Bijanbari College, established in 1995, is a general degree college in
Bijanbari
Bijanbari is a small town in Darjeeling district with Darjeeling Pulbazar CD block being the headquarters of the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision in West Bengal, India. It is a place of importance in Darjeeling district mainly because of the Block ...
,
Darjeeling
Darjeeling (, , ) is a city in the northernmost region of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the Koshi Pr ...
. It is affiliated to the
University of North Bengal
The University of North Bengal (also North Bengal University, abbreviated as NBU) is a public state university in the North Bengal region of West Bengal, India. Its main campus is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in ...
and offers undergraduate courses in the arts disciplines.
Jas Yonzone 'Pyasi', the former principal of the college, was conferred the
Sahitya Academy Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
in 2004.
BRIEFS, The Telegraph, 25 December 2004
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Bijanbari College
University of North BengalUniversity Grants CommissionNational Assessment and Accreditation Council
Colleges affiliated to University of North Bengal
Educational institutions established in 1995
Universities and colleges in Darjeeling district
1995 establishments in West Bengal
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