Introduction

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, named after the nineteenth century social reformer, Keshab Chandra Sen, has completed over fifty years of providing education to students who usually come from the underprivileged section of society. Popularly known as B.K.C College, the institution was set up with the aim of filling a vacuum in higher education in areas with influx of population from the East Pakistan and has always striven to excel in creating capable citizens of India. Alumni of the College have served the country in various fields. The College, a UGC registered college (under 2(f) & 12B), believes in the idea that education does not consist in mere learning, but involves fostering a sense of social responsibility among its students, the future pioneers of social change. It is with these aims that the college has been moving ahead, contributing to the cause of education and hopes to do so in the years to come.

This College is a Govt. of West Bengal Aided degree college affiliated to the West Bengal State University and upgraded from Bachelor's to Master's degree in the list of Colleges included u/s 2(f) and 12(b) of the UGC Act, 1956 vide UGC letter No. 8-104/2019(CPP-I/C) dated 17/12/2019. Currently the college is governed with 18 Under Graduate departments and three Post Graduate Departments. The institute is offering 3 years UG Programmes B. A. (Honours) in Bengali, Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sanskrit; B. A. (General) in Journalism & Mass Communication, Education; B. Sc. (Hons) in Botany, Chemistry, Economics, Industrial Fish & Fisheries, Mathematics, Physics, Zoology, B.Sc. (General) in Computer Science, Statistics & Molecular Biology. The institute offers two years Post Graduate Courses M.Sc in Botany, Mathematics & Physics.

The college has been moving ahead, contributing to the cause of education and hopes to do so in the years to come. Apart from academics, the students are always encouraged to nurture their hidden talents through various extra-curricular activities. For the holistic development of the youth of today, apart from building of their body and the mind amongst the eco-friendly sprawling green campus of the college over-viewing the Bon-Hooghly lake, we also encourage conservation of biodiversity through its sustainable development to save our Mother Nature. As our objective is advancement of learning accompanied by modern teaching aids, the campus is now Wi Fi enabled with digital classrooms. Also the library resources are enormous with a huge collection of books and journals. We are now ready to provide the well furnished hostel facility for the girl students residing at far-off places.

It is noteworthy to say that this College has a huge list of alumni well placed in various esteemed institutions throughout India as academicians, theatre personalities and also top level administrators. It has also a record set of excellent teachers who are well known for their scholarly activities and researches of international stature. The teachers as well as the extremely efficient non-teaching staff regularly cater to the needs of the students at any odd hour of the day. We are striving towards continuous improvement and application of quality benchmarks in various activities of the institution to ensure accountability to all our stakeholders. The vision of the college is to make higher education available to aspiring youth of the country.