Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya

Education is the guiding principle of our Socio-Economic development
Text Box: HISTORY Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya is a co-educational degree college. It was founded in September 1985 in consequence of a long drawn mass movement in the early seventies of the last century led by liberal democratic and education loving people of the locality. The Rajpur Municipality now renamed as Rajpur-Sonarpur Municipality, the fastest growing one in the country, provided the land and the people from all walks of life in the society donated generously to raise a building for the new institution. With the extension of affiliation to teach only six subjects in humanities by the University of Calcutta the college thus started its humble life in 1985. HERITAGE Sonarpur region famous for cultivation of classical language and literature since late medival period. Some of legendary personalities of the 19th century Bengal Renaissance like Dwaraknath Vidyabhusan (Editor of Somprakth), Rishi Rajnarain Basu, the father of Indian Nationalism, and Ramnarayan Tarkaratna, the author of the first Bengali drama “Kulin Kulasarbaswa” were the noteable sons of this land of wisdom. The ancestral village of Subhas Chandra Bose, the proverbial hero of the Indian Freedom struggle, is also located in this region under review. Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya can thus be proud of its rich enviable heritage and tradition which it vows to uphold and follow in all its activities for all times to come. LOCATION The college is located in southern suburb of Kolkata Metropolitan, semi-urban area at Sonarpur in the Rajpur-Sonarpur Municipality. The region comprises of several culturally rich old hamlets on the bank of and old course of the river Ganges, the ‘Adi Ganga’. The college is easily accessible by rail from Kolkata, only 15 Kilometers from the heart of the Kolkata City. The nearest railway station is Sonarpur in Sealdah (South) section.