / Professional life
caption_attribution_description: English: Gupta at 3rd International Verticillium Symposium, University of Bari, Italy 1981
context_page_description: Devendra Prasad Gupta was an Indian pre-democratic political sufferer, botanist and academician.
context_section_description: Gupta is former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University. He strived for upliftment of local tribes and backward class, under his advise there was establishment of backward class student union. He commenced his academic career as demonstrator (August 1953 – August 1956) and went up to post graduate lecturer (September 1956 – March 1970), reader (April 1970 – January 1984), university professor (February 1984 to till death), principle (June 1983 – January 1986) under Indian University. Gupta along with two professors co-founded and instituted special branch of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in Ranchi University, PG Department of Botany, currently operating under Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences.
  He was associated with many International conventions such as First International Congress of Plant Pathology, held in Imperial College London, International Conference of Phytochemical Society, held in University of Hull, Scarborough, England and many others, exhaustive. He was one of the contributors from India who took part in the deliberation of the 3rd International Symposium on verticillium held on August 1981 in Bari, Italy.
  He was ex-councillor of Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi and former member of Bihar Intermediate Education Council, India.
  After retirement he served DPG-VeC. Genetics & Life Science, Nicaragua as a President and Bethany University, Scotts Valley, California, U.S. with other research universities/institutions as an academician and researcher.
caption: Gupta at 3rd International Verticillium Symposium, University of Bari, Italy 1981
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