Bongaigaon College
| বঙাইগাঁও মহাবিদ্যালয় | |
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Golden Jubilee Gate of Bongaigaon College in 2015 | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 8 July 1964 |
| Students | 5000+ |
| Undergraduates | Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Commerce |
| Postgraduates | Master's Degree in English |
| Location | Bongaigaon City, Assam, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Gauhati University |
| Website | www.bongaigaoncollege.ac.in |
Bongaigaon College (Assamese: বঙাইগাঁও মহাবিদ্যালয়)[1] is in Bongaigaon City, Assam, India. It was founded in August 1964. A group of visionaries contemplated starting an institution of higher learning in the educationally backward area of Assam on 8 July 1964. Bongaigaon College is the translated version of a lofty ideal. The college is 200 km from Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. Affiliated to Gauhati University, the most reputed university of the North East, Bongaigaon College can easily stake a claim to be one of the premier colleges in Assam.
The College with a campus spanning 8.46 hectors, offers +2 (Arts and Commerce), undergraduate (B.A, B.Com., BBA and BMC) — both general and Major and postgraduate (English) programmes apart from offering a vocational programme in Functional English at the undergraduate level .
Bongaigaon College has a mission statement to offer an interactionist and value-based education in view of representation from ethnic and community spaces in its rolls, stressing on the dialogic culturalism in approaching academic and intellectual areas disseminated in the classrooms. Moreover, the college perceives that the academic domain should be supported by consciousness enhancing extracurricular activities testing and enriching social and cultural sensibility of students.
With its 2800-strong student workforce and almost three scores of teachers, the college is committed to upholding the academic values it has scripted in its vision statement, addressing demands of humanist education and contemporary professional exigencies.
History
The college had its beginning thanks to a concerted enterprise and initiative of a host of starry-eyed, socially conscious individuals, most notably late Sitanath Brahmachowdhury, ex-M.P. and ex-president of Assam Sahitya Sabah, the late Bhabeswar Chowdhury, and the late Damodar Mahanta. The college was accorded the status of deficit grants-in-aid in 1972 by the Government of Assam.
Before this the college had run on a self-sustaining basis with many teachers preferring to embrace the nobility of the profession, turning their backs on lucrative opportunities elsewhere. In the formative stages the college offered pre-university (Arts) programme. A full-fledged pre-university Commerce course started in 1984.
The undergraduate arts classes got underway in 1966-67 session and the programme got affiliation from Gauhati University in 1971. The Degree Commerce classes started in 1978.
Bowing to the public demand for postgraduate course in English, the college authority took steps to begin the two-year PG course in 1991. Immediately afterwards Gauhati University granted affiliation to the PG programme. Since 2002 the PG course in English is running on semester system.
Courses
The college has two programmes at UG level, i.e., B.A and B.Com (three-year degree course) and one programme at PG level, i.e., M.A in English. A vocational course in Functional English is also offered.
The college offers major programmes in 10 subjects at the BA level and two at the B.Com level. Subjects offering major in BA are English, Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Bodo, Economics, Political Science, History, Education and Philosophy. At the B.Com level the major courses are offered in Management and Accountancy.
- Higher Secondary Programme
- Arts
- Commerce
- Bachelor Programme
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A)
- Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
The college[2] entered into new era of academic studies by introducing the bachelor's degree in Business Administration from 2008, affiliated to Gauhati University. Subsequent addition was in the form of introducing the bachelor's programme in Mass Communication and Journalism under the Career Oriented Programme of UGC in 2009 with formal permission and affiliation of Gauhati University. The year 2008 also became remarkable for the college when it signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IGNOU and became the partner institute under convergence scheme. A series of programmes and courses of distance learning have been introduced under the scheme in this campus converging the conventional and distance modes of teaching-learning.
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Coordinates: 26°28′N 90°34′E / 26.47°N 90.56°E