Hooghly Women's College, established in 1949, is a women's arts and sciences college located in the

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. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to

University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public state university located in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 1 ...

. Hooghly Women's College is the sixth academic institution in the district and is the first women's college of the district and also is the largest Women's College of

Burdwan University The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public state university located in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on ...

. The college was affiliated to the

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up to 1962 and then to the

for the degree students in arts and sciences.

History

The initial effort to found a women's college in Hoog. Some local educationists and

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reformists made an active endeavor to set up Hooghly Women's College to cater education for women. Sri Nripendranath Dhar, a renowned

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and

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was the

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in this field. Other figures, inspired by the some missionary zeal joined them. Hooghly Women's College thus started pulsating in the little concrete structure named Mission House” with only 17 students in

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Maidan in the banks of River Ganga in a day in the year 1943. Unfortunately if came to an abrupt halt as university recognition did not come in time. After the

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, in 1948, the

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adopted policies and programs to spread women's education. Thus under the benevolent effort of Bengal Mission, a wing of Scotland Church, classes of first year started on 1 August 1949, with only 41 students and four teachers in the tiny building of "Mission House". In February 1952, the

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inaugurated the new buildings. The first principal to grace the chair of Hooghly Women's College was Sri Kalipada Mitra.

Departments

Science

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 ...

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

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Arts

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Principals of the institution

*Sri Kalipada Mitra *Smt. Santisudha Ghosh, Founder Principal (1951–1970) *Sm. Sandhyasashi Mukherjee (1970–1980) *Sm. Anita De (1980–2000) *Dr. Sumita Bajpai (Since 2000)

Accreditation

Recently, Hooghly Women's College has been awarded B++ grade 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). The college is also recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).Colleges in WestBengal, University Grants Commission

References

External links

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