Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College, Beldanga

About Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College, Beldanga

Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College established in 1965 under the affiliation of University of Calcutta and later from 1999 it comes under the University of Kalyani. Our Institute has been providing excellent academic opportunities and sports facilities to students since its inception without break. It offers Courses in Humanities, Sciences and Commerce and has carved a niche for itself in the field of sports as well.

Murshidabad, a remote border district of West Bengal, India, adjacent to Bangladesh, as a whole had lagged behind in literacy and having adequate opportunities of higher education even in the post-independence days. Ironically, before the British occupation of India, Murshidabad was the capital of Nawab’s kingdom comprising Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. After Nawab Sirajudullah was defeated in Plassey’s war in 1757 by the British, the latter established their capital to Calcutta and later shifted to Delhi, allowing once prosperous Murshidabad to deteriorate gradually. These rural regions of Murshidabad, including Beldanga, a very small town situated at the southern corner of the district, had an enormous population of economically backward and illiterate peasants and labors together with a few educated middle class people, even in half past 19th century!

It was almost 18 years since the independence of our great nation and there was not a single institution for higher education in and around the locality of Beldanga within a 20 km radius, in spite of existence of a number of schools within the jurisdiction of the region. In fact there was not a single college within a 100km stretch between Berhampore of Murshidabad & Krishnanagar of Nadia! As a consequence of which, the people of Beldanga, most of them happened to be poor peasantry class, had been deprived to enter into the arena of higher education standing upon the doorstep of struggle against starvation. As a result of such a weaker socio-economic infrastructure of the region, the locality of Beldanga ranked bottom most in the district of Murshidabad in the sphere of education.