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Jogamaya Devi College

92, S.P. Mukherjee RoadKolkata– 700 026

University Of calcutta

About College

Jogamaya Devi College has come a long way since its inception in 1932. Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukhopadhyay founded this Girls College taking advantage of and utilising the space available in Asutosh College, in the morning hours. It started with 155 students for the I.A. Course in 1932. The first Principal was Sri Panchanan Sinha and the Vice Principal Sri Kalidas Sen. The College had the honour to have Smt. Lila Majumdar as its first Professor. Many renowned personalities like Sri Satyendra Nath Sen, Sri Shibnath Chakraborty and Sri Nirod Kumar Bhattacharya have taught here in the early days of the College. The girls section started expanding after 1935. It is a matter of pride that six students out of the first ten in the I.A. Exam, in 1946 were students of the morning section of Asutosh College: Smt. Gouri Sen stood first in the Exam. She became the Principal of Lady Brabourne College and DPI of West Bengal later on. The girls' section was initially known as Asutosh College for Women and in 1956-57 was renamed as Jogamaya Devi College after the demise of Lady Jogamaya Devi, wife of Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyay. It was the first Girls' College in West Bengal to start the Geology Honours course in 1956 along in its fold a few other science Departments, from the beginning. It also opened the NCC Training course during the same period under the Leadership of Sri Jyotish Chandra Banerjee, the then Principal of the College. Smt Arundhati Sen, the next Principal of the College, started the Zoology Honours course and it was Dr. Subrata Gupta who introduced the Botany Honours, Statistics General, Sociology General, B.Com. General, Communicative English Major and the Computer Training centre. Smt. Gargi Nath, the present Principal of the College has started the Psychology Honours and Sociology Honours courses. She has taken initiative to open P.G. Study Centre in collaboration with Vidyasagar University.

The College has built a separate building to accommodate the students of the new subjects. It has a well equipped Central Library and Seminar Libraries for individual departments offering Honours Courses despite the constraints of space.
This College has been making remarkable contribution in the field of literature and culture of Bengal as it has the pride of presenting a long list of luminaries of past pupils like Smt. Amala Sankar. Smt. Karuna Bandopadhyay, Smt. Bijoya Roy and Smt. Uma Das Gupta, renowned literary figures like Maitreyee Devi, Mahasweta Devi and Suchitra Bhattacharya, singers like Purba Dam, Bandana Sen, Bani Ghosal and Sriradha Banerjee. In the recent past Kaushiki Chakraborty has made a new mark in the field of classical Music. Some Hon'ble Judges of Calcutta High Court like Justice Bijaya Nag and Justic Padma Khastagir, members of Parliament, like Smt. Gita Mukherjee, Smt. Purabi Mukherjee and Smt. Mamata Banerjee add colours to the list of our ex-students. The present VC of Rabindra Bharati University, Smt. Bharati Mukherjee and former legislator Smt. Maya Banerjee are also ex-students of this college. Several prominent figures in the world of cine entertainments have passed through the portals of this great college like Rupa Ganguli, Indrani Halder, Shatabdi Roy, Locket Chatterjee, Tanusree Ganguli, Soumile Biswas. Poulomi Ghatak, the famed T.T. Champion is an ex-student of this College.

Professors Satyendra Nath Sen (former VC, Calcutta University), Dr. Amlan Dutta (former VC Vishwa Bharati University) and Dr. S P Gupta (ex-member of Planning Commission) have once been part of the teaching faculty of this College.

We are proud to add, in this connection, that various important posts in different organisations both public and private, home and abroad are held by ex-students of either Arts or Science of this institution like different Scientific Research Institutes, National Laboratories and Academic Institution in both India and Abroad.

The students of this institution have several accomplishments to their credit in the world of extracurricular activities as well; one of its girls was a member of the National Women's Cricket Team, many of the NCC Cadets have participated in the Republic Day Parade at New Delhi. Alpana Dam has made her mark in the field of mountaineering.

The teacher student relationship in this college is a pleasant, friendly and cordial one. The teaching and non-teaching staff and students proudly bear forth the rich tradition of this college at all times and strive towards a glorious and bright future for the college.

Facility

Library,
Laboratories,
Classrooms,
Sports,
Computer Center,
NCC/NSS,
Placement.

Courses

UG
  • B.Sc. Physics Chemistry Mathematics
  • B.A Bengali,History,Philosophy
  • B.A Bengali,History,Sociology
  • B.A Bengali,Philosophy,Sanskrit
  • B.A Bengali,Sociology,Philosophy
  • B.A English,History,Philosophy
  • B.A History,Philosophy,Sociology
  • B.A Political Science History Economics
  • B.A Political Science, History,Sociology
  • B.A Political Science,Economics,Bengali
  • B.A Political Science,Economics,English
  • B.A Political Science,Economics,Sociology
  • B.A Political Science,History,Geography
  • B.A Political Science,Sociology,English
  • B.Sc. ( Zoology+Botany )/ Biology/ Bio-Technology and Chemistry
  • B.Sc. Mathematics/ Business Mathematics

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