Tarakeswar Degree college


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Retrospect

Tarakeswar Degree College is a relatively new college as compared to other colleges in the neighbourings. It was established twenty years ago on 5th September-a day celebrated as the teachers' Day in memory of Dr. Sarbapally Radhakrishnan, a renowned Indian philosopher and educationist.

Tarakewar is situated in the rural hinterland of Hooghly district in West Bengal around 60 kms away from the city of Kolkata. It is a well-known place of pilgrimage for the devotees of Lord Shiva. The place Tarakeswar owes its name to Lord Taraknath -its presiding deity. The extension of the railway tract from Sheoraphully to Tarakeswar in the year 1884 facilitated the influx of pilgrims to this place and thereby heightened the popularity of Tarakeswar. There is well-connected bus terminus connecting this town with various places of West Bengal.

The Hooghly district pre-dominantly has an agro-based economy. The students coming to this college hail from families with agricultural backgrounds. There are even first generations learns and it is a challenge to impact knowledge to them.

However, the apparent drawback did not deter the visionary forefathers of this institution from laying its foundation. They worked relentlessly to transform their drams into reality, to enlighten and ignite the minds of a large section of uneducated off-springs of peasant families. The tireless effort of a group of people who were concerned about the deplorable lack of higher education facilities made it possible to form a preparatory committee with the following members:-

(1) Sri Sabyasachi Sen, D.M. , Hooghly (President) (2) Sri Kenaram Bhowmik, Secretary (3)Sri Srimat Dandi Swami Hrishikesh Ashram Mohanta Maharaj, Tarakeswar Math (4) Sri Anil Kumar Basu, M.P.(5) Lt. Narendranath Mukherjee.(6) Lt. Nityagopal Pal.(7) Sri Sadan Chandra Ghosh (8) Sri Ramsingh Pal (9) Sri Tusar Kanti Pal (10) Sri Parth Banerjee (11) Sri Krishna Ch. Samata (12) Sri Arjun Krishna Bera (13)Sri Bimalendu Mazumdar (14) Sri Ajit Kumar Ghose (15) Sri Swapan Kumar Samanta (16) Sri Tarak Prasad Banerjee (17) Sri Jagannath Kheto (18)Kartict Ch. Majhi (19) Sri Krishna Mohan Das (20) Sri Biren Dutta (21) Smt. Mira Roy (22) Sri Dipak Banerjee.

His Holiness Sri Srimat Dandi Swami Hrishikesh Ashram Mohanta Maharaj Tarakeswar Math with his kindness and generosity donated 3.5 acres of prime land for the purpose of establishing the college campus.

Kind support from the Honorable Member of the Parliament Sri Anil Kumar Basu and Honorable Minister of Fire & Emergency Services Department, Govt. of West Bengal, Sri Pratim Chatterjee , Sri Shankar Ray Chowdury., Ex-general of Army & Member of Rajya Sabha, who made liberal contributions from their Local Area Development Funds became instrumental in shaping the college. The spontaneous help of the rank and file of Tarakeswar and the surrounding villages, the active co-operation of Tarakeswar Municipality and the new mass oriented higher education policy of West Bengal Government combined to bring this centre of learning into existence.

The college never boasts of being a centre of excellence but it has definitely served as a nodal college in this regions. In recognition of the above and of its potential to excel as a centre of learning the college was or recognised under Section 2F & 12 B of the UGC on January 24,1991.Despite several odds, the college has made consticuous progress in term of physical expansion, of diverfication of the subject combinations and number of students getting enrolled.

The college started its journey with only 48 students and six departments, each department offering only general curriculum. Today we have almost 2000 students studying both General as well as Honours Curriculum in as many as eleven Departments.

Name of Subject	Year in which got introduced as :-
	General Subject	Honours Subject
Bengali, English, History, Philosophy, Political -Science, Economic	1986	-
Commerce	1995	-
Sociology	1996	1996
Accountancy	-	2000
Bengali (H)	-	2001
History (H)	-	2001
English (H)	-	2003
Physical Education	2005	-
Geography	2005	-
Sanskrit	2006	-
Geography (H)	-	2006
Music	2006	-

The college is endowed with learning resources in the form of sufficient large number of text and references books in the library and computer and Internet facilities in the college.

The college has auditorium, a multi-gym, a large playground and deferent indoor games facilities, within the college premises, to help the students strive for all round development.. The teaching staffs are well qualified and sincere in their approach to the students. The non-teaching staffs are attentive to the needs of the students and sympathetic of their problems.

Despite resource paucity we are confident of exploring all available avenues of mobilizing resources to improve infra structural facilities needed for better functioning of the institution in the years to come. We are confident that we will go ahead and smile though all the difficulties that may in our way.