Raja Peary Mohan College | |
Established: | 20 June 1887 |
Type: | Government College |
Principal: | Dr. Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty |
Address: | 1, Acharya Dhruba Pal Road, Kotrung |
City: | Uttarpara |
State: | West Bengal |
Country: | India |
Coordinates: | 22.6558°N 88.3492°W |
Pushpin Map: | India West Bengal#India |
Campus: | Urban |
Affiliations: | University of Calcutta |
Website: | RPMCollege.edu.in |
Raja Peary Mohan College[1] is a general purpose college in Hooghly District of West Bengal, India under the University of Calcutta. It offers undergraduate level courses in various arts, commerce and science subjects. The college is a popular institution for undergraduate study in the neighborhood of Uttarpara, the Hooghly district, Howrah and the North 24 Parganas.
The college was established in 1881 by late Raja Joy Krishna Mukherjee (who was the father of Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee), a leading social reformer and educationist of colonial Bengal, when it was under the British rule.[2]
The college offers different undergraduate and postgraduate courses and aims at imparting education to the undergraduates of lower- and middle-class people of Uttarpara and its adjoining areas.[3]
Science faculty consists of the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science & Application, Botany, Zoology, Physiology, and Economics.
Arts and Commerce faculty consists of departments of Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Education, and Commerce.