Malda College

Malda College is premier college under the University of Gour Banga, which offers postgraduate and undergraduate courses in several subjects. Established in 1944 by Mr. Durga Kinkar Bhattacharyya, it is one of the more sophisticated and enriched colleges of northern Bengal. The college has excellent infrastructure of which is an impressive collection of almost ninety thousand books (in its L.A.N.-connected undergraduate and postgraduate libraries), well equipped and spacious laboratories, an observatory-class telescope, lecture theatre with movie projector, an expansive computer facility, and a capacious auditorium complex, are only a few to name.

History

The structure and constitution of Malda College evolved many times to reach the present point. In pre-independence northern Bengal, there was a temporary college at Dadanchak before Malda College was formally and permanently founded. The college later shifted its premises to Rathbari More, Rabindra Avenue-area of the district town of Malda. Prior to this, in 1943, a report was published in one of the popular local newspapers appealing the public of the district of Malda to donate in order to establish the estimated fund of Rupees Three Lakhs, required to change the Dadanchak-college's location to Malda Town. The much needed land was given by Mr. Jadunandan Choudhury and Mr. Asutosh Choudhury. In a very little time, the people of Malda donated the estimated sum, which helped start the initial work for shifting. On 1 May...
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