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Midnapore College
Midnapore College, established in 1873, is the oldest college in Midnapore, in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in arts and sciences. It is affiliated to Vidyasagar University. It has been given Autonomous status by University Grants Commission from 2014–15 Session. It is only the fourth aided college to be granted the tag after St Xavier's College, Ramkrishna Mission Narendrapur and RKM Belur. History Midnapore College was established in 1873 under the affiliation of the University of Calcutta and with the status of government-sponsored college in 1956. It is the oldest college in the district of Midnapore. This college started as a school in 1836 and later in 1873 it was handed over to the then-British Government and was raised to the status of second grade college. It was controlled by a governing body with district magistrate as ex-officio president. It became first grade degree science college in 1924. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnapore
Medinipur or Midnapore (Pron: med̪iːniːpur) is a city known for its history in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the West Medinipur district. It is situated on the banks of the Kangsabati River (variously known as ''Kasai'' and ''Cossye''). The Urban Agglomeration of Midnapore consists of the city proper, Mohanpur, Keranichoti and Khayerullachak. Etymology The English name Midnapore is a corruption of the original name of the town which was Madanipur. It was named after Haji Mustafa Madani, a 17th-century Bengali Muslim scholar who was gifted tax-free land in the present area in addition to an estate there which included a mosque. Madani is the ancestor of Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique of Furfura Sharif. According to Sri Hari Sadhan Das, the city got its name from Medinikar, the founder of the city in 1238, who was the son of Prankara, the feudal king of Gondichadesh (now Odisha). He was also the writer of "Medinikosh". Hara Prasad Shastri thinks that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinesh Gupta
Dinesh Chandra Gupta ( bn, দিনেশ চন্দ্র গুপ্ত ''Dinesh Chôndro Gupto'') or Dinesh Gupta (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the Writers' Building in the Dalhousie square in Calcutta, along with Badal Gupta and Benoy Basu. Rabindrasangeet exponent and trainer Maya Sen (maiden name Gupta) was his own niece. Even he suggested his sister-in-law Ashalata Gupta to let Maya learn Rabindrasangeet. His nephew and Maya's brother Dr. Tapan Gupta was a doctor and established 'the Tagoreans' in London. Mr. Gupta's daughter is an MBE, Tanika Gupta, a playwright and regularly works for BBC and the stage in England. Early activities Dinesh Gupta was born on 6 December 1911 in Josholong in Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh. While he was studying in Dhaka College, Dinesh joined Bengal Volunteers - a group organised by Subhas Chandra Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In West Bengal
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In India
Education in India is primarily managed by state-run public education system, which fall under the command of the government at three levels: central, state and local. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution and the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, free and compulsory education is provided as a fundamental right to children aged 6 to 14. The approximate ratio of public schools to private schools in India is 7:5. Education system Up until 1976, education policies and implementation were determined legally by each of India's constitutional states. The 42nd amendment to the constitution in 1976 made education a 'concurrent subject'. From this point on the central and state governments shared formal responsibility for funding and administration of education. In a country as large as India, now with 28 states and eight union territories, this means that the potential for variations between states in the policies, plans, programs and initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Institutions Of Higher Education In West Bengal
Institutes of Eminence (IoE) * Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Central Universities Centrally Funded Technical Institutes * Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology, Maldahttps://turing.iitpkd.ac.in/web/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CFTI.pdf * National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata Research Institutes Institute of National Importance Deemed universities National Law University State Universities Private Universities Medical & Dental Colleges Dental colleges * Burdwan Dental College and Hospital * Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital * Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research * Haldia Institute of Dental Sciences and Research * Kusum Devi Sunderlal Dugar Jain Dental College and Hospital * North Bengal Dental College and Hospital AYUSH Institutions Homeopathic Ayurvedic * Raghunath Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Hospital * Rajib Gandhi Ayurvedic Medical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal
Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal (15 July 1913 – 2 June 2007) nick named Jambu, was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. Family Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal was born in 1913. His father's name is Asutosh Pal and mother's name is Lakhmimani Pal.His father was a doctor and research scholar. Actually his father has his ancestral home at Khanjapur, Daspur, Midnapore. When he was a child he was send to his maternal uncle's house at Midnapore town where he joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of British India. He was a close associate of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Revolutionary activities After the murder of Magistrate Paddy, Robert Douglas, a ruthless District Magistrate, was posted in Midnapore district.The revolutionaries of the Bengal Volunteers decided to assassinate Douglas because he was responsible for killing two unarmed activists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyoti Jibon Ghosh
