Maharaja Manindra Chandra College
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| Type | Undergraduate college |
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| Established | 1941 |
| Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | University of Calcutta, UGC, NAAC |
| Website | Maharaja Manindra Chandra College |
Maharaja Manindra Chandra College (Bengali: মহারাজা মণীন্দ্র চন্দ্র কলেজ) is an undergraduate college in north Kolkata, India, established in 1941, at 20 Ramkanta Bose Street, Kolkata - 700003. It is affiliated under the University of Calcutta. The college has a second campus in a new building at 12 Padmanath Lane, Kolkata - 700004, donated by Smt. Bandita Mukherjee, daughter of ex-principal of the college Sri Biswanath Mukherjee.
The college was established on 15 July 1941 by a renowned education pioneer Dr. Panchanan Neogi, I.E.S. (retd.) and mostly due to the benevolence of Maharaja Sris Chandra Nandi, who proposed the governing body of the college. As a result, it was named as Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, in the memory of his illustrious father, Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandy of Cossimbazar. It attained the status of a premier college in Kolkata in due course.
The college offers courses on B.A., B.Sc., and B.Com. and aims at imparting education to all undergraduates of lower- and middle-class people of Kolkata and its adjoining areas.
Apart from these traditional courses some add-on career oriented certificate courses are done in this college, which is sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC). These are Functional English, Tourism and Travel Management, Journalism (video editing) and Mass Communication, Videography and Video Editing, Computerized Office Management, Computerized Financial Accounting, Language in C++ and basic Java, VB.Net/ Linux, Internet (diploma courses).
The college building accommodates the smooth running of the other two shifts of this institution.
The Netaji Subhas Open University study centre (NSOU) is well established and flourishing. The college space is used for holding examinations of organizations and universities.
It has a well-stocked library with a spacious reading room. The library has a collection of about 60,000 books and subscribes to 11 types of periodicals. The database of the library is maintained through computers. The college has arranged an institutional membership with the British Council Library and American library. Each department maintains a seminar library, which gives the additional facility to the students to borrow reference books.
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