Basanti Devi College

Basanti Devi College as an institution of higher education.The College was founded on 5th august 1959.This is one of the earliest girl's college in Calcutta.The College named after the great Indian patriotic leader Desbandhu Chittaranjan Das's wife "Basanti Devi". Basanti Devi College Kolkata is a premier college offering undergraduate courses for decades. It's a girls' college affiliated to the University of Calcutta. Basanti Devi Girls College was founded on 5th August 1959.Named after Basanti Devi the wife of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, and an eminent woman nationalist leader, Basanti Devi College was established in August 1959, with the mission of empowerment of women. It is the first sponsored girls’ college by the Government of West Bengal under scheme 2F of the UGC.

Basanti Devi College of today is a premier girls’ college, advantageously situated in the busy commercial locality of Gariahat, the heart of South Calcutta. Being very close to Ballygunge Railway Station, a junction station of Sealdah South Section , the College is close to the gateway of the rural district of South 24-Parganas. The College thus has the advantage of catering the students from the highly urban areas of Kolkata as well as the remote rural areas of outskirts. A large fraction of our students from the rural areas come from the economically weaker agricultural families, scheduled caste and tribe and other minorities familiesand also from other backward classes.

Basanti Devi College Contact
147b, Rashbehari Avenue
Kolkata
West Bengal
700029

Phone No. - 033-4641012.

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