Bhairab Ganguly College
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Bhairab Ganguly College is a university college
in Belgharia
, a northern district of Kolkata
, West Bengal
, India
, that was set up on 3 September 1968. It is currently affiliated with the West Bengal State University
. It was formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta
. The campus is easily accessible by railways through Belgharia and Baranagar Road Stations, and by buses plying along Barrackpore Trunk Road. The bus terminus is 5 minutes walk from the southern gate of the College. The campus, therefore, combines a quiet natural surrounding with easy accessibility.
Bhairab Ganguly College is co-educational and offers three-year degree courses in all three main streams of Humanities
, Science
, and Commerce
. Since 1997-98, vocational courses in Advertising
, Sales Promotion
and Sales Management
, sponsored by University Grants Commission
(UGC), have been introduced at the degree level. The college session begins on 1 June of every year and ends on 31 May each year.
s of land to the West Bengal Government for the setting up of a degree college in Belgharia for the teaching of arts, science, and commerce. The primary objective was to provide higher education opportunities for boys and, more particularly, for girls in the industrial area of Belgharia since it was inconvenient to continue higher education in Kolkata. The college came into being on 3 September 1968.
The Government subsequently merged the Arts Section of the Vivekananda Centenary College with the newly established Bhairab Ganguly College, and this came as a booster to the new institution as a good number of experienced teachers joined the college.
The college has had to cope with an unprecedented rush of students ever since its inception. and in 1969 it opened an Evening Commerce Section to meet the demand for Commerce
education. However, this was subsequently merged with the day session in 1980.
(joined the Indian Administrative Service
later on), Dr. Debasis Mukherjee in Chemistry
(He later on became the Director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
in Chemical Science
), Dr. Ratan Lal Basu
in Economics
(retired in December 2008), Dr. Manab Kumar Hazra in Zoology
and Mr. Manabes Majumdar (also the Coordinator of the IGNOU unit of the college) in Economics
.
, Electronics
, Journalism
, Mathematics
, Zoology
, Botany
, Urdu
, Bengali
, Philosophy
and Physiology
have been introduced. Dr. Biswanath Ghosh, Principal till 31.1.2008, played the pioneering role in this regard. He also constructed the new building, library room and auditorium ‘Alapan’. After his retirement the Teacher in-Charge, Dr. Ratan Lal Basu
took initiative in introducing Masters Degree courses in Commerce
and English
. He also took initiative in updating Asset Registration & streamlining Admission Process (so far anarchic) strictly according to merit to do justice to the applicants.
inspection of the college was completed during March, 2008 and the leading role in making it successful was taken by the Teacher-in-Charge Dr.Ratan Lal Basu
, Dr. Asok Misra (the Coordinator of the NAAC
Steering Committee), Dr. Manab Kumar Hazra and Mr. Manabes Majumdar and among the non-teaching staff, Mr. Satyabrata Narayan Chatterjee. The college was accredited B* by the NAAC.
University college
The term "university college" is used in a number of countries to denote college institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university...
in Belgharia
Belgharia
Belgharia is a suburb and a northern district of Kolkata. It is situated near Barrackpore Trunk Road under Kamarhati Municipality. Now it has become a business hub, well connected with Kolkata with trains, buses and other means of transport. Belgharia is one of the busiest stations of the main...
, a northern district of Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, that was set up on 3 September 1968. It is currently affiliated with the West Bengal State University
West Bengal State University
West Bengal State University is a newly established university situated in Barasat, West Bengal, India.All the 59 colleges in the district of North 24 Parganas, which were formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta, are affiliated to this university.-History:The Government of West Bengal...
. It was formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...
. The campus is easily accessible by railways through Belgharia and Baranagar Road Stations, and by buses plying along Barrackpore Trunk Road. The bus terminus is 5 minutes walk from the southern gate of the College. The campus, therefore, combines a quiet natural surrounding with easy accessibility.
