Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya

Education is the guiding principle of our Socio-Economic development
Text Box: Students Amenities Text Box: Stipend, Scholarship and Tuition Fee Concession SC/ST and OBC category of students are eligible for Government stipend. Application forms are made available to students from college office as and when they are received from the Government Office at the commencement of the academic session. General category students with high marks obtained in the previous examination can apply for Merit Stipend to the DPI, Government of West Bengal. At the college level concession in tuition fees is considered on merit-cummeans basis generally for those students who do not enjoy financial support from any other quarter. There is also provision for assistance to the needy students from Students’ Aid Fund.

Railway Concessions :

 

                  The college permits the students to enjoy Railway Concessions from Sonarpur Junction Railway Station to the place of residence. The Railway authorities as per their rules and regulations issue these concessions on the basis of recommendations made by the college authorities.
Text Box: Awards : Four awards have been instituted from the year 2006 with endowment created out of donations received from our three retired teachers and Ex-Principal. The purpose of these awards is to inculcate competitiveness among the students for the betterment of their performances in the university examinations and also to awareness among them of their cultural history and heritage. Prof. Pranab Kumar Dasgupta, retired Selection Grade lecturer in English, has donated Rs.5,000.00 (Rupees Five Thousand only) in memory of his venerable teacher late Prof. Anil Mukhopadhyay for awarding a prize to a student obtaining highest marks in English Honours in Final Public Examination. Prof. Purnendu Guha, Ex-Selection Grade lecturer in Political Science, has donated Rs.5,000.00 (Rupees Five Thousand only) in memory of Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the Tiger of Bengal, for awarding a prize to a student securing highest marks in Political Science in University Final Examination. Sri Gokul Chandra Das, the Ex-Principal, has donated Rs.10,000.00 (Rupees Ten Thousand only) for creating an endowment to award a prize to a student securing highest marks in any subject, Honours or General, in the University Final Examination of a year in memory of Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan, the editor of famous 19th century Bengali journal ‘Somprakash’. The value of the prizes will be equivalent to the interest accrued annually to the donations and will be distributed to the recipients in the annual cultural programme of the college.