Rishi Bankim Chandra College is a general degree college located in

Naihati Naihati is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Naihati Municipality ...

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, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. The college also offers PG courses in English and Zoology. It is affiliated to

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History

A couple of months after Independence, on 2 November 1947, a clan of eminent personalities, educationists and visionaries of Naihati (

Barrackpore Subdivision Barrackpore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History In 1757, the East India Company obtained the ''zamindari'' or land-holders rights of the 24 Parganas Zaminda ...

North 24 Parganas North 24 Parganas (abv. 24 PGS (N)) or sometimes North Twenty Four Parganas is a district in southern West Bengal, of eastern India. North 24 Parganas extends in the tropical zone from latitude 22° 11′ 6″ north to 23° 15′ 2″ north and ...

, West Bengal) sat together and came in agreement of setting up a college after the name of Rishi

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; 26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.Staff writer"Bankim Chandra: The First Prominent Bengali Novelist" ''The ...

, the litterateur who gave the country the National Song. At the very beginning, Rishi Bankim Chandra College did not have a space of its own. Classes started at the building of Naihati Mahendra High School on 15 January 1948, in the evening hours.This the day has ever been observed as the college Foundation Day. In June 1948, the college was shifted to its present premises, situated within a furlong from Bankim Chandra's ancestral home at Kantalpara (at the eastern side of Naihati railway station), as the then Executive Committee purchased the present plot of land from "Medland Bose & Co." a labour-contractor firm that used to use the land as a transit point for coolies destined mainly to the north-east tea gardens. For the sake of better management and more intensive monitoring of the value-based education, the college was trifurcated on 13 July 1984 and two more colleges with independent entities, namely, Rishi Bankim Chandra College for Women and Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, were born.

Departments and courses

The college is being acknowledged by the University Grant Commission for its academic service for over fifty years. Today the college has affiliation from West Bengal State University for Honours and General (B.A., B.Sc., B.Com. Honours & General) undergraduate studies in as many as Twenty one (21) subjects namely,

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, English,

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History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

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, Computer Applications,

Botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

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, Electronics,

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and

Commerce Commerce is the organized Complex system, system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered large-scale exchange (distribution through Financial transaction, transactiona ...

. The College also offers P.G. courses in English and

Science

Science faculty consists of the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Applications, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Electronics, and Economics.

Arts & Commerce

Arts and Commerce faculty consists of departments of

, English,

and

Library

The Central Library is located on the second floor of the North Block, established in the early 21st century. It has a rich collection of textbooks, reference books, newspapers and magazines. Apart from this, supplementary books, journals and magazines are also available in the library. The library has two large reading rooms which can accommodate 60 students and 25 teachers at a time. It has provision for futuristic development and upgradation of services through computerization and storage of quality reference material in digital-text formats.

Accreditation

The Rishi Bankim Chandra college is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). It is accredited by the

National Assessment and Accreditation Council The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is a public autonomous body of the government of India that assesses and accredits higher education institutions (HEIs) in India. It is funded by the University Grants Commission and hea ...

(NAAC), and awarded B⁺⁺ grade for the second cycle in 2016.Colleges in West Bengal, University Grants Commission
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Notable Alumni

Partha Bhowmick Partha Bhowmick (born 22 January 1964) is an Indian politician and theatre artist who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha for Barrackpore since 2024 general election. A member of Trinamool Congress, he previously represented as ...

Raj Chakraborty Raj Chakraborty (born 21 February 1975) is an Indian film director, actor, producer and politician. He is one of the most commercially successful film-makers in Cinema of West Bengal, Tollywood. Before directing his debut film, he was busy in Be ...

* Ajoy Biswas

References

External links

Official website
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