The Lalbaba College, Belurmath, Howrah, West Bengal was established in the year 1964 as a grants-in-aid college affiliated to Calcutta University. It was recognised under sections 2f by UGC in August,1965..

The college stands on a plot of 1.56 acres located in an urban setting in the vicinity of Kolkata, being only 6 kilometers from the city center of Kolkata. Being close to a well established metropolitan city like Kolkata that is also a major academic and commercial center of the country, as well as being adjacent to the industrial areas of Howrah has many locational advantages.

Another important locational feature of the college is that it is very near Belur Math, the world famous monastic organization established by Swami Vivekananda.

The goals of the college have been to provide degree level collegiate education to students of the area. The mission of the college is stated in the spirit of the founder spiritual leader Lalbaba to provide a collegiate educational complex 'where along with university curriculum sincere efforts should also be made to enable the learners to think clearly and act rightly with an ultimate aim to make possible the social progress through the manifestation of perfection inherent in man.'

The college began in 1964 with B.A. and B.Com. pass courses, later added B.Sc. pass courses and has steadily grown to become a three faculty college with three thousand students and Honours courses in Bengali, English, Philosophy, History, Political Science, Economics, Accountancy and Geography. Science faculty includes Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as general courses.
Other subjects available are Sanskrit, Hindi and Education.

The college is an undergraduate teaching institution and gets students mostly from the middle and lower middle class families of the adjacent industrialized regions and neighbouring agricultural belt.


 

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