Jyoti Jibon Ghosh (1910 – 1968), was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. He is a close associate of revolutionary Dinesh Gupta. Family Ghosh was born in Dhamasin village, Hooghly district in 1910. His father was Jamini Jibon Ghosh. He enrolled in I.A. in Midnapore College and joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation in British India. His family joined the Indian freedom movement. His brother Prof. Binoy Jibon Ghosh was dismissed from service for having a connection with the Swadeshi movement. Another brother Naba Jibon Ghosh committed suicide while imprisoned by the British. His younger brother Nirmal Jibon Ghosh was also a freedom fighter. Revolutionary activities Dinesh Gupta fought in the Battle of the Writers Building's Verandah and survived. After discussion it was decided by the Bengal Volunteers group that the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prabodh Panda
Prabodh Panda (7 February 1946 – 27 February 2018) was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of India. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Midnapore constituency in West Bengal in a by-election held on 10 May 2001. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 and 2009 from the same constituency. Personal life Panda was born in a Utkal Brahmin family. His father was Devendra Nath Panda and mother Niradabala Panda. He graduated in arts from the Dantan Bhattar College, which was then affiliated with the prestigious and historic University of Calcutta. After serving the Lok Sabha office as a Member of Parliament for 13 years, he has been the secretary of state for West Bengal for the Communist Party of India since February 2015. He died on 27 February 2018 following a massive heart attack while working at his office in Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance Banker's Trust published in ''Business Standard'', a leading Indian business daily. He had started this column in ''Mint'', an Indian business daily by HT Media Ltd. He has authored five books namely ''HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital', From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures'', ''Bandhan: The Making of a Bank'', ''Sahara: The Untold Story'' and ''A Bank for the Buck''. ''Bandhan : The Making of a Bank'' has been translated into Bengali. Life and career A student of English literature (a postgraduate from Calcutta University), Tamal Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with ''Times of India'', in Mumbai in 1985. Subsequently, he has worked with four national financial dailies: ''The Economic Times'', '' Financial Express'', ''Business Standard'', and as a member of the founding team of ''Mint'' in Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyan Singh Sohanpal
Gyan Singh Sohanpal (11 January 1925 – 8 August 2017), was an Indian politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He is affectionately known as Chacha Ji ("Uncle" in English) in his constituency of Kharagpur Sadar. He won his seat Kharagpur Sadar in 1969, 1971, 1972, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011. Since 1969, he only lost elections in 1977 and 2016 when he was 91 years old. He was MLA for 10 terms. He contested his first election in 1962 and became a minister in 1969 in Ajoy Mukherjee’s cabinet, taking charge of Small Industries and Jails. In Siddhartha Shankar Ray’s cabinet, he was the Minister for Transport, Jail and Parliamentary Affairs. He has represented Khragpur since 1982, and in the 2011 election, he defeated Anil Kumar Das of the CPI(M) by over 32,000 votes. Following that election, he was the most senior Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal and served briefly as Speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surjya Kanta Mishra
Surjya Kanta Mishra is an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as Minister of Health and Minister in-charge of Land & Land Reforms, Panchayats & Rural Development in the Left Front governments of West Bengal and was the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal State Committee between 2015 and 2022. After the 2011 assembly election he was elected as Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in May 2011. He was inducted into the politburo of the CPI(M) following the death of veteran leader M.K. Pandhe in 2011. In 2015, he was elected as the state secretary of CPI(M) in West Bengal, succeeding Biman Bose. Early life Mishra was born in Khakurda in Narayangarh. He is a qualified doctor. He received his MBBS degree from Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack in 1971 and then a Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases in 1974. He also studied in Medinipur College a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somen Mahapatra
Soumen Mahapatra is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and previously served as the Minister for Water Resources Investigation & Development in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Tamluk constituency in 2011 and 2021, Pingla constituency in 2016 and Nandanpur constituency in 2006 West Bengal assembly Assembly may refer to: Organisations and meetings * Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions * General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ... election. References State cabinet ministers of West Bengal Living people West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 1958 births West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026 Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal {{WestBengal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
