Vivekananda College For Women, Kolkata

About Vivekananda College For Women, Kolkata

The present Vivekananda College For Women was first established as ‘Vivekananda College, Barisha’, in the year 1950, as an Intermediate College under the scheme for ‘.dispersal’ of ‘displaced students’ from Calcutta. For the first two years the College had no separate building. Classes were held in the west block of Barisha High School situated on the southern side of the present college building. From the time of its inception the last century saw the institution emerge from its cocoon of shabby-genteel parochialism and valorously take on the challenges of globalization. The road was long but never weary. Step by step the principals, teachers and staff one after another contributed their unflagging energies to help the college blossom.

Welcome. This is Vivekananda College for Women, with all its resource, waiting to serve you and the society. The following pages will give a detailed description regarding our resource, success and failure. This will help you all to make a complete evaluation of the college, keeping in mind the immense potentiality which we can reach with march of time.

Education in India flourished from the Vedic Ashramas with Sām-mantras full of moral values and self-realisation, the fragrance of which faded long ago. At present we are in an era when it is difficult to identify the actual aim of education – whether it is only the financial stability or to prepare ‘man’ with moral values. Probably a perfect balance, a perfect blending of the two is required at present which we actually try to do here. Formal education is being supplemented here with non-formal and professional training giving better job opportunities to the students. At the same time we try to enlighten our students through the messages of Swami Vivekananda and try to make proper ‘man’ with good morale and self-reliance. Our aim, on one hand is to give light of education to the masses and to generate skilled workforce, on the other to give quality education to students and to make better perspective citizens of the country.

Mission
The college aims at the academic, intellectual, moral and economic uplift of students. Mental alertness, cultural exposure, physical fitness, secular outlook, crisis management and intellectual resourcefulness are some of the qualities it seeks to imbue in students. The outreach programmes of the college try to ensure that enterprising and career-minded students find keys to future self-advancement and economic self-sufficiency.

Vision
Named after Swami Vivekananda, the great social reformer, the college sees itself as preparing young women for the greater challenges of life. Vivekananda College for Women plays a vital role in the expansion of higher education among the Indian women following the philosophy of Swamiji. The thrust area of the College is to ensure barrier-free higher education to the deserving girl students. Our initiatives are guided mainly by goal of equitable access which includes Equality, Quality and Excellence, Relevance and Value-based education.