Netaji Mahavidyalaya Arambagh, A seat of learning
Arambagh is a subdivision in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India. The place is famous for producing multifaceted personalities and blessed with
hallowed memories of Raja Rammohan Roy, Ramkrishna Paramhansa Dev, Ma Sarada Devi and Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
The glorious heritage of this subdivision has also entrusted its inheritors the responsibility to produce even better qualitative young star for the country.
Netaj Mahavidyalaya Arambagh, was established in 1948 with a commitment of youthful vitality, chivalry and generosity. Even the emblem reveals its golden motto of education, ‘Education is that which liberates us’.
The college as usual started in a small scale and slowly has grown up to its current stage with a huge asset base. The college wants to promote education to all segments of people.
The principal says, ‘Since majority of the students of the college hail from poor and lower-middle class families and are of average merit, its main challenge is to enable them to get through university examinations as a pre-requisite for going in for higher education and for appearing at different public examinations in future so as to get job’.
And while taking the challenge, the college has to retain the long-term goals keeping in mind the global prospective. Most importantly the college always has focused on the socio-cultural ethical and aesthetic development of students so as to make them ideal citizens of the nation as well as of the world.
The college has building has grown up drastically in the recent years to present the right ambiance to the students to achieve their objectives. The college has facilitated sky-watching center, the right gymnasium apparatus and even post office, press and own photocopy centers to the students and to the people of the locality as a goal of all round educational and cultural environment. The 10.10 acres campus has got an excellent auditorium for organizing seminars and various presentations. A huge playground is available to the students for building up a fine physique, which has resulted some positional achievements in prestigious tournaments.
The college frequently organizes Awareness of Tuberculosis, Blood Donation Camp, AIDS Awareness Program, Yoga Practice to build up harmony between the people and the students of the college
Most of the Honours courses are taught in the college with a very intensive focus on environmental education. The college is likely to open up some of the Postgraduate courses in the recent future. The laboratories of the college is highly equipped with the state of the art apparatus and the faculty members use modern teaching aids like slide projector and large projectors to improvise the teaching learning method. The Internet connection is open to all even in such a district area. The college owns more than 30 computers to bring the modern philosophy of teaching as well as to automate the internal system for a more effective management and prompt responses.
But how the college runs so smooth with so many multifarious activities?
“Proper Organization and Management is the engineering force behind the smooth running of the college on all fronts. The college administration is fully democratic and decentralized, participatory management and synergy being the watchword of it”, says the principal, Dr. Asim Kr. De.
The NAAC Steering Committee Co-coordinator Dr. Paramartha Ghosh affirms the concept of decentralization and active participation of all staff members and students and establishes synchronization in achieving a commandable B++ grade in NAAC evaluation, which has taken the college to the front row at one shot.
We know everybody talks of democracy and every administrator look for a decentralized system in any ideal environment, but it’s easier said than done. It’s very difficult to percolate the idea in the lower rung of the ladder and that Himalayan task has been successfully accomplished by the governing body, which is presided by Mr. Binay Dutta, who is also a member of legislative assembly. Even an outsider can feel the essence once he walks into the campus.
The College authority is equally concerned about the socio economic effects of education and the growing frustration among the young generation for unemployment.
The College also has started computer education, job oriented courses and also plans to launch many more such courses in the future. He also adds that they have started placement activities and signed up MOU with a few companies. The faculty members take regular participation in various programmes, seminars and encouraged to increase their academics. Some faculty members even take participation in syllabus development and various research activities jointly with some agencies or colleges/ universities.
Dr. Dey’s eyes twinkles while reinforcing, we want to take Netaji Mahavidyalaya Aramabagh to that level, when it will become as an ideal seat of learning and culture in the state as well as in the country in future.
Building a campus like Darbhanga Bhaban or buying modern teaching aids or developing a small botanical garden may sound a bit strange to the common people like us and that too when we think in terms of district college, but this is perhaps the first milestone for a visionary, who visualizes his college as the best in the subdivision, so that no aspirant needs to go out of the subdivision for his academics.
We must wish all the best for the fulfillment of dreams of the principal of Netaji Mahavidyalay, to develop it as a center of excellence!
Editor’s Comments
Our passion for education has prompted us to visit colleges and other educational institutes at frequent intervals. We have witnessed the quantum of growth shown by the college in all dimensions. In one word we can describe it as phenomenal. The college has really been able to cultivate efficiency in all it’s activities and if this continues, Netaji Mahavidyalaya has got the potential to elevate its status leaving in its aftermath a blazing trail for others to follow.
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