Bidhan Chandra College: Courses, Contact Details, Facilities

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The Bidhan Chandra College, Rishra was founded in the year 1957 and is named after Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy who was the Chief Minister and architect of modern West Bengal at that time. The college is affiliated to the Calcutta University and is situated in the Hooghly District in West Bengal. One of the main features of the institution is the inflow of the first generation learners and in their respective professional lives, they have shown outstanding performance. The institute imparts sound education to its students by developing the habits of accountability, self-reliance, piety, and discipline during the course of their studies. The institute grinds the academic and also extra-academic potential of its students which enables them to cope up with the challenging future which is waiting for them.

The Bidhan Chandra College Admission can be done by applying online on the official website of the college. The institute helps in developing harmony and individual personality of the students irrespective of their casts, creed, and culture which reflects collective principles, morals, and ethics of our nation. 

The college has many infrastructure facilities such as a library, gymnasium, anti-ragging cell, eco, science club, canteen, etc. The Bidhan Chandra College Placement cell works in the direction of fulfilling the needs and demands of the industry/ organization by bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge of its students. The college has individual departments for Science, Commerce, and Arts.

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Bidhan Chandra College Courses

Bidhan Chandra College offers various courses and specializations in Science, Humanity, and Arts discipline. More details about the course are mentioned below.

Bidhan Chandra College Physics:

The Physics department of the college is having a well-equipped laboratory for electronics, non-electronics, electrical, optics, and heat-related practicals. For light-related practicals, the department has a dark room. The department consists of a library which has 44 books on electronics, mechanics, mathematical physics, current electricity, modern physics, and practical physics. 

Bidhan Chandra College Infrastructure Facilities

The needs of the students are taken care of by the college and hence proper infrastructure facilities are provided to students as well as to the staff members. Some of the Bidhan Chandra College facilities are as follows.

• The departments such as Geography, Computer Science, etc., are provided with well-equipped laboratories.
• The college library satisfies the academic needs of its students and staff members.
• The college has a brand new and equipped gymnasium.
• The canteen available in the college provides refreshments to students and also to the staff members at a subsidised rate.
• Career guidance cell provides career opportunities to its students and inculcates confidence in them to stand confidently in front of the challenging world.
• The college has a women cell which is called Aparajita which has a view to stopping gender discrimination, child marriage, human trafficking, domestic violence and establish gender equality.
• The Eco-club has an objective to inherit environment-friendly habits to its students.
•  The science club in the college creates scientific temperament across the community which consists of students and teachers from the science department.

Bidhan Chandra College Placements

The Bidhan Chandra College Placement cell functions as a linkage between the final year students along with the alumni of the college and corporates, industries and organizations. The placement cell of the college provides a platform for campus interviews, group discussion, mock interviews, training programs, etc. in order to increase the job prospects of its students and also prepare them to stand confidently to face the challenging corporate world. 

Bidhan Chandra College Eligibility Criteria

Bidhan Chandra College Rishra provides various types of courses under Science, Humanity, and Arts discipline. The courses have eligibility criteria which is necessary for a student to take admission in various courses and specializations.

• The student will not be permitted to take the subjects further until and unless the student does not clear the subjects in the previous qualifying examination.
• The students who are seeking to take admission in honours should obtain at least an aggregate of 50% marks and at least 45% marks in subjects.
• Or at least 55% marks in the subjects or subjects related to the examination which was qualified previously. Or at least 50% marks in aggregate when the student opts for honours in the subject that is not included in the previous qualifying examination.
• The students who appeared but couldn't get passing marks in any subject which is related to the previous qualifying examination would not be allowed to opt for honours in that particular subject.
• Students who have not cleared Mathematics in the previous qualifying examination will not be allowed to opt for Honors in Economics. 

Bidhan Chandra College Admission

Admission Committee of the college selects the students for admission according to the admission policy of the college and rules and regulations of the Calcutta University. The candidates have to fulfil the requirements which are prescribed by the Admission Regulation 2008, C.U and college authority. 

• The application should be submitted within the date notified in the prescribed form. 
• The form should be submitted along with the attested photocopies of the mark sheet of the previously qualified examination. 
• Admit card or the certificate of Madhyamik Pariksha or mark sheet of any equivalent examination should be attested by the Head of the institution where the student studied earlier.
• The selected students must produce the original documents along with requisite fees and two recent stamps sized photographs during the admission time.
• Admission will be strictly according to the marks secured in the Higher Secondary/ 10+2 examination.