Damber Singh College, Gangtok

About Damber Singh College, Gangtok

Damber Singh College was established in the year 1994 with due permission from the Government of Sikkim vide Notification No.356/Est./Edn, dated 30/11/1993 and with the affiliation from North Bengal University, West Bengal. Later with the establishment of Sikkim (central) University in 2007 vide Parliamentary Act (no. 10 of 2007) the college is automatically affiliated with it from 2008-09 academic sessions. College is named after a social reformer Late D. S. Chhetri and located in a most ambient location at Gangtok, the capital city of the most green and peaceful State of Sikkim.

The College offering B.A Pass/Hons. and Bachelor Degree in Library and Information Science (BLISc.) is situated in the picturesque place of mountains at Samdur, Tadong, Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim. The college is connected by National Highway 31A. The nearest railway Station New Jalpaiguri and nearer Airport, Bagdogra are 117 km and 120 km respectively away from the college.

My father late Damber Singh Chhetri used to ask me somewhere in 1950 when I was a primary school student, to teach my neighbourers after the school to write their names to be used in any transaction instead of putting their thumb impression which resulted in the establishment of an Educational Society by the name Rhenock Educational Society for promotion of education in the 1990. The revolutionary idea of my late father to teach people to write their names created more interest of many people in education.

The beginning of Open Schooling System during the second half of the 1980s was instrumental in fulfillment of my social mission. Since then about 1000 students take admission in secondary and senior secondary classes every year.