Bhairab Ganguly College is co-educational and offers three-year degree courses in all three main streams of Humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and Commerce
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
. Since 1997-98, vocational courses in Advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
, Sales Promotion
Sales promotion
Sales promotion is one of the four aspects of promotional mix. Media and non-media marketing communication are employed for a pre-determined, limited time to increase consumer demand, stimulate market demand or improve product availability...
and Sales Management
Sales management
Sales management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of sales techniques and the management of a firm's sales operations. It is an important business function as net sales through the sale of products and servicess and resulting profit drive most commercial...
, sponsored by University Grants Commission
University Grants Commission (India)
The University Grants Commission of India is a statutory organisation set up by Union government in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. It provides recognition for universities in India, and provides funds for government-recognised...
(UGC), have been introduced at the degree level. The college session begins on 1 June of every year and ends on 31 May each year.
History
Sometime in 1955, Sri Jibandhan Ganguly, a renowned social worker and educationist from Belgharia, donated about 11 bighaBigha
The bigha is a unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in Nepal, Bangladesh and in a few states of India including Uttaranchal, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan etc. The precise size of a bigha appears to vary considerably...
s of land to the West Bengal Government for the setting up of a degree college in Belgharia for the teaching of arts, science, and commerce. The primary objective was to provide higher education opportunities for boys and, more particularly, for girls in the industrial area of Belgharia since it was inconvenient to continue higher education in Kolkata. The college came into being on 3 September 1968.
The Government subsequently merged the Arts Section of the Vivekananda Centenary College with the newly established Bhairab Ganguly College, and this came as a booster to the new institution as a good number of experienced teachers joined the college.
The college has had to cope with an unprecedented rush of students ever since its inception. and in 1969 it opened an Evening Commerce Section to meet the demand for Commerce
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
education. However, this was subsequently merged with the day session in 1980.
Eminent Faculty
Many eminent scholars have enriched the faculty of the college. Most mention worthy among them are Mr. Amit Kushari in PhysicsPhysics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
(joined the Indian Administrative Service
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Government of India. It is one of the three All India Services....
later on), Dr. Debasis Mukherjee in Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
(He later on became the Director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, established in July 1876 at 210 Bowbazar street, Calcutta, is a national institution for higher learning whose primary purpose is to foster high quality fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the basic sciences. Founded by Dr. Mahendra...
and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics...
in Chemical Science
Chemical Science
Chemical Science refers to the discipline of Chemistry.For the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Science, see Chemical Science ....
), Dr. Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.-Childhood and parents:...
in Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
(retired in December 2008), Dr. Manab Kumar Hazra in Zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
and Mr. Manabes Majumdar (also the Coordinator of the IGNOU unit of the college) in Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
.
New Subjects
In recent years honours in many new subjects like Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Electronics
Electronics
Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
, Journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
, Botany
Botany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
, Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
, Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
, Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and Physiology
Physiology
Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
have been introduced. Dr. Biswanath Ghosh, Principal till 31.1.2008, played the pioneering role in this regard. He also constructed the new building, library room and auditorium ‘Alapan’. After his retirement the Teacher in-Charge, Dr. Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.-Childhood and parents:...
took initiative in introducing Masters Degree courses in Commerce
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
and English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
. He also took initiative in updating Asset Registration & streamlining Admission Process (so far anarchic) strictly according to merit to do justice to the applicants.
NAAC Inspection
The NAACNational Assessment and Accreditation Council
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council is an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India. It is an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.-History:NAAC was established in 1994 in...
inspection of the college was completed during March, 2008 and the leading role in making it successful was taken by the Teacher-in-Charge Dr.Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu
Ratan Lal Basu is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.-Childhood and parents:...
, Dr. Asok Misra (the Coordinator of the NAAC
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council is an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India. It is an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.-History:NAAC was established in 1994 in...
Steering Committee), Dr. Manab Kumar Hazra and Mr. Manabes Majumdar and among the non-teaching staff, Mr. Satyabrata Narayan Chatterjee. The college was accredited B* by the NAAC.