Ramnagar College, Purba Medinipur

Campus Location: Purba Medinipur

Located in Ramnagar is a land of freedom-fighters. The people of Ramnagar played a not-worthy role in the country-‘s freedom struggle. They took a very active part in the Salt Movement of Pichhabani and suffered untold hardship and sufferings at the hands of British rulers. However, the area was educationally backward and having no facility of higher education at the time of very inception of the college. This long-felt need was partly met with the setting up of Ramnagar College in 1972 by some eminent personalities and education-lovers of the locality. It is happy to note that this institution since the day of its inception has been serving the cause of higher education quiet successfully during last 42 years., Initially Ramnagar College was housed in the school-building of Depal Baneswar Charubala Vidyamandir. In those critical days, the founder Principal, Sri Sripati Charan Pradhan along with some benevolent charitable persons and land-donors including some teachers, non-teaching personalities and Local youths who came forward and took initiatives with missionary sprit and dedicating outlook to establish this college. Among the principal organizers of this college, mention may be made of Sri Nanda Kishore Ghosh, Bar-at-Law the then President of the college, Prof Rampada Panigrahi, Sri Surendranath Sahu, Ex-Headmaster, Depal Baneswar Charubala Vidyamandir, Sri Hemanta Kumar Dutta, MLA., Sri Anil Kumar Pradhan, Late Dr Lakhsmi Charan Pal, Late Balaram Das, Prof Manomohan Maity, Late Rameswar Panigrahi, Sri Himangshu Shekher Samanta, Sri Lakhsmikanta Das, Sri Jagannath Phraraj, Ex-Headmaster, Paniparul Mukteswar High School, Late Dr Mriganka Shekher Maity, Late Abinash Chandra Das, Late Bankim Chandra Maity, Sri DC Sarkar, BDO, Ramnagar-II, Late PB Maity, BDO Ramnagar-I, Sri Aditya Chandra Kol, SDO, Contai, the Administrator of Digha, Sri Dipak Kr Ghosh, the DM, Midnapore and many others., The college owes its glorious birth to the sincere and active leadership of Leadership of Sri Sripati Charan Pradhan who collected donation in cash and procured a land of 17 bighas from the gracious and kind-hearted local donors of whom Sripati Charan Pradhan himself and Late Prafulla kumar Patra need a special-mention. On this land, on the auspicious day of Rathajatra i.e., 02.07.1973, the foundation stone of this college laid down by Dr S. N. Sen, the former Honourable Vice Chancellor, Calcutta University.. Use Google Maps for turn-by-turn driving directions to the campus.