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Established
  
1916

Campus
  
Urban

Undergraduate tuition and fees
  
4,500 INR (2012)

Number of students
  
4,000

Principal
  
Dr. Dipak Kumar Kar

Phone
  
033 2455 4504

Founded
  
1916

Type
  
Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Location
  
No. 92, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700026, India

Sports
  
Rowing, football, cricket, etc.

Address
  
92, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rd, Anami Sangha, Patuapara, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700026

Notable alumni
  
Antara Biswas, Mimi Chakraborty, Rupam Islam, Ranjit Mallick, Neel Dutt

Similar
  
University of Calcutta, St Xavier's Collegiate School, Scottish Church College, Bethune College, Presidency University - Kolkata

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Asutosh College is a college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, situated in South Kolkata, India. It was established in 1916 as the South Suburban College, under the stewardship of educationist Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, who was the then vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta. The principal is Dipak Kumar Kar.

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Accreditation

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) visited the college in December 2016 and accredited it with ‘A’ grade. it got a score of 3.22.

History

In 1872, the General Committee of the South Suburban Group of Schools was established, presided over by mathematician Sir Asutosh Mukherjee. Forty-three years later, in 1915, permission was sought to establish a college in South Calcutta. A year later the government of India approved an upgrade of South Suburban School to an intermediate college: South Suburban College. Sir Asutosh was named as president of its governing body. The college began operations in July 1916, on Lansdown Road in Calcutta. A year later, it was moved to Russa Road. In 1918, the intermediate college was upgraded to a degree college, offering English, Bengali, Sanskrit, Philosophy, History and Economics (Political Economy and Political Philosophy).

After Sir Asutosh died in 1924, the college was renamed after him. Teaching of science subjects began in the following year. In 1927, the Asutosh Mukherjee Memorial Institute appealed to Calcutta Corporation for a parcel of land in Hazra Park, to be leased for the construction of a new building, including a library and an auditorium.

In 1934, Sri Shyamaprasad Mukherjee became president of the Governing Body; he served in this capacity until his death. The college moved to its current location in 1935.

The present building occupies 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2), with 50 classrooms and room for about 4,000 students. Twenty-eight subjects are taught as Honors/Major at the undergraduate level.

Asutosh College Training Centre (ACTC) was formed in the Platinum Jubilee Year of the college (1991) to equip students for job-screening examinations.

In 1995, The Department of Computer Science was formed. The first undergraduate batch in Computer Science Honours degree was admitted in 2001.

In 2002, a post-graduation course in Environmental Science was introduced. All the departments have their own libraries; the science departments have laboratories.

In 2009, M.A./M.Sc. course in Geography was introduced. And in 2011, B.Sc. (Hons.) in Environmental Science and M.A. course in Bengali were introduced.

In 2012, the Mother Teresa International Award was conferred to Asutosh College for outstanding achievement and contribution in the field of Best College of the Year.

Master's Degree (Science/Arts) courses

In 2014, three UGC-approved free add-on courses on Tourism, Industrial Chemistry, and Hospital Waste Disposal Management were introduced by the college.

Annexe building

The college has an annex, constructed during its Platinum Jubilee Year (1991). It is located across Basanta Bose Road, which runs along the north side of the college. This building houses the reading section of the Central Library and several newly emerged PG departments. It also houses the Asutosh College Training Centre (ACTC) which was established to equip students for job screening examinations like WBCS, SSC, SET, NET etc.

Awards

The Mother Teresa International Award was conferred to Asutosh College for outstanding achievement and contribution in the field of Best College 2012 on 28 April 2012.

Eminent faculty

  • Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
  • Artists and musicians

  • Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  • Anup Ghoshal
  • Rupam Islam
  • Nachiketa Chakraborty
  • Neel Dutt
  • Filmmakers, theatre personalities and actors and actresses

  • Diptendu Pramanick
  • Tripti Mitra
  • Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
  • Rabi Ghosh
  • Ranjit Mallick
  • Rahul Banerjee
  • Antara Biswas
  • Mimi Chakraborty
  • Saheb Bhattacharya
  • Aniket Chattopadhaya
  • Rishi Mukherjee (actor/script writer/director)
  • Poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers

  • Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
  • Dinesh Das
  • Kabita Sinha
  • Vattacharja Chandan
  • Politicians

  • Ritabrata Banerjee
  • Partha Chatterjee
  • Firhad Hakim
  • Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
  • Madan Mitra
  • Gurudas Dasgupta
  • Geeta Mukherjee
  • Shatarup Ghosh
  • Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
  • Social activists

  • Mahasweta Devi
  • Vina Mazumdar
  • Sociologist

  • Binoy Gosh
  • Sportspeople

  • Chuni Goswami
  • Syed Naeemuddin
  • Sunil Chetri
  • Benu Dasgupta
  • Illusionist

  • P. C. Sorcar, Jr.
  • Journalist

  • Amitabha Chowdhury
  • Science and Engineering

  • Arun Kumar Sharma
  • Usha Ranjan Ghatak
  • References

    Asutosh College Wikipedia