Nalbari Law College, Nalbari

About Nalbari Law College, Nalbari

Nalbari Law College is one of the premier institution for legal education in Assam. It was established on 01/11/1981 at Nalbari, the then sub-divisional headquarter of the Nalbari sub-division of Kamrup district. Nalbari Law College is the only centre for advanced legal studies covering the entire Nalbari and Baksa districts, located in the south to the Nalbari town. It has been imparting quality education since its inception. A good number of alumni have been rendering their services to the nation at their different capacities.

The people of the district felt necessity of a law college in the year 1978. A meeting was held on 23rd July 1978 under Presidentship of Late Prabhat Narayan Choudhury in Mahendra Narayan Chaudhury Girls School. In the meeting a unanimous decision was taken to establish a Law College in the area and a committee was constituted to materialize the object. A working committee was constituted in the general meeting held on 27th March 1980. An executive committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Late Surendra Nath Sarma. On 19th May 1981 application was submitted to Gauhati University for permission to begin preliminary classes of LLB in the academic year 1981-82 with copy to Bar Councial of India.

At the beginning the preliminary LLB classes were held in Nalbari Satra MV School, Nalbari. Three daughters of hon’ble social worker Late Adyanath Sarma of Nalbari donated in the name of their father a land measuring 4 bighas to the Nalbari Law College at Adya Bharati Nagar, Nalbari Town on 17th July 1982. Accordingly permanent building was constructed and the Law College was shifted to its own land in 1982.

Nalbari Law College has the vision to offer the quality legal education and to generate legal experts for the services to the nation. Law is no longer confined to its traditional paradigm of being identified as a mere discourse which controls external human conducts and ensures social justice.