Anugrah Narayan College, Patna

About Anugrah Narayan College, Patna

Anugrah Narayan College, is a constituent unit of Magadh University Bodh Gaya. It was established in the year 1956 and is situated in Patna, the capital city of Bihar,India. It bears the pious name of reverend leader Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, popularly known as "Babu Sahab", whose patriotism dauntless spirit and progressive ideas have been source of inspiration for the college. Since its inception, the college has grown remarkably and through the various ramifications serving the cause of education in different ways. It has emerged as one of the premier co-educational institutions of the state of Bihar imparting teachings to almost nine thousand students. A. N. College is most centrally located in Patna at a distance of about 4Kms from the railway station and from the airport. The college compound is situated on 13 acres of land in the posh locality of Patna on the main Boring-Patliputra road. There are 13 separate blocks for housing 19 post graduate and 22 under graduate departments. In addition to this, there is a central library block, an examination hall, a canteen, a hostel, a playground, sprawling gardens and plenty of open space.

History of A.N.College

Drawing inspiration from sagacious leader of Bihar Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, the college was established in January 1956, at Patna High School as Gardanibagh Tutorial College, to be run in the evening shift with an objective to facilitate academic pursuits of employees working in various departments during day time and subsequently the college was renamed as Anugrah Narayan College (A.N. College)Patna. In1959, the college was shifted to Anisabad in a rental building. The first principal of the college was Dr. Gorak Nath Sinha , a great economist and contemporary officer of Dr. Hicks, a nobel laureate in Economics.

On the personal initiatives of Bihar Vibhuti Anugrah Babu , Patna Improvement Trust provided 19 acres of land to this present site but later on some of the lands were released back to farmers and eventually the college rested with 13 acres of land. The classes were shifted from Anisabad to this premises and thereafter the college blossomed and metamorphosed into present form. The erstwhile governing body had eminent personalities like Sri Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Ex -C.M.of Bihar, Mrs. Kishori Sinha,Ex-M.P,Justice K.B.N.Singh, Justice Birendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Sheo Narayan Singh and Sri Sunil Mukherjee.

To this date, the college has 22 UG departments and 21 PG departments. The college has never hesitated to take innovative measures. Keeping in view, technological march of resurgent India, the college has introduced apart from conventional courses,a large number of technological and industry driven courses. On initiative of U.G.C and Government of Bihar ,many new courses like Electronics, Environmental Sciences were introduced during 1980s. In1996, the first vocational course E.W.M(Environment and Water Management) was introduced later on, many more job oriented courses like B.C..A, B.B.M, M.C.A, M.B.A and Biotechnology were added to the list.