Women's College, Calcutta
NAAC accredited with 'B++'
P-29, Kshirode Vidyavinode Avenue,Kolkata - 700003
NAAC accredited with 'B++'
P-29, Kshirode Vidyavinode Avenue,Kolkata - 700003
The Department of Bengali is the oldest and largest department of the college with nearly 300 students in Honours and Post Graduate courses. The department also bears the heavy load of Bengali General, Compulsory Bengali (AECC) and LCC (Language for General) under CBCS. The department was established in 1937 i.e. from the day one of the college. Bengali Honours and General Courses got affiliation from University of Calcutta in 1940. Journey of the department since 1937 is successful and glorious enough both in academic and co-curricular activities.
In 2013 the department was upgraded as a Post Graduate Department. As per recommendation of NAAC peer team visited in 2007, Principal Dr. Mahua Das proposed to open Regular PG course in Bengali and as a result, the department got affiliation from University of Calcutta. Opening ceremony of PG course was occurred on 23rd August, 2013 in presence of so many dignitaries and academicians. The journey was started with 60 students and the introductory lecture was delivered by Professor Pabitra Sarkar.
Introducing the PG course Department of Bengali became the pioneer in giving opportunity to a good number of students from this college to have the facilities of higher education from their own institution along with the students of other colleges.
Once the department was glorified with the presence of dedicated teachers like Dr. Kshudiram Das, Smt.Ashalata Sinha, Smt. Urmila Das, Sri Saurindra kumar Dey and Smt. Basanti Mukhopadhyay. Without whose contributions, dedications and blessings the department could not reach the goal and achieve the present status were Dr. Sipra Lahiri, Dr. Jayashree Bhattacharya and Smt.Kumkum Nundy. The torch was handed over by them to the next generation to light it forever and to carry on the heritage of the department.
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The Department of Bengali has a very rich collection of books in the College Library including some rare specimens. Separate book lending system exists for PG students. The department also has seminar library.
The department successfully manages the huge workload of UG and PG courses running with the old system and newly introduced semester system (CBCS) simultaneously. All the teachers are very much sincere and careful of the students. Teachers help the students not only in academic matters, but also try to solve their personal problems including financial crises through proper counselling, guidance, assistance and friendly suggestions.
The teachers have taken online classes in different methods both in UG and PG courses during the entire period when all the educational institutions are closed due to Covid-19, the global pandemic. The students also adjusted themselves in this new system of education and gave their full cooperation. The teachers enrich themselves participating in webinars in various subjects.
The students of the Department of Bengali are very much enthusiastic in all fields. A large number of them pass out every year with bright results and go for higher studies like M Phil and Ph.D. Many of them choose professional course like B Ed and join in teaching. Others also engage themselves in different kinds of jobs. Besides building up own career the students actively participate in co-curricular activities. They organize cultural programmes, join in social works through NSS, take part in sports, college social and in house competitions. They win prizes not only from this college, but also from inter college competitions organized by other colleges. Even during the lockdown some of them participated in online inter college competitions like essay writing, poster painting, quiz and placed in good rank. They also took part in paper presentation in webinars. In fact student's seminar was a very good practice in this department. From 2013 to 2019 post graduate students presented nearly 60 seminar papers.
