Surendranath Banerjea was one of the great pioneers in the history of India's freedom movement. He is regarded as a great patriot, scholar, orator and statesman. As an educationist he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the cause of higher education in the country. In 1882 Surendranath Banerjea took over the charge of Presidency School. Early in 1884 this school was converted into Presidency Institution affiliated to I.A. standard and later in the same year into a degree college named as “Ripon...
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Surendranath College for Women was established in 1948, mainly for imparting higher education to girls from partition-affected families. After partition many families came from the then East Pakistan and settled in the Sealdah railway station area and its neighborhood. It became necessary to open a branch for women at the nearest college. The girls had to take up jobs during the afternoons to support their families. So our College with its morning timings came into existence.
History In 1882 Surendranath Banerjea, eminent scholar, orator and statesman and one of the pioneers of India’s struggle for self-government and freedom, took over the charge of Presidency School. In January 1884, it was renamed Presidency Institution and became affiliated to the Intermediate Standard of the University of Calcutta. Later in the same year, with permission from Lord Ripon, it was renamed as Ripon College and became a full-fledged degree College under the University of Calcutta.
Sundarban Hazi Desarat College is a grant-in-aid college of West Bengal and is recognized under section 2(f) and 12B by the UGC. The college was established in 1961 at Pathankhali village in the then remote Gosaba island of Sundarbans. Despite lack of proper communication facility, drinking water, power supply and many other minimum required infrastructural facilities, the zeal and eagerness of some people to educate the most deprived and backward class of this area gave birth to this college.
The College runs in three shifts. The Morning Shift is exclusively meant for girls, the Evening Shift is meant for boys while the Day Shift runs as a co-educational unit. Over the years our students, the Jaipurians, have been able to make a mark for themselves in the academic field by dint of their serious effort and dedication.In its untiring effort to develop itself and keeping pace with the time, the College has introduced various new subjects like Electronics, Computer Science, Journalism...
Serampore Girls' College was founded on June 6,1981 to cater to the local demand for a Girls' College. Late Sm.Anita Devi, the noted educationist and the then President of West Bengal Higher Secondary Council inaugurated the college in the presence of Late Prof.Sambhu Ghosh,the then Minister for Higher Education, Late Bhabani Mukhopadhyay,formar Minister for Parliamentary Affairs,Govt.of West Bengal, Late Kamal Krishna Bhattacharya,the then MLA and Chairman of Serampore Municipality and other...
Sarsuna college was established on 11th October in the year 1999. This West Bengal Government Aided college was initially started in the Sarsuna School premises. Later it was shifted to the newly constructed building in Sarsuna Upanagari. The college is affiliated to the University of Calcutta and is approved by UGC. Sarsuna College is also accredited by NAAC with Grade B in the year 2016. The building of the college is four storied, consisting of classrooms, laboratories, Library, Seminar Ha...
P.N. Das College was established on 20 th August, 1962 by Late Debesh Das, a timber merchant by profession. The college started with a few students and it was affiliated to the University of Calcutta as a co - educational Degree college in the 1962 - 63 session. Over the years the institution has been flourishing to cater to the needs of the locality and surrounding areas .The college started with a few subjects in the Arts Faculty and in 1975 -76 session the Commerce (Pass) stream received a...
July 1924, an apparently small event, due to assume much larger proportions. A college affiliated to the University of Calcutta started with just seven teachers and 124 students in the residential building of Late I.R. Belilious.The initiative in this regard was taken by Late Suranjan Dutta, the second son of Late Narasinha Dutta .The College started with Motilal Chatterjee as Principal and renowned scholar Jnanendranath Sen as Vice-Principal. Later on Prof.
Nabagram Hiralal Paul College was founded on 3rd February 1957 at the initiative of a number of progressive people of the locality, keenly interested in higher education. The area Nabagram started developing after the partition of Bengal, with people coming from East Bengal for settlement. After primary and secondary schools were set up felt the pressing need for a College within the settlement. To help translate this noble venture into a reality the Late Hiralal Paul, a patron of learning ca...
New Alipore College started its journey on 5th August 1963 as a Government Sponsored Co-educational Degree College affiliated to university of Kolkata. During its eventful existence the college played an important role in advancement of learning its academic and extra-curricular facilities to the students of south Kolkata and adjacent areas of Behala,Batanagar, Budge-Budge extending to Diamond Harbor. The mission of the College is to impart quality education to its student. Conscious efforts ...
Lalbaba College is situated in Howrah in West Bengal state of India. Established in 1964, it is accredited from UGC, NAAC and it is affiliated to University of Calcutta, Kolkata. b'Lalbaba College', Howrah offers 8 courses across 3 streams namely Commerce & Banking, Science, Arts and across 3 degrees like BA, B.Com, BSc. b'Lalbaba College' campus is spread over 2 Acres. Hostel facility is not available for its students. Additional campus facilities such as Canteen, Computer Lab, Counselling, ...
The eventful career of the Netaji Nagar College began on the 25th of September, 1967 with evening classes arranged in the premises of the Netaji Nagar Vidyamandir. Construction of the college building began within three years’ time. A corpus of fund to finance the building was created with a sum of one lakh and fourteen thousand rupees, quite a handsome amount by the standards of the time. People from all walks of life contributed to the fund.
The Partition of India was the catalyst - in itself a cataclysm in the life of this one great nation that witnessed the mass exodus of an uprooted sea of humanity from the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, seeking a bare minimum of food and shelter in the districts of West Bengal, searching for an identity in an alien milieu, struggling to find a foothold in an unaccustomed terrain. Time has always been the best healer, and these displaced families overcame the teething trouble to sett...
Established in 1948 and affiliated to the University of Calcutta, Fakir Chand College stands on the bank of the river Hoogly in salubrious surroundings, free from the din and bustle of urban life. The ambience is highly suited to serve the noble and expanding needs of higher education.
Shibpur Dinobundhoo Institution (College) is one of the pioneer colleges embracing a vast hinterland of urban and semi-urban areas of Howrah District. Established in 1948, the college has consolidated its position as one of the leading institutions of the district, imparting undergraduate learning in diverse areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Bio and Pure Sciences and Commerce. The College is affiliated to the University of Calcutta and accredited by NAAC (National Assessment and Accredita...
Since 1996, Derozio Memorial College has become the pinnacle of explorer's dream for the students community at large. The college, since its inception takes the students with a thirst for education on an memmorable journey through a landscape ignited by morality towards becoming the true citizen of India. Derozio Memorial College with its inherited fertility, modernity and development wants to offer you the biggest treasure of life that a student needs to uncover.
Earnestly intended to shape and create real human being out of each individual, from every new generation, Chittranjan College is that very institute which celebrates not only the noble act of education but much more. Established in 1967, the institute emphasizes and attempts to install within the students, the indispensible need of values, ethics, etiquette, responsibility and personal and social awareness which are the key ingredients for the making of a better individual and consequently a...
Charuchandra College has been christened after Late Charuchandra Chattopadhyay, a notable Indian nationalist. It has its history embedded in the country's post-partition scenario, when Dr. S. N. Ray and some other eniment academicians of Dacca University and its affiliated colleges initiated a move to establish a College in South Calcutta, to cater to the needs of migrant refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan.The family members of Late Charuchandra Chottopadhyay, following Charuchandra's spir...