Thakurgaon Govt. College
Gate of Thakurgaon Govt. College
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Thakurgaon Degree College |
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| Type | Government College |
| Established | 1959 |
| Principal | Md. Golam Kibria Mondol |
| Students | 11,101 (September-2013) |
| Location |
Thakurgaon, Rangpur, Bangladesh 26°02′22″N 88°27′10″E / 26.0394°N 88.4529°ECoordinates: 26°02′22″N 88°27′10″E / 26.0394°N 88.4529°E |
| Campus | Town, 33 acres |
| Sports | Cricket, soccer, table tennis |
| Affiliations | National University |
| Website | tgc |
Thakurgaon Government College is an honors-level degree college in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh. It is situated in Thakurgaon town nearest to the south-east of the Tangon River. From this college, In west Thakurgaon Railway Station and in east Thakurgaon Bus-stand(old) are located. The college authority has declared their college as a campus free from politics, drug & smoking. This college is affiliated with Bangladesh National University. In 1 March 1980, this college was named Thakurgaon Government College after nationalized.
The college was established in 1959. In 8 June 1959, it was raised a demand to established a college in Thakurgaon in meeting of "Sub-division Social Development Fund Committee". On that meeting has been taken a decision to establish this college. That times, this college was started with fifty students with temporarily appointed principle Sir Rustom Ali Khan who was the headmaster of Thakurgaon High School.
The excellent environment with green trees and the crowding of students have made the campus of 31 acres more living and more animated. There has Science, Business, Arts and Administrative buildings and also a Library. There has also Dormitory of Teachers, Mosque, Ponds, Computer Lab, Sahid Minar and play ground.
Total amount of land of this college is 33 acres.
There has a rich library as name as "Central Library". Total number of books in seminar is 10,859 and the total number of books in central library is 12,844.
In 1997-1998 session of this college, Bangladesh National University confessed Thakurgaon Degree College as a Honor's College after authorizing to open Honor's course in economics, accounting, mathematics and political science and next year has been confessed to open other six subject such as botany, English, management, Bengali, zoology and Islamic history and culture. In 2010-2011 session, philosophy and history were included in Honor's course and physics, chemistry in 2011-2012 session. In 23 April 2011, it opened master's course in four subject English, Bengali, economics, botany.
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