VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE CAMPUS (Kolkata)

India / Bangla / Chakdaha / Kolkata / DIAMOND HARBOUR ROAD DOWN LANE NH 117
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IN JUNE 1950 THE COLLEGE WAS SPONSORED BY THE SAME GOVT. WITH ITS UPGRADING AS A DEGREE COLLEGE AND IN THE SAME YEAR IT WAS ALSO BROUGHT UNDER THE REFUGEE EDUCATION SCHEME OF THE MINISTRY OF REHABILIATION, GOVT. OF INDIA, WITH THE STATE GOVT. RETAINING
CONTROL OVER IT. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT THE COLLEGE WAS CHRISTENED AS VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE ARTER THE SACRED NAME OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA - THE GREAT PATRIOT AND SOCIAL REFORMER, AN ETERNAL EMBODIMENT OF THE SOUL OF INDIA AND A GREAT INSPRING FORCE BEHIND THE MAKING OF MODERN INDIA.

SCARCITY OF ACCOMMODATION BEING ACUTELY FELT WITH THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE, IT WAD AGAIN SHIFTED IN 1959 TO ITS NEW SPACOOUS PREMISES AT THAKURPUKUR WITH AN EXTENSIVE CAMPUS AREA OF ABOUT 27 BIGHAS OF LAND WHERE THE PRESENT COLLEGE BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED WITH CAPITAL GRANTS RECEIVE FROM THE REHABILITATION MINISTRY, GOVT.
OF INDIA. THE ORIGINAL COLLEGE BUILDING AT BARISHA MADE ROOM FOR ITS WOMEN SECTION, WHICH IN 1961 BECAME A SEPARATE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE WITH THE NAME OF VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.

THE PEOPLE OF BARISHA- THAKURPUKUR, AN AREA WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REVERED OF REV. JAMES LONG-A PIONEEING NAME DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY AND SPREAD OF EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN THIS LOCALITY OF BENGAL IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, COULD THUS GET THEIR ASPIRATIOINS FULFILLED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE, ANOTHER
MILESTONE IN THIS DIRECTION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.

VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE IS NOW A FIRST GRADE DEGREE COLLEGE WITH TEACHING FACILITIES
UPTO HONOURS STANDARD FOR GRADUATE STUDIES IN THE FACILIIES OF ARTS,SCIENCE AND COMMERCE UNDER THE UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA .

THE COLLEGE HAS ALREADY EARNED REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE PREMIER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL. THE COLLEGE IS RUN IN TWO SHIFTS-
DAY & MORNING, BOTH CO-EDUCATIONAL.


PROVIDED BY - MAITRI PAUL ( FROM THAKURPUKUR)
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Coordinates:   22°27'50"N   88°18'30"E

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  • its the most beautiful college; everuyone wants to see the beauty babes
  • It is our beloved computer science department.love it or leave it.
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