Harimohan Ghosh College, Kolkata

About Harimohan Ghosh College, Kolkata

Harimohan Ghose College was established in 1963 to bring to the under-privileged sections of the population of Garden Reach-Metiabruz the fruits of higher education.

The motto of Haimohan Ghose College on its 50th year of existence has been lived upto or not is best left to the judgment of history. But to us, whose life is focused on the existence of this college, the past of the college definitely serves to remind us of that famous quote.’ Those who do not read history are condemned to repeat it’. So we take this occasion to present a brief history of Harimohan Ghose College.

ne important aspect of philanthropy is to spread the boon of education to those who are economically backward so as to provide them the light of opportunity to rise in life and give to their loved ones a better life and not as models to those members of their community unfortunately denied the opportunities of education and the auxilliaries it brings.

The Ghose family, an aristocratic family of Fatehpur, Garden Reach took this responsibility of eclipsing the umbra of ignorance and one of the scions of the family donated the land amounting to acres on Paharpur Road now numbered as premises nos. J-206 & J-208A, Paharpur Road, Kolkata-700 024 to set up this College in the name of their Late Grand father Harimohan Ghose. The foundation stone of this noble enterprise was laid in 1963 by the then Minister of Higher Education, Govt of West Bengal, Late Tushar Kanti Ghose. The building of the College was built by donations and munificence of the families of the locality, who were happy to have a college within their neighbourhood. Calcutta University too lived up to its Motto "Advancement of Knowledge" by granting the necessary affiliation to the College so that students could be admitted and classes started. The initial affiliation was for B.A. Pass courses and Honours in Bengali and Accountancy. The College developed in course of time to become a full fledged institution which, in course of time, has become a multi-faculty college where B.A., B.Sc. & B. Com streams are taught with Honours courses in English, Bengali, Urdu, History and Political Science in Humanities stream and Accountancy & Marketing in Commerce stream and Physiology, Mathematics and Economics in the Science Stream.

It is a matter of great pride that many who call our college their Alma Mater are now well established in their careers of their choice and are proud that they had once entered the portals of knowledge through this college and have reached their ambition.

The catchment area of this college is quite large with at least a dozen schools having Higher Secondary affiliation within the Borough XV in which the college is situated. So the college has never failed to attract students who are to complete their graduation in their chosen streams. Due to some sterling performances of students in certain particular subjects like Physiology, History, English, Urdu & Commerce a lot of students from areas like Behala, Khidderpore etc. have started to seek admission in the college giving the college a cosmopolitan ethos.