The seed of the department was sown in 1962 when Statistics was introduced as a special paper at the post graduate level in the Department of Mathematics. Realizing its widespread applications and importance, Statistics was given full status in 1973 and M.Sc. Mathematical Statistics was offered as a two-year –degree course. Growing number of students and research fellows necessitated the creation of independent department and thus, in 1985 the department of Mathematics was bifurcated and the department of Statistics and O.R. became a full-fledged department. The Department besides running regular M.Sc. (Statistics) course under NEP-2020 also offers Ph.D. in Statistics.  The thrust areas of research in the department includes Reliability Modeling and Analysis, Stochastic Process, Fuzzy Theory, Optimization Techniques and Theory of Queues.