In 2017 the Institute has started its Science Program under the banner of School of Sciences with M.Sc program under Berhampur University. In 2018 it also got the affiliation for B. Sc. courses.

With a conspicuous beginning in the Core building, the new laboratories, class rooms, and library were designed by the visionary faculty team. The research activities gradually increased, and the department attained formidable reputation for the effort of its teacher and its finest teaching in the state of Odisha.

The Teaching on Engineering Chemistry started at NIST from the inception in 1996 and was confined in the first year of B.Tech sullabus only. In 2016 Engineering Chemistry has been changed to Applied Chemistry with change in the earlier syllabus of first year B.Tech Under Bijupattnaik university of Technology. In 2017 the institute started with M.Sc chemistry and in 2018 B.Sc.(honors) programmes under Berhampur University and chemistry teaching extended for 2yrs M.Sc and 3yr B.Sc courses. With a conspicuous beginning in the Core building, the new laboratories, class rooms, and library were designed by the visionary faculty team. The research activities gradually increased, and the department attained formidable reputation for the effort of integrating chemistry in electronics and its finest teaching in the state of Odisha. With an advent of the new era of materials and the young and energetic faculty members, the department is marching forward in newer areas of research and teaching.

Vision:

1. The vision of the Department of chemistry is well known for its excellence in teaching and research.
2. The faculty members of the department are engaged in state of the art research as well as guiding the Ph.D., M. Sc. Students..

Mission:

1. The department has made great strides by conducting regular seminar and conferences and the students have exposed of writing scientific journal paper, Project and also develop communication skill.
2. Collaborative research programmes with many research laboratories and research institutes in India and abroad are also operating very successfully with mutual benefit.

To explore and extend high standards in teaching pedagogy. A variety of objectives are designed such as:

1. To develop the sprit of enquiry.
2. To assimilate education and research by incorporating recent discoveries, modern techniques into the curriculum.
3. To encourage inter-disciplinary thinking by providing students with educational and research opportunities.

HOD:

Dr. Duryodhan Sahu has completed M.Sc in Organic chemistry from Berhampur University then he did Ph.D at National Chiao-Tung Univiersity, Taiwan, in the year 2010. After Ph.D. he went for postdoctoral research at Research centre for applied sciences Academia Sinica, Taiwan in the year 2010-2011. He has published 17 International journals with SCI impact factor and has 491 citations with H-Index 11. He is the Co-PI of UKIERI project and also visited Brunel University, London as a visiting researcher in the year 2016. His research expertise covers wide areas including Organic solar cell, Nanocomposites for electro-optical applications, synthesis of polymeric materials and characterization etc. He has 12 years of research and Teaching experiences both in India and abroad.